As a prelude to his major home-management/control system. Steve returns to the subject of DTMF decoding.
[author : Steve Ciarcia]
The first text database for the Macintosh uses a window-based interface and a MacWrite-style editor.
[author : John Markoff]
Overcome your PC's floating-point decimal limitation with this BASIC program.
[author : Peter Rice]
You can put together an inexpensive serial card for the Sanyo MBC 550.
[author : Robert Kong Win Chang]
Gas-plasma and electroluminescent displays may someday take the place of cathode-ray tubes.
[author : Richard S. Shuford]
The BASIC program described computes a ship's geographic position based on two successive sextant readings.
[author : Frederic N. Rounds]
This simple program is table-driven and can be extended to include almost any unit of measure
[author : David L. Kahn]
The inexpensive programming editors discussed here are powerful and highly customizable.
[author : Steve McMahon]
If you've got an EPROM programmer handy, build this modification for the Commodore 64.
[author : John C. Field, Greg Richards, and Eric Beenfeldt]
The 8-MHz, 16-bit Slicer is at the heart of a low-cost computer system.
[author : Laine Stump]
Bulletin-board systems and independent distributors offer a wealth of free and nearly free software for the IBM PC and the Apple Macintosh.
[author : John Markoff and Ezra Shapiro.]
This public-domain language lets you experiment with artificial intelligence.
[author : David Belz]
Three-dimensional plotting can be easy and inexpensive with the SURF program
[author : Tom Clune]
[author : Glenn Hartwig]
A low-cost, UNIX-based microcomputer.
[author : Greg Corson]
A business computer with high-resolution color graphics.
[author : John D. Unger]
An old friend has a new look.
[author : Jon Edwards]
Paint with 16 colors on an Apple IIc or 128K-byte IIe
[author : Gregg Williams]
One approach to making computers easy to use.
[author : Donald R. Osgood]
Inexpensive but limited word processing.
[author : Steven D. Ryals]
A memory-expansion board for IBM's PCjr.
[author : Glenn Hartwig]
Readers respond to previous reviews.
In a jam-packed column, Jerry describes the highlights-including one of the most interesting parties he's attended-of these two meetings.
[author : Jerry Pournelle]
Jerry's readers write, and he replies.
[author : Jerry Pournelle]
A first-of-its-kind convention for computer hackers is detailed, as well as the new Graphics Environment Manager called "GEM" from DR.
[author : John Markoff, Phillip Robinson, and Ezra Shapiro]
These multitasking systems, recently written in Great Britain, can be implemented on very small machines.
[author : Dick Pountain]
Bill looks at Turbo Pascal, IBM Japan's JX, WordStar 2000, and some other new products.
[author : William M. Raike]
The method described here lets you easily construct any odd-order magic square.
[author : Robert T Kurosaka]
Steve answers project-related queries from readers
[author : Steve Garcia]