Fairware, Jack Dohany, 390 Rutherford Ave., Redwood City, CA 94061. Jack is a subscriber. Jack’s cottage software business, has a catalog of various useful software titles. To get the catalog send $1.00 to Jack. Now WAIT! Should a catalog be free? It costs to answer correspondance and send free stuffin and our suppliers are operating on a low budget. You’ll save the buck on your first order. Other software suppliers are: Chia-Chi Chao, 73 Sullivan Drive, Morago, CA 94556: RMG Enterpizes, 1419 1/2 7th St., Oregon City, OR 97045: S & K Enterprizes, 2107 SE 155th, Portland, OR 97223.
Some larger Cottage industries supporting the TS-2068 are: Lempke Software 2144 White Oak, Wichita, KS 67207: BYTE POWER, 1748 Meadowview Ave, Pickering, Ontario L1V 3G8: John Mathewson, 1852 Appleford St., Gloucester, Ontario K1J-6T8. One last mention for this issue: Grey & Clifford, PO Box 2186, Inglewood, CA 90305 kinda specializes in Telecom hardware and software. I killed my wallet with them, buying a Modem, Specterm 64, ZSI/O, and I’m just now getting well. UP-DATE endorses all of these suppliers as honest dealers who stand behind everything they sell. All of the larger dealers will keep you on their mailing list if you order something each year. But you will be glad if you try the smaller ones also.
I had an interesting talk at the Fest with Bill Pederson, the engineer who designed the electronics flight control system for the F4 Phantom aircraft. Bill probably has the most knowledge of any person about the SYSCON managemnt area of the TS-2068, which is the Memory Bank Switching routines. I have invited Bill to do a complete series of articles for UP-DATE about using extra memory, and to include some building projects. One of his prototype boards contains the extra 5V power supply (mentioned earlier) to power external devices. And he has external devices! How about 20 megabytes of extra RAM, and a re-designed control system for the extra memory! I’d settle for less, but better management without ROM bugs. See you in the pages.