“The BASIC Handbook / by David Lien / Compu soft Publishing, 1050 E. Pioneer Way, El Cajon, CA 92020
As a companion volume to “Converting to Timex/Sinclair BASIC“, “The BASIC Handbook” would be useful to many Timex/Sinclair users. It covers many BASIC dialects including Apple, TRS-80, Atari, IBM, DEC, TI, etc… and even Sinclair (ZX-80). However, the copyright date is 1981, thus Timex, Commodore (except PET), and other newer computers are not covered.
The format is similar to Converting, but the order is strictly alphabetic by BASIC word. The book has a feature Converting lacks, which is an introduction with some useful comments on program conversion. The back of the book contains short discussions of several specific computers, plus an index in which the reader can make notes on each BASIC command as he runs across it.