''Computing Today'' was a computer magazine published by

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, it was printed in the UK from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. It began life as a supplement to ''

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'' for four issues and became an independent publication in March 1979. Some time after 1982 it bought out rival computing magazine ''Microcomputer Printout'' (formerly ''Printout'') and the two magazines merged into one. The magazine ceased publication in September 1985. It gave

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and

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s, programming

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s and program listings for many of the popular home computers of the time. UK subscription cost 10 pounds 50 pence including postage circa 1981.

Weblinks

Computing Today at Archive.org

References

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