The first program for your second personal computer

Your second PC will certainly have a high‐capacity hard disk—as will your first, if you're buying it today and intend to do any serious work with it. The author has some (possibly surprising) advice as to the First program or set of programs you should install and use on that hard disk, after DOS. It makes sense to organize and control the environment; that means working with a good set of disk utilities. The author discusses uses for disk utilities and an economical package that combines good disk utilities with some other useful software to help you make sense of your personal computing environment. Citations from the PC literature that arrived October‐December 1989 omit the year‐end predictions and awards, but include some interesting reviews and other articles.