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.

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

 * IBM's Personal Systems Support Family-Customer-Influenced Design
 * OS/2 Times and Scores the 1994 Indianapolis 500
 * Software compatability: Good Relationship or One Night Stand?
 * Migrating Windows Applications to OS/2: Easing the Migration Path
 * OS/2 Conference Draws Praise
 * DCE: An Application Primer
 * Distributed Performance Characteristics of IBM DCE for OS/2
 * Architecture Soup: Understanding Modern IBM PC Architecture
 * TSHELL: A Text-Based Alternate Shell for OS/2
 * Extended Attributes for Files
 * Developing Lotus Notes Applications
 * Conserving Power with Personal Systems Power Management
 * Superstor/DS Data Compression in PC DOS 6.x
 * LAN Net/View Object Registration Services

September/October 1994

 * "Sneaker Net" or Systems Management?
 * Like Father Like Son
 * The Book Shelf
 * Cajun Electric Cooks Up OS/2 GUI with VisPro/REXX!
 * Application Development by Program Integration
 * IBM REXX for NetWare
 * GammaTech REXX SuperSet/2-Give Your REXX Programs the Power of C
 * BranchCard: A Viable Option to Stand Alone Hubs
 * A Hands-On Primer for REXX
 * Visual REXX Development Environments
 * CID Installation of OS/2 2.11 and LAPS
 * Upgrading from Microsoft LAN Manager to IBM LAN Server 3.0
 * Stretching Your LAN with LAN Distance
 * DB2/2-More Than Ever Before!
 * NetBIOS, SNA, and NetWare IPX Coexistance Under OS/2

November/December 1994

 * Evolution, Not Revolution-Pen Computing Comes of Age
 * Handwriting Recognition: The State of the Art
 * Pen Digitizing Hardware
 * It's HaPENing!
 * Bill Carr: Fastest Draw in the West
 * Work Management in the Field
 * Communication Without Wires: IBM's Mobile Communications Module
 * Tomorrow's Networking Today-From IBM's Personal Systems Competency Center
 * Customers Speak Out About Consult Line
 * New DeScribe 5.0-Leader of the Pack
 * Super-Fast PenDOS
 * Pen for OS/2
 * A Development Environment for Pen-Centric Applications
 * Writing DOS Installation Programs for Selective Boot Systems
 * OS/2 for PowerPC: Transforming Archecture into Implementation

Special OS/2 Warp Edition

 * OS/2: Past, Warp, and Future
 * PC Computing Done Right
 * The Warp Client, a Gift to the Network Administrator
 * Warp Installation
 * IBM Works for OS/2
 * Giving New Life to Old Iron
 * Warp Multimedia
 * Warp, the Right Tool
 * Warping the Home User
 * Surfing (Warping) the Internet
 * Who are These People and Why are They Saying...
 * Warp for the Windows User
 * It's a Killer!
 * Let's See the Wizard
 * May you Live in Interesting Times
 * New Product Information
 * Warp: Fast Action for "Gamers"

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 Duhé
 * Bret Curran
 * Randall Johnson
 * Philip Lieberman
 * Herman Rodriguez

Links

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