Career
In January 1981 he wrote the first article on personal computers for the popular science magazine Galaksija (Galaxy). During the following years he wrote many articles about programmable calculators and home computers. In December 1983 he wrote a special edition of Galaksija called "Computers in Your Home" (Računari u vašoj kući), the first computer magazine in former Yugoslavia.
This issue featured entire schematic diagrams guides on how to build computer Galaksija, created by Voja Antonić.
The series of special editions was eventually developed into computer magazine Računari (Computers). Ristanović was the editor of Računari for 11 years.
After that, in 1995 Ristanović founded the Personal Computer Press publishing company and magazine Personal Computer, the first privately owned computer magazine in Serbia. Ristanović has been the editor-in-chief of Personal Computer for more than 10 years.
In 1989 he co-founded Sezam Bulletin Board System, which eventually become a major Bulletin Board System system and evolved to Internet provider Sezam Pro, which in 2009 merged in Orion Telecom.
Dejan Ristanović is the author of about 20 books and more than 500 magazine articles about computers, written in the Serbian and English languages. He also operates the www.ti59.com nostalgia home page of TI-59 programmable calculators. Dejan Ristanović is alumnus of Mathematical Gymnasium Belgrade, graduated in 1981 (search term in the list: "Ристановић Дејан").