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EXPLANATIONS about this Issue
UPDATE is getting lots of mail from the “Subscriber Family”. Most of the letters have some real good TIPS and Programming information. I studied and studied about how to present the data and decided that the best way is to just print some of them exactly as they were received. This way I wont chance disturbing the meaning, or lose some of the detail. If the reader desires more information about the subject he can write to the author direct. And, if the reader has MORE information about the subject, for goodness sakes send in the information to be published!
QL or TS-2068 or Z88??
Last issue UPDATE decorated the pages with nice little pictures of these fine computers. The idea was that if a minature computer appears at page top, then there is something on that page about the bugger. You may have to look pretty closely to find the reference, but it’s there. (Maybe just an ad?) OR, if the PROGRAMMING given in the article can be used with more than one computer, then the page top will show more than one. The article may be about QL programming, but may also be applicable to the TS-2068 or the Z88. We will continue this because I like it, it saves writing explanations, and many subscribers have said that they like it too.
Magazine SIZE
Now last issue was too durn big! To keep that up would require revenue enhancements. Now when politicians say “revenue enhancements”, you and I know that they mean MORE TAXES. But for UPDATE it means that ole Bill would have to dig further into personal finances to publish the rag. So, I’ll try to settle down at about 50 pages and hold at that. Anyway, last issue was a splurge to publicise our fine User Group newsletters. I shot the budget with that, so will have to regroup.
By the way, some have been worried about UPDATE’s status. We’re at about the break even point now, with over 400 subscribers and more coming in every day. I lied a bit about “near 100% renewals of subscriptions, but it “came true”. There were about 75 subscribers who hadn’t renewed. A copy of the october issue was sent to each of them with a renewal notice “betting on the come”. I can tell you that all except three responded.
One wrote and said, “I appreciate what you are doing, but I’m 79 years old and I cannot understand a word in the magazine. I guess that I am too old to learn, so I’ll have to drop out”. I wrote back a thank you note and said “I’m no spring chicken either, and this is helping me to ward off senility”.
Quite a few have ask for some more fundamentals, so this issue will present some earthy articles on programming. Hope you like it. Now I’ll give you a short review on the LARKEN LKDOS VERSION 3 EPROM.