---
title: "Dear Editor"
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published_at: "2026-03-13T00:32:57+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-03-13T00:32:58+00:00"
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excerpt: "Letters column covering: best cassette recorder recommendations (Jose Cabrera); direct composite video connection to monitor using TS1000 output (Samuel Levine); request for group message to Sinclair about reliability failures (Donald Shank); heat sink modification with a custom aluminum piece (Blase Sanzone); keyboard purchase advice (Jonathon Hodges); PCB mounting fix for picture stability (Robert Adams); Syntactic…"
category:
  - name: "Syntax"
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    url: "http://localhost/category/periodicals/syntax/"
model:
  - name: "Sinclair ZX80"
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  - name: "Timex/Sinclair 1000"
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    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/ts-1000/"
publication_r:
  id: 10246
  title: "Syntax"
  type: "periodical"
  url: "http://localhost/periodical/syntax/"
volume: "3"
issue: "4"
issues_articles:
  - id: 52478
    title: "Syntax/Syntax ZX80 v3 n4"
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    url: "http://localhost/issue/syntax-syntax-zx80-v3-n4/"
pages: "12"
pubdate: "April 1982"
archive_link: false
---

# Dear Editor

Letters column covering: best cassette recorder recommendations (Jose Cabrera); direct composite video connection to monitor using TS1000 output (Samuel Levine); request for group message to Sinclair about reliability failures (Donald Shank); heat sink modification with a custom aluminum piece (Blase Sanzone); keyboard purchase advice (Jonathon Hodges); PCB mounting fix for picture stability (Robert Adams); Syntactic Sum FAST mode requirement and SAVE command anomaly (Alfred Spencer); 16K RAM supply history clarification from editor.