Editing Compute! (section)

{{short description|Defunct American home computer magazine}}
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{{Infobox magazine
| based           = New York City
| image_file      = COMPUTEjune1987.jpg
| image_caption   = June 1987 issue, showing ''[[Laser Chess]]''
| frequency       = Monthly
| firstdate       = November / December 1979
| finaldate       = September 1994
| country         = [[United States]]
| issn            = 0194-357X
| publisher       = [[Small System Services]] (1979–1983)<br />[[ABC Publishing]] (1983–1994)
}}

'''''Compute!''''' ({{ISSN|0194-357X}}), often stylized as '''''COMPUTE!''''', is an American [[home computer]] magazine that was published from 1979 to 1994. Its origins can be traced to 1978 in Len Lindsay's ''PET Gazette'',  one of the first magazines for the [[Commodore PET]] computer.<ref>[http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue1/3190_1_THE_PET_GAZETTE_THE_EVOLUTION_OF_A_MAGAZINE.php The Evolution Of A Magazine<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In its 1980s heyday, ''Compute!'' covered all major platforms, and several single-platform spinoffs of the magazine were launched. The most successful of these was ''[[Compute!'s Gazette]]'', which catered to [[VIC-20]], [[Commodore 64]], and later the [[Commodore 128]] computer users.

Compute provided programs for users to type in, usually in Basic. These included programs such as games and utilities. Sometimes they would provide programs written in assembly to be typed out in a utility called [[MLX (software)|MLX.]] They also provided technical advice in some of their articles.