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.

1994

 * March/April 1994
 * If I Only Had A Brain
 * Speech Recognition Products Untie Your Hands
 * Telecommuting in the '90s
 * Point of View: Not Just Another Database Article
 * Professional Certification Program from IBM
 * Celebrate the Past on Your Trip Back to the Future!
 * OS/2 2.1 Performance Tuning Tips - Part II
 * PC File Systems
 * NetWare 4.01 for OS/2: Features and Installation
 * NetWare Requester for OS/2, v2.01: Features and Installation
 * What's New in Novell NetWare 3.12?
 * LAN Analysis Using IBM's DatagLANce Network Analyser
 * NetWare Questions and Answers
 * May/June 1994
 * Todd Watson: "Wrightsizing " at USAir
 * Getting the Word Out at Chemical Banking Corporation
 * Back Up for the Future
 * Lost in Cyberspace
 * The Book Shelf
 * Threads
 * Redirected Installation of OS/2 2.x
 * LAN Server Ultimedia 1.0 Performance and Tuning
 * July/Aug 1994
 * September/October 1994
 * November/December 1994
 * Special OS/2 Warp Edition

January/February 1995


Cover: OS/2 Warp: this futuristic operating system is here today! Tried and tested by the masses! Backward-compatible with all your favorite applications! Easy to install! OS/2 Warp has it all--even a great name and an even greater look!

Cover Photo: Manfred Ayers, Arlington Texas
 * Betty Hawkins: From the Editor - Have You Been Warped?
 * Technical Connection Personal Software Is the Answer!
 * Visualizer, DB2/2, and You - An End-User's Perspective
 * Insiders' Software Unveiled
 * Need a Specialist for Your LAN Server 4.0?
 * One-Stop Shopping by Fred Castaneda
 * OS/2 Warp by Edward Duhe'
 * OS/2 for SMP
 * Multimedia File I/O Services
 * Need a Fix?
 * IBM LAN Server 4.0: New Features and Comparisons with NetWare
 * IBM DCE Heterogeneous Enterprise Performance
 * OS/2, DOS, and Windows NT Coexistence
 * OS/2 for SMP and Windows NT Coexistence
 * Corrective Service Information

July/August 1996

 * What's New?
 * Securing Your Communications from Mainframe to Desktop
 * Going Mobile
 * Creating Applications with VisualAge C++'s NMAKE Facility CODE UPDATE
 * Building Object-Oriented Applications from Existing C Code
 * SOM Collection Classes: A Primer for the VisualAge COBOL Programmer
 * Choosing the Right MPEG Solution
 * Computer Security and Implementation
 * Installing FixPaks via CID
 * Meeting Your Users' IS Needs
 * Corrective Service Information

September/October 1996

 * What's New?
 * Everything You Need To Know About The PC Server
 * The IBM PC Server 704
 * Managing PC Servers Using TME 10 NetFinity
 * IBM PC Server Solutions for Today's Network Computing Environments
 * PC Server High-Availability Techniques
 * Specifying a PC Server for Lotus Notes
 * Exploring IBM PC Servers in an ATM Environment
 * The Neighbors -- Microsoft and IBM
 * Going Mobile With Bob Angell

November/December 1996

 * What's New?
 * Today's Help Desk: Providing "Hands-On" Support Remotely By Philippe-Charles Krug-Basse
 * The Personals in OS/2 Warp 4
 * OS/2 Warp 4: "Best on the Planet"
 * OS/2 Warp 4: Internet & intranet
 * OS/2 Warp 4: New Workplace Shell
 * OS/2 Warp 4: Dedicated DOS/Windows Session
 * OS/2 Warp 4: Develop with Java
 * OS/2 Warp 4: JAVA

The last issue published was "November & December 1996" and when it was folded IBM published articles intended for the "January & February 1997" issue online instead.

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)