8000 Plus

{{Short description|Discontinued British computer magazine}}

{{about|the UK computer magazine|similar topics|8000 (disambiguation)}}

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| publisher = Future plc

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| firstdate = {{Start date|1986|10}}

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| finalnumber = 124

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8000 Plus (renamed PCW Plus early in 1992) was a monthly British magazine dedicated to the Amstrad PCW range of microcomputers. It was one of the earliest magazines from Future plc,{{cite web|url=http://www.futureplc.com/future/aboutus/history.jsp?year=1985 |title=Company history 1985 to 1989 |access-date=23 December 2006 |work=Future plc |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051018234338/http://www.futureplc.com/future/aboutus/history.jsp?year=1985 |archive-date=18 October 2005 }} and ran for just over ten years, the first issue being dated October 1986 and the last (as PCW Plus) being issue 124, dated Christmas 1996.{{cite book|author=David Langford|title=The Limbo Files|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7t6iJ60J6RUC&pg=PA9|year=2009|publisher=Wildside Press LLC|isbn=978-0-8095-7324-0|page=9}}

Science fiction writer David Langford wrote a regular column for 8000/PCW Plus, which ran (albeit not continuously) for the magazine's entire lifespan.