Compute!

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Compute!

June 1987 issue, showing Laser Chess
Frequency	Monthly
Publisher	Small System Services (1979–1983) ABC Publishing (1983–1994)
First issue	November / December 1979
Final issue	September 1994
Country	United States
Based in	New York City
ISSN	0194-357X

Compute! (ISSN 0194-357X), often stylized as COMPUTE!, was 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.^[1] 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 and Commodore 64 computer users.