Whole Earth Software Review No.1, Spring 1984
“This magazine is a book-in-progress. The book is the Whole Earth Software Catalog, first edition to appear late in 1984, published by Doubleday. Its subject is everything having to do with personal computers. Its function is to evaluate the best of what’s available for personal computers.”
- Published: Spring 1984
- Collection: Whole Earth Software Review
- Links: Internet Archive, Download PDF
Sections:
- Writing
- Mcmicro
- Inside
- Telecommunicating
- Programming
- Learning | Playing
- Business
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Whole Earth Software Review No.1, Spring 1984
- A Software Taxonomy—Stewart Brand4
- The Software Dating Game—Richard Dalton6
- WRITING
- Writing Tools: Whole Earth recommends: WordStar; WordPerfect; Volkswriter Deluxe; Wordvision; Microsoft Word; Newword; Apple Writer Ile; Word Juggler; HomeWord; Quick Brown Fox; Radio Shack Model 100; The WORD Plus; Punctuation + Style.—Stewart Brand8
- The Transparent Onion—Peter McWilliams, Arthur Naiman, Steven Levy, Charles Spezzano, Woody Liswood, Barbara Elman, Fred Davis, Robert Purser, Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes, Louis Jaffe, Robert Cowan, Darrell Icenogle, Anthony Weston, Richard Dalton and Art Kleiner. Edited by Stewart Brand22
- Fifteen Word Processing Commandments—Charles Spezzano38
- Word Processing Computers as Remedial Writing Tools—Richard Wanderman40
- And Now, Something Completely Different Microwriter’s Keyboard Alternative.—Richard Dalton42
- Of Mice and Cheese44
- REVIEWS: PC Mouse, VisuALL and Microsoft’s mouse.—Matthew McClure44
- FEATURED PROGRAM: OFFIX Something for Everyone—Charles Spezzano47
- McMICRO
- Why The IBM PC is a Lousy Standard for the Industry—Richard Dalton50
- Playing Hardball—Charles Spezzano54
- Bringing the IBM PC Up to Snuff Enhancing the bare-bones PC.—Frederic E. Davis56
- Keyboards for the PC Key Tronic and Colby keyboards as options to IBM’s.—Matthew McClure60
- The Lookalike/Actalike/Workalike Club: Price, performance and staying power need to be considered with IBM’s competitors.—Richard Dalton63
- My Daily Affairs with a Compaq—Dave Smith64
- INSIDE
- INSIDE: Trends, rumors, gossip and guesswork.65
- Corona Data Systems PC—Ken Milburn70
- Columbia MPC—Ken Milburn72
- The Seequa Chameleon—Richard Dalton72
- HP 150: the Magic Touch—Barbara Robertson73
- TELECOMMUNICATING
- The Next Phone Company A new national computer communications system —what it can mean to you.—Art Kleiner77
- RAM: Thoughts often have a life of their own in Random Access Memory.87
- Mr. Download: An Interview with Bill von Meister The wizard behind The Source and other information services births a new video game concept — with uncertain future impacts.—Matthew McClure88
- PROGRAMMING
- Starting FORTH The useful FORTH language for neophytes.—Louis Buscaglia-Zeppa97
- LEARNING | PLAYING
- Introduction—Barbara Robertson98
- Games and Learning for Children—Ann McCormick Piestrup, Ph.D99
- REVIEWS: Hey Diddle Diddle; Rocky’s Boots.99
- The New Space Invaders —is Computer-Video Technology Pushing the Family out of the Home?—Edna Mitchell, Ph.D103
- REVIEWS: Pinball Construction Set; Ms. Pac-Man; M.U.L.E.103
- Entertainment in Educational Software—Doug Carlston106
- REVIEW: Flight Simulator.106
- Computer Games Make Reading Fun—Timothy R. Hornberger and Ellen V. Whitford109
- REVIEWS: Magic Spells; Planetfall.109
- Mail-Order Buying Primer How to find unusual products and values. What to avoid.—James Stockford112
- REVIEWS: Caverly’s Guide to Direct Mail Advertisers; Wilson’s Computer Business; Conroy La Point; Guenther Computer Products; 800-Software; Inmac; Total Access.112
- Public Domain Software for CP/M and IBM PC Systems: A world of “‘free’’ software...some of it’s excellent.—Tony Bove and Cheryl Rhodes118
- Bush Computer Furniture A do-it-yourself approach to organizing computers.—Jack Powers124
- BUSINESS
- Why and How this Magazine is Non-Profit Historic and current reasons for this unusual approach; our financial statement.—Stewart Brand125
- What We Use Ourselves128
- REVIEWS: Champion; Word Challenge.128
- Computer Literacy: How to access computer books.131
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