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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 February 2010
General IBM-PC and 8088 programming
IBM-PC DOS Technical Manual, IBM, Boca Raton, FL.
IBM-PC Hardware Technical Manual, IBM, Boca Raton, FL.
iAPX86,88 User's Manual, Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA, 1981.
Bradley, David, Assembly Language Programming for the IBM Personal Computer, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1984.
Norton, Peter, Programmers' Guide to the IBM-PC, Microsoft Press, Bellevue, WA, 1985.
General computing
BYTE Magazine.
Good general overview of microcomputing with frequent references to laboratory applications.
General numerical analysis
Press, W., Flannery, B., Teukolsky, S. & Vetterling, W. Numerical Recipes, The Art of Scientific Computing, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 1986.
General electronics
Horowitz, P. & Hill, W., The Art of Electronics, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York 1980.
The best reference for designing laboratory electronics.
Lawson, C. L. & R. J. Hanson, Solving Least Squares Problems, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1974.
Physical data
Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, ed. R. Weast, 52nd edn, Chemical Rubber Co, Cleveland, OH, 1971.
American Institute of Physics Handbook, ed. D. E. Gray, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1957.
Mark's Standard handbook for Mechanical Engineers, eds. T. Beaumeister, E. A. Abalone & T. Baird, 8th edn, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1978
Physics
Any general introductory physics text will provide a good background.
Sensors and transducers
Doebelin, E. O., Measurement Systems, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1983.
A thorough overview of general design and specific devices.
Specific hardware
Witten, I. H., Welcome to the Standards Jungle, BYTE, pp. 146–78, February, 1983.
This a close look at serial data communication.
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