COMMODORE
The Microcomputer Magazine
Widely read by educators,
businessmen
and students,
as well as
home computerists,
COMMODORE Magazine
is our main vehicle for
sharing exclusive information on the more technical use of Commodore
systems. Regular departments
cover business, science and education,
programming
tips, "excerpts
from a technical
notebook,"
and many
other features of interest to anyone who uses or is thinking about pur-
chasing Commodore
equipment
for business,
scientific or educational
applications.
COMMODOREis the ideal complement
to POWER/ PLAY.
Published bi-monthly. Subscription price: $15.00 per year.
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COMMODORE INFORMATION NETWORK
The magazine
of the future is here. To supplement and enhance your
subscription to POWER/PLAY and COMMODOREmagazines,
the COM-
MODORE INFORMATIONNETWORK-our
"paperless
magazine"-is
available now over the telephone using your Commodore computer and
modem.
Join our computer club, get help with a computing problem, "talk" to
other Commodore friends, or get up-to-the-minute
information on new
products,
software
and educational
resources.
Soon you will even be
able to save yourself the trouble of typing in the program
listings you
find in
POWER/PLAY
or COMMODORE b y downloading direct from the
Information Network (a new user service planned for early 1983). The
best part is that most of the answers are there before you even ask the
questions. (How's that for service?)
To call our electronic magazine
you need only a modem and a sub-
scription to CompuServe™,
one of the nation's largest telecommunica-
tions networks. (To make it easy for you Commodore
includes a FREE
year's subscription to CompuServe™
in each VICMODEM package.)
Just dial your local number for the CompuServe™
data bank and
connect your phone to the modem. When the CompuServe™ video text
appears
on your screen type G CBM on your computer keyboard. When
the COMMODORE INFORMATION NETWORK'Stable
of contents,
or
"menu," appears
on your screen choose from one of our sixteen de-
partments,
make yourself comfortable,
and enjoy the paperless
maga-
zine other magazines
are writing about.
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