Computing Today

{{Short description|British computer magazine}}

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{{Infobox magazine

|title = Computing Today

|image_file = Computing Today May83 p1.jpg

|image_size = 200px

|image_caption = Cover of Computing Today from May 1983

|editor =

|frequency = Monthly

|category = Home computing

|company = Argus Press

|firstdate = March 1979

|finaldate = September 1985

|country = United Kingdom

|language = English

|issn = 0142-7210

|oclc = 637400787

}}

Computing Today was a computer magazine published by Argus Specialist Publications, it was printed in the UK from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. It began life as a supplement to Electronics Today International for four issues and became an independent publication in March 1979. Some time after 1982 it bought out rival computing magazine Microcomputer Printout (formerly Printout) and the two magazines merged into one.[http://www.davidviner.com/mags.php Early UK Computer Magazines] The magazine ceased publication in September 1985.{{cite book|title=Computing Today|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/637400787|via=WorldCat|oclc=637400787 |accessdate=27 March 2020}}

It gave computer hardware and software reviews, programming tutorials and program listings for many of the popular home computers of the time. UK subscription cost 10 pounds 50 pence including postage circa 1981.

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