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Creative Computing was one of the earliest magazines covering the microcomputer revolution.

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Creative Computing was one of the earliest magazines covering the microcomputer revolution. Published from 1974 until 1985, Creative Computing covered the whole spectrum of hobbyist/home/personal computing in a more accessible format than the rather technically-oriented BYTE. The magazine was founded by David H. Ahl

David H. Ahl

David H. Ahl is the founder of Creative Computing magazine. He is also the author of many how-to books, including BASIC Computer Games, the first million-selling computer book....
, who sold it to Ziff-Davis in the early 1980s, but remained as Editor-in-Chief. Featured writers included Robert Swirsky

Robert Swirsky

Robert Swirsky is a computer scientist, author, and pianist. In the early 1980s, Swirsky was one of the first regular contributors to the nascent computer magazine industry....
and John J. Anderson

John J. Anderson

John J. Anderson or J.J. Anderson was a writer and editor covering computers and technology. The New Jersey native wrote for publications such as Computer Shopper and Atari Magazine....
. The magazine regularly included BASIC

BASIC

In computer programming, BASIC is a family of high-level programming languages. The Dartmouth BASIC was designed in 1964 by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, United States to provide computer access to non-science students....
source code

Source code

In computer science, source code is any collection of statements or declarations written in some human-readable computer programming language....
for utility programs and games, which users could manually enter into their home computers.

At the end of its run, Creative Computing was attempting to refocus on business computing (as was the trend in most computer magazines of the time), but was not successful at this and ultimately ceased publication.

Ted Nelson

Ted Nelson

Theodor Holm Nelson is an United States sociologist, philosopher, and pioneer of information technology. He coined the term "hypertext" in 1963 and published it in 1965....
, known for the invention of hypertext

Hypertext

Hypertext is text, displayed on a computer, with references to other text that the reader can immediately follow, usually by a mouse click or keypress sequence....
, was briefly the editor.

The April, 1980 issue of Creative Computing contained clever parodies of all of the major computer magazines of the time.

External links

Three Best of Creative Computing volumes are available at
The full text of most of the issues from the last three years (1983-1985) of this magazine can be found at