---
title: "Dear Editor"
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published_at: "2020-10-27T17:12:10+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-06-23T00:44:50+00:00"
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excerpt: "Letters about new 8K ROM features; keyboard problems; video blanking; building additional RAM; interfacing to real world; improvements to bar graphics program; printing statements."
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publication: "Syntax"
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  title: "Syntax"
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authors: "David Shulman; Julian Alexander; James Janner; Charles Loskinski; Gerald Johnson; R. Bruce Hosken; Bill Cotham"
volume: "2"
issue: "6"
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pages: "11-12"
pubdate: "June 1981"
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---

Letters about new 8K ROM features; keyboard problems; video blanking; building additional RAM; interfacing to real world; improvements to bar graphics program; printing statements.