| "Devouring Fungus" | I saw a posting on Usenet about a new oddly Devouring book, Fungus” called “The Karla Jennings. The poster described the book as containing interesting and amusing stories about computers. Always looking out for a new computer book, I rushed out to buy the book. | |
| Computer Stories | These are a number of humerous computer stories that I came across a few months ago. You might find them interesting. I have typed them exactly as I recieved them. A friend was having a problem with a sticky keyboard for his Mac. | |
| Computers at GSFC | CATS was fortunate indeed to have Mr. Carroll G. Dudley–from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt–agree to be guest speaker at our November meeting. His theme was: “Big and small Computers at Goddard”. | |
| From The Editor | Welcome to another issue of the Newsletter, as small as it may be. The reason for the last couple of newsletters being a bit on the thin side, is a lack of articles. Over the last couple of months I have seen the number of articles submitted for publication slowly dwindle. | |
| Little Languages | In his book “More Programming Pearls”, Jon Bently discusses the idea of little languages. The world of computers is filled with languages of various sorts, some large, some small. Most of us think of the large languages like Basic, C, and Pascal, when we hear the word language. | |
| New Workshop | In December we again plan a workshop session (sorry, but November’s Workshop Notice got lost). Bring in your ideas and hardware and software at 11:15 AM. We plan to work on the following projects. | |
| Presidential Ramblings | November’s meeting provided. a change of pace from our normal Sinclair related program. If the weather caused you to stay at home, you missed an interesting presentation from Mr. Dudley of the Goddard Space Center; but Hank will be writing about the program elsewhere in this issue, so I’ll say no more. | |
| Preview of Newsletters | CATS exchanges newsletters with several groups in the U.S. and Canada. Every month these newsletters are available during the meeting. Take the time to look over the newsletters. All have good articles about the family of Timex-Sinclive computers. | |
| Spiral | Here is a program that generates nice spiral on the screen. To get a good symetrical screen dump use the Stan Lemke’s PRINTER program in the Jan. 1989 issue of UP DATE magazine (our library has a copy if you don’t subscribe). | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Vector Characters | There are basically two ways of drawing characters on a computer, pixel-based and vector-based. Pixel-based is what most computers use. The characters are stored in a binary bit pattern corresponding to On and Off pixels. The left character in the diagram is a pixel-based character. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
