February was a picture of the inside of an innocuous room somewhere.

The clock on the wall reads 2:30, there is a half eaten apple on the shelf (possibly a reference to Apple Computer), and there is a collection of 2600 issues, including some from the future.

On the next shelf are books called The FIB, (an apparent reference to the FBI), and "Tee Vee Kay," which happened to be the cover artist's initials.

There are also two phones, one black and one red, some fuses, and a computer that has on its screen the words "Within the Circle Invisible."

A book that had come out at the time detailing some hacker antics was titled Out of the Inner Circle and this was a play on that.

A steaming beverage of some sort is on the desk and outside the window a long line of telephone poles can be seen, connecting this room to the outside world.

This was also the first cover that coined our then slogan "The Monthly Journal of the American Hacker," which was a mockery of the old Wall Street Journal slogan "The Daily Diary of the American Dream."

The mini-cover consisted of clip-art of a pigeon next to what appears to be an animate tree branch.