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Table of Contents
- Dedication 9
- The Silicon Jungle 10
- Break Out Of The Users-guide Ghetto. 21
- The Kaypro Phenomenon 42
- A Z80-style Microprocessor 59
- 64K Random-access Memory (Ram) 63
- Use Of Cp/m Software 67
- Cp/m Is A Kind Of Operating System. It Tells A Computer How To Do Garden-variety Jobs, Like Moving Data From A Memory Unit To One That Does The Machine’s Electronic Reasoning. Cp/m Isn’t The Only Operating System That Business Microcomputers Use. When I Was Writing This Chapter, However, It Was One Of The More Common, With Variation Present On More Than Half A Million Computers. A Company Called Digital Research Marketed Cp/m, Selling To Manufacturers, Which, In Turn, Didn’t Have To Create Their Own 23Operating Systems. In The Early 1980S, The Big Software Hits Almost Always Came In Cp/m Formats. 67
- After The War 104
- Wordstar: The Creators 129
- Windows, Among Other Things, Let You View Several Files At 63Once And Move Material Back And Forth (See Backup Ix, “Window Shopping”). 178
- The Select Word Processor: Martin Dean Versus The Command-driven Restaurants 181
- Three Software Stories: Motorcycles, Homes, And The $200,000-A-year Disk 201
- Ed Boland: Accounting 203
- Charlie Bowie: Data Base And Spreadsheet 219
- Alan Scharf: Integrated Program, Including Graphics 243
- A Sales Rep (Or Brochure Designer) 267
- A Corporate Training Official Or Teacher 268
- A Bureaucrat 269
- A Personnel Or Division Manager 270
- An Architect 271
- A Product Designer 272
- A Facilities Manager 274
- A Convention Planner 275
- A Corporate Planner 276
- People: The Who-how Solution 280
- Training: 326
- Training (Continued): 348
- Micros And The Data-processing 354
- The Hal Syndrome 362
- The Canary In The Mine 368
- ... Good Job Design 378
- Terminal Happiness 392
- The Screen 398
- The Keyboard 407
- Special Ergonomic Features 417
- Good Furniture 418
- Lighting 424
- Noise Reduction 430
- Air Conditioning, Heat, And Ventilation 432
- Healthy Honesty 435
- Radiation 439
- Back And Muscular Problems 446
- Psychological Complaints 448
- Eyestrain 452
- Crts: Should They Go Down The Tube? 457
- Jewels That Blip 464
- Data Diddling 474
- The Trojan Horse 477
- The Salami Trick 482
- Superzapping 485
- The Trap-door Trick 488
- The Logic Bomb 490
- Simulation And Modeling 493
- Scavenging 494
- Data Leakage 496
- Wiretapping 498
- Piggybacking And Impersonation 500
- Impersonation Is What It Sounds Like, And It Can Be Physical Or Electronic. 502
- People And Policies: Working With The Right Ones 518
- Hardware And Software 531
- Wired To Work 574
- 13,000 615
- 10,000 618
- 4,800 621
- Packet Switching Lowers The Cost Of Computer Communications Nets And Information Services, Making It Possible For You To Send 1,000 Words Coast To Coast For As Little As $1. 648
- How I Found “God,” On MCI And A Few Other Odds And Ends About Electronic Mail 655
- Net Gain$ 671
- Do You Need One? 681
- In General, Do You know What You Want To Do—with People And Equipment? 684
- How Fast Do You Want The Network To Transfer Information? 688
- How Much Of A Load Do You Want To Put On Your Network—and Can It Handle It? 690
- Is The Network Reliable In Other Ways? 692
- How Easy Must The Network Be To Use? 694
- What Special Features Do You Need? 696
- What Kind Of Protocol Does The Network 701
- How Easy Is The Network To Install? 703
- How Much Support Will The Manufacturer 705
- A Bus 707
- A Star 709
- A Ring 711
- Telephone Style 713
- Twisted Pair 714
- Shielded Wire 715
- Coaxial Cable Is A Common Form Of Shielded Wire. It’s Costly—it May Sell For More Than $1 A Foot. Coaxial Cable Could Be Four Times Or More The Cost Of A Twisted Pair. It Consists Of One Or More Thin Wires Buried In Plastic-type Insulation Under The Shielding. 716
- As The Jungle Thickens Aka The Great Modeming 723
- Afterword 782
- Twenty-six Questions To Ask At (And About The Computer Store 799
- One 804
- Two 805
- Three 806
- Four 807
- Five 809
- Six 811
- Seven 813
- Eight 815
- Nine 816
- Ten 817
- Eleven 818
- Twelve 819
- Thirteen 822
- Fourteen 824
- Fifteen 826
- Sixteen 828
- Seventeen 829
- Eighteen 830
- Nineteen 831
- Twenty 832
- A Few Grouchy Words On Printers 847
- Speed 854
- Print Quality 857
- Cost 861
- Printing Volume 863
- A Decent Repair Record 864
- Special Features 866
- Overall Compatibility With Your Computer 869
- The Lucky 13: What To Look For In Choosing Software 875
- Absence Of Bugs 877
- General Ease Of Use 879
- Good Documentation 883
- Usefulness To Old Pros And Beginners Alike 886
- Speed 888
- Power 891
- Damage Limitation 896
- Ability To Customize 899
- Accessory Programs 901
- Support From The Manufacturer 903
- On The Evolution Of Software And A “Perfecter And Perfecter” Program 907
- 3-D Versus Mail-order Software—and How To Shop 932
- Graphics Tips 962
- Know Your Charts And Other Basic Tools 963
- Name That Chart With Apple’s Macintosh And The Microsoft Chart Graphics Package From Microsoft, You Can Whip Up Charts Like The Ones Below. Chart Will Even Pick Up Numbers From A Sister Spreadsheet Program, Multiplan. My Thanks To Artist Jo Steele, Who Works For The Dartmouth College Computer Center And Is A Partner In Northtronics Associates. Oh, And Don’t Blame Jo For The Use Of Those Over-mentioned Woks. My Mistake. Next Time I’ll Use Dishwashers Or Watermelons. 965
- Grid Lines—a Series Of Little Squares Like Those On Engineering Graph Paper—often Confuse Chart Readers. “Don’t Put Them In If You Can Help It,” Says Herrman. 973
- Consultant Contracts: 985
- Window Shopping 994
- Windows, However, Actually Are within Computer Screens. 995
- Of Mice And Men—and Touch Pads, Touch Screens, Etc. 1002
- The Micro Connection: Some Critical Explanations 1010
- Parity Bits May Help The Computers Check For Errors Caused By Static And Other Electronic Noise. Parity Is Said To Be “Even,” “Odd,” Or “None.” This Error-checking Method Has Its Drawbacks. It May Fail If The Mistakes Cancel Each Other Out—and It’s Slow Since It Checks Every Character. Some Communications Programs (The Ones Allowing Computers To Talk Lack This Feature. The Most Common Parity Setting Is “None”—when You Tell Your Software Not To Do Parity Checks. ) 1015
- File Transfer 1017
- Capture Ability 1018
- Protocol Flexibility 1019
- Automatic Dialing And Other Trimmings 1021
- Versatility 1022
- Backup XII 1027
- Modem7: An Almost-free And Fairly Easy Way To Talk To Other Computers 1028
- To Get Ready 1037
- To Transmit And Receive Without Saving Anything On Your Disk 1041
- To Return To The Operating System Of Your Computer 1045
- To Get The Menu Off The Screen Once You Know The Ropes 1057
- To Change The Baud Rate 1058
- Cp/m Modem Program Documentation By Mark M. Zeiger 1060
- Why Not An Electronic Peace Corps? 1065
- Postscript: 1075
- Thanks! 1079