This battery-powered portable offers remarkable power per pound.
[author : Gregg Williams and Ken Sheldon]
Steve's low-cost, high-performance speech-recognition system uses the General Instruments SP1000 chip.
[author : Steve Ciarcia]
The ancient strategy game finds a new setting in MacFORTH.
[author : Bruce F. Webster]
Nonsense imitation requires clever text processing.
[author : Hugh Kenner and Joseph O'Rourke]
The concluding article of this series covers programming capabilities and control elements.
[author : Rick Cook and John Brandon]
More than 25 years after Sputnik, the Soviets bring out an Apple II.
[author : Leo D. Bores, M.D.]
A professor discusses what they are and how they work.
[author : Alan R. Miller]
The latest member of Motorola's 68000 family includes on-board cache and virtual memory.
[author : Paul F. Groepler and James Kennedy]
Two Xtar executives tell how this chip set draws filled-in polygons at superhigh speed.
[author : Terry Coleman and Skip Powers]
RISC means longer programs but faster execution.
[author : John Markoff]
A new semiconductor technology offers blazing speed.
[author : Phillip Robinson]
Intel's marketing manager for special programs, a former engineer, writes on the head of the iAPX 286 family.
[author : Paul Wells]
This coprocessor is optimized to perform string-search operations on text files.
[author : Steve Rosenthal]
[author : Rich Malloy]
The 8088-based touchscreen computer.
[author : Mark Haas]
An IBM PC-compatible, transportable system.
[author : Peter V. Callamaras]
Two word-processor programs for the IBM PC.
[author : C J Puotinen]
Two FORTH development systems for the IBM PC.
[author : Ernie Tello]
A word processor for the IBM PC.
[author : Rubin Rabinovitz]
[author : Mark J. Welch]
[author : Peter V. Callamaras]
Readers respond to previous reviews.
Can hobbyists survive in an industry dissolving in hype?
[author : Jerry Pournelle]
[author : Jerry Pournelle]
Three West Coast editors report on a dBASE compiler, new printer technology, pfs:Plan. and how to make the Macintosh talk.
[author : John Markoff, Phil Robinson, and Ezra Shapiro]
Our Tokyo correspondent discovers some surprising U.S. trends.
[author : William M. Raike]
A whole family of Apricots and a pocket computer from Psion are in the news.
[author : Dick Pountain]
This month's recreation involves an eccentric jailer's strange way of granting amnesty.
[author : Michael W. Ecker]
Steve answers project-related queries from readers.
[author : Steve Ciarcia]