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Motorola D2 Kit Advert
Assember 6800
6800 development kit £175; 6800 editor/assember £19.90.
2
SOL Terminal Computer Advert
Assember 8080
Processor Technology/Sol Terminal Computer SOL-20
No prices given; only hardware mentioned.
5
North Star Horizon Advert
Assember Z80
North Star Computers/Horizon
6
Tandy TRS-80 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.
7
Apple II 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.
9
So You’re Interested in Personal Computing
Brian Hewart
Article
Introductory article with emphasis on what hardware is needed and how much memory to write simple games in assembly language.
16
Precisely Speaking
Sheridan Williams
Article
Discusses errors and inaccuracies in working with floating-point numbers.
19
Applications of Computers
David McBride
Article
(Written by a 14 year old.)
21
Do we want our schools to have a Personal Problem?
Mick Coleman
Article
Advocating the use of microcomputers in schoools.
22
Three Novelty Programs for a Pocket Calculator
Derek J. Chown
Code Listing
TI-57 calculator
TI-57 — prime factors; sequence of primes; triangles.
24
Tandy TRS-80 Review
Mike Dennis
Hardware Review
Assember Z80, BASIC
Tandy Corporation/TRS-80 Model I
Good value for money.
26
A First Course
Robert Henley
Article
Bits and Bytes: binary numbers.
30
Getting It Together
Mike Banahan
Article
Assember Z80
Build your own assember (part 2)
32
In Praise of the PDP-11 (part 2)
Mike Lord
Hardware Review
An introduction to the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-11 minicomputer.
35
Advanced Intelligence!
Bill Davy
Article
Assember 8086
Introduction to the Intel 8086 16-bit microprocessor.
39
The Soft Facade
G. J. Flanagan
Article | Code Listing
Assember 6800
Hardware and software (assembler) for tracing 6800 execution.
39
A Filling Routine
John A. Coll
Code Listing
Assember 6800
Assembler routine to fill a block of memory with a specified byte [does not specify which CPU; looks like 6800]
44
Statpack
Colin Chatfield
Code Listing
BASIC
Modular statistics program (BASIC); part 1.
45
The Hard Keyboard
W. McIvor
Article
Hex keyboard circuit.
46
A Tidal Wave
Boris Sedacca
Article
Advocacy of the usefulness of microcomputers.
52
Bus of the Century
Francis E. Cox
Article
The S100 Bus — an expansion board standard introduced by the Altair 8800 and IMSAI 8080.
54
Microcomputers and Mental Health
John A. Rope
Article
Using microcomputers to support mental health service professionals.
57