Adam Osborne's second and third machines come with more standard equipment, offer more options, and have a slightly larger video screen than the Osborne I.
[author : Jerry Pournelle]
This device will let you switch between several peripherals connected to one serial port.
[author : Steve Ciarcia]
A short introduction to our theme articles.
[author : Pamela A. Clark]
The proliferation of office communication systems makes standardization all the more imperative.
[author : Harry Saal]
Computer moderated conferencing is not bound by time and geographic restrictions and is sure to change the structure of the executive business meeting.
[author : Irving A. Lerch]
How a newsletter evolved from its traditional format to a computer-accessed, interactive investment advisory service.
[author : Arthur S. Bechhoefer]
The conversion to automated tools in an office must address many issues, especially human factors.
[author : Randy J. Goldfield]
How to upgrade Version 3.2 of Wordstar to use more of the capabilities of the Epson MX-BO equipped with Graftrax-Plus.
[author : Neil G. Wallace]
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.
[author : Phil Lemmons]
A short report on the current state of microcomputing in Japan.
[author : Kurt Veggeberg]
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.
[author : Stuart Brown]
Profiles of four start-up companies suggest the dynamism of the region and illustrate several ways in which firms get started.
[author : Phil Lemmons]
A standard way to encode color mapping and animation, closing with some predictions on how NAPLPS will be used by personal computers.
[author : Jim Fleming]
The quality of a product's companion documentation could make or break a sale. Tips on whal constitutes a good manual.
[author : Dana Sohr]
Our resident critic takes his first look at Modula-2.
[author : Jerry Pournelle]
The last in this VIC series discusses port connections.
[author : Joel Swank]
A look at the capablillies of the MC68000's instruction set.
[author : Thomas W. Starnes]
How to alter the CP/M operating system so that it will accommodate a Winchester disk drive and controller.
[author : Andrew C. Cruce and Scott A. Alexander]
It's a fairly simple procedure to change IBM's keyboard to the Dvorak layout, or even use the keyboard with other computers and software.
[author : David B. Glasco and Murray Sargent III]
Ada, Pascal, and other new languages let you define your own data types.
[author : Earl E. McCoy]
Find out how the Color Computer interfaces with the outside world.
[author : Colin J. Stearman]
You can use various real-time programming techniques to turn a lazy computer into a real worker.
[author : Craig R. Wyss]
An Apple II program can help determine base rates of innation through analysis of the Consumer Price Index.
[author : Dr. John R. Merrill]
Programmer ingenuity and search of the existing literature can significantly improve sort performance.
[author : Terry Barron and George Diehr]
[author : Rich Malloy]
[author : Steven H. Barry]
[author : Curtis Feigel]
[author : Richard S. Shuford]
[author : Jack L. Abbott]
[author : Chris Pappas and William H. Murray]
[author : Winslow H. Fuller]
The complete and integrated electronic office is still a few years away, Yet with each new product that computerizes an individual task or an entire procedure, we move one step closer to the day when paper shuffling is just a memory, Someday, as Robert Tinney suggests in his cover painting, workers at all levels will electronically communicate with the aid of the mighty microprocessor, In "Local Area Networks" Harry Saal discusses the need for standardizing communication protocols for physically separated equipment, such as personal computers, mainframes, printers, and disk drives, Steven Barry describes "The Fortune 32:16 Business Computer," a multiuser, multitasking system that runs enhanced Unix, In "The Movable Conference" Irving A. Lerch reports on computer-moderated conferencing, and in a companion piece, "Electronic Publishing: The New Newsletter," Arthur S, Bechhoefer talks about how a traditional newsletter became a computer-accessed interactive investment advisory service, We have reviews of Radio Shack's new Model 100 portable computer and of two versions of a new computer from Osborne, the Executive and the Executive II. In "Stalking the East-Asian Microcomputer," Phil Lemmons chronicles his five-nation tour of the Far East, Steve Ciarcia's project is to "Build an RS-232C Code-Activated Switch," Plus our regular features and more reviews,