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PC Tech Journal Disks
Over the lifetime of PC Tech Journal (1983-1989), they shared a variety of files and published source code listings. You could type the listings in by hand, or you could use their “PCTECHline” dial-up service and download them for free (aside from any long-distance phone charges).
I’m not sure if PC Tech Journal regularly (or ever) distributed their software collections on diskette, or archived them in monthly ZIP files, but obviously someone did, because you can find a bunch of ZIP archives at “THE PROGRAMMER’S CORNER: BBS ARCHIVE FROM THE PAST”.
Of particular interest is the “Best Of” collection, a diskette that we had to recreate from multiple ZIP archives. It includes this note from the magazine’s editors:
THE BEST OF PC TECH JOURNAL DISKETTE
------------------------------------
This disk is a compilation of programs that have appeared in PC
Tech Journal over the years. The diskette will spare you the
task of typing long listings from the magazine, thus leaving you
with time for more productive uses of the material published in
PC Tech Journal.
The diskette contains two subdirectories, UTILITY and HPMETRIC,
in which you will find the programs. Each directory also
includes the file CONTENTS, which identifies each program and
provides a reference to the issue of PC Tech Journal in which it
first appeared. The CONTENTS files are in ASCII text format
suitable for TYPEing or PRINTing. The file WARRANTY contains the
limited warranty and copyright notice.
Thank you for subscribing to PC Tech Journal. We hope this
diskette and your future issues of the PC Tech Journal will be a
valuable and useful addition to your library.
Julie Anderson Will Fastie
Editor Editorial Director
We’ve gone through those ZIP archives, filtered out the duplicates, organized them chronologically, and then put their contents onto diskette images that you can easily “Load” and “Save” in any PCjs Machine. In fact, if you click on the name of any diskette in the headings below, a machine should automatically launch with that diskette loaded in drive B.
Looking at the dates alone, you can tell that this collection is woefully incomplete, but perhaps more will surface over time. Let us know if you find more. Thanks.
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Directory of PC Tech Journal (1985-12)
Volume in drive A is PCTJ8512
Directory of A:\
AUTH PER 1034 9-23-85 2:22p
BENCHMRK LSP 640 11-26-85 4:23p
CALENDAR PAS 2931 9-19-85 12:23p
COMM PAS 7429 10-21-85 4:58p
EXPERT PRO 3383 12-09-85 9:25a
FIXCURS ASM 1019 9-17-85 3:14p
LANDER ASM 3588 9-26-85 4:15p
MLABELS ACE 771 9-15-85 8:59p
M_AUTH PER 1673 10-15-85 2:18p
PARSER PRO 445 12-09-85 9:25a
10 file(s) 22913 bytes
134656 bytes free
Directory of PC Tech Journal (1986-03)
Volume in drive A is PCTJ8603
Directory of A:\
DOS4AH ASM 2856 4-11-86 10:24a
DOS4AH COM 58 4-11-86 10:25a
DOS4BH ASM 4129 4-11-86 10:24a
DOS4BH COM 110 4-11-86 10:25a
DOSCOM COM 12022 7-25-86 1:34p
DOSCOM PAS 1248 7-25-86 1:34p
SPMMLIB PAS 5021 7-26-86 11:46a
TJOS ASM 4688 12-13-85 9:35a
8 file(s) 30132 bytes
127488 bytes free
Directory of PC Tech Journal (1986-10)
Volume in drive A is PCTJ8610
Directory of A:\
DOTTIME DEF 106 7-22-86 9:38p
DOTTIME MOD 3449 7-22-86 9:56p
DRAWPOLY DEF 601 7-21-86 10:50p
DRAWPOLY MOD 1949 7-21-86 10:47p
EDITBLCK 8677 6-28-86 6:29a
EGAMAKE BAT 795 8-15-86 3:50p
EGATEST EXE 50080 10-01-86 10:27a
EGATEST MOD 13694 8-15-86 3:44p
FONTBUMP DEF 327 7-21-86 10:18p
FONTBUMP MOD 4444 8-15-86 3:56p
INFO 781 8-15-86 3:58p
LOWEGA DEF 4975 8-15-86 3:47p
LOWEGA MOD 28255 10-01-86 2:44p
OPCODES DEF 809 6-11-86 10:28a
OPCODES MOD 49 6-11-86 10:17a
OTHRFONT DAT 3584 6-01-86 9:48p
PAUSES DEF 545 7-21-86 10:51p
PAUSES MOD 1636 7-21-86 11:15p
POINTLIB DEF 294 6-01-86 10:36a
POINTLIB MOD 350 6-01-86 10:38a
20 file(s) 125400 bytes
30208 bytes free
Directory of PC Tech Journal (1986-12)
Volume in drive A is PCTJ8612
Directory of A:\
JUMPSRCH PAS 8985 10-22-86 1:45p
ROREADER PAS 2683 8-20-86 2:41p
2 file(s) 11668 bytes
147968 bytes free
Directory of PC Tech Journal (1987-02)
Volume in drive A is PCTJ8702
Directory of A:\
BUSPERF C 1078 11-25-86 1:59p
BUSPERF EXE 62310 11-16-86 7:25p
BUSPERFX ASM 4704 12-16-86 3:09p
DELAY C 493 12-15-86 3:58p
GETTICKS C 579 12-15-86 3:59p
MAKEFILE 466 12-15-86 3:59p
MJNZMAC ASM 427 12-16-86 10:00a
MLOOPMAC ASM 437 12-16-86 10:02a
SETFREQ C 475 12-16-86 4:02p
SOUND C 465 12-15-86 4:00p
SOUND H 192 12-15-86 4:00p
SOUNDS C 984 12-15-86 4:01p
SOUNDS EXE 20552 12-08-86 3:20p
SPKR C 269 12-15-86 4:01p
SPKR EXE 2066 12-08-86 3:20p
THERME 322 12-02-86 5:17p
THERME C 15577 12-17-86 10:14a
THERME DEF 322 12-02-86 1:26p
THERME EXE 8640 12-17-86 10:16a
THERME H 814 12-17-86 10:10a
THERME ICO 1038 11-24-86 3:26p
THERME RC 1528 12-17-86 10:10a
TIMER H 331 12-15-86 4:01p
TONE C 339 12-15-86 4:02p
TONE EXE 6734 12-08-86 3:20p
TOOLS INI 30 12-04-86 5:43p
26 file(s) 131172 bytes
23040 bytes free
Directory of PC Tech Journal (1987-06)
Volume in drive A is PCTJ8706
Directory of A:\
ASKDEMO BAT 471 4-21-87 1:26p
ASKKEY ASM 1813 4-21-87 1:28p
BIGARRAY F77 503 4-02-87 2:48p
BIGERROR F77 503 4-02-87 2:50p
DRAWCHAR COM 13758 3-19-87 12:59p
DRAWCHAR PAS 6925 4-23-87 1:18p
ITERATE F77 500 4-02-87 2:50p
MINIMUM F77 11 4-02-87 2:51p
PERFORM F77 678 4-06-87 10:27a
README TXT 191 6-05-87 2:20p
SYNTH1 F77 716 4-02-87 2:48p
11 file(s) 26069 bytes
132096 bytes free
Directory of PC Tech Journal (1987-07)
Volume in drive A is PCTJ8707
Directory of A:\
ATKEY ASM 12321 5-28-87 2:01p
DSPYINFO C 1382 5-27-87 4:07p
DSPYINFO MK 377 4-06-87 1:19p
EGA_INFO C 1027 2-16-87 10:11a
ENHANKB ASM 979 5-02-87 7:17p
GETSTATE C 433 5-27-87 4:05p
MEMCHK C 846 5-27-87 4:05p
SETVMODE C 539 5-27-87 4:07p
TOOLS INI 55 2-14-87 6:24a
TO_COLOR C 447 5-27-87 4:08p
TO_MONO C 382 5-27-87 4:09p
USE_EGA C 2009 2-16-87 10:35a
USE_EGA MK 429 4-06-87 3:47p
13 file(s) 21226 bytes
136192 bytes free
Directory of PC Tech Journal (1987-10)
Volume in drive A is PCTJ8710
Directory of A:\
HERCDEMO C 4423 4-04-87 10:34p
HERCDEMO EXE 8250 4-04-87 10:46p
INIT ASM 2155 4-04-87 10:44p
MEMMGR 785 3-26-87 12:00p
MEMMGR C 18004 3-26-87 12:00p
MEMMGR DEF 717 3-26-87 12:00p
MEMMGR EXE 8080 7-20-87 10:28a
MEMMGR H 1691 3-26-87 12:00p
MEMMGR RC 3274 3-26-87 12:00p
9 file(s) 47379 bytes
110080 bytes free
Directory of PC Tech Journal (1987-11)
Volume in drive A is PCTJ8711
Directory of A:\
BOX1 C 2657 9-09-87 7:55a
BOX2 C 3367 9-09-87 7:56a
BOX3 C 4091 9-09-87 7:58a
CPUTYPE ASM 2234 9-18-87 4:22p
4 file(s) 12349 bytes
146944 bytes free
Directory of PC Tech Journal (1988-04)
Volume in drive A is PCTJ8804
Directory of A:\
ACCURACY EXE 14288 3-23-88 4:00p
ACCURACY PAS 12983 3-23-88 4:00p
CMOS C1 1383 2-09-88 9:35a
CRITTEST PAS 2985 3-23-88 4:00a
EXDB3 ASM 1581 1-29-88 1:12p
MORFILES ASM 831 1-29-88 12:53p
OPTZTEST LST 6264 3-23-88 4:00a
OPTZTEST PAS 2773 3-23-88 4:00p
POS_READ C1 2569 2-09-88 9:34a
SAMPUNIT PAS 2359 3-23-88 4:00a
10 file(s) 48016 bytes
109568 bytes free
Directory of PC Tech Journal (1988-05)
Volume in drive A is PCTJ8805
Directory of A:\
8514DEMO C 6556 3-24-88 10:30a
8514DEMO EXE 8528 3-14-88 3:10p
8514TEST C 17840 3-14-88 3:31p
8514TEST EXE 25462 3-14-88 3:32p
CHARMENU C 11301 3-22-88 2:19p
CHARMENU EXE 9600 12-14-87 4:28p
CLICKMON C 2083 3-21-88 10:48a
CLICKMON EXE 3304 12-09-87 4:21p
FUNC ASM 1298 3-15-88 10:44a
PATHNAME C 731 3-17-88 11:28a
PATHNAME EXE 7355 3-17-88 12:10p
PROGNAME ASM 1597 3-17-88 9:12a
PTRLEN INC 528 3-13-88 7:25p
TIMEPOP C 806 3-21-88 10:48a
TIMEPOP EXE 3360 12-08-87 11:12p
VGALOAD ASM 63593 3-14-88 4:28p
VGALOAD COM 3338 3-14-88 4:30p
17 file(s) 167280 bytes
144384 bytes free
Directory of PC Tech Journal (1988-06)
Volume in drive A is PCTJ8806
Directory of A:\
FAMDEMO ASM 2093 4-13-88 9:30a
LANPERF C 7331 4-28-88 8:59a
LANPERF EXE 24568 5-20-88 10:08a
LANPERF ZIP 24302 3-01-89 9:03p
LPTEST ASM 7433 4-10-88 9:58p
OPTBENCH C 8965 4-25-88 4:56p
6 file(s) 74692 bytes
83968 bytes free
Directory of PC Tech Journal (1988-07)
Volume in drive A is PCTJ8807
Directory of A:\
EDINVENT APC 16290 4-17-88 4:23p
EDINVENT API 21568 4-17-88 3:59p
EDINVENT APP 12317 4-17-88 3:59p
EDINVENT APX 20096 4-17-88 3:59p
OS2NLOK ASM 6459 5-13-88 2:39p
OS2NLOK DEV 1176 5-13-88 2:43p
README 147 7-27-88 9:47a
7 file(s) 78053 bytes
79872 bytes free
Directory of PC Tech Journal (1988-08)
Volume in drive A is PCTJ8808
Directory of A:\
NBLIB C 10493 5-25-88 2:56p
NBRECV C 6475 5-28-88 9:19p
NBRECV EXE 18657 5-31-88 9:58a
NBSEND C 8611 6-02-88 2:53p
NBSEND EXE 20567 5-31-88 9:58a
NCPLIB C 12989 5-28-88 9:44p
NETWORK H 6879 7-12-88 3:59p
_NETBIOS C 380 5-25-88 2:56p
_NETLOCK ASM 1639 5-25-88 2:56p
9 file(s) 86690 bytes
71168 bytes free
Directory of PC Tech Journal (1988-09)
Volume in drive A is PCTJ8809
Directory of A:\
ASKSYS ASM 4348 9-15-88 1:46p
ASKSYS COM 1316 7-15-88 1:37p
OS2LINK <DIR> 5-26-22 2:40a
3 file(s) 5664 bytes
Directory of A:\OS2LINK
. <DIR> 5-26-22 2:40a
.. <DIR> 5-26-22 2:40a
DLLENTRY ASM 469 7-13-88 9:49a
DYNOTE C 835 7-19-88 4:07p
DYNOTE DEF 422 7-06-88 4:15p
DYNSCALE C 2587 7-22-88 11:25a
DYNSCALE DEF 244 7-19-88 4:02p
MKDLL CMD 308 7-19-88 3:59p
8 file(s) 4865 bytes
Total files listed:
11 file(s) 10529 bytes
147456 bytes free
Directory of PC Tech Journal (1988-11)
Volume in drive A is PCTJ8811
Directory of A:\
GETCRTCR ASM 1141 9-06-88 11:23a
INCSTRTA C 681 9-06-88 11:23a
SCREENOR ASM 6789 9-06-88 11:24a
SCROLLV C 269 9-06-88 11:24a
SETCRTCR ASM 916 9-06-88 11:23a
SHOWEXE C 17476 9-07-88 10:58a
SHOWEXE EXE 25238 9-06-88 7:54a
SPLITSCR ASM 4038 9-06-88 11:24a
STRIPCH C 3837 9-06-88 11:24a
VGAZOOM ASM 14510 8-09-88 1:15p
VGAZOOM COM 2020 12-12-88 9:24a
VGAZOOM2 ASM 15800 9-14-88 4:00p
12 file(s) 92715 bytes
64512 bytes free
Directory of PC Tech Journal (1988-12)
Volume in drive A is PCTJ8812
Directory of A:\
QDEMO1 C 5878 10-17-88 1:08p
QDEMO2 C 5530 10-17-88 1:08p
2 file(s) 11408 bytes
148480 bytes free
Directory of PC Tech Journal (1989-01)
Volume in drive A is PCTJ8901
Directory of A:\
DB386 ASM 7056 11-08-88 2:19p
DB386 COM 698 11-09-88 8:47a
2 file(s) 7754 bytes
152064 bytes free
Directory of PC Tech Journal (Benchmarks)
Volume in drive A is PCTBENCH
Directory of A:\
ALR25386 TIM 4096 9-09-88 12:46a
COM286 TIM 4096 9-09-88 12:46a
COM386 TIM 4096 9-09-88 12:50a
COM38620 TIM 4096 9-09-88 12:51a
COM38625 TIM 4096 9-09-88 12:52a
COMP386 TIM 4096 9-09-88 12:53a
COMPIII TIM 4096 9-09-88 12:53a
CURRENT TIM 4096 9-19-88 9:29p
EVE38625 TIM 4096 9-09-88 12:54a
HLANALYZ EXE 46796 9-09-88 5:24p
HLBENCH EXE 35788 9-09-88 5:23p
HLBENCH SCT 4001 9-05-88 8:25p
HLDESC EXE 33680 9-09-88 5:23p
HLDISK EXE 22123 9-09-88 5:23p
HLFLOAT EXE 52396 9-09-88 5:23p
HLGRAPH EXE 55722 9-09-88 5:24p
HLHELP TXT 4414 9-09-88 6:10p
HLSORT EXE 17453 9-09-88 5:24p
HLSTART EXE 28160 9-09-88 5:24p
HLSTART SCT 4001 9-09-88 12:09a
HLTEXT EXE 30196 9-09-88 5:23p
HLWINDOW EXE 32448 9-09-88 5:23p
IBM50021 TIM 4096 9-09-88 12:55a
IBM60041 TIM 4096 9-09-88 12:56a
IBM70A21 TIM 4096 9-09-88 12:56a
IBM80071 TIM 4096 9-09-88 12:56a
IBM80111 TIM 4096 9-09-88 12:57a
IBMAT339 TIM 4096 9-09-88 12:57a
MSHERC COM 6749 3-07-88 5:10a
MSHERC MSG 56 9-19-88 9:23p
PCTECH BAT 49 9-09-88 1:00a
READ ME 2908 9-09-88 5:35p
TJ640200 PCX 7912 9-09-88 3:30p
TJ640350 PCX 11699 9-09-88 10:09a
TJ640480 PCX 14909 9-09-88 4:36p
XREF TXT 14 9-07-88 6:29p
36 file(s) 472914 bytes
735744 bytes free
Directory of PC Tech Journal (Best Of)
Volume in drive A is PCTJBEST
Directory of A:\
ASKDEMO BAT 466 11-02-87 10:47a
ASKKEY COM 39 11-02-87 10:35a
ATBIOS COM 13947 11-06-86 7:06p
ATPERF EXE 95924 1-23-87 2:51p
AUTOTEST EXE 16000 7-13-84 5:48p
BUSPERF EXE 62310 11-16-86 7:25p
COMPLEX EXE 7066 6-30-87 12:47p
CONTENTS HPM 851 12-02-87 4:33p
CONTENTS UTL 5286 12-02-87 4:54p
CPUID COM 2944 11-19-87 2:26p
DISKTEST EXE 15616 7-17-84 12:44p
DOWNLD EXE 8000 6-30-87 12:48p
DUMBTERM EXE 5328 11-04-87 11:47a
EMMSTAT EXE 1741 11-02-87 11:26a
EPSON COM 281 11-05-87 10:40a
FIXCURS COM 29 11-02-87 9:24a
GRAPHICS EXE 7066 6-30-87 12:48p
HPMETRIC <DIR> 5-26-22 2:39a
KEYBECHO COM 11154 5-01-87 1:34p
KEYBINFO COM 2449 5-01-87 1:41p
MACHINE COM 200 11-02-87 10:50a
MACRO EXE 8430 7-02-87 4:09p
MATHCHIP COM 113 11-04-87 1:50p
MATHSWIT COM 105 11-04-87 1:53p
NDPTYPE COM 230 11-19-87 2:08p
PAGESIZE EXE 7808 6-30-87 12:47p
PRTSC COM 110 11-04-87 1:45p
PUSHPOP EXE 7126 6-30-87 12:47p
README 1100 12-02-87 4:55p
RESOLUT EXE 19864 6-30-87 12:46p
SETALARM COM 514 11-02-87 9:12a
SETKEY COM 190 11-05-87 10:46a
SETRTC BAT 81 10-30-87 1:29p
SUPEREN COM 211 11-02-87 10:56a
TAD COM 104 10-01-84 10:10a
TECHLINE 615 12-02-87 5:05p
UNDRLN COM 132 11-09-87 10:58a
UTILITY <DIR> 5-26-22 2:39a
VDEL COM 404 11-05-87 11:04a
WARRANTY 1404 5-26-89 4:49p
WHERE EXE 7552 1-01-80 12:24a
XMEM COM 1332 10-06-85 7:36p
42 file(s) 314122 bytes
Directory of A:\HPMETRIC
. <DIR> 5-26-22 2:39a
.. <DIR> 5-26-22 2:39a
COMPLEX EXE 7066 6-30-87 12:47p
CONTENTS HP 851 12-02-87 3:33p
DOWNLD EXE 8000 6-30-87 12:48p
GRAPHICS EXE 7066 6-30-87 12:48p
MACRO EXE 8430 7-02-87 4:09p
PAGESIZE EXE 7808 6-30-87 12:47p
PUSHPOP EXE 7126 6-30-87 12:47p
RESOLUT EXE 19864 6-30-87 12:46p
10 file(s) 66211 bytes
Directory of A:\UTILITY
. <DIR> 5-26-22 2:39a
.. <DIR> 5-26-22 2:39a
ASKDEMO BAT 466 11-02-87 9:47a
ASKKEY COM 39 11-02-87 9:35a
ATBIOS COM 13947 11-06-86 6:06p
ATPERF EXE 95924 1-23-87 1:51p
AUTOTEST EXE 16000 7-13-84 5:48p
BUSPERF EXE 62310 11-16-86 6:25p
CONTENTS UTI 5286 12-02-87 3:54p
CPUID COM 2944 11-19-87 1:26p
DISKTEST EXE 15616 7-17-84 12:44p
DUMBTERM EXE 5328 11-04-87 10:47a
EMMSTAT EXE 1741 11-02-87 10:26a
EPSON COM 281 11-05-87 9:40a
FIXCURS COM 29 11-02-87 8:24a
KEYBECHO COM 11154 5-01-87 1:34p
KEYBINFO COM 2449 5-01-87 1:41p
MACHINE COM 200 11-02-87 9:50a
MATHCHIP COM 113 11-04-87 12:50p
MATHSWIT COM 105 11-04-87 12:53p
NDPTYPE COM 230 11-19-87 1:08p
PRTSC COM 110 11-04-87 12:45p
SETALARM COM 514 11-02-87 8:12a
SETKEY COM 190 11-05-87 9:46a
SETRTC BAT 81 10-30-87 12:29p
SUPEREN COM 211 11-02-87 9:56a
TAD COM 104 10-01-84 10:10a
UNDRLN COM 132 11-09-87 9:58a
VDEL COM 404 11-05-87 10:04a
WHERE EXE 7552
XMEM COM 1332 10-06-85 7:36p
31 file(s) 244792 bytes
Total files listed:
83 file(s) 625125 bytes
566272 bytes free