Starting with the very first issue in May/June 1981 (102 pages) (with a limited print run of 30,000[9]) at the recommended price of $2.00.

The articles in Your Computer catered for beginners to computing, through to highly technical programming techniques, industry updates, resources, user group and microcomputer-specific columns, and published many special features of Australian technology companies.

Articles were written by both full-time magazine staff and freelance contributors, including Les Bell, Matt Whalen, Bill Bolton, Stewart White and Lloyd Borrett.

[13][14] Cartoonist Brendan J Ackhurst was also a frequent contributor of illustrations to the magazine.

For many years, the magazine was focused on home computers such as the Commodore 64, Apple II, MicroBee and many others.