Table of Contents
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| Features | |
| The Osborne Executive and the Executive II | 38 |
| Adam Osborne's second and third machines come with more standard equipment, offer more options, and have sligtly larger video screen than Osborne 1. |
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| Jerry Pournelle |
| Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar: Build an RS-232C Code-Activated Switch | 49 |
| This device will let you switch between several peripherals connected to one serial port. |
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| Steve Ciarcia |
| The Electronic Office | 59 |
| A short introduction to our theme article. |
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| Pamela A. Clark |
| Local Area Networks | 60 |
| The proliferation of office communication systems makes standardization all the more imperative. |
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| Harry J. Saal |
| The Movable Conference | 104 |
| Computer-moderated conferencing is not bound by time and geographic restrictions and is sure to change the structure of the executive business meeting. |
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| Irving A. Lerch |
| Eelctronic Publishing: The New Newsletter | 124 |
| How a newsletter envolved from its traditional fromat to a computer-accessed, interactive investment advisory service. |
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| Arthur S. Bechhoefer |
| Achieving Greater White-Collar Productivity in the New Office | 154 |
| The conversion to automated tools in an office must address many issues, especially human factors. |
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| Randy J. Goldfield |
| Full Use of the Epson MX-80 Under Wordstar | 203 |
| How to upgrade Version 3.2 of Wordstar to use more of the capabilities of the Epson MX-80 equipped wiht Graftrax-Plus. |
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| Neil G. Wallace |
| Stalking the East-Asian Microcomputer | 232 |
| The author chronicles his five-nation tour and reports on the state of microcomputing in East Asia as revealed by attending six electronics trade shows. |
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| Phil Lemmons |
| The Japanese Microcomputer Marketplace | 236 |
| A short report on the current state of microcomputing in Japan. |
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| Kurt Veggeberg |
| An Inexpensive Letter-Quality Printer | 242 |
| If low cost and letter quality are two of your priorities for a printer, consider this interface between a personal computer and the Olivetti Praxis 30. |
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| Stuart Brown |
| BYTE West Coast: Ferment in Silicon Walley | 266 |
| Profiles of four start-up companies suggest the dynamism of the region and illustrate several ways in which firms get started. |
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| Phil Lemmons |
| NAPLPS: A New Standard for Text and Graphics, Part 4: More Advanced Features and Conclusions | 272 |
| A standard way to encode color mapping and animation, closing with some predictions on how NAPLPS will be used by personal computers. |
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| Jim Fleming |
| Better Software Manuals | 286 |
| The quality of a product's companion documentation could make or break a sale. Tips on what constitutes a good manual. |
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| Dana Sohr |
| User's Column: Ulterior Motives, Lobo, Bying Your First Computer, JRT Update | 298 |
| Our resident crtic takes his first look at Modula-2. |
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| Jerry Pournelle |
| The Enhanced VIC-20, Part 4: Connecting Serial RS-232C Peripherals to the VIC's TTL Port | 331 |
| The last in this VIC series discusses port connections. |
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| Joel Swank |
| Design Philosophy Behind Motorola's MC68000, Part 2: Data-movement, Arithmetic, and Logic Instructions | 342 |
| A look at the capabilities of the MC68000's instruction set. |
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| Thomas W. Starnes |
| Building a Hard-Disk Interface for an S-100 System, Part 3: Software | 368 |
| How to alter the CP/M operating system so that it will accomodate a Winchester disk drive and controller. |
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| Andrew C. Cruce, Scott A. Alexander |
| Using IBM's Marvelous Keyboard | 402 |
| It's farily simple procedure to change IBM's keyboard to the Dvorak layout, or even use the keyboard with other computers and software. |
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| David B. Giasco, Murray Sargent III |
| Strongly Typed Languages | 418 |
| Ada, Pascal, and other new languages let you define your own data types. |
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| Earl E. McCoy |
| The Ins and Outs of the TRS-80 Color Computer | 438 |
| Find out how the Color Computer interfaces with the outside world. |
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| Colin J. Stearman |
| A Conceptual Approach to Real-Time Programming | 452 |
| You can use various real-time programming techiques to turn a lazy computer into a real worker. |
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| Craig R. Wyss |
| Regression Fitting to Economic Indexes | 474 |
| An Apple II program can help determine base rates of inflation through analysis of the Consumer Price Index. |
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| John R. Merrill |
| Sorting Algorithms for Microcomputers | 482 |
| Programmer ingenuity and search of the existing literature can significantly improve sort performance. |
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| Terry Barron, George Diehr |
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| Reviews | |
| Little Big Computer, The TRS-80 Modle 100 Portable Computer | 14 |
| Rich Malloy |
| The Fortune 32:16 Business Computer | 82 |
| Steven H. Barry |
| What a Concept! A View of the Corvus Computer | 134 |
| Curtis Feigel |
| Word Tools for the IBM Personal Computer | 176 |
| Richard S. Shuford |
| A Comparison of Five Database Management Programs | 220 |
| Jack L. Abbott |
| Painter Power | 263 |
| Chris Pappas, William H. Murray |
| Solarsoft | 426 |
| Winslow H. Fuller |
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| Nucleus | |
| Editorial: Disenchantment with Detroit | 6 |
| Lawrence J. Curran |
| Letters | 8 |
| Book Review: Microprocessor Systems, Interfacing and Applications | 326 |
| William H. Murray |
| BYTELINES | 494 |
| Event Queue | 499 |
| Software Received | 509 |
| Books Received | 513 |
| Ask BYTE | 515 |
| Clubs and Newsletters | 521 |
| What's New? | 524 |
| Unclassified Ads | 589 |
| BOMB, BOMB Results | 590 |
| Reader Service | 591 |
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