The first issue of the magazine, dated February-March 1982, appeared as PC and described itself as The Independent Guide to IBM Personal Computers.[1] (The word Magazine was not added to the logo until the first major redesign in January 1986). PC Magazine was created by David Bunnell, Eddie Currie and Tony Gold, a co-founder of Lifeboat Associates who financed the magazine. The magazine grew beyond the capital required to publish it, and to solve this problem, Gold sold the magazine to Ziff-Dav