| Editor's Page |
Editorial notes covering the new 2nd Bytes computer store and the TS2068 Safe Disk Up-Date newsletter ($12/yr, Panama City FL). Letters section addresses a credit dispute between Roelof Mulder and R.A. Hilsmann over the SQ Notes menu program (editor sides with Hilsmann), and a request from John Sheppard for information about the FD68 disk system |
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| From the Pres. |
Brief presidential update noting the upcoming annual meeting and officer elections, plus a schedule of regional Ham/Computer fests: MSOE (March 5), Madison (April 10), Cedarburg (May 7), and Manitowoc (May 14). |
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| Midwest Computerfest Seminar Video Tapes |
Notice that video tapes of seminars from the 1st and 2nd Annual Midwest Computerfests are available for purchase. The 1st Annual tape is $8; from the 2nd Annual, the first seminar is $10 with additional seminars at $2 each, up to $40 for all twelve. A list of seminar titles is included. |
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| So You Want to Write a Program! (Part II) |
Second installment of the structured programming tutorial. Provides BASIC code for the menu function (lines 5–680) featuring arrow-key navigation and GOSUB dispatch to sub-functions, followed by the New List dimension function (lines 1000–1990) for initializing a name/address data structure. The listing is intended as a practical model for well-structured BASIC program design. |
Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| SQ Notes |
Installment of the SQ Notes column presenting a modification to the VU-FILE database program for the Timex/Sinclair 2068 under the Oliger disk system in Sinclair mode, enabling 80-column printer output. Describes F$ string manipulation, a 19-byte machine code subroutine at address 28254 for automatic tab-setting, and switching between elite and condensed print modes. Full BASIC |
Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
