Part 1 Origination: incompatibility - floppy discs, other recording media, operating systems, keyboards, transmission codes; the IBM personal computer; interfacing codes. Part 2 Transportation: transportation methods - media converter, optical character recognition, modems, data carrier, protocol converter; communications - serial communications, the break out box, configuring the RS232 interface, parallel transmission; transmission codes. Part 3 Destination: editing systems; code translation. Appendices: addresses; disc conversion; portable computers; computer basics; desktop publishing.