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Source: Computer & Video Game Magazines – BYTE – January 1984<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

BYTE was a computer magazine published from 1975 until 1998, appearing not long after the first commercial computer kits started being advertised. It covered a vast array of computers over the years and included technical content as well as hardware and software reviews. The January 1984 issue was a massive 560+ pages and included:<\/p>\n

Columns<\/h1>\n
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  • Build the Circuit Cellar Term-Mite ST Smart Terminal, Part 1: Hardware<\/b> – Thanks to advancing technology, you can construct an intelligent video terminal with just 21 integrated circuits.<\/li>\n
  • BYTE West Coast: Beyond the Word Processor<\/b> – Tomorrow’s text editors may facilitate text composition from the earliest conceptual stages to the analysis of finished documents.<\/li>\n
  • User’s Column: too Many Leads, or What in *;?!#”*? Goes First?<\/b> – Jerry covers a lot of territory this month, beginning his journey of a thousand words with a trip to the Circuit Cellar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Themes<\/h1>\n
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    • 1984 and Beyond<\/b> – The year calls up inevitable associations with George Orwell’s novel of a futuristic, technologically oppressed society and raises questions concerning the present and future significance of technology to our own culture.<\/li>\n
    • Reason and the Software Bus<\/b> – The Reason research project, exploring artificial intelligence, has developed a software bus that may have a significant effect on future software. As a hardware bus uses ICs, so the software bus manipulates various program components to provide integration, networking, and multitasking.<\/li>\n
    • A General-Purpose Robot-Control Language<\/b> – By bridging the communication gap between people and robots, a plain-language system called Savvy increases the usefulness of these mechanical assistants.<\/li>\n
    • 1984, the Year of the 32-bit Microprocessor<\/b> – As manufacturers rush to introduce their 32-bit designs, it’s time to take a look at what these microprocessors are and what they’re good for.<\/li>\n
    • Memory Cards: A New Concept in Personal Computing<\/b> – Picture a microcomputer without a keyboard, without a power supply, and small enough to fit in your wallet. That’s just one possible application of memory-card technology.<\/li>\n
    • Computer-aided Design<\/b> – CAD capabilities on desktop systems can simplify a variety of tasks, from flowcharting to product design, but the choices in hardware and software can be baffling.<\/li>\n
    • Speech Recognition: An Idea Whose Time Is Coming<\/b> – While the multidisciplinary nature of the technology may slow its advance, speech recognition is well on its way to becoming a major factor in our interactions with machines.<\/li>\n
    • Using Natural-Language Systems on Personal Computers<\/b> – Artificial intelligence offers possible solutions to the problems of communication between people and computers.<\/li>\n
    • Portables – 1984 and Beyond: Idea-Processing Software and Portable Computers<\/b> – When your personal computer leaps off your desktop and into your briefcase, what type of software will accompany it?<\/li>\n
    • Beyond the Application Program: A Different Approach to Integrated Software<\/b> – Element managers that implement objects such as spreadsheet tables and paragraphs may supplant the traditional concept of the application program.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Reviews<\/h1>\n
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      • Reviewer’s Notebook<\/b> – This month’s notes touch on Seequa Computer Corporation’s Chameleon Plus and new trends in the printer market.<\/li>\n
      • The Zenith Z-100<\/b> – Supporting both 8-bit and 16-bit software, the Z-100 also offers impressive color graphics.<\/li>\n
      • Pinball Construction Set<\/b> – Tired o fthe same old pinball games? Try creating your own with this software-design package.<\/li>\n
      • The TRS-80 Model 16B with Xenix<\/b> – Once of the most significant features of Radio Shack’s new computer is its Unix-derived operating system.<\/li>\n
      • Naturallink to Down Jones News\/Retrieval<\/b> – A new software package from Texas Instruments simplifies access to a financial database.<\/li>\n
      • The Vamp DVM-1 Computer\/TV Interface Kit<\/b> – The picture quality of your display can suffer when you use a radio-frequency modulator to interface your computer’s video output to a standard color television, but a kit from Vamp offers an alternative.<\/li>\n
      • The Einstein Compiler<\/b> – In addition to speeding up Applesoft BASIC programs, the Einstein compiler provides statistical information on the programs compiled and can function as a debugging tool<\/li>\n
      • The Basis 108<\/b> – Apple compatibility is just one of this German import’s interesting features.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Features<\/h1>\n
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        • Bubbles on the S-100 Bus, Part 1: The Hardware<\/b> – Using Intel’s BPK 72 Bubble-Memory Prototype Kit, you can put together a 128K-byte bubble-memory board for an S-100 bus system.<\/li>\n
        • Mockingbird: A Composer’s Amanuensis<\/b> – The chief purpose of this music notation editor from Xerox is to help composers capture their ideas by speeding up the notation process.<\/li>\n
        • The VU68K Single-Board Computer<\/b> – You can construct a 68000-based system for under $200.<\/li>\n
        • Translating the SAS Language Into BASIC<\/b> – A preprocessor program that translates SAS-like statements into equivalent BASIC statements permits SAS-like programs to run on a microcomputer.<\/li>\n
        • A Software Review Method That Really Works<\/b> – The group walk-through, a process of “playing computer,” provides a workable means of correcting programming problems.<\/li>\n
        • Real-Time Clocks and PC-DOS<\/b> – A device-driver program for the clock chip on a typical multifunction board takes advantage of special provisions in the IBM PC operating system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          Nucleus<\/h1>\n
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          • Editorial: Revisiting the Luddites<\/li>\n
          • MICROBYTES<\/li>\n
          • Letters<\/li>\n
          • BYTE’s User to User<\/li>\n
          • Ask BYTE<\/li>\n
          • Software Received<\/li>\n
          • Event Queue<\/li>\n
          • Books Received<\/li>\n
          • Clubs and Newsletters<\/li>\n
          • What’s New?<\/li>\n
          • Unclassified Ads<\/li>\n
          • BYTE’s Ongoing Monitor Box, BOMB Results<\/li>\n
          • Reader Service<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

            …and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Source: Computer & Video Game Magazines – BYTE – January 1984 BYTE was a computer magazine published from 1975 until 1998, appearing not long after the first commercial computer kits started being advertised. It covered a vast array of computers over the years and included technical content as well as hardware and software reviews. The January 1984 issue was a massive 560+ pages and included: Columns Build the Circuit Cellar Term-Mite ST Smart Terminal, Part 1: Hardware – Thanks to advancing technology, you can construct an intelligent video terminal with just 21 integrated circuits. BYTE West Coast: Beyond the Word Processor – Tomorrow’s text editors may facilitate text composition from the earliest conceptual stages to the analysis of finished documents. User’s Column: too Many Leads, or What in *;?!#”*? Goes First? – Jerry covers a lot of territory this month, beginning his journey of a thousand words with a trip to the Circuit Cellar. Themes 1984 and Beyond – The year calls up inevitable associations with George Orwell’s novel of a futuristic, technologically oppressed society and raises questions concerning the present and future significance of technology to our own culture. Reason and the Software Bus – The Reason research project, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[367,2042,2362],"class_list":["post-27975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-computer-arcana","tag-byte","tag-digital-archaeology","tag-retrocomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}