In the links below, were some of the articles contained in the magazine. At present the links are not available.
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Commodore Pet [Advert]
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Sharp MZ-80K [Advert]
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Hewlett-Packard HP-85 [Advert]
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Editorial [Article]
Peter Laurie Financing the future.
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Feedback [Article]
User's Letters.
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ZX-81 - lower price for higher performance [News Item]
A personal computer from Sinclair Research launched to replace the popular ZX-80 is priced at only £69.95 and is now in production at the Timex factory in Dundee.
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Health hazard of VDUs [News Item]
In response to a call from a conference on the health and other hazards associated with the use of VDUs, a research project has been initiated by the Institute for Consumer Ergonomics.
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Pet displays in multi-lingual prowess with Cytek device [News Item]
Cytek (U.K.) Ltd of Manchester has launched a device which enables the Pet to display multi-lingual text on its screen.
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Educational grant [News Item]
A grant of £60,000 has been made by the Council for Educational Technology as part of a micro electronics education programme.
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Acorn picked to make new machine for BBC series [News Item]
Acorn Computers has landed the job of building the new BBC Microcomputer - and the projected BBC-TV series First Byte will use an extended form of Atom Basic in its instructional manual. |
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Texas 16-bit TMS-9995 wins added operation speed [News Item]
Texas Instruments has developed a 16-bit microcomputer in a 40-pin package which includes the 6MHz clock generation, 256 bytes of fast RAM, an interval timer and the necessary circuitry for handling prioritised interrupts.
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How you and your machine can make beautiful music [News Item]
The latest product range including the MC-1 music card and the MC-16 music board from Alf Ltd will turn an ordinary Apple II computer into a sophisticated musical instrument.
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Keeping school-leavers in the pink and micro firms in the black [News Item]
The new Youth Opportunities Scheme is to introduce out-of-work school leavers, 16-18, to the world of work.
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Apple sees to the lighting [News Item]
The Superstar multivision computer system is an audio-visual system which uses an Apple II computer as its base is now being introduced to the UK.
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Gateway is Prestel's route into new teletext territory [News Item]
Prestel is to offer a new service later this year. Mysteriously known as Gateway, it will permit Prestel users to access third-party databases.
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Paper Tiger trio [News Item]
There are three new Tiger printers on the market, replacing the old Tiger 440.
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Triumph-Adler micros enter the field [News Item]
The Triumph-Adler group, owned by the West German industrial giant Volkswagen, has finally made its move into the small-business microcomputer market with the launch of its Alphatronic range of systems.
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Sophisticated Micromodeller to be distributed by ACT [News Item]
ACT Microsoft - one of two British computer companies quoted on the Stock Exchange - has become the sole UK distributor of an important new software package, Micromodeller, designed to run on micros.
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Microsense is bought [News Item]
Microsense Computers, the sole distributor of Apple Computers in the UK has been purchased by Apple for an undisclosed sum. |
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Black Box III Microcomputer Solutions [Advert]
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Oscar [Advert]
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Low-cost Wordease fits the bill for office applications [Article]
Nick Laurie The machine-coded word processor for Nascom and other Z-80 based systems.
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Equinox Computer Systems [Advert]
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Business computing combination of Equinox and MVT-Famos [Review]
David Watt David Watt reviews the Equinox and its partnership with MVT-Famos, the multi-user operating system.
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Sharp's cut-abov-average MZ-80K hardware [Review]
John Dawson An inspection of the MZ-80K and its parade of peripherals.
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Versawriter II: an inexpensive line in graphics drawing [Review]
Mike McDonald The low-cost graphics tablet for Apple II.
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Thinking Systems [Article]
Boris Allan Economics and sociology are just two of the disciplines Boris Allan uses to illustrate his exploration of system concepts.
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Transdata's Cx500 Microcomputer Family [Advert]
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Program angled to deal with class-room trigonometry [Type-In Listing]
Robert Ferguson Robert Ferguson presents a trigonometry program.
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Pearls of wisdom from London bead business [Article]
Cathy Lane Computerisation in London's King's Road.
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Counting manual methods out of the reckoning [Type-In Listing]
Tony Edgecombe Stock control: A Basic program.
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New! Sinclair ZX81 Personal Computer [Advert]
Double-page, colour advert.
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Micros find important role at heart of large-scale industry [Article]
Martin Hayman Marconi proves that large-scale heavy industry does not only use mainframes.
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Ethernet or Cambridge Ring? [Article]
Rex Malik Network choices.
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Computer Backgammon [Type-In Listing]
Bob Snell & Barbara Colley This month's game.
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Duncan brings a new economical simplicity to Nascom 1 programs [Article]
John Dawson Nascom 1's high-level interpreter.
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Prolonged use of Pascal can seriously damage mental health [Article]
Raymond Anderson Raymond Anderson maintains that you should not develop too heavy a dependence on Pascal because it will repay you by letting you down just when you need most programming support from it.
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Z-80 Zodiac [Article]
For all users of systems based on the Z-80 chip.
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ZX-80 Line-up [Article]
Page dedicated to the ZX-80.
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6502 Special [Article]
The 6502 Special is dedicated to the exchange of information between 6502 users.
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The Ricoh 1600S Printer [Advert]
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The Onyx C8000 Series [Advert]
Colour advert.
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Tandy Forum [Article]
Devoted to the TRS-80 - news and user's tips, queries and comments.
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Pet Corner [Article]
News and user's tips, queries and comments.
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Apple Pie [Article]
Ideas, hints and comments for Apple users.
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Micromouse [Article]
Page dedicated to anything that moves.
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User Groups [Article]
Region-by-region list of micro clubs in Britain.
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Book Reviews [Review]
Martyn Thomas 'Machine-code programming for the Nascom 1 and 2' by G.R. Wilson, 'Business information processing with Basic' by George Struble.
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How to translate 6502 to Z-80 assembly language [Article]
David Peckett The first of two articles by David Peckett on a 6502-to-Z-80 translator.
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Tracking down the cause of Pet's disc-drive problems [Article]
P. Krueger An assessment of Pet Disc.
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Buyers' Guide - Software [Article]
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Son of Hexadecimal Kid [Article]
Richard Forsyth Fiction.
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The Acorn Atom [Advert]
Colour advert.
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'Tuscan' from Transam [Advert]
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