---
title: "PUG News"
type: "article"
slug: "pug-news-7"
url: "http://localhost/article/pug-news-7/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/article/pug-news-7.md"
published_at: "2026-03-14T13:52:23+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-03-14T13:52:34+00:00"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "Discussion of upcoming PUG leadership changes and new officers; January meeting produced a volunteer (Rita Toth) to liaise with Nevada prison inmates learning Sinclair BASIC; group modem purchase (about 20 members); Jack Dohany demonstrated early version of MSCRIPT improvements at January meeting including Timex Portugal disk drive review. Sunset Electronics published new books including 'Computer…"
category:
  - name: "Timelinez"
    slug: "timelinez"
    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/periodicals/timelinez/"
post_tag:
  - name: "User Group Minutes"
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    url: "http://localhost/tag/user-group-minutes/"
indiv:
  - name: "George Mockridge"
    slug: "george-mockridge"
    taxonomy: "indiv"
    url: "http://localhost/indiv/george-mockridge/"
publication_r:
  id: 21571
  title: "Timelinez"
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  url: "http://localhost/periodical/timelinez/"
authors_r:
  - name: "George Mockridge"
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    taxonomy: "indiv"
    url: "http://localhost/indiv/george-mockridge/"
volume: "4"
issue: "1"
issues_articles:
  - id: 38829
    title: "Timelinez v4 n1"
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    url: "http://localhost/issue/timelinez-v4-n1/"
pages: "1"
pubdate: "January 1986"
archive_link: false
---

Discussion of upcoming PUG leadership changes and new officers; January meeting produced a volunteer (Rita Toth) to liaise with Nevada prison inmates learning Sinclair BASIC; group modem purchase (about 20 members); Jack Dohany demonstrated early version of MSCRIPT improvements at January meeting including Timex Portugal disk drive review. Sunset Electronics published new books including ‘Computer Interfacing Techniques in Science’ and DOCK-IT manual for TS2068 eprom programmer.