In UPDATES No. 1, I noted that several people experienced unusual behavior of their computers when the Memotech 16K RAM pack was used to expand capacity to 32K. Bill Russell of Winky Board fame sheds some light on this common problem and gives a possible cure.
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Peter G. Govus reports that his West Paterson, NJ home was flooded by 4 feet of water not long ago. At the bottom of the drink was his T/S 1000. When the waters subsided, Govus put the air blower to his soggy machine. As soon as the thing was dried out he powered it up,
And Speaking of Water…. Read More »
D.A. Diemand, HMC, USN writes, “I’m using Pro/File aboard ship with great success keeping track of the dental status of 278 personnel.”
ZX Pro/File Sails the Seven Seas… Read More »
Last issue there was an extended modification to run “ZX” with the AERCO disk drives. This time, Steve Cottrell of Allen Park, MI sends his modification to run the program on the COMPUSA disk drive.
Pro/File Works with COMPUSA Disk Drives Too Read More »
When D$ is longer than 704 characters, report 5 errors prevent you from displaying the array when you PRINT D$. This short routine appended to PRO/FILE lets you read all the contents of D$ without a lot of fuss. Begin numbering the lines at 9000 or some other place where there’s room.
I was using PRO/FILE to handle a file and print-out of one line sales transactions, but entering the data of varying length and still keeping all segments of lines properly aligned caused me grief as well as a lot of “Data Too Long” errors. This revision of line 552 and an added line 554 prints
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Add or alter these lines of ZX PRO/FILE to make it work with Byte-Back’s P-2 serial print< er driver. P-2 can be located in any convenient memory location. Once you decide where you want it to be, determine the address of both the LPRINT and the LCOPY routines. The address for LCOPY will be stored
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I found that I required an INSERT facility for a filing job I was working on. This one works very well. After these changes are made to ZX PRO/FILE you can create an open line between two existing ones in order to insert a new line of text. Whenever the cursor is blinking while you
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Enhancements to PRO/FILE that are written in machine code can present a problem in deciding where in memory you should keep it. A long addition like Q-SAVE or FASTLOAD will usually be placed either above RAMTOP or somewhere in the 8-16K area of RAM if you have it to use. The biggest drawback to keeping
Machine Code in Pro/File: Where to Stick It Read More »
How ’bout some comments on Timex hardware suppliers? There are lots of ads in SYNC and elsewhere, but who is reliable and who is not.
A Forum on Hardware Suppliers? Read More »
Linking Pro/File’s data management capabilities with the rapid access and large capacity of a disk system is probably the single greatest improvement you can make to ZX PRO/FILE. If you obtain a disk system manufactured by AERCO you can make these modifications to PRO/FILE to pack your data base with enormous whollop.
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