As the magazine was launched four years before the first IBM PC (reviewed in the magazine in November 1981) the magazine originally covered early self-build microcomputers. It later expanded its coverage to all kinds of microcomputers from home computers to workstations, as the industry evolved. Regular features in the earlier years of the magazine were Guy Kewney's "Newsprint" section, "Benchtests" (in-depth computer reviews), "Subset", covering machine code programming, type-in program listings, "Bibliofile" (book reviews), the "Computer Answers" help column, "Checkouts" (brief hardware reviews) "TJ's Workshop" (for terminal junkies), "Screenplay" for game reviews and "Banks' Statement", the regular column from Martin Banks. In 1983 Jerry Sanders joined the staff as Features Editor and wrote the first published review of Microsoft Word 1.0 for the magazine.