I have become more and more convinced that the future of Sinclair computer users lies in them getting to know and use the Internet. Those who have not entered into using a modem with their computer and finding out how to get on the Net are doing themselves a disservice irregardless of the reasons they give themselves for not doing this. There is much in the way of information, programs, tips, graphics files on the net that deal with “our” computers! As more of us go onto the Net, this will increase. And the ease and relative lack of expense to use electronic mail can save you both time and money. So far this is easily done with the QL, and only a little harder for the Z88. To get a TS1000 onto the Net may be possible, but it will need for someone to give it a VT100 Terminal Program and more memory than 64K. The TS2068 also needs a VT100 Terminal Program, but it should not be that difficult to write. Perhaps one exists already for the Spectrum? Anyone know about this? I can help most of you to get the memory you would need for the TS2068 to go online. Check out the last couple of issues of UPDATE for info on the Internet and give it a shot! Meanwhile, here are just some of the places on the Net you can go surfing. I got most of this information off of the Internet by means of email sent to me. See how simple it is to make friends with people who will share information with you? Most of all, disregard all of the garbage in the mainstream media about all of the horrible stuff (like pornography) that they tell you is on the Net. If it is there I do not see how you will find it unless you go looking for it. If you wish to, that is a subject I leave totally up to you as I will not be one of those casting stones at you. The important part of the Net is the information and communication skills it will help you develop, not the minor sticking points.
Editor’s Notes
Subject: Sinclair Resources
Date: 31 Mar 1996 13:39:41 -0700
Organization: Computer Science Department, Colorado State University
ftp://uhura.ijs.si/pub/zx
ftp://ftp.dcc.uchile.cl/pub/OS/sinclair
ftp://ftp.nvg.unit.no/pub/sinclair
ftp://virgo.inesc.pt/pub/games
ftp://ftp.itu.edu.tr/pub/systems/spectrum
ftp://ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/zxspectrum/pub/incoming/zxspectrum
ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if-archive
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/misc/if-archive
ftp://ftp.sun.ac.za/pub/misc/sinclair
ftp://ftp.gui.uva.es/pub/sinclair
ftp://akira.uc3m.es/pub/sinclair
ftp://drson.vse.cz/pub/sinclair
ftp://ftp.polsl.gliwice.pl/pub/systems/ZXSpectrum
ftp://ftp.komkon.com/incoming/Spectrum/pub/Spectrum
ftp://lst.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/incoming/kio /incoming/kio/readme
ftp://ftp.lanprojekt.cz/pub/sinclair
ftp://ftp.vse.cz/pub/386-unix/linux/system/emulators/spectrum
ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/pub2/spectrum
ftp://maya.dei.unipd.it/pub/sinclair_QL /pub/sinclair_QL/spectrum
ftp://tardis.soc.staffs.ac.uk/pub/sinclair
ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/sinclair
ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/emulators/spectrum
http://www.nvg.unit.no/spectrum/contents-a.html
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/users/ian.collier/Spectrum/index.html
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~tsp93ma/Coupe/
http://www.maths.nott.ac.uk/personal/cpg/zx81/index_old.html/
http://www.gre.ac.uk/~bm10/zx81.html
http://spodbox.linux.org.uk/~majik/sinclair/
http://relcom.eu.net/zx/
http://www.islandia.is/wooster/
http://www.nvg.unit.no/spectrum/stevo/stevowww/stevowww.htm
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~dmb/speccy/
http://ireland.iol.ie/~sjones/
http://www.hermetica.com/technologia/sinclair/stevo/gamedbs/gamedbs.html
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/students/zcacbb1/spectrum/speccy.html
http://jumper.mcc.ac.uk:80/~simonc/
http://www.il.ft.hse.nl/~ben/sinclair/sinclair.html
http://www.freeflight.com/fms/Z80
http://lia01.unizar.es/curro/spectrum.htm
http://osiris.sund.ac.uk/~ca4aba/snaps.html
http://drson.vse.cz/snapsearch/
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~rjc394/
http://spodbox.linux.org.uk/~blood/
http://sable.ox.ac.uk/~sjoh0132/
http://diana40.paisley.ac.uk/~com40014/index.html
http://paul.rutgers.edu/~savoiu/spectrum/
http://www.gatewest.net/~cpb/lom.html
http://www.ugr.es/~pedrom/sinclair.htm
news://comp.sys.sinclair
gopher://gopher.nvg.unit.no
listserv: lserv@psg.com subscribe sincnews <usercode>@<host.domain>
bbs: Venture +358-0-8092126 [Finland]
ftp://budda.tixm.tambov.ru/d/incoming/crems/speccy
ftp://spodbox.ehche.ac.uk/pub/users/majik
ftp://alba.easynet.co.uk
ftp://ftp.zx-museum.org.ru