Hello again, T/S lovers! Back again with more nonsense and trivia from the desk at MOUNTAINEER SOFTWARE. Hope all is well with you. I am recovering from hearing 4000 choruses of “We Wish You A Merry Christmas” from my 2068 and MUSICOLA (thank goodness it only comes once a year!).
I receive many cards and letters. Many times I can’t find the time to reply immediately. This will be my New Years’ resolution: To do my best to answer my mail sooner.
Taking one of the letters that I received in reply of the first “Bits and Bytes” column (Issue #8), it seems that Gladstone has terminated the KRAKIT contest. No one correctly solved the 12 clues, but Gary Gogel of Arizona City, AZ provided me with the correct answers that he received from International Publishing and Software of Canada (the producers of KRAKIT).
Here are the answers:
COUNTRY CITY NUMBER 1. Scotland Edinburgh 7464 2. U.S.A. New York City 207 3. U.S.A. Chicago 1882 4. Switzerland Zurich 11 5. Canada Ottowa 282 6. India Delhi 7 7. England Salisbury 1538 8. Mexico Chihuahua 10652 9. Italy Verona 413637 10. Russia Moscow 1812 11. Ireland Ballaghadereen 1916 12. England Cambridge 811000
In his letter, Gary told me that the explanation on how the answers were arrived at was 14 PAGES LONG!!!
Thanks, Gary for the answers. If any of you would like to communicate with him, his address is:
Gary Gogel
P.O. Box 2435
Arizona City, AZ 85223
I have just seen my first copy of a British Sinclair magazine! Would you believe it, I have been involved in T/S computers for over 3 years, and just saw my first magazine from England!
William Walker of Huntington, West Virginia sent me his copy of the December 83/January 84 issue of ZX COMPUTING, and WOW!!! I couldn’t believe all that England has available for the ZX81 and Spectrum! Now that the Spectrum is becoming available in the U.S., there will be next to nothing stopping us from getting all of that software…and hopefully we will be able to use much of the hardware in the near future, also.
If you have the addresses of any of the other British Sinclair magazines, please send them to me, so that I can subscribe to them. If you have any other issues that you wouldn’t mind letting me borrow for a week, please send them. I will return the, posthaste, in excellent condition.
In the March issue of T-S HORIZONS, I plan on doing a comprehensive review of Database programs for the TS2068. It will be in a format similar to the one you will see in next month’s issue for Word Processors.
If you have a Database program, and would like to be included in this survey, send me a review copy of the program. My address is below.
Bill Ferrebee
MOUNTAINEER SOFTWARE
115 North 7th Avenue
Paden City, West Virginia 26159