Beginning with this issue, we shall have articles on the use of modems. A computer without a modem is like a race car without tires. There may be plenty of horse power under the hood but it ain’t going nowhere! If you are a ZX81/TS1000 or TS2068 owner and don’t have a modem, now it the time to get one while you still can! TS2050 Modems are still available from Mechanical Affinity in Indiana while MD-2 and MD-68 modems are available from BYTE-BACK in South Carolina.
There is a very special feature in the Byte-Back modem software for the TS2068 that may make you want to consider BOTH modems for your hardware collection. The MD-68 can download the BASIC programs of non-Sinclair computers and allow you to modify those programs into Sinclair BASIC! More on this in a future issue of ZXir QLive Alive!
The situation of QUANTA mentioned in past issues of NTN and ZXir QLive Alive! has come up continuously. Poles have been taken and the general consensus among the CONTRIBUTING MEMBERS of T/SNUG is to try, whenever possible, to clean up matters that pertain to our Sinclair community. Better that we bring them out and get them fixed before others get hurt and drop out, making our Sinclair users an even smaller group!
We users are the losers because there is some really good stuff out there and we can’t get it! A CATUG member ordered items from Canada and though his check was cashed, he never received the items! We have the bucks to spend which could mean hundreds for the vendors, but we can’t do business until matters get cleaned up! If you are willing to write about these problems, your opinions shall be printed.
My thought is, if you can’t take the flack, don’t make any, or correct the problems and get back to your customers. We users need our vendors!
Yes, Al. Input/Output is an open forum, Go for it!!!
Bob Swoger, Editor
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