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News roundup covering several topics: Harmer’s experiments with an MS-DOS word processor and dot-matrix printer for producing TS Bulletin; his work on a short machine code text compression algorithm for orphan computers (ZX-81/TS1000, TS2068, C64) that achieves ~52% compression using an approach short enough to fit in ~400 bytes, unlike standard Huffman/LZ algorithms that require 3-4K. Also covers a TS2068 Pascal compiler released to the public domain and placed on the Ottawa-Hull TSUG BBS, Donald Lambert’s ZX-81 LDOS disk system now running with a Tandon drive, and the transformation of Boston TSUG into the New England QL User Group.