Table of Contents
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| Features | |
| Introduction | 106 |
| Interactive Audio in a Videodisk System | 108 |
| Create various sound tracks for your videodisk system |
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| John Lawler, Paul Hairsine, Albert E. Miller |
| Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar: Build the Home Run Control System, Part 3: The Software | 121 |
| Energy management, convience, and security in one package |
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| Steve Ciarcia |
| SALT | 147 |
| A threaded interpretive language interfaced to BASIC for research laboratory applications |
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| Samuel D. Fenster, Lincoln E. Ford |
| The SUM: An AI Coprocessor | 169 |
| Turning a common AI operation into silicon |
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| Phillip Robinson |
| Inside AppleTalk | 185 |
| A closer look at Apple's new link |
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| David Ushijima |
| The Expert Mechanic | 205 |
| Expert systems needn't be esoteric or waster resources |
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| Werner F. Grunbaum |
| SWITCH | 221 |
| Use color and monochrome monitors simultaneously on your IBM PC |
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| Karl Lyon |
| Two's-Complement Numbers Revisited | 228 |
| A new tool for dealing with the fundamentals of number storage |
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| Gary Bronson |
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| Themes | |
| Introduction | 232 |
| Choosing a Programming Language | 235 |
| It's a three-step process |
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| Gary Elfring |
| Structuring BASIC | 243 |
| Creating your library of subroutines |
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| Art Huston |
| Subroutine Libraries in Pascal | 253 |
| A look at some of the facilities available for creating these libraries |
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| Bruce Webster |
| Using Data Flow for Application Development | 267 |
| This form of linkage results in functions that are easier to undestand, develop, and maintain |
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| Wayne P. Stevens |
| Debugging Techiniques | 279 |
| There are no magic formulas but there are tools, and the most powerful one is your own brain |
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| Gregg Williams |
| 6502 Tricks and Traps | 295 |
| Tips for surviving 6502 assembly-language programming |
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| Joe Holt |
| Software-ICs | 307 |
| A plan for building reusable software components |
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| Lamar Ledbetter, Brad Cox |
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| Reviews | |
| Introduction | 320 |
| Reviewer's Notebook | 323 |
| Glenn Hartwig |
| The Mindset Personal Computer | 324 |
| A high-performance graphics machine that runs IBM PC software |
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| Tom Wadlow |
| Idea Processors | 337 |
| ThinkTank, Executive Writer/Executive Filer, THOR and Framework |
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| William Hershey |
| Convience Software | 353 |
| The latest in pop-up programs |
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| Mark J. Welch |
| Building Expert Systems with M.1 | 371 |
| A knowledge-engineering tool for the IBM PC |
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| Bruce D'Ambrosio |
| Hewlett-Packard's HP 7475A Plotter | 379 |
| An accurate and versatile graphics machine |
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| Rich Malloy |
| The IBM Quietwriter Printer | 385 |
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| Jon Edwards |
| The Word Plus | 393 |
| An easy-to-use spelling checker |
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| George Sheldon |
| Review Feedback | 401 |
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| Kernel | |
| Introduction | 406 |
| Computing at Chaos Manor: From the Living Room | 409 |
| Reconstruction, Cleaning Zeke II, Z-100 Video Memory, Dysan's Interrogator, Zenith Z-160, HP LaserJet Fonts, Macrotech and Gifford, SPUZ, Mini/Micro Show, Hercules Color Board, More on Mac, More on Valdocs and Eagle |
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| Jerry Pournelle |
| Chaos Manor Mail | 435 |
| Jerry Pournelle |
| BYTE U.K.: Telephone Computers | 439 |
| A look at the One Per Desk telecomputer |
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| Dick Pountain |
| BYTE Japan: New NECs and Cartridge Disk | 451 |
| PC-8801 Mk II SR, Mr. PC, PC-6001, Tomas drives, Shoppers' Guides and Readers' queries |
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| William M. Raike |
| BYTE West Coast: A GEM Seminar | 455 |
| Aso, a Mac disassembler and advances in disk-controller technology |
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| John Markoff, Phillip Robinson |
| Circuit Cellar Feedback | 461 |
| Steve Ciarcia |
| BYTELINES | 468 |
| Sol Libes |
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| Editorial: The BYTE Information Exchange | 6 |
| Phil Lemmons |
| Microbytes | 9 |
Complex High-End Chips Hit Snags
Lotus, Intel Agree on 8-megabyte Memory Standard for IBM PC
New Computers Unveiled at COMDEX
New Laser-Class Printers
Products Will Aid Visually Disabled Computer Users
NANOBYTES |
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| Letters | 14 |
| Fixes and Updates | 33 |
More Equipement Eases Access to BYTEnet
Author to Advise C Group
Upgrade to Lowercase Descenders
User-Supported VT Terminal Emulator
A Few Points on a Million Points (April 1985)
Manufacturer Misidentified (April 1985)
Bugs Warp Reply (March 1985)
Benchmark Mistated (April 1985) |
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| What's New | 39, 470 |
Commodore Exhibits Computer Series (Commodore 900)
NAPLPS Board for IBM (Electronic Office Systems (Videotex) Ltd. MGB 8024)
Quadram's Laser Printer (QuadLaser)
Victor PCs Are Compatible with IBM (Victor Technologies VPC, VI)
BDS Laser Printer
XTRA XP: An 80286-Based PC (ITT Information Systems)
AT&T Links MS-DOS and UNIX Micros, Offers PC 6300 Enhancements (STARLAN)
GEM Applications (Digital Research GEM Desktop, GEM Draw, GEM Paint, GEM Write)
Portable Has Plasma Display (Ericsson)
HP Touchscreen II (Hewlett-Packard) |
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| Ask BYTE | 48 |
| Steve Ciarcia |
| Clubs & Newsletters | 58 |
| Book Reviews | 65 |
Programmer Productivity: Achieving an Urgent Priority
Applying Software Engineering Principles
CP/M User's Guide
Computer Animation Primer
The Complete Home Educator: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Home-Teaching |
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| Michael Martinez, E. Francis Avila, Annette Hinshaw, Paul W. Lowans, Jeff Campbell, Hunter Holmes Alexander |
| Event Queue | 86 |
| Books Received | 465 |
| Unclassified Ads | 525 |
| BYTE's Ongoing Monitor Box, BOMB Results | 526 |
| Reader Service | 527 |
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