The First Issue - July, 1981
The first issue of The Rainbow, published in July of 1981. | $5.00 |
|
|
|
The Second Issue - August, 1981
The Rainbow starts to grow. It is up to nine pages (five sheets of paper). | $5.00 |
|
|
|
The Third Issue – September, 1981
The Rainbow was up to 20 pages (10 sheets of paper) by its third issue in Septermber, 1981 and was really beginning to tax the Line Printer VII. | $5.00 |
|
|
|
The Fourth Issue - October, 1981
The Line Printer VII was retired with the Fourth Issue, and that meant there were only 16 pages – but a lot more information. | $5.00 |
|
|
|
The Fifth Issue – November, 1981
The Rainbow was back to 20 pages, even with the Epson printer and, finally, Radio Shack came out with a disk drive. | $5.00 |
|
|
|
The Sixth Issue – December, 1981
The Rainbow even begins to look like a magazine! | $5.00 |
|
|
|
The Seventh Issue – January, 1982
The Rainbow sails into the New Year of 1982 with 24 pages and lots of programs. This was the issue when Telewriter revolutionized Color Computing word processing. | $5.00 |
|
|
|
The Eighth Issue – February, 1982
The Rainbow debuted Lonnie's column – PRINT #-2, – in the February, 1982 issue and boasted 32 pages and 24 ads! | $5.00 |
|
|
|
The Ninth Issue – March, 1982
In March of 1982 The Rainbow was up to 44 pages, and the Color Computer got a nickname: CoCo. The magazine had even more advertising and, unfortunately for the market, suffered a growth spurt due to its only competitor's problems. | $5.00 |
|
|
|
The Tenth Issue – April, 1982
It was up to 52 pages in April of 1982 and The Rainbow debuted "motion picture programming" and an assembly language course, among many other things. | $5.00 |
|
|
|
The Eleventh Issue – May, 1982
With one month to go before The Rainbow completed its first year, there were 60 pages and two new things – The Rainbow Seal of Certification and Rainbow On Tape. | $5.00 |
|
|
|
The Twelfth Issue – June 1892
The end of the first year of The Rainbow is marked by 68 pages, a multi-part program to predict NFL game outcomes and CoCo clubs began to spring up everywhere. | $5.00 |
|
|
|