In addition, every issue featured several type-in programs written in BASIC and/or machine language.

The front cover was originally accented by a logotype reading "RUN", with each letter placed on a key button resembling those used on the C-64.

Run columns included the following: Mike Konshak (aka Michael Vaughn Konshak), a BASIC software developer and mechanical engineer contributed the popular DataFile database management program and many other utilities for the Commodore 64 to Run.

[3] 1500 Run subscribers sent Mike money in the first month, which prompted the editors to create the "Re-Run" disk to generate more revenue for the publisher.

(Datafile then evolved into dFile64, dFile128, dFcalc, DFword, etc., and sold by Mike Konshak through his small company, MichaelSoft "A cottage Industry of Home-Spun Software").