• 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

157 8 Control and Peripheral Applications Household Control Devices-Music-An External Device Controller for Your Computer-An AID Con- verter for Your Computer-Personal Robots 201 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 211 10 Utility Programs 223 Multipurpose Programs- Utility Subroutines 11 Miscellaneous Applications 227 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 237 Glossary 239 Index