It has taken a while to get this issue out. I would like to thank Al Boehm for submitting an article and making this issue that much bigger. I’m always ready to receive an article for submission. I’d like to see what programming other are doing out there.
The last weekend of August is the Dayton ComputerFest. For most Sinclair people in roughly the Mid-West area, it has been a meeting place, in lieu of a Sinclair Fest. The event is anchored by Mechanical Affinity (Frank Davis and Paul Holmgren of Indiana). Some of the local user groups attend as well. User groups like, SMUG (Wisconsin), ITSUG (Indiana), Chicago Area User Group, and the Dayton group (as small as we are).
In previous years, most of the Sinclair people would get together and go to a restaurant for dinner. This year I decided to put on a Bar-B-Q at my place and invite every one over. I wanted a place where everyone could mingle and chat with everyone. You normally don’t get to do this at a regular restaurant. With a total turn out of about 23 people, things went pretty well.
While at the ComputerFest, I finally broke down and picked up a 3.5″ 720K disk drive. When I was in Virginia a local QL user was able to transfer between formats for me. Now, in Dayton I’m sort of on my own. After some fiddling with the ribbon cable (the 3.5″ wanted it differently than the 5.25″) I was able to get it fully working. So, now I am able to handle both types of disk sizes.