| A Peek at Chaos |
I’ve “done” fractals since the T/S 1000. With almost any machine, you may wander for yourself through places only the most esoteric of mathematicians wandered a few years ago. As I read lan Stewart’s book, Does God Play Dice? my enthusiasm was rekindled, and you see the result below. |
Sinclair QL |
| Akin Brings ABACUS to Life for Followers of CATS |
Once again–this time at the February meeting–one of our CATS members provided an excellent presentation on a subject dear to all the troops in Clive’s army. AKINBOLE OLOWOFOYEKU (A’keen for short) provided an exceptionally illuminating discussion about the program called EXCHANGE, and how it works with ABACUS. |
Sinclair QL |
| Baltimore Beckoning CATS |
DUANE PARKER, leader of CATS’ hardware special interest group, has implemented a series of alternate-site, off-date meetings for the greater Baltimore area. |
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| CATS BBS is UP! |
Mark Fisher has just informed the newsletter staff that the CATS Bulletin Board system is now up and running. |
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| Computer Fest and Hamboree |
The Greater Baltimore Hamboree and ComputerFest is coming to the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Md, on 6th ard 7th of March. |
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| From The Editor |
This month’s newsletter is being done differently this month. It seems that my QL has come up with a bad keyboard. In fact, even the spare keyboard came up bad after a few weeks. So hear I sit typing in my column on an old CP/M computer. |
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| God's Dice |
Oh boy, ANOTHER chaos book. The Chaos book industry has a problem. The first books in the field were of such a quality that their successors just don’t have much of anywhere to go. Mandelbrot’s The Beauty of Fractals collected examples of all the current graphic incarnations of the field, while Glick’s Chaos, The Making |
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| Modem Review |
I recently bought a new 2400 Baud pocket modem to use with my Z88. A pocket modem is just a smaller version of a full size modem. They are approximately one quarter the size of a standard modem. |
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| Predicting Lunar Eclipses |
Throughout mankind’s history, its societies have placed great importance on the motions of the moon around our earth. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Presidential Ramblings |
I goofed! Tim’s deadline completely escaped me, so I’m simply jotting down a few lines during Akin’s demonstration in the hopes that Tim will type them up for me. Akin is giving us a ‘”twofer” He’s incorporated a demonstration of XCHANGE along with his usual complete demo of his Abacus knowledge. And now that I’ve |
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| Some QL Procedures |
I have listed four procedures I have found useful. The first (NAME) is a label printer which allows you to select the number of copies you want. Lines 25121 to 25126 are input error traps. Lines 25125 and 25126 may be changed if you want more than 10 copies. Line 25130 the backslashes after Print |
Sinclair QL |
