''APC'' (formerly known as Australian Personal Computer) is a computer magazine in

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. It is published monthly and comes with a cover-mounted DVD of

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. It is published by Future Australia. The tagline on the front of the magazine is "high performance personal computing" which APC uses as its point of distinction from other computing publications in

, such as '' PC User'' which targets beginner-medium users, and Atomic which targets gamers and modders. APC was first published in May 1980 by Sean Howard and is the longest running computer-magazine in Australia. The magazine also has a website, which publishes daily technology news, separate to what's in the printed magazine, with very few exceptions. The magazine was bought from

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in 2013 by Future. Future subsequently incorporated ''PC & Tech Authority'' into ''APC'' after acquiring it (along with other computing assets) from

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in 2018.

Cover disc

APC has a cover-mounted DVD each month containing a variety of software, which typically includes sample code, programs demonstrated in the magazine's Workshop pages, instructional videos, trial versions of new software and game releases and three to four "full-working versions" of programs that are no longer current editions. APC first included a cover CD on its September 1996 issue. On its December 2004 issue, APC switched to DVD instead of CD and was the first IT publication in Australia to do so. It is currently edited and produced by Peter Dockrill, who has worked on it since April 2008.

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