April 16, 1986 – 7pm, Vestal Library, the monthly SINCUS meet was held, 14 attending.
It was decided to get the next issue (this one) out to the membership a month earlier than usual as elections are next month. MAY 21, annual elections will be held. With only one slate of officers running for office, it will be your last chance for another year to put your name or best friend’s in.
The list of candidates and office, to date: The nominations were opened by Gary, closed by John Sims and seconded by Scott Eddy – to make all that offical –
President................John Sims(current Vice pres)
Vice president...........Gary Ennis (current Hizzhonor)
Treasurer................George Penney (current officer)
Secretary................Paul Hill (same one as last time)
Trustees.................Don Lamen (these three
Dave Schoenwetter guys were
Wes Brzozowski here last year)
Any last minute write-ins or floor nominations must have candidates willingness to serve. No sense electing someone who doesn’t want to or can’t serve the group.
SUNDAY – May 18 at the Vestal Library, from 2 to 5pm, the hardware project committee and all who show up will be treated to a how to solder your own full size keyboard up, a monitor jack for the TS1000, and Hal’s recorder transformer in a pill bottle will be the main menu. Clyde Tackley has ideas for plug in cartridges, and other possible projects.
The EMC disc drive was demoed, well sorta, Gary got the Portuguese setup, the TC2068, and 3″ Disc Drive set to go and it musta got car sick cause, it was NO go. Gary reports that it worked fine when he got it home! Figures. Well, the stuff looks neat, and having used it before, can say it is so FAST, the only thing faster is EEPROMs. You can still buy a
Portuguese disc drive setup from ZEBRA, not exactly like the one almost demoed, but almost.
Speaking of which, Clyde had several EEPROMS and a zero force insertion socket, and he had the programs up and running like WOW! He got his from Doug Dewey and the gang at Triangle Users Group, 206 James St. Carrboro, NC 27510.
We were also treated to a view of Lenslock, the fun game that comes with a helicopter flight simulator wrapped around it. It took two tries by a novice to read the blinken code. This was on a hi res RGB monitor, I bet on the old TV it is something else. The life of the lens surely can’t be long with a couple under ten year olds in the house! But you can get replacements if you return the broken pieces-all the broken pieces, please!!
We never did see the game in action. This will be a treat for the phyiscally or visually impared, at least the 2068/SPECTRUM loads easier than the old ZX81. These guys at Digitial Intergration are not out to lunch, even the documentation is black on blue, almost impossible to photocopy. But, if you can’t copy the lense, why worry about the documentation?
Thanks Gary for the demos, maybe next month??
SINCLAIR sells out to AMSTRAD for $7 million-details on next page.
TIMEX to market flat screen TV- a 20 pound price drop in England right off the bat!
QL production HALTED-future of the QL in doubt.
Timex to market a new computer -the 8602 ?? Mar/Apr Syncware News.
APRIL FOOLS DAY JOKE – how many started dreaming after they read that? The last item anyway- the rest are real!!