Hi chaps
I'd been looking for years for decent copies of Personal Computer World and recently hit the jackpot. I found a collector on ebay had reprinted about 800 pages worth (split 1978 ish to 1986 over 3 x A5 books of 250-300 pages each) - and I bought what I believe to the last of c. 8 sets printed. I asked about scans and more prints - there are none. So this is it.
the books are wonderful. really perfect and modern printing, as new I'd say. Get them while you can.
below I have pasted verbatim from the original seller: I've not checked every review but it seems pretty correct . check and ads and reviews list!
i am keeping 2 sets and selling 2 sets at the price I paid £80 per set of 3 A5 books plus around £8 UPS courier. UK only, all paypal gift.
PICS BELOW AND I'LL TRY ADD A LINK TO A VIDEO
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Personal Computer World Magazine "enthusiast reprints" / BEST OF PCW
800 pages reprints in set of 3 mag/books 1978-86.
An edited and selected set of covers, scanned reviews and adverts through the glory years. Possibly the only reprint in existence?
PCW magazine was THE computer magazine and was ART.
Auction is for all 3 x A5 perfect bound books/magazines of approx
250-280 pages each, totalling around 800 pages of classic retro computing nostagia, tellling the story of the home computing glory years
Book 1 1978 to 1982
Book 2 1982 to 1984
Book 3 1984 to 1986
PRICE REFLECTS WHAT I HAD TO PAY TO OBTAIN THESE ONE-OFF PRINTS AND TRUE RARITY / OPPORTUNITY.
CLASSIC PCW reviews
HUNDREDS of adverts, pages of character - adverts from Spectrum, Laskys, Sinclair, Commodore, Apple, resellers, Comp-shop etc from the 1978 start through to Archimedes, Amstrad and Amiga.
The selected articles stops around 1986- as did the computer revolution.
I bought a set of these reprint 'books' second hand at very high cost from a collector a few years ago recognising i could never obtain a set any other way.
As far as I know these have NEVER been available, he must have scanned thousands of pages of the original PCW magazines. The cost reflects the rarity and cost plus the thousands of hours of scanning and editing -- he I was told went through 20-30,000+ pages to edit these c. 800+ pages of highlights.
Note some pages are detailed scans. Scans show all defects of a 30 year old magazine. Some are OCR'ed, and a few are photos.
Printed in A5 perfect bound in colour, gloss cover and good quality paper. Flat, NO fading! 2 or 3 year old paper only I would guess. See the photos for condition.
ORIGINAL PCW reviews/ articles include:
Apple II
Sinclair MK14
Sinclair ZX80
Sinclair ZX81
Sinclair Spectrum
Sinclair QL
Apple II
Apple III
Acorn Atom
Acorn BBC Micro
Acorn BBC Master
Acorn Electron
Acorn Archimedes
Acorn ABC 310
commodore PET 2001
Commodore VIC 20
Conmodore 64
Commodore Plus/4
Commodore 128
Bigboard
MB Vectrex
Commodore Amiga
Resarch Machines 380Z
Sharp MZ-800
Apple Mac
Commodore C64c
Epson PX-8
BBC Master Compact
Sharp MZ80
Nascom 1
Sol 20
Kim-1
Jupiter Ace
TRS 80
TRS 80 model II
Attache
Sym 1
Sorcerer
North Star Horizon
Cromenco
Atari 400
Atari 800
color computer
Tuscan
Tandy TRS-80 Model III
Acorn Econet
Hitachi Peach
Grundy Newbrain
Texas Ti-94a
HP 41 caculator
Heath WH-89
DAI
Torch
Babbage
Oric 1
Classic game reviews
Camputers Lynx
NEC APC
Micro Professor
Commodore 715
Xerox 16/8
Amstrad 464
HP150
Pied Piper
Colour Genie
Tandy Model 100
ICL Oe Per Desk
Memotech RS128
Sony MSX
Apple IIc
Dragon Professional
Amstrad PCW
Nimbus
Enterprise
Atari ST
etc
ie MASSES of business and games and home machines; from the earliest, to the last in 1986
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pics:
I'd been looking for years for decent copies of Personal Computer World and recently hit the jackpot. I found a collector on ebay had reprinted about 800 pages worth (split 1978 ish to 1986 over 3 x A5 books of 250-300 pages each) - and I bought what I believe to the last of c. 8 sets printed. I asked about scans and more prints - there are none. So this is it.
the books are wonderful. really perfect and modern printing, as new I'd say. Get them while you can.
below I have pasted verbatim from the original seller: I've not checked every review but it seems pretty correct . check and ads and reviews list!
i am keeping 2 sets and selling 2 sets at the price I paid £80 per set of 3 A5 books plus around £8 UPS courier. UK only, all paypal gift.
PICS BELOW AND I'LL TRY ADD A LINK TO A VIDEO
"
Personal Computer World Magazine "enthusiast reprints" / BEST OF PCW
800 pages reprints in set of 3 mag/books 1978-86.
An edited and selected set of covers, scanned reviews and adverts through the glory years. Possibly the only reprint in existence?
PCW magazine was THE computer magazine and was ART.
Auction is for all 3 x A5 perfect bound books/magazines of approx
250-280 pages each, totalling around 800 pages of classic retro computing nostagia, tellling the story of the home computing glory years
Book 1 1978 to 1982
Book 2 1982 to 1984
Book 3 1984 to 1986
PRICE REFLECTS WHAT I HAD TO PAY TO OBTAIN THESE ONE-OFF PRINTS AND TRUE RARITY / OPPORTUNITY.
CLASSIC PCW reviews
HUNDREDS of adverts, pages of character - adverts from Spectrum, Laskys, Sinclair, Commodore, Apple, resellers, Comp-shop etc from the 1978 start through to Archimedes, Amstrad and Amiga.
The selected articles stops around 1986- as did the computer revolution.
I bought a set of these reprint 'books' second hand at very high cost from a collector a few years ago recognising i could never obtain a set any other way.
As far as I know these have NEVER been available, he must have scanned thousands of pages of the original PCW magazines. The cost reflects the rarity and cost plus the thousands of hours of scanning and editing -- he I was told went through 20-30,000+ pages to edit these c. 800+ pages of highlights.
Note some pages are detailed scans. Scans show all defects of a 30 year old magazine. Some are OCR'ed, and a few are photos.
Printed in A5 perfect bound in colour, gloss cover and good quality paper. Flat, NO fading! 2 or 3 year old paper only I would guess. See the photos for condition.
ORIGINAL PCW reviews/ articles include:
Apple II
Sinclair MK14
Sinclair ZX80
Sinclair ZX81
Sinclair Spectrum
Sinclair QL
Apple II
Apple III
Acorn Atom
Acorn BBC Micro
Acorn BBC Master
Acorn Electron
Acorn Archimedes
Acorn ABC 310
commodore PET 2001
Commodore VIC 20
Conmodore 64
Commodore Plus/4
Commodore 128
Bigboard
MB Vectrex
Commodore Amiga
Resarch Machines 380Z
Sharp MZ-800
Apple Mac
Commodore C64c
Epson PX-8
BBC Master Compact
Sharp MZ80
Nascom 1
Sol 20
Kim-1
Jupiter Ace
TRS 80
TRS 80 model II
Attache
Sym 1
Sorcerer
North Star Horizon
Cromenco
Atari 400
Atari 800
color computer
Tuscan
Tandy TRS-80 Model III
Acorn Econet
Hitachi Peach
Grundy Newbrain
Texas Ti-94a
HP 41 caculator
Heath WH-89
DAI
Torch
Babbage
Oric 1
Classic game reviews
Camputers Lynx
NEC APC
Micro Professor
Commodore 715
Xerox 16/8
Amstrad 464
HP150
Pied Piper
Colour Genie
Tandy Model 100
ICL Oe Per Desk
Memotech RS128
Sony MSX
Apple IIc
Dragon Professional
Amstrad PCW
Nimbus
Enterprise
Atari ST
etc
ie MASSES of business and games and home machines; from the earliest, to the last in 1986
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