Computer Decisions

{{Short description|Monthly computer magazine 1969 to 1986}}

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Computer Decisions was a computer industry monthly magazine{{cite news

|newspaper=The New York Times

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/08/29/business/computing-s-lusty-offspring.html

|title=Computing's Lusty Offspring

|author=N. R. Kleinfield |date=August 29, 1981}} published in the 1970sComputerHistory.org's collection of monthly issues begins with April 1970: {{cite web

|url=https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102714021

|title=Computer Decisions}}{{cite web

|url=https://community.ebay.com/t5/Archive-Booksellers/Help-needed-in-finding-value-of-early-computer-magazine/td-p/24238669

|title=Help needed in finding value of early computer magagazine

|quote=I have had a magazine staring me in the face for several years. Titled "Computer Decisions". August 1970.}} and 1980s.{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/ComputerDecisions1984VDTComparisonGuide|title=Computer Decisions 1984 VDT Comparison Guide|date=February 6, 1984|via=Internet Archive}}{{cite web

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rJhVAAAAMAAJ

|title=Computer Decisions|year=1984}}

In 1989 InformationWeek noted the loss to the industry of this and another competitor, Infosystems.

{{cite news |newspaper=Advertising Age

|title=The Whole Truth about Half-Off deals

|date=November 20, 1989 |page=29}}

Collectors have described the magazine as being hardware-oriented"Computer Decisions specializes in scalable integrated ..." was a decscription about the magazine. {{cite web |url=http://9beccd2.thappor.club |title=Computer Decisions |year=1988}} and management-oriented; one issue ran over 10 pages on "Is there a shortage of computer programmers" in 1980.{{cite web

|url=https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a240588.pdf

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200326104833/https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a240588.pdf

|url-status=live

|archive-date=March 26, 2020

|title=Is there a shortage of computer programmers

|date=December 1980 |pages=74–87 |author=S. S. Anderson}} JSTOR listed them in a bibliography regarding computer ethics.{{cite journal |journal=Metaphilosophy

|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/24436828

|title=a computer ethics bibliography|jstor=24436828

|last1=Bynum

|first1=Terrell Ward

|year=1985

|volume=16

|issue=4

|pages=350–353

|doi=10.1111/j.1467-9973.1985.tb00181.x

|url-access=subscription

}}

The magazine's name is included in lists of "published in" such as Columbia University's Graduate Alumni Magazine.{{cite web

|url=https://magazine.engineering.columbia.edu/fall2017/program-notes-graduate-alumni

|quote=published ... several .. papers in Computer Decisions

|title=Program Notes: Graduate Alumni |date=Fall 2017}}{{cite news |newspaper=NewsTribune

|url=https://www.newstribune.com/obits/2020/mar/15/lynn-brandhorst/80223/

|quote=After moving back to California he worked for Computer Decisions, ...

|title=Obits |date=September 3, 2020}}{{cite web |title=Mel Mandell - Obituary

| website=Legacy.com |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=mel-mandell&pid=138983292

|quote=Editor of many magazines, notably Computer Decisions

|date=January 28, 2010}}