Table of Contents|   | 
| Foreground |   | 
| The Cybertecnic Crayon: A Low Cost Approach to Human Interaction with Color Graphics | 24 | 
| Thomas A. Dwyer | 
| The Cybertecnic Crayon - Using Computer Graphics as a Mediumn for Artistic Expression: A Portfolio of Explorations | 139 | 
| Margot Critchfield | 
| The Buried God in the SR-52 | 30 | 
| Clif Penn | 
| Stretch That 6800 Clock | 42 | 
| Jerry Henshaw | 
| Don't Waste Memory Space (One Way to Squeeze fat Out of Text Strings | 58 | 
| Robert W. Baker | 
| Signal Processing for Optical Bar Code Scanning | 77 | 
| Frederick L. Merkowitz | 
| The Designer's Eye View of the AC-30 | 98 | 
| Gary Kay | 
| A Universal Turing Machine | 114 | 
| Jonathan K. Millen | 
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| Background |   | 
| Samples of Machine Readable Printed Software - PAPERBYTES | 12 | 
| Walter Banks, Roger Sanderson | 
| Software for Reading Bar Codes | 18 | 
| Keith Regli | 
| Product Review: Processor Technology VDM-1 | 36 | 
| D. Anderson | 
| Do It Yourself Weather Predictions | 62 | 
| Michael R. Firth | 
| Building the AC-30 Cassette Interface | 110 | 
| Gary Liming | 
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| Nucleus |   | 
| In This BYTE | 2 | 
| Caught By Surprise | 6 | 
| Carl Helmers | 
| Clubs, Newsletters | 48 | 
| Letters | 50 | 
| BYTE's Bugs | 54 | 
BYTE's Ooooops... Correction to "If Only Sam Morse Could See Us Now" (October 1976)
 Eugenics in Engineering - Correction to TTL inputs in July 1976 BYTE, page 100 |  
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| Ask BYTE | 56 | 
| What's New? | 60, 87 | 
Here It Is, a Builder's Eye View of the Lear Sieger "Dumb Terminal" Kit - ADM-3
 Low Priced Disk System for Altair/IMSAIs: The North Star Micro-Disk System
 DEC's LSI-11 Lexicon, Defined
 KIM Had Twins: MOS Technology's KIM-2 and KIM-3
 Attention Educators: Take a Look at the Texas Instruments Microprocessor Learning System
 Cromenco: If You Z-1, You Z Them All?
 Use a High Resolution Text Display: Matrox Electornic Systems' MYX-2480
 A System Product with Software Orientation: American Microsystems AMI 6800 microcomputer development center |  
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| About the Cover...and the Contest | 70 | 
| State of the Art Disk Technology | 86 | 
| The information in this feature is based upon materials supplied by Shugart Associates. |  
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| Software Bug of the Month 6 | 91 | 
| W. Douglas Maurer | 
| Desk Top Wonders | 92 | 
| Shooting Stars (for the SR-52 and PC-100 Printer) |  
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| Craig A. Pearce | 
| The First West Coast Computer Faire | 95 | 
| Introduction for the fair to be held at April 1977 and call for papers. |  
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| BYTE's Bits | 60, 96 | 
| DECUS Fall Meeting; Come to the Boston IC Party?; No Back BYTEs; AFIPS NCC Proceeedings Are Now Available |  
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| Kil O'Byte | 108 | 
| Book Reviews | 120 | 
| The Technical Forum: A Proposal for a Universal Prototyping Bus Structure | 128 | 
| David Washburn | 
| Programming Quickies | 132 | 
| 6800 Anti-Wipeout Procedure |  
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| BOMB | 144 | 
| Reader's Service | 144 |