Table of Contents| |
| Features | |
| Introduction | 104 |
| Programming Project: New Perspectives on Nearby Stars | 106 |
| A Macintosh programming project in Pascal |
|
| Bruce Webster |
| Liquid-Crystal Displays for Portables | 119 |
| Inside the display techology that has made portable computers portable |
|
| Glenn J. Adler |
| Product Description: The GRiDCase | 129 |
| These new porables are IBM PC-compatible and one version has a gas-plasma display |
|
| Rich Malloy |
| Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar: Living in a Sensible Environment | 141 |
| A collection of alarm and environmental monitoring circuits |
|
| Steve Ciarcia |
| Programming Insight: Travesty Revisited | 163 |
| The Travesty generator is recast in compiled BASIC |
|
| Murray Lesser |
| Programming Insight: Real-Number Formatting Your Apple | 171 |
| This subroutine lets you specify the decimal length of any real number |
|
| Brent Daviduck |
| |
| Themes | |
| Introduction | 176 |
| Updating the Oldest Science | 179 |
| Astronomers are using microcomputers in a variety of applications |
|
| Russell M. Genet |
| Microcomputers in NASA's SIR-B | 192 |
| A network of personal computers in the space program |
|
| Richard Wilton |
| Comet Lines in FORTRAN | 203 |
| The program described calculates the positions of asteroids and comets |
|
| David S. Dixon |
| Tracking Earth Satellites | 215 |
| The Stumpff program can help you calculate earth-orbiting satellite positions with high precision |
|
| E. H. Weiss |
| Automating a Telescope | 227 |
| Computerizing the repetitious tasks in variable-star photometry |
|
| Louis J. Boyd |
| Astronomical Computing with Micros | 239 |
| Increasing the amamteur astronomer's reach |
|
| Richard Bochonko, William T. Peters |
| Astronomy Sources | 244 |
| An Astronomy Glossary | 245 |
| |
| Reviews | |
| Introduction | 248 |
| Reviewer's Notebook | 251 |
| Glenn Hartwig |
| Texas Instruments' Pro-Lite Professional Computer | 252 |
| A briefcase size computer compatible with the TI Professional |
|
| Richard Grehan, Eva White |
| NCR Personal Computer Model 4 | 258 |
| A sturdy IBM PC-compatible |
|
| Elaine Holden |
| Monitoring Halley's Comet | 265 |
| Three programs for tracking the celestial visitor |
|
| John E. Mosley |
| Space-Flight Simulators | 269 |
| Rendezvous with a space station or travelto Saturn |
|
| Benjamin Bernar |
| MaxThink | 279 |
| An outline processor that has its own programming language |
|
| William Hershey |
| The Anchor Automation Signalman Mark XII Modem | 287 |
| The MARK XII incorporates interesting features, yet lacks full Hayes compatibility |
|
| George V. Kinal |
| Review Feedback | 295 |
| |
| Kernal | |
| Introduction | 306 |
| Computing at Chaos Manor: Come to the Faire | 309 |
| The Stride Faire, Niklaus Wirth, Micro Modula-2, The Nod, ScenicWriter, Lilth CAD System, The MacFaire, MegaMac and Mac Software Galore |
|
| Jerry Pournelle |
| Chaos Manor Mail | 309 |
| Jerry Pournelle |
| BYTE West Coast: SNOBOL and Icon | 341 |
| Language designer Ralph Griswold looks at his language |
|
| Ezra Shapiro |
| BYTE U.K.: Starlit Spectrum | 353 |
| Using the Sinclair Spectrum to collect and process astronomical data |
|
| Dick Pountain |
| BYTE Japan: Peripherals, Chips, and New Computers | 363 |
| Erasable optical-disc coating from Fujitsu and more new Japanese products |
|
| William M. Raike |
| According to Webster: Start-up | 367 |
| Fat Mac, MacWorld Exposition, XL/Serve, MacAide, MacNosy, Airborne, QC-10, Mac Bernoulli Box, ChipWits, Macintosh p-System, Macadvantage, Mind Prober, Videx and GEM Seminar |
|
| Bruce Webster |
| Mathematical Recreations: Parsing and Solving Linear Equations | 385 |
| Set up and solve simultaneous linear equations |
|
| Robert T. Kurosaka |
| Circuit Cellar Feedback | 391 |
| Steve Ciarcia |
| BYTELINES | 393 |
| Sol Libes |
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| Editorial: Equal Access to Computers: Scruples or Rubles? | 6 |
| Phil Lemmons |
| Microbytes | 9 |
New Multiuser UNIX Systems
AT&T Offers 32-bit Processor to Other Companies
New 80286 Systems Flood COMDEX
Network Products Announced
Add-on Makers Support Expanded Memory Specification
Mosai Unveils 1-2-3 Twin
NANOBYTES |
|
| Letters | 14 |
| Fixes and Updates | 33 |
ROMDISK Pricing Lowered
Statement amplified (June 1985)
Some Fixes for Sunfix (March 1985)
Bugs in Frequency Analyzer (January 1985)
Name Corrected (March 1985)
Servio Listing Misserves a Line (February 1985)
Knowledge Index Numbers Change (December 1985)
BYTE Index Produced
Author's Guide Available
Public-Domain Software Offering
Serial Version of Printer Buffer |
|
| What's New | 39, 406 |
Xerox Products (6085, 6060 family, 4045 Laser CP)
IBM PC XT-, PC AT-Compatible Computers (NCR PC8, PC6)
Visual Environment for C Programmers (Living Software C-Personal)
IBM Jetprinter and Proprinter
80285 Add-in Board for IBM PC and PC XT (Phoenix Computer Products Pfaster286)
High-Speed Modem (Electronic Vaults UPTA 96)
Zenith's Z-200 Advanced PC
NS32032 Add-in Board for IBM (DFE Electronic Data Systems Tiger-32)
Macintosh Spreadsheet (Paladin Software Crunch)
Spectravideo Product Line (Bondwell 34, Bondwell 36, Bondwell 2, Bondwell 22)
BT/AT Computer is Compatible with PC AT (Basic Time)
Programmable Logic Chips (Altera EP310) |
|
| Ask BYTE | 48 |
| Steve Ciarcia |
| Clubs & Newsletters | 58 |
| Book Reviews | 65 |
Personal Computers and Special Needs
Digital Image Processing: A Practical Primer
Pascal Applications for the Sciences
Assembly Cookbook for the Apple II/IIe
1985 Programmer's Market |
|
| John Wilke, Richard J. Cass, Steven H. Rogers, Roger Cox, E. Francis Avila |
| Event Queue | 85 |
| Books Received | 395 |
| Unclassified Ads | 461 |
| BYTE's Ongoing Monitor Box, BOMB Results | 462 |
| Reader Service | 463 |
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