April 1984
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Features
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Look, Ma, My Computer Did It!
See the future on your computer: software on stocks, football, and astrology.
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It’s a High-Tech Life
While most people are using their computers to balance their checkbooks and play games, these three Texans are pushing their machines and programs to the limit.
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Death of a Computer
Four critical mistakes forced Texas Instruments to pull the plug on the home computer that it had once expected would dominate the market.
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Birth of a New Frontier
Hundreds of new computer companies have made Texas the likely successor to California’s Silicon Valley, and it all started with two firms in Dallas.
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Hi-Yo, Silicon!
Texas’ glory, till now based on oil, may be based on silicon in years to come. The following four articles examine high tech in the state and where it is headed.
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Texas Primer: The Yellow Rose of Texas
If it wasn’t for the song, no one would remember Emily Morgan, but she launched a nation by diverting Santa Anna at San Jacinto.
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Western Art: The Great World-Rim Being
A fresh interpretation of a classic genre.
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I Opened Tax Returns for the IRS
Behind the scenes at regional headquarters—a sometime part-timer tells all.
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The Hub Cafe
It wasn’t the classiest place in Pharr to grow up, but it had tough truckers, sassy waitresses, and some of the best try cooks in the Valley.
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The Ponytail
Warm spring days call for giving in to new clothes and a neck-baring hairdo.
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Columns
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Light in the Hills
German landscape artist Hermann Lungkwitz saw romantic vistas in the Hill Country at a time when most Texans saw only hardscrabble farmland.
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Winter’s Travail
When the Rio Grande Valley’s balmy breezes turned frigid last winter, its aloe vera fields and stately palms turned from lush green to pitiful brown.
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Alley of Aspirations
Houston’s well-heeled Alley Theatre is trying to pass itself off as a national theater. Across town, the Chocolate Bayou is just trying to hang on.
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Programming Your Taxes
The first in a series of software reviews looks at tax-preparation packages.
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Bait and Switch
Against All Odds promises love, delivers yawns. Entre Nous repels rather than attracts. Footloose and Reckless aren’t. This is Spinal Tap is painless.
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Behind the Lines
Texas in silicon.
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
A heated race for the Senate; a leisurely trip to Astrotown; a cool master of Dallas protocol; a steel-industry success story in Seguin.
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Miscellany
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Touts
Country pleasures.
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State Secrets
Gary Hart’s rise hurts two Texas politicos; at last, a solution to the South Texas Nuclear Project mess; the all-new Braniff turns out to be the same old Braniff; a delicate question about doctors.
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Roar of the Crowd
Watching the news, rating the crews, holding down the fort.
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Puzzle
Toss of the coins.
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