| 1989-1990 Membership List |
This is CATS’ current membership list. The numbers to the right of the name indicate the date the current membership expires. If you find there is a mistake, please notify the Treasurer. Special thanks go to Barry Washington for putting the list together and Mark Fisher for working with the file to get it into |
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| BBS Report by Mark Fisher, SYSOP |
We’ve got a Kaypro! It’s been a long road, but it looks like we’ll be able to drive the BBS through our newly acquired K-10. It will offer 300 or 1200 BAUD service (what the heck how about 9600 BAUD?), and allow up to ten Megabytes of data storage. In today’s terms, that ain’t much, |
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| Electronics Plus Expands Facility |
Computer hardware buffs will be pleased to hear that BILL ALLEN, longtime friend of CATS, has expanded the clectrical offerings his old location at 9600 Baltimore Boulevard, College Park, MD. Part of the building adjacent to the old ELECTRONICS PLUS has been taken over to form a NEW SURPLUS OUTLET |
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| EMSoft Keeps QL Software Afloat |
The twice-yearly catalog from EMSoft (Estate Management Services) recently arrived. EMSoft continues to do heroic work in keeping proprietary software for the QL prominent in our consciousness. |
Sinclair QL |
| From the Editor |
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| From Where I Sit |
Several months ago, | suggested that we start a series on how we used our computers. At the time I thought that it would be interesting to see the QL in a wide variety of settings. Who knows, it might have contained the spark that caused another person to say, “Hey, I need to do |
Sinclair QL |
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| Presidential Ramblings |
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| Some Archive Utilities |
Archive is, arguably, the most powerful of the Psion programs. It is an extremely flexible data base system. One feature lacking is a reasonable directory system. With 720 k disk space, one can have a lot of data bases and programs on one floppy–and not all Archive files. The directory command in Archive lists all |
Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Uncle Clive's Holiday Party Here |
Believe it or not, the time is rapidly approaching for the Fourth Annual CATS Sinclair Holiday Celebration. And it’s something YOU can be a part of while at the same time making history, if you get the drift! |
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| Using Smartterm II for data uploads |
Problem: I had promised Vernon I’d upload the membership list to the BBS. OK so far, except that I had only loaded CODE files into the buffer before, and the mem-list copy I got was stored in a character array file on tape. |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
