PC Plus

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{{Infobox magazine

| title = PC Plus

| image_file = PC_Plus_Magazine_cover_from_January_2003.jpg

| image_caption = Cover from 2003

| editor = Martin Cooper

| frequency = Monthly

| category = Computer magazine

| company = Future plc

| founded = 1986

| lastdate = September 2012

| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

| website = {{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20080416215415/http://www.pcplus.co.uk/home}}

| issn = 0952-2565

}}

PC Plus was a computer magazine published monthly from 1986 [http://pcplus.techradar.com/content/flashback-pc-plus-issue-1 PC Plus] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110203110949/http://pcplus.techradar.com/content/flashback-pc-plus-issue-1 |date=2011-02-03 }} until September 2012{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/pcplusmag/posts/519905638026137 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/124419077574797/519905638026137 |archive-date=2022-02-26 |url-access=limited|title=PC Plus Magazine - Timeline|work=Facebook|access-date=31 July 2016}}{{cbignore}} in the UK by Future plc. The magazine was aimed at intermediate to advanced PC users, computer professionals and enthusiasts. The magazine was specifically for users of PCs and related technologies so features articles were undiluted by coverage of other platforms. It began its life specifically as a magazine aimed at the Amstrad PC user.{{Cite web| title=PC Plus cover | date=March 1987 | url=http://pcplus.atspace.com/issue_6/cover_6.jpg | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402102259/http://pcplus.atspace.com/issue_6/cover_6.jpg | archive-date=2019-04-02}}

Staff

For many years, the editor (later editor-in-chief) was Dave Pearman. PC Plus print magazine was closed in October 2012, when the editor was Martin Cooper.{{cite web| url=http://technologytales.com/2012/10/13/a-belated-goodbye-to-pc-plus-magazine/|title=A belated goodbye to PC Plus magazine|work=TechnologyTales|date=13 October 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.bowlandcentral.com/forum/showthread.php?t=105763|title=PC Plus magazine closes|work=BC Forums}}

Each edition of the print magazine was centered on four main sections - news, reviews, features, and tutorials.

Under Pearman's editorship, the magazine was characterised by the inclusion of irreverent off-the-wall features and content including Huw Collingbourne's Rants and Raves,{{cite web|url=http://www.rantsandraves.co.uk/copy/about.html |title=Huw Collingbourne's Rants and Raves|work=Rants and Raves|access-date=31 July 2016}} a serialisation of a fictional office entitled Group Efforts{{cite web|url=http://www.paulspages.co.uk/gemail/|title=Group Efforts online!|work=Pauls Pages|access-date=31 July 2016}} and the Bastard Operator From Hell. The magazine frequently drew on images of Bath, its office base, during multimedia tutorial articles.{{cite web|url=http://www.paulspages.co.uk/panoramas/m-bath.htm|title=Paul's Bath Panoramas|work=Pauls Pages|access-date=31 July 2016}}

Future plc. no longer publishes PC Plus as a print publication although the on-line domain is still serviced by parent brand TechRadar.com.

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20080416215415/http://www.pcplus.co.uk/home PC Plus Official website] (archived copy in the Wayback Machine)

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Category:2012 disestablishments in the United Kingdom

Category:Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom

Category:Defunct computer magazines published in the United Kingdom

Category:Home computer magazines

Category:Magazines established in 1986

Category:Magazines disestablished in 2012