Exchange Newsletters

Since renewing our publication schedule in January, BoSTUG gets exchange newsletters from many groups across the continent.

The newsletters are available to members at the bi-monthly meetings. When someone figures out how to keep track of loan-outs, they will be available for take- out and mailout. Suggestions!

Quality and quantity vary. The most reliable is the HATS from Lemoyne, PA, with whom we tied for eighth place in the Time Designs Magazine contest in May.

Vernon Smith, who edits the Washington, DC, CATS newsletter puts out the meatiest and most professional newsletter. It won second place in the TDM contest and was the top newsletter produced on a Sinclair computer.

This editor is pleased that some of what we publish is of interest to others. The Chicago area Nite-Times News copied Mike Mitchell’s article and listing, “Telecommunications on the QL”.

What was most interesting is that they got it from the Phoenix, AZ, based QZX which specializes in Sinclair Telecommunications.

We don’t even exchange with then, yet! They got it from the group in Dallas. By the time it got back to us, a POKE had been added and a line changed. Congratulations, Mike!

We have also uncovered in the BCS archives exchange newsletters from 1983/1984, the heyday of Sinclair computing.

We really need a Coordinator of Newsletter Exchange to summarize the best for inclusion in this newsletter. It has gotten beyond the abilities of the editor to keep up. Volunteers, PLEASE!