Nice Days Are Made Not Had
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Indian Summers, brisk fall football weather and general elections are back with us. Time flies when you are having fun!
As you have probably seen by now, we have increased our size again. Another 16 pages, and it has finally put us over the 100 page mark. You may also have noted that we have opened up our composition and layout somewhat. We think that with that many pages there ought to be a little space to open it up and give it air.
And by the way, to answer some recent complaints about too many ads, I recently took a survey of my own, using the same measuring stickthat is used against us. In their September 1980 issues, 80-Microcomputing had 48.8%, Creative had 49.2% and Byte had a whopping 64.4%. 80-U.S. for that issue had 35.5%. So there. For every page of ads there is a corresponding increase of about two pages of space for articles.
Unfortunately, it also gives us more space in which to screw up. Here are the corrections for the Sep/Oct 80 issue:
Corrections (Ouch! Dept.)
Our Notes in Sep/Oct 80 carried an item on Peek and Poke for the Model II. In the first patch listed, the "find string" (F=C5CD2061) should have been F=AFCD2061. Other than that, it works as advertised. Some callers said that it was not necessary todisablethe passwords first, but we found it necessary to do so on our machines.
The article "A Basic Z-80 Disassembler" starting on page 31 needs a line added to correct for certain conditions. Add line 625 as follows:
32767:N1!=32767+N3!
Our NFL-PIX is doing well, it picked 50% the first week and 64% the second. Here is a correction for NFL tape only, and only for those few that got out with this glitch: Line 26023 has the word "CHANGB", it should read: CHANGE?". (Replace the B with a question mark and quotes).
In This Issue
Our feature is on page 17, and covers the new Model III from Radio Shack. We had hoped to have "hands on" by this time, but the machines were not shipped yet. We did the best we could from the operator manual.
Sound Ideas - on page 20 is a construction project for those who want noise/music from their TRS-80. The author offers the parts kits in various stages at the end of the article.
Solar heat as an investment is the subject of an article on page 24. Not bad, since the government gives tax advantages if you do it.
Matrix manipulation is the subject of the article starting on page 28. This one should be just right for you algebra students trying to solve for multiple unknowns.
Then there are reviews and other short related subjects (not too numerous to mention, though). We think this will be our best issue yet, but you sort of know we will try and top it next time!
Remember that nice days are made, not had. It's all up to you. And - tell them you saw it in 80-U.S.
Mike
In our July-August 1980 issue on page 44, one of our authors made reference to "another firm operating in Berkekey that claims to have a system such as Omikron's". There are several more references to the "other firm" in that article. Although the other firm was not mentioned by name, Parasitic Engineering, Inc feels they were being referred to (see letters, this issue), it was not the intention of 80-U.S. to slur anyone, and we regret the fact that this implicaton occured.
Got the 9-digit ZIP Code Blues?
Looks like the Post Office has done it. We now are up against a 9-digit ZIP. There is talk that they may require a hyphen between the first five and last four digits, and possibly even an alpha character following it. How is this going to effect your mailing programs? Do you have space for more digits, and can your program handle alpha characters as well? We have a program that can do all that and much more, and - it wasn't thrown together in a hurry to comply. It has been in use for almost two years on the Model I, one year on the Model II and it is field-tested and proven! We also have a Mass/Mail system for the Model II that will handle over 10000 names, with instant recall, in one disk-spanning file! All these programs have an 11 digit alpha-numeric ZIP. These programs are available NOW, from stock. According to the Post Office, compliance begins in February 1981 and must be complete by 31 December 1981. If you do not comply, then they will not honor your bulk mail rates. Call us for more information, we have been using these programs for over a year and can give you all the details and prices.
80-U.S. Software (206) 475-2219
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