I had hopes of getting more done on the 2068 machine code routines I was working on but having taken my summer vacation this month, I am a bit behind on just about everything. Thanks to the many users who have written me about the WORM word processor program and hope everyone gets all the machine codes entered all right. Like most of you, I am STILL waiting for my 2068 technical manual for the machine and hope to get information on ROM routines available. If this information was shared better than it is, more good software would evolve, and we need it!
Yesterday I received a stringy floppy (the one from CAI) for the TS-1000. I can certainly say that having used this for only a day, that I am impressed. Most of my programs take at least 3 minutes to load and even though my cassette yields good loads, the stringy loads in seconds perfectly. More on that later. A number of outfits have been contacted in my plight for BBS software to run on the 2068 or 1000. Byte Back was good to provide the source code for their MODEM so that I could write my own but this will take some time to complete. A very good mini BBS can be operated on the 2068 since it has so much memory, and even the TS 1000 could be coupled with the 64K to do the job. Or, how about a mini system to run with the stringy floppy! I am quite surprised that no one has developed the software to do this yet. Maybe one of the readers will have a tidbit to help me get going.