---
title: "Dear Editor"
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markdown_url: "http://localhost/article/dear-editor-15.md"
published_at: "2020-10-27T17:11:49+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-06-23T08:03:40+00:00"
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excerpt: "Cleaning the ZX printer; secure the slot key in expansion devices; printing problems with joystick; avoid power supply related crashes; test tape head alignment."
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  - name: "Gary Hawkins"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/gary-hawkins/"
  - name: "John Petersen"
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  - name: "Ken Norton"
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  - name: "Robert Jenkins"
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publication: "Syntax"
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  title: "Syntax"
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  url: "http://localhost/periodical/syntax/"
authors: "Dan Tandberg; Bruce Kott; John Petersen; Gary Hawkins; Ken Norton; W. D. Stevens; Robert Jenkins"
volume: "4"
issue: "9"
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    title: "Syntax/Syntax ZX80 v4 n9"
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    url: "http://localhost/issue/syntax-syntax-zx80-v4-n9/"
pages: "12-13"
pubdate: "September 1983"
archive_link: false
volumeissue: "v4n9"
---

# Dear Editor

Cleaning the ZX printer; secure the slot key in expansion devices; printing problems with joystick; avoid power supply related crashes; test tape head alignment.