COMPUTE! began publishing in Nov/Dec 1979 (when it was called COMPUTE.). It was started after acquiring The PET Gazette in 1979, and absorbing Pet User Notes and 6502 User Notes. It acquired Recreational Computing in November 1981 and Home and Educational Computing (formerly PCC Newspaper) in March 1982. COMPUTE!'s Gazette was spun off as a separate magazine in July 1983, with exclusively VIC-20 and 64 material.
COMPUTE! was bought by Ziff-Davis, then General Media, changed its name to COMPUTE. It took three months (Jul, Aug & Sep) for the re-organization to take place and subscribers were sent issues of OMNI magazine. The August 1990 issue of Omni has 20 page special section (pages 75-94) with details of the new magazine 'Compute' which will start in Oct 1990.
All previous magazines were combined into Compute. Initially multiple versions were printed (Amiga Resource Edition, Gazette Edition). Compute ceased publishing in September 1994 with Vol. 16, No. 9 (Issue 168).
The classic science fiction magazine Omni, created in 1978 by Penthouse mogul Bob Guccione and partner Kathy Keeton, is coming back — and with it, questions about how our vision of science and science fiction has changed since Omni closed up shop in 1996. 'There's a heavy dose of nostalgia in the proceedings, and it's not just about bringing back an old name,' writes Robertson. 'Longtime editor Ben Bova has described Omni as "a magazine about the future," but since his time as editor, our vision of the future has been tarnished — or, at the very least, we've started looking at the predictions of the past with rose-tinted glasses.'
Omni's resurrection comes courtesy of Jeremy Frommer, a collector and businessman who acquired Guccione's archives earlier this year. Like the original magazine, now available at the internet archive, the new Omni will publish a mixture of new fiction and nonfiction publishing the old illustrations that helped define Omni alongside the stories. Longtime science writer Claire Evans will edit the new online project described as an 'Omni reboot' but plans to jettison one of the magazine's most dated elements — a fondness for extraterrestrials and conspiracy theories. 'Omni always had a distressing new agey tinge to it,' says Bruce Sterling. 'There was a lot of "aircraft of the pharaohs'"rubbish going on, which I didn't have very much tolerance for.'"
"Have you ever looked up at the sky on a clear, star-filled night and wondered at the awesome magnitude of the universe… and asked yourself: who and what am I; where do I come from and where am I going? And have you ever considered the possibility that life—life in any form—may exist out there among the stars? If that thought stimulates your mind as well as your imagination—you may be interested in seeing a very unusual publication called OMNI, the newest and most original magazine in America today."
–Bob Guccione, 1983
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Omni Magazine return:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/08/08/1511245/omni-magazine-to-reboothttp://www.theverge.com/2013/8/8/4599134/omni-reboot-an-iconic-sci-fi-magazine-goes-back-to-the-futureComputer Archive (Including 3 Issues of Omni):
http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/magazines/compute/compute.htmAmiga Resource Archive:
http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/amiga/magazines/compute-amiga-resource.htmOMNI Magazine Collection:
https://archive.org/details/omni-magazine
