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title: "Short Items: Products, Fixes, and Notes"
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excerpt: "A collection of brief items: Maxcom BBS system for TS2068/LKDOS disk users praised by Ralph Hammer in the Las Vegas TSUG newsletter (available through RMG Enterprises); Cambridge North America filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy with Sharp continuing as sole Z-88 importer (reported by Nazir A. Pashtoon/SMUG); VideoCopy/VideoTex software by John McMichael connecting the TS2068 video digitizer…"
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A collection of brief items: Maxcom BBS system for TS2068/LKDOS disk users praised by Ralph Hammer in the Las Vegas TSUG newsletter (available through RMG Enterprises); Cambridge North America filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy with Sharp continuing as sole Z-88 importer (reported by Nazir A. Pashtoon/SMUG); VideoCopy/VideoTex software by John McMichael connecting the TS2068 video digitizer to the Okimate 20 printer for VCR image capture ($20); a POKE fix for the Timemachine BASIC compiler (Herb Schaaf); Jack Dohany’s MScript upgraded to v5.5; TS1000 hardware from Gary Young in Marion IA; TreeFORTH source code released for non-commercial use by Bob Alsum (a TS1500 with TreeFORTH in ROM reported on surplus market); TS2068 disk library utilities by Rudy A. Hilsmann; and Computer Shopper discontinuing Sinclair articles.