When lightning struck his home and did $3000 worth of damage, Ciarcia decided to strike back with this month's Circuit Cellar project

[author : Steve Ciarcia]

Microsoft Windows lets you test the effectiveness of the desktop metaphor and the mouse.

[author : Phil Lemmons]

What to do when your disk-drive door is on the fritz and other comedies of errors at Chaos Manor.

[author : Jerry Pournelle]

Making software easy to use is simpler to say than to do. This month's theme articles explore a variety of approaches to user-interface technology and sample programmers' attempts at making software do more with less effort

[author : Phil Lemmons]

Concurrency, shared technology, and functional integration are three ways of integrating software.

[author : Dash Chang]

With the help of a test group, the author and his colleagues developed an interface that facilitates ease of use and ease of learning.

[author : John M. Carroll]

Chances are it's the software's fault and not yours.

[author : Sam Edwards]

Software designers can learn a few things from Mickey Mouse about communicating ideas.

[author : Paul Heckel]

A debugger that "animates" the program's source code on the screen and lets the programmer engage in what-if analysis to find logic errors can drastically reduce debugging time.

[author : Andy Pope, Geoff Kates, and Dan Fineberg]

In an attempt to design a truly easy-to-use database manager, the author disregarded nifty features and clever, complex functions in favor of starting fresh .

[author : Martin Dean]

The ability to record a spoken message and store it digitally on a computer system makes possible a whole new range of applications.

[author : Robert T. Nicholson]

This software package helps you build efficient, powerful menus.

[author : Steven Vandor]

The ideal information-management package maximizes hardware attributes and minimizes user interaction.

[author : Michael J. Brown]

Tired of the same old desktop metaphor? Maybe the digital kitchen is more up your alley

[author : Tom Houston]

A close-up look at mice, windows, and other software and hardware developments that make computer systems easier to use.

[author : Robert W. Warfield and George M. White]

This simple hardware/software interface device is easy to adapt to your interactive personal computer application s.

[author : Edward W Andrews]

The philosophical vs. the pragmatic approach to the construction of an efficient user interface.

[author : Martin Herbach, Richard Katz, and Joseph Landau]

Learnability is the single most important concern in user-interface design.

[author : Chuck Clanton]

BYTE's product-review editor comments on products slated for review.

[author : Rich Malloy]

Based on Intel's 8088 16-bit chip, TI's Professional Computer is the Data Systems Group's entry into the personal computer arena.

[author : Mark Haas]

With SWP's Z80 computer, Atari users can run CP/M-based programs.

[author : Dave Small and Sandy Small]

lf you want crisp, attractive text as well as graphics on the IBM Pc, the Hercules Graphics Card is for you.

[author : Tom Wadlow]

This 16-bit microcomputer provides an easy-to-use word-processing program with sophisticated features.

[author : Elaine Long]

This adventure game for the IBM PC, Apple, Atari, and Commodore 64 offers you an entire world to explore in your quest for a hidden Object.

[author : Elaine Holden]

How to make highquality full-color graphics from your black-and-white monitor.

[author : Frederick B. Essig]

As the microcomputer moves into the office, software developers face new challenges in translating existing mainframe software to the microcomputer environment.

[author : Greg Dunn]

In this final article, the author develops a general-purpose BIOS-interface subroutine that can transfer parameters from a BASIC program to the BIOS and can store BIOS results in memory.

[author : Hugh R. Howson]

Rockwell's CMOS version of the 6502 microprocessor fills a number of gaps in the standard 6502's instruction set and offers low power-consumption advantages.

[author : Steven Hendrix]

A look at dragon-curve designs and how to print them on an IDS Paper Tiger printer.

[author : Dan Rollins]

By performing automatic unit conversion, this super-calculator saves time and effort and prevents common errors.

[author : Stuart Edwards]

Jerry takes time out to round up the best and worst books on CP/M, Pascal, C, and Ada.

[author : Jerry Pournelle]