We have a garage sale! We have been asked to sell on consignment a 10 year collection of things Sinclair and Timex/Sinclair. Most all seems to be in beautiful condition. Like all things at a garage sale, prices are low, and all sales are final. Some of the items may already be sold by the time you get this. If you wish, include alternatives. If your item or items are no longer available, your check will be returned. Thanks for browsing, and note the terms at the end of the sale list.
January 17, SINCUS packed it’s kit and kaboodle and headed off to OWEGO, NY. We met at George Penney’s “The Hub”, and settled in to watch a couple of demos on his recent purchase. He got a discount on an IBM 5110, about a 99.4% discount off the orginial price (circa 1979) of some 38,000 bucs. The setup included a 64K RAM computer, a couple 8″ floppies, and one heavy duty printer. The computer housed a 5″ screen, keyboard and space for a tape backup. The disc drives were housed in a unit compareable in size to a small refrigerator. Portable this ain’t. George has since trained it to work and obey english commands. One does have to remember how one spelled a word the first time however. He is transferring some of the daily tasks from the TS1000 to the capable ibm machine. His 1000, has only a 16KRAM, and a 8K Hunter board, under a Ma Bell telephone operator’s keyboard. Some of the keys have Manhattan, Staten Island, and Queens still on them. I wonder where that might have come from. Elsewhere in this issue, George has a printout of his quick and dirty word processor, and more info on his 5110. Thanks George, we all appreciated the demo and the change of venue! It was good to meet and talk with Gary Ennis, and he has invited all of us over this spring to his place for a demo of his video tape printer, index system and whatall. Sounds like fun!
SNUG- Frank Davis, Paul Holmgren and Basil Wentworth have gotten the FIRST issue of the SNUG newsletter off. They have some very worthwhile and interesting projects in mind to better facilitate info between the various computers we love and use. Amoung the ideas, cross compilers, diagnostic software to check out various parts of your machine, “HELP” files and more! SNUG’s function would be to suggest and coordinate various individuals working on pieces of the larger puzzle. Comments, ideas and queries send to Mr. Holmgren, [address omitted], Indianapolis, IN. Send a SASE for a reply!
April Fool’s Day approaches…remember the 6820? I believe the machine was identified in the ’86 Mar/Apr issue of Syncware News.
Local members note: New addition to the Vestal Library is where we meet. New wing is on the right side of the building as you drive up – if you get lost – check with the main desk or listen for the sound of the disc drives.
Omnicalc – wow what a program. I got the 2068 version which supports a full size printer from Knighted Computers (way back when!). Ok, so I don’t get a whole lotta time to play with numbers. Well, I crunched into it 10 years of income tax forms and ran comparitive analysis of each years fed, state, and local taxes. Once I got the formulas correct, it did a great job of telling more than maybe I really want to know. Clyde Tackley says the graphics will printout if you have your printer preped before hand. The only way to save this program to disc is by a NMI button. Suggestion – if you have this program, when setting up, always add 10 extra columns and rows more than you think you’ll ever need. Once you use this and see the simply amazing power in action, you’ll be wantin’ to analyze all of your income and outgo!
Hi and welcome to Bret Gagnon, Florence MA. Welcome back and thank you for renewing to Jack Deuber, Casselberry, FL and William MacDougall, Willowdale, ONT., James Curry, Rochester, NY; Joan Kealy, Brackettville, TX, Tony Piombino, Lawtey, FL; M. Heusevelt, Lantana, FL and Don Lambert, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. If your mailing label has “LAST ISSUE” under the address, be advised that your subscription is up.
Our subscription rate is $8 per year, please make your check out to “SINCUS”. It looks like the good ole US Postal System is gona jack up its rates, which we need like a shorted SCLD chip. It may not hurt any to express your feelings on this to the post office. In light of an increase in postage, we will review our expenses, and see if there is a way to cut overhead, 5 issues a year in stead of 6, or a maximum of 5 sheets per letter, or cut out some swaps. Any changes in rates, or letters per year will go into effect in 1991. Any further renewals accepted after March 31, 1990 will be affected by the changes forthcoming.
Our annual hunt for nominations for society offices starts again, discussions in March and nominations in April and followed by elections in May. If you don’t show up you may get elected.
NEW SWAP in town; We have received a couple issues from SEATUG, the Seattle Area Timex/Sinclair Users Group, the newsletter “SWYM”. Hello and we hope you find SINCUS NEWS as informative as we find SWYM! Newsletter swap in care of Robert Cazares, [address omitted], Seattle, WA.
SNUG is alive and well, and in the good hands of the Indiana Group; to do our bit, we will be sending on disc an index of SINCUS NEWS articles, and disc files of available past material. This covers newsletters from 1983 to the present. This shouldn’t take more than 1 or 2 months.
NEW – from E. Arthur Brown, remember them folks?, Well, Hal Sohn brought to the last meeting a recent copy of E25 catalog and on the back page is an offer for the ZX81 kit for $39.95. They’re still at 3404 Pawnee Dr., Alexandria, MN 56308
We have received a VHS tape of a program written by the Albany TSUG, and we planned on showing it at the Feb 90 meeting. Due to recent construction, scheduling, we were unable to get the room with the TV/VCR. We are passing the tape thru the membership, and hope to have it on its way by the first part of March. It is an interesting program for the 1000, showing the globe turning, and the land masses moving across the surface.
Howcome it is easier to critize when slighted, than to say nothing?; and to say nothing when done a good turn?
Thanks to George Penney, Don Lamen, and Warren Fricke for their help with the input to this edition.
Work on swap 106 continues, however there have NOT been a lot of programs submitted, none in, none out. How about a program on when to buy or sell stock, just a simple one, and someone else could modify it, and soon we all could be making the BIG bucs!