NESQLUG News
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New England Sinclair QL Users Group
Newsletter of the New England Sinclair QL User Group.
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| A Visit to Sharp's | On my New Year’s vacation I was able to visit with Mark of Sharp’s computers in Mechanicsville, VA. We had an good talk some of which you may want to know about. | |
| Alarm Kill | A short program to kill any alarms. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Computer Widows and Orphans | Last meeting Mrs. Cable and her son, Rigel, enjoyed visiting at the Boehm’s house although she did not attend the meeting proper. (They had been specifically invited.) We (Al and Dorothy Boehm) would like to extend an invitation to the other members of your families to visit on the day of the meeting, particularly if | |
| Directions from the Director | We meet every other month, but there’s been a lot of talk about more frequent meetings. Some of the proposals: All of the above have my support and perhaps someone has a better idea. I like best going to members houses and seeing how their QL is set up. What do you think? | |
| Directions from the Director | We have officially become: At the January 5th meeting I hope to have more on the eagerly sought privileges and august responsibilities of such status. | |
| Directions from the Director | It was with some amazement that I read in the last NESQLUG newsletter that I was assigned the title of director. I remember volunteering to set up the meetings, then I remember leaving the room to get Some coffee – oh well, I’ll try to do my best. | |
| DO FILE Commands | In the past few weeks I have had three requests for information on hooking-up an IBM CGR or RGB Monitor to a QL. The following information will allow anyone with Soldering experience to make an appropriate cable between the QL and an RGB monitor. | Sinclair QL |
| Editor's Notes | As we conclude the first full year of operation our membership has grown to nearly 40 and includes trans-Atlantic members. We are also now a sub-Group of Quanta, the first in North America. | |
| Editor's Notes | February, as this is written, may not be the cruelest month but it sure gives the blaghs. The holidays are over, and the days get longer but not much warmer and spring still seems years off. | |
| Editor's Notes | The observant among you will note that we have already changed our name to NESQLUG. This is because we like pronounceable acronyms, and the NEQLUG sounded like asking for a candy wafer while gulping. | |
| Editor's Notes | With the new year comes new things. Notwithstanding that this is still Volume 1 of NESQLUG News (our year runs July to June), January brings many changes. | |
| Editor's Notes | This is the first newsletter from the NEQLUG, a reconstitution of the Boston Computer Society’s Sinclair/Timex User Group, but dedicated solely to the QL. | |
| Editor's Notes | For once this editor has a number of hobby horses to ride, and the problem is to choose which one the challenging gauntlet, the kudos-to-all, or the self-serving praise. | |
| File-Saver Alarm | With the QL’s tendency to lock-up (a problem experienced by most owners sooner or later). its a good idea to periodically save your work to disk or microdrive. That way, you should lose only that work done since the last save. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| From Out of the Ashes Rises T/SNUG | We have just learned that Don Lambert from Indiana and Bob Swoger from Chicago have taken the bit in the teeth and begun publishing what SNUG hasn’t. We have seen the first issue of, (sit back now!) ZXir QLive Alive, an expected quarterly, supporting all of Clive Sinclair’s computers, with news and programs. | |
| Job Openings | For nearly two years Joyce Blaho has abley acted as our newsletter liaison officer. | |
| Jonas_Term | Several years ago Mike Mitchell wrote a SuperBASIC program that got the QL on line with a modem. It was far from perfect, particularly as the QL has difficulty receiving data at the serial port, but it was widely copied in newsletters. Independently, Mike Jonas wanted to use an unexpanded QL to access a remote | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Lighthouses | The logo on Newsletter cover depicts a Lighthouse spreading its beam across the ocean, to guide the vessel to a safe haven. I wonder how many realise that the Lighthouse, as it is known today, owes its origin to a blind man? | |
| Meeting Minutes | The New England Sinclair QL Group met at the home of Al Boehm on September 8, 1990. There were twelve people present: Al and Dorothy Boehm, Pat and Carol Condon, Joyce Blaho, Gary Norton, Will Horton, Norm Shein, Ernest J. Wider, Peter Hale, Michael Jonas, and Ed Kingsley. We were happy to see that Pat | |
| Meeting Minutes | Al Boehm demonstrated a world map graphics database from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) adapted for the QL. The Program uses run length encoded data to draw a map of the world or any specified range of latitude or longitude. The data permits resolution to 10 nautical miles. | |
| Meeting Minutes | The New England QL Sinclair Group met at the home of Al and Dorothy Boehm on November 3, 1990. 14 people were present: Al and Dorothy Boehm, Gary Norton, Dick Taylor, Bill Cable, Norm Shein, Roy Arsenault, Will Horton, Mike Jonas, Sherm Waterman, Fred Romer, Peter Hale, Mike Mitchell and Ed Kingsley. Dick Taylor demonstrated | |
| Meeting Minutes | The New England Sinclair QL User Group met at the home of Al Boehm on July 7, 1990. There were 17 people present: Al and Dorothy Boehm, Joyce Blaho, Peter Hale, Gary Norton, Norm Shein, ed kingsley, Don Burns, John Wloch, Sherman Waterman, Mike Jonas, Bill Clark, Fred Romer, Dick Taylor, Roy Arsenault, Mike Mitchell, | |
| Meeting Minutes | Al notified us that Dick Taylor had resigned for personal reasons and since Sherm Waterman hadn’t been able to make the meeting, he was elected Treasurer and Membership Secretary. Welcome Sherm! | |
| Megabytes of Free Software | Over the past 6 months NESQLUG has been engaged in establishing contacts with the International Freeware Exchange (IFE). | |
| Membership News | ||
| NEQLUG Program Library | At the March NEQLUG meeting it was suggested that a large body of software for the QL has been published in QL World, QUANTA, Time Designs and Update magazines which might be of interest and use to members of the group | Sinclair QL |
| NESQLIBrary Update | I was heartened to see a renewed interest in the Library as evidenced by the “taking” of (14) programs to type-in by eight of those present at the last meeting. I received (7) programs from three people present and one rom A. P. Lewis Ill, a member currently in absentia (or was it Rhode Island?) | Sinclair QL |
| NESQLIBrary Update | A Newsletter or two ago, the matter of exchanging software Libraries with other User Groups was discussed. Hugh Howie, NESQLUG member and QL librarian of the TORONTO TIMEX-SINCLAIR USERS CLUB, has sent us theirs for ours and it becomes the first of what I hope will become a number of such exchanges with other QL | |
| NESQLUG Software Library Update | Our thanks to the many of you who brought in (and demonstrated) software at the June meeting. We had a record turnout the last time we met, and virtually everyone took one or more new programs home with them to key in. For the benefit of those unfamiliar with these programs, volunteer key punchers please | Sinclair QL |
| NESQLUG Software Library Update | Thanks to everyone who brought in and demonstrated new software at the September meeting as well to those of you who mailed in new material. | Sinclair QL |
| New England QL Group Meeting Minutes | The New England QL Group met at Al Boehm’s home on May 5, 1990. There were 13 people present: Al and Dorothy Boehm, Peter Hale, Ernie Wider, Ed Kingsley, Richard Taylor (brought a friend), Roy Arsenault, Sherman Waterman, Gary Norton, Bill Cable, Joyce Blaho, and Don Burns. | |
| Ordering Overseas | Ordering software and/or hardware directly from overseas can be very simple and rewarding or difficult, drawn-out and frustrating. The most difficult hurdle to overcome is foreign currency exchange. Unlike the rest of the developed world, where currency exchange is a normal part of everyday transactions, U.S. banks are unprepared to supply foreign currency and have | |
| Pokes | From the Milwaukee SMUG Bytes, which copied it from the Chicago NITE-TIMES NEWS came the following tid-bits on useful POKE. | Sinclair QL |
| Production Notes | For the first time the entire issue of this newsletter has been produced on test87. Previously, the newsletter was produced in part from Quill, passed through Bi-columnifier to generate two column format, and then bits and pieces such as the page numbering were cut and pasted. Then each page was photo-reduced, and the camera-ready copy | |
| Public Domain | The last year has seen a significant decrease in new programs for the QL. Tony Tebby has moved to France following the sale of QJump to Care Electronics. Digital Precision has not released a new program since PC Conqueror, PDQL is not meeting their shipping dates and in spite of the ads, | believe that | Sinclair QL |
| QDOS and Floating Point Numbers | When working with assembly code and C code, it is important to understand how the QL interprets floating point numbers. This is essential when working with graphics or arithmetic routines. | Sinclair QL |
| QL Journey | Once again I experienced that little ‘rush’ I get when I receive something from fellow QLers. I can’t wait to get through the rest of the mail so I can sit down and leisurely digest the QL info. This time NESQLUG NEWS Vol 1, No 2 even tossed out the challenge for one Steve Ostrander | Sinclair QL |
| QL Journey: Odds 'n Ends in QDOS and SuperBasic | At first glance, SuperBASIC appears to be not too different from some of the other BASICs I have been involved with. But, there is one very important difference. Here is a BASIC language that is structured. In my college BASIC course, I learned that BASIC was a computer language taught as an introduction to computer | Sinclair QL |
| QL to IBM RGB Monitor Connections | In the past few weeks I have had three requests for information on hooking-up an IBM CGR or RGB Monitor to a QL. The following information will allow anyone with Soldering experience to make an appropriate cable between the QL and an RGB monitor. | Sinclair QL |
| Questionnaire Results | I received (13) questionnaires out of a possible (31) which, as surveys go, was pretty good. Normal response is about 20% and we had 40%. Thank you for your support. See results below. | |
| SMUG Export Report | | travelled with Bill Cable of Wood & Wind Computing to the SMUG Expo in Milwaukee the first weekend in June. We were both vendors so it was deductible. The journey itself had some exciting moments to report, but not here. | |
| The Switch to Disk | I originally bought the Sinclair QL computer in order to get a machine that had “real computer” features at a price I felt I could not refuse. This was in 1987 when IBM compats were selling for $2,000 or more and the market was saturated with game playing computers, such as the C-64 and various | Sinclair QL |
| The Under $10 Solution | Students use lots of “milk crate” type storage containers to store their essentials (The less said about this, the better), and Lo!, a box of fan-fold fit quite nicely inside of one and the printer nestled comfortably on the top. | |
| Using Eye-Q and Imagix To Draw Lighthouses | Enclosed you will find a few pictures showing the development of an idea, based on your Lighthouse. I have retained the QL in the light as I think that was an inspiration. | Sinclair QL |
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