The TORPET
 Issue 18 (March/April 1983) | |
| Editor | Bruce Beach |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Bruce Beach |
| First issue | November 1980 |
| Final issue | August 1984 |
| Country | Canada |
| Based in | Toronto |
| ISSN | 0821-1809 |
The TORPET was a Toronto-based computer magazine directed at users of Commodore's 8-bit home computers.
Publication history
[edit]Though named for and associated with the Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG),[1] the magazine was published independently of the club as a commercial enterprise with paid writers.[2][3] Twenty-eight issues were produced for TPUG from November 1980 to August 1984.[4]
In 1984 TORPET's owner and editor, Bruce Beach, dissociated the publication from TPUG and relaunched it as an oceanography journal, backronymming its name to Today's Oceanographic Research Program for Education & Training.[2] TPUG launched its own computing journal, TPUG Magazine, in February 1984.[5]
A 320-page anthology of The TORPET's most popular articles, The Best of The TORPET Plus More for the Commodore 64 and the VIC-20, was published in 1984 by Copp Clark Pitman. It featured type-in listings for over a thousand freeware programs, articles and cartoon strips teaching BASIC and machine language programming, memory maps, and user documentation for popular public domain software.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Calloway, James (August 1983). "Should You Join A Users Group?". COMPUTE!'s Gazette. 1 (2). COMPUTE! Publications: 28–32.
- ^ a b Butterfield, Jim (Fall 1986). "Welcome to the TPUG/Transactor Pages". TPUG News. 1 (1). Toronto PET Users Group. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
- ^ "Torpet Pays $20.00 per Page for Articles" (PDF). The TORPET (14): 3. October 1982. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
- ^ "Archives". Toronto PET Users Group. 2014. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
- ^ "News BRK". The Transactor. 4 (6). Transactor Publishing: 6–13. 1984. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
- ^ Beach, Bruce, ed. (1984). The Best of The TORPET Plus More for the Commodore 64 and the VIC-20. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman. ISBN 0-7730-4080-3.