Abstract
The use of personal computer in chemical researches is currently excited. New approaches to produce chemical softwares for personal computer have been performed by many chemists and chemical teachers. However, the chemical softwares for a personal computer are scarecely announced in spite of important utility.
The author has studied on a software communication of chemistry for a personal computer, and published the annual reporting books ('85, '86, '87, '88) of chemical softwares serially. This paper mentions present states and circulation of personal computer softwares for chemical researches. There are primarily five cases of the softwares, which have been devoted to the problems of molecular science, data processing, chemical graphics, chemical education, and chemical instrumention & chemometrics. The best and most used hardware of personal computer is PC-9801 series by NEC in Japan.
