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title: "Dear Editor"
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modified_at: "2024-06-23T01:08:43+00:00"
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excerpt: "Questions about the Spectrum; entering functions; upgrading a MicroAce; sound from the ZX81; RST 28; merging programs; diodes."
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authors: "Russell Gagnon; R. J. VanEstenberg; Nivio Valois; Carl Bush; Patrick d'Entermont; Joseph Kuzma; Harold Miller; William Mitchell"
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pubdate: "November 1982"
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---

# Dear Editor

Questions about the Spectrum; entering functions; upgrading a MicroAce; sound from the ZX81; RST 28; merging programs; diodes.