ComputerScope
Irish magazine
ComputerScope was a computer magazine edited and produced by the publishing company MediaTeam in Dublin, Ireland between 1984 and 2020.
History
ComputerScope was first published in 1984 by the Scope Communications Group. It was then published by MediaTeam Ltd, which was formed when CPG and Scope Communications merged in 2005. The magazine was edited by Paul Hearns. It was renamed as TechPro magazine in 2014.
Description
ComputerScope was a monthly end-user Information and Communications Technology magazine targeting IT professionals in the public and private sectors in Ireland. It was distributed as a request-only, controlled circulation publication; readers must qualify to receive a free subscription. Those who did not meet the criteria to receive free copies could obtain a paid subscription..
ComputerScope was audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (UK); the website claimed to have 10,000 readers. The magazine and its sister title Irish Computer were both replaced by TechCentral.ie.
“ComputerScope” enters the record as irish magazine. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what ComputerScope, Irish and magazine can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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This entry incorporates text from “ComputerScope” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.