Again another issue has taken longer than I wanted to come out. Since the last issue one important thing has happened to further complicate my life. Her name is Ashlyn Nicole; 7 Lbs 2 oz, born 23 November at 5:17 PM.
Recently I attended a local book sale, that had a good selection of computer books. I was able to pick up a few books that I wanted to add to my library. Namely, “Mythical Man-Month” and “Software Tools in Pascal”. I picked up a few that looked interesting and worth the small price. I did pick up a copy of “The Elements of Programming Style” real cheap and am willing to send it to the first person to respond. I’ve already got a copy, but I could not pass on picking it up for 80 cents, especially when it still retails for over $25.
I do have some news items. Recently on USENET a new newsgroup has been created, called comp.sys.sinclair. This newsgroup is aimed at the discussion of all Sinclair computers, although the majority of traffic has been on the Spectrum. I have seen some relatively new QLer’s looking for sources of software and hardware. I will be posting future issues of the QHJ to the newsgroup, hoping to expand the readership.
As some of you may know, another part of my computer hobby is collecting older computers. I have recently found a new group that shares the same interest. The Historical Computer Society puts out a bi-monthly newsletter called “Historically Brewed“. It has articles talking about older computers. Issue number 3 was Dec 93/Jan 94, so they are fairly new.
Before I finish, I would like to thank Emiliano Barbaini for contributing an article for this issue. He also worked on the natural language C program that I asked for help on. I will be providing this in a future issue.