Without Me You’re Nothing: The Essential Guide to Home Computers

✍ Scribed by Frank Herbert, Max Barnard

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 301
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Introduction to the home computers, with background information on the history of the industry, different machines and their uses in the home, a buyer's guide, and logical approaches to simple programming

✦ Table of Contents

• Precede
• What's Happening
• You Can Do Wonderful Things
• Meet Your New Machine
• Intelligence
• What's Your Name, Funny Machine?
• Inside Information
• History Without Hysteria
• The Gadget World
• The Logical Crutch
• Let's Get Organized
• The Rolls Royce
• The Computer Two-Step
• Buyer's Guide I
  -- Gut Questions Too
  -- Getting To Know You
  -- Designed For Each Other
  -- Small Investment - Big Return
  -- Program For The Players
  -- Finding It A Home
  -- Uses
• Computers Are Not Oracles
• Buyer's Guide II
  -- Wares
  -- Welcome Home
• Soloing
• Review Time
• Computertalk Spoken Here
• Let's Talk About Programming
• Telling It Who's Boss
• A Basic Vocabulary
• Getting Down To Basic
• A Structure For People
• PROGRAMAP
• Writing Up A Storm
• PS
• Appendix A: The Biomachine
• Appendix B: Computers Are Not People
• Appendix C: PROGRAMAP Dictionary
• Appendix D: Computer Magazines
• Appendix E: Microcomputer Accessories And Manufacturers
• Appendix F: Car Maintenance PROGRAMAP
• Appendix G: Car Maintenance Program
• Appendix H: Mortgage Hill
• Appendix L: Mortgage Payment Program
• Appendix J: Glossary

✦ Subjects

Mathematics;Applied;Geometry & Topology;History;Infinity;Mathematical Analysis;Matrices;Number Systems;Popular & Elementary;Pure Mathematics;Reference;Research;Study & Teaching;Transformations;Trigonometry;Science & Math