The RAMTOP Fall 1991
Date: Fall 1991
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Articles
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| Brothers Two | A human-interest piece about Jon and Rose Kaczor’s two young sons Zak and Adam, who patiently support their father’s computing hobby. A warm tribute to the families behind the club’s membership. | |
| Farewell from Your Previous Editor | DuPuy’s farewell column after stepping down following a stress-related health scare in July 1991, having edited the newsletter since 1984. Reflects on the club’s printing history, contributions from Ted Knyszek and Al Gedris, and concerns about treasury health and rising postage costs. | |
| It's Still BASIC, Isn't It? (Part Two) | Part two of a tutorial mapping Sinclair BASIC commands to their IBM BASIC equivalents, covering LOCATE vs PRINT AT, TAB, SPC, PLOT/PSET, CIRCLE, LINE/DRAW, and box-drawing commands. Working code examples accompany each comparison to help Sinclair programmers understand parallel IBM constructs. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Just Like Freddy Kruger | Thomas Simon’s inaugural editorial as the new editor, announcing a quarterly schedule and outlining projects including a MSCRIPT shell for SPDOS. Compares DRDOS 6 and MSDOS 5, offers observations on the Tandy 200 laptop, and argues for the continued relevance of Sinclair BASIC. | |
| Late News Flash: Amstrad Discontinues Spectrum +3 | Brief news item reporting that Amstrad has stopped production of the Spectrum +3 (the model with a built-in 3″ disk drive) and plans to discontinue all Spectrum products by December 1991 if sales continue to fall. | Sinclair ZX Spectrum |
| Sinclair Publications List | A brief reference listing active Sinclair-community publications with contact addresses: Update Magazine (Frank Davis, Peru IN), ZXIR QLive Alive (Don Lambert, Auburn IN), the International QL Report (Bob Dyl/Sea Coast Services, Newport RI), and the FDD Newsletter (Brooklyn NY). |