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David Tebbutt
David Tebbutt

Here are images of 'my' issues of PCW. Click on one to be taken to a 'Wayback Machine' flipbook of the issue

1979:

79-09 79-10 79-11 79-12

1980:

80-01 80-02 80-03 80-04

80-05 80-06 80-07 80-08

80-09 80-10 80-11 80-12

1981:

81-01 81-02 81-03 81-04

81-05 81-06 81-07 81-08

81-09 81-10 81-11

 

 

And here are 264 of my pre-web articles (by date). Click on the title to read the article.

 

7909  Personal Computer World  First Editorial

8004  Personal Computer World  Sinclair ZX80

8005  Personal Computer World  The 5th West Coast Computer Faire

8006  Personal Computer World  Chip Chat

8010  Personal Computer World  Atari 400 & 800

8011  Personal Computer World  Computer Town UK!

8012  Personal Computer World  CRAM

8102  Personal Computer World  The Last One

8104  West Coast Computer Faire  Development of The Last One (paper) - British program generator

8106  Personal Computer World  Faire Fun

810601  Personal Computer World  Sinclair ZX81

811101  Personal Computer World  IBM PC

811102  Personal Computer World  Osborne 01

8206  Personal Computer World  Sinclair ZX Spectrum

8207  Personal Computer World  I Beg Your Pardon? - The case against computer literacy.

820901  MicroScope  Pouring Money Down The Drain (column) - Trade advertising

821001  MicroScope  Big Stick For The Hard Sell? (column) - a professional approach for PC resellers

821002  MicroScope  Too Much Fast Talking (column) - professional PC selling

821101  MicroScope  The American Dream (column) - Developing a business in America

821102  MicroScope  Computers Come To Town (column) - computer literacy project

821201  MicroScope  Micros Can Be Habit FORMING (column)

821202  MicroScope  Watching Us Watching Them (column) - Are we the creation of an alien intelligence?

830101  MicroScope  You're Never Alone With A Fluffy Micro (column) - computerised pets

830102  MicroScope  It's Never Too Early To Talk To The City (column) - financing business growth

830201  MicroScope  Where There's A Good Show (column) - Computer shows examined

830202  MicroScope  The Rising Star Of Cambridge (column) - forecasting a knighthood for Clive Sinclair

830301  MicroScope  Ufo Spotter's Voice On Line Three Again (column) - help desk

830302  MicroScope  How Machines Didn't Wreck My Marriage (column) - Computers get a poor press

830401  MicroScope  Radio Shows Can Broaden You Mind (column)

830402  MicroScope  Little Fun At The Faire (column)

830501  MicroScope  The Software Rental Risks (column)

830502  MicroScope  Keeping An Eye On The Future

830601  MicroScope  Mere Human Playthings (column)

830602  MicroScope  Laying My Card On The Table (column)

830603  MicroScope  Phone Hassles I Have Known (column)

8307  Soft  So You Want To Be A Software Writer?

830701  MicroScope  Hello! Is Anyone There?

830702  MicroScope  We Can't Just Stand Still (column)

8308  Soft  So You Want To Be A Software Writer?

830801  MicroScope  Closer To Our Objectives (column)

830802  MicroScope  Software Isn't Made By Magic (column)

8309  Soft  So You Want To Be A Software Writer?

830901  MicroScope  Atari Removes The Mystique

830902  MicroScope  Hype Now While Stocks Last (column)

8310  Personal Computer World  Master Profiles - Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

831001  MicroScope  Don't Write Off Adam Osborne (column)

831002  MicroScope  A Touch Of The Runs (column)

831101  MicroScope  Drawing The Iron Curtains (column)

831102  MicroScope  Child Is Parent To The Adult? (column)

831201  MicroScope  The Paradox Of Pricing

831202  MicroScope  A Matter Of Life And Death (column)

840101  MicroScope  Software Star Is Dimly Lit (column)

840102  MicroScope  Britain Must Make A Choice (column)

840201  MicroScope  The Retailing Nightmare... (column)

840202  MicroScope  In Two Minds About Micros (column)

840301  MicroScope  Draw Your Own Conclusions... (column)

840302  MicroScope  Nailing Jelly To A Tree (column)

840401  MicroScope  Good Data Going Bad (column)

840402  MicroScope  Let's Organise The Grapevine

840501  MicroScope  The Worms Now Turning (column)

840502  MicroScope  Who'll Form QL Queues (column)

840503  MicroScope  How Wise Is Ai Research? (column)

8406  Personal Computer World  Sinclair QL

840601  MicroScope  Bombing Out Of Education? (column)

840602  MicroScope  Is MSX Going To Take Over?

840701  MicroScope  Enter The ZX Personmobile (column)

840702  MicroScope  Confidence: Is It Skin Deep? (column)

840801  MicroScope  Who's Stealing The Software? (column)

840802  MicroScope  Protection And Your Program (column)

840901  MicroScope  Adam's Tree Of Knowledge

840902  MicroScope  If A Machine Phones You... (column)

841001  MicroScope  Put God On Your Network (column)

841002  MicroScope  In No Rush To Get Organised

841101  MicroScope  How Gentle Is The Giant IBM? (column)

841102  MicroScope  Watching Out For The Wallies (column)

841103  MicroScope  A Monument Fit To Bank? (column)

8412  Personal Computer World  ICL OPD

841201  MicroScope  Can Icl Stay On The Desk? (column)

850101  MicroScope  Do Not Adjust Your Sets... (column)

850102  MicroScope  Blinded By Science? (column)

850201  MicroScope  Onwards To The Laser Age (column)

850202  MicroScope  The Wisdom Of The East (column)

850301  MicroScope  A Life Spoiled By Computers (column)

850302  MicroScope  A Multi-User Megabrain (column)

850401  MicroScope  Avoiding The Technofreaks (column)

850402  MicroScope  The Office Of The Future Still Hasn't Arrived (column)

850501  MicroScope  Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Businessman (column)

8506  MicroScope  The Year That The Computer Bubble Burst (column)

8507  MicroScope  The Frills Big Boys Fail To Sell

8508  MicroScope  Free For All Fight To Sell Software (column)

8509  MicroScope  Despite Bad Notices, The Show Goes On (column)

8510  MacUser  The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Macintosh

8510  MicroScope  Nice Little Software Earners (column)

8511  MicroScope  The Wisdom Of Machine Intelligence (column)

8512  MicroScope  How To Lose 1 3/4 Inches And Influence People (column)

8601  MicroScope  Well, Would You Spit On An Omnibus? (column)

8602  MicroScope  When Bugs Can Blow You To Oblivion (column)

8603  MicroScope  Wonderful, The Second Time Around (column)

8604  MicroScope  Computers: Boon Or Bane It's Up To Us

8605  MicroScope  The IBM PC Is Dead - Long Live The AT (column)

8606  MicroScope  Fit To Burst With Excess Information

8607  MicroScope  Many Of My Best Friends Are Micros

8608  MicroScope  Given A Magnetic Personality (column)

8609  MicroScope  Boycott The Low-Cost Software Bandwagon

861101  PC Dealer  Is this the end of the software clone?

861201  PC Dealer  Do you know what's going on in your own company?

870101  PC Dealer  Dealers and suppliers can be partners in profit

870301  PC Dealer  Hoping Sir Clive can get it right this time.

870401  PC Dealer  Do sinister intentions lurk behind the razzmatazz?

870501  PC Dealer  Musings on the ancient art of winning punters

870601  PC Dealer  How to add value to a handle for PC dealers

870701  PC Dealer  Exhibiting stress while shows shrink in the sun

870801  PC Dealer  Who really has to pay the price for bad systems?

870901  PC Dealer  Lamenting those glory days of the PC industry

871001  PC Dealer  Getting to the future before it gets to us.

871101  PC Dealer  Projecting an image from the bottom up

871201  PC Dealer  Curious events from which everyone gains

880101  PC Dealer  The critical mistake of assuming too much

8802  Mensa  First Person

880201  PC Dealer  Shifting morality scares off dealer loyalty

880301  PC Dealer  IBM data landslide submerges information

8804  MacUser  Claris and Apple

880401  PC Dealer  A very expensively staged waste of time

8805  MacUser  Apple, Apple, Apple, Oi, Oi, Oi

880501  PC Dealer  Time to fight back against US domination

8806  MacUser  Do Apple zealots do more harm than good?

880601  PC Dealer  Software flotilla charts a collision course

8807  MacUser  Is Apple's outlook 'GRIM'?

880701  PC Dealer  IBM's trade-in to spur on PC Arthur Daleys

880702  PC Dealer  Speaking out: a chip off the old Intel block

8808  MacUser  Will Ted Nelson's Xanadu become a legend?

880801  PC Dealer  Keep afloat but don't drown the customer

880802  PC Dealer  Sugar's US bid holds key to PS/2 mystery

8809  MacUser  Is Apple growing up at last?

880901  PC Dealer  VARs do the business at the PC Show

8810  MacUser  The soul of the Macintosh

881001  PC Dealer  Compaq ties up strands of laptop evolution

881002  PC Dealer  Avoid the wealth pit in the brave new world

8811  MacUser  Hypercard 0: Paper 1

8812  MacUser  Will we let expert systems into our lives?

8901  MacUser  The Macintosh GUI is a shadow of what it could be

890101  PC Dealer  Big Blue turns green to achieve a balance

8902  MacUser  Multimedia and Groupware - takeaways from MacWorld Boston

8902  Personal Computer World  Changing Rooms

890201  PC Dealer  Put tailored applications on the Agenda

8903  MacUser  Apple leaps, and Wallaby hops, into portable computers

8903  Mensa  How Clever Are Today's Computers?

8903  Personal Computer World  Smalltalk: big think

890301  PC Dealer  Clients tied up in a comms nightmare

8904  MacUser  The computer's my best friend

890401  PC Dealer  Get into the black with green profits

8905  MacUser  Nicholas Negroponte on the computer as a theatrical experience

8905  Mensa  Dream Becomes Reality (now the Internet)

890501  PC Dealer  Knitworking clients seek integrators

8906  MacUser  Whaddya want, a Beemer or a Ford?

890601  PC Dealer  Expert systems present a moral maze

8907  MacUser  Multimedia developers beware, we want quality not quantity

8907  Mensa  The Personal Touch

890701  PC Dealer  Apple philosophy is an Oasis for users

8908  MacUser  Moving to the Mac, a one-way street

890801  PC Dealer  Hype the multimedia of the future

8909  MacUser  High speed digital communications could transform the travel industry

8909  Mensa  Name Of The Game

890901  PC Dealer  The profit and loss of customer care

8910  MacUser  Music royalties are the foot on the hosepipe of multimedia

8910  Personal Computer World  Web

891001  PC Dealer  A posing IBM kicks sand in Eisa face

8911  MacUser  A multimedia shambles - the industry has a lot to learn

8911  Mensa  Multi Media Systems

891101  PC Dealer  IBM strategy seeks to scupper Eisa

8912  MacUser  New Macintoshes? In your dreams, Tebbo.

9001  Mensa  It's A Steal - software theft

9003  The Director  Strike It Rich

900401  MacUser  Macintosh brings happiness to even the dullest life

900402  MacUser  Why Apple shouldn't fear Windows 3.0

9005  The Director  Half A Wit

900501  MacUser  Fight back: buy productivity software but don't tell the boss

900503  MacUser  Multimedia futures and how NY police are using it today

900601  MacUser  Could CD-ROMs deny future generations access to our knowledge?

900602  MacUser  Information exchange between different systems is key to our future

900603  MacUser  Computers as confidantes

900701  MacUser  AppleLink, warts and all

900703  MacUser  Clever technology doesn't relieve you of responsibility

900801  MacUser  CD-ROMs could transform the buying experience

900802  MacUser  Is Apple UK insulating itself from its customers?

9009  The Director  Windows To The World

900901  MacUser  Public airing of your multimedia compositions could land you in hot water

900902  MacUser  The last flushing of the Apple old guard?

901001  MacUser  Don't let your mask slip if advocating Apple in business

901002  MacUser  Microsoft's mess doesn't mean Apple can be complacent

9011  Strategy  Strategy's columnists debate the pros and cons of current issues.

901101  MacUser  Let's hope General Magic learns from ABC

901102  MacUser  If virus writers think you're worth attacking, they will. Be warned.

9012  Strategy  Electronic Mail

901201  MacUser  Will Macintosh become the Concorde of the computer world?

901202  MacUser  Open, flatter companies, especially those with Macs, will boom

9101  The Director  Aiming To Serve

910101  MacUser  Use your Mac to make your customers love you

910101  Strategy  Refurbishing the Bar

910102  Strategy  Value Added Reseller

910201  MacUser  MacUser thrives thanks to the quality of its readers

910202  MacUser  Despite my affection for the Mac, I've got a new travelling companion

9103  Mensa  Love Of My Life - Toshiba laptop

910301  MacUser  The Mac/Windows war turned out to Microsoft's advantage

910302  MacUser  What kind of warriors will computer games create?

910401  MacUser  Apple's talented researchers investigate the blindingly obvious

910402  MacUser  The manual and technical support are as important as the product

910501  MacUser  A new business model to make Apple resellers and customers happy?

910502  MacUser  Will System 7 herald the end of clunky dinosaur programs?

9106  Computer Buyer  As Rare As Hens' Teeth (column) - buying used computers

910601  MacUser  Apple's going green, it says here

910602  MacUser  Apple needs to target its cuts to maximise customer goodwill

910603  MacUser  Mac or PC? I like both. True.

9107  Computer Buyer  Overfed Software Swells Pc Appetites (column) - bloatware

910701  MacUser  Apple drops hardware. Or does it?

910702  MacUser  QuickTime promises movies for all, before long

9108  Computer Buyer  Going Hunting For Currants (column) - benefits of Macintosh

910801  MacUser  Is ClarisWorks the right thing to be doing at the moment?

910802  MacUser  Apple in bed with IBM. Whatever next?

9109  Computer Buyer  Tebbutt On ROSS On DOS (column) - DOS 5.0 launch

910901  MacUser  A peek inside Apple's Advanced Technology Group

910903  MacUser  Do you want a nagging Mac?

910904  MacUser  Your Mac can help you deliver on time, to standard and within budget

9110  Computer Buyer  Battles Of Raging High And Low (column) - networking benefits

911001  MacUser  Apple's Human Interface Research

911002  MacUser  Dreaming of a faster future

911003  MacUser  Distracting, frothy and addictive

9111  Mensa  The Big Apple - Inside Apple's research labs

9111  Computer Buyer  The Magic Is All In The Mix (column) - component software

911101  MacUser  Evidence of Apple's environmental intentions

911102  MacUser  The prospects for the IBM/Apple betrothal

911103  MacUser  Apple's human interface research - speech recognition

911104  MacUser  Apple's human interface research - video tools

911105  MacUser  Apple's human interface research - a new user interface?

911106  MacUser  Are you in breach of the Data Protection Act?

911201  MacUser  Getting some stuff off my chest

9200  Mensa  Good Knight?

9201  Computer Buyer  Face-Lift For An Old Friend (column) - Counterpoint, a Windows alternative

920101  MacUser  PowerBook

9202  Computer Buyer  The Proudest Of Them All (column) - Microsoft getting arrogant

920201  MacUser  Spreading power to the marginalised in South Africa

920202  MacUser  Why should the customer pay for hanging on the phone?

9203  Computer Buyer  Diary Of A Laptop Computer (column) - mobile computing

920301  MacUser  Apple's triumph at an IBM show

920302  MacUser  All the information you need, when you need it

9204  Computer Buyer  Keeping Up With The Jones' (column) - RPL, a face-lift for DOS

920401  MacUser  Is Apple selling its soul to win business customers?

920402  MacUser  Have we become slaves to computer systems?

9205  Computer Buyer  Room For Improvement (column) - 'Intel Inside' advertising campaign

920501  MacUser  Will collaborative tools transform corporate productivity?

920502  MacUser  Time to bomb educational software prices

9206  Computer Buyer  A Medium For The Message (column) - international communications (now the Internet)

920601  MacUser  Computer stimulated creativity

9207  Computer Buyer  Mind Without Matter (column) - Computers making our brains atrophy

9208  Computer Buyer  What's In A Name? (column) - Leaders abandon premium pricing

9209  Computer Buyer  Every Second Counts (column) - games impair life skills

9301  Mensa  Apple Bytes Back

9302  Personal Computer World  EO Personal Communicator

93031  The Director  Networking Or Not Working (case studies)

93032  The Director  Notebook Computers - pluses and minuses

93033  The Director  New Technology: Opportunities And Challenges

950201  PC Pro  Input Technology Under Development Looks Set To Exterminate The Mouse.

9503  The Director  Marching Unstoppably Down The New Highway (column) - Internet

96041  The Director  How To Tell Your Own Fortune