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was a brainchild of

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, with

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serving as its first editor-in-chief. The circulation of the magazine was 400,000 copies in 1998. The magazine itself covered a wide varieties of topics that applied to families. In software, it tended to cover education software, further going into

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software, applications, and creativity tools. An

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n version, ''Family PC Australia'', was published by APN Computing under the license of Ziff Communications and the Walt Disney Company. The magazine was started in August/September 1995 and was published on a bimonthly basis. Ziff-Davis shut down the magazine in 2002. When ''FamilyPC'' was discontinued, Ziff-Davis switched ''FamilyPC'' subscribers to ''

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''.

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Defunct computer magazines published in the United States Disney Publishing Worldwide Home computer magazines Magazines established in 1994 Magazines disestablished in 2002 Monthly magazines published in the United States {{Compu-mag-stub