With every industry, comes its trade publications. And with the IBM personal computer industry came many publications like PC Magazine. ”PC” was originally published in January, 1982. It was created by David Bunnell and financed by Tony Gold.
Originally, a monthly magazine, “PC Mag” moved to biweekly publication in 1983 when one monthly issue grew to over 800 pages! In January, 1986, the magazine had a major redesign and the word “magazine” was added to the logo.
Due to popularity, the magazine outgrew its financing and was sold to Ziff-Davis around 1982. At this time, the staff left to form PC World magazine. The online edition of the magazine started in 1994, and as of 2009, it is only available online. That decision was made due to declining print ad sales.
The magazine provides reviews and previews of the latest hardware and software. Regular departments include:
- First Looks (a collection of reviews of newly released products)
- Pipeline (a collection of short articles and snippets on computer-industry developments)
- Solutions (which includes various how-to articles)
- User-to-User (a section in which the magazine’s experts answer user-submitted questions)
- After Hours (a section about various computer entertainment products)
