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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.

Issues

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

1995

January/February 1995

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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

March/April 1995|March/April 1995

May/June 1995|May/June 1995

July/August 1995|July/August 1995

September/October 1995|September/October 1995

November/December 1995|November/December 1995

1996

January/February 1996

March/April 1996

May/June 1996

File:May96cov.gif About the Cover: A systems administrator, like an orchestra conductor, strives to keep disparate components working together in harmony. With management, the individual parts operate as a harmonious system. Noted Dallas artist Bill Carr's whimsical cover illustration reflects this analogy.

July/August 1996

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  • 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 [2]
  • SOM Collection Classes: A Primer for the VisualAge COBOL Programmer [3]
  • Choosing the Right MPEG Solution
  • Computer Security and Implementation
  • Installing FixPaks via CID
  • Meeting Your Users' IS Needs
  • Corrective Service Information

September/October 1996

November/December 1996

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.

1997

January/February 1997

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