**Preface**

**Acknowledgments**

**Introduction**

**1 Applications for Everyone**

  * Personal Reference Source
  * The Electronic Memorandum Program
  * An Index to Your Library
  * Word Processing
  * Letter Writing
  * Categorizing Information
  * A Recipe Index and Calculator
  * Itinerary Assistant
  * Phone Timer
  * Telephone File, Dialer, and Answering Machine
  * Greeting Card/Invitation List
  * Personal Time Management System
  * Decision Maker-
  * Health
  * Shorthand Translator
  * Kitchen Inventory
  * Rating Calculations
  * Inventory of Possessions
  * Index to Important Literature
  * Day of the Week Calculation
  * Food Store Shopping Aid
  * Coupon File
  * Home Planning
  * Private Information Storehouse
  * General Purpose Clock or Timer
  * Blood Alcohol Content
  * Carpenters' and Mechanics' Helper
  * Car Maintenance Calculating and Record Keeping
  * Raffle Ticket Producer and Drawer
  * Life Expectancy Calculator
  * Database Demonstration

**2 Business and Financial Applications**

  * Finances and Investments
  * Stocks, Bonds, and Securities
  * Personal Accounting
  * Money-Making Applications
  * Business Decision Making
  * General Business Calculations and Business Accounting Systems
  * Additional Applications for the Small Business Person or the Professional
  * The Computer and the Professions

**3 Mathematical and Statistical Applications**

  * The Computer as a Sophisticated Calculator
  * Statistlcs
  * Mathematics
  * Mathematical Recreations and Programming Challenges

**4 Technical and Scientific Applications**

  * Weather Forecasting
  * The Sundial Design Program
  * Energy Efficiency Computation
  * Technical and Scientific Calculations
  * Engineering Applications

**5 Educational Applications**

  * Application Ideas
  * Computer Assisted Instruction
  * Computer Tutor
  * Educational Simulations
  * Additional CAl Ideas

**6 Hobby Applications**

  * The Arts-Hobbies

**7 Games and Recreational Applications**

  * Board and Strategy Games You Can Program
  * Computer Quizzes
  * Games that Use Words
  * Magic Computer
  * Intelligence Games
  * Programs for Young Children
  * The Computer as Board Display Device, Bookkeeper, and Game Advisor
  * Drawing and Kaleidoscope Programs
  * Simulation and Adventure Games
  * Video Games
  * Recreations Involving the Computer Itself
  * Computers and Chess
  * Additional Game Programs

**8 Control and Peripheral Applications**

  * Household Control Devices
  * Music
  * An External Device Controller for Your Computer
  * An AID Converter for Your Computer
  * Personal Robots

**9 Artificial Intelligence, the Future Personal Computer, and Networking Futuristic Applications that Are Feasible Now**

  * Futuristic Applications that Are Not Yet Feasible Now
  * Networking-Databases

**10 Utility Programs**

  * Multipurpose Programs
  * Utility Subroutines

**11 Miscellaneous Applications**

  * Computers and the Humanities
  * Aid to the Handicapped
  * Test Your Typing Speed
  * Maintenance of Organization Records
  * Co-op Scheduling and Finances
  * Tailor's Calculations
  * Phone Code
  * Brainstormer
  * Source Index
  * People Matching
  * Greeting Card Producer
  * Contests
  * Handwriting Analysis
  * Fifty Miscellaneous Applications

**Appendix**

**Software Source Books**

**Glossary**

**Index**