This announces that Frank Davis, 513 East Main Street, Peru, IN 46970 will be taking over as publisher of Update Magazine with the October 1990 issue. We hope that the subscribers will not notice any change in quality or depth of coverage except for the better. I am delighted that Update will be a survivor publication and will be published under such competent leadership as Frank Davis can provide. I will help Frank as much as he requests to keep Update an excellent publication.
Frank Davis is a long time user of both the TS-2068 and Sinclair QL. He has recently been involved as the SNUG Librarian for public domain software. Frank was a key person in organization of the 1988 Computer Fest at Indianapolis and has been the editor of a TSUG newsletter. In addition Frank is in close coordination with other SNUG officials in Indiana who will be at hand to assist in keeping Update Magazine a good publication.
For those of you who have articles to publish please keep on sending them in. I will turn over all un-published articles to Frank when the July issue is finished. I am looking forward to having more time to spend on programming and my sailing hobby. Also I promised to take the Wife on a cruise in the Virgin Isles.
The hints given in Update recently that I was about to quit publishing brought on many letters urging me on. That was enough to make me reach out to find someone to carry on the magazine. But how can one sell ice to Eskimoes, Confederate currency, an old treasure map, a sunken boat, or a non-profit magazine? But the effort paid off. Now we have another dedicated publisher to keep Update going, the first Sinclair Timex magazine to survive the quits. I urge all to give Frank Davis your support. Re-subscribe and try to bring in another Sinclair Timex user as a subscriber. There are many inactive S-T “owners who are not users”. We need to find these folks and encouraged them to subscribe to Update and re-join this enthusiastic group. The subscribers really are an enthusiastic group having a convival spirit of friendship with a common interest.
Update is your magazine. There will be some complexion changes,, likely for the better. Each publisher injects his own personality into the pages. Since all Sinclar – Timex supporters are eccentric characters beyond help from couch analyists, Frank Davis will likely bring in a new set of egocentrics and incomprehensibles for you to enjoy. I quit with the hope that you are still trying to figure out whether or not I have any literary talents or am truly the curmudgeon that one of our subscribers suggested. My intent all along was to confuse while injecting humor and a bit of satire to twit the perfectionists who look for nits in the forest of verbs, pornouns, and infinitudes, and find many because Update is too poor to hire a proof reader. Its the beef that counts.
I also would like to remind everyone that Update Magazine is not a profit venture. The best that a publisher can hope to do is to avoid losing money. The best that I could do during the three years was to put aside enough funds to pay for the upkeep and entertainment on board the 200′ yacht “White Star” as we plyed the seas between issues. (Now I’ll tell you. The “White Star” is a 45′ sailing yawl, built in 1936 at Bristol, Conn. It was our family vessel for 10 years and was given to a boy’s club in 1968 when I was sent to serve my Country in Viet Nam. Sailing gave way to publishing three years ago and will be resumed with salty zest.)
A good gesture of support to your new publisher would be to send him your subscription renewal for 1991, which becomes due after the July issue is received. I wish Frank Davis and the subscribers to Update good tidings. -BJ-