Your Computer (Australian magazine) explained

Image Alt:	Partial cover of Your Computer from December 1992
Editor:	Les Bell^[1] ^[2] ^[3]
Editor2:	Jake Kennedy
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Your Computer was an Australian computer magazine published by the White House Publishing Group (under licence from Motorword Pty Ltd.) and printed by The Lithgo Centre, Waterloo. Starting with the very first issue in May/June 1981 (102 pages) (with a limited print run of 30,000^[8]) at the recommended price of $2.00.^[7] Around 1985 the magazine was later published by Federal Publishing Company (Hannanprint Group) and printed by Macquarie Print.^[9] The monthly magazine's final issue was May/June 1997.^[10] The first editor of the magazine was Les Bell.

The articles in Your Computer catered for beginners to computing, through to highly technical programming techniques, industry updates, resources, user group and microcomputer-specific columns, and published many special features of Australian technology companies. Articles were written by both full-time magazine staff and freelance contributors, including Les Bell, Matt Whalen, Bill Bolton, Stewart White and Lloyd Borrett.^{[11] [12]} Cartoonist Brendan J Ackhurst was also a frequent contributor of illustrations to the magazine. The magazine was launched in the pre-PC era, and so for many years, the magazine was focused on the then home computers such as the Commodore 64, Apple II, MicroBee and many others; however unlike most publications of this type, it never completely specialized on any one market, and so catered for hobbyists, serious hobbyists, and professionals, and remained platform agnostic.

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• News: Award winner 'Impressive showcase; new approach'. . . 16 April 1984 . 22 April 2015 . 3 Supplement: SUPPLEMENT TO THE CANBERRA TIMES . National Library of Australia. – Apple's Lisa 2, the Australian Personal Computer of the Year. APPLE Computer's innovative Lisa personal computer was adjudged Australian Personal Computer of the Year by Your Computer magazine last month.
• News: IN BRIEF Canberra school gets $10,000 'gift' after mistake. . . 1 April 1985 . 22 April 2015 . 16 . National Library of Australia. – Hewlett-Packard's Model 110 portable computer has been judged the personal computer of the year in a competition run by Your Computer magazine. Microsoft's $95 Flight Simulator II program has won the software product of the year award.
• News: Cash back from IBM. . . 7 April 1986 . 22 April 2015 . 17 . National Library of Australia. – IBM's PC AT has been awarded Your Computer magazine's 1986 award for personal computer of the year
• News: PC's prize win. . . 4 May 1987 . 22 April 2015 . 16 . National Library of Australia. – Your Computer magazine announced the winner of its Personal Computer of the Year Award. It was won by the ma chine that many people" think IBM should have designed but didn't, the remarkable 32 bit Compaq Deskpro 386. ... Aldus Corporation's Pagemaker was named software product of the year
• News: COMPUTERS AND TECHNOLOGY Gestetner gets Impact. . . 9 May 1988 . 22 April 2015 . 21 . National Library of Australia. – The Macintosh II has won the 1988 Australian Hardware of the Year Award. The annual award hosted by Your Computer magazine, is compiled by a group of industry specialists and is probably the most prestigious in the Australian computer industry.

Notes and References

1. http://www.alctraining.com.au/meet-the-faculty/les-bell/ Les Bell - ALC
2. http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/bios.cgi?read=223 Bell, Les
3. , he was founding editor of Your Computer, Australia's leading microcomputer magazine...As a consulting editor of Your Computer, Les was convenor of the panel which selects the PC of the Year.
4. http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2014-January/101253.html [LINK&#93; Australian online news history<!-- Bot generated title -->]
5. News: Radio Guests. . The Canberra Times. 3 April 1986 . 22 April 2015 . 15 . National Library of Australia., 10.30 Mat Wheelen, editor of Your Computer Magazine, talks about the personal computer of the year award;
6. https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20110925213700/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/20427/20110926-0737/conference.auscert.org.au/conf2003/bios_matt_whelan.html Matt Whelan
7. Web site: Here is the cover scan of the very first issue! . Retrogameplay Administrator . retrogameplay.com . 8 January 2007 . 22 April 2015. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930111850/http://retrogameplay.com/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1168228723 . 30 September 2007 .
8. As confirmed in issue 2 of the magazine
9. https://books.google.com/books?id=jkO4k_76sxYC&dq=editor+%22your+computer%22+federal+publishing&pg=PA27 A Subject Index to Current Literature
10. , The computer/IT magazine market has experienced a shakeout with Australian Consolidated Press announcing the closure of two of its computer titles and three other titles from different publishers...In addition, Federal Publishing is believed to have closed Your Computer magazine
11. http://www.borrett.id.au/computing/articles.htm#Your_Computer Your Computer
12. http://www.siliconchip.com.au/Help/About and also being responsible for magazines such as “Your Computer”, “ETI” and “Sonics” at Federal Publishing Company.