There were 36 issues, all in
A4 format: the first, called
Release 1.1, was dated October 1985 and the last,
Release 3.12, was undated but appeared in September or October 1988. Contents included consumer reviews of Apricot hardware and software, and technical advice on programming for Apricots.
David Langford regularly contributed
The Disinformation Column from
Release 1.2 (November 1985) until the final issue. Other regular contributors were: Edward N Bromhead, Henry Deckhand (a pseudonymous cynic), Lindsay Doyle, Roger Gann, Paul N Humphreys, Garreth Keogh, Kathy Lang, Paul Lavin, Simon Potter, David St. John-Wallis and Mark Whitehorn. Dennis Jarrett's farewell editorial (
The Last Word) noted that
Apricot File subscribers were being steadily lost "to the beckoning lure of
IBM-compatibility." ==References==