Reader input plus other notes of interest.
First of all I would like to thank all of you who have written to congratulate us on our first birthday. I also want to thank those who have written with suggestions and complaints.
As we are still an infant publication it helps quite a lot to know what you are thinking. We have used your suggestions in the past and want to continue to hear them. Please address your comments to me: Scott Duncan, c/o T-S HORIZONS, 2002 Summit Street, Portsmouth, Ohio 45662.
Just when I was ready to give up on putting the finishing check marks on my Christmas shopping list. This letter came across my desk, It looks like the perfect idea for us eleventh hour Santas.
Dear Mr. Duncan,
I am very pleased with the quality of your magazine. Enclosed is a pretty amazing offer that Sinclair computer users will be interested in (I have dropped the world “Timex” from my vocabulary). Please pass it along in your next issue.
Sincerely, Leonard G. Holmes, PHD
HARDWARE DEAL
American Surplus Trading (62 Joseph Street, Moonachie, New Jersey 07074) has TS1000 computers (w/o power supply) for $14.95. They guarantee that the computers work, and they do stand behind their guarantee.
It is an early “Issue 3” computer with 3 socketed chips, the Z-80A is actually a Zilog chip.
They also have 2040 printers for $14.95. The printers are sold “as is” and include a 24V transformer (which needs wires, a plug, and a housing). They do not guarantee the printers, but mine worked. Also, the transformer that they sent me has both 5V and 24V on it. Pretty good for under $20. You need to add $3.50 + 10 percent for postage and handling. Their ad is in the latest issue of Popular Science.
Of all the letters I’ve opened at T-S HORIZONS the following two have made it to my cluttered bulletin board. Thanks to Harvey Schmitt and Kevin R. Bulgrien for their reader input.
Dear Mr. Duncan,
People call me a trusting person–too trusting perhaps. But this time I’m sure that TSH is far too elaborate a scheme to be a scam–put me down for 12 issues.
Sincerely, Harvey Schmitt
Dear Sirs:
Enclosed is my request for a subscription. After two other TS related subscriptions bit the dust, I’m looking forward to this one which I hope sticks around. I would like all issues of “HORIZONS” except for #4 and #5 which I already have. Send ’em quick – I’m starting to drool already…My ZX awaits…
Thanks, Kevin R. Bulgrien
Now lets try to answer some questions. If anyone has a suggestion for one of these readers send it to me and I’ll be sure they get it.
TASMAN Question
Dear Sirs:
I am writing to tell you how much I enjoy your magazine T-S Horizons. I hope that I and all of the other T/S 2068 computerist can depend on your magazine to not drop out of the market.
I am also writing to ask you to send me the address of the magazine Syntax. You mention this magazine in your September issue. I also want to ask if you would review some of the new items out to permit the use of Spectrum software by the 2068.
The last item that I wish to ask is if you could ask your readers if any of them could tell me how to use the TASMAN interface with a Silver Reed EXP 400 daisywheel printer. The printer use standard ASCII (642) code. The problem is one of timing. I don’t get the right letters all of the time.
Thank you, Sincerely,
James L. Wells
Dear Reader:
The SYNTAX address appeared in issue #9 of T-S Horizons, but here it is anyway: SYNTAX, TSH0984, Harvard, MA 01451-0667.
CPM for the ZX81
Dear Sir:
Have been receiving your small magazine for the past little while and really enjoy it. Hope you keep it up.
Would it be possible to query your readers as to the possibilities of CPM Compatibility on their ZX81? I have occasionally run across some older advertisments that suggest CPM compatibility. A product named “Timebox” by the Val Corporation was advertised in various magazines in the boom years of the ZX81. If any of your readers have succeeded in running CPM on their ZX81, I would very much like to hear form them.
Keep up the good work. You have many friends here in Canada.
Thank you, Donald Tambeau, 11 Carium Road, Box 856, Schumacher, Ontario, Canada PON1GO
Well Readers, consider yourselves queried.
From the Land Down Under
Dear Sir:
My subscription to your magazine and to San Fransisco’s Timelinez – form my somewhat tenous link with developments concerning the T/S 2068 and naturally I eagerly await reception of both publications. Disappointingly, as of this date, I have yet to receive copies of issue #5 – April/May 1984 and issue #7 – July/August 1984, although both issues #6 and #8 have arrived safely and promptly.
Consequently I would greatly appreciate your efforts in determining if, in fact, these “precious” issues have been dispatched! – and rectify the situation! I’m most impressed with your publication, its worthwhile content and pleased to be a subscriber.
Yours faithfully,
W.R, Reid
Auckland, New Zealand
Sorry for the delay, W.R. watch your mailbox.
More on TS Computing
First of all, I have to congratulate you on your anniversary issue especially the cover. The new “T/S HORIZONS” design is fantastic. Besides that, it has the added color feature. The issue itself is superb (aren’t they all?). Now, to answer Rick Duncan’s second question about that guy (?) Michael Wilson. That article was more than appropriate it was needed. I was going to subscribe to “TS Computing”, but I wanted a little more information about it. I wrote three letters to him and never got a reply. I tried to call him and like you, I was informed that his number had been changed. Then I read about him in your September issue, and again in your anniversary issue, I feel it is time to express my feelings about this individual. I want to see him come up with a magazine that has as much quality as half of T-S-H. He obviously does not have much intelligence if he thinks that the Timex future is bleak. And you can’t say much about someone who doesn’t even pay for something he orders.
I welcome any comments anybody might have about my sentiments.
Thank you, Cris Cottrell
Well, that’s it for the first installment of my hopefully informative column. Please write and let me know if I should do it again in issue eleven. Remember, when writing to include a return address and even a phone number if you want. We often get mail without either ani it becomes impossible to Process an order or answer a question.
Have a Merry Christmas and we’ll see you next year.