It is hard to get QZX caught up. I am now traveling around a bit, which makes it even harder. I had prepared the last issue in Las Cruces and took it with me to San Diego to be copied and mailed. Unfortunately someplace between the computer printer and the Xerox shop in San Diego it disappeared, never to be found again.
Fortunately it was stil in the computer in Las Cruces, so when I returned I put it together again, printed it, and had it mailed after I left once more. This issue was supposed to be put together on my next visit home, but unscheduled events postponed that. I have the next several issues blocked out so, although I am still traveling, the issues should come with more frequency (about 14 MHz instead of 7, I guess).
While I was in San Diego, I visited a surplus store which had a few computer related items. They had nice small TV monitors about one foot in each dimension for $20. These would be very good for our computers using one of the circuits which have been published in QZX (see, for instance, July 1986) for monitor connections. They had a wide assortment of keyboards, mostly for MSDOS type computers, but some suitable for Sinclairs. There were a few other items for the Commodore 64 and lots of Apple Ile boards but no additional Sinclair items.
On Saturday, May 14 the second annual North American QL/QDOS get together will be held in Newport, Rhode Island. Last year the biggest complaint against the show was that it was too short. The list of vendors who have said they will be there exceeds seven from both sides of the Atlantic. Several others have expressed interest. For more information contact Bob Dyl at (404) 849-3805. I have no mail address at this time, but you could write to Update Magazine at Box 1095. Peru, IN 46970. Update, by the way, is having a special sale of back issues which ends in March. That magazine is a large quarterly filled with real information about our computers.