Your Computer (Australian magazine)

—Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Template:Infobox magazine Your Computer was an Australian computer magazine published by the White House Publishing Group<ref name=yourcomputerholdings/> (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<ref>As confirmed in issue 2 of the magazine Template:Citation needed</ref>) at the recommended price of $2.00.<ref name=1stcover/> Around 1985 the magazine was later published by Federal Publishing Company (Hannanprint Group) and printed by Macquarie Print.<ref>Template:Citation</ref><ref>A Subject Index to Current Literature, By Australian Public Affairs Information Service, p. 27, Your Computer, {{#if:0725-3931|Template:Catalog lookup link{{#if:Template:Trim|{{#ifeq:Template:Yesno-no|yes|Template:Main other|{{#invoke:check isxn|check_issn|Template:Trim|error=Template:Error-smallTemplate:Main other}}}}{{#if:Template:Trim|{{#ifeq:Template:Yesno-no|yes|Template:Main other|{{#invoke:check isxn|check_issn|Template:Trim|error=Template:Error-smallTemplate:Main other}}}}{{#if:Template:Trim|{{#ifeq:Template:Yesno-no|yes|Template:Main other|{{#invoke:check isxn|check_issn|Template:Trim|error=Template:Error-smallTemplate:Main other}}}}{{#if:Template:Trim|{{#ifeq:Template:Yesno-no|yes|Template:Main other|{{#invoke:check isxn|check_issn|Template:Trim|error=Template:Error-smallTemplate:Main other}}}}{{#if:Template:Trim|{{#ifeq:Template:Yesno-no|yes|Template:Main other|{{#invoke:check isxn|check_issn|Template:Trim|error=Template:Error-smallTemplate:Main other}}}}{{#if:Template:Trim|{{#ifeq:Template:Yesno-no|yes|Template:Main other|{{#invoke:check isxn|check_issn|Template:Trim|error=Template:Error-smallTemplate:Main other}}}}{{#if:Template:Trim|{{#ifeq:Template:Yesno-no|yes|Template:Main other|{{#invoke:check isxn|check_issn|Template:Trim|error=Template:Error-smallTemplate:Main other}}}}{{#if:Template:Trim|{{#ifeq:Template:Yesno-no|yes|Template:Main other|{{#invoke:check isxn|check_issn|Template:Trim|error=Template:Error-smallTemplate:Main other}}}}{{#if:Template:Trim|{{#ifeq:Template:Yesno-no|yes|Template:Main other|{{#invoke:check isxn|check_issn|Template:Trim|error=Template:Error-smallTemplate:Main other}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}|Template:Error-small}}, N/001.6405/YOU, The Federal Publishing Company, 180 Bourke Road, Alexandria NSW 2015</ref> The monthly magazine's final issue was May/June 1997.<ref>Template:Citation, 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</ref> 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.<ref>Your Computer, Lloyd Borrett – Computing – Articles, After having a few articles published about the IBM PC, I was invited by editor Les Bell to write a monthly "Your IBM Computer" column for Your Computer magazine.</ref><ref>and also being responsible for magazines such as “Your Computer”, “ETI” and “Sonics” at Federal Publishing Company., Leo Simpson, B.Bus., FAICD Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, About – Silicon Chip Online</ref> Cartoonist Brendan J Ackhurst was also a frequent contributor of illustrations to the magazine. For many years, the magazine was focused on home computers such as the Commodore 64, Apple II, MicroBee and many others. It never specialized on any one market, and so catered for hobbyists, serious hobbyists, and professionals, and remained platform agnostic.

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• Template:Cite news – 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.
• Template:Cite news – 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.
• Template:Cite news – IBM's PC AT has been awarded Your Computer magazine's 1986 award for personal computer of the year
• Template:Cite news – 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
• Template:Cite news – 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.