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title: "Dear Editor"
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published_at: "2020-10-27T17:11:31+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-06-23T09:39:06+00:00"
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excerpt: "Keyboard audio tone; full-sized keyboard from Double H Electronics; detecting two keys at once; communicating via tape with someone in England; damaging keyboard leads; curing interference; RAM pack wobble; user-defined graphics on the ZX/TS."
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publication: "Syntax"
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authors: "Sidney Linton; William Mitchell; Randy Thompson; Wendy Roberts; John Reinhardt; Jon Harder; Robert Hartung; Clement Wehner"
volume: "4"
issue: "3"
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    title: "Syntax/Syntax ZX80 v4 n3"
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pubdate: "March 1983"
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---

# Dear Editor

Keyboard audio tone; full-sized keyboard from Double H Electronics; detecting two keys at once; communicating via tape with someone in England; damaging keyboard leads; curing interference; RAM pack wobble; user-defined graphics on the ZX/TS.