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| Title | Writer(s) | Magazine | Page | Group(s) | Language(s) | Computer(s) | Notes | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3D Noughts & Crosses | Steve Thomas | PCW • May 1979 | 72 | Code Listing | BASIC | Research Machines/RML 380Z | BASIC game. | 
| 3D Noughts and Crosses | Bill Davy | PCW • Dec 1978 | 56 | Code Listing | BASIC | BASIC game. | |
| The 77-68 | Tim Moore | PCW • Feb 1978 | 16 | Article | Assember 6800 | Newbear/77-68 | The 77-68, a simple start to a large system. | 
| 8-bit Analog Input for PET | A. R. D. Rodrigues and D. P. Siddons | PCW • Jan 1979 | 54 | Code Listing | Assember 6502, BASIC | Circuit and 6502 assembler and PET BASIC code. | |
| 8080 Debug Routine | Margaret Berg | PCW • Jul 1978 | 52 | Code Listing | Assember Z80 | A debugger that can display, goto, and modify memory and set breakpoints. | |
| An Agile Algorithm | R. E. L. Ferguson | PCW • Nov 1978 | 19 | Article | Code Listing | Assember 6800 | Square root by addition. | |
| The Attaché | Martin Healey | PCW • Feb 1979 | 29 | Hardware Review | Assember 8080, BASIC | Pertec/Attache | |
| The ACT System 800 (review) | David Tebbutt | PCW • Feb 1980 | 39 | Computer Review | Assember Z80, BASIC | ACT/System 800 | |
| Acorn Atom advert | PCW • May 1980 | 65 | Advert | Acorn/Atom | |||
| Acorn Atom benchtest | Mike Dennis | PCW • Jul 1980 | 48 | Computer Review | BASIC | Acorn/Atom | |
| Acorn Computer advert for the Acron Microcomputer | PCW • Mar 1979 | 8 | Advert | Acorn/System 1 | 6502 microprocessor; 4KB ROM monitor; 1KB RAM; 25 key hex keypad; Eurocard. | ||
| Advanced Intelligence! | Bill Davy | PCW • Sep 1978 | 39 | Article | Assember 8086 | Introduction to the Intel 8086 16-bit microprocessor. | |
| Aligning the Decimal Point | Sidney A. Leleux | PCW • Nov 1978 | 26 | Code Listing | BASIC | Few lines of BASIC to align real numbers in columns. | |
| Altos ACS 8000-2 Computer benchtest | Sue Eisenbach | PCW • May 1980 | 52 | Computer Review | Altos/ACS 8000-2 | ||
| Analysing the TI-59 | Dick Pountain | PCW • Dec 1979 | 70 | Computer Review | Calculator corner focusing on programmable calculators. | ||
| Animistics | Neil Frude | PCW • Jul 1980 | 57 | Article | This chilling spectre of a future in which loneliness and depression are countered by ‘plastic pals’. | ||
| Apple II | PCW • Sep 1978 | 9 | Advert | BASIC | Apple/Apple II | £1850 48KB RAM 18KB ROM (with BASIC); voice recognition card £165; disks 116KB £395 (AppleDOS); terminal card £95; parallel printer card £100. | |
| Apple II | H. N. Dobbs | PCW • Jan 1979 | 67 | Hardware Review | Software Review | BASIC | Apple/Apple II | Apple ][ review covering integer BASIC and Applesoft [Microsoft] BASIC. | 
| Apple Medical Application | «anonymous» | PCW • Aug 1979 | 21 | Article | PCW Case Study. | ||
| AppleVision: Demonstrations using the Apple II | G. F. Filbey | PCW • Jun 1979 | 67 | Code Listing | Assember 6502, BASIC | Apple/Apple II | Using graphics to visualize simulated processes (part 1) | 
| AppleVision: Demonstrations using the Apple II | G. F. Filbey | PCW • Jul 1979 | 65 | Code Listing | Assember 6502, BASIC | Apple/Apple II | Using graphics to visualize simulated processes (part 2) | 
| Applications of Computers | David McBride | PCW • Sep 1978 | 21 | Article | (Written by a 14 year old.) | ||
| Are Small Businesses Ready to Buy? | D. R. Worsley | PCW • Apr 1979 | 35 | Article | |||
| As Per Your Instructions | Victor Nicola | PCW • Dec 1978 | 19 | Article | Understanding Instructions & Data Coding. | ||
| Assembly Code Programming for the Beginner | Stephen Collins | PCW • Oct 1978 | 41 | Code Listing | Assember 6800, CESIL | ||
| Assembly Point | J. R. Keneally | PCW • Jun 1979 | 51 | Article | Assember Z80 | Lynx Electronics/NASCOM I | How to create a NASCOM I Z80 Editor/Assembler. | 
| The Best of Byte Volume 1 | Michael James | PCW • May 1978 | 31 | Book Review | |||
| The Byte Coserver | Graham J. Trott | PCW • Feb 1979 | 49 | Code Listing | Assember 6800 | A 6800 Assembler. | |
| The Buyer Bites Back | Brian W. Haines | PCW • May 1979 | 29 | Article | An occasional look at the law. | ||
| Basic Pontoon | Guilbert Percival | PCW • Feb 1978 | 42 | Code Listing | BASIC | Card game. | |
| BASIC The First Steps | Philip Couzens | PCW • May 1978 | 20 | Article | BASIC | ||
| Beefing up the MK.14 | Tim Hawkins | PCW • Apr 1980 | 63 | Hardware Project | Science of Cambridge/MK14 | ||
| Begin.. .. End | Brian Darling | PCW • Feb 1979 | 16 | Article | A Simple Outline of Computing. | ||
| Beginner’s Gambit | R. A. Diamond | PCW • Jul 1979 | 57 | Article | BASIC | Notes on “32”~A Version of Chess. | |
| Benchmarks Again and Connections | John A. Coll | PCW • Nov 1978 | 52 | Article | PCW BASIC benchmarks for a wide variety of computers. | ||
| Betting on PET | Mike Knight | PCW • Oct 1979 | 48 | Article | Commodore/PET 2001 | How a bookmaker (betting shop) bought and used a PET computer. | |
| Binary Finery | Neil Harrison | PCW • Oct 1978 | 44 | Code Listing | Assember Z80 | Extensions to the Minmon. | |
| Book Review | Michael James | PCW • Aug 1978 | 41 | Book Review | Assember 6800 | SCELBI “6800” Software Gourmet Guide and Cookbook. | |
| Book Review | Michael James | PCW • Apr 1979 | 73 | Book Review | Microprocessor Programming for Computer Hobbyists by Neil Graham. | ||
| Book Review | Michael James | PCW • Jun 1979 | 47 | Book Review | A FORTRAN Coloring Book by Roger Emanual Kaufman. | ||
| Book Review | Michael James | PCW • Jun 1979 | 47 | Book Review | The Cheap Video Cookbook by Don Lancaster. | ||
| Book Review | Michael James | PCW • Jul 1979 | 55 | Book Review | Basic Computer Games by D. H. Ahl. | ||
| Book Review | Michael James | PCW • Jul 1979 | 55 | Book Review | Computer Models in the Social Sciences by R. B. Coats and A. Parkin. | ||
| Book Review | Michael James | PCW • Aug 1979 | 67 | Book Review | Using Computers in Physics by J. R. Merrill. | ||
| Book Reviews | PCW • Feb 1979 | 61 | Compiler Construction for Digital Computers by D. Gries; Fundamental Algorithms by D. E. Knuth; Programming Languages by Peter Wegner; Software Tools by B. W. Kernighan & P. J. Plauger; Systems Programming by J. J. Donovan; Theory & Design of Digital Computers & Logical Design of Switching Circuits by D. Lewin; The Design of Digital Systems by J. B. Peatman; Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man by Margaret Boden; Algol 60 Implementation by B. Randall & L. J. Russell. | ||||
| Book Reviews | Michael James | PCW • Mar 1979 | 61 | Book Review | An Introduction to Personal and Business Computing by Rodnay Zaks; Microprocessors — From Chips to Systems by Rodnay Zaks; BASIC for Beginners by Brian Kavanagh. | ||
| Brains v Brawn | Oliver Dixon | PCW • Dec 1978 | 45 | Article | Code Listing | BASIC | The evolution of a computer program. | |
| Brew it Yourself | Martin Lea | PCW • Jan 1980 | 58 | Hardware Project | Assember Z80 | A home-brew design for a Z80-based microcomputer. | |
| Bridge Hands Competition | Sheridan Williams | PCW • Jun 1979 | 62 | Code Listing | BASIC | Results of a competition to four Bridge hands in BASIC (out of more than 200 entries only 1 was from a female) | |
| Bugging the 6800 | John Moore | PCW • Nov 1979 | 82 | Code Listing | Assember 6800 | Newbear/77-68 | A 6800 monitor for the 77-68 system. | 
| Bus of the Century | Francis E. Cox | PCW • Sep 1978 | 54 | Article | The S100 Bus — an expansion board standard introduced by the Altair 8800 and IMSAI 8080. | ||
| Business Computing (Part 1) | Rodnay Zaks | PCW • Feb 1979 | 38 | Article | Extract from Zak’s book, An Introduction to Personal and Business Computing. | ||
| Business Computing (Part 2; conclusion) | Rodnay Zaks | PCW • Mar 1979 | 57 | Article | Extract from Zak’s book, An Introduction to Personal and Business Computing. | ||
| Buying a Computer for a Small Business | M. D. Nott | PCW • Aug 1979 | 62 | Article | |||
| Buzzwords | Peter Reynolds | PCW • Sep 1978 | 60 | Article | Computer terms glossary (‘A’ words) | ||
| Buzzwords | Peter Reynolds | PCW • Oct 1978 | 60 | Article | Computer terms glossary (‘B’ words) | ||
| Buzzwords | Peter Reynolds | PCW • Nov 1978 | 54 | Article | Computer terms glossary (‘C’ words) | ||
| Buzzwords | Peter Reynolds | PCW • Jan 1979 | 61 | Article | Computer terms glossary (‘D’ words) | ||
| Buzzwords | Peter Reynolds | PCW • Feb 1979 | 70 | Article | Computer terms glossary (‘E’ words) | ||
| Buzzwords | Peter Reynolds | PCW • Apr 1979 | 74 | Article | Computer terms glossary (‘F’ words) | ||
| Buzzwords | Peter Reynolds | PCW • Jun 1979 | 75 | Article | Computer terms glossary (‘G’ words) | ||
| Buzzwords | Peter Reynolds | PCW • Aug 1979 | 73 | Article | Computer terms glossary (‘H’ words) | ||
| Buzzwords | Peter Reynolds | PCW • Sep 1979 | 62 | Article | Computer terms glossary (‘I’ words) | ||
| Buzzwords | Peter Reynolds | PCW • Nov 1979 | 71 | Article | Computer terms glossary (‘J’, ‘K’, ‘L’ words) | ||
| Byte Basher’s Life Saver | Brian Hewart | PCW • Dec 1978 | 24 | Article | Circuit for a logic probe. | ||
| A Computer That Means Business | D. Jackman | PCW • Feb 1978 | 29 | Advertorial | Assember Z80, BASIC, Fortran | CASU Limited/SUPER C System | CASU Electronics Limited’s Small Business System. | 
| The Compleat Kit Builder | Jeff Lynch | PCW • May 1978 | 14 | Article | A generic article on how to build kit computers. | ||
| The computer is just what the doctor hasn’t ordered | Robert Johnson | PCW • May 1978 | 61 | Article | Advocacy for using personal computers for GP surgeries. | ||
| A Cosmac Microprocessor Based System | K. R. James | PCW • Jul 1978 | 22 | Article | An introduction to the RCA COSMAC CPD1802 microprocessor. | ||
| A Computer or a Kit | Michael James | PCW • Aug 1978 | 23 | Article | |||
| The Cromemco Z-2D | David Smith and Sheridan Williams | PCW • Dec 1978 | 40 | Hardware Review | Assember Z80, BASIC, Fortran | Cromemco/Z-2D | |
| The Circuit Inspector | Mike Brinson | PCW • Feb 1979 | 63 | Article | Code Listing | BASIC | MICRODC circuit design aid in BASIC plus supporting circuit. | |
| The Complete Pascal | Chris Sadler and Sue Eisenbach | PCW • Sep 1979 | 54 | Language Article | Pascal | Introduction to Pascal (part 1 of 10) | |
| The Complete Pascal | Chris Sadler and Sue Eisenbach | PCW • Oct 1979 | 74 | Language Article | Pascal | Introduction to Pascal (part 2 of 10) | |
| The Complete Pascal | Chris Sadler and Sue Eisenbach | PCW • Nov 1979 | 72 | Language Article | Pascal | Introduction to Pascal (part 3 of 10) | |
| The Complete Pascal | Chris Sadler and Sue Eisenbach | PCW • Dec 1979 | 52 | Language Article | Pascal | Introduction to Pascal (part 4 of 10) | |
| The Complete Pascal | Chris Sadler and Sue Eisenbach | PCW • Jan 1980 | 74 | Language Article | Pascal | Introduction to Pascal (part 5 of 10) | |
| The Complete Pascal | Chris Sadler and Sue Eisenbach | PCW • Feb 1980 | 80 | Language Article | Pascal | Introduction to Pascal (part 6 of 10) | |
| The Complete Pascal | Chris Sadler and Sue Eisenbach | PCW • Mar 1980 | 68 | Language Article | Pascal | Introduction to Pascal (part 7 of 10) | |
| The Complete Pascal | Chris Sadler and Sue Eisenbach | PCW • Apr 1980 | 93 | Language Article | Pascal | Introduction to Pascal (part 8 of 10) | |
| The Complete Pascal | Chris Sadler and Sue Eisenbach | PCW • May 1980 | 92 | Language Article | Pascal | Introduction to Pascal (part 9 of 10) | |
| The Complete Pascal | Chris Sadler and Sue Eisenbach | PCW • Jun 1980 | 84 | Language Article | Pascal | Introduction to Pascal (part 10 of 10) | |
| Challenger C2-4P | Mike Dennis | PCW • Apr 1980 | 42 | Code Listing | BASIC | Challenger/C2-4P | |
| Challenger C3-S1 (review) | Julian Allason and Sue Eisenbach | PCW • Nov 1979 | 48 | Article | Computer Review | Challenger/C3-S1 | ||
| Checkmate | Francis Best | PCW • Apr 1979 | 55 | Article | Code Listing | BASIC | A computer program for playing a chess ending. (ICL 1903; BASIC; by an 18 year old) | |
| Chess Programming: Before You Begin | David Levy | PCW • May 1979 | 25 | Article | |||
| Colossus: Alan Turing and the Stored Program | B. D. Price | PCW • Dec 1978 | 32 | Article | |||
| Colour is an Apple II | Charles Sweeten and John A. Coll | PCW • Aug 1978 | 50 | Code Listing | Hardware Review | BASIC | Apple/Apple II | PCW Review. | 
| Commodore PET | PCW • Jan 1979 | 18 | Advert | BASIC | Advert for 8KB RAM PET with chiclet keyboard and built-in monitor and cassette deck. | ||
| Commodore’s Approach to Computing | Kit Spencer | PCW • May 1978 | 32 | Advertorial | |||
| Compare | John A. Coll | PCW • Dec 1978 | 52 | Code Listing | Assember 6800 | Compare a file on disk with one in memory. [Unspecified assember; 6800 assumed.] | |
| Compucolor II Benchtest | Stephen Withers and Sue Eisenbach | PCW • Sep 1979 | 36 | Computer Review | Hardware Review | Assember 8080 | Apple/Apple II, Compucolor Corporation/Compucolor II | |
| Computer Games | David Levy | PCW • Jan 1980 | 66 | Article | Article #1 on the principles behind programming computers to play games. | ||
| Computer Games: And Then There Were Two | David Levy | PCW • Feb 1980 | 69 | Article | Article #2 on the principles behind programming computers to play games. | ||
| Computer Games: Guessing the Odds | David Levy | PCW • Jun 1980 | 94 | Article | Article #6 on the principles behind programming computers to play games. | ||
| Computer Games: More Complex Evaluation Functions | David Levy | PCW • May 1980 | 80 | Article | Article #5 on the principles behind programming computers to play games. | ||
| Computer Games: Pruning Big Trees | David Levy | PCW • Mar 1980 | 85 | Article | Article #3 on the principles behind programming computers to play games. | ||
| Computer Games: Speeding-Up the Search | David Levy | PCW • Apr 1980 | 79 | Article | Article #4 on the principles behind programming computers to play games. | ||
| Computer in the Classroom | Charles Sweeten | PCW • May 1978 | 58 | Article | BASIC | Teaching packages (BASIC) | |
| Computer Languages | G. J. Marshall | PCW • Jun 1979 | 21 | Article | The Multilingual Machine. | ||
| Computers and Art | Brian Reffin Smith | PCW • Dec 1978 | 27 | Article | Code Listing | BASIC | ||
| Computing and Deafness | T. J. Allen | PCW • Jul 1978 | 74 | Article | Using microcomputers in the education of deaf children. | ||
| Computing for Everybody | Magnus Magnusson | PCW • Aug 1978 | 58 | Article | Encouragement to buy and use personal computers. | ||
| Computing in the Primary School | Derrick R. Daines | PCW • Oct 1978 | 22 | Article | |||
| Concepts of Programming | Barry G. Woolland | PCW • Jan 1979 | 12 | Article | |||
| Cromemco System 3 Benchtest | Sue Eisenbach | PCW • Oct 1979 | 38 | Computer Review | Assember Z80 | Cromemco/System 3 | |
| Cutting the World Down to Size | Werner Sieber | PCW • Feb 1978 | 59 | Article | Computer modelling. | ||
| A Day in the Life of a Retail Computer Store Circa 1981 | Andrew Stephenson and Tim Moore | PCW • Jul 1978 | 14 | Article | |||
| D to A Converter | John A. Coll | PCW • Jul 1979 | 35 | Hardware Project | |||
| DDE SPC/1 benchtest | Sue Eisenbach | PCW • Jul 1980 | 53 | Computer Review | Comal, Pascal | Dansk Data Elektronik/Digital Data Electronics Ltd/SPC/1 | |
| Debate of Dinosaurs | Hugh Price | PCW • Apr 1979 | 17 | Article | Impressions of three different “computers in medicine” conferences held in 1978. | ||
| Decimal Hexadecimal Binnary Conversion Table | L. F. Heller | PCW • Jan 1979 | 29 | Article | [“Binnary” is misspelt in the title.] | ||
| Dexterous Displays | Tyrone Crudis | PCW • Oct 1979 | 52 | Article | BASIC | Commodore/PET 2001, Exidy/Sorcerer | Guide to Better Games Graphics using the game of HEX or HEXPAWN. | 
| Direct Addressing: Where to get your Personal Computer | John A. Coll | PCW • Feb 1978 | 55 | Article | A look at hardware and software. Includes the first PCW benchmarks. | ||
| Do we want our Schools to be Personal or Terminal? | Charles Sweeten | PCW • Feb 1978 | 52 | Article | About MUSE an educational organisation for the use of computers in education. | ||
| Do we want our schools to have a Personal Problem? | Mick Coleman | PCW • Sep 1978 | 22 | Article | Advocating the use of microcomputers in schoools. | ||
| Dr. Quy and his Research Machines Computer | David Bannister | PCW • Apr 1979 | 37 | Article | Research Machines/RML 380Z | A National Hospital’s Institute of Neurology Research Fellow uses a Research Machines 380Z to monitor brain and heart activity in patients with certain types of epilepsy. | |
| DrawPic: Taking the sweat out of Computer Graphics | A. O. Ellefsen | PCW • Feb 1979 | 44 | Code Listing | BASIC | Tandy Corporation/TRS-80 Model I | TRS-80 Level II BASIC graphics program. | 
| The Elegant Minmon | Neil Harrison | PCW • Feb 1978 | 26 | Code Listing | Assember Z80 | Z80 minimum monitor. | |
| The Entrepreneurs | PCW • May 1978 | 42 | Interview | SWTP/6800 | Interview of John Burnett and Gordon Ashbee of Computer Workshop; computer shop selling the SWTPC 6800. | ||
| An Early Steam Computer | Eric Finlay | PCW • Apr 1979 | 19 | Article | Describes a homebrew sound to drawing (digital–analog) machine. | ||
| The Everiss Express | PCW • Jun 1979 | 33 | Interview | A PCW Conversation. | |||
| E78 The Europa Bus | Bob Cottis and Dave Howland and Pat Crowe | PCW • May 1978 | 69 | Article | A microprocessor bus specification for EuroCard. | ||
| Easier Communication for the Disabled | A. R. Berry | PCW • Apr 1980 | 50 | Hardware Review | Review of the Electraid 5602. | ||
| Encode-Decode | R. Seabrook | PCW • Mar 1979 | 29 | Code Listing | Casio calculator | Casio FX201P program to encode and decode values. | |
| ESP: Psychic Perception—Or Deception? | Tyrone Crudis | PCW • Sep 1979 | 48 | Code Listing | BASIC | A BASIC program for ESP testing. | |
| Evolutionary Programming | Dr. David J. Hand | PCW • Apr 1979 | 45 | Article | An intelligent answer? | ||
| Exatron Stringy Floppy | Thomas Murphy | PCW • Jun 1980 | 90 | Hardware Review | A form of storage that aims to be faster than cassettes and cheaper than disc drives. | ||
| Exidy Sorcerer | PCW • Nov 1978 | 71 | Advert | Assember Z80 | Exidy/Sorcerer | ||
| Exidy Sorcerer | PCW • Jun 1979 | 58 | Advert | Exidy/Sorcerer | Advert: 8KB RAM £650; 16KB £760; 32KB £859; 5¼" 143KB floppy drive £500; 630KB dual floppy drives £1,200; S100 bus £210; VDU £240; Dev Pack £70; Word Processor £70; Manual £8.95; 16KB RAM expansion £110. | ||
| Exidy Sorcerer Owner’s Report | Valerie A. Downes | PCW • Jul 1979 | 23 | Computer Review | BASIC | Exidy/Sorcerer | |
| Exploit or Cultivate? | Guy Kewney | PCW • May 1978 | 30 | Article | Comment on the personal computer business. | ||
| A First Course | Robert Henley | PCW • Sep 1978 | 30 | Article | Bits and Bytes: binary numbers. | ||
| A Filling Routine | John A. Coll | PCW • Sep 1978 | 44 | Code Listing | Assember 6800 | Assembler routine to fill a block of memory with a specified byte [does not specify which CPU; looks like 6800] | |
| the Faces Behind the Places | PCW • Apr 1979 | 13 | Article | Photographs by Yoshi Imamura of those involved in early microcomputer businesses (including Bruce Everiss). [Starting “the” is how the title is written.] | |||
| the Faces Behind the Places | PCW • May 1979 | 15 | Article | Photographs by Yoshi Imamura of those involved in early microcomputer businesses (including Bruce Everiss). [Starting “the” is how the title is written.] | |||
| the Faces Behind the Places | PCW • Jun 1979 | 17 | Article | Photographs by Yoshi Imamura of those involved in early microcomputer businesses. | |||
| Fanfare for the BCS | (Dame) Steve Shirley | PCW • Feb 1980 | 47 | Article | The British Computing Society. | ||
| Faster, More Efficient Programs | Sheridan Williams | PCW • Jul 1978 | 11 | Article | BASIC | ||
| Fifth West Coast Computer Faire | David Tebbutt | PCW • May 1980 | 71 | Article | |||
| Flowchart Your Way Out of Trouble | Guilbert Percival and V. S. Nicola | PCW • Feb 1978 | 39 | Article | An introduction to flowcharting. | ||
| Forging Links with the Outside World | Allan Mills and K. T. Kibase | PCW • Feb 1980 | 78 | Article | The design and “connective abilities” of the IEEE 488 bus. | ||
| Four Easy Pieces | Neil Harrison | PCW • May 1978 | 54 | Article | Assember Z80 | A pseudo-random number generator circuit; a potentiometer input circuit; an 8 by 8 bit multiply routine for the Z80; extra Z80 instructions. | |
| Friends and Enemies | David Hebditch | PCW • Jul 1980 | 70 | Article | First in a series about “incompetence at the human interface”. | ||
| From Alpha to Omega: Word processing | Charles Sweeten | PCW • Feb 1979 | 34 | Article | SWTP/6800 | Using an SWTP 6800-based system. | |
| From Ideas to Programmes | PCW • Aug 1978 | 22 | Article | General ideas about programming [US “program” spelling not yet adopted] | |||
| The Gates of Reason | Michael Whitney | PCW • Feb 1978 | 32 | Article | An Introduction to Computer Logic (part I) | ||
| The Gingerbread Man’s Computer | Colin Chatfield | PCW • Feb 1978 | 37 | Article | BASIC | Experience report on computerizing holiday bookings for a charity. | |
| The Gates of Reason | Patrick Sutton | PCW • Jul 1978 | 16 | Article | An Introduction to Computer Logic (part II) | ||
| A Guided Tour of the Z80 | Neil Harrison | PCW • Jul 1978 | 48 | Article | Assember Z80 | ||
| Garage Accounting Program | W. H. Davies | PCW • Aug 1979 | 55 | Code Listing | BASIC | Tandy Corporation/TRS-80 Model I | |
| Gateways To Logic | Derrick R. Daines | PCW • Jul 1980 | 64 | Article | Part 1. | ||
| Getting in the Swim | PCW • Jul 1979 | 51 | System monitor for the 6800. | ||||
| Getting into Neighbourhood Consultancy | David Francis | PCW • Aug 1978 | 16 | Article | You Have a Computer Use It! | ||
| Getting It Together | Mike Banahan | PCW • Aug 1978 | 39 | Article | Assember Z80 | Assembly language and assemblers. | |
| Getting It Together | Mike Banahan | PCW • Sep 1978 | 32 | Article | Assember Z80 | Build your own assember (part 2) | |
| Getting It Together | Mike Banahan | PCW • Oct 1978 | 55 | Article | Assember Z80 | Build your own assember (part 3) | |
| Getting It Together | Mike Banahan | PCW • Nov 1978 | 27 | Article | Assember Z80 | Build your own assember (listing only; part 4) | |
| Getting It Together | Mike Banahan | PCW • Jan 1979 | 30 | Article | Assember Z80 | Build your own assember (listing only; part 5) | |
| Getting It Together | Mike Banahan | PCW • Feb 1979 | 64 | Article | Assember Z80 | Build your own assember (listing only; part 6—concluded) | |
| Give Him a Mickie | Hugh Price | PCW • Jan 1979 | 34 | Article | Companion article to “Meet Mickie: The Well Mannered Micro” from Dec 1978. | ||
| Give Us this Day Our Business Processor | Mark Fillingham | PCW • Aug 1979 | 63 | Article | Article about choosing “best buy” computer systems. | ||
| The Hard Keyboard | W. McIvor | PCW • Sep 1978 | 46 | Article | Hex keyboard circuit. | ||
| A High Speed Cassette Interface | Bob Cottis and Mike Blandford | PCW • Dec 1978 | 64 | Article | Cassette interface circuit. | ||
| Hangman | Mike Dennis | PCW • Aug 1978 | 35 | Code Listing | Assember 8080, Assember Z80 | Game. | |
| Hard Copy at a Soft Price | Tim Steele | PCW • May 1980 | 77 | Hardware Project | How to turn a teleprinter into a cheap computer printer. | ||
| Hard Times: Winchester discs-secure or not? | David A. Broad | PCW • Nov 1979 | 92 | Article | |||
| Heath WH-89 (review) | David Tebbutt | PCW • Feb 1980 | 48 | Computer Review | BASIC | Heath/WH-89 | |
| Hello Z8000 | David Goadby and Mike Lord | PCW • Jul 1979 | 47 | Article | Hardware Review | Assember 6800, Assember Z8000 | ||
| Heuristics Speechlab | PCW • Sep 1979 | 43 | Review of a plug-in voice input device (board plus mic) for the Apple II. | ||||
| Hewlett-Packard 41C Calculator (review) | PCW • Oct 1979 | 66 | Computer Review | ||||
| Hexadecimal Conversion | David Simpson | PCW • Jan 1979 | 27 | Code Listing | BASIC | BASIC program to convert to/from decimal/hexadecimal. | |
| High-Speed Software Cassette Interface for the SWTP 6800 System | David R. Isaac | PCW • Aug 1979 | 39 | Code Listing | Assember 6800 | SWTP/6800 | |
| Hints for the Business Beginner | David Hebditch | PCW • Dec 1978 | 38 | Article | How to choose a small business system. | ||
| How Not To Crumb Up Your Breadboard | A. T. Richter | PCW • Feb 1978 | 19 | Article | A practical introduction to assembling electronic kits. | ||
| How to Control Your BASIC Functions | Christopher Smith | PCW • Nov 1978 | 33 | Article | BASIC | Ideas and code snippets regarding input/output usability. | |
| How to Enter Computer Programming | George Penney | PCW • Nov 1978 | 35 | Article | How to become a programmer via an HND (Higher National Diploma) for those without the A level grades to do a degree. [In the 1960s-1980s anyone with the ability could do a degree since grants were available and sufficient for those from poor families.] | ||
| How to find out throught Libraries | Mark O’Connor | PCW • Jul 1978 | 70 | Article | An introduction to using [book] libraries for research. | ||
| HP 41C: Alpha and omega of programmables? | Dick Pountain | PCW • Apr 1980 | 98 | Computer Review | Calculator review. | ||
| HP-85 Computer benchtest | Guy Kewney | PCW • May 1980 | 57 | Computer Review | BASIC | Hewlett Packard/HP-85 | |
| An Introduction to Microcomputers | Michael James | PCW • Nov 1978 | 42 | Book Review | Volume 1 Basic Concepts by Adam Osborne. | ||
| I Love Computers, But… | Chris Howland | PCW • Aug 1979 | 17 | Article | The not So private Computer. | ||
| Illustrating BASIC | PCW • Jul 1978 | 76 | Book Review | ||||
| IMPHEX = HEX + AI² | Tyrone Crudis | PCW • Apr 1980 | 72 | Article | BASIC | An improved version of Hex, the artificial intelligence game [see also “Dexterous Displays” October 1979] | |
| In Praise of the PDP-11 | Mike Lord | PCW • Jul 1978 | 26 | Hardware Review | An introduction to the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-11 minicomputer. | ||
| In Praise of the PDP-11 (part 2) | Mike Lord | PCW • Sep 1978 | 35 | Hardware Review | An introduction to the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-11 minicomputer. | ||
| In which Language should I program my Microcomputer? | Martin Beer | PCW • Jul 1979 | 20 | Article | BASIC, Pascal | A comparison between BASIC and Pascal. | |
| Interrupt | PCW • Jan 1980 | 64 | Article | An abridged version of the talk given by Lord Avebury at the University of Sussex, November 1st, 1979. | |||
| It’s the Thought That Counts | W. V. Ringer | PCW • Aug 1978 | 14 | Article | About humans as creative and created vs. computers. | ||
| I’m a Micro-Computer Widow | Linda A. Grand | PCW • Jul 1978 | 42 | Article | |||
| The Janus Interface: A PET Software UA(R)T | Peter Mather | PCW • Feb 1979 | 23 | Code Listing | BASIC | Circuit and BASIC program to print data and programs from cassette. | |
| Johann Sebastian Byte | Michael Inggs | PCW • Jul 1978 | 34 | Code Listing | BASIC | A BASIC program to play tunes based on sheet music. | |
| Just the Job | David Tebbutt | PCW • Jun 1980 | 64 | Article | Installing a Compucolor II computer system. | ||
| The KIM-1 Evaluation Unit | C. Corbett | PCW • Aug 1978 | 24 | Hardware Review | MOS Technology Inc./KIM-1 | ||
| Keeping an Orderly House | A. Clements | PCW • Nov 1978 | 60 | Article | Code Listing | Assember 6800 | Monitors for Microprocessors. | |
| Kim 3B and 4: the Kim addtions | Jim Morris | PCW • Apr 1979 | 21 | Hardware Review | MOS Technology Inc./KIM-1 | Review of two Commodore Kim-1 add-ons. | |
| The Little Symposium That Grew | Mike Dennis | PCW • Feb 1978 | 24 | Article | Lynx Electronics/NASCOM I | Lynx home microcomputer symposium. | |
| A Legion of Entries | Sheridan Williams | PCW • Jan 1979 | 37 | Article | BASIC | Roman numerals competition results. | |
| The Learn Machine | Richard Hooper | PCW • Apr 1979 | 43 | Article | Using microcomputers for teaching. | ||
| Learning Geography with a Computer | John D. Lee and Timothy D. Lee | PCW • Nov 1978 | 37 | Code Listing | BASIC | A BASIC quiz program to test geographical knowledge. | |
| Luxor ABC-80 (review) | Sue Eisenbach | PCW • Jan 1980 | 43 | Computer Review | BASIC | Luxor/ABC-80 | |
| The MK14 | Nick Toop | PCW • May 1978 | 10 | Hardware Review | Assember SC/MP | Science of Cambridge/MK14 | |
| The Mystery of the Lost Computer | Harry Harrison | PCW • May 1978 | 28 | Article | Mechanical computers such as the WWII era Sperry K-3 Automatic Computing [gun] Sight. | ||
| The Micro is a Many 5plendoured Thing | Leslie Solomon | PCW • Oct 1978 | 15 | Article | Microcomputer uses. | ||
| The Micro Muse | Eric Finlay | PCW • Nov 1978 | 13 | Article | Code Listing | Assember SC/MP | Kinetic poetry in SC/MP assember. | |
| The Micro Muse | Eric Finlay | PCW • Dec 1978 | 26 | Article | Code Listing | Assember SC/MP | Background to Micro-Poetry 2. | |
| The Micro Muse | Eric Finlay | PCW • Jan 1979 | 25 | Article | Code Listing | Assember SC/MP | Background to Micro-Poetry 3. | |
| The MSI 6800 System One | Stuart Danton | PCW • Jun 1979 | 35 | Hardware Review | Assember 6800 | S.E.E.D./MSI 6800 System One | |
| The Memory Lingers On | John A. Stephenson and Malcolm Peltu | PCW • Sep 1979 | 52 | Book Review | Hardware Project | Assember SC/MP | Science of Cambridge/MK14 | Hardware and software project for programming 2708 and 2716 PROMS (part 1) | 
| The Micromation Z-Plus | Sue Eisenbach | PCW • Dec 1979 | 42 | Computer Review | Micromation/Z-Plus | ||
| The Mighty Micro Man | Malcolm Peltu | PCW • Jan 1980 | 73 | Article | A tribute to Dr Christopher Evans, author of “The Mighty Micro”. | ||
| The Memory Lingers On | John A. Stephenson | PCW • Mar 1980 | 94 | Hardware Project | Assember SC/MP | Science of Cambridge/MK14 | Hardware and software project for programming 2708 and 2716 PROMS (part 2) | 
| Macronoia | Graham Addis | PCW • Mar 1980 | 59 | Code Listing | BASIC | Commodore/PET 2001 | Macroeconomic modelling using PET BASIC. | 
| Magic Squares Competition | Sheridan Williams | PCW • Jun 1979 | 65 | ||||
| Making a Splash | F. Heathman | PCW • Jul 1978 | 66 | Article | Compute Your Football Pools Entry. | ||
| May I Interrupt | Mike Dennis | PCW • Jun 1980 | 60 | Code Listing | Hardware Project | Assember Z80 | Lynx Electronics/NASCOM I | Using interrupts with a PIO on a Nascom computer. | 
| Meet Mickie: The Well Mannered Micro | Nigel Bevan | PCW • Dec 1978 | 34 | Article | Code Listing | Hardware Review | BASIC | A medical interviewing computer. | |
| Micro Astrology: Modern Technology Meets the Second Oldest Profession | Roger Elliot | PCW • Feb 1980 | 60 | Article | Article by a man who runs a computerised horoscope service from home. | ||
| Microcomputer Architecture | Patrick Sutton | PCW • Dec 1978 | 16 | Article | |||
| Microcomputers and Mental Health | John A. Rope | PCW • Sep 1978 | 57 | Article | Using microcomputers to support mental health service professionals. | ||
| Microdata UV8 EPROM Eraser | John Moore | PCW • May 1980 | 76 | Hardware Review | |||
| Microprocessor Interfacing Techniques | Michael James | PCW • Jan 1979 | 52 | Book Review | (Second Edition) Sybex by A. Lesea, R. Zaks. | ||
| Micros and Small Businesses | D. R. Worsley | PCW • May 1979 | 51 | Article | |||
| Micros for Companies | Richard R. Waller | PCW • Jul 1978 | 32 | Advertorial | COBOL | CAP MicroSoft Ltd. [Unrelated to Micro-Soft] | |
| Micros in Control | Allan Mills and K. T. Kibase | PCW • Jun 1980 | 105 | Article | Using microcomputers for real-time tasks. | ||
| Minefield | Scott Bell and Simon Dowson | PCW • Mar 1979 | 64 | Code Listing | BASIC | BASIC game. | |
| Minotaur | John D. Lee and Timothy D. Lee | PCW • Oct 1978 | 28 | Code Listing | BASIC | Game in BASIC. | |
| Missionary Job | John M. Anderson | PCW • Feb 1978 | 47 | Article | The conversion of IBM 73 Series I/O writers. | ||
| More on the 8086 | T. M. Dixon | PCW • Feb 1979 | 25 | Article | Assember 8086 | ||
| Mortgages: Can You Afford One? | John D. Lee and Timothy D. Lee | PCW • Apr 1979 | 63 | Code Listing | BASIC | BASIC program to calculate monthly payments, loan life, interest rate or amount borrowed. | |
| Motorola D2 Kit | PCW • Sep 1978 | 2 | Advert | Assember 6800 | 6800 development kit £175; 6800 editor/assember £19.90. | ||
| Motorola on Sixteen Cylinders | Graham J. Trott | PCW • Mar 1979 | 35 | Article | Assember 6809 | Introduction to the Motorola 6809 microprocessor. | |
| Mugs Away: A Computer Darts Trainer | Sheridan Williams | PCW • May 1979 | 67 | Code Listing | BASIC | Research Machines/RML 380Z | BASIC game. | 
| The North Star Horizon | Martin Healey and Mike Rees and Paul Woodward | PCW • Aug 1979 | 23 | Hardware Review | Assember Z80 | North Star Computers/Horizon | |
| Nascom I Z80 Microcomputer Kit | PCW • Aug 1978 | 7 | Advert | £197.50. | |||
| NASCOM I: Breaking the Soft Barrier | Alan Secker | PCW • Apr 1979 | 26 | Article | Assember Z80 | Lynx Electronics/NASCOM I | Ideas on NASCOM I Z80 programming. | 
| Network | L. K. Darnton | PCW • Mar 1979 | 37 | Article | Computer networking all the way up to multi-national networks. | ||
| North Star Horizon | PCW • Sep 1978 | 6 | Advert | Assember Z80 | North Star Computers/Horizon | ||
| On the Line | David Hebditch | PCW • Jan 1979 | 48 | Article | Telecommuting. | ||
| On the Line | David Hebditch | PCW • Feb 1979 | 33 | Article | Telecommunications Future. | ||
| On the Line | David Hebditch | PCW • Mar 1979 | 55 | Article | Down to Basics: Line Signalling. | ||
| On the Line | David Hebditch | PCW • Apr 1979 | 49 | Article | Down to Basics: Timing and Synchronism. | ||
| On the Line | David Hebditch | PCW • May 1979 | 47 | Article | Communications Interfaces. | ||
| On the Line | David Hebditch | PCW • Jul 1979 | 31 | Article | Communications I/O. | ||
| On the Line | David Hebditch | PCW • Sep 1979 | 69 | Article | Data link controls (part 1) | ||
| On the Line | David Hebditch | PCW • Oct 1979 | 57 | Article | Data link controls (part 2) | ||
| On the Line | David Hebditch | PCW • Nov 1979 | 89 | Article | High-Level Protocols. | ||
| On the Line | David Hebditch | PCW • Jan 1980 | 54 | Article | The Post Office connection (part 1) | ||
| On the Line | David Hebditch | PCW • Feb 1980 | 73 | Article | The Post Office connection (part 2) | ||
| On the Line | David Hebditch | PCW • Mar 1980 | 80 | Article | End of transmission (concluding article) | ||
| On Your Mark, Get Set: MK14 Diagnostic Program | Clifford Clark | PCW • May 1979 | 23 | Code Listing | Assember SC/MP | Science of Cambridge/MK14 | |
| On Your Mark, Get Set: MK14 Random Number Generator | Clifford Clark | PCW • Aug 1979 | 35 | Code Listing | Assember SC/MP | Science of Cambridge/MK14 | |
| On Your Mark, Get Set: Using the MK14 | Clifford Clark | PCW • Mar 1979 | 25 | Hardware Review | Assember SC/MP | Science of Cambridge/MK14 | |
| Options for a beginner in business computing | John Burnet | PCW • Dec 1978 | 39 | Article | |||
| Owner’s Report: In Defense of PET | Tyrone Crudis | PCW • May 1979 | 42 | Article | Code Listing | BASIC | ||
| Owner’s Report: The TRS-80 | A. J. Harding | PCW • Aug 1978 | 44 | Hardware Review | BASIC | Tandy Corporation/TRS-80 Model I | |
| The Power of Positive Tabling | R. W. Davy | PCW • Nov 1978 | 45 | Article | Using decision tables and flowcharts to design process control software. | ||
| The Poor Man’s Printer | Phil Cornes | PCW • Dec 1978 | 59 | Article | Circuit and other hardware to use a Type 7 Teleprinter as a microcomputer printer. | ||
| A Program for the Z8O for producing hard copy on a Creed 7B page printer | R. J. Chance | PCW • Apr 1979 | 76 | Code Listing | Assember Z80 | ||
| The Programmed Punter | Dr. M. R. J. Morgan | PCW • Jul 1979 | 70 | Code Listing | BASIC | PERMS: A BASIC Computer Program for the Betting Man. | |
| Panasonic JD-700U | Sue Eisenbach | PCW • Mar 1980 | 43 | Computer Review | BASIC | Panasonic/JD-700U | |
| Parkinson’s REVAS | D. W. Parkinson | PCW • May 1979 | 59 | Article | Code Listing | Assember Z80 | Lynx Electronics/NASCOM I | Z80 reverse assember (disassember) program (part 1) | 
| Parkinson’s REVAS | D. W. Parkinson | PCW • Jun 1979 | 55 | Code Listing | Assember Z80 | Lynx Electronics/NASCOM I | Z80 reverse assember (disassember) program (part 2) | 
| Parkinson’s REVAS | D. W. Parkinson | PCW • Jul 1979 | 74 | Code Listing | Assember Z80 | Lynx Electronics/NASCOM I | Z80 reverse assember (disassember) program (part 3) | 
| Parkinson’s REVAS | D. W. Parkinson | PCW • Aug 1979 | 67 | Code Listing | Assember Z80 | Lynx Electronics/NASCOM I | Z80 reverse assember (disassember) program (part 4) | 
| Past Procession | Guy Kewney | PCW • Feb 1978 | 14 | Article | A look at the history of computing. | ||
| Pattern Recognition: The Ultimate Interface | Dr. David J. Hand | PCW • Jul 1978 | 62 | Article | |||
| PCW Case Study | Boris Sedacca | PCW • May 1978 | 38 | Hardware Review | BASIC | EXTEL/Microfile | Experience report on buying an EXTEL Microfile system and writing custom business applications in BASIC. | 
| PCW Microcomputer Chess Championship | David Levy | PCW • Nov 1978 | 15 | Article | |||
| PCW Small Business Case Study | Boris Sedacca | PCW • Oct 1978 | 48 | Article | BASIC | Brian Crank Associates, technical public relations using Altair 8800B 40KB RAM, twin 5¼" North Star floppy disks, daisywheel printer, TV, cassette deck (~£7000) | |
| Personal Experience | G. D. Hayes | PCW • Nov 1978 | 57 | Article | Experience of an IBM 360 and 370 user who builds the ACC (Amateur Computer Club) designed WB-1 microcomputer. | ||
| Personal Experience | Chris Ward | PCW • Jan 1979 | 17 | Article | A journalist who became a personal computer enthusiast. | ||
| Personal Experience: Programming for Pleasure | David McBreen | PCW • Mar 1979 | 51 | Article | |||
| Personal Power is Here | J. H. Miller-Kirkpatrick | PCW • Feb 1978 | 12 | Article | Personal Computers in 1978. | ||
| PET 2001 Review | John A. Coll | PCW • May 1978 | 44 | Hardware Review | BASIC | Commodore/PET 2001 | Really a preview: no price or specification given; mostly covers the built-in BASIC. | 
| PET Backgammon game | J. Aughton | PCW • May 1980 | 132 | Code Listing | BASIC | Commodore/PET 2001 | A BASIC program listing in the “Programs” section. | 
| PET Preening | Gordon Bell | PCW • Oct 1978 | 54 | Code Listing | BASIC | BASIC two-liner (using POKE, INT, RND, GOTO) to generate patterns. | |
| PET Preening | Gordon Bell | PCW • Feb 1979 | 43 | Code Listing | BASIC | Using a PET (which has a real-time clock) as a timer. | |
| Pet Preening | Rupert Steele | PCW • Jul 1979 | 59 | Code Listing | BASIC | Playing Snap on your PET. | |
| PET Printer Pep-Up | J. C. Moore | PCW • May 1980 | 91 | Code Listing | Assember 6502, BASIC | Commodore/PET 2001 | Printing upper- and lower-case letters on a printer. | 
| PET Program Supermarket | PCW • Mar 1979 | 6 | Advert | Advert for official Petsoft business and game software £6.00–£49.50. | |||
| PILOT Flies Across the Atlantic | John A. Coll | PCW • Oct 1978 | 19 | Article | Code Listing | PILOT | Introduction to the PILOT (Programmed Inquiry Learning Or Teaching) language — a text handling language. | |
| Plan for a Plotter | R. I. Elliott | PCW • Nov 1978 | 49 | Article | Code Listing | BASIC | Circuit diagram and few lines of BASIC to interface a PET to a plotter. | |
| Play On: Computer Music | Paul M. Jessop | PCW • Jan 1979 | 21 | Article | Some Thoughts on Data Storage. | ||
| Polytechnical Processing | Phillip Lawton | PCW • Jun 1979 | 29 | Article | Computer, Students, Teachers in Leicester Polytechnic. | ||
| Power Supplies Explained | C. E. Collingham | PCW • Jun 1980 | 75 | Article | |||
| Power to the People | W. V. Ringer | PCW • May 1978 | 8 | Article | A view of personal computers and their possible effects on us. | ||
| Powering-Up The Post | David Hebditch | PCW • May 1980 | 60 | Article | About postal mail vs. telex vs. email, and about modems. | ||
| Practicing a little Micro-control | Mike Dennis | PCW • Jul 1979 | 37 | Article | Assember Z80 | Z80 control signals. | |
| Precisely Speaking | Sheridan Williams | PCW • Sep 1978 | 19 | Article | Discusses errors and inaccuracies in working with floating-point numbers. | ||
| Prestel Report | Dr. Adrian Stokes | PCW • Jun 1980 | 59 | Article | |||
| Prime Numbers Competition | Sheridan Williams | PCW • Nov 1978 | 21 | Article | Code Listing | BASIC | ||
| Programming - The Simple Approach | Mervyn J. Axson | PCW • Mar 1980 | 76 | Code Listing | BASIC | A gentle introduction to writing “real” programs in BASIC. | |
| Programming: A Personal Approach | Stephen Holden | PCW • Jul 1978 | 29 | Code Listing | BASIC | A record searching program. | |
| Programs | PCW • Sep 1979 | 71 | Code Listing | Assember 6800, BASIC | Review of Spaceship game for Casio fx201-P calculator; Memory Game in Applie II BASIC; Acronyms program in BASIC; Digital clock in PET BASIC; Orbital simulation in BASIC; A limited time response subroutine in 6800 assembler. | ||
| Pseudo Random Number Generator for Programmable Calculators | Clifford Clark | PCW • Jul 1978 | 47 | Article | |||
| Publishing and the Damned | John Kemp | PCW • May 1979 | 17 | Article | The changeover from printer machine operators (e.g., linotype) to computer-based typesetting. | ||
| Punch Lines | Mark Colton | PCW • Jul 1978 | 59 | Article | Assember 6800 | Interfacing a Westrex Punch to a 6800 mpu System. | |
| Punchlines | Mark Colton | PCW • Jan 1979 | 65 | Article | Assember 6800 | Interfacing a Westrex Punch to a 6800 mpu System. [Continued.] | |
| Putting Bits in their Place | David Goadby | PCW • Jul 1978 | 56 | Article | A simple 2708 Programmer (hardware project) | ||
| Puzzle Dazzle No. 1: The Undazzles | Neil Harrison | PCW • Jun 1979 | 61 | Code Listing | Assember 8080 | Results of a competition to create an 8080 program to set every byte in a 64K RAM memory to 0. | |
| The Resourceful Disassembler | John A. Coll | PCW • Apr 1979 | 29 | Software Review | Assember 6800 | A Labelling Disassembler. | |
| The Reader’s Dilemma | Sheridan Williams | PCW • Aug 1979 | 57 | Article | Commodore/PET 2001, North Star Computers/Horizon, Vector Graphics/MZ | A reader writes asking for advice on buying a system and gets a considered reply from a PCW staff writer. | |
| R. O. M. Factor | J. Gregory | PCW • Aug 1978 | 18 | Fiction | Story about someone yearning to buy a personal computer. | ||
| Random Writings | Michael James | PCW • Feb 1979 | 55 | Article | Code Listing | BASIC | Generating random numbers in BASIC. | |
| Random Writings Resumed | Michael James | PCW • May 1980 | 101 | Code Listing | BASIC | Uses and generation of random numbers. | |
| Research Machines 380Z | Mike Dennis | PCW • May 1978 | 47 | Hardware Review | BASIC | Research Machines/RML 380Z | |
| Research Machines 380Z | PCW • Jul 1978 | 43 | Advert | 16K RAM system £965; 32K RAM system £1,158. | |||
| Research Machines 380Z | PCW • Oct 1978 | 6 | Advert | 16KB £965; 32KB £1148 — 3KB ROM OS; BASIC(s), Assemblers; Text Editor. | |||
| The Searcher | PCW • Feb 1978 | 8 | Code Listing | Assember 6800 | A routine for searching a block of memory for a specified byte sequence. | ||
| The Small System Approach to Program Editing | Patrick Sutton | PCW • May 1978 | 66 | Article | A small algorithm for text (program code) editing. | ||
| The Sol-20 Computer | Ken Wheeler | PCW • Jul 1978 | 38 | Hardware Review | BASIC | Processor Technology/Sol Terminal Computer SOL-20 | Owner’s report. | 
| The Soft Facade | G. J. Flanagan | PCW • Sep 1978 | 39 | Article | Code Listing | Assember 6800 | Hardware and software (assembler) for tracing 6800 execution. | |
| A Step by Step Introduction to 8080 Microprocessor Systems | Michael James | PCW • Dec 1978 | 44 | Book Review | Dilithium Press; by David L. Cohn and L. Melsa. | ||
| A single-wire alarm system using the COSMAC microtutor | Les Thurlow and T. F. Lenihan | PCW • Feb 1979 | 19 | Article | A Mighty Micromite in Action—Circuit for a microprocessor-controlled single wire burgler alarm system. | ||
| The SYM-1 Single Board Microcomputer | Patrick Sutton | PCW • Mar 1979 | 17 | Hardware Review | Synertek Systems/SYM-1 (or VIM-1) | ||
| The Sorcerer’s Wand | Dr. R. J. Beynon | PCW • May 1979 | 31 | Code Listing | BASIC | Exidy/Sorcerer | BASIC graphics on an Exidy Sorcerer. | 
| Scale | Gillian Richmond | PCW • Aug 1979 | 47 | Code Listing | BASIC | A General Purpose Graph Scaling and Plotting Program. | |
| Science of Cambridge/MK14 Microprocessor Kit | PCW • Feb 1978 | 8 | Advert | Assember SC/MP | Science of Cambridge/MK14 | ||
| Scramble | Graham J. Trott | PCW • May 1978 | 56 | Code Listing | BASIC | SCRAMBLE is a word game for two or more players. | |
| Sense of Reality | T. Jones | PCW • Oct 1979 | 58 | Hardware Project | Assember 6800, Assember 8080 | Interfacing Your Personal Computer to the Analog World. | |
| Shakespeare, BASIC and the CIA | PCW • Nov 1979 | 63 | Literary detection. | ||||
| Sharp MZ-80K (review) | PCW • Oct 1979 | 71 | Computer Review | BASIC | Sharp/MZ-80K | ||
| Showing Characters | Neil Harrison | PCW • Aug 1978 | 31 | Article | Code Listing | Assember Z80 | Circuit and Z80 assembler for VDU memory mapped characters. | |
| Simple TV/Monitor Conversion | Peter Dunkley | PCW • Mar 1980 | 90 | Hardware Project | How to turn a TV into a monitor. | ||
| Sinclair Z80 | David Tebbutt | PCW • Apr 1980 | 55 | Computer Review | BASIC | Sinclair/ZX80 | |
| Sinclair ZX80 | PCW • Mar 1980 | 18 | Advert | Sinclair/ZX80 | First advert. | ||
| Sinclairly yours | W. McIvor | PCW • Feb 1979 | 67 | Article | Microprocessor–Sinclair programmable calculator interface. | ||
| Sintom Periflex 630/48 benchtest | Mike Dennis | PCW • Jun 1980 | 56 | Computer Review | BASIC | Sintrom/Periflex 630/48 | |
| Sixteen Bits of Power | Caspar Bowden | PCW • Mar 1979 | 43 | Article | Assember TMS9900 | Homebrew TMS9900-based computer. | |
| Small Computers for Small Organisations (part 1) | Mervyn J. Axson | PCW • May 1979 | 19 | Article | |||
| Small Computers for Small Organisations (part 2) | Mervyn J. Axson | PCW • Jun 1979 | 43 | Article | Code Listing | BASIC | ||
| Small Systems are Good for Small Businesses | John Braga | PCW • Jul 1979 | 29 | Article | |||
| Smart 1: How to make a combined buffer and 8K SRAM board for the NASCOM without really trying | Mike Dennis | PCW • May 1979 | 35 | Article | Hardware and circuit. | ||
| So You’re Interested in Personal Computing | Brian Hewart | PCW • Sep 1978 | 16 | Article | Introductory article with emphasis on what hardware is needed and how much memory to write simple games in assembly language. | ||
| So, I Got a Wordprocessor | Edward P. Hawthorne | PCW • Aug 1979 | 29 | Article | Assember 6800 | ||
| Softly... Softly... | Julian Allason | PCW • Jan 1979 | 45 | Article | Selling Microcomputer Software. | ||
| Softy Intelligent EPROM Programmer | Mike Dennis | PCW • Jun 1980 | 72 | Hardware Review | |||
| SOL Terminal Computer | PCW • Sep 1978 | 5 | Advert | Assember 8080 | Processor Technology/Sol Terminal Computer SOL-20 | No prices given; only hardware mentioned. | |
| Something Bit Me | Chris Howland | PCW • Oct 1978 | 17 | Article | Personal Experience of owning and using a microcomputer. | ||
| Statpack | Colin Chatfield | PCW • Sep 1978 | 45 | Code Listing | BASIC | Modular statistics program (BASIC); part 1. | |
| Statpack | Colin Chatfield | PCW • Dec 1978 | 53 | Code Listing | BASIC | Modular statistics program (BASIC); part 2. | |
| Statpack | Colin Chatfield | PCW • Jan 1979 | 39 | Code Listing | BASIC | Modular statistics program (BASIC); parts 3 and 4. | |
| Statpack | Colin Chatfield | PCW • Feb 1979 | 53 | Code Listing | BASIC | Modular statistics program (BASIC); part 5. | |
| Statpack | Colin Chatfield | PCW • Apr 1979 | 61 | Code Listing | BASIC | Modular statistics program (BASIC); part 6. | |
| Statpack | Colin Chatfield | PCW • May 1979 | 70 | Code Listing | BASIC | Modular statistics program (BASIC); part 7. | |
| Statpack | Colin Chatfield | PCW • Jun 1979 | 73 | Code Listing | BASIC | Modular statistics program (BASIC); part 8. | |
| Statpack | Colin Chatfield | PCW • Aug 1979 | 45 | Code Listing | BASIC | Modular statistics program (BASIC); part 9. | |
| Staying in Shape | Michael James | PCW • Nov 1978 | 66 | Article | Code Listing | BASIC | Introduction to structured programming. | |
| Straight Dealing | David Tebbutt | PCW • Jan 1980 | 42 | Article | The setting up of the Computer Retailers Association. | ||
| Straight Dealing | David Firnberg | PCW • Apr 1980 | 68 | Article | Who needs the C.R.A? (Computer Retailers Association) | ||
| Structuring in Style | Seamus Dunn | PCW • Jun 1980 | 98 | Code Listing | BASIC | Commodore/PET 2001 | How to structure certain kinds of programs using PET BASIC. | 
| Submarine Chase | A. J. Harding | PCW • Oct 1978 | 24 | Code Listing | BASIC | Tandy Corporation/TRS-80 Model I | Game for Tandy Level I BASIC (or most others) needing about 3KB RAM. | 
| Super Scamp’s VDU | W. G. Marshall | PCW • Jan 1979 | 56 | Hardware Project | Assember SC/MP | A Simple Micro Output Device (circuit) | |
| Supercalc: A Quick Look at the Casio FX-501P | Dick Pountain | PCW • Oct 1979 | 50 | Computer Review | Calculator review. | ||
| A Tidal Wave | Boris Sedacca | PCW • Sep 1978 | 52 | Article | Advocacy of the usefulness of microcomputers. | ||
| Take It Or Leave It | Roger Hargrave | PCW • Aug 1978 | 27 | Article | NIM — An Exercise in Flowcharting. | ||
| Tandy TRS-80 | PCW • Sep 1978 | 7 | Advert | BASIC | Tandy Corporation/TRS-80 Model I | Level I BASIC (4KB £499, 16KB £728); Level II BASIC (4KB £578, 16KB £807) all including 12" monitor, cassette recorder, and a 2 game cassette. | |
| Tandy TRS-80 Review | Mike Dennis | PCW • Sep 1978 | 26 | Hardware Review | Assember Z80, BASIC | Tandy Corporation/TRS-80 Model I | Good value for money. | 
| Tandy TRS-80: The Soft Cursor | M. O. Benjamin | PCW • Jul 1979 | 60 | Code Listing | BASIC | BASIC program to save on-screen graphics to tape. | |
| Tangerine Microtan 65 | PCW • Mar 1980 | 30 | Advert | Tangerine Computer Systems Ltd/Microtan 65 | First advert. | ||
| Teach-In Two’s Complement (with apologies to Strich & Sinden) | Bob Gidden | PCW • Mar 1979 | 21 | Article | Code Listing | Assember 6800 | Explains two’s complement representation and arithmetic, plus 6800 Branch Tester. | |
| Text Processing Demonstrated on the NASCOM I | S. D. Danton | PCW • Jan 1979 | 49 | Article | How the Microcomputer can help improve efficiency at home and in the office. | ||
| These Dashed Dots.... Those Dotty Dashes--- | Ron Williams | PCW • Jan 1979 | 19 | Code Listing | Assember 6800 | Newbear/77-68 | Random morse code generation using a 77-68 microcomputer. | 
| Things you wanted to know about micro’s but were afraid to ask | Mike Dennis | PCW • Dec 1978 | 21 | Article | Hints on System Design. | ||
| Think Tanks in Ferment | PCW • Sep 1979 | 60 | A narrative-style review of several books. | ||||
| Three Novelty Programs for a Pocket Calculator | Derek J. Chown | PCW • Sep 1978 | 24 | Code Listing | TI-57 calculator | TI-57 — prime factors; sequence of primes; triangles. | |
| TI 58/59 pseudo op-codes | Dick Pountain | PCW • Jan 1980 | 81 | Computer Review | Calculator Corner. | ||
| TI99/4 Home Computer benchtest | David Tebbutt | PCW • May 1980 | 48 | Computer Review | BASIC | Texas Instruments/TI99/4 | |
| Tidy It Up: TRS-80 Level II Renumbering Routine | I. Addinsell | PCW • May 1979 | 54 | Code Listing | Assember Z80 | Tandy Corporation/TRS-80 Model I | Z80 assembly program to renumber BASIC programs. | 
| Timetabling for Schools | Charles Sweeten | PCW • Oct 1978 | 62 | Article | Code Listing | BASIC | BASIC program originally for NOVA 2/10 minicomputer, then ported to SWTPC 6800. | |
| Tinkering with Technology | Ian Lloyd MP | PCW • Apr 1980 | 39 | Article | Report on the House of Commons and the “micro revolution” by an MP. | ||
| Today Translators Tomorrow the World | Guy Kewney | PCW • Dec 1979 | 40 | Article | A review of two pocket word translators. | ||
| Too High a Price | Dr. John Dawson | PCW • Aug 1978 | 56 | Article | Critique of DHSS plans regarding hardware (big systems) and software (privacy) | ||
| Touchdown | N. Rushton | PCW • Oct 1978 | 32 | Code Listing | Casio calculator | Lundar Landing game for Casio programmable calculators (FX201P, FX202P, PRO FX1) | |
| TRS-80 Level II BASIC | P. J. Turner | PCW • Jan 1979 | 33 | Article | BASIC | Tandy Corporation/TRS-80 Model I | With a few helpful mod’s. [Incorrect apostrophe in the original title.] | 
| TRS-80 Model II benchtest | Stephen Withers | PCW • Jun 1980 | 50 | Computer Review | BASIC | Tandy Corporation/TRS-80 Model II | |
| Turning the Tables | L. R. Carter | PCW • Mar 1979 | 27 | Code Listing | TI-57 calculator | TI-57 — times tables quiz program. | |
| Two-page Tandy advert introducing TRS-80 Model II with 500KB 8" floppy disc drives and 32-64KB RAM, e.g., 64KB with 1 drive £2586 and claiming that TRS-80 Model I is “The World’s Biggest Selling Microcomputer” | PCW • May 1980 | 4 | Advert | Tandy Corporation/TRS-80 Model I, Tandy Corporation/TRS-80 Model II | |||
| Typical PSU Design | Derek J. Chown | PCW • Jun 1980 | 74 | Hardware Project | |||
| Typing Without Tears | Paul M. Jessop | PCW • May 1978 | 24 | Article | Flowcharts for a touch typing tutor program. | ||
| Unravelling the PET IEEE-488 Bus | Dr. C. Preece | PCW • Mar 1979 | 31 | Article | BASIC | ||
| Using a Small Computer | P. M. Steele | PCW • Nov 1978 | 31 | Article | Keeping records of subscribers/members/customers comparing using a computing bureau, a word-processor, or a mini[micro]-computer. | ||
| A Very Small Business System? | Martin Collis | PCW • May 1978 | 36 | Hardware Review | BASIC | SWTP/6800 | Experience report on buying and installing an SWTP 6800 system. | 
| Vector Graphics Flashwriter II | Andrew M. Stephenson | PCW • Feb 1980 | 66 | Hardware Review | Graphics card review. | ||
| Vector Graphics MZ | Sheridan Williams | PCW • Apr 1979 | 31 | Hardware Review | Assember Z80, BASIC | Vector Graphics/MZ | |
| Video Genie (review) | PCW • Feb 1980 | 87 | Computer Review | ||||
| Video Genie System | PCW • Feb 1980 | 13 | Advert | EACA/Video Genie | Tandy TRS-80 Model I clone from Hong Kong. | ||
| Viewdata and the Information Age | Dr. Adrian Stokes | PCW • Apr 1980 | 47 | Article | Part 1: Fact and Fantasy. | ||
| Viewdata and the Information Age | Dr. Adrian Stokes | PCW • May 1980 | 63 | Article | Part 2: Theory into Practice. | ||
| Visionlink: More VDU Bits | W. G. Marshall | PCW • Jul 1979 | 42 | Hardware Project | Assember SC/MP | Interfacing & Software for Super Scamp’s VDU. | |
| Viva Las Vegas! | Julian Allason | PCW • Mar 1980 | 46 | Article | The Consumer Electronics Fair. | ||
| A Way with Waves | Gordon Bell | PCW • Nov 1978 | 25 | Code Listing | BASIC | Three line BASIC programs to draw sine and cosine waves on a PET. | |
| Wave-Making on a NASCOM I | Don Finlay | PCW • May 1980 | 88 | Code Listing | Assember Z80 | Lynx Electronics/NASCOM I | Music synthesis. | 
| What Shall We Do In School Today | Charles Sweeten | PCW • Dec 1978 | 48 | Article | The use of computers in schools. | ||
| What Sort of Sort? | Dr. William B. Samson | PCW • Aug 1979 | 51 | Code Listing | BASIC | A comparison of sort routines in BASIC. | |
| Wheeler Dealer: Roulette game | Ken Wheeler | PCW • Jun 1979 | 71 | Code Listing | BASIC | Processor Technology/Sol Terminal Computer SOL-20 | SOL BASIC Roulette. | 
| Where the Law Bites | Brian W. Haines | PCW • Jan 1979 | 47 | Article | An occasional look at the legal situation in the computer world. | ||
| Which micro-toy? | David Tebbutt | PCW • Dec 1979 | 50 | Article | Overview of electronic toys as potential Christmas presents. | ||
| Whistle Up a Colour on Your Apple II/ITT 2020 | R. W. Lawrence | PCW • Mar 1980 | 51 | Code Listing | Assember 6502, BASIC | Apple/Apple II | Using a cassette and microphone/pre-amp to generate effects based on the user whistling at different frequencies. | 
| WitBit | David Parkinson and Graham J. Trott | PCW • Jun 1979 | 73 | Article | Assember 6800, Assember Z80 | Assembly language problem forum (Z80 or 6800) | |
| Words and music by NASCOM | Don Finlay | PCW • Dec 1979 | 61 | Hardware Project | Assember Z80 | Lynx Electronics/NASCOM I | How to make a Nascom I play tunes. | 
| Yankee Doodles | Tom Williams | PCW • Jun 1980 | 47 | Article | The first of a regular report column from the US. | ||
| Yes, But What Does The Little Beast Do? | W. G. Marshall | PCW • May 1978 | 17 | Article | Describes the basic functional blocks which make up a microprocessor system, with particular reference to the National SC/M P. | ||
| Yours to Command | K. S. Borland | PCW • Feb 1978 | 20 | Hardware Review | Assember Z80 | Lynx Electronics/NASCOM I | Britain’s Own Microcomputer — The NASCOM I. | 
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