August MHTSUG Meeting

Last month’s meeting started at 2 PM as scheduled.

The monthly newsletters received were read and reviewed. A great package from William Pedersen of The WIDJUP Co. was shown that will turn your printer into a high resolution plotter. The sample Mandelbrot printouts are impressive, and a disc also is included with a demo. I am writing to Mr. Pedersen to inform him that the MHTSUG does not have the means to load any discs at the present time. This will be of continuing interest and look for more information soon.

Demonstrations of a TS1000 running a disc drive was set-up by Andy Hradesky, and explained the pros and cons of the system, which operates more like a fast tape drive system because there isn’t any DOS contained in the system. Only BASIC commands are used by the driver firmware which occupies about 2K of memory above address 16384, Large programs, that have less than 2k of margin to load, will crash.

Curt loaded ZX-TERM 80 from cassette tape, using QUICKLOAD, in about 30 seconds into his TS1000 and displayed 32, 40, 60 and 80 column print all at one time on the monitor. The program was written by Fred Nachbaur, et al., and will run either the Westridge TS2050 or Byteback MD-2 modems.

A TS2068 displayed the digitized video from a camera, using both the original software from the Toronto TSUG and VIDEOTEX by John McMichael.