Computer Decisions

{{Short description|Monthly computer magazine 1969 to 1986}} {{Italic title}}{{use mdy dates|date=September 2020}} {{use American English|date=September 2020}} '''''Computer Decisions''''' was a computer industry monthly magazine<ref name="CompuDecisions.NYTlist">{{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}}</ref> published in the 1970s<ref name="CompuDecisions.MgmtOri">ComputerHistory.org's collection of monthly issues begins with April 1970: {{cite web |url=https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102714021 |title=Computer Decisions}}</ref><ref name="Ebay">{{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.}}</ref> and 1980s.<ref name="CRT84">{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/ComputerDecisions1984VDTComparisonGuide|title=Computer Decisions 1984 VDT Comparison Guide|date=February 6, 1984|via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rJhVAAAAMAAJ |title=Computer Decisions|year=1984}}</ref>

In 1989 InformationWeek noted the loss to the industry of this and another competitor, ''Infosystems''.<ref name="CompuDecisionsIW.AdAge"> {{cite news |newspaper=Advertising Age |title=The Whole Truth about Half-Off deals |date=November 20, 1989 |page=29}}</ref>

Collectors have described the magazine as being hardware-oriented<ref>"Computer Decisions specializes in scalable integrated ..." was a description about the magazine. {{cite web |url=http://9beccd2.thappor.club |title=Computer Decisions |year=1988}}</ref> and management-oriented;<ref name=CompuDecisions.MgmtOri/> one issue ran over 10 pages on "Is there a shortage of computer programmers" in 1980.<ref name="CompuDecisions.Shortage">{{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}}</ref> ''JSTOR'' listed them in a bibliography regarding computer ethics.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

The magazine's name is included in lists of "published in" such as Columbia University's ''Graduate Alumni Magazine''.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

==See also== * List of computer magazines

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://dl.acm.org/loi/cdec Archive, Computer Decisions magazine]

Category:Defunct computer magazines published in the United States Category:Magazines with year of disestablishment missing Category:Magazines with year of establishment missing Category:Monthly magazines published in the United States