Table of Contents|   | 
| Features |   | 
| Introduction | 96 | 
| Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar: Understanding Linear Power Supplies | 98 | 
| Proper design brings simplicity and reliability |  
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| Steve Ciarcia | 
| The Visual Mind and the Macintosh | 113 | 
| MacPaint provides a tool for thinking |  
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| Bill Benzon | 
| A Glimpse into Future Television | 135 | 
| A technology envolving in parallel with personal computers |  
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| Joseph S. Nadan | 
| Microsoft Macintosh BASIC Version 2.0 | 155 | 
| More Mac support and true parameter-passing subprograms |  
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| Gregg Williams | 
| The Apple Story, Part 2: More History and the Apple III | 155 | 
| An interview with Steve Wozniak |  
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| Gregg Williams, Rob Moore | 
| Unterruptable Power Supplies | 167 | 
| Devices to save you from losing data in the dark |  
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| William Rynone | 
| An Introduction to Fiber Optics, Part 2: Connections and Networks | 197 | 
| Optical fibers are becoming practical for use in applications such as local networks |  
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| Richard S. Shuford | 
| Algorithms for Variable-Precision Calculator | 211 | 
| A pseudocode is used to describe the logic behind the algorithms |  
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| Paul A. Nilson | 
| Audio-Frequency Analyzer | 223 | 
| Build IBM PC accessories to analyze your stereo |  
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| Vince Banes | 
| Font Design for Personal Workstations | 255 | 
| Better fonts mean greater legibility and productivity |  
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| Charles Bigelow | 
| Expert Systems - Myth or Reality? | 275 | 
| Artificial intelligence is being applied |  
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| Bruce D'Ambrosio | 
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| Reviews |   | 
| Introduction | 286 | 
| Reviewer's Notebook | 289 | 
| Rich Malloy | 
| The HP 110 Portable Computer | 290 | 
| A small package with powerful capabilities |  
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| Mark Haas | 
| Gifford's MP/M 8-16 | 305 | 
| Here's a no-nonsense S-100 system |  
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| Charles H. Strom | 
| Lotus's Symphony | 317 | 
| Real and rational advances over 1-2-3 |  
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| Dick Pountain | 
| MagicPrint | 329 | 
| A print processor with true proportional spacing |  
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| Alan R. Miller | 
| The Hewlett-Packard ThinkJet Printer | 337 | 
| A compact, portable, and innovative printer |  
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| Mark Haas | 
| The TI Omni 800/Model 855 Printer | 345 | 
| ROM-based cartridges provide a variety of fonts |  
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| Mark Haas | 
| Review Feedback | 353 | 
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| Kernel |   | 
| Introduction | 361 | 
| Computing at Chaos Manor: The Fast Line | 363 | 
| Orchild's PCturbo 186, Documentation, Macrotech's MI-286, More Support Problems, STB RIO Plus Board, The Tax Shelter Eater, Excel's Aris, SuperDex Revisited and Aston-Tate's dBASE III |  
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| Jerry Pournelle | 
| Chaos Manor Mail | 393 | 
| Jerry Pournelle | 
| BYTE U.K: The Amstrad CPC 464 | 401 | 
| The home computer in the U.K. |  
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| Dick Pountain | 
| Circuit Cellar Feedback | 413 | 
| Steve Ciarcia | 
| BYTE West Coast: Light Touches | 415 | 
| Macs, Mice, and Laser Disks |  
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| John Markoff, Phillip Robinson | 
| Mathematical Recreations: The Fundamental Counting Principle | 425 | 
| Counting without enumerating |  
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| Michael W. Ecker | 
| BYTE Japan: The New and the Old | 429 | 
| Denser Chips, NEC PC-8401A, Casio LCS-2400, Fujitsu FM-11BS and Piracy |  
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| William M. Raike | 
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| Editorial: Autonomous Weapons and Human Responsibility | 6 | 
| Phil Lemmons | 
| Microbytes | 9 | 
Optical Disks Move Toward Reality
 Compact Discs as Read-Only Memory for PCs
 New Chips Will Find Uses in Image Processing
 Portable Computer Feature 80 by 25 Displays
 Display Technology
 COMDEX: New 2400-bps Modems
 Users May Find Surprises in Apple Insurance
 NANOBYTES |  
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| Letters | 14 | 
| Fixes and Updates | 33 | 
Feedback:
 Solution Doesn't Wash
 Carrol Touch Technology Relocates
 
 Byte's Bugs:
 Patch Now Quilt (September 1984)
 Bugs in Real-Time Graphics (September 1984)
 Bang is Dud (August 1984)
 Symbolic Changes (August 1984)
 Book Gets Wrong Name (August 1984) |  
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| What's New | 39, 440 | 
Texas Instruments Adds Brifcase Portable (ProLite)
 Rom Unveils Computer/Telephony Systems (Cedar)
 Okidata Introduces $268 Color Printer (Okimate 20)
 PC-Compatible Seequa Cobra Features 16-Bits Expansion Bus
 Video for the Mac (Mentaur Technologies Composite Video Adapter)
 Juki Announces $299 Daisy-Wheel Printer (Juki 6000)
 Device for Macintosh Uses Removable 5-Megabyte Catridges (Iomega Mac Bernoulli Box)
 Thesys Offers 5-Megabyte RAM Expansion System for $3495 (Fastfile)
 Whitechapel Workstation Displays 1024 by 800 Pixels (MG-1)
 Gifford MC-186 Expands to Multiuser MS-DOS System
 HyperDrive Internal Hard Disk for the Macintosh (General Computer Company)
 Netoworking Operating System for IBM PC (Waterloo Microsystems Port)
 MicroPro Enhances WordStar (WordStar 2000) |  
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| Ask BYTE | 48 | 
| Steve Ciarcia | 
| Clubs & Newsletters | 59 | 
| Book Reviews | 65 | 
The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit
 Information Systems Security
 Microprocessors: Hardware, Software, and Design Applications |  
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| Anthony Townsend, Annette Hinshaw, Alan Finger | 
| Event Queue | 83 | 
| Books Received | 435 | 
| Unclassified Ads | 493 | 
| BYTE's Ongoing Monitor Box, BOMB Results | 494 | 
| Reader Service | 495 |