Notes from the Editor

There has been quite a bit on my mind as of late, and of course, it involves the Timex computers we all know and love. I have been reading, with ə great deal of skepticism, other newsletters that have been be-littling the CP/M mode that you can have with the Aerco Disk system, the Zebra FDD, the QL, or the Amstrad, for that matter. Why would you want to run CP/M on the QL, basically a graphics intensive machine? “Don’t waste my time with CP/M.” Believe me, I would not run CP/M on the QL, either whether it is a graphics intensive machine or not. I would not run CP/M on any machine that normally run a MAC affair or MS-DOS. I would run CP/M on a 2068 that uses the Z80 chip that CP/M had in mind all along. If you wish to talk about how cryptic CP/M is, then just sit down at an MS-DOS machine without the GEM environment and see what ‘CRYPTIC’ really is. (Yes, | am on my soapbox again, and yes, | do have my ‘dander’ up.) Do not get me wrong, I have used MD-DOS machines and they are a find thing, but do not step on CP/M. It is not as big as it once was, but that is no call to put down the system. I happen to like CP/M, as I am certain you have noticed, but I do not put down Timex. Every machine has its own capabilities, if CP/M is not what you want, don’t get it. MS-DOS is not what I want, so I probably will not get one. I am quite happy with the set-up that I have. If I were going to purchase a different machine, it would most likely be CP/M. I have used a Kaypro before, would like to try an Osborne, even a Xerox 820 with those big 8” drives, but I would never put down any system that does what it is intended to do! I suggest that you do not/to it either unless you have forgotten how many people looked at you in disbelief when you told them you had a TIMEX!