Compute!
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Compute! (), often stylized as COMPUTE!, was an American home computer magazine that was published from 1979 to 1994. Its origins can be traced to 1978 in Len Lindsay's PET Gazette, one of the first magazines for the Commodore PET. In its 1980s heyday, Compute! covered all major platforms, and several single-platform spinoffs of the magazine were launched. The most successful of these was ''Compute!'s Gazette'', which catered to VIC-20, Commodore 64, and later the Commodore 128 computer users.
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- inception
- 1979-00-00
- title
- Compute
- publication date
- 1979-12-00
- end time
- 1994-09-00
- start time
- 1979-12-00
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Compute! (), often stylized as COMPUTE!, was an American home computer magazine that was published from 1979 to 1994. Its origins can be traced to 1978 in Len Lindsay's PET Gazette, one of the first magazines for the Commodore PET. In its 1980s heyday, Compute! covered all major platforms, and several single-platform spinoffs of the magazine were launched. The most successful of these was ''Compute!'s Gazette, which catered to VIC-20, Commodore 64, and later the Commodore 128 computer users.
Compute! printed type-in programs for games, utilities, and applications, usually in BASIC. Often there were multiple versions for different computers. Sometimes programs were provided as lists of numbers representing a machine language program, to be typed in a utility called MLX.