BCS Sinclair-Timex User Group Newsletter v7 n5
Date: September/October 1988
Volume: 7
Issue: 5
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Articles
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| About Tooklit II | Are there any QL owners who if they don’t have TK2, have not been strongly advised to get it? Anyone who has keystroked COPY mdv2 _fred to mdvl_fred a zilllon times to backup media finds WCOPY worth the price alone. Certainly, the Toolkit II manual is a forbidding document. There is no tutorial; just a | Sinclair QL |
| BCS Programming Project | The BCS Sinclair/Timex User Group has launched a project to develop a state-of-the-art BBS program for the T/S 2068 computer. We are looking for volunteers to participate in the project. A knowledge of Pascal or Z80 Assembly language would be helpful. We will build advanced features Into the software, Including 1200 baud, Xmodem, and networking | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Bingo | There are one or two Sinclair computer users who play Bingo, or whose family does. From the ‘HACKER’, the official newsletter of the Timex/Sinclair User Group of Las Vegas, NV, comes this gem for the 2068 that prints out BINGO cards on a 2040 printer. QL users may want to convert to a SuperBASIC program | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Columnifying Quill | The trouble with having been a working programmer in one’s youth is that you spend the rest of your life under the constant threat of getting readdicted to that particular form of obsessive compulsive behavior. (The trouble with being an exprogrammer who’s also a Published Author, by the way, is that you feel obligated to | Sinclair QL |
| East Coast Sync Fest | The Capital Area Timex Sinclair Group (CATS), Washington, DC has announced it will sponsor a Sinclair Computer Fest in May, 1989. Major Vendors are participating and it is expected to be the outstanding Sinclair Fest. A major advantage of this fest is its central location on the East Coast and will expect attendance from some | |
| Editor's Notes | Tine Designs Magazine recently had a newsletter competition for Sinclair/Timex User Groupe. We submitted our May issue. Surprisingly, we did not finish last. Nor, did we finish first. Said the judges, “…. clean production. Interesting articles … leaning more heavily to the QL. This Sinclair SIG has been around since “day one”. It has had | |
| Exchange Newsletters | Since renewing our publication schedule in January, BoSTUG gets exchange newsletters from many groups across the continent. The newsletters are available to members at the bi-monthly meetings. When someone figures out how to keep track of loan-outs, they will be available for take- out and mailout. Suggestions! Quality and quantity vary. The most reliable is | |
| LARKEN RAMDisk for T/S 2068: A Review | I recently received an order from Larken Electronics with Ramdisk on a medium-sized (3×7) circuit card and a replacement EPROM chip for the LKDOS disk controller cartridge. The chip is an updated version of the disk operating system so that LKDOS can support the Ramdisk. The Ramdisk board has a feed-thru connector that plugs into | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Magazine Reviews | Orphan computers are lonely and have communication problems. It is not enough to be loved. If that orphan is a Sinclair, the other problem is magazine costs. (Sinclair users operate on tight budgets and UK subscriptions also take forever to arrive.) Six vital magazines are published in North America-land and maybe you don’t know about | |
| Psion Productivity Tips | In the three years since getting a QL, I continue to be surprised at little secrets it reveals. | Sinclair QL |
| Quill Filesaver | More than once, my QL has mangled a long Quill document through poor disk or microdrive I/O. Either I removed the cartridge before closing a file, or the QL tried to write part of the file to a non-existent track on the disk or the QL crashed. The result is the same – any attempt | Sinclair QL |
| SNUG as a Bug | On cold evenings of my childhood my grandmother would wrap me in a handwoven blanket and settle in front of the fire to read me a story. But before the story she would always say, “and there you are, snug as a bug in a rug.” Then sense of being protected has lasted with me | |
| SNUG Conference | [Minutes of the SNUG Sinclair North American User Group) conference of 8/17/88 on Compuserve] We met on the Timex section of Compuserve on Wednesday, August 17 at 9pm to discuss SNUG. Among the 13 active participants were: Mel Nathanson (Chairman pro-tem of SNUG), Gary Lessenberry (of CATUG), Paul Holmgren (ISTUG), Sysop Dave Rothman (Compuserve), Jim | |
| TS 2068 Machine Code: A Book Review | Introduction to 2068 Machine Code by Dr. Lloyd Dreger & Advanced 2068 Machine Code by Dr. Lloyd Dreger / S.M.U.G. [A note to readers: The differences between “assembly language” and “machine language” are subtle and unimportant in this review. For the purposes of this article, the two terms may be considered equivalent.] There are many | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| WHEN_ERROR | The listing in the Atomic Powered QL, in the last issue, had an error. | Sinclair QL |