---
title: "Dear Editor"
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published_at: "2020-10-27T17:11:49+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-06-23T08:03:45+00:00"
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excerpt: "User with ataxia seeks help; comments on Programmers Toolkit from Softsync; replacement transistors; repair traces on keyboard; technical information for 2068; problems loading."
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  - name: "Jesse Peeler"
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  - name: "Paul Hunter"
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  - name: "Ray Moore"
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  - name: "Roger Keffer"
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publication: "Syntax"
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  title: "Syntax"
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authors: "Roger Keffer; Bob Mitchell; J. L. Peeler; Ray Moore; Frank Kolar; Paul Hunter; George Putnam; Charles Davis"
volume: "4"
issue: "12"
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    title: "Syntax/Syntax ZX80 v4 n12"
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pages: "12-13"
pubdate: "December 1983"
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---

# Dear Editor

User with ataxia seeks help; comments on Programmers Toolkit from Softsync; replacement transistors; repair traces on keyboard; technical information for 2068; problems loading.