Thanks to advancing technology, you can construct an intelligent video terminal with just 21 integrated circuits.

Tomorrow's text editors may facilitate text composition from the earliest conceptual stages to the analysis of finished documents.

Jerry covers a lot of territory this month; beginning his journey of a tho us and words with a trip to the Circuit Cellar.

The year calls up inevitable associations with George Orwell's novel of a futuristic, technologically oppressed society and raises questions concerning the presentand future significance of technology to our own culture.

The Reason research project, exploring artificial intelligence, has developed a software bus that may have a significant effecton future software. As a hardware bus uses ICs, so the software bus manipulates various program components to provide integration, networking, and multitasking.

By bridging the communication gap between people and robots, a plain-language system called Savvy increases the usefulness of these mechanical assistants.

As manufacturers rush to introduce their 32-bit designs, it's time to take a look at what these microprocessors are and what they're good for.

Picture a microcomputer without a keyboard, without a power supply, and small enough to fit in your wallet. That's just one possible application of memory-card technology.

CAD capabilities on desktop systems can simplify a variety of tasks, from flowcharting to product design, but the choices in hardware and software can be baffling.

While the multidisciplinary nature of the technology may slow its advance, speech recognition is well on its way to becoming a major factor in our interactions with machines.

Artificial intelligence offers possible solutions to the problems of communication between people and computers.

When your personal computer leaps off your desktop and into your briefcase, what type of software will accompany it?

Element managers that implement objects such as spreadsheet tables and paragraphs may supplant the traditional concept of the application program.

This month's notes touch on Seequa Computer Corporation's Chameleon Plus and new trends in the printer market.

Supporting both 8-bit and 16-bit software, the Z-100 also offers impressive color graphics.

Tired of the same old pinball games? Try creating your own with this software-design package.

One of the most significant features of Radio Shack's new computer is its Unix-derived operating system.

A new software package from Texas Instruments simplifies access to a financial database.

The picture quality of your display can suffer when you use a radio-frequency modulator to interface your computer's video output to a standard color television, but a kit from Vamp offers an alternative.

In addition to speeding up Applesoft BASIC programs, the Einstein compiler provides statistical information on the programs compiled and can function as a debugging tool.

Apple compatibility is just one of this German import's interesting features.

Using Intel's BPK 72 Bubble-Memory Prototype Kit, you can put together a 128K-byte bubble memory board for an S-100 bus system.

The chief purpose of this music notation editor from Xerox is to help composers capture their ideas by speeding up the notation process.

You can construct a 68000-based system for under $200.

A preprocessor program that translates SAS-like statements into equivalent BASIC statements permits SAS like programs to run on a microcomputer.

The group walk-through, a process of "playing computer," provides a workable means of correcting programming problems.

A device-driver program for the clock Chip on a typical multifunction board takes advantage of special provisions in the IBM PC operating system.