Datamation is a computer magazine that was published in print form in the United States between 1957[1] and 1998,[2][3] and has since continued publication on the web.

The idea for the magazine came from Donald Prell who was Vice President of Application Engineering at Benson-Lehner Corporation, a Los Angeles computer input-output company.

Prell had discussed the idea with John Diebold who started "Automation Data Processing Newsletter", and that was the inspiration for the name DATAMATION.

[10][11][12] After leaving Benson-Lehner, Prell served as the magazine's technical consultant and later, while based in London, its European editor.

In 1996, Datamation editors Bill Semich, Michael Lasell and April Blumenstiel, received the first-ever Jesse H. Neal Editorial Achievement Award for an online publication.

Traditionally, an April issue of Datamation contained a number of spoof articles and humorous stories related to computers.

Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal was a letter to the editor of Datamation, volume 29 number 7, July 1983, written by Ed Post, Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon, USA.