Table of Contents OPINION The Shadow, Buck Rogers, and the Home Computer - Gardner The State of the Art — Helmers Could a Computer Take Over — Rush THEORY AND TECHNOLOGY A Systems Approach to a Personal Microprocessor — Suding Frankenstein Emulation — Murray Programming for the beginner — Herman What is a Character — Peshka Friends, Humans, and Countryrobots: Lend me your Ears — Rice Magnetic Recording for Computers — Manly COMPUTER KITS Assembling an Altair 8800 — Zarrella Build a 6800 System With This Kit — Kay More on the SWTPC 6800 System — Kay The New Altair 680 — Vice A Date With KIM — Simpson True Confessions: How I Relate to KIM — Gupta Zilog Z80 — Hashizume The Digital Equipment LSI-11 — Baker Cromemco TV Dazzler HARDWARE Flip Flops Exposed — Browning Recycling Used ICs — Mikkelsen Powerless IC Test Clip — Errico and Baker Parallel Output Interfaces in Memory Address Space — Helmers Son of Motorola — Fylstra Data Paths — Liming Build a TTL Pulse Catcher — Walde Dressing Up Front Panels — Walters Deciphering Mystery Keyboards — Helmers A Quick Test of Keyboards — Walters Keyboard Modification — Macomber Serialize Those Bits From Your Mystery Keyboard — Halber Build a Televi…