Saw this in an electronic magazine an page 13 of Electronics Now, February 1995 “but can a non-professional really wade through multi-megabytes of code? That is why a number of hobbyists are rediscovering the eight-bit systems and early IBM personal computers. They are understandable, inexpensive and fun.” All the big memory computers have one fault and that is one size fits all. If you want to personalize a program for yourself it is virtually impossible to do it yourself and the pros want big bucks to do it for you because they do it to please themselves not you.
For those of you that have the 747 Flight Simulator there was an article in READER’S DIGEST, January, 1995, that gave some flight specifics: take off speed 180 mph. Cruises at 37,000 feet at 600 mph. The first production model prototype for testing rolled out September 30, 1968. It is 232 feet long. Cockpit is 30 feet from the ground. 22 crew members and 57,000 gallons of fuel. The 747 is a growth from the 707. 1 have ridden in both. The 707 had more room for each individual passenger but then it had less cruising range. It is no feat for a 747 to fly nonstop from Detroit to Narita Japan in about 13 hours.
In the March 1995 issue of Popular Electronics is an article by Jeff Holtzman (pages 68-69) on object-oriented operating systems. That gets into hierarchical trees which is a way to represent relationships among families. Wait a minute Lambert you done sprung that long “h” word what gives? O.K. in DOS that would be C: C:FINANCE C:FINANCE1992 C:FINANCE1992JAN. But wait a minute this is T/S not MSDOS! How true, yet with the Portuguese ZEBRA TOS that uses object system, it is quite in line. TOS allows you to have up to 15 DIRectories on a disk plus the disk name. So what does that mean? Well, for an example suppose you have a disk with games on it. You could label the disk GAMES and that is fine and dandy. But suppose you want to play a board game and it has been some time since you played games, is TARZEK a board game, an action game or a word game? So you create a DIRectory BOARD and WORD and ACTION and when you SAVEd the games originally you put them into the proper category. Then when you want a board game you would CAT*:GAME:BOARD and it would display only the files under BOARD. There was more promised for the next issue of Popular Electronics, but I couldn’t find the article.
Start planning for the next Dayton ComputerFest that will be held August 26-27. Flea Market space will be available after May 31. The’94 ComputerFest drew over 44,000 attendees. See you there!
Just fixed one of my two TS-2040 printers. I thought that I would have to replace the jack. What had happened was that the Jack had tilted away from the circuit board on the connector wires that are in the rear of the jack. So I mixed up some epoxy and clamped it in place till the epoxy dried. Working now. I also have an Alphacom printer for a spare. I use a TS-2040 printer on each of my two working TS-2068 computers.
I have been doing some soul searching and have concluded that I have no intention of ever working with the TS-1000 computer again, I have lots of stuff related to the TS-1000 that I would like to find a happy home for. At the present moment I have not inventoried the extent of my stored TS-1000 related items so if there is any one particular item you are looking for let me know. An offering price that includes shipping. You will see my ads from time to times. I have a CAI stringy floppy interface with extra wafers (the little tape cassettes if anyone is interested send me a letter with an offer). Expected shipping is about 6 lbs.
I solved the on again off again static electricity problem. My computer chair has a leather seat and I wear two different pants at home, one is a pair of blue jeans and the other is some artificial fabrics. The blue jeans are not prone to static build up but the other one are so. 1 must remember to lay my hand on the ground strip (grounded through a 1 megohm resistor) before I even put my hands close to the computer. Slide on the swat of the chair in the artificial fabric pants and it is snap and crackle time. 0/0.