For the Australian magazine, see Your Computer (Australian magazine)

Your Computer (Australian magazine)

Your Computer was an Australian computer magazine published by the White House Publishing Group and printed by The Lithgo Centre, Waterloo. Starting with the very first issue in May/June 1981 at the recommended price of $2.00...

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Your Computer was a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 computer magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 published monthly from 1981 to 1988, and aimed at the burgeoning home computer

Home computer

Home computers were a class of microcomputers entering the market in 1977, and becoming increasingly common during the 1980s. They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that, for the first time, were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user...

 market. At one stage it was, in its own words, "Britain's biggest selling home computer magazine". It offered support across a wide range of computer formats, and included news, type-in program listings

Computer program

A computer program is a sequence of instructions written to perform a specified task with a computer. A computer requires programs to function, typically executing the program's instructions in a central processor. The program has an executable form that the computer can use directly to execute...

, and reviews of both software and hardware. Hardware reviews were notable for including coverage of the large number of home microcomputers

Microcomputer

A microcomputer is a computer with a microprocessor as its central processing unit. They are physically small compared to mainframe and minicomputers...

released during the early 1980s.

External links

• [ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/magazines/YourComputer/ Archive of some issues at World of Spectrum]