Introduction to the home computers, with background information on the history of the industry, different machines and their uses in the home, a buyer's guide, and logical approaches to simple programming
Author(s): Frank Herbert, Max Barnard
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Year: 1981
Language: English
Pages: 304
Tags: Mathematics;Applied;Geometry & Topology;History;Infinity;Mathematical Analysis;Matrices;Number Systems;Popular & Elementary;Pure Mathematics;Reference;Research;Study & Teaching;Transformations;Trigonometry;Science & Math
- Precede
1. What's Happening
2. You Can Do Wonderful Things
3. Meet Your New Machine
4. Intelligence
5. What's Your Name, Funny Machine?
6. Inside Information
7. History Without Hysteria
8. The Gadget World
9. The Logical Crutch
10. Let's Get Organized
11. The Rolls Royce
12. The Computer Two-Step
13. Buyer's Guide I
-- Gut Questions Too
-- Getting To Know You
-- Designed For Each Other
-- Small Investment - Big Return
-- Program For The Players
-- Finding It A Home
-- Uses
14. Computers Are Not Oracles
15. Buyer's Guide II
-- Wares
-- Welcome Home
16. Soloing
11. Review Time
18. Computertalk Spoken Here
19. Let's Talk About Programming
20. Telling It Who's Boss
21. A Basic Vocabulary
22. Getting Down To Basic
23. A Structure For People
24. PROGRAMAP
25. Writing Up A Storm
26. PS
- Appendix A: The Biomachine
- Appendix B: Computers Are Not People
- Appendix C: PROGRAMAP Dictionary
- Appendix D: Computer Magazines
- Appendix E: Microcomputer Accessories And Manufacturers
- Appendix F: Car Maintenance PROGRAMAP
- Appendix G: Car Maintenance Program
- Appendix H: Mortgage Hill
- Appendix L: Mortgage Payment Program
- Appendix J: Glossary
