| FEATURES |
| 12 |
THE WORLD CONNECTION: Low Cost Entry System
Tim Knight
Small can be beautiful if your wallet is thin. Telecommunications is affordable and this installment will show you how. |
| 14 |
ENTERTAINMENT TOMORROW: The Futurephone: A Broader View, Part IV
Allen L. Wold
Optimistic writers sometimes overlook the awkward transition from a less technological to a more technological lifestyle. Here is a discussion of some of the obstacles to mass use of the futurephone. |
| 20 |
CALC/SIDE: Forecasting Future Earnings
David Peters
Regulating expenditures to prevent becoming over-extended can be difficult. Now is a good time to create your forecast for 1984 and here is a model to receive the monthly tracking on the actual receipts. |
| 23 |
FINANCIAL OPERATING SYSTEM: The $10,000,000 Formula
J. M. Keynes
Day trading the commodity market is tricky. This installment is a story and a dare to any brave computer/arithmetic mastermind who can extrapolate the magic formula from trading data. A $3,000 prize awaits the winning entry in this exciting contest. |
| 26 |
COMPUTERS AND MUSICAL EXPRESSION: A Conversation with Paul Lansky and Steve Birchall
A composer who learns to play the computer is to a composer who writes for performers, something like a film maker is to a playwright. Paul Lansky offers food for thought about music and modern musical tools for musicians and music lovers alike. |
| 30 |
COMPACT DISCS: The Dawn of Audio’s Golden Age
Steve Birchall
The music on a digital disc rises out of complete silence – no hiss, ticks, pops or other clues to tip you off that the record has started. This is only the beginning of the list of advantages the compact disc offers over analog recordings. |
| 36 |
COMPUTERS, LASERS, MUSIC, and THEATRE: A conversation with Paul Earls and Steve Birchall
Learn how dramatic music (opera) meets technology in this in-depth interview with one of computer-music’s luminaries and authorities on the subject. |
| 46 |
THE DIGITAL SOUND: Making Music with Soundchaser
Reviewed by Andy Muson
The Soundchaser opened musical doors the author never imagined possible, and proved to be a catalyst to disk-overy, as you’ll learn in this enthusiastic review. |
| 48 |
NEWCOMP: Music, Poetry, Imagery
Rick Freidman
NEWCOMP gathers the high-tech and arts worlds together to explore the application of intelligent machinery to music and related arts. Otto Laske and Curt Roads, the founders, have a great idea. |
| DEPARTMENTS |
| 5 |
Editorial |
| 6 |
Input |
| 10 |
New Products |
| 51 |
The Sides of SoftSide |
| 71 |
MicroLog |
| 72 |
Hints and Enhancements |
| 73 |
BU2S, Worms & Other Undesirables |
| 74 |
Market/Side |
| 74 |
Advertisers’Index |
| 75 |
Machine Head |
| APPLE/SIDE |
| 52 |
Apple Diskourse: Random Access Files
Cary W. Bradley
Learn how to locate a particular record in a random access file using a binary search |
| 55 |
Music Maker
Reviewed by Jim Thompson |
| 56 |
Listen to the MockingBoard: Apple Sound Comes of Age
Reviewed by Jeff Hurlburt |
| 57 |
Music Construction Set
Reviewed by Jeff Hurlburt |
| ATARI/SIDE |
| 59 |
Necromancer
Reviewed by Richard Herring |
| 60 |
Pokersam
Reviewed by Carl Firman |
| 61 |
S.A.M.’s New Knobs
Reviewed by Carl M. Firman |
| 62 |
Atari Sing-Along: A Review of Atari Music Files
Reviewed by Robb Murray |
| 64 |
Musical Computor: The Music Tutor
Reviewed by Robb Murray |
| 65 |
Blue Max
Reviewed by David Plotkin |
| PC/SIDE |
| 66 |
PC Parrot
Reviewed by Tim Knight |
| 67 |
Space Guardian
Reviewed by Robert C. Gray |
| COMMODORE/SIDE |
| 68 |
Commodore’s Music Cartridges
Reviewed by Sharon Zardetto Aker |
| 69 |
Synthy 64
Reviewed by Sharon Zardetto Aker |
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