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Tandy/Radio Shack Book: Practical Basic Programs (1980)(Osborne)

Practical Basic Programs Apple II Edition Steven Cook, Martin McNiff, and Robert Thomson conceived, designed, wrote, and tested many of these programs, and prepared the final write-ups and program listings for publication in the original Osborne book, Practical BASIC Programs. Dr. Samuel H. Westerman provided the concepts, designs, and initial program listings for 18 of these programs: Income Averaging, Continuous Interest Compounding, Depreciation Switch, Apportionment by Ratios, Profit Sharing Contributions, Statistical Estimation Theory, Statistics, Unbiased Estimator of Standard Deviation, Chi-Square, Data Forecasting Divergence, Newtonian Interpolation, Lagrangian Interpolation, Sums of Powers, Factorials, Temperature Conversion, and Musical Transposition. He also provided source material for the write-ups for the 18 programs. Richard E. Beckwith, Ph.D., provided the concept, design, program code, and write-up for the program Swedish Machine (Queuing Theory).  George M. Blake suggested programs Accrued Interest on Bonds and Current Value of a Treasury Bill. The programs were converted to Apple II by Cynthia Greever.

Practical Basic Programs Apple II Edition Steven Cook, Martin McNiff, and Robert Thomson conceived, designed, wrote, and tested many of these programs, and prepared the final write-ups and program listings for publication in the original Osborne book, Practical BASIC Programs. Dr. Samuel H. Westerman provided the concepts, designs, and initial program listings for 18 of these programs: Income Averaging, Continuous Interest Compounding, Depreciation Switch, Apportionment by Ratios, Profit Sharing Contributions, Statistical Estimation Theory, Statistics, Unbiased Estimator of Standard Deviation, Chi-Square, Data Forecasting Divergence, Newtonian Interpolation, Lagrangian Interpolation, Sums of Powers, Factorials, Temperature Conversion, and Musical Transposition. He also provided source material for the write-ups for the 18 programs. Richard E. Beckwith, Ph.D., provided the concept, design, program code, and write-up for the program Swedish Machine (Queuing Theory).  George M. Blake suggested programs Accrued Interest on Bonds and Current Value of a Treasury Bill. The programs were converted to Apple II by Cynthia Greever.

Practical Basic Programs Apple II Edition Steven Cook, Martin McNiff, and Robert Thomson conceived, designed, wrote, and tested many of these programs, and prepared the final write-ups and program listings for publication in the original Osborne book, Practical BASIC Programs. Dr. Samuel H. Westerman provided the concepts, designs, and initial program listings for 18 of these programs: Income Averaging, Continuous Interest Compounding, Depreciation Switch, Apportionment by Ratios, Profit Sharing Contributions, Statistical Estimation Theory, Statistics, Unbiased Estimator of Standard Deviation, Chi-Square, Data Forecasting Divergence, Newtonian Interpolation, Lagrangian Interpolation, Sums of Powers, Factorials, Temperature Conversion, and Musical Transposition. He also provided source material for the write-ups for the 18 programs. Richard E. Beckwith, Ph.D., provided the concept, design, program code, and write-up for the program Swedish Machine (Queuing Theory).  George M. Blake suggested programs Accrued Interest on Bonds and Current Value of a Treasury Bill. The programs were converted to Apple II by Cynthia Greever.

Practical Basic Programs Apple II Edition Steven Cook, Martin McNiff, and Robert Thomson conceived, designed, wrote, and tested many of these programs, and prepared the final write-ups and program listings for publication in the original Osborne book, Practical BASIC Programs. Dr. Samuel H. Westerman provided the concepts, designs, and initial program listings for 18 of these programs: Income Averaging, Continuous Interest Compounding, Depreciation Switch, Apportionment by Ratios, Profit Sharing Contributions, Statistical Estimation Theory, Statistics, Unbiased Estimator of Standard Deviation, Chi-Square, Data Forecasting Divergence, Newtonian Interpolation, Lagrangian Interpolation, Sums of Powers, Factorials, Temperature Conversion, and Musical Transposition. He also provided source material for the write-ups for the 18 programs. Richard E. Beckwith, Ph.D., provided the concept, design, program code, and write-up for the program Swedish Machine (Queuing Theory).  George M. Blake suggested programs Accrued Interest on Bonds and Current Value of a Treasury Bill. The programs were converted to Apple II by Cynthia Greever.

Practical Basic Programs Apple II Edition Steven Cook, Martin McNiff, and Robert Thomson conceived, designed, wrote, and tested many of these programs, and prepared the final write-ups and program listings for publication in the original Osborne book, Practical BASIC Programs. Dr. Samuel H. Westerman provided the concepts, designs, and initial program listings for 18 of these programs: Income Averaging, Continuous Interest Compounding, Depreciation Switch, Apportionment by Ratios, Profit Sharing Contributions, Statistical Estimation Theory, Statistics, Unbiased Estimator of Standard Deviation, Chi-Square, Data Forecasting Divergence, Newtonian Interpolation, Lagrangian Interpolation, Sums of Powers, Factorials, Temperature Conversion, and Musical Transposition. He also provided source material for the write-ups for the 18 programs. Richard E. Beckwith, Ph.D., provided the concept, design, program code, and write-up for the program Swedish Machine (Queuing Theory).  George M. Blake suggested programs Accrued Interest on Bonds and Current Value of a Treasury Bill. The programs were converted to Apple II by Cynthia Greever.

57 Practical Programs & Games in BASIC These programs are intended for the computer hobbyist or user who has access to a computer system with standard BASIC language available. The various programs are written in such a manner that they will operate even with a simplified subset of full BASIC. The advanced programmer, with full BASIC available, can easily modify the programs to take advantage of the functions and capabilities of the full instruction set. 

57 Practical Programs & Games in BASIC These programs are intended for the computer hobbyist or user who has access to a computer system with standard BASIC language available. The various programs are written in such a manner that they will operate even with a simplified subset of full BASIC. The advanced programmer, with full BASIC available, can easily modify the programs to take advantage of the functions and capabilities of the full instruction set. 

Preface We collected the programs in this book to address the continuing need for readily available and easy-to-use computer programs that do something useful. The supply of such programs has not kept pace with the demand. The the number of computer users is growing at an astounding rate, thanks chiefly to the availability of inexpensive small computers. An increasing number of these people, many of them first time users, are interested only in the practical aspects of computing. Today, those who view the computer solely as a means of entertainment are few and far between. While more practical programs are now available, many contributed by new users, there just aren't enough. And those that do exist are hard to find. So we brought together in this book forty relatively short programs covering a wide range of practical applications. Contents Income Averaging 1 Current Value of a Treasury Bill 14 Accrued Interest on Bonds 16 Continuous Interest Compounding 19 Rule of 78's Interest 21 Present Value of a Tax Deduction 23 Future Value of an Investment (Uneven Cash Flow) 25 Net Present Value of an Investment 27 Lease/Buy Decision 29 Syndicated Investment Analysis 32 Depreciation Switch 38 Apportionment by Ratios 40 Internal Rate of Return 43 Financial Management Rate of Return 46 Financial Statement Ratio Analysis 50 Profit Sharing Contributions Checkbook Reconciliation Home Budgeting 65 Critical Path Method (CPM) Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) 86 Transportation Algorithm 93 Swedish Machine (Queuing Theory) 103 Markov Analysis 110 Nonlinear Break-Even Analysis 118 Payoff Matrix Analysis 122 Bayesian Decision Analysis 127 Economic Order Quantity 131 Economic Production Quantity Statistical Estimation Theory 138 Statistics 142 Unbiased Estimator of Standard Deviation 149 Chi-Square 151 Data Forecasting Divergence 155 Newtonian Interpolation 158 Lagrangian Interpolation 161 Sums of Powers 165 Factorials 167 Temperature Conversion 169 Numeric Base Conversion 171 Musical Transposition 174 Appendix 177 1981, OSBORNE/McGraw-Hill Edited by Lon Poole

1Harbor

By Ernest Poole

<em>The Harbor</em> was written in 1915 by Ernest Poole. The novel is considered by many to be one of Poole’s best efforts even though his book, <em>The Family</em> won a Pulitzer Prize. <em>The Harbor</em> is a fictional account of life on a Brooklyn waterfront through the eyes of Billy as he is growing up. The novel starts with Billy the child, living on the harbor with his father, mother, and sister, Sue. During this time he also meets Eleanor who, at that time, he considers to be strange. She later becomes an important character in the novel. His father owns a shipping business, is hard-working, and can think of little else. As a young man, Billy begins to detest the harbor and longs for escape to pursue his lifelong dream of becoming a writer and avoiding his father’s business. With his mother’s blessing, he takes flight to Paris to hone his trade. While in Paris, he meets Joe Kramer (J.K.) and a sometimes stormy relationship begins. J.K. forces him to confront human situations that Billy would prefer to close his eyes to. Billy eventually returns to the harbor after some years and recognizes changes are taking place in the harbor, and in his life. The harbor becomes a subject for his writing and his personal relationships. His attitude about the harbor begins to evolve. Throughout the novel, J.K. continues to make appearances in Billy’s life, challenging him to write about things as they really are and not as Billy’s world of comfort shows them to be. Billy’s life is changed when the harbor goes on strike and he becomes involved in the labor movement. What more can be said about a book that starts with the words, “You Chump!”? (Summary by Tom Weiss)

2His Family

By Ernest Poole

The 1910s is historically considered the decade of greatest social change in history. It saw the advent and proliferation of the automobile, electricity, lighting, radio, telephone and cinema. Our present time of change is actually quite tame in comparison, though also breathless. <i>His Family</i> is a tale of a widowed father, working to manage this decade of change as it affects his family in New York City. <i>His Family</i> was the first winner of the Pulitzer Prize for literature in 1919. (Summary by JCarson)