It turned out that Acorn were unable to supply the BBC Micro for many months and customers who had ordered the computer were anxious to learn as much about it before its arrival.

The content included hints, program listings, hardware and software reviews, brain teasers and competitions.

The magazine and its younger Acorn Archimedes companion RISC User were considered by Archive in 1990 as "friendly rival[s]".

[9] Professor Krisantha Weerasuriya of Sri Lanka's University of Colombo noted the user group and its magazine to be "very helpful" in a 1988 issue of the BMJ.

[12][13] Some of the topics covered in the magazine listings included fractal trees, Lorenz attractors and modelling of 3D functions.

Such basic principles have been included in the 2004 book Flash Math Creativity, with reference to the magazine's coverage of the topics.