| Crackle, Crash, QL Bashed! | Some of us, who have visited Tom Bent at home, are greeted by him in bare feet. He explains, “I am working on QL’s and I keep my feet bare to prevent static electricity.” I always thought, “Yeah, sure, don’t admit you’re hillbilly!” Well Tom, you’re right, we do need to take precautions to prevent | Sinclair QL |
| From The Editor | Welcome to another issue of the newsletter. It was nice to get some positive feedback -about the last two issues at the July meeting. Thanks. I am still on the look out for articles. Most of articles for this newsletter come from a core of users in the group. I’d like to see more articles | |
| General Interest Computer Books | Since computers are my main hobby, I enjoy reading books on computers. But after a while too many reference and programming books can turn the brain to mush. I am always on the look out for books that talk about computers in non-technical terms. I have found a number of good books that discuss numerous | |
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| Make Money With a QL? | At the CATS meetings, members often ask “How do you use your computer?” I use mine a lot for word processing, I set-up spreadsheets to help me reconcile my checking account, and I try to learn programming on it, but one project actually was paid work. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Microdrive Cartridge Storage | A handy storage box for MDV cartridges is the little 3 1/8″ x 2 3/8″ x 3/4″ metal box which dispenses “Sucrets” cough drops. Each box holds four MDV cartridges. I use one box to hold the four QL PSION programs and additional boxes for data related to the four programs, SuperBasic programs and thier | Sinclair QL |
| MicroEMACS | MicroEMACS is a popular text editor written to run an a wide variety of computers and operating systems (Unix, VMS, MS-DOS, Atari ST, Amiga, etc) including the QL and QDOS. MicroEMACS was ported over to the QL by Ken Norrie and is available from the Quanta Library. It includes the editor, documentation, and the C | Sinclair QL |
| Milwaukee "Family Reunion" | We enjoyed this Fest more than any of the others, since we hosted the event last year. You can’t imagine how many hours go into preparing for such an occasion. Many strange thoughts enter your mind, like — maybe no one will show up, the weather will be terrible, or not enough people will stay | |
| Presidential Ramblings | Finally, I am your legally elected President! The February meeting lacked a quorum when the vote was taken for me to fill Bill’s unexpired term and we lacked one at the June Annual Meeting when, at Hank’s suggestion, we went through the motions (no pun intended) pending later ratification. Fortunately, 20 persons were present at | |
| The C Column | This month’s program is a simple version of the UNIX utility we (word count). This program reads in a text file and counts all of the lines, words, and characters. The structure of this program is similar to last month’s program. The section that gets the file is the same. The while statement is the | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
