The RAMTOP Jan-Feb 1988
Date: Jan-Feb 1988
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The front cover features images of users from multiple user groups that met in Columbus, Ohio, in January 1988. The images were digitized using the SMUG Digitizer.
Articles
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| 88 North Coast Computer Fair | Fair scheduled for October 8th and 9th, 1988. | |
| Amstrad-Sinclair-Timex Resources | News of the Florida T/S Fest, newsletters, Tim Stoddard’s battery backed real-time clock module for the TS 2068. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| From the Editor | James DuPuy describes how he created the images on the cover. | |
| Letter from Max Schoenfeld | Max shared his 1988 Income Tax Program with group members. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Member Gets Media Attention | Greater Cleveland Sinclair User Group member Toby Radloff has been portrayed in Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor comic book. | |
| Screen Splitter | Using this amazing screen splitting utility routine enables you to make a SCREEN$ in one of 30 different ways, combinations of top pixels, middle pixels, bottom pixels, and attributes. Reprinted from The Dallas-Fort Worth Expansion, which reprinted it from Your Sinclair, December 1987. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Sunstate T/S Winterfest '88 | Reprint of the announcement. | |
| The Editor Special Edition v2.05 | Digital Precision has produced its latest and last version of its text editor, The Editor Special Edition. They’ve really thrown in all the whistles and bells in version 2.05. There are major improvements and additions over previous editions of both the regular Editor and older versions of The Editor Special Edition. The Editor Special Edition | Sinclair QL |
| The Trump Card | The Trump Card is simply the most useful single addition you get for the Sinclair QL. It combines a disk interface, 768 kilobyte RAM expansion, Toolkit II for SuperBASIC extensions, a screen dump, static and dynamic ramdisks and a dynamic printer buffer. When you consider that even the lowest cost 512 Kb RAM expansion and | Sinclair QL |
| Using QL C, Part 4: Using CRUN | The Metacomco C package for the QL includes SuperBASIC extensions for emulating UNIX when running C programs. The commands are CRUN and CRUN_W. Two major features of the UNIX operating system are the ability to “redirect” the input and the output of a program, and the ability to read the arguments passed to a program. | Sinclair QL |
| Why Timelines BBS was Founded and What is Timelines BBS? | Timelines….BBS was founded out of frustration of not having a Timex/Sinclair BBS that I could log on to that spoke my. language (Sinclairees). When I bought my TS-2068 computer and TS-2050 modem I thought that I could do some modeming like the Apple and I.B.M. computer users do. What I found was that there were | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |