Table of Contents| |
| Features | |
| The IBM Personal Computer: First Impressions | 26 |
| The computer giant embraces software compatibility and support for independant peripheral manufacturers. |
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| Phil Lemmons |
| Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar: Build an Intelligent EPROM Programmer | 36 |
| With a Z8-BASIC Microcomputer, you can easily put together a versatile programmer for 2716 EPROMs. |
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| Steve Ciarcia |
| Ultra-Low-Cost Network for Personal Computers | 50 |
| The age of communication for personal computers has arrived: don't be left behind. |
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| Ken Clements, David Daugherty |
| The Atari Tutorial, Part 2: Graphics Indirection | 70 |
| Graphics indirection lets you quickly chnage the colors used in the video display and redefine Atari character set. |
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| Chris Crawford |
| Local-Area Networks, Possibilities for Personal Computers | 92 |
| The "one person, one computer" concept is improved with communications. |
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| Harry J. Saal |
| Prepare Your Program for Publication | 114 |
| A checklist of professional touches that can make software sell. |
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| C. A. Johnson |
| Software Protection in the United Kingdom | 126 |
| A London conference confronts the problem of software piracy. |
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| Martin Hayman |
| Network Tools, Ideas for Intelligent Network Software | 140 |
| A set of general modules provides a basis for networking. |
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| Peter B. Reintjes |
| A Simple Implementation of Multitasking | 176 |
| A little SLEEP can go a long way. |
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| Wendell Brown |
| Tree Searching, Part 2: Heuristic Techniques | 195 |
| Admissible algorithms allow you to find an optimal solution without an exhaustive search of the state-space tree. |
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| Gregg Williams |
| Drawing with UCSD Pascal and the Hiplot Plotter | 214 |
| Some UCSD plotting routines that can be linked to any Pascal program. |
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| James Stork |
| Evaluate Your Home's Energy Efficiendy, Conserve Energy with Your Computer | 250 |
| Use your computer to lower those budget-breaking heat bills. |
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| Kimball Beasley |
| Bridging the 10-Percent Gap | 264 |
| Software problems can hold back a small-business data-processing explosion. |
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| Paul T. Brady |
| Graphics Fundamentals | 284 |
| A company logo is the vechile for understanding windows and scaling. |
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| Kathleen Bresnahan Sandifur |
| Build a Versatile Keyboard Interface for the S-100 | 400 |
| A device that lets you communicate with your microcomputer. |
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| David R. Richards |
| PERT Organization | 407 |
| A mathematical method used by computer programmers todetermine the relative importance of the taks under their supervision. |
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| W. Douglas Maurer |
| Should the DO Loop Become an Assembly-Language Construct? | 413 |
| Innovative instructions can forestall the "software crisis". |
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| Glenn L. Williams |
| Multiple Regression for the TRS-80 | 430 |
| On converting the mathematics of linear regression into general-purpose BASIC program. |
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| Douglas William Madron |
| Bits and Bytes in Pascal, and Other Binary Wonders | 448 |
| Put UCSD Pascal through its paces to ease programming and have fun. |
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| David Casseres |
| Apple Analog-to-Digital Conversion in 27 Microseconds | 458 |
| Build this high-speed, 10-but analog-to-digital converter for your Apple for less than $100. |
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| Michael A. Seeds |
| PS - A FORTH-Like Thread Language, Part 1 | 462 |
| PS allows assembly-language code and high-level code to be mixed. |
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| Valo G. Motalygo |
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| Reviews | |
| Atari's Telelink I | 86 |
| Glen Flint |
| Integral Data's Paper Tiger 460 | 378 |
| Eliakim Willner |
| The Mauro Proac Plotter | 383 |
| Mark Dahmke |
| The Radio Shack FORTRAN Package | 385 |
| Tim Daneliuk |
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| Nucleus | |
| Editorial: Local Networks Are Buzzing | 6 |
| Chris Morgan |
| Letters | 10 |
| System Notes: List Pager | 122 |
| Alan Lovett |
| System Notes: Discover the Machine Beneath the Machine, A ZX80 Monitor Program | 278 |
| R. Scott FitzGerald |
| System Notes: A Closer Look ath the TRS-80 Color Computer | 334 |
| Woody Baker |
| System Notes: Two Short Graphics Programs for the OSI C-1P | 354 |
| John F. Leahy |
| System Notes: Recursive Procedures for the 6502 Microprocessor | 467 |
| Phillip W. Dennis |
| Software Received | 302 |
| Books Received | 304 |
| BYTELINES | 306 |
| Sol Libes |
| Ask BYTE | 316 |
| Steve Ciarcia |
| Event Queue | 323 |
| Clubs and Newsletters | 332 |
| BYTE's Bits | 332, 375 |
Industry's Eyes on New LISP Computes
Scholarship Competition Under Way
Literary Text Project |
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| Book Reviews | 342 |
Four Roads to Understanding Radio Shack's TRS-80
The BOOK: Accessing the TRS-80 ROM
Microsoft BASIC Decoded & Other Mysteries for the TRS-80 |
|
| Yvon Kolya |
| Programming Quickies | 356, 376, 419 |
Memory Manipulator, Eliminate Hex-a-Phobia
A Fast, Ancient Method for Multiplication
Apple Pascal Cross-Reference |
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| Techical Forum: Use a Relative Subroutine Call for Relocatable Z80 Programs | 366 |
| George S. Losey |
| Techical Forum: The Variable-Duty-Cycle Algorithm | 391 |
| Timothy J. Stryker |
| Techical Forum: Dynamic Simulation in BASIC | 394 |
| S. J. Houng |
| Languages Forum: BASIC, Pascal, or Tiny-c? | 372 |
| A Simple Benchmarking Comparison. |
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| Phil Hughes |
| What's New | 471 |
| Unclassified Ads | 526 |
| Reader Service | 527 |
| BOMB, BOMB Results | 528 |