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title: "News of a Local Nature and Larken Electronics Update"
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excerpt: "Reports on a September 1990 Ottawa-Hull TSUG meeting (5 members), noting continued use of Timex/Sinclair computers alongside IBM compatibles, and active BBS usage (613-745-5538, 300/1200 baud) including out-of-town callers. Dave Solly is club librarian and is active in TS2068 Pascal and IBM PC Turbo Pascal programming; a public domain Pascal compiler for TS2068 is on…"
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Reports on a September 1990 Ottawa-Hull TSUG meeting (5 members), noting continued use of Timex/Sinclair computers alongside IBM compatibles, and active BBS usage (613-745-5538, 300/1200 baud) including out-of-town callers. Dave Solly is club librarian and is active in TS2068 Pascal and IBM PC Turbo Pascal programming; a public domain Pascal compiler for TS2068 is on the BBS. Also covers Darken Electronics focusing on their CNC router/plotter (originally programmed in Pascal on TS2068) while weighing continued LKDOS board production; broad LKDOS adoption across US user groups; and Harmer releasing his ZX-81/TS1000 LDOS manual in pre-publication chapter form.