| Editor's Notes |
This editing business, it turns out, is actually pretty hard stuff, especially when you’re a mental spastic. Just as I was beginning to experience delusions of adequacy over getting out the last Newsletter, I looked through my copy and discovered that the middle page was reversed and that I had called for articles by NLT |
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| Helper - A File Handling Utility |
HELPER, a utility program written by Bill Cable of Wood and Wind Computing, Cornish, NH, is a terrific front end for the unexpanded QL. It is best used on a QL with extra memory, but will work on a 128K memory machine. It requires approximately 25K of memory for itself. |
Sinclair QL |
| Is the QL Dead |
In “Quanta” magazine and from our own NESQLUQ members, there is talk about switching over to another computer, usually an IBM. Surely, there should be no guilt over buying a new computer that better fits your needs? I suppose it is the idea of lost friendships that causes such feelings, for the QL has developed |
Sinclair QL |
| Me and My QL |
My system consists of a QL with Trump Card, dual 720K disc drives and a Star NX-1000 printer. I used to use ICE and Expanderam. They are now my backup system with one of my two spare QL’s. I re-ink my 10 printer ribbons with a MAC INKER from Computer Friends. |
Sinclair QL |
| Meeting Notes |
A “special” meeting was held to discuss what kind of presence NESQLUG wants to have at “Miracle In Newport 2”, and other topics of interest. |
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| Psion Tips or, Stripping to the Bare Minimum |
A “pure” ASCII text File, one without printer codes, is much more easily transferred between different types of word processors, Editors or computers. |
Sinclair QL |
| QED - A Public Domain Text Editor |
About two years ago, NESQLUG obtained a copy of the IFE Library of public domain software. The Index to the 7,523 Files (47MB of programs) of the IFE Library contained 309K+ of text in a single File. On the Index disk was.a “runtime” version of the PD editor, “QED”, which was intended to be used |
Sinclair QL |
| To Crash, But Not to Burn - Maybe |
In the last Newsletter I mentioned how Al Boehm happened to call me right after I had locked-up QUILL while “up scrolling”. He kindly gave me a short SuperBasic program which helped me to recover the text of the _doc that I was sure I had lost. His program allowed me to look through the |
Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
