RETURN – to last month’s SINCUS NEWS and look at Wes’ article and read the column on the RIGHT, then the column on the LEFT! I apologize-somehow they got cut OK, but got pasted in reverse!
NEW – author – Tony Cekolin, one of our corresponding members, from way down there in Alabama!!! Tony has a second article that is already pasted up for the January issue of SINCUS NEWS, and I “resolve” to get your program listings in next month too!
NEW – advertiser – “Gini” Lake is advertising her Geneology program, so I hope some of you order it!! COMPUSERVE friends!!
PRINTed – in Electronic News, October 1, 1984-“Sinclair Research Ltd. reported a 5.3% drop in fiscal 1984 profits to $9.64 million, or $2.41 a share, compared with the $10.18 million, or $2.55 a share netted for the 1983 fiscal year.
Results for the past 12 months ended March 31 reflect delays in the introductions of Sinclair’s QL personal computer and flat screen television and the loss of substantial revenues from its former licensing agreement with TIMEX Corp.”
“U.S. sales plummetted to $127,920 (ED. note-that is correct) in 1984 from $11.49 million in 1983….Sinclair has said that is has no plans to market its Spectrum home computer in the U.S. following TIMEX withdrawel from the market…. and the company [illegible]evealed plans to double production of the Spectrum to more than [illegible]00,000 units per month.”
OPEN – the bidding on pictures of Wes Brzozowski has “Sherlock Holmes” and Gary Cole as “Little Green Giant”!!
DRAW – with the new Zebra Graphics Tablet for the TS2068!! It uses the Koala Technologies “Graphics Tablet” and “Zebrapainter” software. List price for tablet, software, and I/F $119.95.
EDIT – having resolved to have SINCUS NEWS mailed the Friday before the monthly meeting (see page 1), I hereby request your help in achieving these goals in the months ahead. Let’s make them our SINCUS RESOLUTIONS-
1. Reread the manual for the computer you currently use!!
2. Write down everything Wes Brzozowski says even if you do not really know what he means-in two months you will!
3. Look through your software and start to use something that you have not before used to make your life easier!
4. If you cannot find any software that will make your life easier – then write down (in plain English) something you feel the computer should be able to do for you, but does not do at the present.
5. Attend the monthly meetings and ask questions.
6. If you have a piece of software that you really like-it needs to be written up in a “REVIEW”-keep it simple and just write what you like/or don’t like about it.
LISTing the positive things that SINCUS has brought to me will take more room than I have left (thanks Sis for the ad-but it do make me be short! Of course, at least this month I got to write a column!!). The friendships and learning experiences have been and will, I am sure, continue to be an important part of my life so I thank each and every one of you for your support and your stimulation-if I have a wish for 1985 it is simply “May I grow as a person and have the time to converse with each of you about what you are doing in the world of Sinclair”. Happy holiday!!!
Happy Holiday to each of you & yours –
Gary