Table of Contents
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| Features | |
| The HP Integral Personal Computer | 98 |
| A new all-in-one system makes UNIX truly portable |
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| Phillip Robinson |
| Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar: Build a Serial EPROM Programmer | 104 |
| An inexpensive way to put your progarms on a chip |
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| Steve Ciarcia |
| The Macintosh Office | 120 |
| John Markoff, Phillip Robinson |
| C to Pascal | 138 |
| A program to take the tedium out of converting C programs to Pascal |
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| Ted Carnevale |
| Simulate a Servo System | 147 |
| Letting the computer handle the math eases the designer's job |
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| Don Stauffer |
| Introduction to Image Processing | 163 |
| Image manipulation reveals hidden information |
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| Jeffrey L. Star |
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| Themes | |
| Introduction | 174 |
| The Birth of a Computer | 177 |
| An interview with James H. Wilkinson on the building of a computer designed by Alan Turing |
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| John C. Nash |
| A Low-cost Data-Acquisition System | 199 |
| A compromise between cost and quality, this system is adequate for many research projects |
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| Kiyohisa Okamura, Kamyab Aghai-Tabriz |
| Fourier Smoothing Without the Fast Fourier Transform | 207 |
| An in-depth look at using the Fourier transform to remove noise from your data |
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| Eric E. Aubanel, Keith B. Oldham |
| Paranoia: A Floating-Point Benchmark | 223 |
| Test the quality of your software, not just its speed |
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| Richard Karpinski |
| Modelling Mass-Action Kinetics | 239 |
| In the future, microcomputers may have a substantial role in major scientific computations |
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| Alan Curtis |
| Viewing Molecules with the Macintosh | 251 |
| A BASIC program provides 3-D images of complex molecules |
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| Earl J. Kirkland |
| Laboratory Interfacing | 263 |
| A medical researcher examines the capabilities and limitations of an important laboratory device |
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| Lincoln E. Ford |
| Interfacing for Data Acquisition | 269 |
| A comparison of three interfaces |
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| Thomas R. Clune |
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| Reviews | |
| Introduction | 286 |
| Reviewer's Notebook | 289 |
| Glenn Hartwig |
| NewWord | 291 |
| A WordStar clone with significatn improvements |
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| John Heilborn, Nanci Reel |
| Janus/Ada | 295 |
| A useful nonstandard tool for learning Ada |
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| Mark J. Welch |
| The Epson Geneva PX-8 | 302 |
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| Rich Malloy |
| Two Modula-2 Compilers for the IBM PC | 311 |
| A great buy is pitted agains a professinal system |
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| Kevin Bowyer |
| E-Mail for the Masses | 317 |
| MCI Mail and Western Union's EasyLink |
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| Wayne Rash Jr. |
| Mannesmann Tally MT 160 | 325 |
| An adaptable dot-matrix printer |
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| Mark J. Welch |
| Review Feedback | 331 |
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| Kernel | |
| Introduction | 337 |
| Computing at Chaos Manor: Troubles | 339 |
| Computer Books, SemiDisk, Valdocs/QX-10 Revisited, PCturbo 186, PC Reset, Electric Dragon, Small Disks, Newmedia, SPUZ, UNIX, Flow Charting and Free Filer |
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| Jerry Pournelle |
| Chaos Manor Mail | 359 |
| Jerry Pournelle |
| BYTE Japan: Disks and Printers | 367 |
| Important peripherals from the 1984 Data Show |
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| William M. Raike |
| BYTE West Coast: What's Next? | 371 |
| Thunderscan, the ins and outs of the windowing game, new workstations and more |
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| John Markoff, Phillip Robinson, Ezra Shapiro |
| BYTE U.K.: Realizing a Dream | 379 |
| The Whitechapel Computer Works MG-1 personal workstation |
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| Dick Pountain |
| Computers and Law: Copying Mass-Marketed Software | 387 |
| Both sides of the Lotus lawsuits |
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| Robert Greene Sterne, Perry J. Saidman |
| Circuit Cellar Feedback | 393 |
| Steve Ciarcia |
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| Editorial: Service and Support | 6 |
| Phil Lemmons |
| Microbytes | 9 |
CP/M for the Macintosh
Superex, Micromax Unveil Macintosh Business Software
Conetic Introduces Desktop Management Software
Lantech Offers UNIX-like Operating System for $129
Smalltalk for PCs
Software Teledelivery Efforts Falter
NANOBYTES |
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| Letters | 14 |
| Fixes and Updates | 33 |
Byte's Bugs:
C Listing Bug (October 1984)
A Case of Misidentification (December 1984)
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish (August 1984)
Weather Report Incorrect (October 1984)
Books Have American Distributor (November 1984)
Windy Day Bug (June 1984)
New Telephone Number (October 1984)
Photo Credits Due (December 1984)
Address Change (December 1984)
Feedback:
More on POPLOG
Speaking of Least Squares
Eleectronic Yellow Pages in LA
Byte's Bits:
Public-Domain Sofware Library |
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| What's New | 39, 421 |
Tandy Unveils $999 Notebook Computer (Radio Shack Model 2000)
Datavue Portable Includes Disk Drives, 80 by 25 Display (Quadram Datavue 25)
Model 1131 Compass Has 128-column LCD (GRiD System )
Visage Videodisc Software Development Tool (V:Link 1000, V:Station 2000)
NEC Introduces Four-Color Plotter (Britewriter)
Commodore Announces 128K Computer (Commodore B128)
Modular Robot Kit (Cybot Tutor)
Computer Satellite Service (Satellite Business Network SBN)
Sord Adds 80 by 25 Display to IS-11
Digital Filtering Chip for Speech Processing (Kurzweil Applied Intelligence KSC 2408)
Twelve Million Instructions per Second (Cromemco Maximizer)
Data Access Enhances Database Program (Data Access Corporation DataFlex 2.1) |
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| Ask BYTE | 48 |
| Steve Ciarcia |
| Clubs & Newsletters | 59 |
| Book Reviews | 65 |
Alan Turing: The Enigma
Computer Graphics Programming
Data Structures and Program Design |
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| G. Michael Vose, Judith L. Maggiore, Edward Brent (Jr.) |
| Event Queue | 83 |
| Programming Insight: Simultaneuous Equations with Lotus 1-2-3 | 399 |
| An example from macroeconomics |
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| Jan-Henrik Johansson |
| Books Received | 409 |
| Unclassified Ads | 477 |
| BYTE's Ongoing Monitor Box, BOMB Results | 478 |
| Reader Service | 479 |
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