Table of Contents
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| Features | |
| Writing with a Data-Base Management System | 18 |
| Edward Brent (Jr.) |
| Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar: Switching Power Supplies, An Introduction | 36 |
| Steve Ciarcia |
| Fundamentals of Relational Data Organization | 48 |
| John Neely, Steve Stewart |
| Build a Bar-Code Scanner Inexpensively | 62 |
| Bradley W. Bennet |
| The Microcomputer as a Laboratory Instrument | 84 |
| Daniel Cosgrove |
| Data-Base Management Systems: Powerful Newcomers to Microcomputers | 97 |
| Michael Gagle, Gary J. Koehler, Andrew Whinston |
| DIF: A Format for Data Exchange between Applications | 174 |
| Candace E. Kalish, Malinda F. Mayer |
| A Survey of Data-Base Management Systems for Microcomputers | 208 |
| Kathryn S. Barley, James R. Driscoll |
| PDQ: A Data Manager for Beginners. Don't Reinvent the Wheel | 236 |
| Paul Swanson |
| The Atari Tutorial, Part 3: Player-Missile Graphics | 312 |
| Chris Crawford |
| Toward a Structured 6809 Assembly Language, Part 1: An Introducution to Structured Assembly Language | 370 |
| Gregory Walker |
| PROLOG, A Step Toward the Ultimate Computer Language | 384 |
| Ron Ferguson |
| PS - A FORTH-Like Threaded Language, Part 2 | 400 |
| Valo G. Motalygo |
| Linking a Pascal Microengine to Cyber 170 | 472 |
| Steven M. Sedlet, Jonathan Dust |
| Information Hiding in Pascal, Packages and Pointers | 493 |
| Michael B. Feldman |
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| Reviews | |
| Reversal, Otherllo for the Apple II | 76 |
| Mark Friedman |
| The Extracton Stringy Floppy Data-Storage System | 126 |
| Keith Carlson |
| System Review: The Datahandler from Miller Microcomputer Services | 138 |
| Allyn Richardson |
| System Review: Microsoft Softcard | 152 |
| Mark Pelczarski |
| Software Review: CourseWare Magazine | 166 |
| Elaine Holden |
| Orchestra-80 | 264 |
| Elizabeth Cooper, Yvon Kolya |
| Apple II File-Management Systems | 274 |
| Ken Blochowiak |
| ENHBAS | 342 |
| Mahlon G. Kelly |
| Five Spelling-Correction Programs for CP/M-Based Systems | 434 |
| Phil Lemmons |
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| Nucleus | |
| Editorial: Can We Agree on Standards? | 6 |
| Chris Morgan |
| Letters | 10 |
| BYTE's Bits | 8, 308 |
Networking Scheme for the TRS-80 Model II
Logo License Applications Available |
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| BYTE Comment: Reviewing the Microcomputer Revolution | 134 |
| Ed Faber |
| BYTELINES | 302 |
| Sol Libes |
| Ask BYTE | 364 |
| Steve Ciarcia |
| Languages Forum: A View from the Lectern: What's Wrong with Technical Writing Today? | 409 |
| Carol Barnum |
| Technical Forum: Where Am I? A Proposal for a New Microprosessor Instruction | 413 |
| S. S. Reddi |
| Programming Quickies: WRITELONG, A Pascal Simulation of Long-Integer Output | 414 |
| Daniel S. Hunt |
| User's Column: New Software, New Hardware, Computer Languages, and Games | 449 |
| Jerry Pournelle |
| Book Reviews | 458, 463 |
Apple Pascal: A Hands-On Approach
Threaded Imterpretive Languages |
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| Hartley G. Lesser, A. Richard Miller |
| Software Received | 464 |
| Clubs and Newsletters | 465 |
| Event Queue | 466 |
| Books Received | 490 |
| System Notes: A Voice for the Apple II without Extra Hardware | 499 |
| Robert A. Payne |
| What's New? | 505 |
| Unclassified Ads | 558 |
| Reader Service | 559 |
| BOMB, BOMB Results | 560 |