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excerpt: "Complaints over proposed magazine price increase; altering Westridge modem software; retain memory contents after crash; bugs in JRC assembler/compiler. InfoWorld's news page carried a report about TimeStar and the Timex Sinclair Computer. Synchro-Sette carried a similar article in March. Your publication was quick to denounce such reports as unfounded rumor, and even to assert that…"
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# Dear Editor

Complaints over proposed magazine price increase; altering Westridge modem software; retain memory contents after crash; bugs in JRC assembler/compiler.

***

InfoWorld’s news page carried a report about TimeStar and the Timex Sinclair Computer. Synchro-Sette carried a similar article in March. Your publication was quick to denounce such reports as unfounded rumor, and even to assert that Timex was not negotiating or had received no proposals. It seems interesting that the last major publication for Timex Sinclair Computers can not find out information that a magazine like InfoWorld is able to obtain.

It seems to many of us that you would better serve your own interests, as well as your readers, if you would investigate this possibilty fully and encourage [Mr. Higgenbach](http://localhost/indiv/david-higgenbottom/) (sic) instead of throwing cold water on such a possible deal.

Lonnie Kendall, Reidsville, NC

I believe in the stance taken by news stories in SYNTAX — KO.