Personal Systems Magazine

A bimonthly print magazine released by IBM's Personal Systems Division in Texas, USA that was during its later years squarely focused on OS/2, although some other PS Division subjects such as PowerPC were covered from time to time. Note that it was not a free marketing publication but rather intended as a technical magazine for manager and required a somewhat hefty paid subscription, but on the other hand it was a professionally designed publication had an excellent layout and even had custom created cartoons, graphic illustrations and the like.

May/June 1995


About the Cover: Local area networks...they connect, they distribute, they make our lives easier, and sometimes they don't do any of the above. Dallas artist Bill Carr chose a fond childhood image to portray the modern-day technology of local area networks.
 * From the Editor: See You in New Orleans
 * What's New for OS/2?
 * Thanks for the Memory
 * Road Trip! Disney on the Internet
 * Apache Students Use the Power of the Pen (Light Pen)
 * Visualizer: The Conversion Continues
 * The Internet: A New Dimension?
 * IBM LAN Doctor Services
 * Borland C++ 2.0 brings OWL to the OS/2 Presentation Manager
 * LAN Server Logon Internals
 * LAN Server 4.0 Performance, Capacity Enhancements, and Tuning Tips
 * OS/2 Warp for Developing PC Games
 * Controlling the OS/2 Desktop from a File Server
 * Jump-Start Your PC with Component Upgrades
 * OS/2 Tips and Techniques
 * Corrective Service Information

July/August 1995


About the Cover: Databases make order out of chaos, weaving like and unlike bits of information into a fabric from which data can be extracted in whatever form you need. Dallas artist Bill Carr uses this analogy, along with his inimitable style, to illustrate the cover of our database issue.
 * From the Editor: Authors--Our Greatest Resource
 * What's New for OS/2?
 * The Soap Box Derby
 * Easily Load and Lock Desktops
 * Road Trip! Cruisin' to the Olympics
 * DB2 for OS/2 V2.1: The Next Generation
 * OS/2 Victories from the Data Management Front Lines
 * Voting Kiosks: The Future of Electronic Elections
 * Performance Enhancements in DB2 for OS/2 V2.1
 * DB2 for OS/2 Administrative Tools
 * Database Recovery with DB2 for OS/2
 * Getting Object-Oriented with DB2 for OS/2 V2.1
 * Enhanced SQL in DB2 for OS/2 V2.1
 * Enterprisewide Connectivity Using DB2
 * Visualizer Development
 * Performance: DCE RPC as a DB2 for OS/2 and DB2 for AIX Transport
 * Remote Program Load of OS/2 Warp from NetWare 3.12
 * Questions and Answers
 * Corrective Service Information

September/October 1995


About the Cover: Social interfaces continue to evolve, making human interaction with computers more friendly and familiar. The concept of this human-like approach to computing is reflected in noted Dallas artist Bill Carr's cover, where man meets machine with a universally- recognized gesture of cooperation.
 * From the Editor: Is Hype Hip?
 * What's New for OS/2?
 * Mesa 2 for OS/2
 * Manage Your Files with FileStar/2 for OS/2
 * PartitionMagic for OS/2
 * Managing LAN Server Home Directories
 * IBM DualStor for OS/2
 * Human-Computer Interaction Overview
 * User Interface 2000
 * IBM's Strategy for OS/2 Platform Products Fix Support
 * Road Trip! Back to School
 * TalkLink Gets a Facelift
 * OpenDoc and Human-Computer Interaction
 * Supporting HCI Technologies in Applications
 * An Introduction to Speech Recognition with OS/2
 * Intelligent Agents: A Primer
 * CID Installation of OS/2 and Its Platform Applications
 * Creating Your Own INF Hyperlinked Files
 * Remote Installation of OS/2 Warp Connect
 * Corrective Service Information

November/December 1995


About the Cover: Noted Dallas artist Bill Carr's highly effective use of visual imagery perfectly depicts the idea of connectivity on this month's cover.
 * From the Editor: The Human Link
 * What's New?
 * Road Trip! Shopping the Internet
 * Command-Line Commando
 * Getting Warped and Connected Too!
 * Intrared: LANs Without Wires
 * Security and Auditing in IBM LAN Server
 * Multi-User Performance Testing in a Client/Server Environment
 * DCE Cell Performance: High Water Marks
 * Plug and Play in PC DOS 7
 * Questions and Answers: LAN
 * Corrective Service Information

January/February 1997

 * What's New?
 * NETAnywhere - The Answer to Remote Network Computing by Penny Porter
 * IBM's Intranet Offerings: Pathways to New Heights by Jeri Dube, Donna Pierson
 * Creating a CID Server by Robert L. Angell, Mark Owens.
 * Directory and Security Server Configuration and Tuning by Ken Whitfield.

Contributors

 * Betty Hawkins - Editor
 * Van Landrum - The Personal Systems Magazine's business manager, also wrote a regular column called "Road Trip" that dealt mainly with the internet.
 * Gregory Piamonte
 * Fred Castaneda - Had a regular column called "One-Stop Shopping"
 * Richard K. Goran - Wrote on REXX related subjects.
 * Rick Weaver
 * Chris Fierros
 * Steven P. Schneer
 * Edward Duhe'
 * Bret Curran
 * Randall Johnson
 * Philip Lieberman
 * Herman Rodriguez

Links

 * A copy of the original Personal Systems Magazine homepage (archived)