---
title: "Dear Editor"
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published_at: "2020-10-27T17:11:52+00:00"
modified_at: "2025-03-16T01:18:09+00:00"
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excerpt: "Letters about 2068; memory packs for 1000; keyboard problems; temperature problems."
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  - name: "Syntax"
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    url: "http://localhost/category/periodicals/syntax/"
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  - name: "Alexander Sloan"
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  - name: "Bob Eikhof"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/bob-eikhof/"
  - name: "Cedric Bastiaans"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/bastiaans-cedric/"
  - name: "Don Downs"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/don-downs/"
  - name: "Fred Lewis"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/fred-lewis/"
  - name: "Jim Payne"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/jim-payne/"
  - name: "John Mitchell"
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  - name: "Michael Bowman"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/bowman-michael/"
  - name: "Mike Thornton"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/mike-thornton/"
  - name: "Rois Harder"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/rois-harder/"
  - name: "Sigmund Mentzel"
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publication: "Syntax"
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authors: "Sigmund Mentzel; John Mitchell; R. Harder; Alexander Sloan; Bob Eikhof; Don Downs; Frederick Lewis; Mike Thornton; Michael Bowman; Cedric Bastiaans; Jim Payne"
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  - name: "Alexander Sloan"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/alexander-sloan/"
  - name: "Bob Eikhof"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/bob-eikhof/"
  - name: "Cedric Bastiaans"
    slug: "bastiaans-cedric"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/bastiaans-cedric/"
  - name: "Don Downs"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/don-downs/"
  - name: "Fred Lewis"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/fred-lewis/"
  - name: "Jim Payne"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/jim-payne/"
  - name: "John Mitchell"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/john-mitchell/"
  - name: "Michael Bowman"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/bowman-michael/"
  - name: "Mike Thornton"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/mike-thornton/"
  - name: "Rois Harder"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/rois-harder/"
  - name: "Sigmund Mentzel"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/sigmund-mentzel/"
volume: "4"
issue: "11"
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  - id: 26721
    title: "Syntax/Syntax ZX80 v4 n11"
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    url: "http://localhost/issue/syntax-syntax-zx80-v4-n11/"
pages: "12-13"
pubdate: "November 1983"
archive_link: false
volumeissue: "v4n11"
---

# Dear Editor

Letters about 2068; memory packs for 1000; keyboard problems; temperature problems.