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title: "Dear Editor"
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published_at: "2020-10-27T17:12:05+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-06-23T00:45:05+00:00"
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excerpt: "Letters about languages other than BASIC; Syntactic Sum; stereo cassette players; MicroAce kit; hardware changes voiding warranty; constructing characters that are smaller."
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authors: "Bill Peckenpaugh; Daniel Deadmore; Edward Goettman; William Kresl; John Morrison; Tom Roseland; Stephen Levy"
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---

# Dear Editor

Letters about languages other than BASIC; Syntactic Sum; stereo cassette players; MicroAce kit; hardware changes voiding warranty; constructing characters that are smaller.