• 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**