The Silicon Jungle

by David H. Rothman

• Glare, [150]–51
  • filters for, [151]
• Global search, [48]
• Graphics, [8], [93]–99, [331]–38
  • area charts, [331], [333]
  • bar charts, [332]
  • choosing a program, [337]–38
  • colors, use of, [336]–37
  • cross-hatch, [331]
  • curve charts, [331], [333]
  • graphics tablet, [347]
  • grid lines, [335]
  • line charts, [331]
  • Macintosh, [93]–96
  • PERT programs and, [98]–99
  • pie chart, [334]
  • professionals’ use of, [96]–98
  • simplicity, importance of, [334]–35
  • vertical bar charts, [333]
• Grid lines, [335]
• Ground wires, [246]

• Hacking, [176-77]
• Half-duplex modem, [351]
• Handshaking, [351]
• Hard disk
  • backups, [196]–97
  • disk crashes and, [196]
  • Kaypro 10, [34]–35
  • storage capacity, [286]–87
• Head, of disk drive, [23]
• Health factors, computerized pacing and, [137]
  • See also [Ergonomics].
• Heat, VDTs and, [152]
• Help messages, [89], [305]
• Highland, Harold Joseph, [164]–65
• Human-machine link, See [Ergonomics].

• IBM, keyboard problems, [145]
• Icons, [46]
• Impersonation, [174]–76
• Information services, [224]–26
• InfoStar, [323]–30
  • commands, [328]
  • documentation, [327]
  • shortcomings of, [328]–30
• Ink jet printer, [295]
• Integrated software, Lotus 1-2-3, [88]–91
• Integrity, [199]
• Intelligent modems, [352]
• Interrupt driven, [241]
• Job design, [133]–34
• Joystick, [347]–48
• Justification, [299]

• K, [21]
• Kay, Andy, [14]–19, [26]–30, [36]
• Kay, David, [28]–29, [31], [37]
• Kaypro, [6], [14]–35, [37]–44
  • advertising of, [30]–31
  • competition to, [43]–44
  • CP/M operating system, [22]–23
  • CRT of, [25]
  • disk drives, [23]–24
  • flat-screen model, [42]–43
  • growth of company, [16]–20, [26]–35
  • hard disk, [34]–35, [40]
  • Kaypro 16, [41]–42
  • Kaypro 10, [34]–35, [37]
  • Kaypro II, [26]–27, [40]–41
  • keyboard, [24]–25
  • metal case of, [25]
  • monitor of, [24], [30]–31
  • Osborne as competitor, [15]–16
  • public relations campaign, [31]–32
  • 64K Random-Access Memory (RAM), [21]–22
  • weaknesses of, [38]–43
  • Z80-style microprocessor, [20]–21
• Keyboard
  • detachable, [9], [128], [144]
  • factors in selection of, [143]–147
  • function keys, [147]
  • Qwerty vs. Dvorak, [146]
  • tactile feedback, [145]
• Kopischiansky, Frank, [17]–18

• Lap-sized portables
  • backups, [198]
  • data security, [197]
  • static problems, [197]–98
• Laser printer, [295]
• Letter quality, [297]
• Lighting, [149]–51
  • filters, types of, [151]
  • glare problem, [150]–51
  • solutions to problem of, [149]–50
• Light pen, [348]
• Line chart, [331]
• Liquid-crystal displays (LCDs), [160]
• LIST command, [82]
• Local area networks, [221], [234]–48
  • a bus topology, [244]–45
  • baseband/broadband
  • capacities, [247]
  • considerations in choice of, [237]–39
  • ease of use, [240]–41
  • Ethernet, [236]
  • file locking, [242]
  • installation factors, [243]
  • interrupt driven, [241]
  • multi-user-system micro, [235]
  • protocol, [243]
  • queuing, [241]
  • a ring topology, [245]–46
  • shielded wire, [246]–47
  • speed and, [239]–40
  • a star topology, [245]
  • telephone style, [246]
  • twisted pair network, [246]–47
  • user-privilege levels, [242]
  • WEB network, [234], [236]–37, [240]–41
• Logical field, [82]
• Logic bomb, [171]
• Lotus 1-2-3, [88]–91
  • graphics, [90]
  • printing options, [90]–91
• Lux, [150]

• MacInker, [298]
• Macintosh, [21]
  • graphics, [93]–96
  • mouse, [93]
• Macro language, [90]
• Mahoney, Jim, [116], [120]
• Maintenance
  • contracts for, [289]–90
  • MTBF figures, [289]–90
• Mass storage, [286]
• “Mature” software, [302]
• McDonald, Bill, [18]–19, [25]–26
• MCI Mail, [225]
  • See also [Electronic mail].
• Memory, random-access
  • memory (64K), [21]–22
• Menu, [304]–305
  • definition of, [48]
• Menu-driven software, [71]
• MEX, [356]
• Meyer, Eric, [249]–55, [261], [269]–70
• Microprism Model 480, [294]–95, [297]
• Microprocessor, [20]
  • Z80, [20]–21
• MicroPro International, [50], [54], [56]–62, [309]
• Modem, [300], [349]–65
  • acoustically coupled, [349]
  • automatic dialing, [351]–52
  • bits, [350]
  • capture ability, [351]
  • communication with Sri Lanka, [249]–70
  • direct-connect, [349]–50
  • full duplex modem, [351]
  • protocols, [351]
  • synchronous/asynchronous communications, [353]
• MODEM7, [354]–65
  • instructions for use of, [358]–65
  • summary of commands, [364]–65
• Modular plugs, [349]
• Monochrome screen, [143]
• Mouse, [9], [93], [345]–46
• MS-DOS, [23], [285]
• MTFB figures, [289]
• Multiplan, [83]–85
• Multi-user-system micro, [235]
• Munytels, [5], [216]–17, [219]

• Natural order of recalculation, [90]
• Near-letter quality, [297]
• NEC, [44]
• Networks, [221]
• NewWord, [43]–44, [59]
• Node, [239]
• Noise, reduction, from printers, [151]–52
• Non-Linear Systems, [15]–18, [26], [28], [32]
• Null modem, [198]
• Numeric field, [81]

• Omninet, [244]
• Operating systems
  • choice in computer buying, [285]–86
  • CP/M, [22]–23
  • MS-DOS, [23]
  • UNIX, [285]–86
• Optical character reader, [138]
• OR, [82]
• Osborne, Adam, [14]–15, [32], [36]–37
• Osborne Computers
  • Kaypro competition, [34]–35
  • problems of, [6], [32]–33
• Overhead, [327]
• Overlapping, windows, [344]
• Overwriting, [191]–92

• Packet switching, [225]
• Paperback Software International, [36]
• Parallel port, [300]
• Participating monitoring, [137]
• Passwords, [188]–89
• Patch, [308]
• PC-TALK III, [356]
• Perfect Filer, [324]–27
• Perfect Writer, [310]–18
  • improvements in, [312]–15
  • Perfect Thesaurus, [317]
  • pop-up commands menu, [312]
  • weaknesses of, [312], [316]–318
• Pie chart, [334]
• Pivot, [43]
• Plasma panel, [161]
• Point-of-sales system, [75]
• Port, [300]
• Pregnancy, VDTs and, [152]–53, [154]
• Printers, [294]–301
  • bidirectional, [296]
  • buffer, [300]
  • compatibility with computer, [300]
  • cost, [298]
  • daisy wheel, [295]
  • ink jet printer, [295]
  • laser, [295]
  • noise level, [299]
  • noise reduction, [151]–52
  • ports, [300]
  • printer quality, [297]
  • repair record, [298]
  • ribbons, [298]
  • special features, [299]
  • thermal-transfer printer, [295]
  • unidirectional, [296]
  • volume, [298]
• Programmers, [125]–26
• Project Evaluation Review Techniques (PERT) software, [98]–99
• Proportional spacing, [299]
• Protocols
  • local area networks, [243]
  • modems, [351]
• Psychological factors, computers and, [157]–58
• Public key encryption system, [189]

• Queuing, [241]
• Quietwriter, [301]
• Qwerty keyboard, [146]