I am writing in agreement with CB Goldman, the "minority micro user" (issue 105). Your magazine lacks both diversity and content.

Being a weekly magazine you should have a lot more space to publish articles and programs than your monthly competitors, but looking through issue 105 I found to my dismay that over half the magazine consisted of adverts.

The bits of text I managed to find inbetween was anything but varied; in fact the only article which did not apply to any popular micro specificially was the Hacker's Handbook.

Putting this aside, it bothers me how, with a title like Personal Computer News, you only deal with such a small aspect of personal computing. There is a lot more to the subject than Basic, arcade games and machine code. I wonder if you have ever published anything on Forth, Fortran, Lisp or Logo - languages available for most personal computers.

It's wrong that all magazines should follow the trend only to produce material for the more popular aspects of computing and I hope PCN will improve in this way.

P. Armour, Fleetwood, Lancs

In an average four-week period PCN publishes more than 100 pages of editorial - a good deal more than most of our monthly competitors. Yes, we do publish articles on other languages - the last was a review of QL Forth in issue 106, and next week sees the start of a series of articles looking at alternative languages to Basic.

While each issue generally contains one arcade game listing, the rest of the Output section is devoted to utilities and other aspects of programming. But we're not complacent and I'd like to receive more letters on these subjects. - Ed