Since June 2022, I’ve published compilations of Computer Chronicles Revisited posts as standalone ebooks, which are available in EPUB format on this website and the Internet Archive. Today I released Computer Chronicles Revisited, Volume 7 (1988), covering the second half of the fifth season of Computer Chronicles, which originally aired between January 1988 and June 1988.

Here is a listing of the chapters in Volume 7:

1. The New Amigas
2. CD-ROMs
3. Tax Preparation Software
4. Shareware
5. The Commodore 64
6. Multitasking Operating Systems
7. Business Graphics (Macintosh)
8. Business Graphics (PC)
9. Input Devices
10. Laptop Peripherals
11. Add-On Boards
12. Investment Software
13. Personal CAD Software

Last year, I acquired a copy of the 1984 Morrow Pivot Owner’s Handbook, the manual for the portable MS-DOS computer manufactured by Morrow Designs, which was written by John VanderWood and illustrated by Bill McCarty. Of course, Morrow Designs founder and chairman George Morrow was a longtime Computer Chronicles contributor. Morrow’s first appearance on the show was on a January 1985 program where he demonstrated the Pivot.

I’ve scanned the full manual, which you can download here or at the Internet Archive. This is actually the second edition of the manual. Notably, this edition contains several “inserted” pages with point numbers, such as “7.1” and “7.2.” This was likely done to avoid the additional time and expense of redoing the manual’s index, which in those days still had to be done by hand.