80-US Journal

80-U.S. Journal, later renamed Basic Computing, was one of the first personal computer magazines. It was devoted to the first mass-market personal computer, the TRS-80, which beat out the Apple II by a few weeks.

Begun as 80-Northwest Journal in September 1978, printed with dot-matrix printers, it became 80-U.S. Journal in January 1979, and moved up to professional printing.


Lawrence I. Charters, “Computerese Simplified,” 80-U.S. Journal, September-October 1981, pp. 137-139

Lawrence I. Charters, “ENHBAS: Enhanced BASIC for Models I and III,” 80-US Journal, November-December 1981, pp. 82-85

Lawrence I. Charters, “Help for a dead language: Three spelling checkers,” 80-U.S. Journal, February 1982, pp. 23-26

Lawrence I. Charters, “Coming of Age: An Editorial,” 80-US Journal, December 1982, pp. 6-7.

80-US Journal cover for September-October 1981. The cover photo was taken in 1957 and shows a welder not wearing gloves. The photo has not much to do with microcomputers, but it was dramatic.
80-US Journal cover for September-October 1981. The cover photo is from  in 1957 and shows a welder not wearing gloves. The photo has not much to do with microcomputers, but it was dramatic.