The TORPET
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The TORPET № 18 (March/April 1983)
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| Editor | Bruce Beach |
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| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Bruce Beach |
| First issue | November 1980 |
| Final issue | 1984 |
| Country | Canada |
| ISSN | 0821-1809 |
The TORPET was a Toronto-based computer magazine directed at users of Commodore's 8-bit home computers.
Publication history
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]
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