Table of Contents|   | 
| Foreground |   | 
| KIMER: A KIM-1 Timer | 12 | 
| Robert W. Baker | 
| The AXIOM EX800 Printer: A User's Report | 28 | 
| R. J. Bosen | 
| The Z-80 in Parallel | 60 | 
| Bob Loewer | 
| Controlling DC Motors | 72 | 
| Robert L. Walton | 
| Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar: Build a Keyboard Function Decoder | 98 | 
| Steve Ciarcia | 
| A High Level Language for 8 Bit Machines | 152 | 
| Ted Williams | 
| How to Get Your Tarbell Going | 162 | 
| Larry Weinstein | 
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| Background |   | 
| Top-Down Modular Programming | 32 | 
| Albert D. Hearn | 
| Who's Afraid of Dynamic Memories | 42 | 
| Lane T. Hauck | 
| Antique Mechanical Computers, Part 1: Early Automata | 48 | 
| James M. Williams | 
| The First Ten Years of Amateur Computing | 64 | 
| Sol Libes | 
| A Short History of Computing | 84 | 
| Keith S. Reid-Green | 
| How to Choose a Microprocessor | 124 | 
| Louis E. Frenzel | 
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| Nucleus |   | 
| In This BYTE | 4 | 
| Editorial: Some Thoughts About Modems | 6 | 
| Carl Helmers | 
| Letters | 11 | 
| The Second West Coast Computer Faire | 16 | 
| Carl Helmers | 
| Clubs, Newsletters | 96 | 
| Languages Forum: BASIC to Assembly Language Linkage | 112 | 
| Pat Fitzgerald | 
| Technical Forum: Fooling with the Stack Pointer | 115 | 
| Tom Pittman | 
| Technical Forum: More on Varistors: A Supplier of Some Note Comments | 116 | 
| William G. Morris | 
| Book Reviews | 117 | 
| Instant Freeze-Dried Computer Programming in BASIC |  
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| Jay P. Lucas | 
| BYTE's Bits | 118 | 
Pertia Isaacson to Edit New Book Series
 Heard on a BOMB Card |  
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| BYTE's Bugs | 118 | 
DeMorgan Gets Half-Bombed (February 1978)
 Microbot Bug (April 1978) |  
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| Programming Quickies: Beating North Star-MITS Incompatibility | 119 | 
| Alan R. Miller | 
| College Sports Report | 123 | 
| Grinnell Wins Second Midwest Regional Programming Competition |  
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| Event Queue | 172 | 
| What's New? | 177 | 
| Unclassified Ads | 206 | 
| BOMB | 208 | 
| Reader Service | 208 |