Editing Compute! (section)

==History==
''Compute!''{{'s}} original goal was to write about and publish programs for all of the computers that used some version of the [[MOS Technology 6502]] CPU. It started out in 1979.<ref>{{cite book|author=Roberto Dillon|title=Ready: A Commodore 64 Retrospective|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ecuoBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA113|access-date=12 February 2017|date=3 December 2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-981-287-341-5|page=113}}</ref>

[[ABC Publishing]] acquired Compute! Publications in May 1983 for $18 million in stock, and raised circulation of the magazine from 200,000 to 420,000 by the end of the year. ''[[Compute!'s Gazette]]'', for Commodore computers, began publishing that year.<ref name="dougherty19831116">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/16/business/advertising-abc-seeks-additional-magazines.html |title=Advertising; ABC Seeks Additional Magazines |last=Dougherty |first=Philip H. |date=1983-11-16 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2017-07-02 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |url-access=limited}}</ref> ''Compute!'' claimed in 1983 that it published more [[type-in program]]s "in each issue than any magazine in the industry".<ref name="lock198304">{{cite magazine| url=https://archive.org/stream/1983-04-compute-magazine/Compute_Issue_035_1983_Apr#page/n7/mode/2up | title=Editor's Note |volume=5 |issue=4 #35|magazine=Compute!|date=April 1983| access-date=30 October 2013|last=Lock |first=Robert|page=6}}</ref> A typical issue would feature a large-scale program for one of the covered platforms, with smaller programs for one or more platforms filling the remainder of the issue's type-ins.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Cover|url=https://archive.org/details/1985-06-compute-magazine|magazine=Compute! |date=June 1985 |volume=7 |number=6}}</ref>

Editors of the magazine included Robert Lock, Richard Mansfield, Charles Brannon, and Tom R. Halfhill. Noted columnists included [[Jim Butterfield]], educator [[Fred D'Ignazio]] and science fiction author [[Orson Scott Card]].<ref>[http://www.hatrack.com/osc/about-more.shtml Who Is Orson Scott Card?] from Card's official website</ref>

With the May 1988 issue, the magazine was redesigned and the type-in program listings were dropped.<ref name="keizer198805">{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/stream/1988-05-compute-magazine/Compute_Issue_096_1988_May#page/n5/mode/2up|title=Editorial License|magazine=Compute!|date=May 1988|access-date=10 November 2013|last=Keizer |first=Gregg | pages=4 | volume=10 | issue=5 #96}}</ref>

In 1990, ''Compute!'' was out of publication for several months when it was sold to General Media, publishers at the time of ''[[Omni (magazine)|Omni]]'' and ''[[Penthouse (magazine)|Penthouse]]'' magazines, in May of that year. General Media changed the title of the magazine to ''COMPUTE'', without the exclamation point, and the cover design was changed to resemble that of ''OMNI'' magazine. [[Ziff Davis]] bought ''Compute!''{{'}}s assets, including its subscriber list, in 1994.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1994-08-08 |title=``Compute!' Magazine Bought By Media Group |url=https://greensboro.com/compute-magazine-bought-by-media-group/article_04fa9384-9082-5869-b69e-528b8f685145.html |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=Greensboro News and Record |language=en}}</ref> General Media had ceased its publication before the sale.{{citation needed|date=March 2010}}