EDIT #1 – I must apologize for not being able to mail SINCUS NEWS on time this month. A variety of things prevented me from meeting my normal deadline. Fortunately the events are happy ones and the delay actually worked to our advantage. The May meeting has been moved (details to follow). Had I mailed on time we would have announced the wrong meeting site! The good news for me is that I have been hired by the COMPUTER DOME at the Oakdale Mall (across from Arby’s) to sell computers and teach my eight part course! I only had one week to get everything moved from the dry cleaners into my mobile home (which was not set up to accept the extra fish tanks, computers, chairs, books, and etc) I left the dry cleaners at 5:30 PM on April 10 and reported to the COMPUTER DOME at 6:15 PM and have not had a day off since (today is the 16th). Between moving, car trouble, all the hours at work, and teaching two classes I just have been unable to get it done, despite some great help typing by Carl Morris and Paul Hill. The new job will make me more accessible and should be a great help in the future in conducting club business. You may reach me at the [illegible]ore in the Mall by calling (607)729-9222 most days until [illegible]:30 PM Eastern time.
NEW – the MAY meeting has been relocated. We will meet in the MICRO AGE STORE, 106 Washington Avenue, Endicott, NY. The program for that evening will be Ray Payne from KNIGHTED COMPUTERS,the otherside of Syracuse. Ray will be bringing the A&J Microdrives for the TS2068. He also has indicated that he has much exciting news about the TS2068-including their being licensed to “convert” Spectrum software to it. If you would like him to bring anything else for a demonstration, please call me (729-9222) and I will ask him to bring it. No doubt he hopes to do some business, but I see nothing wrong with that-we always complain that we have to buy sight unseen when we buy mail order-so now we can see it! So bring your checkbook!
EDIT #2 – I recently read in a newsletter, which shall remain nameless, a listing of a program and a schematic of Wes’ AROS/LROS circuit that had appeared in SINCUS NEWS. There was no mention of SINCUS NEWS as the source of the information! I am compelled to add my coments to those of Paul Hill’s (see Secretary’s Notes, this issue). First, permission to reprint is granted on the condition that SINCUS NEWS, PO Box 523, Owego, NY 13827 be identified as the source of the material. Failure to “label” the reprint as such revokes that permission. As a result, we are forced to issue this ultimatum -any publication [illegible]at reprints something from SINCUS NEWS without identifying [illegible]e source will be dropped from our exchange list! This is not an ego trip on my part, we want the club recognized as a source of solid information! Secondly, it is unfair to the reader to not know where the article comes from-after all the reader may have some additional information to pass on to the author. So, editors, please reprint anything you desire as we do offer it without copyright. But please recognize SINCUS as the source. Also, send us an extra copy of the issue in which the reprint appears. I give that to the author. They do love the recognition! Besides they can show it to their wife to prove that someone reads their work, thus reducing static at home long enough for them to write another article!!
SAVE – your version of CLONE and bring it to the next meeting to be exchanged for CLONE, Version 3.0. Several imrpovements have been made by Wes in the version that was originally sold to local club members. Please do make the exchange as the earlier version has proved to be unreliable!! This offer is available ONLY to local regular members of SINCUS as we want a chance to maintain control. This is a testing of the product which we will be offering to software/dealers for distribution and sale. We will not be filling orders for non-local people so if you have sent money it will be returned to you. I am sorry for the delay in getting this message out, but we only recently made this decision final.
THANKS – to Paul Hill for his efforts both in typing some of Wes’ article and in printing the articles out PLUS hauling one car load of personal belongings from the dry cleaners to my mobile home.
NEW TOO – we will be returning to the Vestal Public Library as the site of our monthly meetings. We were able to line up the meeting dates for the remainder of 1985. We feel it is a bit more convenient to most people and there are no stairs!
THANKS TOO – to Dave Schoenwetter and Clyde Tackley for a job well done in demonstrating the modem setups at the April meeting. For those of you who missed it, they set up both Dave’s “home made” modem and Clyde’s Byte-Back modem. They demoed both the Aerco modem patch and Dave’s buffer utility program that allows you to turn your full sized printer on and off and lets you save the buffer to tape. It was well done, but what happened to COMPUSERVE?
LOOKING AHEAD – I see much yet to be worked on in the world of Sinclair. We have an adequate modem program, but can we get a 1200 baud modem? TASWORD is slick, but can we save documents as an ASCII file (making it loadable into another computer’s word processor through modems). How about a print buffer (and Dave Schoenwetter says its his next project-with two inputs, one for the TS2068 and one for his PC). We also have the TI keyboard for the TS1000/ZX-81 to be attached! So come on out and watch us complete these projects!
GE