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data-file-width="273" data-file-height="365" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">June 1987 issue, showing <i><a href="/wiki/Laser_Chess" title="Laser Chess">Laser Chess</a></i></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Frequency</th><td class="infobox-data">Monthly</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Small_System_Services" title="Small System Services">Small System Services</a> (1979–1983)<br /><a href="/wiki/ABC_Publishing" class="mw-redirect" title="ABC Publishing">ABC Publishing</a> (1983–1994)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">First issue</th><td class="infobox-data">November / December 1979</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Final issue</th><td class="infobox-data">September 1994</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Based in</th><td class="infobox-data">New York City</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0194-357X">0194-357X</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Compute!</b></i> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration 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Its origins can be traced to 1978 in Len Lindsay's <i>PET Gazette</i>, one of the first magazines for the <a href="/wiki/Commodore_PET" title="Commodore PET">Commodore PET</a> computer.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In its 1980s heyday, <i>Compute!</i> covered all major platforms, and several single-platform spinoffs of the magazine were launched. The most successful of these was <i><a href="/wiki/Compute!%27s_Gazette" title="Compute!'s Gazette">Compute!'s Gazette</a></i>, which catered to <a href="/wiki/VIC-20" title="VIC-20">VIC-20</a> and <a href="/wiki/Commodore_64" title="Commodore 64">Commodore 64</a> computer users. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Compute!&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>Compute!</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s original goal was to write about and publish programs for all of the computers that used some version of the <a href="/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502" title="MOS Technology 6502">MOS Technology 6502</a> CPU. It started out in 1979<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with the <a href="/wiki/Commodore_PET" title="Commodore PET">PET</a>, <a href="/wiki/VIC-20" title="VIC-20">VIC-20</a>, <a href="/wiki/Atari_8-bit_computers" title="Atari 8-bit computers">Atari 400/800</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apple_II_Plus" title="Apple II Plus">Apple II+</a>, and some 6502-based computers which could be from kits, such as the Rockwell <a href="/wiki/AIM_65" class="mw-redirect" title="AIM 65">AIM 65</a>, the <a href="/wiki/KIM-1" title="KIM-1">KIM-1</a> by <a href="/wiki/MOS_Technology" title="MOS Technology">MOS Technology</a>, and others from companies such as <a href="/wiki/Ohio_Scientific" title="Ohio Scientific">Ohio Scientific</a>. Coverage of the kit computers and the Commodore PET were eventually dropped. The platforms that became mainstays at the magazine were the Commodore 64, VIC-20, Atari 8-bit computers, <a href="/wiki/TI-99/4A" title="TI-99/4A">TI-99/4A</a>, and Apple II. Later on, the 6502 platform focus was dropped and <a href="/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible" class="mw-redirect" title="IBM PC compatible">IBM PC compatibles</a>, <a href="/wiki/Atari_ST" title="Atari ST">Atari ST</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Amiga" title="Amiga">Amiga</a> were added to its line-up. It also published a successful line of computer books, many of which consisted of compilations of articles from the magazine. </p><p><a href="/wiki/ABC_Publishing" class="mw-redirect" title="ABC Publishing">ABC Publishing</a> acquired Compute! Publications in May 1983 for $18 million in stock, and raised circulation of the magazine from 200,000 to 420,000 by the end of the year. <i><a href="/wiki/Compute!%27s_Gazette" title="Compute!'s Gazette">Compute!'s Gazette</a></i>, for Commodore computers, began publishing that year.<sup id="cite_ref-dougherty19831116_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dougherty19831116-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Compute!</i> claimed in 1983 that it published more <a href="/wiki/Type-in_program" title="Type-in program">type-in programs</a> "in each issue than any magazine in the industry".<sup id="cite_ref-lock198304_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lock198304-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A typical issue would feature a large-scale program for one of the covered platforms, with smaller programs for one or more platforms filling the remainder of the issue's type-ins.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most personal computers of the time came with some version of the <a href="/wiki/BASIC" title="BASIC">BASIC</a> programming language. <a href="/wiki/Machine_code" title="Machine code">Machine code</a> programs were also published, usually for simple <a href="/wiki/Video_game" title="Video game">video games</a> listed in BASIC DATA statements as <a href="/wiki/Hexadecimal" title="Hexadecimal">hexadecimal</a> numbers that could be <a href="/wiki/PEEK_and_POKE" title="PEEK and POKE">POKEd</a> into the <a href="/wiki/Main_memory" class="mw-redirect" title="Main memory">memory</a> of a <a href="/wiki/Home_computer" title="Home computer">home computer</a> by a 'stub' <a href="/wiki/BASIC_loader" class="mw-redirect" title="BASIC loader">loader</a> at the beginning of the program. Machine language listings could be entered with a program provided in each issue called <a href="/wiki/MLX_(software)" title="MLX (software)">MLX</a> (available for Apple II, Atari and Commodore hardware, and written in BASIC). Early versions of MLX accepted input in decimal, but this was later changed to the more compact hexadecimal format. It was noted particularly for software such as the multiplatform word processor <a href="/wiki/SpeedScript" title="SpeedScript">SpeedScript</a>, the spreadsheet SpeedCalc, and the game <i><a href="/wiki/Laser_Chess" title="Laser Chess">Laser Chess</a></i>. </p><p>Editors of the magazine included Robert Lock, Richard Mansfield, Charles Brannon, and Tom R. Halfhill. Noted columnists included <a href="/wiki/Jim_Butterfield" title="Jim Butterfield">Jim Butterfield</a>, educator <a href="/wiki/Fred_D%27Ignazio" title="Fred D'Ignazio">Fred D'Ignazio</a> and science fiction author <a href="/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card" title="Orson Scott Card">Orson Scott Card</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With the May 1988 issue, the magazine was redesigned and the type-in program listings were dropped,<sup id="cite_ref-keizer198805_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-keizer198805-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as was coverage of the Atari 8-bit computers. In 1990, <i>Compute!</i> was out of publication for several months when it was sold to General Media, publishers at the time of <i><a href="/wiki/Omni_(magazine)" title="Omni (magazine)">Omni</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Penthouse_(magazine)" title="Penthouse (magazine)">Penthouse</a></i> magazines, in May of that year. General Media changed the title of the magazine to <i>COMPUTE</i>, without the exclamation point, and the cover design was changed to resemble that of <i>OMNI</i> magazine. <a href="/wiki/Ziff_Davis" title="Ziff Davis">Ziff Davis</a> bought <i>Compute!</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s assets, including its subscriber list, in 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> General Media had ceased its publication before the sale.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Former_employees">Former employees</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Compute!&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Former employees"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Len Lindsay</b>: Lindsay went on to found the COMAL User's Group, which promoted the <a href="/wiki/COMAL" title="COMAL">COMAL</a> programming language in North America. </p><p><b>Robert Lock</b>: After <i>Compute! Publications</i>, Lock started another company, Signal Research, which was among the first to publish magazines and books about computer games. Among the biggest magazine published by Signal Research was <i><a href="/wiki/Game_Players" title="Game Players">Game Players</a></i>, a magazine devoted to Nintendo, PC, and Sega gaming. He also wrote the book <i>The Traditional Potters of Seagrove, N.C.</i> in 1994, and started <i>Southern Arts Journal</i> a quarterly magazine featuring essays, fiction and poetry about all things Southern, in 2005, but ceased publication after only four issues the next year.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>Richard Mansfield</b>: Mansfield has written many books, mostly on Microsoft technologies, including <i>Visual Basic .NET All in One Desk Reference for Dummies</i>, <i>Visual Basic .NET Power Tools</i>, <i>Office 2003 Application Development All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies</i>, <i>Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition For Dummies</i>, and <i>CSS Web Design For Dummies</i>. He also writes occasional pieces for DevX.com. He created much controversy with an article he wrote there called <i>OOP is Much Better in Theory Than in Practice</i>. </p><p><b>Tom R. Halfhill</b>: Halfhill went on to become a senior editor at <i><a href="/wiki/Byte_(magazine)" title="Byte (magazine)">Byte</a></i>. He is currently a technology analyst at The Linley Group and a senior editor of <i>Microprocessor Report</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>David D. Thornburg</b>: Thornburg has continued to work in the field of educational technology and is involved in projects both in the US and Brazil.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><b>Charles G. Brannon</b>: Moved to the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area" title="San Francisco Bay Area">San Francisco Bay Area</a> to work as a Project Manager for <a href="/wiki/Epyx" title="Epyx">Epyx</a>, before moving back to Greensboro and working for his father's insurance wholesaler company Group US as an Information Technology Manager.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has retired as of 2016. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Compute!&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue1/3190_1_THE_PET_GAZETTE_THE_EVOLUTION_OF_A_MAGAZINE.php">The Evolution Of A Magazine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoberto_Dillon2014" class="citation book cs1">Roberto Dillon (3 December 2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ecuoBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA113"><i>Ready: A Commodore 64 Retrospective</i></a>. 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