| Dayton Computerfest |
For me, there’s always something very special about meeting face to face with the Sinclair faithfuls. So for the 6th time I sat at the CATS’ table to share computer successes and frustrations with other Sinclair devotees. Each gathering becomes smaller, but no less enthusiastic. |
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| From The Editor |
This issue is a bit bigger than the last couple of issues. The trickle of articles is picking up. Actually, the articles by Herb Schaaf were given to me a few months ago (along with two others) and I forgot about them until Herb mentioned them to me at the last meeting. |
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| Messing With Headers |
With ToolKit 2 and some other utilities it is possible to read from and write to selected parts of a floppy disk. |
Sinclair QL |
| Micro-Torque Wrench |
I’d been having troubles with a 3.5” disk drive. I had eliminated some obvious faults, such as the rubbing of the spinning parts against the table top, and whether the connectors were in upside down. |
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| Presidential Ramblings |
Our October meeting was excellent, primarily because Herb Schaaf went first on the demo of the disk cataloging program. I didn’t have time to get my part of it in. He had visuals, on screen, actual demonstration of the program, and finally a show of how the Archive database that was developed from it would |
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| ZX-81 10th Anniversary |
Last month at the Federal Computer Conference, they had key-note address on the 10th anniversary of the IBM PC. On a big screen monitor they played those old IBM Charlie Chaplin advertisements. This started me thinking and it dawned on me that this year was the 10th anniversary of the Sinclair ZX-81. The ZX-81 was |
Sinclair ZX81 |
