| Calendar Program Needed |
Several Christmas’s ago, a young nephew of mine gave each of his aunts and uncles a large, computer-generated 12-page 8-1/2″ X 11″ calendar on which all the birthdays, anniversaries, and other important dates of the family were printed in the appropriate calendar blocks for the year. It was perfect, because that year, I didn’t need |
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| Computer Speed, Here's More |
Back in June of 1989 I wrote some programs for the QL in three different languages (Forth, Pascal, and SUPERBASIC) to illustrate differing speed obtained by a threaded/interpreted language, a complied language, and our standard QL interpreted language (see 9/89 and 1/90 CATS NL). The program was a 17-line program (Superbasic version) that would determine |
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| Data Transfer on the Serial Port |
Many users now own or have access to more than one computer and find one may have certain advantages over another for creating and editing data files. At times it is easier to create a file on one system but another may offer more flexibility for printing or storing these files. Sometime we may just |
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| From The Editor |
From last month’s issue, you can see that the meeting dates are a bit erratic. This means that the newsletter deadlines will be erratic. Some of the article deadlines will be just days after the meeting. I can’t change this, because it takes so many days for the newsletter to get from my door to |
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| Hubble Space Telescope |
The HST, launched in April, showed by June that its largest mirrors were out of focus and in need of a fix. But it is nevertheless providing some great astronomical research. |
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| Jack Dohaney: Software/Hardware |
Jack’s specialty is producing for the 2068. He has been at computer programming for some years and has developed many upgrade issues of programs like the word processor, MSCRIPT. Readers who attended the North West Computer Fair in Portland will remember that Jack was verbal in his ideas, and was probably the only software programmer |
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| Little Languages |
The first part of the exercise is to define what part of the LOGO language we will implement. I looked for commands that should translate fairly easily into SuperBasic, but I also wanted some control structures so that I would not handicap Little LOGO. |
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| Next Workshop |
In the December workshop we continued our work on the disk cataloging program. Herb Schaaf brought in the 13th modification of his version (he claims to have Babagge’s disease – he will have to tell you what that is!), and Lee Gayman contributed some better screen displays. No other projects were accomplished – I guess |
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| Presidential Ramblings |
SEASONS GREETINGS EVERYONE! Although I’m writing this before the start of any of the Holidays, you’ll no doubt read it after they’ve all been celebrated except New Year’s Day. I trust they were special for each and every one. |
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| QLIPS |
We have all had that “crashing” experience with the QL. and wonder now often the crash is our own fault? My own little beast burden had a problem at one time, but after some operation on its innards, the crashing was not quite so frequent, until recently that when I installed plastic carpet saver under |
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| Special Get Together |
Hey, CATS members, make like BATS in January and come to Baltimore (actually, Linthicum). Because of our rearranged schedule, the Executive Committee has decided to have an extra “Special Get Together” on January 19th, 1991 at the Linthicum library on Hammonds Ferry Road, at Shipley. We have the room from 1- 5 PM. Tom Robbins |
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| Stepping Rate Fix |
The May 1989 issue of Capital District T/S Computer Club’s newsletter told of two members using TS2068’s with Larken having trouble DOS reading each other’s disks. It seemed that Fred Lewis could read John Warren’s disks but John could not read Fred’s disks. This sounded familiar to me as I once had trouble reading disks |
Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| The Printer Port |
I want to tell you about what has to be the best printer value for Sinclair users on the market today – the PANASONIC KX-P 1124. It’s a 24 pin printer and what a great toy! The Epson compatible, QL printer that I got in 1984 when i bought my QL had begun to show |
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