Foreground p.12 KIMER: A KIM-1 TIMER [theme Software] [author Baker] p.28 THE AXIOM EX800 PRINTER: A User's Report [theme Product Description] [author Bosen] p.60 THE Z-80 IN PARALLEL [theme Hardware] [author Loewer] p.72 CONTROLLING DC MOTORS [theme Hardware] [author Walton] p.98 BUILD A KEYBOARD FUNCTION DECODER [theme Hardware] [author Ciarcia] p.152 A HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGE FOR 8 BIT MACHINES [theme Software] [author Williams-Conley] p.162 HOW TO GET YOUR TARBELL GOING [theme Hardware] [author Weinstein] Background p.32 TOP-DOWN MODULAR PROGRAMMING [theme Software] [author Hearn] p.42 WHO'S AFRAID OF DYNAMIC MEMORIES? [theme Memory Design Tutorial] [author Hauck] p.48 ANTIQUE MECHANICAL COMPUTERS, Part 1 Early Automata [theme History] [author Williams] p.64 THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF AMATEUR COMPUTING [theme History] [author Libes] p.84 A SHORT HISTORY OF COMPUTING [theme History] [author Reid-Green] p.124 HOW TO CHOOSE A MICROPROCESSOR [theme Architecture] [author Frenzel] Nucleus p.4 In This BYTE p.6 Some Thoughts About Modems p.11 Letters p.16 The Second West Coast Computer Faire p.96 Clubs, Newsletters p.112 Languages Forum: BASIC to Assembly Language Linkage p.115 Technical Forum: Fooling with the Stack Pointer More on Varistors p.117 Book Reviews p.118 BYTE's Bits p.118 BYTE's Bugs p.119 Programming Quickies: Beating North Star-MITS Incompatibility p.123 College Sports Report p.172 Event Queue p.177 What's New? p.206 Unclassified Ads p.208 BOMB p.208 Reader Service