What, We Worry?

For those of you who thought that we were just a couple of non-existent characters beyond your end-of-line marker, we decided to trip your NMI and create a full display file. Of course that’s quite easy to do from a Bent ROOM. Anyway, this should prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are indeed a couple of real characters.

To the left is creator of Profile, an avid Ham Hacker and naturalist who escaped from civilization by moving to the northern frontier and roughing it. As civilization encroached upon his settlement, with it came the local 5 & dime stocking oodles of TS computers, Then, bitten by the bug, Tom Woods has moved into the forefront as a true TSelebrity. There were rough times too. Publishing SWN Vol. 1 and Profile 2068 simultaneously, left him bound and gagged. As you can see by the picture, he has unraveled himself, although he is still looking for those bytes that the bug got. Of course, nowhere in the TS owners manual does it say that TS computers are not set up for multi-tasking, but then again, who reads that book anyway?

In the center, we have the grand father of SyncWare News (funny, he doesn’t look that old). In contrast to Mr. Woods, Fred Nachbaur left the northern frontier and escaped to high society (Los Angeles). Once there, he endeavored to the heights of electronic wizardry, creating battery backups. The Granddaddy BBU just by chance is located on the file cabinet just to the right. (Fred, when do I get it back?) After surviving an extended stint down South, and not to be out done by Mr. Woods, Fred once again trudged northward. Fred is a confirmed “analog” man. In contrast to the digital world of steps, Fred likes nice smooth ramps up and down. Well, I guess you have to learn to crawl before you learn to walk. Of course, Fred has now had a chance to dabble with IC’s and has come up with some award winning fixes for TS Computers of all sizes. Needless to say he is uniquely qualified.

And in the lower right corner is the illustrious editor (do you seriously think that I would roast myself?) of SWN. I have always enjoyed the high tech field. As a pilot, some years ago, I found myself grounded due to the lack of usable air in the Northeast Corridor. Needing the feel of real power in my hands, I grabbed hold of a black box and started tinkering. As of today, I am still tinkering, trying to figure out and understand what I am doing. Although I have done a lot, its usefulness is questionable, (By the way Tom, I found a couple of more extra bytes in the 8K ROM. Maybe you can use them.) Since SWN has come on the scene, I have been able to channel my efforts, I just need to remember to connect my interface so that my streaming I/O doesn’t go in one ear and out the other.

And a serious note: This photo was taken on 4/19/85, shortly before SWN 2/5 was completed. It was the first meeting for the three of us. By far our largest competitor is distance (and Ma Bell), but SWN has grown tremendously this year. We expect to grow even further in the next year. SWN presently: circulates 1500 legal copies, and you can rest assured that there are a lot more readers than that. We hope to expand in size (more pages), but the TS economics prevent this presently.