Your Computer (Australian magazine)

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| editor = Les Bell[http://www.alctraining.com.au/meet-the-faculty/les-bell/ Les Bell - ALC], He was Founding Editor of Your Computer magazine[http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/bios.cgi?read=223 Bell, Les], The Museum of HP Calculators, HP Biographies, In 1981, I was the founding Editor of "Your Computer" magazine, and wrote many series of tutorial articles.{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970110060829/http://www.l.html |date=10 January 1997 }}, he was founding editor of Your Computer, Australia's leading microcomputer magazine...As a consulting editor of Your Computer, Les was convenor of the panel which selects the PC of the Year.

| editor2 = Jake Kennedy[http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2014-January/101253.html [LINK] Australian online news history]

| editor3 = Mat Wheelen{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article118195313 |title=Radio Guests. |newspaper=The Canberra Times|date=3 April 1986 |access-date=22 April 2015 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}}, 10bgfhfghfcbg, editor of Your Computer Magazine, talks about the personal computer of the year award;[https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20110925213700/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/20427/20110926-0737/conference.auscert.org.au/conf2003/bios_matt_whelan.html Matt Whelan]{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, He started specialising in Personal Computers 22 years ago when he created Your Computer magazine

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| founded = {{Start date|df=yes|1981}}{{Citation|title=Your computer : magazine for business and pleasure|journal=Your Computer|publication-date=1981| publisher=White House Publishing|issn=0725-3931}}{{cite web|url=http://retrogameplay.com/forums/YaBB.pl?num%3D1168228723 |author=Retrogameplay Administrator |title=Here is the cover scan of the very first issue! |work=retrogameplay.com |date=8 January 2007 |access-date=22 April 2015|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930111850/http://retrogameplay.com/forums/YaBB.pl?num=1168228723 |archive-date=30 September 2007 }}

| finaldate = 1997

| finalnumber = May/June 1997

| company = White House Publishing Group

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| based = Waterloo, New South Wales

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Your Computer was an Australian computer magazine published by the White House Publishing Group (under licence from Motorword Pty Ltd.) and printed by The Lithgo Centre, Waterloo. Starting with the very first issue in May/June 1981 (102 pages) (with a limited print run of 30,000As confirmed in issue 2 of the magazine {{citation needed|date=April 2015}}) at the recommended price of $2.00. Around 1985 the magazine was later published by Federal Publishing Company (Hannanprint Group) and printed by Macquarie Print.{{Citation|title=Your computer|publication-date=1985|publisher=Federal Pub|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/24663556|access-date=22 April 2015}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=jkO4k_76sxYC&dq=editor+%22your+computer%22+federal+publishing&pg=PA27 A Subject Index to Current Literature], By Australian Public Affairs Information Service, p. 27, Your Computer, {{ISSN|0725-3931}}, N/001.6405/YOU, The Federal Publishing Company, 180 Bourke Road, Alexandria NSW 2015 The monthly magazine's final issue was May/June 1997.{{Citation| title=IT magazines close.(LOCAL)|journal=The Australian|publication-date=16 May 1997|publisher=News Limited|page=003| url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/64078199 | access-date=22 April 2015}}, The computer/IT magazine market has experienced a shakeout with Australian Consolidated Press announcing the closure of two of its computer titles and three other titles from different publishers...In addition, Federal Publishing is believed to have closed Your Computer magazine The first editor of the magazine was Les Bell.

The articles in Your Computer catered for beginners to computing, through to highly technical programming techniques, industry updates, resources, user group and microcomputer-specific columns, and published many special features of Australian technology companies. Articles were written by both full-time magazine staff and freelance contributors, including Les Bell, Matt Whalen, Bill Bolton, Stewart White and Lloyd Borrett.[http://www.borrett.id.au/computing/articles.htm#Your_Computer Your Computer], Lloyd Borrett – Computing – Articles, After having a few articles published about the IBM PC, I was invited by editor Les Bell to write a monthly "Your IBM Computer" column for Your Computer magazine.[http://www.siliconchip.com.au/Help/About and also being responsible for magazines such as “Your Computer”, “ETI” and “Sonics” at Federal Publishing Company.], Leo Simpson, B.Bus., FAICD Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, About – Silicon Chip Online Cartoonist Brendan J Ackhurst was also a frequent contributor of illustrations to the magazine. For many years, the magazine was focused on home computers such as the Commodore 64, Apple II, MicroBee and many others. It never specialized on any one market, and so catered for hobbyists, serious hobbyists, and professionals, and remained platform agnostic.