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 CONTENTS

Vol 8 No 10 October 1985

Cover story begins page 132

Photograph by Crispin Thomas

NEWSPRINT 108 SUBSET 206

Guy Kewney's regular look at the real Hints for making the most of your micro.
stories behind the news. 208
SCREENPLAY
YANKEE DOODLES 124 Take up boxing, explore the Temple of
David Ahl unwraps his crystal ball to Doom, road -race across America, dabble at
predict the fortunes of the American magic and tangle with a vicious poodle-
industry. all without leaving the comfort of your
favourite armchair.
LETTERS 126
A pasting for Amstrad heads this month's TJ'S WORKSHOP 212
selection of letters, plus our Bludners Hints and tips enabling you to make the
brought up-to-date. most of your micro.
SUBSCRIPTIONS 128 COMPUTER ANSWERS 216
Lighten your pocket and load up your Simon Goodwin presents the solutions to
postman. your problems.
NETWORKS 218
Peter Tootill tracks down the latest bulletin
boards.
END ZONE 220
Touchdown for Transaction File, Diary
Data, Leisure Lines, Numbers Count,
Computer Chess and Club News.
PROGRAM FILE 230
As the football season moves into full
swing, we celebrate with Football Manager
for the Spectrum. The reserve team
features a range of programs for other
micros, such as education on the BBC,
business on the Sirius, and utilities on the
Commodore 64.
BACK ISSUES 256
The ones that got away and where to find
them.
BANKS' STATEMENT 130
Martin Banks ponders a solution to the ADVERTISERS' INDEX 278
problems in the micro industry, but reckons Who's where in this issue.
that the Japanese will get there first. 280
CHIPCHAT
BIBLIOFILE 204 All the gossip that our lawyers allowed us
The best in books reviewed by David to print, plus a chance to win free tuition
Taylor. and game time in the Multi -User Dungeon.

FounderAngelo Zgorelec Editor Graham Cunningham Production Editor Ginny Conran Acting Production Editor Kirstie Rogers Deputy Production Editor
Lauraine Danker Business Computing Editor Peter Bright Staff Writers Nick Walker, Stephen Applebaum, Owen Linderholm Consultant Editors David
Tebbutt, Dick Pountain Editorial Secretary Debbie Wallace Art Director Peter Green Assistant Art Editor Paul Ballard Typesetters Meadway Graphics 198
Victoria Road Romford Essex Sales Director John Cade Publisher Tony Harris Publishing Manager David Mankin Group Advertisement Manager Duncan
Brown Advertisement Manager Bettina Will iamsAssistant Advertisement Manager Melanie Rom iszowska Sales Executives Claire Barnes, Steve Corrick,
Jeska Harrington, David Morgan, Mike Seabrook, Isabel Middleton Advertisement Assistant Nicola Hall Advertisement Production Gerry O'Sullivan
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 BENCHTESTS &REVIEWS
SORD IS -11C 152
A lap -held machine with built-in word
processing, communications and utilities
- and a full-size screen. Nick Walker finds
out if the performance of Sord's latest
micro matches its specification.
INTELLIGENT MODEMS 162
Peter Tootill puts five intelligent modems
through their paces.
PAGEMAKER/LASERWRITER 166
It's possible to do things on the Macintosh
which can't be done on other micros-for
example, design your own brochures or
newsletters. And for high -quality
reproduction, switch on the LaserWriter.

COVER STORY: AMSTRAD TELEWRITER 172

PCW8256 A word processor with a difference -
132 built-in communications facilities and
Could this be the ultimate accolade- a encryption routines.
machine bearing our name? It's the latest
from Amstrad, the Personal Computer PERSONAL CONSULTANT 190
Word Processor, which comes with 256k of How expert do you have to be to build an
memory, CP/M Plus, Logo, Basic, the expert system database? Mike Liardet
LocoScript word processor and a printer- examines Personal Consultant to find the
all for £399. answer.
PHILIPS: YES 140 VI EWSTORE 194
Philips tries again in the micro market with A database package has joined the View
the strangely -titled rival to the Apricot Fl and Viewsheet family. Kathy Lang takes a
and Sanyo's 550 - an entry-level 16 -bit break from business machines to assess
business machine. Viewstore on the BBC.

FEATURES
THREADED OPERATION 148 ON THE TRANSFER LIST 174
Writing your own compiler needn't be a Spreadsheet techniques that the manuals
daunting task - not if you follow Paul forgot to tell users about.
Dourish's instructions.
MIX 'N' MATCH 176
The problems and successes of producing
software conversion packages.

ON THE MEND 180

Who do you turn to if your micro breaks
down? We look at where to take your
machine for repair.
ONLINE SEARCHING 186
NEW LIFE? 158 Advice on the easiest and cheapest ways to
Do micros display the inherent use dial -up databases.
malevolence of inanimate objects, or are
they in fact more animated than that? Geoff PROCEDURE DEFINE THYSELF! 200
Simons ponders how to define life, the Harvey Mellar explains how to write a
universe and everything (including micros. simple program generator in Logo.

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 THE PORTABLE OLIVETTI M24
HP 110: Uses industry standard
operating system, MSDOS and is
made more friendly with HP's
PAM which gives easy access to
10 MB + 640K Ram. £2399
the program packages. Lotus 123
and Memomaker are built into
ROMs giving spreadsheets, sim-
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diagrams and it's compatible with the
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use single sheets as well as fanfold
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£399
M24: Not only is it stylish but
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HEWLETT PACKARD HP -150B PC
There's a lot in store for you with our new line of
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The basic HP 150 II Personal Computer comes
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Kbytes (formatted capacity) of data (the equivalent able 360K MFD 5.25in floppy disc
of 175 pages of single-spaced text. drives. It includes a built in clock/
The 10 Mbyte Winchester provides twice the 1
calendar and LED indicator. The
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speed and seven times the capacity of the floppy
based system. It's a really convenient system for Olivetti M24 has a better screen
the busy professional because it gives you enough than the IBM and runs more than
capacity to have 10 to 20 applications ready to run
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Add a 20 Mbyte Winchester for even more storage
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speed and capacity of a 40 Mbyte Winchester.
Intel 8086-2 chip, 128k of RAM, a
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FX 720PF £44
HR -35 £CALL KXP1092 £399
FX 750PF £78
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FX 802P £78
HX20 16K RAM £395
PB 300 £78
PX8 64K RAM £749
FX 820P £87 SILVER REED
PX8 + 128K RAM dsik £950
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HX20 ROM (Blau) £40 CANNON
FX 770 £70 EX500 £279
PB 770 £164 PW 1080A £279 EX550 £449
FX 5200P £39 HEWLETT PACKARD PW 1056A £399
FA10 Printer £159 HP 11C £69
HP 12C Financial £115
HP 15C £115
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SHARP HP41C £129
PC -1500 £125 HP 41CV £000 LX80 - NEW £249 KAGA
PC -1500A £164 HP 41CX £000 FX80 £349
PC -1251 £70 Card Reader £178 FX100+ £499 K12RIX £239
PC -1246N £35 Printer £000 P40 £70 K12R2 £279
PC -1260N £87 HP 75C £499 P80 £139 K12R3 £399
PC -1350 £112 VisiCalc £119 P8OX £250
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Callers by appointment
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Prices exclusive of VAT, installation, training and
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416420Ons D RAMS 8 for£14.954116300 ns£1.50
2112 £10.00 2114 £2.50 2102 £2.00 6116 £2.50 A MASSIVE purchase of these attractive stand alone
EPROMS 2716 £4.50 2732 £3.00 2764 £4.95 terminal units enables a SUPER BARGAIN offer. Made by
27128 £5.50 6800 £2.50 6821 £1.00 68A09 £8.00
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The ORIGINAL FREE OF CHARGE dial up data
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RECHARGEASIS 8A-TTRIES spares and one off bargains. Updated daily. ASCII data at 110, 150 or 300 baud. Ideal for Terminals,
Data loggers, local label printing, or just as a printer!! Sold
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A300 07191315 12v 3ah as RS 591-770 NEW £13.95 For 300 baud modems call 01-679 1888 TESTED with data ONLY £95.00. Also available with
A300 07191312 6v 3ah as RS 591-360 NEW £9.95 TWIN MAGTAPE CASSETTE unit for data capture, data
A300 07191202 6-0-5v 1 8ah as RS 591-382 Ex Equip For 1200-75 baud modems call 01-679 6183 preparation etc £150.00 Carriage £10.00.
£5.99 3.6v 100 mah PCB mount as RS 591-477 NEW £1.00

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SIEMANS FDD100 SS FH 40 TRK £75.00 240v equipment fan, complete with finger `SYSTEM ALPHA' 14" COLOUR MULTI INPUT MONITOR
carriage on 51/4" drives £5.50 guard NEW £9.95 made in the UK by the famous REDIFFUSION Co. for their own professional
Brand NEW metal cases with internal PSU etc GOULD JB-3AR Dim 3" x 3" x 2.5" compact computer system this monitor has all the features to suit your immediate and
for above drives, below cost!!! very quiet running 240v operation. future monitor requirements. Two video inputs: RGB and PAL Composite Video,
DSKC 1 for 2 HH or 1 FH 51/4" drive £39.95 NEW £6.95. allow direct connection to the BBC and most other makes of micro computers
+ pp £4.50 DSKC 2 for 1 HH or 1 FH 51/4" drive BUHLER 69.11.22 8-16v DC micro miniature and VCR's An internal speaker and audio amplifier may be connected to your
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SUGART 801 SS £175.00 + pp £8.50 62 x 22mm. Current cost £32.00. OUR PRICE audio input, Separate Colour and audio controls for Composite Video input, BNC
SUGART 851 DS £250.00 + pp £8.50 ONLY £12.95 complete with data plug for composite input, 15 way 'D' plug for RGB input, modular construction
MUFFIN -CENTAUR standard 4" x 4" x 1.25" etc eta
WIMP tgr in1s2rgiFrPcase, fans 110v OR 240v NEW at £10.50 or tested
This Must be ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BUYS
complete with PSU etc, £595.00 EX EQUIPMENT 240v £6.25 or 110v £4.95.
8" DRIVE PSU for 2 drive units £45.00 1000's of other fans Ex Stock. Supplied BRAND NEW and BOXED, complete with DATA and 90 day guarantee.
Call for Details Post & Packing on all fans £2.00. SUPPLIED BELOW ACTUAL COST- ONLY £149.00
Hard Disk Drives
DRE/DIABLO Series 30 2.5 Mb front load, DECCA 80 16" COLOUR monitor. RGB input
£525.00, Exchangeable version £295.00 QWERTY KEYBOARDS Little or hardly used manufacturer's surplus enables us to offer this special
ME3029 PSU for above £95.00 Manufacturer's BRAND NEW surplus converted DECCA RGB Colour Video IV Monitor at a super low price of only
DIABLO 44/DRE4000A, B 5+5 Mb from ALPHAMERIC 7204/60 Full travel ASCII, £99.00, a price for a colour monitor as yet unheard of!! Our own interface, safety
CDC
60 key with parallel output and strobe. modification and special 16" high definition PIL tube, coupled with the tried and
5+5 Mb £795.00 £39.95 tested DECCA 80 series TV chassis gives 80 column definition and picture
CDC 9762 80 Mb RM03 etc £2500.00 DEC LA34 Uncoded keyboard with 67 quality found only on monitors costing 3 TIMES OUR PRICE. In fact, WE
PERTEC D3422 5+5 Mb £495.00 quality gold plated switches on X -Y matrix - GUARANTEE you will be delighted with this product, the quality for the price,
RODIME 10MB ST508 Winchester NEW ideal micro conversions etc. £24.95 has to be seen to be believed. Supplied complete and ready to plug direct to a
£299.00 AM KEY M PN K-114 Superb word processor BBC MICRO computer or any other system with a TTL RGB output Other
BASF 6172 23Mb Winchesters, as seen chassis keyboard on single PCB with 116 features are: internal speaker, Modular construction, auto degaussing circuit,
£199.00 keys Many features such as On board Attractive TEAK CASE, compact dimensions only 52cm W x 34 H x 24 D, 90 day
Carriage on other drives £10.00. Micro, Single 5v rail, full ASCII coded guarantee. Although used, units are supplied in EXCELLENT condition, ONLY
Unless stated all drives are refurbished with character set with 31 function keys, £99.00 + Carr.
90 day guarantee. Many other drives and Numeric keypad, cursor pad and 9600 baud DECCA 80 16" COLOUR monitor. Compositve video input. Same as above
spares in stock - call sales office for details SERIAL TTL ASCII OUTPUT!! ONLY model but fitted with Composite Video input and audio amp for COMPUTER,
£69.00 with data VCR or AUDIO VISUAL use. ONLY £99.00 + Carr.
MODEMS
Join the communications revolution with our
MMMMM 11111111.111111111 . REDIFFUSION MARK 3, 20" Colour monitor. Fitted with standard 75 ohm
composite video input and sound amp. This large screen colour display is ideal
for shops, schools, clubs and other AUDIO VISUAL applications Supplied in AS
super range of DATA MODEMS prices and
MIMINNININIIIMINIPIMMIIMINII ammo EM111111111111.111.111111111.111111m
o us MEM. NEW or little used condition ONLY £145.00 + Carr.
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BRAND NEW State of the art products monitors.
DACOM DSL2123 Multi standard 300-300, Carriage on all Keyboards £3.50 All units are fully cased and set for 240v standard working with composite video
1200-75 Auto answer etc £268.00 inputs Units are pre tested and set up for 80 column use on BBC micro etc Even
DACOM DSL2123AD Auto dial smart when MINOR screen burns exist- normal data displays are unaffected
modem with multi standard AUTO SPEED
detect, and data buffer with flow control
etc
PLESSEr VUTE'L anufactured by
12" KGM 320-1 B/W high bandwidth input, will display up to 132 x 25 lines
fi?fiEEN SCREEN version of KGM 320-1 Only £39.95
DACOM DSL2123GT The CREAM£365. of the00 PLESSEY Ltd this 9" KGM 324 GREEN SCREEN fully cased very compact unit Only £55.00
intelligent modems, auto dial auto call, index, compact unit, only 9" HITACHI VM-906E/K Black and White screen £49.95
buffer etc etc £498.00 slightly larger than a
STEEBECK SB1212 V22 1200 baud FULL telephone, features an Carriage and insurance on all monitors £10.00
DUPLEx, sync or async, optional auto dial all in one TELEPHONE,
TRANSDATA 307A Acoustic coupler 300
full duplex,
£465.00
originate £49.ba on00ly,
24 x 40 character CRT
screen, VIEWDATA-
PRESTEL modem,
a C POWER SUPPLY SPFCfALS
GOULD 0F443 enclosed, compact switch mode supply with D regu ated outputs of
RS2ud32 Keypad and electronics to run as a fully +5v @ 5.5a, +12v @ 0.5a, -12v @ 0.1a and -23v @ 0.02a Dim 18 x 11 x 6 cm. 110 or
fledged PRESTEL terminal or telephone. 240v input BRAND NEW only £14.95
Ex BRITISH TELECOM full spec, CCITT, Ready to plug direct into a BT 600 type jack ULD G6 -40A 5v 40 amp switch mode supply NEW £130.00
ruggedised bargain offers Sold TESTED with socketand instantly connect you to GREENDALE 19A-BOE Switch mode 60 watt open PCB with a fully regulated DC
data Will work on any MICRO or system with PRESTEL etc. Many other features include output of 5v @ 6 amps, and three semi regulated outputs of +12V, -12V +15V @ upto 1
RS232 interface. Memory dialling, Recall button, Off line screen amp Dim only 11 cm x 20 cm x 5.5 cm. Similar to RS 591-994. 110 or 240v AC input
DATEL 2B 300 Baud Modem see SPECIAL data storage, Picture expand, Standard TESTED ex equipment Only £24.95
OFFER. Mullard LUCY chip set, Integral 5" JVC crt AC -DC Linear PSU for DISK drive and SYSTEM applications. Constructed on a rugged
MODEM 13A 300 baud unit, only 2" high fits monitor, etc etc Designed to sell to the ALLOY chassis to continuously supply fully regulated DC outputs of +5V @ 3 amps, -5V
under phone. CALL mode only £45.00 EXECUTIVE at over £600!! But from @ 0.6 amps and +24v @ 5 amps Short circuit and overvoltage protected 110 or 240 V
MODEM 20-1. 75-1200 baud. Compact unit DISPLAY, BRAND NEW AND BOXED at AC input. Dim 28 x 12.5 x 7 cm NEW £49.95.
for use as subscriber end to PRESTEL only £99.00 for DTMF tone dial or £140.00 Carriage on PSU's £3.00
TELECOM GOLD, MICRONET etc £39.95 for standard DIAL PULSE version.
+ pp £6.50 Carr. £8.00.
MODEM 204 1200-75 baud Same as 20-1 but
for computer end, £85.00 + pp £6.50
DATEL 2412 Made by SE labs for BT this two SPECIAL 300 BAUD MODEM OFFEl. VDU TERMINALS
part unit is for synchronious data links at 1200 Another GIGANTIC purcse of these EX BRITISH TELECOM, BRA D Standard VDU data entry terminals at give away
or 2400 baud using 2780/3780 NEW or little used 2B data modems allows US to make the FINAL prices!!
protocol etc Many features include 2 or 4 wire REDUCTION, and for YOU to join the exciting world of data OUME OVT108. Current product, state of the art
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COST OVER £800 Our price ONLY £199 communications at an UNHEARD OF PRICE OF ONLY £29.95. Made to screen, 2 page RAM, TVI 925 emu, 25 x 80,
+ pp £8.00 the highest POST OFFICE APPROVED spec at a cost of hundreds of Clock Swivel and tilt base, Printer port, Function
DATEL 4800 RACAL MPS4800 baud pounds each, the 2B has all the standard requirements for data base, keys etc BRAND NEW and BOXElationD AT ALMOST
modem, EX Bt good working order, ONLY HALF PRICE Only £425.00
£295.00 + pp £8.00 business or hobby communications. All this and morel! AJ510 - EX RENTAL, Z80 controlled, 15"
300 baud full duplex CALL, ANSWER and AUTO modes green screen 24 x 80 display, graphics, cursor
SUMMER OFFER
MODEM TG2393. Ex BT, Up to 1200 baud, full
duplex over4 wire or half duplex overt wire line.
Full remote control 44-.4 Standard RS232 serial intenace addressing, printer port etc Very good condition
TESTED complete with manual only £225.00.
ONLY £85.00 PER PAIR + pp £10.00
CCITT tone standards NOW ONL Y re Built in test switching ADDS520- Dumb terminal, used, 12" blw screen
Supplied with full data E29 95 240v Mains operation RS232 interface and printer port TESTED.
For more information Modular construction -=A .es 1 year full guarantee ONLY £125.00
CONTACT OUR SALES OFFICE Direct isolated connection Just 2 wires to comas. line Carriage on terminals £10.00
100's of other terminals in stock,
BT 600 Jack plug and cable £2.25 Carriage and Ins. £10.00 CALL for more details
All prices quoted are for U.K. Mainland, paid cash with order in Pounds Sterling PLUS VAT. Minimum order value EL
Minimum CreditCard order£f 0.00. Minimum BONA FIDE account orders from Government Depts.,Schools, Universities and
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WORDPROCESSING + DATABASE
Apple IIC
Monitor IIC
Jazz £399
Monitor Stand IIC Fat Mac
Apple Works 512K
Carrying Bag
Apple IIC Mouse '14acintosh

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Paintwork
External Disk Drive
TV -Colour Modulator
£1,899
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Apple Ile 64K LASERWRITER £CALL

Disk Drive
with controller Multiplan
Chart
£190
£99
TK Solver
Word
£189
£179
Macspell+
PC to Mac
Sargon III
£84
£128
£42
Basic £145 OMNIS1 £149
Mind Probe £46
OMNIS2 £295

£699
Lotus Jazz £399 Think Tank £124
Copy -Mac £40 OMNIS3 £399 Dollars & Sense £124
MacPlot £90 PFS: FILE £call Mac Ledger £249
DFS: REPORT...£call MacCash £149
Clickart £34 Macforth £call Typing Tutor III £50
£99 Wizordary 1 £62
Mac the knife £50 MacPascal
PFS File & Report £160
Millionaire £51 MacProject £99 DB Master £149
Zork I £36 Macterminal £69 Desk Organiser £127
Zork II £42 Macdraw £99 MacAttack £42
COMMODORE Packages Zork III
Witness
£42
£call
Deadline £50 Helix
Professional B/jack
Squire
£337
£64
£60
Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy £34
Mighty Mac £84
Music Composer £69 MacCalender ....£call Animation Toolkit £62
PACKAGE 1 Frogger
Lode Runner
£34
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Trivia
Funpack
£34
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Vicom Corn Package
Modem
£149
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MacGammon ...£call Penstate £call MacVision £299
Commodore 64 computer Championship Boxing £33

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Sargon III £42 Payroll £99
C2N cassette recorder Mac Dust Cover £11
Box of 10 31/2" Disks £39
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1541 Disk Drive
MSP801 Printer £175 Apple Plotter
Acorn Electron
£000
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IBM SOFTWARE

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Commodore Plus 4
£249
£75
Chart £000

£260
Multiplan £000
Hitachi PC £999 Lotus 1-2-3 £000
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1541 Disk Drive MSX-Panasonic £99 dBase Ill £395
MSX JVC (£100 free software) Framework £395
PACKAGE 4 Diablo 630 s/h
£CALL
£999
Pegasus module £239

£390
Silver Reed EX550 £449
Commodore 128 computer
HP75C £499
1570 Disk Drive
Sharp PC5000 £949
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Business Systems
APPLE - COMMODORE - HEWLETT PACKARD - EPSON - OLIVETTI - SAGE

01-937 8529
PEGASUS - LOTUS - ASHTON TATE - MICROSOFT

Monday to Saturday 9.00-7.00pm

Callers by appointment
TBS reserves the right to change advertised prices
Prices exclusive of VAT, installation, training and
delivery
Goods subject to availability

Tel: 01-937 3366

191 Kensington High Street, London W8 01-937 7896 Telex: 946240 (CWEASY G) MBX NO 19001120
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 13
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U.K.'s NO.1 SOFTWARE DEALER LTD

These Ashton Tate (TM) programs just form part of our phone Richard Allison on 01-352 9220 at our Chelsea store and find
comprehensive range of business !software. out more. We'll be more than happy to arrange a meeting at our
Our pricing policy is one of keen discounting and sound advice, so other stores out-of-town if you'd rather.

dBASE
FRIDAY
TM TM Rini

This multi -faceted program takes you Friday! is more suited to less complex Enhanced handling ability of records is
through Outlining, Word Processing, tasks than dBaselll, allowing the user only one of the new features on this
Spreadsheet, Graphics and Data extensive practice time prior to start-up program. It's even faster than before and it
Management with a telecommunications of data base. will even keep your records in order
modem capability plus Mailmerge. It has good straightforward automatically.
It is easy to understand, easy to use instructions, it's menu driven and has With the excellent tutorial you'll be
and PC compatible. password protection with the facility to entering data in minutes rather than
An integral part of any business produce mailing labels plus PC hours. And it's PC compatible.
software system. compatibility. NB we also stock dBasell.

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making business software a pleasure
14 Thames Street Kingston Surrey 382 King's Road Chelsea SW3 47 Cheap Street Newbury Berkshire
Telephone: 01-5414911 Telephone: 01-352 9220 Telephone: 0635 31696

Wicat Maintenance and Engineering Upgrades

* On -site maintenance contracts undertaken anywhere in mainland UK
(current price approximately 10% end user list)

* On -site and workshop repairs on a time and materials basis

* Disc upgrades - any disc size supported (subject to controller support)
* Memory upgrades -- Wicat memory modules to Imbyte/Card
MMI modules to 4Mbyte/Card
* Expansion units - for disc and tape cartridge units
* System re -housing - for greater expandability

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 AS A PERSONAL COMPUTER AS A PORTABLE
El Word Processing
Full-size, high resolution screen: 80 Weighs only 6lbs!
characters x 25 lines 111 Communications Battery -powered (rechargeable in
Data Entry/Data Processing car)
LARGE MEMORY Easy to use ANYWHERE,
80K RAM and 72K ROM
Special Applications ANYTIME
All of the above Bar-code reading
STANDARD SOFTWARE INCLUDES:
Powerful, full -function Word Processing AVAILABLE OPTIONS:
Up-to-date communication software
Built-in calendar and clock - Enhanced Microsoft* -like
Built-in calculator BASIC with multi -windows and
graphics
STANDARD HARDWARE - 1 -PIPS spreadsheet software
CONFIGURATION - Data compatibility with IBM-
PC* (Lotus 1-2-3*, WordStar*
-3 Parallel Ports etc)
- 1 RS -232C - I -TERMINAL
- Built-in numeric keypad Terminal emulator which
- High-speed intelligent micro - emulates any VT -100 type
tape drive compatible asynchronous
terminals
- 64KB CMOS RAM cartridge
AS A TERMINAL - Floppy Disk Drives
- VT -100 emulator 1MB 31/2" (640KM formatted)
- Data Entry, Programming - BARD SYSTEM
- Link to Mail Box System Custom software development
system enabling turnkey
applications

*Trademark names

SORD COMPUTER SYSTEMS (UK) LIMITED

Kirkman House, 12/14 Whitfield Street, London W1P 5RD
TEL: 01-631 0787 AND ASK FOR DEPT 5 NOW Your Computer Needs Are Our Business

SURPLUS PRINTER SALE

BRAND NEW PRINTERS FROM TOP MANUFACTURERS AT A FRACTION OF LIST PRICE!
PROFESSIONAL MATRIX PRINTER PERSONAL COMPUTER
High definition 9x11 Matrix PRINTER
Full emulation of Fast quiet thermal
Epson MX80 printing 56 ch/sec
100 ch/sec bi-directional Full 81/2in wide paper
printing Full 80 column text
Tractor or single sheet feed Standard 8 -bit ASCII
RS232 and centronics interfaces 96 character set
Full graphics capability Standard RS232 interface
Expanded & condensed print Expanded or condensed print
Comprehensive self -test Built-in self -test
Many other extra features Free 80 foot roll of paper
Ideal for business Ideal for any micro
micro systems with RS232
Comprehensive manual Full instructions included

VIDEO MONITOR SALE SURPLUS EQUIPMENT SALE

Brand new high resolution video monitors, green We have a huge stock of surplus micro systems,
screen, in attractive case. Ideal for any micro with printers, terminals, power supplies, and much
composite video out. more. Send SAE for current list.
Example: Brand New
9 inch £44 12inch £54 STC Prestel terminals £99 plus VAT!
Add VAT and £12.50 carriage
Europe's No 1 Dealer in DEC PDP11 and VAX
CHILTERN ELECTRONICS Computer Systems and spares.
HIGH STREET, CHALFONT ST. GILES, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE HP8 4QH TELEPHONE: 02407 71234
Telephone or send your order to Tim Reading We accept personal cheques or telephone your Access card No.
All items despatched within 24 hours

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GATEWAY
F1e 256K RAM SINGLE 315K DISK DRIVE £519
F1 256K RAM SINGLE 720K DISK DRIVE £739

PATHFINDER COLLECTION
FP 512K RAM SINGLE 720K DISK DRIVE
F2 512K RAM DUAL 720K DISK DRIVE
£1149
£1149
F10 512K RAM 10Mb WINCHESTER £1749

PROFESSIONAL
SOFTWARE PC 256K RAM DUAL 315K DISK DRIVE £1149
CATCHLINK (APRICOT Fl) £395 PC 256K RAM dUAL 720K DISK DRIVE £1309
CASHLINK (IBM, APRICOT PC, ETC) £495 Xi10 256K RAM 10Mb WINCHESTER £1999
CARDBOX £140 Xi1Os 512K RAM 10Mb WINCHESTER £2360
CARDBOX PLUS £285 Xi20 512K RAM 20Mb WINCHESTER £2745
dBASE II £255 Xi2Os 1Mb RAM 20Mb WINCHESTER £3125
dBASE III £335
DELTA 4 £375
DMS + £155
DOMINO £375 MONITORS
DR C BASIC COMPILER £395 9" MONO £155
FLIGHT SIMULATOR £52 12" MONO £195
FRAMEWORK £340 10" COLOUR £349
FRIDAY £135
KNOWLEDGEMAN £395
LOTUS 123 £335
LOTUS SYMPHONY (512K) £465
MICROSOFT BASIC COMPILER £295
MICROSOFT WORD V2.0 £275 PRINTERS JUKI 6300 40cps £769
MULTIMATE £295 BROTHER HR5 £95 MP165 165cps (NLQ) £245
MULTIPLAN £140 BROTHER HR15 18cps £330 NEC PINWRITER P2 180cps £375
OPEN ACCESS (384K) £330 BROTHER HR25 25cps £655 OKI MICROLINE 182 £245
SAGE BOOKKEEPER £225 BROTHER HR35 35cps £765 OKI MICROLINE 192 £345
SAGE ACCOUNTANT £385 CANON PW 1080A 160cps (NLQ) £280 OKI MICROLINE 193 £469
SAGE ACCOUNTANT PLUS £495 CANON PW 1156A 160cps (NLQ) £375 PANTHER 1 1090 £239
SAGE PAYROLL £165 DATA PRODUCTS 8010 £399 PANTHER 2 1091 £269
CHIT CHAT (S/W ONLY) £105 DATA PRODUCTS 8020 £479 QUME LETTERPRO 12/20 20cps £465
CHIT CHAT (S/W & MODEM) £325 DATA PRODUCTS 8050 £1099 QUME SPRINT 11/40 40cps £1195
SMART SERIES (384K) £525 DATA PRODUCTS 8070 £1495 QUME SPRINT 11/55 55cps £1415
SUPERCALC 3 £215 DIABLO 630 ECS/API £1815 QUME SPRINT 11/90 90cps £1895
SUPERPACK (APRICOT ONLY) £80 DIABLO 630 ECS/IBM-PC £1675 RICOH 1600s 32K 60cps £1475
TURBO PASCAL £60 EPSON LX -80 100cps (NLQ) £215 RITEMAN II 160cps (NLQ) £295
WORDSTAR £195 EPSON FX-100 160cps £460 SILVER REED EXP 400 £229
WORDSTAR PROFESSIONAL £255 EPSON LQ-1500 200cps £865 SILVER REED EXP 500 £269
WORDSTAR 2000 £325 JUKI 6100 20cps £339 SILVER REED EXP 550 £439

ACOUSTIC HOODS PAPER PRICES PER BOX 3M DISKETTES

Suitable for those printers listed and similar 11"x 9.5" 1pt 60gsm 2000 sheets £10.50 Price/box of ten 1-4 5-9
printers 11"x 9.5" *1pt 60gsm 1000 sheets £6.60 3.5" SS £31.00 £29.00
RX-80 F/T, LX -80, PANASONIC KXP1091 11"x 9.5" *1pt 60gsm 1000 sheets £15.75 3.5" DS £41.00 £38.00
(16.5"x14"x 6.25") £99 A4 (Laid "1pt 100gsm 1000 sheets £21.75 5.25 SS/DD 48tp1 £15.00 £14.00
FX80 DATAPRODUCTS 8010, 8011 11"x9.5" 2pt 60gms 1000 sets £17.10 5.25" DS/DD 48tpi £19.00 £18.00
(22"x 16"x 8.25") £109 11"x 9.5" 3pt 60gms 700sets £22.50 5.25" SS/DD 86tpi £23.00 £20.70
DX100, RX100 (23.5"x 17.5''x9.5") £149 11"x 14.5" 1pt 60gms 2000 sheets £13.80 5.25" DS/DD 96tpi £24.80 £22.80
FX100, LQ1500, DATAPRODUCTS 8020 11"x 14.5" 2pt 60gsm 1000 sets £21.80 5.25" IBM PC AT £41.00 £37.00
(27.5"x 18"x 8.25") £159 11"x 14.5" 3pt 60gsm 700 sets £36.80
LQ 1500 (SSF, NEWBURY DATA 8020, 8910 *Microperforated 2 & 3 paper all NCR
(29.25"x 21.75" x 15") £179

We can supply an extensive range of ribbons for both printers and typewriters as DATA CARTRIDGES
well as a wide range of daisywheels and other computer peripherals. Order all your
computer requirements from Pathfinder Computer systems and you may be sure (price for 10 off)
DC100/A £12.30 each
of prompt delivery, superlative value, and efficient trouble -free operation.
DC300/A £16.30 each
We accept official orders from PLC's UK Govt Depts & Ed establishments. DC300/XL £20.70 each
DC300/XL HD £22.40 each
DC600/A £25.90 each
Pathfinder Computer Systems
A part of Sunfern Limited ALL PRICES EXCLUDE VAT
55 Bridge Street/Motor Street AND DELIVERY
Manchester M3 3BQ
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Telephone 061-832 8272/7707
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
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Features
* 80186 true 16 -bit CPU, the
fastest business computer
available.
* MS-DOS 3.05 operating
system
* MS -NET up to 64 Stations Nimbus Range
* 192K entry level user RAM, PC1, single 720K drive £1,345
including 64K for graphics PC2, dual 720K drive £1,795
* High resolution bit -mapped X10, 10Mb Winchester £2,695
display (640 x 250) X16, 16Mb Winchester £3,295
* Extensive list of compatible MS -net available as an option
software All above include 12"
* As used by Pegasus training monochrome monitor.
school for accounts tuition Colour Monitor £116 extra
* Fast colour graphics
* Configuration EEROM All prices exclude VAT
* 8910 music chip
* 720K disc drives
* Supports 8087 Arithmetic
board
* Mouse/Joystick ports
* Piconet - up to 30
Peripheral interfaces

PERFORMANCE CHART

Colour as Low Cost

Model Configuration Processor Speed Standard Networking Price ex VAT

Nimbus X10 10Mb Winchester 80186 8MHz Yes Yes £2808

IBM XT 10Mb Winchester 8088 4.77MHz No No £3393

Apricot xi 10Mb Winchester 8086 S.OMHz No Yes £3485

Nimbus PC2 2 x 720K disks 80186 8MHz Yes Yes £1795

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TION
Now available 1. rdwa
for the st ms for
Sinclair QL microcomputers:

Home, laboratory and industrial applications

Precision MADC12 module interfaces featuring: Full software support supplied:
- 12 bit readings in 30 uS to 0.02% accuracy.
-6 precision ranges, +/-10V down to 1V unipolar. - General purpose acquisition package with easy user
- 16 high impedance inputs with S.E. or differential modes. interface and interactive scan control and data file
- All functions software controlled, 1 Mbyte per sec data generation.
transfer. - Comprehensive product description to allow the
Price - systems for: QL - £499/1BMs - £749/Apple II - hardware to be driven from your own software, either
£449/BBC - £399 (+ VAT). using the routines supplied or from your own low level
Includes calibrated MADC12, interface H/W, manuals and software.
Modules from stock - reliably solve your digitising or logging routines to operate the analogue to digital process
problem NOW. directly.
- Data file generation for export to existing spreadsheet
Enhanced versions for maximum flexibility provide: or other post -processing software.
- High speed for 12 bit readings in 15uS, 8bit in 10uS (option S15 - £95).
- Full accuracy and speed with input isolation to 500V RMS (option 105 - £240). Custom hardware, software and systems solutions on a
- 32 channel systems (option C32 - £250) and versatile, wide range, multiplexers. consultancy basis.
Also available: low cost Apple II analogue interfaces, supporting boards and
industrial computers. Order directly or contact us for further information. Peter Nelson
1lic Street, Old ('ostesse: omit+ N R8 51)1: "F l: 0603 74781.47 Design Consultancy

VALUE - VALUE
backup. Standard configuration includes 128K
VALUE
ERICSSON PORTABLE RAM, serial and parallel ports, six expansion PC SOFTWARE
slots, amber monitor and high resolution Lotus 123 £295
graphics. 'At 90% of whatever the current price Lotus Symphony £405
of the IBM PC happens to be, it's an index linked SPI Open Access £315
bargain' - PC User. Microsoft Multiplan £135
PC1 2FD, 128K, Monochrome £1934 Leading Edge word-processing £150
PC4 2FD, 256K, Monochrome £2129
PC5 1FD, 10M HD, 128K, Monochrome £3090
PC8 1FD, 10M HD, 256K, Colour £3573 ALPHA MICRO
Sensational new fully IBM-compatible portable. MULTI-USER MULTI -TASKING
Base system includes 256K RAM, 1 x 360K PRINTERS
HARD -DISK VCR BACKUP
floppy, mono GAS PLASMA display unit, (full - Epsom FX100 £475 SOFTWARE INCL. 1 YEAR WARRANTY
screen size with 640 x400 graphics capability), Epsom RX8Oft £245 We can supply the full range of Alpha Micro
detachable keyboard, DOS 2.11, serial and Facit 4565 Daisywheel 40cps £860 computer systems, from the AM PC compatible
parallel ports, expansion port and external Toshiba P1350 POA Workstation to the 40 user AM 1092. Prices start
floppy disk drive port. Full range of Ericsson and Facit printers from £7000 for an AM 1000 system (6 user).
'Compared to a liquid crystal display the plasma available
screen is worth its weight in diamonds'-PC User.
'Well -designed, well-built and highly IBM- HARD DISK ADD-ONS AUTUMN OFFERS
compatible' - Which Computer. QIC Hard disk drives with Adaptec controllers:
Ericsson Portable PC POA QIC-01 10MB internal £650
Apple drives POA
360K RAM disk POA QIC-02 20MB internal £850
Ex -demonstration PC's POA
256K RAM expansion POA Ex -demonstration Riteman printer POA
External 360K floppy POA INTERQUADRAM PRODUCTS Ex -demonstration Shinwa CP80 POA
Built in 40cps printer POA Short RAM - Short slot memory card. CDC 95MB Hard disk drives POA
64K £155 Full range of Apple add-ons available at
256K £235 competitive prices.
ERICSSON PC
384K £295
The widely respected ERICSSON PC is now Quadboard II -2 serial ports, clock/calendar,
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TO ORDER
IBM-compatible with many extra features at a OK £333 Please telephone orders to 01-491 7 121 r visit
significantly lower price. On site 12 months 64K £365 our West End offices on the second floor at 71A
warranty included with nationwide Ericsson 256K £461 Burlington Arcade W1V 9AF.
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Compatible with all word processing
Star SG -10 £259 - VAT £297.85 programs.
Parallel cable for any Micro (max. price) £20
2 Spare ink ribbons £5 50 CPS NLQ mode available from switch on.
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Total value: £691.80

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* 26 pin as BBC. Medium Resolution
* Colour finished honey beige. BBC Versions 14" Model 14CT22006 0f230.00a Inc VAT
80 Characters Remote Control
COMPUTER PRINTER SELECTOR
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* 1 micro to 6 printers 16" Model 16CT2216 0.) 002.45a Inc VAT
* 6 micros to 1 printer QL Versions 14" Model 14C72006 £25.00a Inc VAT
* colour finished honey beige £75.90 inc. VAT 85 Characters Remote Control
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* Comes complete with moulded mains lead. PHILIPS
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Suitable for use with Mitsubushi, Tandy,
per line
Canon etc.
(Please ring factory for other makes.) RGB/QL Lead Supplied
Price Each for use with BBC
Standard = £33.35b Inc. VAT
High Rated = £35.65b inc. VAT DON'T BUY A COLOUR MONITOR!!
HAVE YOUR 14" & 16" PHILIPS, PYE or FERGUSON TX
PRINTER INTERFACE COLOUR TV CONVERTED TO A TV/MONITOR
QL SERIAL TO PARALLEL "IN HOUSE MOD" REMOTE AND STANDARD TV'S
* BAUD RATE SWITCHABLE BBC (a 58.65a QL (a 67.69a
* CRYSTAL CONTROLLED RGB CONVERISON KIT
* QDOS and SUPERBASIC compatible BBC (a 44.85d QL 54.05d
* Drives any CENTRONICS printer * Resolution better than 585 x 450 pixels.
(a £49.91d Incl. VAT * Image clarity comparable to leading monitors.
* Includes RGB lead for connecting with BBC/QL.
READYMADE LEADS: * Conversions carried out at our workshops within 2/3 days.
RIBBON Don't run the risk of damaging your ROMs/ THE CARE LOW PROFILE MODULE SYSTEM
Disc drive single (a 6.67c Inc VAT EPROM or your BBC micro. Whenever you Has been designed not to take any power
Disc drive dual cit 10.12c Inc VAT want to remove ROMS/EPROMS from your from your BBC Micro and allows you
Printer 01 7.82c Inc VAT BBC. Fit our Low Profile Rom Module System unlimited ROMS/EPROMS.
Parallel 26 pin (a 8.74c Inc VAT and save your collection of ROMS/EPROMS
OTHERS in our specially designed cartridges.
RGB 6 pin to 8 pin DIL QL (a 6.90c Inc VAT
RGB 6 pin DIN (a 2.99c Inc VAT
RGB 6 pin to 7 pin DIN (a 4.14c Inc VAT
* The Low Profile system is a sideways mounting flush fitting unit.
RGB 6 pin to SCART (a 7.82c Inc VAT * Unlike other systems:
BBC to single disc (a 3.45c Inc VAT * Won't get in the way when using the Keyboard
BBC to dual disc (a 4.60c Inc VAT * Stops damage casued by shortcircuit due to metal objects
Serial 25 pin "D" (a 12.88c Inc VAT e.g. paperclips falling inside
We can make up any combination of cable assy.
Please contact factory for details. * Prevents damage caused by dust
ACORN DISC INTERFACE (a 81.65c Inc VAT
* Edge Card Socket which takes all the wear, Gold Plated for
EPROM 2764 250ns. (it 4.14c Inc VAT extended life.
EPROM 27128 250ns. (a 6.90c Inc VAT * Each System Contains:
* 1 Low Profile Assy. * 1 Rom Cartridge
* Library Rack 6 Way * 5 Blank Labels
* Prices include VAT * Manufactured entirely in the UK
Complete System @ 14.95d Spare cartridge @ 2.76c
Library Rack to store 6 cartridges 1.84c
5 Cartridges 12.65c 10 Cartridges @ 28.23c
HOW TO ORDER:
TEL: 0923 777155 By Post. Enclose your Cheque/P.O. made payable to:
CARE Electronics.
Or use your ACCESS. Allow 7 days for delivery. Please add carriage.
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" 20Mb Hard disk
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 What will a
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Beam Printer
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The Canon LaserBeam printer is :

We are:
* Total Canon Technology Available for sales, service, information.
Canon stockists to the trade and public.
* Suitable for all leading micros Official Wordcraft dealers.
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* Flexible multiple character fonts Glasgow G3 7LH
* Fast - 8 pages per minute Telephone : 041-332-0030
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* Quality - output produced at 300 x 300 dots per
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Can be used immediately, mastered in
If you want extra terminals without extra costs. then UNIQUE days.
ACCOUNTS is the system for you!
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If you want a comprehensive. flexible accounts system which is easy
to use and adaptable to your specific requirements. then UNIQUE are typed direct to the screen, as they will
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UNIQUE ACCOUNTS software plus inexpensive terminals is all you
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FERRANTI PC 860 100% IBM® compat PC £950 + VAT

including 640K MEM, Single drive, High Res Hard Disc for
* BRITISH DESIGN & MANUFACTURE IBM and compatibles - Apricot, Sanyo, BBC
* TRUE IBM COMPATIBILITY
* HIGHER PERFORMANCE 20 MEG Int (IMB) £750 + VAT
25 MEG Tape Streamer (5210) £850 + VAT
* ONE YEAR ON -SITE WARRANTY 20 MEG 1/2Ht Winchester Bare £500 + VAT
* WORDPROCESSING 10 MEG Internal for IBM £550 + VAT
10 MEG 1/2Ht Winchester Bare £300 + VAT
* SPREADSHEET
* DATABASE DISCETTES
(Price includes VAT + £1 for first pack and 50p thereafter)
* 256K RAM DATALIFE VEREX SONY
* TWIN 360K DISKS
1
40Trk SS/SD
40Trk SS/SD -
£14.25
£12.00
£13.00
31/2" SS/DD
31/2" DS/DD
£38.00
£45.00
* SERIAL & PARALLEL
* MONOCHROME & COLOUR
40 Trk DS/DD
80 Trk DS QUAD
£18.00
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£16.00

ALL OF THESE FEATURES FOR E1250.00

LESS THAN HALF THE ESTIMATED IBM COST, THE SOFTWARE UNBRANDED
ALONE NORMALLY RETAILS FOR £450.00. (MEMOREX, FUJI, DYSAN ETC) Price inc VAT. P&P
10 OF 25 OF
40Trk SS/SD £11.50 £27.00 Add £7 for 50 capacity
PHILIPS HIRES MONOCHROME MONITOR £79.00
40TrkSS/DD £12.65 £29.00 storage box, with
SAMPLE DAISY WHEEL PRINTER (18Cps) £260.00 (inc cable)
40 Trk DS/DD £15.00 £35.00 smoked perspex lid, dividers
SEIKOSHA DOT MATRIX PRINTER (80 Cps) £250.00 (inc cable) £17.00 £41.00 and rubber feet
80Trk DS QUAD
SAGE BOOKKEEPER ACCOUNTS SOFTWARE £295.00

VALUE PACK 1 VALUE PACK 2 CHIPS

FERRANTI PC 860 (AS FERRANTI PC 860 (AS (Prices include VAT but add £1 P&P)
ABOVE) ABOVE) 8271 £46.00 4164/15 (IBM PC upgrade) £1.50
EITHER PRINTER SAGE BOOKKEEPER 8087 £140.00 4128/15 (IBM AT upgrade) £7.50
PHILIPS MONITOR PHILIPS MONITOR 6264 LP/15 £4.00 41256/15 (Olivetti M24, Compaq etc)
SAVE £139.00 £1 450 SAVE £174.00 £1450 2764/25 £2.50 £5.50
27128/25 £4.00 Acorn interface £56.00
VALUE PACK 3
FERRANTI PC 860 (AS ABOVE) QUANTITY DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE
PHILIPS MONITOR SAGE
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 Silicon Chip
No. 1 FOR ATARI*
Atari 520 ST
PRICES
Atari 520 ST
GUARANTEE + 500k Disk Drive
Our EXCLUSIVE Direct + Black & White
Exchange Guarantee is Monitor £749.99
available FREE OF CHARGE
to all our customers. The prices of the ST from SILICON
If a product purchased from CHIP Ltd, include Basic, logo, GEM
SILICON CHIP becomes faulty write, BOSS operating systems and
due to a manufacturing or GEM paint.
component defect, within ONE
YEAR of purchase, we will, POWER WITHOUT THE
subject to availability, PRICE
exchange for new.
Chipsoft Integrated Accounts
Package: -
Including Stock Control,
Norminal, Sales and Purchase
Ledgers £250
ST/Centronics Printer lead £29.99
ST/Midi lead £14.99
Final prices and specs may be
subject to change.

SPECS
512K RAM.
Expandable Rom.
MIDI Interface. RS232
Serial/Centronics Parallel
Interfaces. Floppy Disk and Hard
Disks Interfaces. RGB Video and TV
outputs. Sound Generator with 3 channels.
2 Joystick Ports. 3 Graphics and Text Modes
320x200 = 512 colours, 640x200 = 4 colours, 640x400 B/W.
16 Bit Motorola 68000 Microprocessor running at 8 mHz.

SILICON CHIP LTD, Showroom address:

302 High Street, Slough, Berkshire. Tel: 0753 70639
* 1st Atari Business Centre.
* 1st Dealer for 130 XE.
* 1st Dealer for 1029 Printers.
* 1st Dealer with our own Software House for Software Support.
* 1st Dealer for 520 ST

Please phone or write for full details. Dealer enquiries welcome.

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ncot FIE 128K + 315K disk drive E625 Two/MasterldwAnt Attack/Games Designer) E95 Sinclair OL Companion LI. 95 Screen Machine Print 'n Plotter 2.40
Apricot Fl 2560 + 720K disk drive . . £925 Commodore 1541 + Easy -Script -k 6 Programs 210 Electron Advanced User Guide MO Trans Express (cass) Romantic [8.95
BBC Plus Microcomputer (includes DES) E489 Memotech (singlet- Memotech E410 Child's Guide to the Electron CO 25 Trans Express (m/d( Romantic 23.50
BBC Microcomputer Model B £349 Memotech (dual) - Memotech £800 Child's Guide to the Amstrad 2.25 Make A Chip Sinclair ts
BBC Model B with DES 225 Amstrad 3" drive -Amstrad E190 Amstrad Advanced User Guide 06. 95 Musicmaster Sinclair E5
Acorn Electron (+ C40 FREE software) £129 Electron Plus 3 -Acorn 0210 BBC Basic Course (cass 8 book) L13.50 Print Utilities Sinclair C5
ZX Spectrum 481( ( + E50 FREE software) 29 Micro P 3 li2" disk drive 720K inc disk interface C270 BBC Assembly Course (cass 5 book) 23.50 Small Business Accounts Sinclair E650
ZX Spectrum Plus 48K (+ ISO FREE software) C129 Micro P 2nd drive C145 BBC User Guide Els VA Cale Sinclair C4.50
Memotech 512 £199 BBC Advanced User Guide El 5 VII File Sinclair 01.50
Commodore 64 (+ E40 FREE software) CUMANA DISK DRIVES Graphs 8 Charts (BBC) 2.95 VU 3D Sinclair Ca. 50
CSXL 100100k 40T
Amstrad CPC464 green) + E100 FREE software. PI: CSX 100100K 407 0709
Creative Graphics (BBC) 2.95 Zeus Assembler Sinclair E6 50
Amstrad CPC464 colour monitor) + £100 FREE son are 299 Commodore Reference Manual 20 ZX Forth Sinclair C7.50
Amstrad 6128 (co with disk drive) £399
CSX 2000 200K 40T DS 229 Memotech Games Book E5.95 Tascopy Tasman 2.90
COX 400 400K 40/807 DS 0149 2.95 Tasrnerge Tasman C9.80
Amstrad 6128 (green with disk drive) £299 Memotech Computing
CS 100100K 407 229 Memotech Program Book £5.95 Tasprint Tasman 2.90
Sinclair OL E359
CS 200D 200K 40T DS 259 Taswide Tasman £4.95
PRINTERS CS 400 400K 40/807 DS 5179
COMPUTER SOFTWARE Tasword II Tasman 22.50
Canon PW1080A with NLO E290 CD 200 2 x 100K 40T £249 egg The Artist Sottek £11.65
Canon PW1080A (+FREE Lk Interface) £315 CD 4000 2 x 200K 40T DS 5299 Blast (Compiler) Oxford E22.50
'13PeCtnnruoToTe.E14tles 111:;.° (approx) 400
Canon PW1156A with NLO £395 CD MS 2 x 4001( 40/80T DS £329
Amstrad - Titles (approx) 100
Panasonic KX-P1091 with NLO £315
Smith Corona D100 215 Electron - Titles (approx) 180 AMSTRAD
Epson P40 £95 OPUS DISK DRIVES BBC - Titles (approx)
All our software is discounted by 10%. Please send for software
400 Title
Cash Planner 8 Forecaster
Company
Abacus 21.65
Epson RX80 POA 5401 100K 40T 218
5402 200K 40T DS E155 lists. Mailin List Abacus £19.20
Epson LX80 0250
5802 400K 40/807 DS 0180 Payroll Abacus E26.95
Epson FX80 POA Listed below are serious programs for the BBC, Commodore and
Epson FX100 POA 5401P 1001( 401 £145 Purchase 8 Sales ledger Abacus E26.95
Spectrum. Stock Control Abacus E16.20
Brother HR5 (Centronics or RS232) E125 5402P 2001( 400 DS C183
In addition we have the largest selection of games software in Cash Planner (Disk) Abacus £14.40
Brother AC adaptor 27 5802P 400K 40/801 DS 2011
Europe. Also send for lists of Educational programs.
Brother 8015 (Centronics) E375 54010 2 x 100K 401 265 Mailing List (Disk) Abacus t23
Brother Cut -Sheet Feeder 220 5402E120200K 400 DS C349 Payroll (Disk) Abacus C31
0399 Purchase/Sales (Disk) Abacus £34
Brother Keyboard 250 58020 20400K 40/80T DS BBC Basic Tutorial 1 Amsoft 27.95
Brother EP44 0235 3' 100K 401 099
Title Company
Brother 1009 (Centronics) 289 Complete Firmware Amsoft 27.95
Greaten Graphics Acomsoft 08.95 Complete OS Amsoft 22.50
Juki 6100 entronics Daisy Wiwi) 250 Acomsoft £10.70
Juki 220017ypewriter Daisy Wheel Printer Centronics) 275 DISKETTES Database
Database (disk) Acornsoft E1305
Decision Maker Amsoft E22.50
Juki 6100 rector Feeder C129 Parrot, Wabash. 3M Scotch Easi-Amsalc Amsoft 27.95
Graphs and Charts Acornsoll 08.95 Guide to Basic 1 Amsoft C17.95
Juki 6100 Sheet Feeder S/S S/D 400 10 for (Wabash only) E14
C16
View Driver Gen. Acorn son £8.95 Guide to Basic 2 Amsoft E17.95
Daisy Step 2000 (Centronics Daisy Wheel) .......... ..... [2tIll
2 S/S D/D 40T 10 for
120
View Driver (Disk) Acomsoft C10.70 Micropen (disk) Amsoft C44.95
Shinwa CPA80 (Centronics C205 D/S 1)/D 40T 10 for
Viewsheet rom Acornsoft E55.00 Meroscript (disk) Amsoft 24.95
Shinwa CPA80 (RS232) £236 DS O/D 80T 10 for £29
White Knight II 13BCSoft C-10.25 Microspread Amsoft E44.95
Mannesman Tally MT80 Plus (Centronicsi £199 Parrot diskettes include FREE library case
Acorn Viewstore Acornson E55.00 Protect Planner Amsoft C22.50
Shinwa CP80 (Centronics) 0195 Accounts Payable Acornsoft C23.00 Screen Designer Amsoft E13.50
Commodore MPS 801
Alphacom 32 (Spectrum)
0160
CM
DYSAN DISKETTES Intersheet Comp Concepts C55
Star Watcher Amsoft C17.95
104/11) S/S CVO 40T 10 for /20 View Acomson 055.00 Mastercalc CPC464 Campbell 22.50
CCP 40(4 colour Printer Plotter) C90 104/2D [VS DID 407 10 for E29 Discdex Dares 23.00 Masterfile CPC464 Campbell 622.50
204/20 DIS 0/0 80T 10 for Creative Sound Acorn son C18.00 Artist 8 Sprite Designer CRL 21.05
PRINTER RIBBONS 3" MakelliAmsoft Diskettes -single ea E4.50 Discmaster (disk) Beebugsoft 016.90 Mini Office Database C5.35
Epson MX/FX/R)( 80 £4 3112" Hewlett Packard -single ea 03.50 Dumpmaster (disk) Beebugsoft C10.80 Mastertile 664 (0) Campbell E27.00
Epson MXJFX 100 .. CBI 3 /r Hewlett Packard -double ea E1.50 Exmon Beebugsoft £15.99 Devpac Hisoft 122.50
Seikosha GP100 C4. Help (rom) Beebugsoft C22.50
Seikosha GP80 £4.50 PVC COVERS Hershey Font (cliSk) Beebugsoft 23.50
Font 464
Pascal
Hisoft
Hisoft
£7.15
Apricot Fl C6.50 E22.50
kaoline (group 66) 02.30 Murom (rom) Beebugsoft C26.90 Noma 27.95
2.99 Home Budget
Anadez £12.50 Paintbox Beebugsoft 010.80 Kuma 27.95
Acom Electron/ 02.99 Logo
MPS 801 £6.50 Paintbox Beebugsoh £9.00 Machine Code Tutor New Generation 23.50
£7 BBC Cassette Recorder 02.90 026.90
NEC 8023 Sleuth (rom) Beebugsoft Code Machine Picturesque 27.95
Canon/Kaga Taxan 118
ZX Spectrum C1.99
Spellcheck II (rom) Beebugsoft 27.90
ZX Spectrum Plus 02.99 Easi-Amscalc Saxon E17.95
Epson 100 refill £3.30 Sprite Utilities Beebugsoft C9.00 Tascopy 464 Tasman 2.90
Shinwa CP80/CPA80/14110/51T80 Plus E6.50 Saga Keyboard 113.99
Beebugsoft E-10.80
Spite Utilities Tasprint 464 Tasman 2.90
Mannesman Tally MT80 E6.50 Sinclair GL 03.99 Beesugsoft E11.70
Starter Pack Tasword 464 Tasman E17_95
Riteman Al Ei VIC 20/64 £2.99 Beebugsoft 2.00
Teletext Pack Tasword 664 (disk) Tasman £22.50
Panasonic KX-P110 (MTX) Dragon 32/64 £7.99
£9 Teletext Pack (disk) Beebugsolt 010 BO Tasprint (disk) Tasman 21.60
OUME MS 230 Memotech 512 2.99 Caretaker (rom) Comp Conceit E30.00
Amstrad CPC464 2.99 Tascopy (disk) Tasman C11.60
SLIME nylon 11.50 Disk Doctor (rom( Comp Concep E30.00 27.00
Amstrad Monitor (green) L3.99 Mastercalc (disk( Campbell
Diablo MS £5 Graphics (r0m) Comp Concep £30.00 Cashbook Gemini £54.00
Amstrad Monitor (colour) 04.84 E30.00
Diablo nylon E4 Gremlin (rom) Comp Concep Cashbook (disk) Gemini E58.00
Diablo S/S 13 Philips Monitor C4.30
Comp Concep £30.00
Printmaster (mom) VATFile Gemini 018.00
Juki 6100 SS 2 Microvitec 14"
Canon PW1080A
01.80
2.80 Wordwise (rom) Comp Concep 040.00 VATFile Gemini 23.00
Juki 6100 MS ES Wordwise Plus (rom) Comp Concep C55 Final Accounts Gemini 054.00
£2.30 Epson FOBS C4_80
Brother EP44 Beta -Base (disk) Glares 022.00 Final Accounts (disk) Gemini £58.00
Brother HR5 E2.99 Epson 9)(80 F/T E4.311
Grafdisk (disk) Glares 21.50
C4.30 Database Management Gemini C18.00
Brother M1009 2.80 Grafkey Glares 11.00 Database Management (disk) Gemini 023.00
Brother singlestnke 9915/25 £3 ShinwaRCX8PL
ES'I'W'a t4. 30 2050
Replica II (disk) Glares Report Generator Gemini 018.00
Brother correctable 4015/25 E3 Mannesman Tally MT80 C4.30
Tmhienilg(lisk) 21.50
MPS 801 04.30
Glares Report Generator (disk) Gemini 23.00
Brother multistrike 91315/25 11 Database 2.35 Home Accounts Gemini £18.00
Others available. please ask. Brother HR15 £5.60 050.00
Cashbook Accounts Gemini Home Accounts (disk) Gemini 23.00
Print wheels also available, please ask. Seikosha GP80 03.50 Gemini 018.00
Database
Seikosha GP100 2.75
PRINTER LEADS Juki 6100
Final Accounts Gemini E50. 00
BBC Centronics printer lead Over 40 different covers available for venous computers. Phone for
Home Accounts Gemini E18.00 COMMODORE 64
BBC Serial printer lead 1111 Invoices 8 Statements Gemini 018.00 Title Company
availability and price. Mailist Gemini 518.00 Abacus 26.95
Memotech Centronics printer lead CIO Purchase/Sales Ledger
Dragon Centronics printer lead 20 Payroll Gemini £35.00 Stock Control Abacus 26.25
Oric Centronics printer lead 20 Stock Control Gemini £18.00 Music Studio Activision E13.50
Amstrad Centronics printer lead 28 SPECTRUM PERIPHERALS Word Processor Gemini 01 8.00 Music Studio (disk) Activision E17.99
Spectrados 0005 119 Beginner's Assembler Honeyfolds 013.50 Activity Centre (disk) ASP 23.50
Einstein Centronics printer lead
Wafadnve to Centronics lead PI: K Li ht Pen Beginners Basic Honeyfolds 23.50 Magpie Database Audiogene (disk) 036.95
20 Lightardnter ire Editor Printout Library Island Logic £11.65 Swift Spreadsheet Audiogenic (disk) 27.95
Spectrados to Centronics lead -Spectrum_Srum
ZX Interface 1 to RS232 'S -Spectrum .. 24.95 Gfrno'es E3.95 Synthesiser Keyboard Library Island Logic 011.65 Time Traveller Audiogenic E5.35
OL to 85232 lead 24.95 DK Spectrum Keyboard 129 The Music System (disc) Island Logic 22.00 Wordcraft Audiogenic £22.50
DK 3 Channel Sound C28 Basic Ext (rom) r olonwe r E17.95 System 15000 ANS 11.95
Centronics to 25 -way 0 lead £45
Centronics to Centronics lead Ell Saga Keyboard Machine Code Tutor New 23.50 Easy Calc Commodore (disk) £67.50
23.50 Microdnve Library Case 2 95 VU-Calc Psion C5.00 Easy File Commodore disk C45.00
RS232 V to RS232 '0' £12
te Extension to Keyway (ribbon) VU -File Psion 11.00 Simon's Basic Commodore rom £45.00
Microdrive extension leads C6.95
Currah Microdot Ed- Master H Electronics £8.95 Bridge Player 2 CP Software E8.95
Microdrive Extension Lead CB Light Pen Graphics H Electronics 2.95 Practicalc CSA £34.95
PRINTER INTERFACES Microdrive Cartridge £1.99 Unreal, 2 BBC 22 Practical, CSA (disk C32.00
Epson RS232 Interface - VI Pack of 4 Cartridges C750 Practifile CSA (disk 032.00
Epson RS232 Interface with 21( Butler. ES5 Currah Microspeech 020 DFM Database Dialogue disk) E22.00
Canon RS232 Interface CIO Date! Vox Box 23 SPECTRUM Elite Firebird 23.50
Shinwa RS232 Interface with 2K Buffer DSO Wata Cartridges (64K) Cl Elite (disk) Firebird E16.25
Title Company
Mannesman MT80 RS232 with 21( Buffer £45 VTX 5000 Modem CIS9
AVS 08.95 The !NIB Gilson E13.50
Mannesman MT80 2K Buffer 20 Interlace III £27
Beta Basic 3.0 Betasoft C13.50 Artstar Gyron E14.35
E16.25
Juki RS232 Interface
Kempston Interface -E (rom)
E60
C39.95
COMMODORE PERIPHERALS Mastertile Campbell E13.50 Artstar (disk)
Azimuth
Gyron
Interceptor CH.05
Currah Microspeech
Sate) 122 Masterfile 8 MF Print Campbell 28.00
Kempston Interface -S loess) C29.95 018 CP Software 58.95 ACOS+ Melbourne 08.05
Astronomer
Tasman Interface (cass) £35
Music Maker 28 Extending Basic CP Software 2.95 Games Creator Mirrorsoft 01.65
OL Centronics interface C30
Modem 100 225 Floating Point Forth CP Software 2.95 Go Sprite Mirrorsolt 11.95
Atan Centronics Interlace . 20 CBM Modem Supercode II CP Software £6.95 Machine Code Tutor New Generation E13.50
Downsway Centronics Interlace C30 S,,,oupLrelde III CP Software t11.65 Basic Lightning Oasis E17.95
Simon's Basic 0£150
Turbo Pnnt GT Centronics Interface (supports COMM graphics) £70 Creative 2.15 Basic Lightning Oasis (disk) E26.95
Disk Utilities
Stack Centronics Interface for Commodore VIC20/64£20 Wordcraft (cartridge) Creative 01.25 Machine Lightning Oasis C26.95
IEEE to Centronics Interlace for Commodore 4032/8096 £70
VC20 RAM Pack (3K/16K switch& e) 24 rt:ilnlie.6ffkilaer'Cler Database C5.35 Machine Lighning Oasis (disk) £35.95
IBEKCBM64 to Parallel Interface C60 The Illustrator Gilson 23.50 White Lightning Oasis [17.95
Tripler Centronics interface for Commodore VIC 20164 24 BBC PERIPHERALS The Quill Gilson 23-50 White Lightning Oasis (disk) 26.95
C69 Acorn ONES 1.2 C95 Precision £36.95
Apple IIE Centronics (Aristocard)
E45
C Compiler !holt E22.50 Superbase Starter
Apple IIE Serial Interlace Card 0139 Econet Upgrade Dev Pac 3 Hisoft 22.50 BBC Emulator Shado E13.50
Electron Plus 1 £59 Opus DDOS Interface £11011
Pascal Hun C22.50 Flight Simulation II (Cass) Sub Logic C36.50
LVL DDOS Interface Ultra kit Filson 08.50 Flight Simulation II (Disk) Sub Logic 545.30
PRINTER PAPER Wordwise (rom) ND
Purchase Ledger Kemp 2.54)
1000 Sheets of continuous tractor feed paper Wordwise Plus (rom) 25 2.50
1000 Single/Double tractor feed labels 2.50
ffi

Acorn Speech ROM E54

Sales Ledger
Stock Control
Kemp
Kemp 23.50
SINCLAIR OL
2.10 View 2 (roml E55 tine Y
Alphacom Roll (black) Melbourne Draw Microsphere MOO 080
2.95 01 Pascal Metacomco
MONITORS View Printer Driver Generator Omnicalc 2 Microsphere 23.50 Assembler Development Kit Metacomco C36
6502 Second Processor E199 New Generation 23.50
Microvitec 1431 MS (standard res. suitable for BBC etc) E109 Machine Code Tutor BCPL Development Kit Metacomco E54
ZBO Second Processor + FREE Software 1367 New Generation 23.50
Microvitec 1451 MS (medium res. suitable for BBC etc) E290 Lightmage Lisp Development Kit Metacomco C54
Music 500 C189 E17.95
Microvitec 1431 MZ -Spectrum 245 ROM Extension Board 20 ilfispaecchiAle. Likiohtning Oasis OL Assembler Sinclair C36
6265 Oasis E13.50 Sinclair 522
Microvitec 1451 DO- Sinclair OL AMX Mouse 25 White Lightning Oasis C13.50
01 Tool Kit
Microvitec 1451 APMS4 £345 Cash Trader Sinclair £83
£82
Cornmstar (rom) 27 Address Manager Standard OCP 06.05 Sinclair
Philips 7502 anti -glare green screen monitor (20MH2) Nightingale Modem inc Commstar 245 OL Touch 'n Go E22
210 Address Manager Plus 80 OCP [17.95 Sinclair C36
Commodore 1702 OL Entrepreneur
Fidelity TV/Monitor 210 JOYSTICKS & INTERFACES Editor Assembler OCP E11.65
01.05
01 Protect Planner Sinclair C36
Fidelity CM14 nyo Vulcan Joysticks (for the BBC) 120 Finance Manager Standard OCP
01 Integrated Accounts Sinclair £50
299 Ouickshot II Joystick 21 Finance Manager Plus 80 OCP £17.95 Talent £31
Fidelity QL Monitor (std Me) Graphic OL
030 Sure Shot Joystick 25 Machine Code Test Tool OCP 21.95 Hi Soft ZB
Amstrad Modulator CIL Man
Formula 1 Joystick 25.95 Stock Manager Standard OCP E8.05
Ferguson MMO2 green screen (UK made)
21 Stock Manager Plus 80 OCP C17.95
E4 Formula 2 Joystick
Lead for above
DK Tronics Dual Port Interface E12 VAT Manager Standard OCP 18.05 MEMOTECH
E17.95 Title Company
DISK DRIVES Date! Electronics Interlace
22.96
E9 VAT Manager Pus 00
Editor 8 Assembler
OCP
Picturesque 2.65 Reward Memotech 512 C70
ZX Microdrive - Sinclair £45 Budd Interlace (+ reset switch)
29 Spectrum Monitor Pcturesque 11.75 Pascal Memotech £54
ZX Interlace 1 - Sinclair C45 Cambridge Programmable Joystick 123
Paint Plus Print 'n Plotter E11.95 Payroll Memotech
TA Expansion System (includes Microdrive/Interface 1/Tasword DK Trollies Programmable Interlace 122

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APRICOT COMPUTERS SANYO COMPUTERS
APRICOT PC256k RAM, dual 315k disk drives, 1276 1468 MBC 550 SERIES
APRICOT PC256k RAM, dual 720k disk drives. 1436 1652 16 -bit 8088 CPU, MS DOS 2.11, 256k RAM.
APRICOT )010256k RAM, 10 Mb Winchester. 2236 2572 Expandable disk drive configurations from
APRICOT MOS 51 2k RAM, 10 Mb dual 360k to 800k floppies and 10 Mb
Winchester 2636 3032 Winchester. Built-in full -colour graphics.
APRICOT X120 512k RAM, 20 Mb Winchester. 3036 3492 FREE Software - Sanyo Basic, WordStar,
APRICOT X120S 1 Mb RAM, 20 Mb and CalcStar.
Winchester. 3436 3952 FREE MONITOR- High resolution, green
screen mono.
APRICOT F SERIES 550-360x Dual 360k disk drives. 795 915
APRICOT Fl e 256k RAM, single 315k disk 550-800x Dual 800k disk drives. 795 915
drive, plus FREE green monochrome monitor. 595 685 550-10MX Integral 10 Mb Winchester with:
APRICOT Fl 256k RAM, single 720k disk single 360k disk drive. 1495 1720
drive. 761 876 single 800k disk drive. 1795 2065
APRICOT FP 512k RAM, single 720k disk IBM COMPATIBLE 550
drive and Cordless Mouse. 1186 1364 SANYO 550-360x fitted with IBM compatible
APRICOT F2 512k RAM, dual 720k disk video board Provides full IBM colours graphics
drives (1.44 Mb) and Cordless Mouse. 1271 1462 and includes GW Basic. Dual 360k disk drives,
APRICOT F10 512k RAM, 10 Mb Winchester 256k RAM, MS DOS 2.11. Runs Lotus 1-2-3,
and Cordless Mouse. 1951 2244 Turbo Pascal, etc. 995 1145
APRICOT MONITORS ADDITIONAL SOFTWARE
Additional software for the SANYO MBC 550
High Resolution 9" Green Screen Mono. 160 184 Series. Full software pack comprising I nfoStar,
High Resolution 12" Green Screen Mono. 200 230 DataStar, ReportStar, Sort, Mailmerge and
SpellStar. 195 225
APRICOT NETWORK SYSTEMS SANYO MBC 775 PORTABLE COMPUTER
POINT 7 (For APRICOT Xi only) Cluster The new IBM compatible portable with 16 -bit
Controllers (including Concurrent DOS and 8088 CPU, 256k RAM, MS DOS 2.11, IBM
Documentation). 396 456 Compatible Colour Graphics, and an integral
9" colour monitor. Runs software designed
POINT 32 - FILE SERVERS for the IBM (such as Lotus 1-2-3, Turbo Pascal,
32/10 256k RAM, 10 Mb Winchester. 2396 2756 Wintek CAD/CAM, etc.).
32/20 512k RAM, 20 Mb Winchester, 3196 3676
32/80 512k RAM, 80 Mb Winchester. 5096 5861 FREE Software - WordStar and CalcStar.
FREE Colour Printer- with Screen Dump
ACCESSORIES Software.
MBC 775-360x Dual 360k disk drives. 2150 2473
GENERAL MBC 775-10MX Single 360k disk drive with
Bank with 100 Mbytes Cartridge. 1616 1859 10 Mb Winchester. 2795 3215
Network Board and Tap Box. 166 191
Network Cable 500 Feet (Red). 176 203
AKHTER DISK DRIVE UPGRADES FOR SANYO
Cordless Mouse for fl and Fl e. 86 99
Single 360k disk drive. 110 127
Dual 360k disk drive. 199 229
For Apricot F Series and PC: Single 800k disk drive. 129 149
TV Adaptor Kit. 27 32 Dual 800k disk drive. 239 275
MX10 External 10 Mb Winchester. 896 1031 Single 10 Mb Winchester. 895 1030
ACT PRINTER Akhter offer £25 trade-in on your old Sanyo drives.
Apricot Writer 15 High -Speed Matrix Printers. 1271 1462
EXPANSION BOARDS
8087 Maths Co -processor kit. 233 268
128k RAM board. 158 182
256k RAM Board. 266 306
512k RAM Board. 491 565 SPERRY COMPUTERS
MODEM BOARDS Akhter now stocks a new range of computer.
Including MicroMail voucher. 250 288 The SPERRY PC Range. Visit us to discuss
Including Communique. 335 386 your particular business requirement.
SOFTWARE PACKS SPERRY PC Model 100 256k RAM, single
Super Pack: Super Calc, Super Writer, Super 360k disk drive including monochrome
Planner. 95 109 monitor. 1922 2211
Education Pack: CP/M-86, Dr. Logo Tutorial. 26 30 SPERRY PC Model 200 256k RAM, dual 360k
MS Pack: MS-DOS Operating System, disk drive including monochrome monitor. 2195 2525
Utilities, GW-BASIC with Manual & Quick SPERRY PC Model 250267k RAM, dual 360k
Reference Card. 27 32 disk drive including med-res. colour monitor. 2510 2887
DR Pack: CP/M-86, Concurrent DOS, SPERRY PC Model 400 256k RAM, single
MS Mode, Personal Basic with Manual& Quick 360k disk drive, 10 Mb Winchester, & mono.
Reference Card. 27 32 monitor. 3458 3977

Both 'on -site' and econo

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urses are available':
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 AKHTER PRICES AKHTER PRICES
Ex. VAT Inc. VAT£ Ex. VAT Inc. VAT£
DOT MATRIX PRINTERS PRINTER ACCESSORIES
EPSON FX80160 CPS, 10" wide, friction and TRACTOR ADAPTORS
pin feed. NLQ Option. 324 373 FX80. 33 38
EPSON FX100 160 CPS, 15" wide, friction LX80. 20 23
and pin feed. NLQ Option. 455 524 JUKI 6300. 129 148
EPSON RX100 F/T 100 CPS, 15" wide, JUKI 6100. 129 148
friction and tractor teed. 359 413 QUENDATA DWP1120. 114 132
EPSON U(80 NEW printer, with NLQ, 160
CPS, 10" wide, friction and pin feed. 229 264
CANON PW1080A 160 CPS, 10" wide, SHEET FEEDERS
friction and tractor feed, NLQ. 255 294 JUKI 6300. 199 229
CANON PW1156A 160 CPS, 15" wide, JUKI 6100. 199 229
friction and tractor feed, NLQ. 359 413 QUENDATA DWP1120. 199 229
SHINWA CPA80 100 CPS, 10" wide, friction
and tractor feed. 173 199
MP165 165 CPS, 10" wide, friction and RIBBONS
tractor feed. NLQ, Epson compatible. 239 275 EPSON FX80, LX80. 5 6
SEIKOSHA BP -5420 This is a business dot EPSON FX100. 7 8
matrix printer. Ideal for Networks. 420 CPS, CANON/ )(AGA 7 8
friction and tractor feed. 995 1145 SEIKOSHA BP -5420. 18 21
SHINWA CPAS°. 6 7
JUKI 6100: Single Strike. 2 3
JUKI 6100: Multistrike. 4 5

DAISYWHEELS
JUKI: Various T/A 5 6

DAISYWHEEL PRINTERS RS232 INTERFACES.

JUKI 6000 10 CPS. Bi-directional, logic EPSON 8143 (for FX printers). 39 45
seeking, 10, 12, 15 CPI and P.S. 199 229 EPSON 8148 (with 2k buffer, Xoff/Xon.) 69 79
JUKI 6100 20 CPS. Bi-directional, logic JUKI (for all Juki printers). 50 58
seeking, 10, 12, 15 CPI and P.S. 324 373 CANON. 79 91
JUKI 6300 40 CPS. Bi-directional, logic
seeking, 3k buffer, 10, 12, 15 CPI and P.S. 699 804
JUKI 2200 Portable electronic typewriter
and RIO printer. 12" wide. 10 CPS. 10, 12, 15
CPI and P.S. Bi-directional printing. 2k buffer. 249 286
QUENDATA DWP1120 20 CPS.
Bi-directional, logic seeking, Centronics
Interfcace (optional RS232). 219 252

MONITORS
SANYO MONOCHROME
DM8112 12" 18MHz hl-res. (green). 86 99
DM9112 12" 18MHz hi-res. (with tilt -stand). 99 114
CRT 36 Medium res. for MBC 550 Series. 119 137

COLOUR PRINTERS PHILIPS MONOCHROME

OKIMATE 20 Full Colour, 40 CPS letter 7502 A hi-res. green screen monitor. 74 85
quality, variable width tractor, plan paper 7522 A hi-res. amber screen monitor. 78 89
and acetate film printing. 259 298 7513 IBM -Compatible (green) with cable. 86 99
CANON PJ1080A Seven colour, ink jet
printer. 37 CPS, bi-directional. 399 459
MICROVITEC CUB COLOUR
1431 MS 14" RGB standard res. colour. 199 229
1451 DS 14" RGB medium res. colour. 240 276
1441 MS 14" RGB high res. colour. 399 459

SANYO COLOURS
CD3125 Standard resolution. 155 179
LASER PRINTER CD3117 Medium resolution. 299
399
344
459
CD3115 High resolution.
CANON LBP-801 Landscape and portrait CRT 50 Medium res. for MBC 550 Series. 299 344
printing. 10, 12, 15 CPI and P.S. 2695 3058 CRT 70 High res. for MBC 550 Series. 429 494

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 APPLE COMPATIBLE PERIPHERALS
NOTCHES disk capacity DOUBLER.
TITAN 1288 RAM CARD for Ile
1213K RAM Card wrth manual & disk.
SNAPSHOT (II & II -k 1- Dark Star ............. ... .................... .....

COPYK1T Dark Star

SHUTTLE MULTITASKING Software Dark Star ....... .......
Auto Dial/Auto Answer MODEM Card .
COMMS software tor above
PRESTEL Graphics ROM for Modem Card
£3.99
£199.00
£139.95
......... ..... S52.00

. .. £19.95
.£19.95
... rms.00
.£25.00
.£19.95
Hui
BUSINESS SYSTEMS LTD
UNIT M, CHARLSWOODS BUSINESS CENTRE, CHARLSW000S ROAD,
EAST GRINSTEAD, WEST SUSSEX RH19
MICRO PERIPHERALS
CPA -80P Parallel 100cps 80co1 £179
EXP-500 Banal 16cps
EXP-550 Parallel 19cps .
EXP-550 Senal 19cps
EXP-770 Parallel 36cps
EXP-770 Sena 36cps

Cut Sheet Feeder for 500

Cut Sheet Feeder for 550/770...
8K Buffer for 770
16K Buffer for 770

TEC STARWRITER
............ .................. ..............£105
£163
£289
£419
£455
£559
£589

£163
£55
£95
£259

Disk Drive Controller Card .............. .

CPA -80S Senal version of above . . £195 F10,40 Parallel 40001 E830
166 RAM (Language) Card . .5219.95 CPA -800 OL version of above E219 F10/55 Parallels5cps £1190
80 Column Card (Video CompatiNe)11+/e ............ .£44.95 CPA -80C Commodore version of above £195 Elec,Aftech Single Sheet Feeder £445
80 Col Card as above with Soft Control. 1559.95 CPB 80P Parallel IBM COMPAT. 130cps, BOcol £199 Tractor for F10 units E129
INVERSE Video ROM for above £5.00 CPB-80S As above but Serial . £209
80/40 Column Hard Switch £9.95 CPB-136 Parallel IBM COMP 130cps, 136001 £289
80 Column Card for Ile .£44.95 MP -165 165cps 136co1 NLO £235 PLOTTERS
80 Column Card for Ile with 84K RAM ..... ....... ............. ........ ...... ...... ...134.95 MP -1650 OL version of above £311
280 CPAA Card for 11+ . ........................ ............ MP -1651 IBM version of above £249 EPSON H180 Plotter ..... .......... 349
CP4A Z80 -B (6MHz) Card with 64K RAM H + .. £169.95 SERIAL Interface for 165 senes .. .
£55 ASTAR MCP -40 4 -Colour 80 Character £105
Z80 Card for Ile . .. ... .£44.95 NEC ASTAR MCP -80 4 -Colour full graphics . . £165
Micro Soft Softcard 11./0 6MHz + 646 E299.00 PINWRITER P2 80col ...... ........... ..... £349 SILVER REED EB-50 typewnter/ploffer . £159
Digital Research CP/M Gold Card Ile 64K ...E249.00 £479 MANNESMANN TALLY Pixie -3 ....... . . ... E325
Dgital Research CP/M Gold Card Ile 192K. £339.95 Parallel Interlace for
CP,M Module for lc . _.._£129
Parallel Printer Card (Centro)ics) .... ............ IBM PC Interface for P3452 ........ £99 COLOUR PRINTERS
Parallel Primer Card (Epson). C34.95 £289
GPrinter Buffer Card (64K dump). ...£129.95 £119 SEIKOSHA GP -700A £345
Grappler+. Card 49.95 NEWBURY DATA - Heavy £469
Grapple, 166 Buffer ..... ............ ..... ....._ ... ...... .. .....£149.95 DRE-8830 Parallel 180cps 1 £1019 E799
CHAMPION Parallel Interlace (with cable.). £45.00 DRE-8840 Parallel 240cps 132col E1129 £1299
tattoo
.

CHAMPION + 166 Butler (writ cable) DRE 8925 Parallel 240cps £1275 CPP-40 4 -Colour punter/plotter . £99
CHAMPION + 64K Buffer (with cabie) rms.00 DRE 8850 Parallel 300LPM ...... £1959 JUKI 5510 80col 18cps FIT Parallel
CACHEBOX 646 Parallel inline Butter E125.00 OK - MICROLINE
Communications Card E32.95
RS -232 Serial Interlace Card .... ..... ...... .......... OKI-84A as above Senal. ..... £685 MONITORS
SUPER Serial card with manual £89.95 061-182 80co1 Parallel 120cps IBM.... .. ............... ........ ................ E259
OKI-182 as above Serial ... SANYO
NTSC to PAL Converter + UHF Mod ....................
RGB Card (LINEAR output).
-----
.. £49.95
061-192 80col 160cps Parallel IBM ..... ........... ......... . .................. _...........£335 DM-8112CX 80c0118MH,.. P31 ...... ........
CD -3125 14" Normal Res RGB
£133
E155
OKI-193 132.1 160cps Partial ISM £459 CD -3117 14" Medium Res RGB £275
DMS RGB Card output) £75.00 OKI-193 as above Serial £489 CD -3115 14" High Res RGB £379
DMS RGB Card (LINEAR output) E75.00 OKI-2350 Parallel fine printer £1429 DMC 7650 IBM/APRICOT Colour Monftor... ................. . ... .E319
£149.95
. .

IEEE -488 Controller, cable, disk &manual VAN JEN

Eprom Blower Card (2716,2732,2764)...... .......... .. £49.95 01<1 Plug r Play Card 92/93 IBM Graphics £79 GN-1211 12' Green or Amber 20MHz with tilt & swivel base.........................E83
MK2 Eprom Blower (2716,27322764,27128)..... ZENITH
NEW EPROM controfter/ParaINII,Face £32.00
EPROM Blower for 2716,32,32a,64,128,2513...........
PROM Writer card blows 74$472.745288 C159 95
KX-P1091 120cps NLO. IBM COMPATIBLE .. .. £249
122E 12. 15MHz AMBER £84
£79
CLOCK CARD (TIME II) Card .. ........... RADIX ZVM-133 17 Colour Hi Rea (IBM-PC) C329
MOUNTAIN Clock card C179.95 £439 PHILIPSr Z1/1.4-133/IBM-PC .. ........ £15
WWI Cord Plus £99.95 RITEMANN PH
Four Port Twin 6522 Card .. ....... .. ... £34.95 PLUS- (MX 80 FT compatible) 120cps 80co1

Pond..
£199 7513 17 Green, . .... ..... . ....... . .... . ... £69
6809 Card .. .... .
£119.95 BLUE PLUS (RX-80 FT comp) 140cps 80001 £229 7502 12" Green, IBM Corn&atible211MHz... ....... ... ...... £94
Integer Basic Card . £32.95 II (FX-80 compatible) 160cps 80co1 NLQ £255
E14.95 B20MHzB. E199
Joystick (see centering) 15 (FX-100 compatible) 160cps 136c01 £395 TAXAN
Joystick (deluxe version) .... £19.95 NEW F+ BOcol 105cps FRONT LOADING. NLO. 2K £224 KX 1201G 17 20MH2, Green. P31 tube.. .. ..... .......... ............ ... £89
leck .. . 95 SEIKOSHA KX 1202G 12' 20MHz.2OMHe,Green P39 tube £99
Apple Co mpatible Power Supply 5A £49.95 £149 KX 1212PC 12' (IBM) , Green P39 £119
ASCII Encoded Keyboard with I/c mod . £54.95 £149 MONOCHROME CABLES
IBM STYLE keyboard for Apple £89.95 E169 Phono,Phono
A/C Cooing Fan (clip on) with sSTpVp E24.95 £199 BNC,Phono
..£199.00 3-.;:
use STAR Videolink for Commodore 64 ..... ........ .. £3.75
SATURN/TITAN ACCELERATOR II.... .. £269.00 £199
SATURN/TITAN ACCELERATOR FOR Ile .... ..... ...... . ...
IC TEST Card TTL Version (send for info) ...... ......... . ..... . .... ....... ..... . £119.95
SD -I0 (PT) 160cps130.1(65cps NLO)
SR -10 (FT) 200cps 80.1(80c. NLO)
.. £299
£399
UHF,Phono
MICROVITEC
£9.00

IC TEST Card D/SRAM,ROM/PROM/EPROMsAvare ........ .. ..... _mem SG -15 (FT)120cps 136001 (SOcps NLO) ... £295
SD -15 ,T) 160cps 136.1 (65cps NLO) £399 1441 14" HI-RES., £359
£489
APPLE STORAGE DEVICES TAXAN
INDESIT
APRICOT display 12" (beige or black) £159
£279
CUMANA full height drive for Apple......... .. .. ..... .... .. £109.00 £368
CUMANA haft height drive for Apple ....... ... .. ... . £145.00 KP-8I0PC IBM VERSION £329 COMPUTERS
AFD-2 haft ht. SS/DD 3201 floppy drive .......... ...... .......... ..... C249.00 £409
AFD-4 hall ht. DS/130640K floppy drive ......... ......... . ...... .... ........ .... ..£289.00 TEC APRICOT
AFD-4 tlnve controller card ..£59.00 1550 Parallel £459 FIE............ . ..... .............. ...........
INTEC 5MB Hard Drive for Apple..........._£599.00 1550 Serial.. E539
TOSHIBA - 24 Wait Head PC 256K + 2 x 3156 + Monitor
INTEC 10MB Hard Drive KIT .. L875.00 £549 PC 2566 + 2 x 7208 + Monitor .........£1675
5/10MB Hard Drive Controller Card £250.00 £999 XIO 2566 + 10MB + Monrior £2139
(Note. All INTEC drives are UK built and backed - Prices include controller £419 X10 5126 + 10MB + Monitor .........£2499
card, cables, power supply, utility and diagnostic software for DOS, PASCAL 8 0120 512K + 20MB + Monitor.. .............. ........ .. .£2925
CP/M, together with 24 month service warranty) X1206 1 MB +20596 + Monitor ..E3350
SANYO
PRINTERS - DAISY WHEEL MBC 550 128K + 1 0 160K + software ..........[595
PRINTERS - DOT MATRIX MBC 555 1286 + 2 0 160K + software
BROTHER MBC 550-2 as 550 but 360K Drive ........£769
NEW LOW PRICES!!! FIR.10 80.1Serial 1 ()cps . MBC 555-2 as 555 but dual 3606 dr ........£1125
ANADEX - 100% DUTY CYCLE MR -15 Parallel 20cps ....... CRT 36 Hi Res 12" Green Monitor £110
ALL MODELS CALL HR -15 Sarial CRT 50 Med Res Colour Monitor. .. . £279
.

BROTHER HR -25 Parallel 25cps CRT 70 Hi Res Colour Monitor.

HR -5 Portable them. transfer (P or S) £125 FIR -25 Serial 25cps MBC 232 -RS2321/Face board .. . £49 . .

HR -5 for CBM64NIC 20 ................. ..... ...... £125 HR -35 Parallel 35cps .... 64K RAM Plug In Module £15
EP -44 Thermal transits- (KSR).. £189 EPSON
M-1009 Dual Interface.... ...... ... . . £155 PX-8 Portable Computer £649
M-1009 (IBM) 50cps........ ..... £149 MR 15 Sheet Feeder ........ 1208 RAM Disk for above [249
2024L NLO 190cps draft_ . £889 FIR -15 Tractor Feed Unit ....... P08 1208 RAM Disk £889 . .

TC 600- Typewriter - printer £339 00.10 Desk Top Computer . ....£1295

DISK DRIVE for TC 600 £149 HR 25/35 Tractor Unit._ ........ PCs AND COMPATIBLES
CANON - NEW LOW PRICES TOWA CANON
PW-1080 160cps (NLO) £249 Daley Junior 14cps 80.1, P11. A -200M 2566 + 2 x 360K drives + mono output MS-DOS, OW -Basic..... £1275
PW-1156 160cps (NLO)... £345 Erirr 2000 18cps 132cot Pll A-2000 as above but COLOUR £1399
F-60 80cps Thermal DRAFT/NLO/LCVOR 11001-.....E349 Canon 12. Green Sc Monitor tor A200 .£139
PJ-1080A Seven COLOUR 37 cps £375 630 -API 40cps E1529 Canon 12" Hi Res RGB Monitor for 6200 £439
DATAPRODUCTS - PAPER TIGER 630 -API Sheet Feeders, from £229 COMMODORE
8010 80col 180cps draft NLO both S & P £389 EPSON PC -10 256K + 2 x 3606 drives + monitor . £1239
8011 as above but IBM COMPATIBLE £389 DX -100 Parallel 20cps PC -20 2568 + 1 x 3606 + 10MB + monitor £2075
8020 132col 180cps draft both S& P. £465 JUKI COMPAQ
8021 as above but IBM COMPATIBLE 0469 6100 1 Bops .. £297 PC -2 2566 + 2x3608 drives £1689
8050 132.1200cps + SSF both S & P.... £1070 6200 132.130cps. ...... £479 PLUS Portable £3098
8050 COLOUR as above but colour printing £1449 Serial Interlace tor above £59 DESKPRO 1 £1725
8070 132ool 400cps draft LO both S & P £1499 6300 £669 DESKPRO 2 E2099
8070 COLOUR as above but colour printing.... ............................ .. E1829 £245 DESKPRO 3 £3395
EPSON 2100 £169 DESKPRO 4 £4525
LX80 80col 100cps 16cps NLO . ............................................ ......... £195 NEC SPINWRITER IBM
Tractor for LX80 £19 3510/30/15 Six/MI/Diablo 35cps... £999 Morro PC 2558 + 2 x 360K drives + monitor £1575
Sheetteeder £49 7710/30/15 Ser/P9Diablo 55cps. £1429 Colour PC 256K -1 2 x 3600 + monitor .£1845
RX-100 136col FT 100cps £324 2000 Printer 20cps. £509 Mono XT 256K + 1 x 360K + 10MB + monitor . £3100
FX-80 80.1160cps £309 £89 OLIVETTI
FX-100 FT 136co1160c41 .............. ... . £419 8800 Printer .... £1299 £1500
LO -1500 200cps (NLO) 4 to lEr paper width £855 £99 M21 640K 10MB MONO £2410
EPSON 8143 Senall,Face OK £29 Accessories for NEC printers _... CALL M24 256K TWIN 320 MONO £1710
EPSON 8145 Senall/Face 2K buffered £59 OUME M24 2566 TWIN 640 MONO £1755
EPSON 8148 Swat IrFace 36 buffered £65 iv. RO (vaned AMAMI.) - £1165 M24 640K 320/10MB MONO £2620
XON/XOFF Serial I,Face 21( buffer £65 9/45 RO full front panel........ ...... £1525 M24 640K 640/10MB COLOUR
SANYO
EPSON/COMMODORE 1/Face 2K butter.......... 12/20 Lefler Pro (S or P) 20cps . ... ...... ........ ... .... .... .. .E445
EPSON 8165 PET IEEE 2K I/Face 2X DOW £65 9/55 RO full front panel 55cps .. ........... £1895 SANYO MBC 775 COLOUR PORTABLE IBM COMPATIBLE 2566 RAM + 2 x
EPSON PET IEEE Cable 8260. .............. . .. .. . £20 11/55 RO (without Interlace) . ............. £1359 320K DRIVES, COLOUR MONITOR + MS-DOS and GW-BASIC . £1859
EPSON APPLE Card 8132.. OUEN DATA/UCHIDA
EPSON APPLE Cable Serial Daisy Wheel Parallel 18cps ... . ........ . E215
8K Buffered parallel or serial I/F £79 UCHIDA DAISY WHEEL 20cps parallel ............... E199 SOFTWARE
16K Buffered parallel or serial I/F £95 UCHIDA as above Serial version.. ......... .. ..... ............ ...... . E239
32K Buffered parallel or sepal I/F ......... .... . .................................. ..... £125 RICOH WORDSTAR
64K Buffered parallel or serial I/F . £159 D BASE II.
HONEYWELL
ALL £1300 FRAMEWORK ....... . .
MAN0*
NESMAtootNN TaLLY FLOWRITER 1600 466 Multi Ill £1235 LOTUS 123 .........................
FLOWRITER 1300 46K Multi Vf .... ".4:::::::....:::::::::::2::2:::::::: £1279 SYMPHONY £360
MT -85 Wool. 180cps, IBM, (coequal 4.5.S). E289 Elec/Mech Sheet Feeder RP -1 DMS-DELTA £359
MT -86 136col. 180cps. IBM. (con ca. ..£395 Tractor Unit for 1600 Models MULT1AAATE £255
MT -160 160cps ... ..... .......................... . .... .. £395 SILVER REED OPEN ACCESS . ..........£310
MT -290 132col 200cps (cort goal 50cps NLO) £549 D BASE III .__.....£315
MT -290 as above with Seoul Interface ............. ............................ ... £609 EXP-400 Sena! 10cp1 £249 SUPERCALC II.... ..._E130
MT -280 200cps, 132001, IBM, (corzqual 50ops) ........................... £825... EXP-500 Parallel 16cps £259 SUPERCALC £189

REMEMBER Even if you don't see it advertised here we can probably supply it AND FOR LESS. Problems with limited space means that we are only able to advertise
a limited range of products. Additional prices on application. Consumables, paper, ribbons etc, supplied at exceptional prices. 24 -HOUR DELIVERY on items
ex -stock.
CARRIAGE WITHIN UK: items which may be dispatched by POST (eg, peripheral cards etc) add £2.00 per order under £50.00. ORDERS EXCEEDING £50.00
CARRIAGE FREE. SOFTWARE PACKAGES: CHARGED SEPARATELY MINIMUM CHARGE £4.00. Items which must move by CARRIER (such as printers,
monitors etc) will be delivered within 24 -hours for a charge of £10.00. OR ALTERNATIVELY within 48 -HOURS at a charge of £7.50. Add 15% VAT to all prices given.
Remember, VAT is also applicable on carriage at 15%. Terms STRICTLY CWO. DEALER ENQUIRIES WELCOME. FOREIGN enquiries if possible by telex please.
Favourable rates to most destinations. CALLERS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY.

VISA
TEL: (0342) 24631 TLX: 957418 E3
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from Disco. Tech (UK) Ltd.
The MEGA BOX is a top quality rigid plastic
storage box with see-through lid and four dividers.
Holds up to 60 diskettes.

All disks are 51/4" and

feature:
Write protect notch
Hub rings
Double density (D/D)
suitable for
single density (S/D)
Tyvex sleeves
Full set of labels and
write protect tabs
Meets all ANSI
specifications

zit= Floppy
Disk Prices Measures 61/4" x 83/4" x 61/2"
25 SS/DD disks in MEGA BOX £29 plus VAT
£4.35 and £2 p&p = £35.35
25 DS/DD disks in MEGA BOX £39 plus VAT THE midi box
£5.85 and £2 p&p = £46.85
15 DS/DD disks in our mIdi.box at a
50 SS/DD disks in MEGABOX £50 plus VAT
£7.50 and £2 p&p = £59.50
bargain price. Our new MICIIbOX has
some great features. It's made of high
*50 DS/DD disks in MEGABOX £70 plus
VAT £.10.50 and £2 .& . = £82.50*
impact plastic and holds up to 30 51/4"
10 SS/DD disks in minlbox £13 plus VAT
disks, but is one of the neatest on the
market. Measuring only 6" x 6" x 3", the
£1.95 and £2 p&p = £16.95
rigid lid conveniently holds the disks you
10 DS/DD disks in mini *box £18 plus VAT
£2.70 and £2 p&p = £22.70
are working on ready to hand. And with
15 DS/DD disks its a bargain at only £20
*£5 PRICE REDUCTION plus £3 VAT and £2 p&p = £25.

SUPERDISK Personal Callers Very

XLTRON's 96 tpi (80 track) disk Welcome
Suitable for any disk requirement or
Suitable For Most Popular
We're now established in our new showroom in
use. Individually tested and certified in Micros Alfred Place. You can save our £2 delivery charge
XLTRON disks are recommended for BBC, IBM PC by calling in - you'll be welcome weekdays from
our London laboratory. Atari and Commodore computers. If you need 10.00am till 5.00pm Saturday 10.00am-4.00pm.
advice on other micros just ring 01.631 0255
Our Quality Promise Help Lines
You can order with confidence. We buy disks from 01-6310255
international manufacturers to our specifications, 01-631 3600
then test, retest and grade them in our London
laboratories. If you want help or information to place an order
just ring our 'help' lines.
Fully Guaranteed
The XLTRON quality control is so stringent that Official Orders
we can give our famous 'two for one' guarantee. If We accept orders from all government bodies,
you find a faulty disk, return it to us, and we'll schools, universities, libraries, armed forces etc.
send you two in exchange immediately. All part of We despatch on receipt of an official purchase
our five year guarantee. order. If you can't raise a cheque without an
O TYVEX is a registered name of Du Pont.
invoice, just post or telephone your order and we'll
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p&p = £23.85
rTo: DiscoTech (U.K.) Ltd., Lex House, 3-6 Alfred Place, London WC1, England
15 in a mIdlbOX £25 plus VAT £3.75 and £2 p&p Just fill in the coupon or send your order on a postcard or letter. Or phone your order on 01.631 3600 OR
= £30.75 01.631 0255 Please send me the following, (tick the appropriate boxes):
25 in a MEGABOX £42 plus VAT £6.30 and £2
p&p = £50.30 (QTY) SS/DD DS/DD 0 SUPERDISK disks in a
50 in a MEGABOX 80 plus VAT £12 and £2
MEGABOX MIclibOx 0 mini* box
p&p_ £94.00
I enclose a cheque/p.o. for £ or debit my Access/Diners/Amex card
DiscoTech (U.K.) Ltd., card no
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London WC1, England. Address.
DiscoTech (U.K.) LTD. are the
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 Professional Presentations
at your fin ertips,

WITH A FEW TRICKS polished up with captions or logos.

And PPS is flexible. You can show your
UP YOUR SLEEVE . . . presentation on a colour monitor to a small
. tricks like animated presen- group, with a video projector to a large audience,
tations on your PC's colour monitor that or you can print black and white or colour hard
will hold your audience spellbound .. or, . copy. And if there is no PC available for your
tricks like turning your presentation into presentation you can produce your own brilliant
brilliant 35mm slides on your desk in minutes. 35mm colour slides, or overheads with the
But the best trick is turning the remarkable Polaroid Palette Computer Image
preparation of your presentation from a Recorder and you can process them instantly
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experience. will pay for itself in less than a carousel full
THE SECRET? of slides.
The Personal Presentation System, Personal Presentation System and Polaroid Palette
a completely new approach to creating business are just two outstanding
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PPS is a brand new British product and it's not just We supply a wide range of
another drawing package. PPS is a suite of easy to use graphic products, and we
software that lets you assemble presentations to a can train you and your
professional standard and PPS costs just £350.00. staff and provide you with
With PPS you build your presentations element by first class after sales
element using different text service and support.
fonts, colour, simple drawing Put a little magic
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Icons are our name for Cut the coupon or call London Software Studio on
pre -drawn symbols, like 01-935 3033 and we'll give you the complete picture.
maps, flags and company
logos. Icons can be modified, Please send me details of the Personal Presentation 7
moved around and re -used System and Polaroid Palette.
indefinitely like dry transfer Name
lettering that never runs out.
Position
We have included 50 or so to
get you started, and we will be publishing libraries of Address .
invaluable symbols like transport, communications and Postcode Tel No
financial icon sets at frequent intervals.
PPS lets you incorporate images in your presentation
from any of your existing software. We've included a
'Frame Grabber' which is like a 'window' onto your other
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'Polaroid' and 'Polaroid Palette are Registered trademarks of Polaroid Personal Presentation System runs on IBM PC XT or compatible with
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Lotus and 1-2.3 are trademarks of Lotus Development Corporation and adaptor and PC DOS 2.0 or later (or equivalent) mouse optional.
 *** CUT PRICE MICROS ***
APRICOT MICROCOMPUTERS

L ACT Xi 10 MEG £POA

ACT Xi 5 MEG £POA
U ACT 2x720K £POA
S ACT 2x315K £POA
12" MONITORS AVAILABLE

THE PEGASUS SYSTEMS

SYSTEM 1 SYSTEM 2
APRICOT WITH 2 x 720K PLUS 12" MONITOR APRICOT WITH 10 MEGABYTE HARD DISK DRIVE AND
PLUS SUPERWRITER WORDPROCESSING PROGRAM 12" MONITOR
PLUS SUPERCALC FINANCIAL FORECASTING PROGRAM WITH SUPERWRITER FOR WORD PROCESSING
PLUS SUPERPLANNER ELECTRONIC DIARY AND WITH SUPERCALC FINANCIAL FORECASTING
CARDBOX SYSTEM SPREADSHEET
PLUS PEGASUS SALES ORDER PROCESSING/INVOICING WITH SUPERPLANNER ELECTRONIC DIARY SYSTEM
PLUS PEGASUS SALES LEDGER
PLUS PEGASUS PURCHASE LEDGER PLUS EPSON FX80 PRINTER
PLUS PEGASUS NOMINAL LEDGER PLUS DATA CABLE TO LINK PRINTER TO COMPUTER
PLUS 10 3.5" DISKS
PLUS DATA CABLE TO LINK PRINTER TO COMPUTER PLUS I BOX OF FANFOLD PAPER
PLUS 203.5" DISKS
PLUS BROTHER HR15 DAISY WHEEL QUALITY PRINTER PLUS ANY 4 MODULES OF PEGASUS ACCOUNTING
SYSTEM PRICE £2796.00 SOFTWARE
SYSTEM PRICE £3596.00

THE APRICOT SYSTEMS

WE CAN
RECONFIGURE ANY APRICOT Xi 10 MEG APRICOT 2x720
PACKAGE TO SUIT SUPERWRITER 12" MONITOR
YOUR INDIVIDUAL SUPERCALC SUPERWRITER
NEEDS. WE PROVIDE SUPER PLANNER SUPERCALC
HOT-LINE SUPPORT, BASIC/MS-DOS/CPM-86 SUPER PLANNER
FX100 PRINTER & CABLE ANY PRINTER
SERVICE, DATA BOX OF DISKS WORTH UP TO £400
INSURANCE & ON - BOX OF PAPER
SITE MAINTENANCE £2800 £1996

*** UPGRADES *** BUY RENT OR LEASE

FRO\I THE PROFESSIONALS
Make your Apricot Fl or Fle into a dual drive
computer (2x720K)
Fl upgrade £395 + VAT
Fle upgrade £515 + VAT
Fully compatible with all existing software - fully guaranteed internal
conversion
We are authorised dealers for the above
HONEYWELL M34 PRINTER TEL: 01-800 8182
270 cps - draft 80 cps NLQ
available from stock £795 78-82 KIRKTON ROAD
31/2" SONY DISKS IN A LIBRARY CASE LONDON N15
Box of 10- £40
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Proudly announce that their Laptop IBM PC compatible is now

available in the UK

The Kaypro 2000

A new era in business computers

Portability without compromise. It's yours with the Kaypro 2000 laptop computer. In fact, the sleek
Kaypro 2000 is the equivalent of a full-sized IBM PC - for hundreds of pounds less!
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The Kaypro 2000 has the features that deliver: Weighs a mere 11Ibs, an exceptionally readable LCD
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detachable 75 -key keyboard, rechargeable battery pack (4 hours).
The Kaypro 2000 makes the future accessible for only £1,711.
Contact your nearest dealer for more information or call Ian Davidson on 06286 67547.
LONDON AREA SOUTH EAST NORTH
Small Turnkey Syst. Auto -Pricers Cambridge Computer Store Lexisoft
31 Parolles Road Hewarts Lane 1 Emmanuel St 7 York Chambers
London N19 3RE Bognor Regis Cambridge CBI 1NE Wallgate
Tel: 01-272 3530 Sussex P021 3DR Tel: 0223 65334 Wigan WN1 1BG
Tel: 02432 3613 Lancs
Discount Micro Pimadata Tel: 0942 323651
7211 Kensington High St Berlyne Computers Ltd 15 Market Place
London W8 69 Pound Lane Grantham E. K. Williams Ltd
Tel: 01-938 1721 Upper Beeding Lincolnshire Victoria House
West Sussex 8N4 Tel: 0476 65568 Victoria Street
Gama Computer Systems Tel: 0903 815475 West Houghton
742 High Road Cotton Computers Bolton
Goodmayes Bytz + Bitz 80 Dundle Road Lancashire BL5 3AR
Ilford, Essex 22 Alexander Road Peterborough Tel: 0942 816512
Tel: 01-597 3500 Farnborough GU14 6DA PE2 9PA
Hants Cambridgeshire SCOTLAND
Photographical + Optical Tel: 0252 521121 Tel: 0733 49303 Prowin UK
129-137 Stanley Road Auchnashag
Teddington Words MIDLANDS
Ermo Ltd New Masher
Middlesex 39a Regent St Aberdeen
Tel: 01-977 3498 Leamington Spa Newcastle Chambers
Angel Row Tel: 0651 72952
Tel: 0926 30209
Fraser Associates Nottingham
NG1 6H0 Castle Computing Serv.
1 Bristle Hill SOUTH WEST 18 George St
Buckingham Actron Micro Computers Tel: 0602 410982
Edinburgh
Bucks MK18 1EL 17 Bampton Street Parchment Oxford Ltd Tel: 031-225 9664
Tel: 0280 816087 Tiverton 60 Hurst St
Devon Oxford 0X41 1 HD Strathclyde Computing Org Ltd
London Computer Centre Tel: 08842 52854 Oxfordshire 14 Netherview Road
43 Grafton Way Tel: 0865 54184 Glasgow G44 3XH
London W1P 5LA Penzance Micros Tel: 041-637 1 732
Tel: 01-387 4455 11 Market Place WALES
Penzance, Cornwall Skydesk Granite Chips
Sot is System Ltd Tel: 07366 6577 62-63 Mill St 21 Bon Accord Street
Wilton House Trecynon, Aberdare Aberdeen
Lower Road Mid. Glamorgan AB1 2EA
Chorley Wood Tel: 0685 870439 Tel: 0224 571825
Herts WD3 5L0
Tel: 09278 4136/7/8
SOUTH EAST
Group Sigma
3 Albemarle Road
Beckenham BR3 2HZ
Kent
Tel: 01-650 0124

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* LOWEST PRICES BRIGHTON

PRICES
SUSSEX
* SUPPORT &
Temple Data Systems SERVICE BN1 4GU
MATRIX PRINTERS DAISYWHEEL PRINTERS
MODEL SPECIFICATION PRICE MODEL SPECIFICATION PRICE
KAGA KP81 OR JUKI B
20 CPS, PARALLEL I/F, OPTIONAL
CANON PW10 080
150 CPS DRAFT, 29 CPS NLQ
FRICTION & TRACTOR, PARALLEL £242 6100
ORROTHER
HR15 TRACTOR/SHEET FEEDER £319
I/F, OPTIONAL NLQ ROM
KAGA KP910 OR
CANON PW1156
AVAILABLE £342 QUENDATA
1120
20 CPS, PARALLEL, INTERFACE,
OPTIONAL TRACTOR/FEEDER E219
SMITH CORONA
Q200
160CPS DRAFT, 40 CPS NLQ £259
STAR
SG10
NEW
120CPS, 45CPS NLQ, £205
FRICTION & TRACTOR, F/T, IBM COMPATIBLE,
SMITH CORONA BOTH SERIAL & PARALLEL STAR 132 SUPERB RANGE OF PRINTERS
D300 (15")
132 COL
INTERFACES, ALSO IBM COMP. £414 SG15 COL £299
SHIMANNESMANN
OR
CPA80

TALLY MT8 I +
100 CPS, F
CODESNWA - EPSONOW

NEW L/T,
COMPATIBLE
PRICE £17a
EPSOM
LX80
NEW 100CPSRINTER, 22CPS NLQ, F/T SUPER
P0 £229
MONITORS DISKS AND DISK DRIVES
MICROVITEC 452 x 585 PIXEL RESOLUTION RGB OF SSDD SSDD DSDD PRINTER
1431 INPUT STD RES £186 BOXO
DISKS 48 TPI 96 TPI 96 TPI PAPER

MICROVITEC 653 x 585 RES

1451 (MED RES) RGB INPUT MED RES £240 57/4S"A N £16.90 £21.87 £28 11 x 91/2"
(2000)
653 x 585 PIXELS, 85 COL 3M £12.50
MICROVITEC
1451 DQ3 FOR QL DISPLAY FOR QL, ROB I/P £231 MAXELL 51/4"
£13 £18 £22
SINCLAIR AS ABOVE,
VISION QL 85 COL, 12" £231 BE 1-1/ EAPNFIDA5N 1TA , £17 £22 £28 11 x 141/2"
(2000)
PHILIPS 2000 CHARACTER DISPLAY £60 OF SINGLE DOUBLE £16
7502 GREEN BANDWIDTH > 18MHz, COMP. I/P a 10 DISKS SIDED DENSITY

PHILIPS 14" 14" COMPUTER MONITOR/TV, FOR AMST-

COLOUR TV/MON SUPERB PICTURE £214 3M"AXELL £31 RAD, EINSTIEN 11.65 x 91/4"
90GSM
COMPUTERS 3.5"
£42
FOR APRICOTS £26
AND SOFTWARE SONY £31 ATARI ETC

MODEL PRICE SOFTWARE ETC PRICE 100K 200K 400K 800K

BBC
NEW CUMANA SINGLE SINGLE DUAL 40T DUAL
A GREAT VALUE MICRO WITH
AMSTRAD £346 DRIVES
CPC6128
LARGE 128K RAM, BUILT IN DISK
DRIVE, COLOUR OR GREEN
51/4,
£79 £109 £246 £272
CPC6128 +
GREEN MON
MONITOR, CP/M ETC
£259 MEDIC
DRIVES
SINGLE IMB (FREESN) £216 DUAL DRIVES £347
AMSTRAD CPC
464 COLOUR 64K COMPUTER, BUILT IN £300 FORS+ CENTRONICS I/F 2MB+ PRINTER I/F

CASSETTE UNIT + FREE JOYSTICK FOR BBC FLAT BED X -Y PLOTTER, PAPER OR FILM UP
CPC464 £289
GREEN
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QL £332 MAIL ORDER EXPORT TRADE

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SUPER VALUE COMPUTERS FROM
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ITEMS
APRICOT 740K DRIVE. GREEN OR COLOUR
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Fl
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NEW 512K RAM
APRICOT F2 GOODS IN STOCK WILL BE DISPATCHED WITHIN 24
2 x 720K
TWO NEW SUPER MICROS FROM
ACT RUNNING GEM BUNDLED
£1449 HOURS
DRIVES
SOFTWARE. MSDOS 2.11, ALL THE ORDERS FROM EDUCATIONAL/GOVERNMENT
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10MB HARD
DISK AND
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PLEASE ADD 15% VAT TO UK ORDERS
NEW
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68000 PROCESSOR, 512K RAM
700K DRIVE, MOUSE, GEM SOFTWARE
AND B/W MONITOR ALL IN PRICE OF
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IBM Portable 256kb 2 x 360kb D/D £1299.00 IBM Colour Display £455.00 Hercules Mono Graphics/Printer Adapter £325.00
IBM PC -XT 256kb 2 x 360kb D/D £1549.00 IBM Mono Display Green £153.00 IBM Asynch Comms Adapter £71.00
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Please feel free to write for full technical specifica-
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Prices:
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HiSoft software offers a refreshing change of style.
All prices in £ sterling. "Coming soon!

We produce and market a wide range of high quality, professional and well -documented software packages for the popular home micros. Our type of
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further information attach your business card or fill in the coupon and return.

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 Finding the right data
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micro or terminal couldn't be
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there's a Tandata modem with
matching micropack that'll suit
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for use with
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will select pulse or tone dial. It will run by British
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dial, detect baud rate and log -on. It in accordance with the
will also answer in -coming calls. conditions in the
And it will do it all quite instructions for use
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 COMLEX
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Epson FX100 £404.00 Microvitec 1451 £228.00 Supercalc 2 £1 89.00
Apricot Xi 256K 10MB and monitor £2,175.00
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Apricot Xi 512K 20MB and monitor £2,995.00 Epson DX100 daisywheel £349.00 Microvitec IBM P.O.A dBase II £235.00
Advance 86B £750.00 Epson LX1500 £799.00 Microvitec 1456 MED £389.00 Pegasus Accounts P.O.A.
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Ferranti 860 10MB £1,799.00 Canon 1080A £243.00 Wordstar Professional 1259.00
Ferranti 860 20MB £2,299.00
Canon 1156A £329.00 Multimate 3.3 1259.00
BBC computer £269.00
Carga 810 £234.00 Multiplan 1185.00
BBC with DFF £329.00
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Cumana DDSS £56.50 Sheet feeder for the above £179.00
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BBC DISC DRIVES
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P.C. Hard disc upgrade 10MB £899.00 Opus 5401 £82.00
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A.T. Hard disc upgrade 10MB £645.00 Opus 5802D £245.00
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Cumana CFX100 £82.00
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phone for details

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* 8086 processor with true 16 bit
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Greatly extended and user friendly utility commands VIDEO card (VFC)
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MORE ELEPHANTS
TO TRUST

ELEPHANT printer ribbons, head cleaning disks and computer cleaning kits are now added to
the ELEPHANT family to provide you with a total computer supplies package. Together with
ELEPHANT MEMORY SYSTEMS disks - certified 100% error free and problem free and
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ELEPHANT NEVER FORGETS
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Epson LX -80
also prints
like this.
The print on the left is certainly legible, which is quite good
enough for most purposes.
But it's nothing to write home about. Or with.
That's why Epson have brought out the new LX -80.
The LX -80 is a dot matrix printer that can print in correspondence
quality (like this) as well as in draft. Yet at only £255+VAT it's
no more expensive than any of its less capable rivals.
This alone would make the LX -80 unique. But there's more.
Changing fonts on the LX -80 doesn't involve a complicated
rigmarole as it does on other machines. By simply pressing a
combination of buttons on the front, you can change from one font
to ,Another lo arrc,ibe) "eth.r. As easily as that.
The LX -80 will justify or centre type if you like. It will even
print your own symbols.
Alternatively, you can use the standard 1K buffer to free your
computer for other tasks more quickly.
The LX -80 takes plain sheets as standard, though a variety of
paper feed options are also available.
It should go without saying that the LX -80 is as reliable as
Epson printers have always been. But there, we've said it anyway.
There's still more to tell, of course. But fill in the coupon -
in whatever style you like - and we'll fill you in completely.

Please send me more information on the LX -80. POW. 8. LX.80

Name Address

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To: Epson (UK) Ltd., Dorland House, 388 High Road,

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 MAXELL'S LATEST MINIS.
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OCTOBER 1985 PCW 59
 M4000
Multi -Mode Modems

The M4000 series of transmit and receive modems are BABT

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diagnostics and many front -panel switches and indicators.
M4000 Dual Standard V21/V23
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Full Technical Support and Service Contracts available.

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Distributors to the Computer Trade
TEL
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Telford Road, Bicester, Oxfordshire OX6 OXB.
Technology
Tel: Bicester108691253361. Telex: 837907.
Westwood Distribution Ltd.,
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IDS DATA PROTECTION AND SECURITY

With the increased use of, and familiarity with, computer systems, there has been a corresponding increase in the incidence
of computer crime. The computer criminal may be a professional, or an opportunist, but the results of his attentions can be
disastrous. Physical security measures go some way to discouraging the would-be data thief, but, to provide the greatest
measure of security for sensitive data, something further is required.
Your business data, or data concerning your clients is of paramount importance, and requires careful protection against
misappropriation. The problem with any form of data is that it can be copied, and used, without the owner being aware of any
security violation. The only certain way to stop misuse of sensitive information is to encode vital files when not in use.
I.D.S. are now able to supply two programmes to help you protect your data, together with a third to assist in the event of disc
corruption, or accidental file deletion.
F -KEY is a file encryption programme that will allow you to encode any number of files with a password known
only to yourself and other authorised members of your organisation. Different passwords may be set to
limit use of particular files to those people legitimately allowed to access them. The encryption method
has been developed to ensure that the coded file is safe from being broken, even with the use of large
mainframe computers. £65 + vat
C -KEY is a sophisticated and flexible file transfer programme that will allow communication between any two
machines running it, either locally or via a telephone connection. Files to be transmitted may be encoded
in the same manner as with F -KEY, thus preventing unauthorised interception. (Includes F -KEY.)
£110 + vat or £140 + vat per pair (any two operating systems)
SEDIT is a utility that enables the user to access and manipulate data on any part of a hard or floppy disk, with
or without reference to the file structure used by the operating system. Facilities include interactive
screens for examining data, altering data, searching for data. A mapping utility and file recovery utility
are included. The manual supplied includes detailed descriptions of the way the operating system lays
out files on the disk. £75 + vat
Available for CPM-80, PC -DOS and MS-DOS (CPM users please state format required).
All items post free in U.K. Dealer enquiries welcome. Data sheets on request.
C -KEY is available in a non -encoding version without F -KEY for £60 + vat or £90 + vat per pair.
Introductory offer of all three packages for £150 + vat (£190 + vat with paired C -KEY).

I.D.S. 21 Borstal Hill, Whitstable, Kent CT5 4NA. Telephone 0227-275201

60 PCW OCTOBER 1985

What makes our drives the safest?
This does! As the computer market and
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THE NEW ATARI 520ST
Under the new leadership of Jack Tramiel (former boss and founder of Commodore

'ATARI 520ST SPECIFICATION

VIDEO PORTS
'MACINTOSH V Flo Y 520ST - Imagine a Fat Mac - the 512K App a Macintosh but with a bigger screen, a far
Business Machines), Atari Corporation have marked their entry into the world of
business/personal computers with a machine which leaves the competition standing.
Tram lers slogan 'Power Without the Price' has been implemented in the manufacture
MEMORY bigger keyboard with numeric keypad, cursor and function keys, and colour. That of the new 512K Atari 520ST colour computer which offers the user amazingly high
512K RAM (524,288 bytes) Display - Low Resolution - 40 columns
16K ROM expandable to 320K Med/High Res - 40/80 plus cols gives you some idea of what the Atari 5205T is like, except for two important things. performance at an incredibly low price. Launched as a work -station, this new system
Port for add., 1280 plug-in ROM cartridges Medium res 5013 (R./Green/Blue) output First Inc Atari seems fester. Second the Atah system is about one third of the price." incorporates seven software packages as well at) the 520ST computer with 512K RAM,
2000 TOS operating system High resolution monochrome (Black 8 White) June 1985 - Jack Schofield - PRACTICAL COMPUTING use controller, high resolution monochrome monitor (8400400), 95 key keyboard
(with 18 key numeric keypad), MIDI interface, GEM and a 500K V, inch disk drive, all
GRAPHICS COMMUNICATIONSc APPLE APRICOT ATARI for the package price of only £851.30 (+VAT z £749). Dubbed the 'Mac beater' and the
Individually addressable 32K bit -mapped Bidirectional ntronica parallel interface for
scr.n with 3 sc.en graphics mod. printers, or moderns capable al input/output rums OF MX PM MMIITNI F18 12111I1 'Jackintosh' (after Atari's Chief, Jack Tramiel), Atari's new machine has been directly
3205200 pixels In 16 colours (low resolution) RS232C serial modern/printer intertace Price Includes B/W Monitor YES NO - extra 6200 YES compared with the Apple Macintosh REP £2595 (+VAT o £2985) which offers similar
640,200 pixels in 4 colours (coed resolution) VT52 Terminal Emulation Software
Keyboard size mm (LxDxf1) 330x147x50 450x167x28 470a 240110 features and capabilities but at a much higher price. Favourably reviewed by the UK's
8402400 pixels in monochrome (high res) Maximum Baud Rate up to 18.200 highly critical specialist computer press, the 520ST is likely to make a great impact in
16 shades of grey in low res mode High speed nerd disk interface Keyboard size ins (I_ x 000) 13050,02 171/2060101 1111/291/2a21/2
this country as a sophisticated alternative to en IBM PC, APRICOT or APPLE
512 colours available in low/medium res Floppy disk controller (Western Digital, 3,2' D/Drive (Unformatted) 500K 500K 500K MACINTOSH. Unlike its overpriced competitors, the Atari 520ST can be linked up to a
levels of each in rod, green and blue Mstick ports Mne for 2 button mouse)
IDI Mterface for external music synthesizers 3," D,Drwe (Formatted) 3990 315K 340K colour monitor to unleash a choice of up to 512 colours. The addition of colour brings
ARCHITECTURE WIMP (Window, Icon, Mouse Apple OCT - Activity GEM out the full potential of graphics packages such as GEM.
4 custom designed chips. GEM WIMP ENVIRONMENT Real-time Clock YES YES YES
GLUE Chip - MMU Memory kAngrnnt Unit WIMP -Window Icon Mouse Pop -down menus Polyphonic Sound Generator YES NO YES
USER FRIENDLY GEM OPERATING SYSTEM
DMA Controller - Graph.. Processing Unit Two button mouse controller The power of the ST is harnessed and made user friendly by the new operating
16/32 bit Motorola 68000 processor at 8kffilz Icons/Pull clown menus/Windows RS232 Serial Port YES YES YES system 'OEM' from Digital Research. GEM stands for Graphics Environment Manager
eight 32 hit data regilders GEM 01111- Virtual Device Interlace Centronics Parallel Printer Port NO YES YES and allows a user friendly colour or B/W graphics interface which closely resembles
eight 32 bit address registers GEM AES - Application Environment Services Dedicated Floppy Disk Controller NO YES YES that of the Macintosh. This similarity extends to the use of moveable resizeable
16 bit data bus/24 bit address bus GEM BST - Bit Block Transfer
7 levels of interrupts/56 instructions Real time clock 8 calendar Herd Disk DMA Interface NO YES YES windows, icons to represent objects such as disks and disk drives, and the use of pull
14 addressing modes/5 data types Full stroke keyboard YES YES YES down menus and a mouse. The advantage of all this is that the computer becomes
SOFTWARE Number of keys on keyboard 59 92 95
extremely easy to use. GEM has now been implemented for the Acorn, ACT, Atari,
DATA STORAGE GEM environment IBM, ICL, and Olivetti. Software written for GEM on one computer should also run
wan user friendly Macintosh style operation Numeric Keypad NO YES (16 Keys) YES (18 keys)
High speed hard disk interface under GEM on another computer. This will enable the market to quickly produce a
Direct memory access 1 33 Mbytes per second TOT - Tramiel Operating System Cursor Control Keypad NO YES YES large library of standard interchangeable software.
CD (Compact Disc) interface Alan's own system hued on CPIM 82K OM Function keys NO 10 10
Built in cartridge access
Dedicated floppy disk controller
Norm -chisel directory b Me structure plus a
host of MS DOS 8 UNIX command structures 16 -bit processor 68000 Intel 8086 65000 FREE SOFTWARE AND FUTURE EXPANSION
Processor running speed 8MHz 4 77MH, SPAHa
The Atari 520ST comes supplied with seven free software packages we listed below:
'BOB - Business Operating System 1) TOS -Tramiel Operating System based on CPM UK. 2) GEM Graphics Environment
DISK DRIVE fo run any standard BOO business programs RAM size 512K 250K 512K
Manager by Digital Research (OR) giving a WIMP (Window, icon, Mouse, Pull down
5000 (unformatted) s/sided 3i/i( floppy cUdrive GEM desktop Number of graphics modes
3490 (formatted) storage capacity with GEM PAINT graphics mem, system menu) environment. 3) DR GEM Paint for creating graphics masterpieces. 4) DR GEM
and GEM WRITE word processor Number of colours Monochrome 16 512 Write for word processing. 5) Logo learning language to enable you to write your own
SOUND AND MUSIC Personal BASIC and DR Logo Max Screen Resolution (pixels) 512 x 342 640 x 256 640 a 400 programs easily using turtle graphics. 13) DR Personal Basic a powerful user friendly
Sound Generator originally written by Digital Research (DR) Mouse included Single Button NO - extra £95 Two Button version of the Basic programming language. 7) BOS operating system giving you
Freouency control from 30Hr to above audible Very much like those on other machines access to dozens of business applications packages already available on the market.
3 comes (channels) in wave shaping sound in Replaceable External Power Peck NO NO YES
except lor the extensive use of pull down
Cartridge Socket NO NO YES
Designed with future expansion in mind, the ST also features a host of different
addition to a noise generator menus. moose control and windows
Separate frequency and volume controls
interfaces to the outside world and an impressive list of accessories is planned. Atari
Joystick Ports NO NO YES (two) will soon be releasing a 1000K (1MB) 315 inch disk drive, and a 15MB hard disk
Dynamic envelope controls VARIOUS MIDI Synthesiser Interface NO NO YES storage system as well es a mess storage compact disk (CD) player capable of storing
ADSR (Attack, Decay, Sustain, Rel..) ['chansons 470mmx240rnrhx8Omm
Noise generator Replaceable ruder., power wen.. Monitor Sae 9"- extra E200 12" an entire 20 volume encyclopedia on one disk. A full range of inexpensive printers are
MIDI interlace for external music synthesizers Expansion- floppy disk drives 5000/1.0001( RGB Video Output NO YES YES planned including dot matrix, daisywheel and thermal colour printers. With its
nvott drives can be connected) unbeatable graphics, speed and software at a price which is far below that of any
KEYBOARD 15klb hard disk SyMem Cost with: Moues - Monochrome Monitor - 512K RAM - SOOK Disk Dries comparable personal computer currently on the market, the ST is ell set to do battle
Separate keyboard microprocessor CD (compact laser disc)
Standard OWERTY typewriter styling Dot matrix 6 d/wheel pro. (Mack)
Price of basic system 1510 VAT) E2595+VAT E595rVAT ESS2+VAT with the competition. To receive further details of the 5T from Silica Shop, just fill in
Ergonomic angle and height Thermal dot matrix (colour) Mouse Included E95+VAT Included the coupon below with your name and address details and post it to us.
95 keys including 10 function keys
Numeric keypad - 18 keys including ENTER
RGB & monochrome monitors Monochrome Monitor
O Expansion to 512K RAM
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Silica Shop Price: £651.30 0 I97.70 VAT = imam This price includes:
One touch cursor control keypad LANGUAGES
BASIC & LOGO suPPlied Price of complete system (ere VAT) E2595+VAT E1185rVAT £1152 -VAT * 512K RAM *B/W MONITOR
MONITOR
12" screen - high tee monochrome monitor
Many others will soon be aveilab., including,
Assembler. BCPL, C, Cobol. Compiled Basic * MOUSE * 500K 3.5" DISK DRIVE
£2.984 £1,382 £749
ended(PRICE
640,400 monochrome resolution Lisp. Modular -2 and Pascal
Note Some of Me above specifroations are ore -release and may therefore be sot.. to change 54 * GEM * KEYBOARD (95 KEYS)
IP' Atari's new corporate image as en aggressive low cost 'The new Atari ST computers truly represent to the consumer'.
computer maker ie likely to mirror that of Commodore where what Jack Tramiel is saying - easy -to -use computing power
Mr. Tramiel established the maxim that usiness Is war'
August 21511584 FINANCIAL TIMES
ESS COMMENT
'The electronic. in the machine are a work of ad ... The heen
without the price" March 1985 ANALOG COMPUTING
"It (the ST) use. the moat modern technology that is
"This is n only personal computer I know of that comas with of the 520ST is a Motorola 88000. one of the meet powerful affordable, in a package that gloss a professional impression.'
a Midi i terface ae standard." 16 -bit processors around and in many reap.. it is close to May 23rd 1W5 POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY
Peter Bright march 1985 PERSONAL COMPUTER WORLD being a 32 -bit chip . when Inc machine appears in the 500p5,
rn rte et me troth and of lee queue fo buy ono" "The Atari ST is one of the most elegant 11.0. I have seen
"The (GEM) version running on the Atari 68000 machines will Peter Bright June 1985 PERSONAL COMPUTER WORLD Atari has used an original and elegant method of memory
have Madditional advantage of leaving the PC version management which should ma. the ST faster than any other
standing." April 5th 1985 PERSONAL COMPUTER NEWS "This machine is significantly more powerful than en IBM PC PC on the market in any price bracket The selt dollar
II it, possible to design a sure -lire winning machine, this is question is would I go out end spend money for one, To
"It woul seem, that GEM offers the ideal operating system" May 11th 1985 PERSONAL COMPUTER NEWS which the only answer is. -fry and stop mar
March 7th 1985 POPULAR COMPUTING WEEKLY John 1,11/1.11 July 1985 ELECTRONICS & COMPUTING
the use of GEM makes the new range of Atari computers
"I loon it (GEM) extremely easy to use and was very so similar to the Macintosh (with the added attraction of "The 520ST is technicaily excellent .. The 520ST hardware is
impressed with the way in which it disguises the unfriendly colour). that they are already being called gockintoshe6." the new standard by which others will be judged."
hardwar and operating systems lurking under the surface May 2nd 1986 COMPUTING July 1985 YOUR COMPUTER
Peter Bright Feb 1985 PERSONAL COMPUTER WORLD A
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SANYO 775 Colour 00/S0 with 20mb HD £1795/22590

SANYO 550 1286, 1 x 160K drive 8 W'star, Calcstar E595
OLIVETTI M21 portable, 128K £1399 SANYO 555128K, 2 x 160K 8 E1000 Micropro software £745
OLIVETTI M24, 128K, 00, Mono/Colour £1399/11750 SANYO 555-2128K. 2x 360K 8 £1000 Micropro software £1095
OLIVETTI M24 640K, SO, 10MB HD, Mono/Colour. ., 12350/£2699 MACINTOSH, Macwrite Macpaint/Apple Ileillc £1499/E495/£799
OLIVETTI MIS. 8K RAM/24K RAM 8350/1399 COMMODORE PC10. 256K RAM. 12" Mona, Double Drives C1299

apricot hardware
OLIVETTI M24/21 640K. 20MB Hard Disk, Mono. .. £2499 COMMODORE PC10, 256K RAM, Mono, SD, 2000 Hard Disk
£2190
COMPAQ
ERICSSON PC 2 x 360K Drives, 128K RAM E1499
COMPAQ Portable (DD)/Plus £1750/£2850 TOSHIBA 71100 Portable £990
DESKPRO 1/2/3/4/5 £1695/81900/82899/23750/84500 WYSE PC 256K RAM, 2 RS232 from £1900
DESKPRO 286 1/286-2 12956/84000
EPSON
APRICOT
APRICOT PC, 256K, 20720, 9" Mono/12' Mono 21499/21550
EPSON 0X16 Taxi, OS, DO, Monitor
EPSON P0-8, 64K, CPM, Basic, WordStar/1206 RAM pack
CP0A
1700
F1, 256k RAM PRINTERS
APRICOT XI 10MB. 1X720, 9" Mono/12' Mono
APRICOT XI 2008.10720, 9" Mono/12" Mono
£2170/82220
13395/63475 MULTI-USER COMPUTERS 720k Disk Drive 731 EPSON FX80 347
APRICOT X110S 512K, 10MB HD 12590/82630
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NORTHSTAR DIMENSION, 15013. HD. 2 User/each user
£6300/21450 PC 256k D/D315k 1299 RX80 F/T 239
APRICOT Fl/F1E 6750/6535 ALTOS 486/586/986/68000 £700
APRICOT FP1/2 portable 256/512K, 720K drive 19950395 OLIVETTI 3B2 Unix V for UNIX Software Ming PC 256k D/D720k 1469 RX100 385
KAYPR 0
KAYPRO 2X, 2x DS Drives 8 dBASE II, WordStar, etc E995
THIS MONTHS SPECIALS Xi 10MB H.Disk....2290 Inewl LX80 NLQ 255
SIDEKICK IBM £35
KAYPRO 10, 1 x DS Drive, 10MB HD*Software
KAYPRO 286 IBM, AT compat, 201 .2mb drives
£1750
E2995
APRICOT 256K RAM CARD
20MD HARDISK w/CONTROLLER
£199
£595
Xi 20MB H.Disk....3115 CAN N.PW1080 308
KAYPRO 286-10/286-20
KAYPRO 2000 IBM Comp/Portable
82800/83300
£1500
MACINTOSH 5126, Mwrite/paint
TELEVISED 1605, 640K + 20MB HD, MONO
£1799
C2150
9" Monitor 164 MP 165 NLQ 260
KAYPRO 16 PC Compat 256K 2x 360K d 8 dBASE, W'star, etc
£1695
HYPERION PORTABLE
SINCLAIR OL/Spectrum*
0299
£299/£99 12" Monitor 200 JUKI 6100 347
SIRIUS VICTOR COMMODORE 64/Plus 4
ACORN Electron Starter Pack
£150/275
£150 Modem Board 242 D/STEP 2000 250
VICTOR 1.2MB , 2560.4M8 4- 256K F1695/22050 BBC B with DFS £350
VICTOR VI, (Sirius/IBM compatible £3990 SMITH CORONA 1780/D100 £115/£165
VICTOR VPC, 15MB, HD. SD. Mono £2295 SEIKOSHA GP500A/GP700A £99/£250
PC CARD, (Makes Sirius IBM compatible) £950 RITEMAN II 1410 printer £275
E275/£50 SEIKOSHA GP500A/GP700A. Four Colour Printer £99/£250

COMMODORE PC -
NEC 8201A Portable/8K RAM
RITEMAN IL NLO Printer £275

Kaga IBM Hi/Ultra 800 C350/£550 Everyman £350

DOT MATRIX PRINTERS Kaga 612918, RGB/PAL £239 Framework/Friday £350/175
Smith Corona 0200/D300 1275/1399 Sinclair Vision CH. £235 DBase II/111 £250/£350
Olivetti DM5060C/DM4105C 1350/C499 Microvitec Monitors CAIRO Sensible Solution £595
O livetti DM5305 £995 Princeton 118-126912 £490/£645 Psion XChange (4 Int. Package) £385
PC 10 & PC20 are hardware
.

Olivetti DM580 £1100 Zenith 20" £895Card-Box/Plus £195/£275

Olivetti JP101C E250
TERMINALS
File Transfer IBM/ApricoUSirius £95
Canon PW1080A/11568 (N10) £285/C375
Canon PJ1080A (colour) £399
Some 101/103/108 £399/£650/£450 Autocad with ADEVADE2/ADE3 £2000
Doodle (CAD Package for IBM/Apricot) £695
IBM PC Compatible
Some OVT 211/511GX £799/£2499
MP165 NL0/165CPS
Brother H915/25/35
£279
£325/£650/£775
Hazeltine Esprit 11/111 C495/2650
Smartwork (Circuit -Board -Design)
GED* /Main Street Filer
£895
E.290/E150
PC10256k Ram D/Drives 360k £1395
Hazeltine Esprit Colour £850
Brother 2024 NLO £890 Easy JuniorANordcraft E3951375
Brother M1009 £350
Wyse WY50/WY75 £595/2699
Microsoft Project/Superproiect E250/E295 PC20256k Ram 1 Omeg H/Disk £2329
Epson LX -80 NLO/RX80FT, £195/8215 PLOTTERS & DIGITISERS Pertmaster 1000/2500 1525/6650
Epson P40/P80 £79/8139
Roland 006800 (8Pen/A3) £450
Omnis III/Datamaster C399/8400 both machines include green screen & work on Lotus 1-2-3,
Epson L01500/502000 E895/£1825 Reflex/Ensemble (Mac) ...... C375/E250
Shinwa CPA80/CP680 £179/8199 Roland OXY880/980 A3
Roland DFX2000 A2/OPEN
M0/11200
£3800
WordStar/WordStar Professional 2195/2250 Symphony, dBasel I, Pegasus, Framework, WordStar, etc
Juki 5520 Colour £350 Microsoft Word w/Mouse £395
Mannesmann Tally M785/86 .E299/C399 HP 7470/7475 8995/11450 MultimateAgord fleet E295/C399
Texas Instruments 855 HP 7550 OPEN £3200 Samna+/Word III 8495/C350
£230/2319/8465 HP 7580/7585/7586 £PCIA
Perfect II (Writer/Cale/Filer)
SKI £395
Honeywell L32/134 £499/8793 EPSON H180/Expansion RAM 09509 Jau/Desq £395/8290
Siemans PT88/89 ink let £550/£650 MT Pixy Plotter £395 Music Maker IIAC) £95

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Cannon Laser Printer £2750 Rikadenki A2 400mm/sec £3000 Energraphics/ fix 1:290/C290
Hewlett Packard Lazer £2950 Graphtec Plotters 8 Digitizer £P08
C t Ik/S d k k £1291£49
Houston DMP40 A3/A4 £900 per Ease/Management Edge £450/8165
DAISYWHEEL PRINTERS Houston DMP42 (A2) £2995 SuperCalc 2/3 £175/C250
Houston DMP52 A1/02 £3495 Turbo Pascal/Sidekick/Sideways .....
0/070 06250 £650 £45
Houston OMP55 /11/A2 £4000 CopylIPC/Spotlight 11119(£95
Olivetti 09450 £895 Houston DMP52MP A1/A2 14PEN £5.500 Flight SIM/Sargon Chess III £59/£43
Brother HR15/25/35
Juki 6100/6300
1310/2650/C795
8299/2690
Houston DMP29 A3/8PEN
Houston EDT11 from £800
Lattice C Compiler £300 From your most supportive COMMODORE Dealer
Juki 2200/6200 £245/£500 Houston Hi-Pad/PC-Pad F4750E695 COMMUNICATION
OUME Letter Pro20
SOME 11/40-55
D iablo 630 API
£446
£1299/E1499
£1599
Hitachi 672/4PEN A4 -A3
Summagraphics Bitpad 2
Summamouse
£450
£595
£200
Buubox ModemN21 Auto Answerf90/E13
Minor Miracles V21N22 C12
3 IN 1
Ricoh 1200/1300/ 1600 . 8495/C795/21375
TEC F10-40/50 8995/E1250 SOFTWARE
Steebek SB1212N22A0
Communique (Sirius/Apricot)
£450/165
C35
(64k Mode, 128k Mode, CP/M Mode)
MONITORS (Phone for any Product at Best Prices)
Telecom Gold/Easylink/One to One
Sage Communication Pack
£P0A
E29 100% Compatible with COMMODORE 64 software,
GEM Desktop v1.0 £49
Dataflex Int. Modem (Hayes) C45
MONOCHROME
Zenith ZVM 122 £65
Rilase 5000
Sage Bookkeeper
£395
£230 ADD-ONS AND
40/80 column Screen,
Roland MB122 (IBM) £120
Philips 12" green/amber £69
Sage Accountant/Plus
Sage Financial Controller
£350/£525
£700
ACCESSORIES 128k RAM, 72k ROM, 6510 & Z80A CPU's
Philips CT2007 Mon/TV £200 Pegasus Accounts each £190 AST 6 Plus Pack 384K £30
Sanyo 9112/3125 695/8180 Multisoh Accounts (per module) £299 Multifunction Board (Os. 1p. clock. 256K
Naga Taxan P31/39 phos ..... £99/8119 WordStar 2000 (IBM/Apricot) £289 £19
Yanjen (green/amber, tilt 8 ow) £99 Dataflex (Single/Multi User) £595/£990 BBC 1006 Drives/DFS Kit £89/£7 Vot(LCID
COLOUR Lotus 123/Symphony £290/8425 Apple II Drives/Controller Card £95/£4
Sanyo CRT50/70 1300/£425 Open Access -2 (IBM/Apncot) £350 Apple II +/E/C Cards £Ring
Roland CC -141 14, (640 x2001 2350 Smart Int. Package £595 Hercules Mono/Colour £299/£195
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EPSON Acoustic and Direct Connect

Forest
,L
- Modems for all asynch speeds
including electronic mail and
viewdata. Prices from £79.
OX -16

HX-20

As one of EPSONs largest dealers

PX-8
CX-23
MS -21/23

(,....10
Corrouting
we sell service and support their
full range. For quality, style and
reliability they are hard to match.
Write for our full list and ex -demo
and specials list. VX-543 MM -I01

DATA CAPTURE PRINTERS

Bespoke software written
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PF-10

PIXIE
We supply famous EPSON printers for
all makes of computer. the L01 for
instance prints Near Letter Quality at
for floppy and hard disk
67cps and Draft at 200cps. The

::;6,
...
incredible P-40 costs only £87 (ex VAT)
and prints up to 80 characters per line
andBARCODES.
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machines. Thorough and
HT -5000 .-
We have supplied many hundreds
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of terminals for data capture for
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Please phone us to
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APRICOT-SIRIUS/VICTOR-IBM USERS
Now you can drive composite video monitors and projection
systems from your micro, whilst retaining use of the original
EPSON
monitor. Industry standard BNC output. No internal fitting to
the micro required. Ideal for: Training, demonstrations and
seminars or any applications requiring extra remote displays.
Standard model £125.00 excl. VAT.

SIRIUS/VICTOR USERS
QX16
Single sided to double sided disc upgrade now available
details on request.
Top quality Apricot-Sirius/Victor expansion boards now
available at best prices.
Further details on request. Specify Sirius/Victor, Apricot or
IBM.

SIRIUS B
A bi-monthly disk based magazine for Sirius/Victor micros
containing useful software, news, technical topics, assembler
routines and basic routines. In fact something for every
Sirius -Victor owner and user in every issue.
1985 Subscription £120.00 excl. VAT. YOU CAN GET ONE
FURTHER DETAILS AND SUBSCRIPTION FORM AT A SUPER PRICE
ON REQUEST
01-337 4541 from 01-337 4541
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Kingswinford, West Midlands
DY6 OHX
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84 PCW OCTOBER 1985

 PEGASUS
APRICOT ACCOUNTANT SALES, PURCHASE,
NOMINAL LEDGERS
SAGE ACCOUNTANT SALES, PURCHASE,
NOMINAL LEDGERS
PROFIT &
TRIAL BALANCE,SHEET
& LOSS, BALANCE
SALES, PURCHASE, TRIAL BALANCE, SHEET
NOMINAL LEDGERS FULL AUDIT TRAIL
TRIA
BALANCE, P
LOSS,L BALANCE SHEET
& LOSS, BALANCE
FULL AUDIT TRAIL GEALYNSISERATOR/ 0
FULL AUDIT TRAIL REPORT GENERATOR/
REPOA ANRT
DAT
DEPARTMENTAL/SALES/ 0
REPORT GENERATOR/
DATA ANALYSIS
DATA ANALYSIS
DEPARTMENTAL/SALES/
PURCHASE ANALYSIS
PURCHASE ANALYSIS
AGED DEBTORS/ 0
DEPARTMENTAL/SALES/
PURCHASE ANALYSIS
AGED DEBTORS/
ANALYSIS
CREDITORS
ANALYSIS
STATEMENTS & DEBT 0
AGED DEBTORS/
CREDITORS
ANALYSIS
CREDITORS
STATEMENTS & DEBT CHASING LETTERS
AUTOMATIC & MANUAL 0
STATEMENTS & DEBT
CHASING LETTERS
CHASING LETTERS
AUTOMATIC & MANUAL
ALLOCATION
PAYMENTS ALLOCATION
0
AUTOMATIC & MANUAL
PAYMENTS PRINT SPOOLING
0
PAYMENTS
ALLOCATION

PRINT SPOOLING
0
PRINT SPOOLING

UPGRADEABILITY
0 UPGRADEABILITY
COLOUR
DISPLAYS FOR
DISPLAYS FOR
EASE OF USE
0
UPGRADEABILITY
COLOUR
DISPLAYS FOR
EASE OF USE
COLOUR
EASE OF USE
BUDGET COMPARISON 0 BUDTGET COMPARISON
REPOR
CASH SALES/PURCHASES
BUDGET COMPARISON
REPORT rl CASH SALES/PURCHASES
[---1
ONLY ONE
PROGRAM DISK
CASH SALES/PURCHASES ONLY ONE LEDGER
PROGRAM DISK 'LIVE' NOMINAL
ONLY ONE LEDGER
PROGRAM DISK 'LIVE' NOMINAL UTILITY
AUDITORS
LEDGER
'LIVE' NOMINAL AUDITOR'S UTILITY DIRECT END -USER

AUDITORS
UTILITY

DIRECT END -USER

DIRECT END -USER
SUPPORT MANUAL WITH
FULL COLOUR BOOK-
SUPPO MANUAL WITH
FULL COLOUR BOOK-
TUTORIAL AND
KEEPING PROCEDURES
0
SUPPORT MANUAL WITH
FULL COLOUR BOOK-
TUTORIAL AND
KEEPING PROCEDURES PRICE (excl. VAT)*
£975
TUTORIAL AND
KEEPING PROCEDURES PRICE (excl. VAT)*
£1,1130 FULL FEATURE
WEEKLY/ SSP,

PRICE (excl. VAT)*

£495 FULL FEATURE
WEEKLY/ SSP,
PAYROLL WITH
Di MONTHLY
PAYROLL WITH
NI, AND ALL REPORTS 4,300
WEEKLY/ SSP, MONTHLY PRICE WITH
NI, AND ALL REPORTS VAT) Wm 1
FULL FEATURE
MONTHLY
PAYROLL WITH
NI, AND ALL REPORTS PRICE WITH
£1,475 PAYROLL (excl.
PAYROLL (excl. VAT)*
PRICE WITH VAT)*
£595
PAYROLL (excl.

AS YOU CAN SEE

ITALL COMES DOWN TO
THE BOTTOM LINE
Some naive individuals still believe that a higher Sage Accountant is just one member of the Sage family of
price automatically guarantees higher performance. compatible and upgradeable accounting programs.
These misguided souls are happily shelling out for Choose the one to suit your needs from:
accounting programs that give them little or no change from SAGE FINANCIAL CONTROLLER 2995+ VAT (4th Qtr. '85)
21,000, when Sage Accountant would leave them change SAGE ACCOUNTANT PLUS 2695 +VAT
from £500. Their mistaken belief is that, at that SAGE ACCOUNTANT 2495+ VAT
price, Sage can't possibly be as good. SAGE BOOKKEEPER 2295+ VAT
Actually, Sage isn't that
good. It's better. Out of the
19 important functions listed
above, Apricot provides a mere
SAGE
Please send me more details of Sage Accounting
Programs and my nearest dealer.
12, while Pegasus does only
Name:
slightly better with 13. Sage
Accountant has got the lot. Position:
For roughly half the price. Company:
Whatever your needs, opt Address:
for Sage. The most competitively Tel:
priced accounting package on the Sagesoft plc., NEI House, Regent Centre,
market also happens to be the best. Newcastle upon Tyne NE3 3DS.
Tel: 091 284 7077. Telex: 53623 SAGESL G.
*Comparisons relate to versions for Apricot PC, IBM PC
and compatibles. Sage programs are available for a wide BE11:1 'ER SAGE THAN SORRY P0010/85
range of MS-DOS.
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 86
 SYSTEMATICS A LOW COST DISC BASED

PAYROLL PROFESSIONAL
ACCOUNTING PROGRA
For The BBC Computer
PROBABLY THE BEST AVAILABLE
" Micro -Trader " -
NOW WITH NHI UPDATES FOR
INTEGRATED SALES PURCHASE AND NOMINAL LEDGERS

Designed for business use by a business man. " Micro -Trader "is a fully
APPLE II/IIE/IIC - APPLE III integrated program in which all Sales and Purchase Ledger Transactions
are automatically updated to the Nominal Ledger.

MACINTOSH - APRICOT - IBM " Micro -Trader " offers full Sales and Purchase Ledger facilities including
SALES INVOICE and STATEMENT PRINTING with a capacity of 450
accounts and 3000 transactions per month in each Ledger.

£195 + VAT Normal Income, Expenditure, Assets, Liabilities 8 Journal Posting in the
Nominal Ledger with full Reporting for individual accounts, Audit Trail, Trial
Balance, Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet.

ACCESS AND VISA CARDS ACCEPTED NEW "MICRO -STOCK"

Stock Control program, fully integrated with
"Micro -Trader". 4000 Stock Items with user
defiled Codes. Invoice and Credit Notes and

hoidens
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£95.00 V.A.T.
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KAYPRO SHATTERS
THE 16 -BIT WORLD Up until now the world of the IBM compatible
computer has been a great place for the huge
corporations that created it: a world full of
high-priced machines with high-priced options.
It's been great for the corporations . . but not .

so great for consumers.

Now Kaypro, the price/performance
leader of the portable computer industry,
blasts open that expensive little world.
Kaypro introduces the dynamite new
Kaypro 16, a complete sixteen -bit
computer with an incredibly low price:
£1428 (£2222 with 10MB hard
disk).
Everything you need is
standard: an internal green
phosphor monitor - standard.
Color graphics card, standard.
Serial and parallel interfaces, standard.
Carrying case, standard. A generous
collection of FREE software,
standard.
You can pay £2222 for a complete
Kaypro 16 with hard disk or twice as
much for a comparably outfitted IBM -
XT.
The choice is yours but at least
. . .

now you have a choice.

Call IAN DAVIDSON on (06286)
67547 for more information and the
location of your nearest Kaypro.
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 SANYO 550 Series - SUPER Discount Prices
SANYO 550-3X (2x360k) 869 SANYO CRT 36 Mono Monitor & Lead 120
SANYO 550-6X (2x800k) 949 ZENITH Mono Monitor & Lead 80
(The above include MS-DOS 2.11, BASIC, EPSON LX80F/T with Centronics Cable 269
Wordstar, Calcstar and MONOCHROME
MONITOR)
EPSON FX100 with Centronics Cable
Video Board and Lotus 123 (req 256k)
539
445
LOON LOON
IBM/Lotus Video Board (MS-DOS 2.11 Graphic Specials:
and GW-BASIC)
Memory Upgrades 64k (128-192k)
145
28
(Grafiti: Freeze Frame: Joystick)
(Picasso: Freeze Frame: Joystick)
85
118
LOWER 004LITY
128k (128-256k)
Disk Upgrades 2 x 360k (includes
45
315
BASIC Manual
Joystick (2 Button) with ext cable
27
25 PRICES DISRS
2x800k software) 355 Checkmate (Chess Program) 35
10mb Internal Hard Disk Call Screen dump (Freeze Frame) 32
MS-DOS 2.11 39 Grafiti 32
Games/Business Send for list Desmet 'C' Compiler and 8086 Asoem 155 Same Day WHY BUY ELSEWHERE !

We will better any denuine delivered price

Serial Interface (RS232) 49 Desmet 'C' Symbolic Debugger 55
Clock/Calendar Card 59 Superzap 35 Despatch advertised in the current issue of PCW for Boxes
of Disks shown in the list below.
Picasso 70 Cornerman (SANYO's Sidekick) 38
Master Graph 55 M -Disk (Ram disk program) 25
DC -10 25 Mi-Term (Communications Prog) 65 *** THIS MONTH'S SPECIALS ***
Mi-Key (Keyboard re -definer) 25
11 FREE £2 Marks & Spencer Voucher with every box of MEMOREX disks

TURBO PASCAL (IBM, Sanyo, Ferranti, Olivetti, etc) NEN Epson LX80 100 cps NLQ Friction Feed
Tractor Feed for above
£212 + £9 carriage
£23
4 a 0.

Turbo Pascal (vers 3) 55 All

3.5" DISKS
Turbo Toolbox (Ism, Ouicksort etc) 49 3 1 NCS Gift Pack 120
Turbo Tutor 29 BOXES OF 10 DISKS Prices per Dox (F)
Sidekick (IBM & Full Compat Only) 45 Turbo Pascal (v3 With 8087 Support) 89 1-4 5-9 10-49
70 Gift Pack (v3 With 8087 Support) 154 OM -D3440 5/side D Dens 27.00 26.25 25.00
Sidekick (Unprotected Version) SONY OM -D4440 D/side D Dens 37.00 36.65 35.00
Graphics Toolbox (IBM Compats Only) 45
DATALIFE MF350 5/side D Dens 32.00 31.25 30.50

IBM pc.:tor, Ferranti and other compatibles BASF FD3.5 5/side(Boxed in 5) 16.00 15.50 15.00

Add Ons/Upgrades/Software 110-3.5

LB60-3.5
SEE -10 Library Box For 10 Disk
ABA Lockable Box 60 Cap inc Disk Pen
2.30
15.50
2.00
15.00
1.75
14.50

10mb Internal Hard Disk 699 SELECTED SOFTWARE 5.25" DISKS

20mb Internal Hard Disk 799 DATAMASTER - database program 495 ID 5/side D Dens 10.99 10.50 10.00
Hard Disk Power Supply (Optional) 145 Flight Simulator 55 BASF IX HR 5/side 5 Dens 11.75 11.25 10.95
24mb Tape Streamer (No slot req) 849 GEM Desktop & Draw (IBM only) 105 ID HR 5/side D Dens 12.75 12.50 12.25
Memory Upgrades 64k RAM 31 MenuEase (PC DOS Menu System) 38 2D HR D/side D Dens 16.20 15.75 14.75
128k RAM 49 Norton Utilities Ver 3.0 69 1D/96 HR 5/side Q Dens 17.75 17.25 16.50
175 Keyworks (keyboard redefiner) 62 2D/96 HR D/side Q Dens 19.65 19.25 18.75
8087 (5 mhz) Maths Co -Processor
5.25 200 D/side H Dens 1.6MB 33.95 33.00 31.50
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 NEWSPRINT
Just when you thought it was quiet in the industry, the rumblings
continue. Torch promises Unix -with -a -difference, and Robert Maxwell
does a U-turn on Sinclair. Guy Kewney delivers the news.

convinced that even Torch catch or not, he's not the fish expect the BBC Micro to be
has actually solved the the company was after. At the pensioned off before
inherent problems of turning time that 'Uncle' Clive was Christmas, except as an OEM
Unix into a personal originally telling me about the product to people like Torch,
computing operating system. £12 million that 'Captain Bob' and others who will package it
Unix - new hope The possible benefits of
multi -tasking and memory
Maxwell was putting into
Sinclair Research, he told me
inside special-purpose
business hardware.
protection (to reduce the a bit about the man he'd been The new scientific micro,
from Torch effects of faulty programs, say courting. had it been launched this time
Around October, a British Unix admirers) have to be And the man who had 'as last year, might well have
micro will appear from Torch, weighed against the good as said yes, provided we saved the company. But in
capable of running the same enormous amount of code got the finance' was working mid -1985, nothing about it
operating system that so that Unix involves-full Unix for another computer makes me feel that Acorn yet
surprised the world on the V can require a 10Mbyte hard company, said Uncle Clive. I grasps that the old market for
Amiga - Tripos. disk to work properly. don't doubt that there was micros has changed, utterly
The new machine will be Apparently, the Torch such a gem in the wings, and I and completely.
Unix -based but with a design goes a long way wonder why they pinched Bill Like the Apple II, the BBC
difference, say my sources. It towards overcoming these Jeffrey from the Micro is a classic design.
will have Mac -like problems, and I look forward communications side Unlike the Apple II, it has
friendliness, amazing to bringing you more details instead? hardly been developed, and
communications (including as they become available. At Acorn, the its original mass market has
networking) with a colour bit - But what really fascinates announcement of a new high- moved on. I fully sympathise
map (that means graphics) me is the possibility of a performance computer was with its fans, who can see no
display, and I expect several cheaper version of the Triple - delayed for a month for the wrong in it. But when
better-known micro X, with AmigaDOS or Tripos, very simple reason that someone can say that 'an
companies to sell this at well under £2000. !think publicity consultants hour or two with View will tell
machine under their own there's real potential for a reckoned, quite rightly, that you more about word
name. British -built Tripos machine, no-one would pay any processing than two weeks
The Tripos option, and it's a shame that neither attention to the machine until with WordStar', all I can
however, remains just a Torch nor Metacomco has the the financial problems were respond with is: there's no
dream at present- a dream kind of spare cash that would sorted out. accounting for masochism.
shared by Metacomco, which make it possible to create Now, officially, the financial
wrote AmigaDOS (a version such a machine. problems are sorted out -a
of Tripos) and Torch senior new series of deals with
management. banks, creditors and the BBC, PC2 or not PC2
To put the operating system coupled with a new group Whether or not IBM is telling
onto the Torch Triple -X would A new broom managing director Brian Long the complete and
be the work of a few short Both Acorn and Sinclair now - gave Acorn the chance to unvarnished truth when it
months and would certainly have new bosses- and how announce the Acorn co- says that it never had any
cost money - but, also, nice it would be to hear hopes processor Workstation. plans to launch the PC2 this
certainly less than £50,000. fora revival in the fortunes of Shortly after that, a truly year, you can bet that it is
Torch is basing its hopes of both micro suppliers. revolutionary announcement, being accurate when it now
success with the Triple -X on I suppose you could argue the Reduced Instruction Set promises that the machine
the enthusiasm of the more that the withdrawal of Robert Computer (RISC), the ARM, will not be launched.
established micro world, plus Maxwell from Sinclair was announced. Plans, inside IBM, are
a recipe cooked up by Jean Research must be a good In the long-term, this is very strange things. Until a
Yates of Yates Ventures, a thing in the long -run, judging encouraging, and good news machine is actually available
Unix expert company in the by the way Maxwell has been on a similar level to the from the warehouse, it never
States. making a fool of himself, development of the pays to speak of plans as
Yates predicted that the running The Mirror. But what Transputer at Inmos, or the 'plans' - merely as 'options'.
next 'hit product' would be other encouraging signs are wafer -sized memory project The options facing IBM until
Unix System V based, with there? at Sinclair. it made this statement (and
user-friendly interface and Nigel Searle, the previous But in the short-term, it tells accused the Press of being
strong communications, managing director of Sinclair us nothing about plans for the 'irresponsible' in writing
backed by one or two big Research, is now running the BBC Micro, or where Acorn about the PC2) included a
names. US branch, and telling will get its money for the next possible 80286 -based, desk-
Apparently, at the time, she journalists over there: 'We six months. top, XT price -level machine.
was thinking of AT&T's Unix would give you a QL to test, Inevitably, no-one took They also included a lap -held
PC with the backing of Olivetti but we can't afford the much notice of the hardware: machine, possibly battery -
- but as time goes by, the necessary radio/TV they had read neatly between driven. The lap -held machine
Olivetti link with AT&T looks interference tests.' the lines the news that the is an option on the 'plan'
to be choking over the Unix The new UK managing BBC Micro must go. level, even now. The PC2,
PC. director is Bill Jeffrey, No-one at Cherry Hinton, however, is a serious
My own instincts suggest managing director of the TV the Acorn headquarters, embarrassment to IBM as it is
that Unix is too unwieldy for and communications division. seems to be in charge of still earning money from the
the purpose, but sources Obviously he's a wonderful developing the BBC Micro PC/XT.
say that the main problem catch. Sir Clive issued a itself, and the long list of In the same way that Apple
seems to be that the AT&T statement: 'Since Mr Jeffrey people who have left includes refused to produce anything
micro doesn't really have a joined the company, the many who were working on which would make the Apple
sensible solution to the number of outlets stocking that side. II obsolete until IBM had done
need for icons and windows the Pocket TV has Based only on unofficial the job for it, IBM is now
under Unix. mushroomed.' reports from ex -Acorn addicted to the PC. The AT
This is not to say that I'm Unfortunately, wonderful workers and managers, I has been deliberately
108 PCW OCTOBER 1985
designed to be too expensive delivered by press time, all to
to compete, and the PC2 has software writers like this, and
been killed off. all enthusiastic but frustrated.
Killed off? How can it be The capital, I think, will
'killed off' if it never existed? arrive. Tramiel has always
The answer is that the been able to wave the magic
'option' to launch the PC2 had wand which generates money
been worked out in some for a new idea, and his history
detail inside IBM, and could is a series of triumphant
have been translated into a launches. Following up the
'plan' two months ago. launches with long-term
But the option didn't show success had been, by
an improvement on the PC's comparison, harder for him,
low profitability (by IBM's and that's one reason why
standards) and so the Commodore asked him to go.
corporation sat on it. But despite many bad signs,
the machine is good enough
to transcend doubts,
Amazing Normally, I brush the dust off my video screens with a scepticism and sheer bloody -
mindedness in financial
paint brush to prevent the build-up of static -glued dirt.
I've yet to find a product which eliminated this wretched communities, and also in
conversion nuisance - and then someone sent me two balloons. distribution quarters.
The arrival of Metacomco as a Leedex accompanied the balloons with the suggestion It will be launched.
serious supplier of systems that I needed a well -patronised ashtray, and should try However, the fact of the
software is starting to out the little sachets enclosed. matter is that Metacomco has
produce uneasy reactions at According to instructions, I inflated both balloons and written a genuinely multi-
the established companies in rubbed one on my sleeve. Then I held it over the ashtray. tasking operating system for
this area - Microsoft and The other, after inflating, was wiped with the little the Amiga, and Digital
Digital Research. The sachet. Thereafter, it stubbornly refused to stick to Research hasn't managed this
apparent rivalry between the anything, no matter how hard I rubbed it. trick for the Atari ST.
Amiga and the Atari has had a Trying the same little trick with the video screen, I Thus, I was recently treated
truly profound effect on the found that it works! to the surreal sight of a senior
religions of executives at the Staticide is available from Hellerman Electric of DR man solemnly repeating
CP/M company, Digital Plymouth. Ring for a catalogue on (0752) 701261. all the warnings that
Research. Hellerman has tricks to eliminate static in areas where Microsoft has fed me over the
The main problem, of you probably didn't realise you had static - like your years about multi -tasking.
course, had been the collapse laundry, for instance ..
How it's 'hard to persuade the
of the imaginary computer user that it can be used', and
market. The reason for this strange customers get things going how 'it isn't what the user
The imaginary computer religious conversion is and package Windows for the really needs', and 'it takes up
market was that collection of simple. DR used to sell a users of their machines. a lot of memory without
no -hope American micro thing called Concurrent PC - At once, you realise the providing equivalent
makers, which had nothing to DOS, which was 'true importance of Jack Tramiel to facilities'.
offer the world except an concurrency'. It actually kept Digital Research. The AmigaDOS multi-
imitation of the IBM PC, running more than one Before I get this magazine tasking system fits into 50k,
without the attraction of an program at the same time, accused of throwing brickbats and uses icons and a mouse,
IBM guarantee or even the and even permitted two at Atari as well as Acorn, I as well as a command line. If
certainty that it would run IBM programs, under certain shall stick my neck out and Concurrent DOS could have
software. conditions, to read the same say that Atari's 520ST is done this, it would have
These people all submitted file at the same time. probably going to change the succeeded.
estimates of their next five AmigaDOS, of course, does face of computing. But Concurrent DOS with
years' turnover to experts. this, but these days, Digital But before it does that, GEM on top uses very nearly
The experts added it up, Research has abandoned all some near -miraculous events half the memory capacity of
and produced a projection of hope of making a serious have to occur. Tramiel has to most IBM PCs, and doesn't
the micro market based on living from Concurrent PC - raise a considerable amount feed through to the software
reports of present sales which DOS. of capital to build more than applications. Your
were lies, and assumptions of Instead, it is convinced that 3600 machines. Dealers have applications remain as tough
future sales which were pure fame and fortune will arrive to be found who are prepared to use as they ever were.
fantasy. Eagle, Texas, NCR, just as soon as Jack Tramiel to handle Tramiel's business. On the Atari, however, the
Sperry, AT&T and a lot of starts selling the Atari 520ST And software houses have to applications are built with
others who are (some of by the thousand. The machine be found which will write Gem DOS in mind, and will be
them) still in the business. uses Gem DOS, under the software for the ST. friendlier. Also, there is more
Most of them sought pseudonym Tramiel Before Digital Research memory available (it starts
credibility by buying Operating System, or TOS. became involved, these are out at 512k) and the DOS uses
enormous numbers of Digital GEM Dos is not true exactly the type of things its less of it.
Research operating systems, concurrency, but 'context - executives would have What about Windows?
and they mostly announced switching and time -slicing'. dismissed as impossible. My ex -colleague Phil
what they thought the By contrast, Microsoft has Now, however, they make Manchester, who edits a
contract would be worth if the always proclaimed the joys of encouraging noises. newsletter for the Financial
machine sold in thousands. context -switching. The software people are Times on software, reports
Why, I even remember It suggested that as long as already up and running-or that Windows is fast, nice,
Apricot predicting millions of the program was loaded into trying to be. They ring me up and a genuine improvement
pounds worth of Concurrent memory, it didn't matter to from time to time with sad on PC -DOS naked.
DOS sales the user whether it was voices, saying that they have For my own part, I have to
Anyway, it never happened, running - in fact, what the C language, but no say that I find it a little
and after several years of possible program would you <stdio>, or standard input- vindictive. It runs, but each
preaching the gospel of 'true want to have running if you output (without which, it's time I stop it, it crashes my
concurrency', Digital couldn't see it? useless). Or they have a Olivetti M24 with the message
Research has suddenly The answer to that was: if machine, but no display. Or 'illegal interrupt' and refuses
become a disciple of the you have Windows, you can they have software, but the to let me have control of the
alternative approach. 'Keep see it after all. And that's why disks don't work. But (they do machine.
the programs in memory by we now have Microsoft add) they like it! Engineers promise that it'll
all means,' it says, 'but only Windows - or we will, just as Less than 1000 (I gather be diagnosed in time for next
run one at a time.' soon as Microsoft's bit around 400) STs had been month's column.
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 109
 NEWSPRINT
the system.'
Enterprise Multiple Apple Iles talk to
each other and share two
ordinary Apple disks, through
revival the network controller card in
Games with titles like Devil's the first or master Apple.
Lair, Mordon's Quest and There's a network interface
Dambusters prove that the card in all the others.
lost micro of Britain, the Elan Obviously, the multi-user
(now Enterprise) is starting to and multi -tasking software
attract some software after doesn't run on an ordinary
all. Apple Ile, but on a network of
The company, Enterprise Apples, network cards, and
Computers, has 'signed deals the Snapshot shuttle card and
with' a number of European - software.
based software companies, Here's the price of the extra
'bringing to the UK games hardware you need to turn
which have not previously Apples into Snapshotters.
been available'. The Snapshot card and
There are also some utility Shuttle software costs £115.
programs: for example, The Glanmire controller card
Enterprise has announced a costs £120. The 'slave'
graphics program which will interface card costs £109 -
allow you to draw and colour The launch of memory expansion cards for the Amstrad one per networked Apple. The
pictures, and a German is based on a little -remembered feature of that machine. 512k extended 80 -column
program to teach Basic. It is possible to attach 'sideways' memory packs to the card (described as 'optional')
Don't expect the shops to Amstrad, in rather the same way as with the BBC Micro costs £399. Education sites
make a frantic fuss and and to a very much larger capacity- but it isn't get at least 20 per cent
hullabaloo about these something that many people have done. discount.
products. If you want to see Products from Micro Power (a games software Details from Dark Star on
one, you'll have to contact company which has done pretty well in the BBC (01) 900 0104, or The Source
Enterprise, ask where it has a business) include a sideways ROM card which allows a BCJ456.
dealer, and arrange for demo user to plug in seven ROM chips as foreground,
software to be supplied to the background, or extension ROMs. This is for the 464, and a
version for the 664 is under way, both retailing at f42
dealer.
including postage. Micro who?
Released at the same time are two ROM -based
Lion without software products, says Micro Power. The first is a f40
mailing list or club membership package, and the other
What a
is a disk user's utilities ROM.
a roar The company promises a programmers toolbox, an carry -on!
assembler/disassembler, monitor, and a business
'Mr Rafael Hyams, who was package with word processor, spreadsheet, database Apparently, Micro Arts
chairman of the meeting for and graphics/statistics programs - no price on these, software was 'almost
statutory purposes, was however, as yet. completely ignored' by the
unable to answer any Details on (0532) 458800 in Leeds. computer press when SCUM
questions from the creditors,' Manifesto, Carry On
reports an utterly moving Computing, Data, and
little press release concerning market at the end of 1984, and machine- and with other Minimal were first launched.
the collapse of Lion House in particular the Christmas users running the same The Micro Arts database
retail. trading period,' which 'proved programs. and some software is now
The shop, in London's a disaster for this company,' The Irish firm Glanmire available on Micronet (Prestel
Tottenham Court Road, has that Lion House had to wind sells a device called the Microcomputing), and all I

gone bust owing roughly £1 itself up. Microbus, which allows up to can say is, I can see why it
million. 256 Apple Ils to share was ignored.
For a single store, that is (as programs and data. Dark Star I can't make head nor tail
the liquidator correctly
remarked) 'a massive
Dark Star Systems sells another device
called Snapshot, which
of it.
There is apparently a text
deficiency', and, he added, interrupts the Apple and generation program. I got a
'warrants an in-depth operating saves the entire machine story about how a cow forced
investigation'. The idea of a genuine multi- status to disk. Dark Star also a woman 'to bend over and
The bit that brought tears to user, multi -tasking operating has a Shuttle, which allows put her head into a bucket of
my eyes was the final, system for an old-fashioned you to divide the Apple's boiling water, and hold it
pathetic paragraph about the Apple II is ludicrous, and so memory into 64k and 128k there until thoroughly boiled
chairman. the announcement of such a workspaces. -the husband was then
The liquidator, Mr Philip beast for the Apple II by a It doesn't matter what is made to add a string of pork
Monjack, 'read a statement couple of outfits in the British going on in a portion of sausages .. .' all under the
from Mr Hyams, stating that Isles makes one suspect just memory-whenever the title of 'COW BOILS HEAD'.
owing to his state of health, one thing - it isn't really for Snapshot operates, that I hear that Text Engine +
his doctors had advised him the Apple II. portion is frozen. The Word Banks (runs on 48k
not to answer any questions And, in fact, this is roughly processor can switch over to Spectrum) 'produces streams
relating to the business of the correct. The Dark Star another portion, and run that. of poetry or text from sets of
company'. Systems announcement turns 'With a Glanmire Ile 80 - words and sentence
A doctor's certificate was out to be for an Apple II so column extended memory structures held in the
provided. heavily modified that it really (512k) card in the Basic Ile,' Word Banks'.
I should think that if my is hard to call it an Apple II. says the joint announcement, I shall ask my friend Martin
store went bust owing The advantages are real. It 'users can switch between (Word) Banks to do an
£920,962, I'd feel pretty sick, would let you run CP/M any four 128k applications, intelligent column on it. I'm
too. It is, as you probably programs together with and use the remaining 64k as off to boil my head.
guessed, due to the 'dramatic AppleDOS 3 and PRO -DOS a RAM disk for fast exchange Details of Micro Arts from
decline in the microcomputer programs, all on the same of data between programs in (01) 582 4618, or on Micronet.
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which adds the really quite
Down to the C interesting extra information
that Lotus does, after all,
come first, if you add
again Symphony and Jazz sales to
A quotation from c-farer Tire rok of criaos Lotus 1-2-3. Lotus 1-2-3 is the
Joseph Conrad was used by 1146 3 IS MONK. second -ranked product, with
II SSW111 mum
s 6 IS vrus.
Hisoft to launch a C language IS !COI! WANIO 14 11
em 11
16181 mint WordStar third.
compiler for the Amstrad. art 1,14 .111021,w As for hardware (in the
This is described as a 'full - Border celoar
bacirood ealatr
same period) the IBM micro
feature' compiler, but with the hard syk tart
attrtiate kte
sold best, followed by the
proviso that it follows I. In aad keadtyf
Bt ,0 9tleflt0af
ACT machines, then Apple,
Kernighan and Ritchie's king, cepgright aa6I atkr aeiic
and then Compaq in fourth
1,,.,
definition 'very closely'. Prefers. tr,t place.
ler tzar data
Hisoft says that this £40 A complete survey costs
package has many extra £350, with a year's
features 'to make it an easy subscription costing £1200,
and interactive tool for so you see what wonderful
learning C - with an value a subscription to PCW
integrated editor that behaves really is.
just like Locomotive Basic's Colour isn't a usual feature of word processors, except as
editor, full support of sound an operating aid to the user, so the new version of
MicroScript (for MS-DOS family machines) is something
and graphics, and immediate
execution, allowing you to of an innovation. The joke's on
test out C features as you go This one actually uses colour as part of the document
along, full use of both tape - not just to show which paragraph you've marked and RITA
and disk, and an extensive are able to move, or where you're inserting text.
For example, MicroScript can generate red letters, It's a long time till January,
manual'. when the Which Computer?
The Conrad quotation? which will be printed red (if you have a colour printer) on
output. There are 16 colours. Show takes place (14 to 17 in
'This could have occurred Birmingham, for your diary)
nowhere but in England, Details on (0203) 553909.
- but you've only got a
where men and sea couple of weeks left to join in
interpenetrate, so to speak.' in the Company of the Music the Which Computer?Joke.
Details on (0582) 696421.
Yet another PC 500 Synthesiser, and is
supposedly 'the first on
I'm referring, of course, to
the RITA awards.
Hybrid's own label, 256 Byte Vast entertainment has
Fighting about clone Records'. been provided to delegates to
American terminal maker The music is only partly previous Shows, by
Wyse is now determined to rock, featuring numbers by nominations for Recognition
faulty returns supply imitation IBM PCs, and Duran Duran and interspersed of Information Technology
Oh no, not again! Amstrad is has started UK sales with a with stuff by Joseph Haydn Achievement-an award
after a fight of some sort - £1595 box equivalent to a (classics) and even some sponsored by the Show and
clearly, because it has standard 256k PC, with compositions written by several publications from a
(unprovoked) issued a press monochrome monitor specifically for Music 500. (rival) publishing house.
statement boasting about included. Details from Unit 3, Robert Recognition of achievement
how reliable its computers It claims impeccable Davies Court, Nuffield Road, is a nice idea, and is usually
are. pedigree for the clone, with a Cambridge CB4 1TP, but the objectively provided by the
'In a recent survey by a list of 350 hardware and title's hardly catchy. How buying public. If they
chain of computer centres in software accessories that are about something like: 'A Slow recognise a product as an
Wigan and the North West of designed for the original but Monday Morning watching achievement, the producer
England,' says the proud run on the Wyse imitation, Guy's Whiskers Grow' or tends to get rich. This never,
announcement, 'Amstrad and offers an XT version 'Gentle Silence Interspersed however, inhibits Awards
came out with the lowest (mono) for £2495. with Occasional Sounds of organisers.
returns on faulty machines, What makes this company Paint Drying.' This year, we can liven
with only 1.8 per cent being stand out a little from the herd things up a little. How? Well,
returned.' of clone -makers is that it is a RITA has an advantage over
This question of 'how many reputable US computer our own (VNU, Thames TV
micros are dead when they hardware supplier, with a Pegasus first? and Sunday Times
reach the shop' provoked claimed 150,000 terminals The top -selling business sponsored) British Micro
Acorn to issue a similar (if less supplied in the last two years. software package during April Awards. With RITA, you
impressive) boast last UK distributor is Trinitec, and May (yes, a long time yourself can vote for the
summer. based in London on (01) 628 ago, but these figures filter winners.
Enraged, Uncle Clive 4200. through slowly) was not Lotus Last year, my hysterical
followed Chris Curry, then 1-2-3, but Pegasus. shrieks of merriment and
boss of Acorn, into one of his Or so, at least, says blank stares of disbelief at
favourite pubs in Cambridge, Pegasus. some of the RITA winners
and beat him around the head BBC music The figures aren't complete were met by one (I shan't
with a copy of PCW (or Wrap your ears around a BBC -they cover sales of reveal your identity) editor in
perhaps something smaller, Micro for £2 - courtesy of software through specialist a sponsoring IPC newspaper,
come to think of it, or Curry Hybrid Technology. computer stores, not direct to with a shrug of the shoulders.
wouldn't have survived). They The company makes corporate buyers. These days, 'It's what the readers voted
ended up on the front page of musical add-ons for the BBC however, Lotus does try to for,' said this Pontius Pilate,
The Sun Micro which cost rather more sell more through stores and helplessly.
Alan Sugar, boss of than £1.95 to be sure, but in less through the direct sales For details of how to vote,
Amstrad, is a rather more an attempt to persuade you channel (in the States, the contact Shirley Shillcock,
aggressive character than how wonderful the Music 500 company has killed off direct Awards Administrator,
Chris Curry, however, and I Synthesiser is, Hybrid has sales altogether). Cahners Exhibitions Ltd,
should think his chances of issued a rock tape. The figures come from a Chatsworth House, 59 London
being thumped around the This one is entitled, in a report by Context, a London - Road, Twickenham TW1 3SZ.
cranium are rather small. really funky style, An Evening based research organisation, And if I don't win the
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 115
 NEWSPRINT
Personality of the Year award, don't have a spare." So they
it'll just prove what a have to make copies.'
responsible, sober lot my Zero Disk, from Quaid
readers really are. Software in the States, is
All six of you. designed to let you run
'key disk' programs from
a hard disk.
One of my own favourite
French Ensemble programs, ThinkTank, is
The impressive thing about protected by an uncopyable
the integrated Macintosh key disk. When I discovered
package, Ensemble, is not the that it was protected, I fear I
fact that it comes from French was a little unkind to Dave
software house, Controle X, Winer, the boss of Living
but that it runs on the 128k Videotext, author of
Macintosh. ThinkTank.
It may be the only real I reminded him of
justification for buying a 128k vituperation aimed at him by
machine, apart from the the irascible Jerry Pournelle,
possible money saved if you sci-fi writer and computer
can upgrade it yourself. user, who told him that no
The package includes A good idea of just how excited everyone is getting writer would entrust his text
database management, about compact disk as a data storage medium can be to a disk that you couldn't
graphics, maths functions, derived from the news that Gary Kildall, writer of CP/M make back-ups on.
report and form generation, and founder of Digital Research, has started a CD ROM 'True,' said Winer, 'but we
word processing and mail - company of his own. don't have any objection to
merge, according to the Of course, things could be better for Digital Research, users who make back-up
international software but the move isn't that simply explained. copies. The reason we copy -
distributor, Softsel. More exciting even than CD ROM, 1 think, is the protect is just prudence. It's
The package is obviously Optimem project inside the 3M company. the same principle which
intended to appeal to people Optimem is writeable optical ROM- partly writeable, prevents you leaving your
who might be considering anyway. front door open so that your
buying Lotus Jazz. Changes The system uses an incompatible data storage friends don't have to knock.
made to one element in a medium from CD, with 12in disks, data tracks divided Locking the door doesn't keep
'document' have an instant into sectors, and a different type of laser read burglars out, but it does mean
effect on related elements- mechanism. that nobody can pretend they
for example (says Softsel), a But it can create its own data. thought it was OK to come in
graph based on figures in a The disk used in the Optimem 1000 incorporates 'a and help themselves to your
table will automatically be multilayer film coated onto a plastic pre -grooved furniture.'
redrawn if the table is altered. substrate'. In the States, of course, the
What sounds nice, and is To write data on these disks, a high -power laser pulse sale of copy -busting
worth asking to see if you get (seven to 10 milliwatt) melts an area of this recording programs is an everyday
a demo, is the 'overview icon'. layer, creating a hole and exposing a mirrored lower occurrence, and although it
This lets you see how a level. annoys people like Lotus, no
document will look even if it is An optical disk such as this holds a thousand store worth patronising
bigger than one screenful. It megabytes of data which can be partly supplied by would dream of being out of
shows the lines of text as publishers, partly supplied by yourself, or completely stock. Even Lotus 1-2-3
lines, diagrams as blocks, and one or the other. dealers have them.
headlines as horizontal I have to admit that that's more use than a CD ROM In this country, people have
stripes. with the Encyclopaedia Britannica on it, but Jack Tramiel taken Amstrad to court for
Cost looks quite attractive doesn't agree with me. selling twin -tape cassette
at £225, However, I haven't player/recorders. It 'incites'
had a chance to test this difference between copying II Plus, Snapshot, Zoro Disk, people to copy tapes. People
product in everyday use yet, to sell, and copying for your and so on. have taken Xerox to court for
and will pass on further own convenience, safety and It is quite possible that selling photocopiers, which
details as I get them. comfort. some busybody will take it 'incite' people to copy
The software world into his head to report such a documents.
believes that people like you shopkeeper for supplying And when I go to shops for
and me shouldn't make any products 'designed to induce copy -protection removers,
copies of software that it users to break the law' on the store manager behaves as
FAST enforcer 'protects' from us. software theft. if I were buying glue for home
I am very keen to hear from The music world, likewise, I know a supplier of these sniffing. He tends to be shy
any private micro users who officially believes that if you very useful products, and I about admitting he has the
are hassled by the buy a vinyl record, you aren't have had occasion to be product in stock, he makes all
'Enforcement Coordinator' entitled to make a tape copy, grateful that he exists. sorts of pious statements
appointed by the Federation even for your Sony Walkman, He told me: 'My customers about how he knows I'm
4 Against Software Theft or to protect the vinyl disc aren't software thieves. I sell responsible and honest,
(FAST). from wear and tear. Sensibly, Lotus 1-2-3, and I sell a and...
FAST always sought to music lovers ignore this program which copies it. I've I believe it's very important
make it clear, when pushing a paranoia. sold 20 copies of both to large that we don't allow the good
law through Parliament, that Normally, Bob Hay (the corporations, which keep work of the FAST team in
it was aiming to stamp out Enforcer) will be too busy their original disks in the chasing genuine crooks, to be
organised crime - people chasing genuine crooks to company safe and use the polluted by any petty -minded
duplicating games and bother about people who copied version. The determination to prevent us.
business software to which have disk copy utilities. executives I sell to would be from using software copiers
they had no copyright, but However, disk copy utilities, given a very hard time by for our own use.
which they hoped to sell to like twin -tape cassette units, their directors if they arrived Whatever the law says, in
ordinary users. don't reach users by magic. at a board meeting without practice, the offence should
There isn't an official Storekeepers have to sell figures "because the Lotus be to sell copied software, not
recognition of the vital products like Copywrite, Copy disk just got corrupted and we to merely make a copy. And
116 PCW OCTOBER 1985
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anyone who is prosecuted by
a FAST executive for simple
copying, please let me know
Key into
- I don't know what can be
done, but we'll try. security
When people talk about data
security and data keys, they
probably don't mean
Lacking margins anything quite as simple as
On the face of it, you would PC-Fileguard. For £82, it
suppose that something like provides protection from
the Omni -Reader would be unauthorised access by the
quite hard work to operate. simple method of being built
You have to line up the little of 20 -gauge steel plate and a
scanning eye and push the pin tumbler lock. You can't
head over your paper to read use the computer without the
text into the computer. key.
By comparison, surely, it Details from HWL
must be easier to use one of Computer Accessories in
the much more expensive Real programmers, of course, use natural (that is, Hatfield, on (07072) 62463.
models, which take the whole machine) language to write their code, and despise
page and scan it anyone who writes in C, but the rest of us find C quite
automatically? complex enough, and pretty powerful. Writing in C for
Dest Corporation in the Apple Macintosh, however, involves rather more Extra BBC
California makes the hard work than usual, because so many of the
Macintosh's functions require system calls on a scale
WorkLess Station. It has just
had to offer a 'margin control unknown to MS-DOS programmers. memory for
enhancement' for its models. The Mac C compiler now available (through P&P
A margin control device
makes sure that 'unreadable
Micro) from Consulair Corporation in California, allows
direct access to more than 450 Macintosh system calls,
next to nothing
information' doesn't get into without using 'glue routines'- which is what you would When someone asks for £130
the system. Unreadable have to do if your compiler didn't understand Mac for a 64k memory module,
information includes such features such as icons, pull -down menus, and so on. he's either hopelessly out of
perfectly common printed Alone, the compiler costs f295; with the £175 Toolkit, touch with reality or onto
marks as logos, borders and it comes to f425, a saving of £40. something special - and the
vertical lines. Permanent Memory Systems
The new processor lets add-on is something special.
you set margins, top and Amstrad. It was turned into This memory module
bottom, left and right, reality by Locomotive DOS control carries its own rechargeable
to exclude decorative Software, a software house There is a new menu program battery. This means,
additions. which includes most of the for MS-DOS machines, called according to PMS, that 'it can
What's really interesting people who originally wrote Menu Maker. be used as a portable RAM
about the announcement, the code for the Diamond The nice thing about PC - disk' for the BBC Micro.
however, is that the reader word processor. DOS is that there's such a lot Just plugging memory into
costs $495 (retail) in the States On the face of it, LocoScript of software for it, but the 'tube' doesn't make it
and it processes a page in 25 is likely to stay exclusive to unfortunately it is also very usable as a portable RAM
seconds. The company has the new Amstrad. This isn't nearly user -proof, hence the disk, of course, so PMS
only just announced results of just because Alan Sugar had vast number of programs supplies software to drive it.
its first fiscal quarter as a such a big part in the design designed to control the One program allows the
public company, when it ('It's got to be as simple to use operating system for the module to be used as a RAM
earned $5.5 million. as a Telex machine,' he kept normal user. disk, and the other lets the
insisting) but also because the What makes Menu Maker user do all the printing to the
code is very tightly matched different is the fact that it memory, rather than direct to
to the PCW8256 hardware. the printer, giving a 63k print
Locomotive The usual method of
comes from the Indiana -
based software firm, Micro buffer.
designing a word processor is Database Systems, easily the Details on (03552) 32796.
script -a late to send ASCII to a printer
which has its own computer
most respected producer of
data management software
arrival
in it. The internal printer -
computer analyses the
for PC -DOS. Menu Maker is
very clever (or so they say) at
Hackers' delight
MicroPro has announced incoming code, and converts managing the tangled
Pocket WordStar, a cheaper it to a pattern of dots under network of heirarchical file for Tatung
version of WordStar for the matrix head. directories that latest versions Communications on the
machines like the Amstrad On the PCW8256 system of MS-DOS and PC -DOS Tatung Einstein, an area
464 and 664, at £149, but this there is only the one provide. where standard CP/M
may have come too late. The processor, and it drives the Menu Maker, like most software can be suspect, is
new Amstrad PCW8256 printer as well as the MDBS products, isn't really now rather easier with two
(Benchtested on page 132 of computer, tying it to one meant for the average user to products from Kuma
this issue gives a new answer micro system - supplying buy for his own use, however. Computers.
to that most common of versions for other micros It's ideally suited to someone Tim Moore assures me that
questions from new micro would entail a lot of work. developing an application his Communications with
buyers: 'What should I buy if With word processor, which requires several Viewdata package still copes
all I need is a good word screen, printer, disk and different programs, with lots with Prestel, but adds that he
processor?', because bundled keyboard all costing £399, I of entries and exits from the now has a product for normal
with the PCW8256 is a new can't see any very good operating command system bulletin boards, Telecom
word processor which could reasons for spending even which might confuse the Gold, and so on.
do quite well on other £149 on Pocket WordStar. unskilled user. This package is called (very
hardware. Better to sell your current It costs £250, and the UK injudiciously) Hackers'
LocoScript is the brainchild micro and buy the agent is Database Experts in Delight, and it sells at £20.
of Alan Sugar, head of PCW8256. Windsor. Tel: (0753) 840197. Details on (07357) 4335.

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objected to one turning and
Mousing around snagged on a wall. It started
One event I didn't make it to again, with a clear memory of
this summer was the British an initial long straight. It
Micromouse Finals, but John applied full power for a sprint
Billingsley was there and sent start, winding up to a speed of
this report. two or more metres per
The International Personal second! The crunch as it hit
Robots Congress at the the end wall made the
London West Hotel lacked the audience wince. At the time, it
bustle of last year's Computer looked as though it had 'done
Fair venue, but the micromice a wheelie', lifting the front
enjoyed an exciting final for measuring -wheel off the
all that. ground and losing track of
Following tradition, the distance. Later, David decided
penultimate day was devoted that the pulses had been
to the novices. This year the arriving faster than his
newcomers had a hard interrupt routine could cope
decision to make: should they with. Whatever the cause,
enter the open tussle of the Enterprise retired to the pits.
novice final, or restrict their Even so, its performance won
mice to the Tunnel Run? David the second prize of a
The Tunnel Run is a test of Commotion vision system-
steering alone, for those mice perhaps it will persuade him
which have as yet no maze - to build a Robat ping-pong
solving ability. A section of robot. Alan Dibley carried off
maze is laid out as a simply - first prize of a Reekie RUR
connected passage with no mobile robot complete with
branches. It starts off straight robot arm. The tail -enders
and gentle, but after a while won two more copies of DIY
develops increasingly vicious Robotics, while all the
bends and twists. The score is contestants received copies of
based on time to finish, or the new Salamander book
failing that on distance Robots.
achieved before the mouse For more details of
loses control. Only two mice Micromouse and Robat, write
elected to try it - Pete to John Billingsley,
Boyce's SAM (Simulated Department of Electrical and
Animal Mechanism) and The best accounting software in the world is of no use to Electronic Engineering,
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two -and -a -half minutes The popular Apricot Fl and F2 come complete with a P01 3DJ.
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There are versions for two -drive systems, too, but the
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over 50 seconds. Where Rat is that you don't get into a tangle with only one drive.
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MicroScope man
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dangling microswitch sensor
mounted on a leading corner first prize in a time of one thwarted and settled joins PCW as
to tap its way around the minute 25 seconds. for third place.
maze. Howard won a robot
watch, while Pete carried off a
On Thursday the big
battalions moved in for the
Jerry did its best, but was
driven into fourth place by new editor
copy of D/Y Robotics. final. David Woodfield and stiff competition and a stiffer This may be the last, and
The novice final was played Alan Dibley were particularly maze. Thezeus the Ancient shortest, story in Newsprint,
for higher stakes: a Zero 2 keen to try out the maze, came out of retirement, but but that shouldn't be held
robot from Intergalactic which had been specially even heart massage failed to against it.
Robots and a Tomy Dingbot. flown from Japan by the make it run - its practice Briefly, the news is that this
Mike Windibank's Mad Max Japan Science Foundation. exertions had proved too is the last issue of the
had been two months in the They were able to check for much for its old batteries. magazine to be edited by
making; with one or two more any snags which might mar KnownAim also failed to live Graham Cunningham. His
days it might have avoided their performance in the up to its reputation, and replacement is Peter Jackson,
disaster. Rattus Verticalis World Finals in Tsukuba, and eventually retired; that left the who joins PCWfrom
could also have done with a their suggestion that the floor contest open to the two MicroScope which he has
little more work from Messrs should be made blacker to favou rites, Alan Di bley's T6 edited since its launch.
Visser, Watkins and Pitt. infra -red has already been and David Woodfield's All other personal details
Sporting a complete keyboard taken up. Enterprise. have been withheld to spare
and numeric display, Romeo The gentle practice maze T6 was suffering battery the blushes of both parties-
showed a nice use of was reconfigured to a vicious problems of its own and suffice it to say that business
guidance control, winning test to separate the after reaching the centre will, of course, continue as
second prize for Daniel champions, but technical on an early run in a time of usual. END

Shoop, Robert Holding and problems took their toll more one minute 51 seconds, was
David Sweeney. Jerry lost its effectively than the clock. Bill unable to complete a follow- Guy Kewney can be con-
novice status by being the Urmenyi's Gonzales tried and up run to exploit its acquired tacted on electronic mail.
only mouse to reach the retired, to be replaced on the knowledge of the maze. His numbers are Source
centre. A furry rodent with maze by his new mouse, Enterprise set off slickly, TCK 106, and Telecom
sensor booms to each side, Danger Mouse. looking every inch a Gold 81: JOS018.
Jerry won its makers James DM certainly had a good champion, but after a The Prestel mailbox num-
Chidley and Derek Hall the run, but was finally tortuous exploratory path it I :1 7

OCTOBER 1985 PCW 123

 David Ahl brings all his experience to bear as he predicts
the industry's winners and losers. He also hands out the
prizes for the 10 worst computers.

and an abysmal PC marketing equally serious contender in lack of quality and utility, and
strategy, the incredible the home market as the a cavalier approach to
installed base of DEC minis in business market. customers, will spell doom for
colleges, engineering, Commodore may make it if the company.
technical, and scientific it turns its focus back to
environments automatically marketing. Choosing a
puts DEC on the approved list production -oriented The not -so -
of vendors whenever new Dutchman for president was
systems are being purchased. absurd when the company
Furthermore, the company needed leadership in R&D magnificent 10
has a history of wringing and marketing. If the new Here, in alphabetical order,
more years of life out of its marketing crew can re- with no malice intended, are
Predictions designs than any other mini - establish confidence in the my choices for the 10 worst
With a background of 28 years maker (PDP-8, PDP-11, VAX). dealer network and can computers of all time.
in computers, 11 years of The MicroVAX will be DEC's convince third -party software APF PeCos I: with no
publishing an American saviour in the upper end of vendors to focus on the support at all, APF released a
magazine called Creative the micro market. company's products, there machine that used a JOSS -
Computing, and 18 months Hewlett-Packard (HP) will may be hope. Otherwise, not. type language which was
writing Yankee Doodles, I also make it. Like DEC, its Atari will not make it. Jack totally incomprehensible to
hereby present the results of installed base of timesharing Tramiel's lean -and -mean any normal person.
my most recent crystal ball minis and instrumentation, approach doesn't build Coleco Adam: tape drive
gazing. This is the future that I particularly in technical loyalty among employees, unreliable, printer worked
see for various hardware environments, causes larger dealers, or third -party only sporadically, software
manufacturers. corporate buyers to look to HP software vendors. The Atari full of bugs and without
IBM will make it big as they expand their name - the strongest thing documentation. Too much
(surprise, surprise). Market networks. The 150 and the he had going for him - has new technology and too
domination, huge cash flow, reincarnated version, the lost much of its glitter. Trying much hype. I wouldn't give
loyal employees, enormous Touchscreen, is a loser and to move the company into the one to a Cabbage Patch doll.
research effort, strong dealer the Portable Plus is pricey, but business market is absurd Epson QX-10: nice
base, and an image among eventually the company will and will fail miserably. hardware, but the Valdocs
corporate buyers of 'you can't get its product act together. Tandy will hang in there. software is extremely slow,
lose your job by buying IBM' AT&T will be another While retail computer stores cumbersome, and frustrating.
will contribute to continued success, if only due to its seem to be everywhere, there Gavilan: the
domination. huge cash flow and enormous are still many small US towns term'vapourware' is usually
Growth will slow at presence in American in which a Radio Shack is the applied to software. Gavilan
Compaq as the company industry. The product line only computer dealer in town. proved it could be applied to
becomes larger and less shows a total lack of planning Even in larger towns, people hardware as well.
nimble, and as IBM fills up the and the effects of many have confidence that Radio IBM PCjr: an embarrasing
pipeline. Although frequently competing factions within the Shack will be around as these faux pas that humbled Big
approved in corporations as company, but as the trendy computer stores come Blue with its inexcusable
the second source for IBM, reorganisation dust settles, a and go. Tandy will hang wireless Chiclet keyboard,
the cost advantage over IBM more coherent product and on to a small piece of the single disk drive and memory
is relatively small. However, marketing strategy should home, school and small limitations.
quality control is better, at emerge. business markets, but a major Mattel Aquarius: a machine
least temporarily, than IBM's. NCR will fail (in the PC player, no. so cheesy, Mattel should have
Texas Instruments will not market). It has similar Epson is a tough one. It will supplied rubber gloves to
make it. The TI Pro is one of problems as TI, but it is continue to dominate the wear while using it. The
the least compatible without a dealer base or a printer market, although IBM company tried to sell a touch-
compatibles, and customers coherent marketing strategy. will probably take over first typing software package for it
are not convinced of its On the other hand, Zenith will place in two or three years. but the keyboard didn't even
advantages. Even though all succeed as a result of Epson computers have been have a space bar.
the important software is concentrating on specialised innovative, sometimes too Sinclair ZX80: with an
available for the machine, its vertical markets such as the much so for their own good. unusable keyboard and quirky
incompatibility image will Air Force and various NEC has enormous staying keyboard Basic, this machine
prevent it being purchased by government branches. power due to the company's discouraged millions of
volume customers. TI's new The Data General One is a number two spot (behind people from ever buying
approach of aiming at vertical product looking for a market. Fujitsu) in Japan, but another computer.
markets is a good idea, and Making micro versions of the marketing in the US ranges Stonehenge: the hardware
perhaps the only thing that company's minis is the only from average to horrible. was solid - still is, but trying
will keep the Pro alive for sensible strategy for DG: Unless the company gets its to debug the operating
another year or two. whether or not it chooses to marketing act together, it will software wiped out the entire
Nor does the future look follow it is another matter. continue to be an also-ran in race of Druids.
bright for other clone -makers Apple will make it as soon the US. T19914: with its Chiclet
- some will die a fast, as the company opens its To date, no UK company keyboard, not enough keys
merciful death and others a eyes to the existence of a has made it big in the US. ACT and non-standard Basic, this
long, painful death. In the serious home market. The has had a shot at it with the machine soured millions of
end, the only difference is Apple II is number one in Apricots, but it will have to do people on computers forever.
how much the investors schools, and could have been practically everything right. If Video Brain: running APLS
will lose. number one in the home anyone can do it, ACT can, but (a scaled -down version of
Digital Equipment (DEC), on market had the company not it won't be easy. APL), the Video Brain required
the other hand, will make it. turned its attention to the Sinclair products are highly a degree in computer science
Despite mediocre personal business market. Likewise, innovative, interesting, and to program it. It did have nice
computers (now withdrawn) the Mac is probably an cheesy. In the long -run, the joysticks, though. END

124 PCW OCTOBER 1985

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 LETTERS
This is the chance to air your views - send your letters to
Letters, Personal Computer World, 32-34
Broadwick St, London W1A 2HG. Please be as brief as
possible and add 'not for publication' if your letter is to be
kept private.
the 664 ownerwill not be able developed by Watanabe, mention the IBM Thermotronic
to changeto a 6128without a particularlywhile hewasatthe typewriter (and the
substantial financial loss. IBM Research Laboratories at corresponding keyboardless
To add insultto injury, on Yorktown Heights, New York, printer).
page 36 ofthe same issue of and emerged in a series of For lessthan £1000 itgives
PCW,the advertisementforthe papers and booksfrom 1956 remarkable print quality,
664 says: '...the Amstrad (664) onwards. Lotfi AZadeh did not particularly suited to
package is very hard to beat.' It coin the term 'fuzzy states' until reproduction byoffset, slightly
obviously isn't-Amstrad has 1965. reduced, as thetype is rather
justdone it, in a very shorttime. However,thewholefield heavier in weightthan most
Customer I urge Amstrad,therefore, to
seriouslyconsiderthe
stems from decision analysis
theory originally developi ng
daisywheels produce. Change
from onetypefaceto another is
proposals I have made, and to fromthe statistical workof instantaneous; although only
relations quickly restore its existing Reverend Thomas Bayesin two are in the machine at any
As a recent purchaser of an customers' confidence. 1760,one of thefounding onetime, a wide choice is
Amstrad CPC664, I was Kit Spackman, Lydney, fathers of probability theo ry available and they arequickly
appalled to read in the Gloucestershire with the concept of assessing changed by hand.
September issue of PCWofthe 'degrees of belief'. The speed is upto 60cpi- in
imminent launch of the There'sa lot of users annoyed One of myfavourite almostcomplete silence.
CPC6128 at a price which is with Amstrad and we think illustrationsof many -valued or G Peter Winnington,Vaud,
considerably lowerthan thatof they deserve some support, 'fuzzy' logic isthe physical Switzerland
the equivalent 664 system. butthe 'injury' needs to be put thought experiment, in which a
I bought my green -screen into perspective. cat is sealed in a black boxfor
664 in Maythisyearatthefull Obviously, any one hour. lnsidethis black box,
retailprice of £339.1have manufacturer is going to tryto thecat iswired upto a device
which will electrocute it if a
Portable
absolutely no complaints produce better machines at
aboutthe machine, indeed this better prices- it's unlikelyto blockof radioactive material
letter is being written with its stay in business unless it does. decays.The material in problems
aid. However,to learn thata Equally obviously, upgrading question has a half-life of one As an owner oftheApricot
vastlysuperior machine isto previous machines won't help hour (that is, a probability of Portable,which in many
be produced very soon after itstay in business in purely decayof 0.5 in one hour).Atthe respects I find to bean
the 664 at some £40 less is,to financial terms. end ofthe hour, what isthe impressive machine, I feel it is
saythe least, galling. I would Having said thatthough, the truth value of the statement well worthwhile sounding a
have expected such marketing brief gap in terms of time 'The cat is alive'? It must be 0.5! warning to prospective
ploysfrom certain other micro between the 664 and the 6128 All this goesto showthat purchasers regarding certain
man ufactu rers in thiscountry, -and the biggergap in terms even PCW(and Martin Banks) shortcomings in the package
who have already shown of price and performa nce- can be a bitfuzzyattimes, as as it issold. This is particularly
themselvesfully capable of isn'tmuch of a wayto can cats. relevantto prospective
such machinations in the past, encourage presentand Surgeon Lieutenant purchaserswhose initial
butt hadthoughtthatAmstrad potential purchasers. Commander Howard Oakley, knowledge of computers in
was above all that. We're keen to see what can Royal Navy, Isle of Wight general,the MS-DOS
I suspectthat lam notthe be done to geta better deal for operating system, or of the
only person in this position, 664 users, but first we need software packages supplied, is
and Amstrad should take some some amm unition. Write to us Register here notthatstrong. In particular, I
positive stepsto restore the and Amstrad if you agree with Would Tatung Einstein owners would defy any new user
goodwill of its existing this letter. be interested in setting up an withoutcomputing experience
customer base. The very least informal owners' register? The to manageto do anyserious
step should be an offerto objectwould be exchange of work using the abysmal
replacethe main 664 unit, information and newswith a instruction booklets supplied.
manuals,and so on,with the Fuzzy logic viewto getting the mostoutof Some examples are as
6128 unit ata fairly nominal Martin Banks (Banks' thiswell-designed hardware. follows. Firstly, let'stakethe
price, say£25. Bearing in mind Statement, PCW, September) If so, could they contact me? absolutelyvital disk and file
the price structure, perhaps a falls into the common trap of My daytime phone number is copying system. Whilethe disk
direct swapwould befairer, believing that fuzzy logic isa (0477)71321, orwrite with SAE copy utility isworkable,
and the best possible step recent innovation. to the address below. although tedious,one seldom
would be a directswapwith a In fact, under its original Paul Burgess, 24 Meredale wishesto copy all thefiles on a
repaymentofthe £40... but I name of 'quantum logic', non - Road, Liverpool L18 5EX diskto a back-up. However,the
don't reallyexpectAmstrad to Aristotelian logicwhich file copy utility as described in
bethat magnanimous. permits partial truths has been the instruction booklet notonly
(Owners ofthe colourversion, around sincethe pioneering
workofVasil'ev, a professor of
Roman to italic does notwork at all, butgives
replace £40 with £50.) you an error message tothe
If such offers are not made, I logic atthe University of Kazan, effectthat you cannot copy a
am sure many 664 ownerswill who published papers onthis and back fileto itself, and aborts. The
wantto changetothe 6128, but from 1910 onwards. Thefirst When JH Atki nson enquired in instruction booklet also states
with the 6128 price as stated in formal propositional calculus ComputerAnswers,PCWJuly, thatyou can usewildcard
PCW, itwould appearthatthe was published by Lukasiewicz p218, if there was a daisywheel characters in thefile copy
664 will become unsaleable in 1920, using three values (0, quality printerthatwould command-you can't!The
without a substantial drop in 1/2, 1)and then generalised by changefrom roman to italic best a nd fastest way to copy a
price, and thiswould applyto Zawirski in 1931. and backwithoutthe need to filefrom one diskto another is
the 464 aswell. As second- The modern concepts as changethe daisywheel by of courseto usethe RAM disk
hand trading will be affected, used in Al were reallyfully hand,Simon Goodwin did not utility supplied on theActivity
126 PCW OCTOBER 1985
masterdisk (which does allow could have some use in computers. These don't Amstrad CPC464timing
wildcards), butthe RAM disk initiating WordStar or include any I have atthe program
program does not workas SuperWriter commands, but I moment, but it does make one 10 DIM X(20),Y(20),A(20,20),
installed on theActivity disk - thinkthe serious userwould cautious about buying new B(20,20)
through lackof memory, so I find it easier, and probably software. 20 K= 5:Y(15)=7: B(5,10)=3
am informed- nor arethere more reliable,to usethe Overall,theACTApricot 30T=TIME
any instructions asto howto keyboard. I would appreciate Portable is quite an impressive 40 FOR1= 1 TO 1000
implement, or indeed use,the being abletoloadthe little machine, particularly at 50 REM
RAM disk in the instruction programs and find outfor its current price. The keyboard 60 NEXT 1
booklet at all. RAM diskdoesn't myself, ratherthan relying for certainlycould be a lot better, 70 TT=TIME
even appear in the index. myviews on an instruction but one does get used to it, and 80 PRINTROUNDUTT-T)/
Let's move on tothe bookletthat has otherwise the instruction booklet is not 300,1);"SECS"
supplied software. A second proved remarkably only poor but downright 90 CALL &BB18:EDIT50
disk purportsto includethe uninformative. misleading -as has been Speed Tests
programs Sketch, Diary and I also havethe software some of ACT's advertising of 1 1.4
the Voice recognition training programs SuperPlanner, the Portable and Fl range. The Assignment
program. I say'purportsto SuperWriter, and SuperCalc. voice recognition seems likes 2 0.7
include' as none of these The first of these I have so far bitof medio hype put in to gain 3 0.6
programswill load on my found almost unusablefrom more press coverage when the 4 1.4
software disk, nor on a copy the instructions in theACT machinewas launched, but 5 1.3
replacement supplied by my software pack. Matters are not might proveto befun to use if I 6 1.4
dealer. They put upthe helped at all bythefunction could load the system! The 7 2.1
message 'WaitwhileACT keys not doing whatthe display certainly has its 8 3.4
Sketch (or Diary orVtrain) is instructionssaythey will do. I drawbacks, but might proveto 9 2.0
loading',then the message have no real complaintsabout be easier on the eye than the 10 2.1
'invalid directory', and abort. SuperWriter,otherthan that I standard green screen. Ave 1.7
However, even should the am more usedtoWordStar, It would be good if the Elementary mathematical
programs load, I really can't nor of SuperCalcwhich in my machine could usetheApricot operations
seethatthey can be of any mind is one of the best low-cost monochrome screen also, 11 1.2
serious use. For Diaryto be of spreadsheet programs. which I am informed it is not 12 1.2
useyou need the disk in the lam also a littleworried configu redto do. 13 1.3
machine virtually the whole aboutthe BIOS on my If a prospective purchaser is 14 2.6
time, otherwise bythetime machine, which appearsto be awareof some ofthe Ave 1.6
you have loaded it, any a rather out-of-dateversion 1.2 drawbacks and problems as Mathematicalfunctions
enquirer after an appointment despite my machine being outlined here,the Apricot 15 25.9
with you would have long purchased in July. I read in Portable is still a very powerful 16 2.8
since rung off! Sketch has no another magzinethat BIOS and attractively priced 17 1.1
print or screendumpfacility, so versions priorto 2.5 give error machinewith a good software 18 13.1
is onlyof usefordrawing pretty messageswith some software library available, and makes an 19 14.1
pictures on the screen. I programsthatare supposed to excellent home/business 20 15.0
supposethe voice recognition run on the F1 and Portable ACT machine. 21 14.7
Lawrence Williams, Oxted, 22 30.4
Surrey 23 10.2
Ave 13
BLUDNERS String operations
24 0.7
25 1.9
We unfortunately left out INK 3;" "... should be ... AT Amstrad speed 26 1.2
details of the graphics tpy+1,tpx; INK 3;"JKL"...
In the July issue of PCW, you 27 1.3
characters in the listing of In the Program of the
featured an article ('Fast 28 1.6
Knighthawk for the Spectrum Month, BBC Turtlegraphic,
in August's Program File. The some characters were printed timing')containing various 29 0.8
speed and accuracy Ave 1.3
graphics and corresponding incorrectly. The character a
Miscellaneous
letters are given in Fig 1; the should be (&, é should be {, Benchmarksfor nine micros. I
have carried outthetestson 30 127(!)
details of where they should should be } . These changes
0.4
appear are as follows. should be made in lines 140, the Amstrad CPC464 and 31
Line 130: should have " A" 1340 and 1720 of the main submitthe results. As I 32 -0.1(!)
and "A" instead of the spaces program, and lines 100 and suspected,the onlytwo micros (The GOTO must be
110 of the second program. to outpace the CPC464 were interpreted fasterthanthe
shown. REM)
Line 172: should have "A" In the same issue, in TJ's the 16 -bit machines. Thetwo
instead of the last printed Workshop, the circuit diagram comparable machines,the 33 1.5
for Einstein joysticks was BBC B and the Sharp MZ-700, 34 1.1
space.
were left behind as well. 35 1.6
Line 195: should have "A " printed incorrectly. The
joystick button is shown as Having said this,thevalue of 36 1.0
instead of the three spaces
the speed tests as a Benchmark 37 0.5
shown. connected to pin 3 and the +5
Lines 216 and 217: should volts pin 7 line. It should be is, of course, dubious. Ascan Ave 0.9
have "B" instead of all the connected to pin 3 and the 0 be seen from the results of the Overal average4.5
single spaces. volts pin 1 line. accuracy tests,the CPC464 Accuracytests
Line 266: a$=" " should be In September's Program compared unfavourably with 1 9.3E-10
"EC ", and b$=" " should be File, the Program of the the BBC B. 2 8.0E-7
"DFG". Month, BBC Graphics Utilities Where necessa ry, the 3 3.7E-6
Lines 272-275: should have Monitor, contains one error. CPC464's logarithmic 4 7.0E-10
"H" instead of " " at the end Those of you with Basic 1 keywords were substituted for 5 4.2E-9
should change line 3270 to those shown. Also, the second 6 1.6E-8
of each line.
Line 292:... BRIGHT 1;" "... read 3270 PROCoscli("DIR statement in line 20 of the 7 8.6E-8
should be ... BRIGHT 1;"I"... "+e$). speedtest program should be 8 0
Y(15)=7,andthefirst partof 9 1.8E-7
Line 293: ...AT tpy+1,tpx; 1.5E-7
the sixth expression ofthe 10
accuracy tests should be 11 1.8E-7
A- B- $ D- E- SIN(X)*SIN(X). Test 15 could 12 1.5E-7
1.1 P:4 I-1. J L only be conducted in the range 13 0
M 1to 88, astheexponentof a 14 1.1E-8
numbergreaterthan 88 gives 15 3.0E-8
Fig 1 an overflow error. 16 1.8E-7
MikeCarey, Rayleigh, Essex Maximum number 1.7E+38

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Dedication
Martin Banks anticipates the day when the market will see
an IBM-compatible, large -memory, small, dedicated computer.
Who will produce it? The Japanese, he thinks.
In 1980, I had the temerity to suggest to have come up with is to simply individual to have more than one
that the Japanese were about to take dedicate them to something else, calculator for different applications.
over the personal computer business. something arguably more useful. Technology certainly offers the capa-
To be fair to me, a number of other There are many advantages to the bility to produce such a machine at an
people in the industry felt the same dedicated machine, advantages that attractive price. It could also allow
way, and were wil ling to be quoted, but I apply both to the end user and the software producers to package their
was the one who put it in writing - my manufacturer. The end user has a products in such a way that reduces the
head on the block to be cut off. History machine that works, and works first chances of copying and pirating, be-
duly performed this humane function time, in the way that you might expect a cause everyone will find it easier to buy
as the Japanese never got their act ruler to work first time at providing the complete machine/program pack-
together when I said they would, which straight lines. As it is dedicated, there is age than mess about copying it. (The
was very spiteful. a minimum learning time. Keyboards program could, for example, be confi-
Historically,the Japanese have never can be configured with dedicated gured to work solely on one type of
let a good volume market like the legends for example, so that there is machine.)
personal computer slip pastthem, and I minimal chance of operator error. Most The type of machine I have in mind,
see no reason why they should now. specifically the program is there, ready and the reason I suggest that it will be
What is more, I am now wondering if to run as soon as it is turned on. the Japanese who do it, is that which I
they have found the way to achieve this This can be a real boon to the user, have previously outlined -the IBM PC
end. If they have, then it is a way which who just picks up the machine and uses compatible, 16 -bit, MS-DOS running
overcomes many of the problems now it in the same way as any other tool, MSX machine. Using 256k memory
facing manufacturers of small personal such as a pencil, ruler or calculator (the chips, of which 16 make up a 512k byte
computer systems, especially the best exam ple yet of a dedicated compu- memory space, it would be possible to
home -oriented machines. ter application). It will no longer be build, now, a PC -clone the size of a
The 'way' concerned is really quite necessary for the user to load and boot Sinclair Spectrum. It would have no
simple. It is a straightforward deriva- applications programs, risk ruining disks due to the operating system and
tion of what home computers have floppy disks, learn complex operational applications program both being
been (even though they have pre- routines, or risk erasing everything of mounted in read-only memory chips,
tended to be something else entirely), value through a silly keying error. Not and there would be a bubble memory
and was pointed out to me by an only that, and Digital Research please for data disk work. All of this would take
acquaintance who runs a minicompu- take note, concurrent operations could 20 chips and a small power supply.
ter company selling all those big, be easily achieved with any number of There would also be some complex
£50,000+ management systems. He different applications, simply by using circuits to handle I/O to and from a
pointed out that, despite all this expen- the dedicated systems required. (most important of all) standardised
sive and clever hardware the company Here, of course, is the big advantage communications system, where all
sold to others, its own payroll was done for the manufacturers. Rather than machines use exactly the same pro-
on 'a small Japanese thing. It cost us trying to sell the end user a single tocols and the same pin -out. With this, it
£400 and it's dedicated to doing system that does everything (and then would be easy to read and write to the
payrolls. It's terrific and saves us no end only poorly in many cases), they could bubble memory so that floppy disks
of time'. 'Can you do anything else with sell each operator several machines for would not be needed on the standard
it?' seemed a logical question. different tasks. This would boost their machine. The easy -to -use communica-
'No. I suppose we could find some prospects considerably and would tions link would connect the machines
way to reprogram it for a different job, make for machines that, in all probabil- into a network system of whatever type
but it would be cheaper to buy a ity, would be easier and simpler to the user cared to configure.
different one, dedicated to that job.' design and manufacture. As my ac- Will it happen this way? No-one
Bingo. There you have it in one. What quaintance suggested, the little box he knows, but the capability is there and it
has been wrong with the small compu- uses 'could probably be reprogram- is one way that the market could be
ter business, especially at the home med'. If it is cheaper to buy a different served with systems that actually meet
end, has been that the manufacturers system, however, why should he the user's need to have computers both
have tried to con both the punters and bother? It would seem to be what the cheap and productive. It would also suit
themselves into believing that the marketplace prefers. the manufacturers and software sup-
machines are 'general-purpose'. I sup- To some extent, the machines could pliers, who would achieve the volume
posethey are if you are clever enoug h to be considered in the same way as the sales they appear to need so badly. (It
have the time, money and dedication to pocket calculator, without in any way would also suit the City investors -a
invest in making them so. Otherwise, (demeaning them. There are many product type that they understand and
they are not. Instead, the smallest ones calculators on the market which are are not frightened of quite so easily.)
have been, to all intents and purposes, both powerful and dedicated to a If I'm right about this, we could see a
dedicated games -playing machines. particular area, such as engineering or dedicated Lotus 1-2-3 computer costing
The answer which the Japanese seem finance. It is not uncommon for an £395 in two years' time. END

130 PCW OCTOBER 1985

OCTOBER 1985 PCW 131
 BENCHTEST

Amstrad PCW 8256

Amstrad's period of prolific manufacturing continues with the PCW 8256,
a good -quality, great -value word processing system that includes a
printer in its £399 price tag. Is there sufficient support in the 'serious'
market to do it justice? Peter Bright conveys his impressions.

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Amstrad has always had a reputation market, the idea of including a printer in The edge connector exists primarily
for producing cheap, good -value con- the price of the unit is unusual, and at because Amstrad will be offering an
sumer electronics, ranging from music. this price level it is unheard of. RS232/Centronics parallel printer mod-
centres through TVs to videos. In the The main system unit houses the ule which will plug into the edge
last year or so it has also developed a monitor, the disk drive and all the connector and slot into a recess on the
good reputation with its 464, 664 and electronics, including the power supp- back panel of the main unit.
latterly 6128 home micros. ly. It looks very like a portable television, The final interface on the main
Now, with its new machine, it seems and I wouldn't be at all surprised if the system unit is a DIN socket on the side
to have taken its good -value image to casings started out as an Amstrad panel for the keyboard lead.
new heights -a word processor with portable TV. It also sits on what looks You get inside the PCW in the same
CP/M, a disk drive, 256k of RAM, a like a tilt/swivel stand except that the way that you would get inside a
monitor, Basic, Logo and a printer for review model didn't tilt or swivel. television - remove the screws and
£399. Most of the front of the main unit is take off the back panel. Most of the
The fact that Amstrad had the nerve taken up by the monitor screen. To its internal space is taken up by the
to call it the PCW (well, PCW 8256 right are spaces for either one or two monitor tube and high -voltage electro-
actually) only served to heighten my disk drives mounted vertically. The nics. The digital section consists of just
interest. usual configuration is for the machine one surprisingly small PCB. My initial
to be supplied with one disk drive in the reaction to this PCB was how small it is
Hardware top slot, with the bottom slot containing and how few components it uses. It has
The name PCW stands for Personal the PCW badge. been totally redesigned, and uses
Computer Word processor (hah!). It is The back of the machine is quite bare: significantly fewer components than
made up of three separate units - the all it houses are power -in, a special either the 464 or the 664.
main system box, a keyboard and a Amstrad printer interface, and an edge The main PCB contains a total of 17
printer. All three units will be supplied connector onto the main PCB. There is chips. Of these, eight are 256 kbit RAM
in one (large)cardboard box much like a also a 24 -volt power -out socket to drive chips and another five are TTL drivers
domestic TV. Even in the business the printer. for the printer interface; this leaves just
132 PCW OCTOBER 1985
 tions program, you can use the key on
the keyboard marked 'PTR'. When you
hit this key, a printer control menu is
displayed on the last line of the main
display. Using the '+' and '-' keys, you
can set and unset on/off line, top -of -
form, line -feed and form -feed, toggle
high-quality/draft print, toggle on or off
the paper -out detector and reset the
printer. These functions are very easy to
use when you remember that you have
to control the printer from the keyboard
rather than by pressing buttons on the
printer.
Overall, I was impressed with the
The PCW's separate keyboard is a change of style for Amstrad printer. It is slightly slowerthan modern
dot-matrix printers, but the quality can
four chips to do the serious processing. doing its job. be good and it's free.
These consist of a 4MHz Zilog Z80 Most printers contain a processor Unlike previous Amstrad machines,
processor, an 8041 printer controller and ROM to hold the character fonts, as there is no choice of display with the
chip, an NEC 7658 disk controller, and a well as control electronics fora Centro- PCW- a monochrome green screen is
large dedicated gate array. In addition nics printer interface. Amstrad buys in what you get. No colour is available.
there are sockets for another eight RAM the basic printer mechanism without The display is built into the main
chips, although Amstrad says that it has any control electronics at all; all printer system box; in fact, it isthe main system
no intention to fill them. control is done by the printer controller box. At 14 inches the display tube is
Although the Z80 processor can in the main system unit. This extends larger than average, but like other
usually only access 64k of RAM, the right down to telling the pins on the Amstrad systems it is based on televi-
PCW makes full use of its 256k by print head when to strike, which means sion technology. This means that the
bank -switching sections of RAM. This is that the only electronics necessary for display quality isn't up to pukka monitor
usually handled by the CP/M Plus the printer itself are a few TTL drivers to standards, but is still quite good. I had
operating system. interface it to the main unit. The printer no trouble using the screen on the
You may have noticed that the above interface is non-standard and achieved review machine, although a lack of
list doesn't include any ROM chips. This via a short length of ribbon cable. shielding on the pre -production unit did
is due to the PCW being without any The advantage is that it makes the cause some display surge. My main
ROM as such-everything is loaded off printer cheaper to produce. This eco- worry was that the tube had no
disk. In order to do this you obviously nomy even extends to ditching the anti -glare coating, and consequently
need some kind of disk bootstrap Online, Line -feed and Form -feed but- could be hard to read when facing a
loader, so Amstrad has used the 256 tons that are usually found on printers; window.
bytes of mask ROM available on the these functions are accessed under As it uses a large 14in tube, Amstrad
8041 printer controller to squeeze software control from the main unit. can fit more characters on the screen
one in. In use, the printer is very good than usual. Most systems have 80 -
The gate array is interesting in that it considering it's free. It can handle both column by 25 -line displays; the PCW
is mounted above a hole cut in the friction -fed and sheet -continuous sta- has 90 columns by 32 lines, which gives
middle of the PCB, with its legs tionery. The tractor feed unit clips onto 50 per cent more characters onscreen
spanning the gaps on all sides between the top of the printer and is driven via a than usual. This extra size can be useful:
it and the main board. The result looks gear from the roller. A nice feature is in the word processor, for example, you
odd but is apparently easy to align for that if you are using single -sheet paper, can extend the number of words
manufacture. the printer will automatically roll the displayable onscreen.
The low component count coupled paper so that it is aligned at top -of -form Some CP/M programs can also be
with the fact that the PCW is manufac- as soon as you pull out the bail bar; this configured to take advantage of this
tured in the Far East and then shipped saves you having to rotate the roller by extra room - I saw a version of
over, means that the system is probably hand. Our office typewriter does this, SuperCalc 2 which managed to display
cheaper to produce than the 464. but I've never seen a computer printer more cells onscreen than it normally
The system has been designed to do it. did. For CP/M programs which can't use
work with either one or two disk drives. Two type qualities are offered: draft the larger display, Amstrad supplies an
Initially, Amstrad will be shipping each which is fast; and high -quality which is 80 x 25 screen driver. The system is also
unit with one 3in 170k disk drive; an slow but very good in terms of type supplied with Digital Research GSX
extra drive can be fitted at a later date if quality. This obviously isn't up to graphics interface software, and can
required. Amstrad also plans to sell a daisywheel standards, but I wouldn't be display graphics at a resolution of 720 x
1Mbyte (720k formatted) double -sided, ashamed of it. The printer can also 256 pixels.
double -tracking 3in diskas an extra to fit reproduce graphics from the screen, The display is OK rather than wonder-
into the spare disk space. This should be either by using the built-in gaphics ful. It isn't as good as a standard
available later this year. dump routine or by using the GSX monitor, but it's better than a 464
As I have stated, it is unusual for a drivers supplied. The pin patterns for monochrome display. The larger size
computer manufacturer to include a the letters are all stored on disk, so can be a real benefit for spreadsheets or
printer in the price of the machine. theoretically you should be able to word processing.
Amstrad hopes that one of the PCW's create your own typestyles. However, The PCW is a departure for Amstrad
main selling points will be its word unfortunately they are stored in a in that its previous machines have
processing capabilities, so it follows compacted form and aren't too easy to included the keyboard in the main
that a printer is a good idea. get at. casing; the PCW comes completewith a
The printer casing matches the As previously mentioned, all printer separate keyboard connected to the
appearance of the rest of the system, control is achieved via software from main system by a long length of cable
and looks like a fairly standard 80 - the main unit. If you are in the word and a DIN plug.
column dot-matrix unit. In fact, true to processor, you can control all the The keyboard unit has its own
Amstrad's style, the printer is as basic printer's functions from there; but if processor which scans the keys and
as it can be while remaining capable of you are in CP/M or a generic applica- sends the codes down the serial link.
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 133
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as I became familiar with the unit.
System software
The PCW's main operating system is
Digital Research's CP/M Plus (or ver-
sion 3, as it is sometimes called). The
only exception to this is the word
processor, which doesn't use CP/M but
goes straighttothe hardware. The word
processor does, however, use CP/M file
structures, so word processor data is
available under CP/M and vice versa.
CP/M Plus was specially developed
for the new breed of Z80 8 -bit machines
which use more than 64k of RAM, and is
much nicer and more powerful than its
The 'free' printer: control is via software from the main unit more popular brother, CP/M 2.2. The
main advantage of CP/M Plus is that it
If the keyboard were a house, it would LED built in so thatyou can tell when it's can handle bank -switching of RAM. The
be condemned for overcrowding: a engaged. Secondly, unlike most com- Z80 processor can only directly access
total of 82 keys are fitted into the very puter keyboards, the PCW's is disen- 64k of RAM; to handle more memory
small unit. It's easier than usual to hit gaged either by hitting it again or by than this, you have to switch different
the wrong key until you become accus- hitting one of the SHIFT keys-just like areas of RAM into the Z80's line of
tomed to the layout. a typewriter. vision.
Many of the keys are dedicated to the Some compensation for the confus- Having said that, CP/M Plus on the
word processor. This gives the whole ing legends under CP/M is that the Amstrad doesn't directly access all the
unit a strange appearance by computer keyboard is 'soft', so you can set a key to available RAM. Of the total 256k, 116k is
standards, but it makes the keyboard a return any character code. Under CP/M, set aside as a RAM disk; as far as the
lot easier to use. The main qwerty you can set up different keyboard operating system is concerned, this is
typing section takes up most of the definitions and store them on disk,then just a very fast disk designated drive M.
space to the left and centre ofthe unit; to call them in with a suitable applications Of the remaining RAM, 61k is given to
its right are fourfunction keys marked fl program. This is useful, as it makes it the transient program area (TPA), and
to f4, and shifted to give f5 to f8. To the easier to set up special keys such as the rest is occupied by the basic input
right of the function keys are the cursor control and editing so that they output system (BIOS), the basic disk
cursor/numeric/word processing keys. work with normal CP/M programs. operating system (BDOS), the console
Many of these keys have more than one It is also useful because the system command processor (CCP) and the disk
function, but none has morethan two- has an extended international charac- hash tables.
the keyboard is so cramped, there is no ter set which gives over 200 characters; Having the BIOS, BDOS and CCP in
space between the different functional these are usually accessed via the RAM is useful in that it allows you to
areas. EXTRA key. Some of these charac- load the system disk just once -
Due to many of the keyboard legends ters are quite useful: for example, subsequent disks don't require these
being customised for the word proces- the symbol to raise a number to a routines to be present as they are in
sor, they may not make immediate power isn't on the normal keyboard RAM.
sense under CP/M. Two examples of legends - it is accessed by hitting The 61k TPA is the area of RAM which
this are the control key which is marked EXTRA -U. Some users might want to is actually available to an applications
ALT, and the escape key which is redefine key sequences such as this. program. At first sight it might seem
marked EXIT and which has been The overall feel of the keyboard is that 61k out of 256k isn't that good, but
moved from its traditional top -left very light, although the key action felt in fact it is more than enough to run all
position to the right of the space bar. good enough. The main problem, as I the popular CP/M applications prog-
One feature which I did like was the have said, is that the keys are so close rams.
SHIFT LOCK key. Firstly, this key has an together you can easily hit the wrong Installing PCW CP/M applications

Keyboard is very crowded with no gaps between the different

functional groups.

Front main unit - large screen, on/off button, one vertically

mounted 3 inch drive. Space for another below taken by PCW

badge.

PCB totally different from 464,664 and 61.28 No ROM just 256 byte

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Fig 1 Example of printout
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 135
 name suggests, it has been written by
Locomotive Software which writes or
converts all Amstrad's system soft-
ware. LocoScript was written by
Locomotive specially for the PCW, but it
does intend to convert it for other
systems soon.
Although the version which I saw was
pre -production and had a few features
missing, it is obvious that LocoScript is
a very powerful word processor. One of
its advantages over a generic word
processor such as WordStar is that as it
was written for the PCW, it can take full
advantage of the hardware, different
printer pitch settings, and so on.
The general user interface of the
word processor is to use pull -down
menus in conjunction with the func-
tion keys and the dedicated word
processor keys on the keyboard. Initial-
ly I found the system intimidating,
The disk drives: a 720k disk drive is available as an optional extra mainly because the display is cluttered
and some features are hidden a few
programs has been made as simple a levels down. When I became accus-
to be copying from drive A to drive B.
possible. One of the usual problems is The system automatically tells you tomed to the way it works, I had few
working out the screen control codes in when to swap disks. The name of the problems.
order that the program will work with current virtual drive is displayed in the When you first boot up the word
your display. The PCW gets around this bottom -right corner of the screen. processor, you are greeted by the file
by putting a DEC VT52 terminal emula- CP/M Plus has so many improve- control menu. This is the most confus-
tor between the applications program ments over CP/M 2.2 it's difficult to list ing and cluttered display on the system
and the screen hardware, so as far as them. The most useful are that you no as it has to display a great deal of
the application is concerned, it is talking longer have the dreaded CP/M 2.2 information.
to a DEC terminal. BDOS ERROR ON A type error - you LocoScript stores its document files
The same thing has been done with now get an MS-DOS style Retry, Abort in one of eight 'groups'. Each group has
the printer. Instead of running direct to or Ignore? error; and there is usually no a template associated with it, and each
the hardware, the printer is shielded by need to hit CONTROL C to tell CP/M that time you open a new document, data
an Epson emulator, so you set the you've changed a disk in a drive. from the group template is copied into
application to think that it is talking to an These both make CP/M Plus much the new document. This can be useful if
Epson matrix printer. This is all very easier to use. you generate a lot of standard letters:
neat. Other enhancements for CP/M Plus you could have one group called
In use, the PCW implementation of include date -stamping of files, pass- 'Letters' which puts your address at the
CP/M Plus is very nice indeed.The only word protection, and an enhanced DIR top, another called 'Memos' which sets
slight low point is when you first boot command which tells you everything up the memo format, and so on. When
up. I mentioned in the Hardware section except how many kbytes you have free you delete a file, it is moved to a holding
that the bootstrap loader on this on disk. It also has a full online help area and is only physically deleted if the
machine has been squeezed into 256 facility which explains how the com- system needs the disk space, so you
bytes of mask ROM in the printer mands work. I loaded this onto the RAM stand a good chance of being able to
controller. As it is such a tight squeeze, disk for fast access when I was stuck. recover accidentally deleted files.
there is no room for any fancy boot -up All LocoScript files can be accessed
screens or any error messages. Applications software from CP/M, with the different groups
When the machine is first switched If you're going to sell a machine as a stored as CP/M 'Users'; the only trouble
on, the screen lights up. When you word processor, it's obviously a good is that LocoScript files contain control
insert a system disk, the machine idea to include word processing soft- information as well as text. When it is
displays horizontal lines down the ware. In the case of the PCW, this released, it will be able to read and write
screen while the system is booting. If software is known as LocoScript. As the ASCII files as well as Amstrad 464, 664
there is an error, the screen will flash or and 6128 datafiles.
the system will bleep. You can force a When you are editing a document
re -try by hitting the space bar. Benchmarks there is approximately30k of main RAM
When CP/M is booted, it looks around BM 1 1.1 free, but LocoScript is virtual in the
the hardware to see what is there and BM 2 3.8 sense that it reads and writes to and
what isn't, and adjusts itself according- BM 3 9.9 from the RAM disk. Assuming that your
ly. If you have the option serial/parallel BM4 10.1 RAM disk is empty, the maximum
card plugged into the back, CP/M will BM 5 11.0 document size is about 130k.
set itself up so that you can access it BM 6 19.1 The editing screen is usually blank
using the usual device names. The BM 7 30.3 except for the command bar and the
same is true if you have a second disk BM 8 33.9 ruler at the top of the screen. The screen
drive fitted. Average 14.9 can 'pan' like WordStar, so you can
Disk drives are nicely handled on the have documents wider than the width
PCW. Even if you only have one disk All timings in seconds. Fora full listing of the screen. Up to 99 ruler settings
drive, CP/M is set up so that two virtual of the Benchmark programs, see page are possible in one document,
drives, A and B, are mapped onto the 185, January issue. and the system always remembers
single physical drive so you can pretend the layout information associated
136 PCW OCTOBER 1985
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 with the document. ble that a short word to Locomotive, both of these are on
There isn't enough space could have been fitted into their way.
here to list all the features of the previous line. Two other pieces of software are
the word processor, which is worthy When you are editing text you have bundled with the machine. One is the
of a review in its own right, but here are already written, LocoScript will only customary (for Amstrad) DR Logo, the
some of the highlights. display it in the correctformat when you other is Locomotive's Mallard Basic.
As you would expect, LocoScript can either hit the RELAY key or move Given Locomotive Software's fascina-
take full advantage of the printer, with somewhere else and edit more text. tion with the railways, I assume Mallard
its different character and line pitches, This relay feature is somewhat akin to Basic is named after the old steam
line spacing, and so on. These don't CONTROL -B in WordStar, although in trains rather than a duck. Either way, it
show on the screen, which always LocoScript text doesn't disappear off has been around for a long time on
assumes single-spaced text, but the the side of the screen as it sometimes business machines and is well -re-
page markers on the screen do adjust so does in WordStar. spected. It is totally compatible with
you obtain correct pagination. Headers and footers are of course Microsoft Basic -80, so Microsoft Basic
Unlike many word processors, in- included, plus the ability to vary the programs should run with no prob-
cluding WordStar, LogoScript avoids settings for odd and even page num- lems.
short lines, and you can set it to prevent bers. Printing can be done in back- The original ROM -based Basic in the
this by splitting paragraphs over page ground, so you can print one document Amstrad 464 is a subset of Mallard Basic
breaks. You can also associate a speci- while editing another. There is a slight with operating system extensions. The
fic piece of text with something else in speed overhead for this, but nothing Benchmarks show that the speed is
order that you don't lose a heading the too excessive. respectable for an 8 -bit machine.
other side of a page break, for example. Overall, the word processor provided One nice feature of Mallard Basic on
Unlike some word processors, with the PCW is a very powerful piece of the Amstrad is that it incorporates
LocoScript wordwraps both up and software, even though it does take sophisticated file -handling routines,
down: most word processors can't some time to get used to regardless of including a B -Tree algorithm.
move a word back once they have its pull -down menus and customised With regard to generic CP/M 8 -bit
wrapped it into the line below. This keyboard. The only things it doesn't software, the PCW should run almost
feature is especially necessary for have at the moment are a merge print anything. saw WordStar, dBasell,
I

proportional spacing, where it is possi- facility or a spelling checker. According SuperCalc 2, Multiplan Cardbox, Fri-
day! and Quest accounts running quite
Technical specifications happily on the machine.
Processor: Zilog Z804MHz Documentation
RAM: 256k I was supplied with photocopies of the
ROM: Noneto speak of proof of the manuals, which seemed
Keyboard: 82 -key semi -dedicated word processor layout quite comprehensive. Apparently, the
Display: 90 x 32 green screen final versions will be supplied in two
Massstorage: 170k 3in disk builtin spiral -bound books. Most of the docu-
I/O: Amstrad printer interface; mentation has been produced by
optional RS232/Centronics card Locomotive Software, which makes
Operating system: CP/M Plus sense - the company wrote the word
Bundled software: LocoScript, DR Logo, Mallard Basic processor and the Basic, and it also
implemented CP/M Plus.

In perspective Prices
The PCW with a screen, 256k of RAM,
At the price level the PCW is operating at, it's difficult to find any competition. one 170k disk drive, a keyboard and the
As far as word processors are concerned, you could include the Sony Model printer will sell for £399 plus VAT. This
10, or a Brother typewriterwith a disk drive,for example. The Sony is an order represents amazing value.
of magnitude more expensive than the PCW, and the Brother doesn't have
anywhere near the features. Conclusion
If you think of it as a CP/M machine, its obvious competitors are the How can you criticise a machine that
Osborne machines, the Wren (if you can get one) and the Apricot F1 e. All gives you 256k of RAM, a disk drive, a
these are vastly more expensive and don't include a printer. Even if you push monitor, a printer, a very good word
it and consider the Sinclair QL with a monitor and printer, there is still no processor, Basic and Logo for £399 plus
contest. VAT, even if it does use our name? END
The main competition comes from Amstrad's own 6128. This offers the
same CP/M, plus games compatibility and colourfor roughly the same price,
but you do lose the word processor, 128k of RAM and the free printer into the
bargain.
It is often said that whereas Sinclair is driven by technology, Amstrad is
driven by the market. Nowhere is this better illustrated than this machine
compared to the QL. The new technology of the QL is totally outshone by the
price/performance value of a good -old Z80, with production costs taken to
the bone.
This brings us to pricing. At £399 including the printer, there is no doubt
that this machine is spectacular value for money if you consider it to be a
small business or serious home machine. However, don't forget that you
can't play Amstrad games on this machine - there is no compatibility with
previous Amstrads other than CP/M. Amstrad is betting that there is enough
volume out there in the 'serious' market to support the low price, although
I'm still not sure how large this market is.

138 PCW OCTOBER 1985

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Will the Philips :Yes successfully challenge IBM for the low-cost PC
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140 PCW OCTOBER 1985

A large collection of input and output sockets dominates the back of the machine

Of all the European computer suppliers, lot of spaghetti -like wiring hanging off addressing up to 1Mbyte of memory
Philips has been among the most the back of the system unit, and and runs at a fast 8M Hz. It does not have
disappointing in the PC market. An non-standard features such as a Ger- the sophisticated memory -handling
electronics giant, Philips has had great man keyboard. Enough was as it should facilities of the 80286 which allow that
success in the home and office electro- be in a final version, however, to be able chip to address over 3Mbytes of main
nics market, but none of its personal to test it properly. memory.
computers have inspired enthusiasm. The system unit is a grey box with a The 80186 is quite a sophisticated
The situation could change with the large opening at the front to allow the piece of technology to have in a
launch of the strangely named :Yes (the keyboard to be slotted away when not computer costing £1000. Although it is
colon is obligatory). needed, so preserving desk space. not as sophisticated as the 32 -bit
Secrecy has surrounded the micro for There are two 31/2in microfloppy disk addressing Motorola 68000 found in
some time. All that has been known is drives, which would fast become an the new Atari and Commodore
that it is 16 -bit and runs Digital Re- industry standard in small business machines, it has the great advantage of
search's DOS -Plus operating system. systems if manufacturers could only inherent compatibility with the IBM PC.
The reason for the secrecy lies in the agree on how much data they want to There will be two distinct versions of
ambitious plans Philips has for this put on the disks - in this case it is 750k the final :Yes system. The Entry Models
computer. unformatted, 720k formatted. The will have 128k of RAM, using the rather
The :Yes originates from Philips in drives are from TEAC and are compati- dated 64k RAM chips; the other version
Austria. It is aimed primarily at the ble, apparently, with the drives on the will have a standard 256k RAM and use
education and business markets but Apricot, but this doesn't mean that 256k RAM chips. Both systems have
with scope for home use. With prices applications for the Apricot will run on provision for memory expansion
starting at around £1000, it should the Philips: Yes as the systems are very onboard -the former to 256k, the latter
appeal to those who would like a different. to 640k.
serious business computer at home but On the front of the machine is a A panel on the side of the machine
who find the likes of the Macintosh or feature believed I would never see
I reveals a large gap for expansion
IBM PC too expensive. The :Yes in- again on a business system -a socket boards to be plugged in horizontally. At
corporates an operating system that fora 128k ROM cartridge. Philips hopes the back there is a large collection of
fully supports networking, and is com- to make some applications software input and output sockets. Rather than
patible with MS-DOS/PC-DOS version available on ROM cartridges. In the past explain the options on the pre -produc-
2.11, which should make the machine software suppliers have been reluctant tion model, I'll describe the expansion
suitable as a low-cost terminal/work- to take up this option on systems due to options and ports that will be available
station for large organisations which the high cost of ROM cartridges. on the final machine.
wantto network IBM -type PCstogether. Perhaps it is time for another look, but I The :Yes Entry Model will have 128k
Philips plans a big advertising cam- can't help thinking that RAM disks are RAM and one disk drive. There will be
paign, and is spending a lotof money on just as good and cheaper. RAM disks two expansion slots for extra boards
documentation and packaging in the are also a feature ofthe :Yes's operating and the ROM cartridge slot which is
hope of selling the machine in very system, proving, perhaps that you standard on all models. The ports
large volumes. It will come up directly cannot have too much of a good thing. offered on this model are: an external
against low-cost systems like the Apri- The processor is the little -used Intel floppy interface (suitable for attaching
cot Fl, Sanyo MBC555 and, to some 80186 (smaller brother of the 80286 an IBM PC format disk drive); a parallel
extent, the forthcoming Atari STs and which is used in the IBM PC/AT and printer interface; a serial RS232 inter-
Commodore's Amiga. clones). It has 16 -bit addressing and, face; and a composite video connec-
unlike the 8088, a 16 -bit data bus. It tion. A TV interface will be available as
Hardware potentially has a better performance an option.
A pre -production model was provided than the 8088 as it incorporates the CPU The Entry Model version 2 will be the
for the Benchtest (in fact it was the only and the supporting chips used in the same but with the provision of a second
pre -production model) so there was a IBM PC on one chip. It is capable of disk drive.
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 141
 NW'
The :Yes PC will have graphics are 640 x 250 and 80 x the system and is attached to it by a
256k RAM, two disk drives 25 characters, black and white. coiled wire that isfairlyeasyto plug in. It
and the same ports, but with the There is a 512 character set, 256 of follows the IBM -style layout with a few
addition of a hard disk interface for one which are compatible with the IBM changes. The qwerty keypad has good-
ortwo external drives of upto 30M bytes character set and another 256 Philips sized SHIFT keys, a RETURN key, two
capacity each, and a mouse interface. It characters that can be user -definable. CONTROL keys and two ALT keys.
will only have one expansion slot as the The test model had a Zenith screen These are all improvements on the IBM
hard disk interface will take up the other (courtesy of one of the UK distributors keyboard, although there is still nothing
one. It will also have a battery -backed like the feel of a proper keyboard. That
clock. Finally, two extra ports for an should not upset non -typists, though.
RGB monitor and an IBM -type mono- `If IBM PC compatibility is There is a numeric keypad to the right
chrome screen will be included. proven in the final and separate cursor keys below. The 10
The :Yes Top Model isthe same asthe function keys are arranged across the
PC, but has 640k RAM as standard. models, then it can be top of the keyboard, and two lights for
All the cables plug into sockets at the seriouslyconsidered as a CAPS LOCK and NUM(ber) LOCK are on
back which are arranged in a fairly the top right-hand side.
conventional way. On the review model
home system for users of The keyboard is functional and a
there was a lot of empty space at the IBM PCs at work. It has good size, but from its description I

back letting in air and dirt, which more powerand think I would look at the second
presumably will be changed on the keyboard if I was using this system for
production versions. sophistication in the serious business use.
A screen will not be a standard operating system . . In use, the system is comfortable to
feature of the :Yes. Although Philips will work with. The box is small enough not
make two monitors available, users are to dominate the average desk. The disk
free to pick their own as long as it's for Philips, Systemstate) and the image drives are very noisy, but to be fair
compatible. There is 64k of ROM on the was poor, but this was probably dueto a Philips did point this out before the
system, which has a self -test routine fault in this model. I tested the system review was started and said that
and video -handling software. The sys- with Digital Research's GEM and the production models will be a lot quieter. I
tem has a wide choice of video resolu- graphics resolution was very good hope Philips also does something to
tions. With a composite video or RGB when displaying that package. speed up the drives which were very
monitorthe options are: 640 x 250,80 x Two keyboards will be available for slow. Speed of processing is very quick,
25 characters and four colours (RGB); the system, and the user can choose but graphics systems like GEM still
320 x 250, 40 x 25 characters and 16 either at no extra cost. The test model manage to appreciably slow it down. I
colours (RGB); and 160 x 250 and 16 had a keyboard with flat, calculator -like cannot understand why this should be
colours. The last two options can also keys. A keyboard with properly sculp- the case with such a hefty processor,
be used with a TV screen. With an IBM- ted keys will be the other option. but GEM seemed to run almost as
compatible monochrome screen, the The keyboard tucks under the front of slowly as it does on the IBM PC.

The review model's German keyboard had flat, calculator -like keys and tucked under the front of the system

142 PCW OCTOBER 1985

System software
It is not certain yet which items of
system software will be available on the
final version. However, the main oper-
ating system will be DOS -Plus. It
incorporates most of the best features
of Concurrent -DOS (which was Concur-
rent CP/M-86) with a greater level of
compatibility with IBM's PC -DOS 2.11.
The best features of Concurrent -DOS
are the multi -tasking (up to four tasks
can run at once) and windowing, but
there are a lot of other features on
DOS -Plus that make it one of the most
powerful single -user operating sys-
tems I have ever seen.
When the :Yes is powered up (there is
an on/off switch at the back of the
system unit that is easy to get to)
DOS -Plus can then be loaded from disk.
Philips is thinking about making it
available on a ROM cartridge-accord-
ing to Digital Research it will comfort-
ably fit into 64k of ROM, making it fairly
compact for the features offered.
Two options are available for using
DOS -Plus. The user can either go for the
standard way of working via command
words and the A> prompt, or use a
feature called File Manager. If this
option has been pre -configured, on
booting DOS -Plus a window appears
with four sections on it. On the top -left is
the format of the disk in use and the free
space available. In a large window is the
directory of files, and to the right is the
command panel which gives the avail-
able DOS -Plus options.
The Zenith screen gave a poor image.
By scrolling through the commands
with the cursor keys, you choose an DOS -Plus is also compatible with all very surprised.
option and then follow the instructions. 16 -bit implementations of CP/M on Intel Other features of DOS -Plus include
This interactive system will be user- processors. It has the capability to full network support. It will work with
friendly for beginners but it is nice to multi -task, or at least run one applica- both DR Net and MS Net, as well as
have both options- if you are familiar tion in the foreground and three in the other networks. With DR Net, the links
with CP/M or MS-DOS, you will not have background (you can only see one to the network software are all included
to slow yourself down with windows application working on the screen at a in the basic implementation of DOS -
and menus. time, although others may be printing, Plus. It will support up to three virtual
There is provision of hierarchical recalculating, sorting, or whatever). drives in memory (if you have enough)
directories as on MS-DOS versions 2 PC/MS-DOS does not support this and each of these can be designated a
and 3. This is to make the system as feature, so only one specifically IBM - sub -directory in the filing system. The
compatible with MS-DOS and PC -DOS type application can run at a time. practical upshot of this is that, used on a
as possible. The 80186 is fully capable of support- network, the user may only need one
According to Digital Research, DOS - ing this type of concurrency and the disk drive (just for loading and storing
Plus should run all the applications results are impressive. This is a feature personal applications and files). Cen-
softwa re written for PC/MS-DOS, which that every modern, single -user operat- trally -held applications can be called
use normal operating system calls only. ing system should have as it saves so from the file server, or wherever they
That is the easy part. There is also an much time (especiallywhen printing). If are stored, and loaded into memory.
IBM -like BIOS (basic input output sys- it is not included on further imple- Disk -based applications therefore be-
tem) so that applications which bypass mentations of PC/MS-DOS, Iwill be come much quicker.
the operating system sometimes and Although some of the most powerful
address the BIOS directly (for example, Benchmarks features of DOS -Plus could not be
Lotus 1-2-3) should also run on the BM1
tested on the review machine, it looks
0.9
system. The only software that should
BM2 3.5
like being an extremely impressive
not run are applications that talk operating system.
BM3 7.4
directly to the hardware in the IBM PC Optional system software will in-
BM4 7.6
(Flight Simulator is the classic example
81V15 8.0
clude GEM desktop - the GEM
here). Graphics system is included in DOS -
BM6 17.0
Philips maintains that it is not too BM7 24.1
Plus.
worried about IBM compatibility but BM8 21.4 I found the operating system easy to
the promotional literature states some- Average 11.24 use and enjoyable- almost! Using the
thing different, with PC -compatibility command line system is familiar terri-
being pushed as a major point of the Alltimings in seconds. Fora full listing tory to CP/M or MS-DOS users, and the
DOS -Plus operating system. The :Yes of the Benchmark programs, seepage File Manager is a useful alternative to
also has a floppy interface for, presum- 185, January issue. basic housekeeping.
ably, an IBM format drive. Having the option of GEM is good
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 143
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type of system, but few soft- applications. that it is not too difficult to convert IBM
ware companies that I know of have yet Following these will come C, Fortran PC software to run on this system. We
implemented software to run in the and Cobol, Microsoft Word, Word will just have to wait and see.
GEM windowing environment, and Perfect, SuperCalcs 2 and 3, and dBase-
until that starts to happen, it still ranks II. dBaselll will be available in Novem- Documentation
as a nice idea. File Manager is perfectly ber, Lotus 1-2-3 and Framework will All the manuals were at the printers
adequate for the most unsophisticated follow early in 1986, and Philips is when I reviewed this machine, but two
user, however, and it does not slow currently talking to many other soft- photocopied manuals were provided.
down the machine. ware houses. One was an amazingly incomprehensi-
One of the main problems with ble Digital Research Guide to DOS -Plus
Applications software reviewing systems that are forthcom- (when is Digital Research going to
No applications software is included ing is that there is plenty of talk about achieve some consistency with user
with the :Yes lower models, but the PC applications software arriving, but documentation?). The second manual
and Top models will have Open Access often the plans are not matched by the was a Philips guide to software writers,
bundled with them. By the time the eventual output. In this case, things which was comprehensive enough.
system becomes available for sale might be a little different. Firstly, Philips The user documentation, says Philips,
(scheduled for October), according to appears very keen on the system and is going to be excellent-glossy paper,
Philips an impressive list of software wants to make it a big success, and the lots of illustrations, and the like.
will begin to be available in 31/2in company has the name and clout to
format. GW-Basic, DR Logo and Turbo - persuade software companies to pro- Prices
Pascal will bethe languages; WordStar, duce software. Secondly, the machine I was given two approximate prices for
Multiplan and the new Logistix package is semi -compatible with the IBM PC, so the system. The bottom -end machine
(one disk drive, 128k RAM, and so on
Technical specifications will be £995 including keyboard and
operating system, but not monitor. The
Processor: Intel 80186 running at 8MHz PC model will be around £1495 without
ROM: 64k monitor. Compared to the Commodore
RAM: 128k, 256k or 640k as standard and Atari machines this seems rather
Mass storage: Single or twin 720k (formatted) 3'/tin disk drives expensive, but comparisions can only
Keyboard: 99 keys flat or sculpted really be made if, and when, the three
Size: 16'/tins x 14ins x 41/2ins systems go on general sale.
I/O: One or two expansion slots, RS232, parallel printer,
floppy disk interface, composite video, or RGB and Conclusion
IBM-compatible, TV option. Hard disk and mouse This is not my ideal machine, but it is
interfaces standard on top models getting close to it. The idea of putting a
DOS: Digital Research DOS -Plus fairly heavyweight processor in a low-
cost box is appealing. Throw in a large
degree of IBM-PC compatibility and a
really powerful operating system and
In perspective you're getting close to what low-cost
The :Yes is very different to the Atari and Commodore machines reviewed in business PCs should be like.
recent issues, and each is aimed at subtley different markets, but together However, question marks remain. I

they represent an interesting and important challenge to the present IBM was not able to see the final documenta-
domination of the PC marketplace . tion, some of the most interesting parts
Atari and Commodore have produced systems that will appeal to the of the operating system in action.
home, educational and business markets, although they are fighting shy of But, if Philips gets the bugs ironed out
directly facing IBM head-on. However, if all three computers go on sale soon and produces top-quality documenta-
at the specified prices, it will be possible to buy computers with more than tion suitable for both first-time and
twice the speed and performance of the IBM PC at just over half the price. experienced users, it will have the
IBM has, unusually, gone on record saying that no PC Mark 2 will appear makings of a successful system. As a
this year. This is because it felt speculation about a new PC would affect the business system it has a lot going for it:
sales of the PC Mark 1. IBM is dragging its heels. Atari, Commodore and now it should be seriously considered as a
Philips are leaping into the resulting gap. All these micros look betterthan the low-cost option for a workstation on a
IBM PC. network. If IBM PC compatibility is
Many will rightly argue that IBM has produced a much superior system in proven in thefinal models,then itcan be
the AT, but that is a big, bulky, expensive box, with power that will 'blow your seriously considered as a home system
for users of IBM PCs atwork. It has more
hat off'. This is fine for the big corporate users who may want that kind of
thing, but what about letting users with more modest purses have access to power and sophistication in the operat-
similar 'power'. ing system, which makes it a rare
The Philips :Yes comes close to being what I think the next IBM PC should pleasure to use.
In the education market, it has
be. Faster, more compact and cheaper while remaining fairly compatible. If
IBM is not willing to produce this kind of system, other suppliers are. The potential for students to be able to use
message seems to be that IBM has stagnated in this market for long enough, the type of computer that is becoming
commonplace at work.
so let's get the interest back into business PCs and start moving forwards
instead of marking time.
I'm going to wait and see what
happens with the final model and with
There is, however, an inertia that seems to require corporate buyers to go
for IBM, however poor the product offered in terms of value for money. Any
other suppliers. The more types of
system like this there are, the better.
corporate user looking for a personal computer, network, terminal, and so
on, must soon take notice of the new alternatives coming along in the Thanks to Systemstate for making the
absence of the PC2. Philips available for review. END

OCTOBER 1985 PCW 147 .

 PROGRAMMING

Threaded operation
Paul Dourish describes the principles involved in creating a threaded interpretative
language (TIL) compiler, using Forth as his example language.
We have all seen pictures of the early necessary as an introduction. and imposing a format upon them so
computers; giant machines such as When you are supplied with your that they always behave in the same
ENIAC which filled entire rooms with language, it really only consists of way, and can, at times, be regarded as a
boards full of hot valves, and did simple instructions performed by single unit, like an array. We usually
calculations three times in case a valve machine code routines called 'primi- classify data structures by the order in
blew half -way through. The progress tives', and a little code to do the which their elements are processed.
made from those machines to the compiling. Then, you build up these For example, in an array, an element
modern micro is easy to see. Perhaps routines: you write your own programs can be put in any position at any time:
not quite so obvious are the advances and functions (in TILs, these are called that is, you can jump straight in at the
made in software, and especially in the 'words') to perform slightly more com- twentieth element, or at the thirty-first,
field of programming languages. plicated operations, but you define or whatever.
In the early days, programs were With a stack, however, there is a
these in terms of the simpler words.
'hard -wired'; to change the program When defined, new words can be definite order in which the elements are
involved physically rewiring the com- included in more complicated defini- processed, read and written; the rule
puter. Later, machine code programs tions, so you bridge the gap between governing this is 'First In, Last Out'
were keyed into the computer in binary, the simple operations and the complex (usually shortened to FILO). Imagine a
using switches on the front panel. Pure ones the computer is to perform. stack of books - you put each one
machine code was used as it is very Words which you have defined are down on top of the last, so that when
machine efficient, and in those days called 'secondaries' to distinguish you take them away again the first one
machine time was much more expen- them from the primitives or 'primaries'. you pick up is the last you put down.
sive than human time. High-level lan- It isvaguely like defining a subroutine in This is the way a data stack works
guages were introduced, with Fortran Basic, or a procedure in BBC Basic. The (except, of course, that it uses numbers
designed by an IBM team under the main difference is that the TIL now rather than books). We call the opera-
leadership of John Bachus, while at regards your word as being equally as tion of putting a number onto the stack
about the same time, Algol was de- important as any of the primitives, as it 'pushing' the number. The inverse
signed as a theoretical language but not cannot tell the difference between operation, taking a number from the
implemented. them. The other important thing you stack, is called 'pulling' the number, or
As other languages were developed, mustlearn about the way Forth works is 'popping' it from the stack. In Forth, we
they all had their own particular fea- the 'stack'. Where other languages use use the operator. (dot) to pop the stack.
tures but generally followed the same variables to store values, Forth uses the Using (and pressing RETURN, of
.

pattern. These are the Algol -derived stack. You may have come across a course) will cause Forth to take the
languages and are with us today in such stack before in assembly language, but number off the top of the stack and print
languages as Pascal. However, at va- for those who have not, here is a brief it on the screen.
rious stages, there have been program- representation. The stack forms the basis of all Forth
mers, dissatisfied with the state of arithmetic, which uses a format called
language design, who have designed Reverse Polish Notation. The numbers
new languages with often quite fun- to be operated on are entered beforethe
damental chang es. One departu re from operator, and are pushed onto the
the standard line of programming stack. The operator then takes the
language is Forth, designed by Charles values off the stack, uses them, and
Moore. Forth is radically different from pushes the answer back onto the stack.
its peers and achieves its efficiency in This means that 3+4 must be written as
memory consumption, ease of use and 3 4 +, and 6*10+5 as 6 10 * 5 +. After,
execution speed through being a say, 43 +, the number 7 is on the top of
threaded interpretative language. the stack.
Forth A TIL in use
The main principles of Forth, which is How does a TIL work? We have already
the best example of a threaded inter- seen that the TIL program itself is really
pretative language (TIL) and the one only a lot of small machine code
with which most people are familiar, routines that perform very simple
are fairly well-known, and have been operations, such as putting numbers
covered in introductory articles in this onto the stack, doing arithmetic, and
magazine and others (see, for example, manipulating the stack in various ways.
July's PCW). Although the main pur- Stack structure & dictionary structure When you type a line of code into your
pose of this article is to show the TIL, it scans it from left to right looking
techniques involved in building a TIL The stack is a 'data structure'. It is a for instructions. Whenever it finds a
compiler, a brief outline of Forth is way of collecting many pieces of data number, it pushes that number onto the
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stack. Otherwise, it deduces that, if the front of each address, effectively mak- combinations of words, to see how they
symbols it reads do not constitute a ing each address into an instruction to interact. Above all, you will have to
number, then they must be a word, jump to the subroutine at that address. adopt a methodical approach to the
either a primitive or a secondary. To For our MYWORD example,the compil- testing, otherwise you will be in no state
check this, it looks up a table called the er produces something akin to: to correct an error when (not 'if' -there
'dictionary'. JSR PRIM1 will be errors!) you find one.
The dictionary contains the names of JSR PRIM2 (v) Writing the next level of primitives.
all the words which have been defined JSR PRIM3 These will be the more complicated
either by you or by the system, and for RTS routines, for example those handling
each it gives an indication of where the Instead of having to write an inner looping, jumping and branching. Their
machine code is to be found so that the interpreter to decode the address list, implementation will be more compli-
TIL can execute the instruction. The the TIL compiler designer need merely cated than those of the others, and
exact nature of the data held in a single cause his program to jump to the first they will require considerably more
dictionary entry depends both on the instruction of the code stored in the thought.
type of word defined (primitive or dictionary to execute the secondary. It (vi) Testing the next level. This is even
secondary), and on the implementation is interesting to note that if, as previous- more important than testing the other
of the TIL. The beginning of the entry ly suggested, the machine code for the routines, as testing these is far more
almost invariably holds all or part of the primitives is stored inside the diction- difficult. It is trivial to spot that a routine
name of the word, and, if only part is ary, then the TIL is behaving in the same which claims that 2+2=37 could do
held, then an indication of how many way for both primitive and secondary with some adjustment, but the errors
characters there are in the word name. words, which is more elegant than involved with looping are very different
However, most of the differences in having to call an extra subroutine to run and fall into two groups: those that are
dictionary entries occur in the second some words but not others. very subtle so you don't notice them
section, which deals with where the The advantage of pointer threading is until it's too late; and those which jump
machine code to execute the words is that, as there is no need to store JSR off into the memory and completely
stored. More detailed examinations instructionsthroughoutthe definitions, crash your system.
will let us judge the relative merits of the it will take up less space. The advan-
various approaches. tages of subroutine th reading are that it
Usually, the section of the dictionary is faster (as the processor can interpret
entry that deals with the location of the code faster by itself than the inner
primitive code in memory contains that interpreter could), it does not necessi-
code itself, so that it can be directly tate the design of an inner interpreter,
executed. However, there a re fou r ways and it is easier to implement. There is a
of storing the same information for a compromise to be made, but it seems
secondary, and these are called direct - that, for a first compiler, subroutine
threaded, indirect -threaded, token - threading hastheedge.
threaded and subroutine -threaded. For
the purposes of this article, the first Writing a TIL compiler
three can all be classed simply as The task is so simplethat it is practical to
pointer -threaded, as the only major write the compiler completely in
difference in philosophy is between the assembly language, without any re-
firstthreeandthefourth. course to the high-level languages
normally used to write compilers for
Pointer -threaded code more complicated languages. There is
In pointer -threaded code, the informa- a simple series of steps to follow to
tion held in the dictionary entry consists design a working TIL compiler, suitable
of a series of pointers to the executable for use on a micro. These are:
code. In other words, it contains a list of (i) Design of the language selected for 'Make sure that you keep back-ups . .

the start addresses of the routines to do compiling. For example, what will the
each of the individual words that go to primitives be? How will they fit Make sure that you keep back-ups. I
make up this word as a whole. There- together? can tell you from bitter experience that
fore, if we have defined a word (ii) Design of stack structure and dic- losing a day's or a week's work is
MYWORD in terms of three primitives, tionary structure. These two data struc- extremely annoying.
PRIM1, PRIM2 and PRIM3, then the tures will affect every detail of your (vii) Writing the parser. This is the
pointer -threaded code for MYWORD in compiler, so do not skimp on their section of the program that is, you
thedictionary isa listof theaddresses of design. You must strike a balance hope, going to take your source prog-
the executable machine code for between having enough space in the ram, produce suitable object code, and
PRIM1, PRIM2 and PRIM3. This means structure to implement all the features place it correctly in the dictionary. This
that when we come to run the program you want, and having enough space left is very tricky and can cause spectacular
(that is, to execute the word) we must over for the rest of the compiler, and to errors due to the number of stages at
call another program, generally called do something useful with the language which you can go wrong. However, you
the 'inner interpreter', which will read when it is running. should survive if you remember exactly
each address, jump to that address, (iii) Writing the basic primitives. These what you have to do, and break it down
execute the code it finds there, and will be for stack manipulation, arithme- into subsections. Code and test each
return to the address list ready to read tic operations, and the decoding of subsection independently (for exam-
the next address. numbers from characters to integers. ple, you would have one subsection to
Subroutine -threaded code, on the This will depend on how wide you have create space fora new dictionary entry,
other hand, takes advantage of the factdecided to make your stack. Do not and another to find the address of the
that the processor already has the forget negative numbers - are you code of a previously -defined name).
ability to jump to a given address and going to allow them? How can you Don't neglect the error conditions, such
return to the address from which it handle them? as undefined words in the input.
jumped, with its 'Jump to Subroutine' (iv) Testing the basic primitives. I have (viii) Testing the parser.
code (JSR in 6502 assembly language included testing as a separate section (ix) Merging the parser with the primi-
and CALL in Z80). Instead of giving just as it is so important, and so often tives. Assuming you have been logical
the list of addresses, subroutine - overlooked or hurried. You must test and consistent in your approach and
threaded code stores a JSR opcode in each individual word thoroughly, plus haven't done anything silly such as
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 149
 changing your dictionary structure two bytes hold the address of the top the allocation of this space depends on
mid -way, then everything should be item on the stack. the function or procedure being run,
alright. However, the fact that every- It is far more difficult, however, to
thing should work in theory does not decide upon a suitable dictionary struc-
relieve you of the burden of ... ture. stored the entire name of the
I

(x) Run -testing the entire system. word, rather than just part of it (many
Forth compilers store only the first
three or four characters), and, to
facilitate recognising the words, the
space character is included atthe end of
each as if it was a part of the name. The
extra space character is also counted in
the byte that indicates the length of the
word. It is easier for the system to
handle if the length byte comes at the
beginning of the dictionary entry,
before the name, so the compiler
always knows where to look for it.
Therefore, the first byte of the entry
contains the length of the word name
(plus the final space), and this is
followed by the name itself (again, with
the final space). After the name comes a
two -byte link address which points to 'Testing the basic primitives'
the absolute address of the next entry in
the dictionary. Finally comes the code, although locations TEMP and TEMP+ 1
which usually consists of a series ofJSR always hold the number to be pushed
Run -testing the entire system' instructions, terminated by a return onto the stack or that just pulled from
instruction. If this is not included, the the stack, depending on the code being
You can now write the compiler processor will try to execute the length run. This way, the other primitives
(don't let the apparently huge volume and name of the next word as machine always know where the data is after it
of work daunt you), and you will require code, and the system will probably has been pulled.
more detailed information about the crash. Fig 1 shows a sample dictionary After you have written the push and
sections have just outlined. Any
I entry. pull routines,the next ones to tackle are
given from now on come simple arithmetic and logical routines
from my own compiler, which was Writing primitives - add, subtract, and, or, not. At this
written for Forth on the BBC Micro (6502 After all that, getting down to writing stage, you may also want to add a
assembly language), but the algor- the primitives is really quite a relief. The negate, as this is not too difficult (do not
ithms and methods given are applic- first primitives to write are those to confuse not and negate!). The only
able to any TIL or language. push and pull numbersfrom the stack. It routines in this part of the design that
The first step is to choose the is probably a good idea to set aside a might give you any trouble are multiply
language you want to compile, and in section of memory, say 10 bytes long, to and divide. (Don't forget that your
this case I chose Forth. The version I act as temporary storage for primitives, language may require, as Forth does,
implemented is a subset of the Forth -79 and for exchange of data from one both div and mod functions, and so you
standard; as the object of the exercise section to another. In my compiler, this should really write your divide routine
was merely to see if I could write a TIL space runs from TEMP to TEMP+ 9, and to find both so that the correct answer
compiler at all, the actual language
itself was relatively unimportant, so
there was no need to take special pains 7 M Y
to ensure a complete Forth -79 imple-
mentation.
ASCII
The second step is the choice of a 0 R D 32
suitable structure for the stack and the
dictionary. The first version of the
compiler wrote used a stack of
I
LINK ADDRESS
eight -bit unsigned integers (that is, in
the range Oto 255). This is obviously the
easiest stack to implement on an JSR PRIM 1
eight -bit machine, both from the point
of view of the stack manipulation itself,
JSR PRIM 2
as well as from that of the arithmetic
routines. However, this really was not
terribly useful for doing anything prac- JSR PRIM 3
tical, so I updated it to run with a stack of
16 -bit, signed integers which have the
range -32768 up to 32767. This step is RTS
more difficult than it sounds, but it
means I can now store addresses on the
stack, which is important for the imple- 04
mentation of Forth variables. Two bytes
of zero page storage were also laid Fig 1 Sample dictionary entry
aside as the stack pointer: that is, these
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(either div or mod) can be selected at a ditional execution of words depending
higher level of the program, before the on the relationship between two ob-
result is pushed back onto the stack.) jects. (Note: like all other Forth oper-
However, although these are more ators, the relational operators require
complicated than the others, they are Reverse Polish Notation. A < B is
still relatively simple to write, and written as A B < .) A simple way of
standard routines to find in books and allowing execution of conditional state-
library programs. If you can't get hold of ments is to have a flag (let's call it
suitable subroutines, designing your EXECUTE) which indicates whether or
own is remarkably easy. not the machine is in execution mode.
The best method is to do a long When EXECUTE is set, words read are
multiplication, in base 10, and at each executed; when it is cleared, words
stage note carefullywhat you are doing. which do not affect it are completely
Then make up some binary numbers ignored. There is no need to jump to
and try multiplying them on paper in varioussections ofthe code, depending
binary, following the same steps as for on the outcome of an IF word. Instead,
decimal. Now check the result of your EXECUTE can be set orcleared depend-
calculation by converting the two num- ing on the state of the number on thetop
bers into decimal, multiplying them, of the stack, and then all the code is
and converting the answer into binary stepped through.
for comparison with the answer you When your looping, conditional and
. . those handling looping, jumping
obtained before. When you've got the relational words have been written, you
hang of this, you can code it fairly and branching' will have to test them. As was previous-
simply. A similar procedure should also ly mentioned, testing these words is
show you how to write a division Wewill nowsee howthese words can very different from testing the arith-
routine. (Note: if you're using signed be built in Forth. Firstly, we need a new metic words.
integers and two's complement nota- stack, to be called the RETURN stack. As they control program flow, the
tion, your routines will have to allow for This is really only for the machine's use errors they produce can be quite
this.) (although Forth allows the user access spectacular, and may frequently result
Now that your first primitives to it), and it is used in loops to store the in crashing the system and losing your
routines are ready, you can test them. loop parameters. These parameters are program. It is better to remember to
At this stage, your compiler has no the current value of the iteration coun- make back-up copies of your program
section co control execution, so you will ter, the final value of the iteration than to learn the hard way.
have to use a number of subroutine counter plus one, and the absolute There is now only one section left to
calls to simulate a program running in address of the machine code making up write-the parser. In fact, like most of
the eventual compiler. Test each sec- the body of the loop. When Forth the general TILcompilers, a TIL parser is
tion separately, then combine them, to encounters the word DO, it calculates very different from a parser for any
ensure that there are no errors due to, the address of the body of the loop other language as each word is a
for example, two routines overwriting (based on the position of the call to DO), completely self-contained unit. The
each other's temporary storage space. and pushes this onto the return stack. parser does no actual parsing at all - it
As you go a!ong, keep a note of the tests Execution of the code then resumes. is effectively a word recogniser. Words
you have made and the results - this Most of the work of the loop is done are read from the input until a separator
can be invaluable for debugging. You by LOOP. When a loop occurs, the (in the case of Forth, a space) is read. At
should also make extensive use of current value of the iteration counter is this point, there is a word stored in the
breakpoints to study the flow of the pulled from the return stack and in- input buffer. The program checks to see
program. (A breakpoint is a stop or BRK cremented. It isthen compared with the if it is a valid number, and if so it is
instruction introduced into the pro- final value plus one, to see if the loop is interpreted as such. Otherwise, the
gram for debugging purposes. When finished. If the comparison shows that program looks up the name in the
you think you know where the program the current value is less than the final dictionary. If it is not found, an error is
ought to be going, but the program value plus one-that is, the loop is not reported; if it is found, the appropriate
doesn't seem to agree with you, then finished, then the current value of the semantic action is taken.
you can set up breakpoints in various iteration counter is replaced on the The parser, then, is a very simple
places to see where the program goes.) return stack, and the address of the routine which traps special cases be-
Now the difficult part begins: you body of the loop is read and replaced on fore handing control to the dictionary
must write the routines to handle the program counter, causing the search section. Another routine should
looping and branching. To investigate program to loop. If the loop is over, then be added which allows you to write
howto do this, we mustfirst note howto all its parameters are removed from the bytes to the present output code
do looping in Forth. There are two return stack. location and update the output code
standard Forth words to handle all pointer, and so on, to simplify the code
looping: DO and LOOP. The word DO Conditional statements generation. With that, you should have
comes immediately before the body of Conditional statements must be im- a working TI L compiler.
the loop, and expects to find two plemented quite differently. Forth uses
arguments on the stack. the words IF, ELSE and THEN to handle Conclusion
The first of these, on the top of the conditions. IF pulls a value from the In general, a compiler is a major piece of
stack, is the initial value for the iteration stack and decides whether it is true or software. However, the very fact that I
counter. (The iteration counter counts false (in Forth, zero is false and any have managed to describe a complete
how many times you have been round non -zero number is true). If the value is TIL compiler in such a (relatively) small
the loop, rather like the index variable in true, then it continues executing words space testifies to the ease with which
a Basic FOR ... NEXT loop.) until it finds an ELSE. If the value isfalse, such a compiler can be written. Writing
The second argument, below the first it jumps to ELSE and begins execution a compiler gives an excellent insight
on the stack, is the final value of the from there. Whenever a THEN is into how a language works, and this can
iteration counter plus one. The word encountered, normal execution re- only help improve the quality of your
LOOP signals the end of the loop body, sumes, regardless of the truth of the programs.
so to repeat a word MYWORD 10 times, original value. TILs in particular are easy to imple-
you would use: In addition, Forth has the relational ment and compact in design, making
11 1 DO MYWORD LOOP operators <, > and = to allow con- them well -suited to micros. END

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 Sord IS -11C
How does the Sord IS -11C lap -held micro hold up against strong
opposition from established machines? Nick Walker assesses this 8 -bit
computer for the user -on -the -move.
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The keyboard comprises 62 full -stroke keys and eight calculator -type keys, including six function keys

The market for 'lap -held' computers and the lower half consists of a column by 25 -line LCD display which is
has, over the last year, become one of keyboard and micro -cassette data also capable of being addressed as a
the most competitive areas in micro - drive. Two spring -loaded clips secure 640 x 200 pixel graphic screen -this is
computing. One company that has the keyboard and LCD together when quite high for an LCD. In common with
been present in the background of the the unit is in transit. most portables the display has draw-
UK market has been Sord. Its two Opening the spring -loaded clips backs, but on the IS -11C they are more
lap -held machines, the IS -5 and the allows you to flip the LCD display into its acute than usual.
IS -11, have never been a great success Portable computers should ideally be
in the UK despite having sold in capable of being used in a variety of
reasonable quantities in both the US . . the IS -11C has a lighting conditions, such as natural
and Japan. However, Sord's latest specification which light, office light, and even an ordinary
contender, the IS -11C, has a specifica- makes it sound like a 100 -watt home light bulb. On the best
tion which makes it sound like a worthy LCD displays, you can just about
rival to Epson's PX-8 and even Hewlett worthy rival to Epson's manage this. The IS-11C's display is
Packard's 110. PX-8 and even Hewlett- very dull, and due to the vertical lines of
Among its attractions is built-in characters being only one pixel wide,
software covering word processing Packard's 110. Among there are times when the display is
and communications, and a number of its attractions is built-in totally unreadable. A contrast wheel at
other functions for the businessman - software covering word the back of the machine ought to help,
on -the -move, for example notebooks, a but in fact all it seems to do is illuminate
calculator and a calendar. Is the IS -11C processing . .
the background and make the display
the machine to now push Sord into the even harder to read.
limelight in the UK? operating position. The hinge mechan- The machine is turned on by a switch
ism is unlike any other I've seen on a at the rear and, unusually, does not
Hardware lap -held machine. The display folds have an auto power -off to conserve
The IS -11C isn't the most attractive right back and isthen pulled forwards to batteries. The machine is driven by a
lap -held I've seen, but it is well-built and a position at which you feel comfort- six -volt rechargeable battery which
solid. able; it will not move back again unless gives around eight hours continuous
The unit is finished in the usual you fold it fully forwards and repeat the use (less if you use the microcassette
creamy -white colour and measures process. Although this means that the often). When the power gets low, the
12insx8insx 3ins,following the current display will hold steady at almost any machine emits continuous beeps until
fashion of being A4 sized, but it is rather angle, I soon found it infuriating as I the battery charger is connected.
too thick to fit comfortably in some almost always ended up needing to The keyboard consists of 62 full -
briefcases. The liquid crystal display push it back a fractional amount. stroke and eight calculator -type keys,
(LCD) makes up the top -half of the case, The machine has a full-size 80 - comprising six function keys, a RESET

OCTOBER 1985 PCW 153

 A contrast wheel at the back of the machine illuminates the background of the display

key and an ESCAPE key. Of the full -

stroke keys, the alphanumeric keys are
coloured white, while the control keys
are coloured grey and include a group
of four cursor control keys in the
rig ht -hand corner. All keys a uto-repeat.
By hitting the NUM key, the right-hand
side of the keyboard can also be used as
a numeric keypad.
As far as the built-in software is
concerned, it's a shame that the func-
tion keys are only calculator -style as
most of the software is driven from
them. One particularly annoying habit
of these keys is to stick under the plastic
casing and then rapidly auto -repeat,
sending the machine into some
confusion.
The processor of the IS -11C is the Z80
operating at 3.6MHz. This chip just
won't retire gracefully as one of the old
8 -bit processors, but keeps popping up
in all manner of interesting new
machines.
In total the unit contains about 152k of
memory, made up of 72k ROM for the
built-in software and 80k RAM expand-
able to 144k. As the Z80 can only
address 64k, it must be doing some kind
of bank -switching to address all the
memory. In use, however, the machine
acts as though it is using one con-
tiguous block of 80k RAM.
Although the memory is CMOS (it has
to be to operate at a low battery -power
level), Sord has made the absurd
decision not to refresh it when the
machine is switched off. It takes very
little powerto do this and is standard on
practically all other lap-helds. Conse-
quently you must save everything to a
microcassette before switching off the The IS -11C features a software -controlled C30, 128k microcassette
machine, and after losing a couple of
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fairly important docu- the same application, such From this menu you can also call up a
ments, I soon made sure that as salesmen. After developing calculator and a 100 -year calendar.
everything was saved before cwiteh- custom software vou could turn These come up in a window to the right
ing off. the machine into a customised system of the machine and can be called while
Input/output ports abound on the by creating cartridges for all your in any application.
IS -11C. Not content with cramming full machines. The Filer option leads to a second
the back of the machine, the I/O ports Other peripherals available include a menu of file specific operations, from
overflow onto the base of the machine. thermal printer, a bar code reader, a 64k which you can obtain a directory of any
There is a ROM/RAM cartridge inter- RAM cartridge, a 31/2in disk drive and a device, erase files, rename files, copy
face, a parallel I/O port, an RS232 numeric keypad. files, change the currently -used device
interface, a modem port, a bar code and initial a device. The operating
reader port and a battery charger socket System software system checks to see which devices are
on the rear, and Centronics printer and Early in the history of lap-helds, many connected and offers a further menu of
external numeric keyboard ports are on people considered them to be cut -down all the devices that a specified com-
the base of the machine. versions of desk -top machines and, as mand could operate on. Sord has
One of the nicest features of the such, unable to tackle the kind of imposed arbitrary limits on the number
machine is the software -controlled application a desk -top could run. One of of files on a device, the most annoying
microcassette. Each cassette is orga- the main reasonsforthis belief wasthat of these being the limit of 10 files on
nised with a directory at the start of the lap-helds ran their own custom operat- tape, even if the files are only 1k each.
ing system.
Starting with the PX-8 running CP/M,
`Pricewise, the IS -11C the trend has been to move away from .the operating
.

balances uncomfortably custom operating systems to propriet- system is a good

between the 8 -bit and ary ones, so it was with some dis-
appointmentthat I learned thatthe Sord example of the fact that
16 -bit lap-helds it . . . has its own custom operating system. making software menu-
doesn't run a standard When the machine is switched on, driven doesn't
you have a couple of copyright lines in
operating system, so the top right-hand corner of the screen necessarilymake it user-
there are not going to be and a menu bar at the bottom of the friendly I still found
. . .
screen corresponding to the six func-
many additional tion keys. The last three of these (f4, f5 myself tied up in
applications.' and f6) can roughly be described as irritating details.'
system selections and are labelled
tape informing the machine where to Utilities, Filer and System. Hitting any Option f6 is a miscellany of functions
obtain the required file. After reading key other than one of the function keys such as time -setting, page -ejecting on a
the directory, the tape zooms off at clears the menu, and replaces it with printer, switching the speaker on or off,
fast -forward speed until it gets near the Enter Command: and a flashing cursor. and soon.
file, slows to an intermediate speed to From here you can enter direct operat- Overall the operating system is a
find the exact start of the file, and reads ing system commands. good example of the fact that making
the tape at a normal play speed. This is Hitting the Utilities option results in a software menu -driven doesn't neces-
all very clever and has an 1800 bps(bits second menu offering a number of sarily make it user-friendly. Despite the
per second) transfer speed (quite fast). system utilities. From here you can menus guiding every operation, I still
The price you have to pay for this, print a file, copy a file, load a file and found myselftied up in irritating details.
however, is that each C30 micro - type a file. The system has a slight air of
cassette holds only 128k. CP/M to it, but you soon learn not to Applications software
Taking off the back of the machine carry that analogy too far. My first The IS -11C comes with a number of
reveals a well thought out and tightly - attempts to usethis menu resulted in an bundled applications- a word proces-
packed PCB. Most chips are not sock- hour of frustration: a phone call to Sord sor, a notebook, communications soft-
eted but soldered directly onto the solved my problems. This is a case - ware and a number of extras, such as
board. Interestingly a single screw will sensitive operating system-that is, all the calendar and calculator previously
allow a hatch to slide forwards reveal- files must be specified exactly. I'm so mentioned. All programs are held in
ing the five socketed chips - ROMs usedto MS-DOS, PC -DOS, CP/M, and so ROM and available immediately upon
which contain the built-in software, so on, that I found it difficult to convert to switching on the machine. The three
presumably we can expect updates or case -sensitive filenames, and through- main applications are available from
possibly alternative software from out this Benchtest continued to
I the main menu: f1 for the word
Sord in the future. consistently mis-specify filenames. processor, f2 for the communications
The BARD Application Software De- and f3 for the notebook.
velopment System peripheral is Benchmarks The word processor is the most
obviously designed for OEMs (Own BM1 4.4 impressive of the three and probably
Equipment Manufacturers). Using this, BM2 7.7 the most powerful word processor I've
it is possible to develop vertical market BM3 45.3 seen built into a lap -held. The word
applications in both Basic and machine BM4 51.6 processor is driven from three menus,
code, and then create a plug-in car- BM5 58.2 with the sixth function key switching
tridge containing this application. Un- BM6 87.3 between the three. The immediate
like other development systems for BM7 96.0 impression, when using the machine
lap-helds this doesn't need a more BM8 184.5 for any length of time, is how nice it is to
powerful desk -top machine - all soft- Average 66.9 have a full 80 x 25 character screen for
ware is developed on the IS -11C itself. I Alltinnngsinseconds.Forafulilisting word processing. In use, a high degree
can see this not only appealing to oftheBenchmarkprograms,seepage of WYSIWYG (what you see is what you
OEMs, but also to organisations which 185,Januaryissue. get) is supported and all the usual
have a number of employees running commandsareavailable-search-and-
156 PCW OCTOBER 1985
replace, cut, copy, paste, and so on, all doubts about the usefulness of note- these extra commands, the graphics
of which operate in a natural way from book -like programs in general, but ones are the most interesting. The full
the function keys, with the text being certainly to be of any use at all they need complement of commands consists of
highlighted where appropriate. The to be instantly available. move, line drawing, elipse drawing, bar
most pleasant aspect of this word Four application cartridges are cur- drawing, area fill, plotting and alterna-
processor is its text formatting com- rently available for the IS -11C: I -PIPS, a tive character sets. The machine con-
mands. Unlike most lap -held machines, spreadsheet/business graphics prog- tains some nice quick -draw routines,
this one has a whole host of facilities ram; I -TRANS, a file transfer program it's just a shame that LCD screens take
which allow you to format your text for connection to desk -top machines; so long to refresh. Any attempt at
in a number of different forms, as Basic; and I -Term, a terminal emulator. animation results in an LCD blur flow-
well as support different printer Of these, I -PIPS, Basic and I -Term were ing across the screen. According to the
configurations. supplied with the machine. To access manual, this Basic is faster than pre-
When you exit an application, thetext the application within a cartridge, you vious Sord Basics and one of the fastest
in the upper portion of the screen stays hit RETURN from the main menu. This on 8 -bit machines.
where it is and only the lower menu bar was undocumented and took me a long Although the Benchmarks are not
changes. This is particularly annoying time to find. much of a measure of the speed of the
on the word processor, as it left you I -PIPS is a very capable spreadsheet Basic, it certainly does not come out
unsure as to whether you'd saved the which suffered, as did the operating well against other 8 -bit machines
text to memory. system, from being difficult to use and tested. In use the Basic seems quite
On the review machine the com- having a number of annoying little slow, and I dread to think what previous
munications facilities were designed to restrictions. I particularly disliked hav- Sord machines were like.
operate with US Bell -standard mod- ing to specify the size of the sheet before The terminal emulator program
ems, and as such I was unable to use beginning. Information in the spread- works fine. Iused it instead of the
them. Sord is working on communica- sheet can be shown as bar charts and communications software to success-
tions software for the UK market. The pie graphs. Considering the slowness fully log -on to Telecom Gold and a
communications facilities I saw were of some of the other software, this number of other dial -up services.
very thorough, and if the user interface operates quite quickly, especially the
doesn't change will be more than graphics. The program includes facili- Documentation
adequate for most users. ties for transfer of files to an IBM PC What documentation there is, which is
The notebook is basically a cut -down for Lotus 1-2-3, dBasell, VisiCalc, Word- not a lot, is written in a tedious 'Gee,
version of the word processor with Star and Easy Writer. isn't technology wonderful' style. Look-
some extra search routines built in. The Basic is Miscrosoft Basic with ing up specific details needed for this
More than any other application this additional commands for graphics, Benchtest usually resulted in the in-
suffered from having to load the modem support, and handling files formation just not being there.
required data file from tape. have I created by other IS -11C packages. Of For OEMs there is a 500 -page manual
describing the IS -11C hardware, oper-
Technical specifications ating system and system calls. Perhaps
Processor: Z80A running at 3.6MHz this is better.
ROM: 72k
Prices
RAM: 80k expanded to 144k
Mass storage: Software -controlled microtape drive: 1800 The Sord IS -11C will sell for £1290. The
bps; 128k on one MC30 microcassette plug-in cartridges all cost £220.
Keyboard: 62 ful I -stroke keys, eight calculation -style keys Peripheral prices are as follows: ther-
including six function keys mal printer £117; first floppy disk drive
Size: 11.75insx8.5insx 3.25ins £695; subsequent disk drives £495; bar
Weight 6lbs6ozs code reader £166; 64k RAM £480;
I/O: Parallel I/O, serial RS232C, Centronics, numeric keypad £75.
numeric keypad, ROM/RAM cartridge, Conclusion
modem, bar code reader
Peripherals: Thermal printer, external numeric keypad, Throughout this Benchtest, it repeated-
microfloppy disks, barcode reader ly occurred to me that the IS -11C is very
nearly, but not quite, upto the level of its
competitors. There is undoubtedly a lot
of power in this machine, but im-
In perspective plementing it proved difficult and
Pricewise, the IS -11C balances uncomfortably between the 8 -bit and 16 -bit frustrating. After a period of experi-
lap-helds. However, it doesn't run a standard operating system, so there are mentation the idiosyncrasies became
not going to be many additional applications. Machines such as the Epson bearable, and I was able to get some-
PX-8 and Hewlett-Packard HP -110 run CP/M and MS-DOS respectively, where with the applications.
making many more applications available. Possibly, if you buy it as your first and
Before buying an IS -11C, I would have a close look at the Epson PX-8 only lap -held you would find it a very
(Benchtested last June) which retails for around £800 with bundled word useful piece of kit. With my knowledge
processor, spreadsheet, data management program, diary/scheduler and of lap-helds found the operating
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Basic, all of which are retail CP/M applications rather than custom system annoying, and the fact that it
applications. Other 8-bitcontenders are the Tandy 100/200, the NEC 8201 and didn't maintain memory when switch-
the Olivetti M10. ed off resulted in a number of lost files.
For about £1500 more, you can have a 16 -bit machine such, as the Data On the plus side is the wide variety of
General One (Benchtested last December), and Toshiba's nevJ 1100 has a peripherals available and the BARD
built-in disk drive giving considerably more lap -held power. Most of these Application Software Development
are MS-DOS based machines and have limited compatibility with the IBM System, making it ideal for OEMs to
PC, giving access to a wider range of software. develop specialised software. If the
The most likely marketfor the IS -11C is as a base machine for OEMs. In this machine is running specialised soft-
context there is, at the present time, no real competitor. The bundled ware, suitable for your particular busi-
software makes a useful background system underneath your particular ness, then this alone makes it worthy of
application software. consideration, and all the otherfeatures
are extras.
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 157
 BRAINDUMP

New life?
Have you ever thought of your computer as a living thing, capable of
thought, movement and reproduction? Unlikely as the idea may seem,
some controversy exists as to the possibility of this sci-fi state
becoming reality. Geoff Simons adds to the argument.
One of the consequences of artificial ary machines were prototypes of future clear for several decades that genetic
intelligence (Al) work in recent years is mechanical life. In this century the methods are not the only ways in
that we are now forced to re-examine computer scientist Joseph Weizen- which reproduction can be achieved,
many of the conventional adjectives baum - scarcely sympathetic to many and have considered in detail else-
I

traditionally applied to human beings of the claims of Al- has written that he where the various reproductive
- words such as conscious, free, is prepared to regard a robot, suitably strategies being evolved by emerging
thinking, aware, perceptive and intelli- configured, as a type of organism. computer life -forms.
gent. The stuff of classical psychologic- Similarly -the cybernetician James But reproduction is only one feature
al research is surprisingly important in Albus has suggested that robots are an of living things, and even this does not
modern computer science. evolving life -form, and others have characterise them all - as many a
In particular, we are seeing an evolu- proposed that life -forms might be childless couple knows. It is necessary
tion of the term 'intelligent'. It does not based on electronic circuits. But the to broaden the argument to lay the
seem that long ago when reputable point needs to be argued .. . foundations for a systems definition of
computer journals spoke of 'intelligent' Many traditional definitions of life life rather than the traditional (and
processors, 'intelligent' terminals, and simply list what are consideredto bethe excessively parochial) biochemical de-
so on, with the adjective always in essential qualities of living things. finition.
quotes as if to signal that it was not true Organisms may be expected to grow, to The millions of disparate species on
intelligence that was being talked exhibit metabolisms, to process in- earth all function in ways appropriate
about. Today the quotation marks have formation, to develop survival to their own natures. We do not expect
completely disappeared, and it is com- strategies, and to reproduce. Already plants to use energy,
monplace to read of machine intelli- we can see the ways in which compu- to process information and to repro-
gence. Of course, there is debate as to ters take in energy ('eat'), process duce in the same way. We should not
the nature of this intelligence, but with information ('think'), grow, age, and demand that computers and robots
the parade of all the modern subclasses involve themselves in the generation of perform in the same way as human
of Al - problem -solving, advisory new computers ('reproduce'). The beings in order to qualify as alive. We
expert systems, pattern recognition, emerging reproductive capability of need to search for general criteria by
language understanding, and so on - computer -based systems is evident in which any life -form can be recognised
the status of machine intelligence, many different circumstances: for ex- as such, irrespective of the means -
however it is interpreted, is becoming ample, computers are used to design hydrocarbons, electronics, metaphy-
increasing ly secure. new computer circuits and to supervise sical substances, and so on - by
the manufacture and assembly of new which the life -form is animated. This
Life -forms systems such as complex disk drives, entails recognising that the traditional
There is also another startling possibil- sophisticated integrated circuits, and life processes (for example, traditional
ity, distinct from mainstream Al but complex computer -based facilities. (If chemical reactions in familiar life -
quickly seen as a similar threat to the reader is quick to point out that forms) are nothing more than contin-
human vanity. This is the idea that human beings are essential agents in gent means to realising the basic life
computers and robots, appropriately machine reproduction, need only
I functions. Put another way, there are
configured, can properly be regarded mention that many species on earth many possible ways in which systems
as emerging life -forms. This daunting cannot reproduce without the assist- can accomplish the functions that are
notion can be seen to be tenable when ance of other species: for example, essential to life: chemistry is one, but
the decision is taken to regard all plant reproduction is completely de- there are conceivably many others.
life -forms as essentially behaving sys- pendent upon insects and birds.)
tems of a certain type. I will argue why A systems approach
this decision is a reasonable one, but Reproduction JG Miller, in a remarkable book, de-
first it is worth pointing out that the idea In general, the reproductive process in veloped a systems approach to the
of machine life is far from original. any life -form entails the processing of idea of life. He drew attention to a
To go back a long way, there are matter/energy and information, the hierarchy of structures on earth that
plenty of animated robots in Assyrian transmitted information being in may be said to be carrying out living
and Greek mythology. Homer (Iliad, effect the template of the new system. processes. The seven levels in the
Book XVIII) talked of maidens of gold, Information, used to define the struc- hierarchy are defined as cells, organs,
manufactured by the god Hephaestus, ture of the new system, can be carried organisms, groups, organisations,
who were able to move and show in many forms. Traditional life -forms societies, and supranational systems.
intelligence and wisdom. Moving on to have relied upon DNA templates, The systems at each level can deal
1872, Samuel Butler suggested in whereas emerging computer life - with inputs, throughputs and outputs
Erewhon that machines would become forms may be expected to store their of various forms of matter, energy and
conscious and able to reproduce their species -specific templates in solid- information.
kind. He even declared that contempor- state memories. In fact, it has been A key point for my argument is that
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the profound differences between the gain life significance by contributing, ment, and so forth, and for a much
various living systems make it neces- at one level or another, to the working longer period then we would expect
sary to identify critical subsystems of the systems and subsystems that an inanimate piece of matter to "keep
that are not limited to any particular are characteristic of living things. going" under similar circumstances.'
type of organism or organisation. In The central point here is that the He identified the essence of life as
other words, it is necessary to identify chemical means are subservient to the being behavioural rather than chemic-
the 'critical subsystems of a living system ends. It follows that in analys- is easy to see that computer -
al. It
system' in such a way that no evident ing what constitutes life, it is the based systems, appropriately confi-
living system is excluded. Miller iden- systems that are philosophically im- gured, can behave in all the ways that
tifies 19 such subsystems, all of which portant, not the chemistry. It is still are essential to life when it is viewed
can be identified in current computer obviously true, however, that for any from a systems perspective.
systems (although he does not remark chemically -based life -form, an under- We can take any particular (sys-
on this particular fact). standing of chemistry is essential for tems) feature of an organism and
I have already looked at reproduc- an insight into how the organism identify its direct equivalent in compu-
tion (the reproducer is one of Miller's functions. But there is the obvious ter terms. I have already hinted at how
critical subsystems). Other subsys- corollary that an understanding of this might be done in connection with
tems are the ingestor, the distributor, electronic circuits is likewise essential any life feature. As a minimum we can
and the matter/energy store; these are for any comprehension of the working suggest that living systems - compu-
variously involved in taking in energy, of life -forms which are based on ter -based or not - should be able to
feeding it around the system, and silicon electronics. function as discrete entities, to exploit
getting rid of waste products (heat is Any definition of life that makes available energy, to process energy
an obvious waste product of all com- biochemistry a necessary condition is and information (for cognitive and/or
puter -based systems). unduly parochial, so chemistry can be other purposes), to evolve survival
Other critical subsystems are re- strategies, and to be able to repro-
quired to handle information or to duce. There is nothing here that is
provide the life -form with the neces- . . computer -based beyond the capabilities of modern
sary physical cohesion. Here it is systems, appropriately computer systems, appropriately de-
important to stress that the descrip- configured, can signed. We should also remember
tions of the critical subsystems are that life can be rudimentary: we
independent of how the various sub- behave in all the ways should not demand more for compu-
systems are realised. There is no that are essential ters (in allowing them to qualify as
assumption that life has to be based alive) than we do for the simplest
on hydrocarbons. If a system can to life . .
organisms.
reproduce and handle energy and
information in suitable ways, then the seen to be contingent: it is one subs- Conclusion
system has a claim to be regarded as trate for life, not the only one that is When we think beyond the parochial
living. possible. Again this means that we biochemical view of life and see it in
should learn to recognise life accord- systems terms, the basic argument is
Behaviour ing to life -type system activity, not established. We can recognise surviv-
We can assume that living systems according to how the activity is real- al strategies, for example, in the em-
must be capable of behaving in certain ised in particular instances. (We may ergence of the man/computer sym-
ways; how the systems actually fancifully imagine electronic creatures biosis (try to attack an important
achieve the 'life behaviour' is a secon- elsewhere in the galaxy debating computer and you will be resisted by
dary matter. Human beings are whether there could ever be life -forms the police or the military), just as
parochially acquainted with organ- based on carbon molecules rather cleaner fish and aphids rely upon
isms based on carbon, although this than on electrical and electronic cir- protectors (large predators and ants,
does not prevent some people from cuits!) respectively) for their security. Just as
declaring that God is alive (or dead, as When this argument is fully appreci- survival strategies can be explored
the case might be). It is often ated, it is very powerful. I have cited with reference to emerging computer
assumed, without analysis, that a some writers who have speculated on organisms, so can many other life
chemical base is a necessary condi- the possibility of machine life, but I
phenomena - such as consciousness,
tion for life. However, when we adopt need have no recourse to authority: evolution and creativity. Nor should
the systems approach to living organ- the argument will stand or fall on its human involvement with computer
isms, we see that this is an unwar- merits. If the argument is valid, then life processes be allowed to tell
ranted assumption. computer -based systems may be re- against the argument.
In traditional life -forms - oaks, lice, garded as alive when they satisfy As I have mentioned, the whole of
fish, primates, and so on - the certain behavioural criteria, when the the plant kingdom is unable to repro-
various metabolic processes are only systems exhibit life characteristics by duce without assistance from other
characteristic of life insofar as they are processing energy and information in species (namely birds and insects). In
part of the overall organic system. certain ways (for example, in the ways short, when life is seen as essentially a
Metabolic 'pathways' are defined as identified by Miller). systems phenomenon, it is clear that
the series of chemical reactions in It interesting to mention
is also increasingly computer -based systems
which one chemical state is followed apparent support for the argument will be able to qualify as alive.
by another, which in turn is followed from unexpected sources. For exam-
by another, and so on. This is of ple, the famous physicist Erwin Schro- References
obvious chemical interest, but says dinger approached the essence of life Miller, JG, Living Systems, McGraw-
nothing about biology unless we through an exploration of physical Hill, 1978; Schrodinger, E, What is
assume that the pathway is part of a entropy. In a seminal work he asked: Life?, Cambridge University Press,
subsystem that in turn is part of an 'What is the characteristic feature of 1944; Simons, GL, The Biology of
overall organic system. A chemical life?' and replied: 'When it goes on Computer Life, Harvester Press, 1985.
reaction, in isolation, is nothing more "doing something", moving, ex- Geoff Simons is chief editor at the
than a chemical reaction. It can only changing material with its environ- National Computing Centre. END

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 Intelligent modems
Peter Tootill assesses the capabilities and drawbacks of five intelligent
modems - the Steebeck Minimo Plus 2, the Miracle Technology WS3000,
the Tandata Tm512, and the Dacom DSL 2123AD and DSL 2123GT.

There has been a boom in the com-

munications world in the last year or so.
Prices have tumbled, and modems
have been selling in their thousands in
both the hobbyist and business mar-
kets. As the market has matured, the
demand for the more sophisticated
products that can be produced using
today's technology has also increased:
manufacturers are producing more and
better modems with all kinds of ad-
vanced features. Milano a' &'S.
For this review, have obtained a
I

representative sample of five modems

from four manufacturers to give some
indication of what is available, and how
well they work.
What is an intelligent modem? The
models looked at here can perform
certain basic tasks such as dialling a
number, answering the phone, recog-
nising the baud rate of an incoming call
(except the Tm512) and, with the
exception of the Steebeck, storing a list
of regularly -used phone numbers that
can be dialled automatically. They all
include a microprocessor -a 6809 in
the DaComs, a 6502 derivative in the
WS3000, and so on. There is a ROM
with software to control the modem's
functions.
There are other features such as
buffering to allow computers that can't
handle split baud rates (as used by the
V23 standard, for example) to talk to the
modem at 1200 bits/sec in each direc- Left TM 512, rear Minimo Plus 2, front DSL2123GT, right DSL2123AD
tion (or faster in some cases), while the
modem talks to the other end at 75 these protocols? Hayes Microcomputer The software designed around Hayes
bits/sec and receives at 1200. This will Products Inc, is an American manufac- modems also includes smart terminal
allow IBM PC and Apricot users to use turer of modems. It was the first on the and bulletin board software (such as
Prestel (provided that they have the scene in the US with a smart (or Fido, see 'Networks', page 218).
software to handle the graphics). Of intelligent) modem (or at least the first The advantage of having a Hayes -
course, they could be far-sighted and to have any real impact). It devised a set compatible modem is that it enables
buy a computer that can handle split of rulesfor controlling its modem which you to tap some of this software if you
rates (a Tandy Model 1, for example, or has become a de facto industry stan- are interested in serious communica-
even a BBC). dard. Most other American modem tions, and it won't be long before
Fig 1 gives an indication of the other manufacturers have followed Hayes' home -produced comms software fol-
functions performed bythese modems. lead when producing their own smart lows the same road. Two of the
modems, and a large body of software modems reviewed here claim to be
Hayes protocols has grown up, designed to make use of Hayes compatible, and the manufactur-
Hayes protocols are the latest thing on the features. The communications fea- ers of the others are planning Hayes
the comms scene- everyone is talking tures of Lotus 1-2-3 use Hayes protocols versions. There are 'Hayes compati-
about Hayes compatibility, butwhat are for dialling, for example. bles' and 'Hayes compatibles' in the US

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just as there are 'IBM compatibles' and number. This can consist of up to 80 brief, and sections on creating software
'IBM compatibles', so if compatibility is characters, and any number of send for the WS3000, general information,
important to you, make sure that the and receive fields, including control using the modem with amateur radio,
modem in question will work with your codes, can be used. and a quick reference card were mis-
software before you buy. There is an on/offline control on the sing, but are promised.
Hayes will be launching one of its front of the modem. If you call PSS, The modem is entirely software
own modems (the Hayes Smartmodem hanging up can be a problem with some controlled; the only manual control is a
2400, a V21/22/22 bis model) on the modems unless you can control the reset button on the rear. The modem
British market as soon as it completes DTR line directly. For example, when automatically senses the speed at
the BABT procedure, but it is expected using the software -controlled WS3000, which your terminal is talking to it, and
to be expensive. you have to send an escape sequence sets itself to suit. It also sets its
As the modems reviewed here have (usually + + +) to allow you to com- communications mode accordingly:
auto -answer facilities, you might think municate with the modem, and then for example, V21 if your terminal is set
that they would be ideal for individuals instruct it to hang up. With the to 300 baud. V23 if it's set to 1200/1200
and businesses wanting to run bulletin Steebeck, you just press the button. or 1200/75. Other modes can be
boards or electronic mail systems using The other controls are originate/ selected by appropriate commands.
BBS-type software at V21 and V23 answerto selectthe modewhen you are This modem is one of very few to be
standards. This is not necessarily so: making the call, and V21N23. The approved to use Bell 103 tones in the
it's a matter of making sure that the various combinations of the two UK, but Bell 202 is locked out. It will be
modem and software are compatible switches allow you to select whether available on export models.
before you part with your money. the modem automatically recognises This modem has several interesting
the speed of the incoming call, half - features both as standard and available
Steebeck Minimo Plus 2 duplex 1200 bits/secworking, and other as options. Tone is included in the basic
The Minimo Plus 2 at £282 (including model, as well as normal pulse dialling
VAT) is the cheapest of the modems, and ring -back auto -answer for bulletin
although it is not the cheapest intelli- . if compatibility is
. boards (the modem only answers the
gent modem on the market (that, I
important to you, make phone after it has rung once and the
believe, is currently one produced by caller has hung up and called back,
Thorn EMI at around £185). The Minimo sure that the modem in which is useful if you want to run a
Plus 2 is a Hayes -compatible modem, question will work with bulletin board and still receive voice
supporting the standard Hayes soft- calls). Also included is a loudspeaker to
ware protocols. your software before you monitor call progress, which is an
The modem is easily the smallest of buy.' excellent feature. It's very frustrating to
the group, and that is with an internal automatically dial the call and not to
power supply. It has a metal case and is know why you can't get through. Is it
well built. A nice touch is an external things. There are a paltry four indicator engaged, a wrong number, or has a
earth connection which is connected to LEDS on the front panel. person answered? With the WS3000
the protective ground circuit (pin 1) and I had no problems getting the modem you can tell. It also lets you check that
which should give added protection to work in auto -answer mode with my the dial tone was there before dialling
BSS, but atV21 only. If the modem picks started -the modem can't tell.
against static.
Setting up the Minimo caused me up a V23 call, it talks to the computer at A novel feature is a Centronics printer
some problems, but Steebeck was very the higher speed and leaves it (the port on the rear of the modem; this
helpful. The manner in which you set computer) to work out what is happen- takes a standard BBC Micro/Tandy
the internal DIP switches to suit your ing. This is not Hayes compatible: a 100 -type cable. What facilities it will
terminal and application is important, standard Hayes modem would signal allow in the final version hadn't been
'connect' or 'connect 1200' for 300 and decided at thetime of writing, but on the
but the instruction manual is not at all
clear on this point. The documentation 1200 bits/sec calls respectively. Also, review model I could copythe modem's
is not particularly good. Most of the most American dual -speed modems output to the printer. This is mainly of
information is there, but it can be hard output a signal on one of the RS232 use for obtaining a printed list of the
to find and I found the layout confusing. pins, too (usually pin 12 or pin 22). telephone number store - with 62
The description of the Hayes command numbers, no ordinary person is going
set is rather brief and some of the minor
Miracle Technology to be able to remember which number
commands are not supported. There is WS3000 is which!
no number store, which is not neces- This modem is mid -priced at £340 Likely uses will include a message -
sarily a problem as most Hayes -type (including VAT). It is claimed to be taking system, so that the modem can
terminal software will allow you to Hayes -compatible as far as it is possi- answer the phone and take a message
store numbers. I had problems with my ble, given that it provides V23 (1200/75 without a computer needing to be
auto -dial software as it requires the bits/sec) asthe higherspeed ratherthan connected.
modem to echo commands, and the 1200/1200, which a standard Hayes Another interesting feature is the fact
modem defaults to no echo of com- type would do. It worked well with my that other telephones on the same
mands. When I turned on the echo it Hayes auto -dial terminal program. number don'ttinkle while the modem is
worked, but the modem would only The WS3000 is well-built and seems dialling; the Tm512 is the only other
accept seven bits, even parity for to work reliably, although it was a modem to have this feature. All the
commands. Eight bits, no parity pre -production version due for some modems have telephone sockets on the
seemed to confuse it. The manufactur- changes. The software wasn't finalised, back, and a telephone plugged into
ers tell me that this has now been so some features were not working. For these will not tinkle.
sorted out. example, the auto -answer software Optional extras include V22, V22 bis
The modem also allows a more was not fully developed in the review (1200 and 2400 full -duplex working), a
verbose auto -dial dialog, using model, and the auto -answer features secure ring -back system (the modem
Steebeck's own commands which are could not be properly tested. The asks a caller for his ID and password,
easier to use than Hayes commands. manual was a pre -production draft, but and rings him back at a predefined
You select one set or the other by if it's anything to go by, the final version telephone number before allowing him
changing an internal DIP switch. The should be excellent. It contains the access to the computer. This will be
Steebeck mode also allows a fairly most complete documentation of com- useful for applications where hackers
complex auto-logon sequence to be mands of any Hayes type I have seen. could be a problem.
programmed into the modem after the The chapter on auto -answer was rather The prices of the other versions are as

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 follows: stages of a call. A Hayes version of the
WS3000 with V22 option, £569 (£495 modem is also on the way.
+ VAT). To use the modem in auto -answer
WS3000 with V22 and V22 bis option, mode, your software has to accept the
£745 (£650 + VAT). V25 bis protocols. When the phone
Security ring -back, £113 (£98 + VAT). Another unusual feature of the rings, the modem sends the message
Upgrades are to be available at the Tm512 is that it uses the CCITT V25 bis Ctrl -B INC Ctrl -C, waits to be told if it isto
cost difference plus a handling charge. protocols for auto -dialling and auto - answer the phone, and if so whether in
The prices of the V22 and V22 bis answering. This is a fairy recent interna- V21, V23 (1200/75) or V23 half -duplex
options could fall if the chip prices fall, tional standard and, as far as can I mode. You can also use pre-set auto -
which is likely. determine, is not well -supported in answer mode, but this has to be at a
As might be expected with a new terms of software yet. It is more difficult predetermined baud rate.
modem, there are a few bugs in its to use than the Hayes protocols and is This modem doesn't detect the cal-
software, but the manufacturer assures really designed to be driven by soft- ler's baud rate, but the Hayes version
me that these are being eliminated. ware, not manually, whereas Hayes should be an improvement in this area
commands can easily be used manu- and will probably allow automatic
Tandata Tm512 ally. detection of a caller's baud rate.
The Tm512 is another mid -priced mod- For example, the Hayes command to The documentation is only fair. Most
em (£340 including VAT). It is almost dial a number is: of the features are adequately de-
exactly the same size as the WS3000, ATD0514288924 <return> scribed and there is a useful section on
but includes an internal power supply. The V25 bis command is: trouble -shooting, but found it con- I

The case is sturdy plastic and the Ctrl -B CRS 0514288924 Ctrl -C (the fusingly laid out and the explanations
modem is well made. It has only one spaces are just for clarity). are difficult tofollow. The manufacturer
control, an on/off switch on the front The modem has a number store saysthat it is not yet finalised, sothere is
(none of the other modems has an holding eight numbers and a menu. hope for improvement.
on/off switch, which is a nuisance if you Auto -dialling one of these numbers is
like to switch things off when you are easy - enter Ctrl -B followed by 3 and DaCom DSL 2123AD
not using them, especially if the power the menu is displayed, then select the & DSL 2123GT
point is inaccessible). number of the required system. Two DaCom modems are included in
An unusual feature on this modem is Programming the menu is not easy this review. The AD is the one most
a TTL-level interface as well as the unless you have a Tandata terminal directly comparable in terms of fea-
normal RS232 standard. Connecting to package. A new version of the modem's tures with the others. The GT version is
computers which don't already have an ROM should improve the situation by basically the same modem, but with a
RS232 interface should be easier and allowing you to program cursor con- number of added features. The AD
presumably cheaper. The RS232 con- trols into the modem to suit your costs £401 (including VAT); the GT
nector provides a limited range of computer. costs £573 (including VAT).
signals, omitting such things as RI (ring I found it impossible to program in Both modems are well-built with
indicator) which shouldn't cause a menu mode at all: I had to use V25 bis sturdy metal cases, and both use
problem, and CD (carrier detect) which commands to store numbers. In this external power supplies. The docu-
might. You could use DSR (data set mode you can't store comments such mentation is adequate, but could be
ready) instead of CD, but you might as the name of the system which a confusing to people who are new to
need a special cable. The TTL port telephone number relates to. A sepa- using modems. The manufacturer says
doesn't support the DSR circuit, but this rate auto-logon string can be stored that it is in the process of being revised
won't cause any problems unless your with each number in menu or V25 bis to improve this aspect. The following
terminal software needs it (most modes. details regarding the AD will apply to
doesn't). You might still have to deal As with the WS3000, there is a the GT unless otherwise stated.
with the CD problem, though. loudspeaker to monitor the initial The DSL 2123AD (catchy name, isn't

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it?) is very slim. It has only one external
control - a reset button on the front
panel. Modem control is entirely by
software, there are no internal switches
to set. It detects the baud rate (either
300/300 or 1200/1200) and parity of your
terminal automatically, and you can
leave it set at the same rate all the time,
no matter what type of system you are
calling. DaCom has is own method of
controlling the modems (although Miracle Technology's WS3000
Hayes compatibility for the AD is
imminent and promised for the GT), with the exception that the terminal transmission errors. This could be a
and they are by far the easiest to use of baud rate settings are done via internal valuable feature for organisations with
the group. DIP switches; these also control the important data to pass between two
To dial a number, type it in. To dial selection of human or computer inter- locations.
one of the 32 stored numbers, enter the face, which is rather inconvenient if you The auto-logon feature is quite
keyword (up to five characters) that you want to change it regularly. I can powerful. You can store a series of
have previously allocated (I used foresee the cover being left loose prompts and the relevant answers,
PSS23, PSS21, Ken), and so on. With and the screws being lost. Fortun- which is much more flexible than the
this method, there is no need to ately, there is no mains voltage inside usual method of sending a set string in
remember the number or look it up on a the case. response to an ASCII EDQ character.
list. If you do forget one of your The most obvious additional feature You could use it to log -on to Telecom
mnemonics,typing L will give you a list. is the comprehensive set of switches on Gold for example, by programming in
R redials the last number you tried (this the front which give full manual control the PSS queries (NUI?, ADD?,>, and so
can also be done automatically). Send- of modes; this makes the modem much on) and your responses. You could
ing three Control -C's gets you to the even program in the prompts and
configuration menu where you can responses for several systems, as the
load phone numbers, select default The DaComGT modem scans the store looking for
mode, and so on. is very nice to matches and sends the related replies.
When you are familiar with the
options on the menu, there are short use . But
. .
Conclusion
cuts available. The phone number store the WS3000, with It's difficult to decide which of these
is not battery -backed (unlike the GT), so modems is the best buy. Four of the five
if you switch off you lose everything.
its Hayes compatibility are BT approved, and I expect that the
The operating mode for each phone and its expandability fifth, the WS3000, will have no prob-
number can be specified, that is V21, (and lower price) is the lems in obtaining approval. I couldn't
V23 (either way), or it will automatically detect any difference in performance
detect this for when you call. These are one I should like to when online, and they offer different
the only modems of the group that will keep.' features at a range of prices. You pay
do this in originate mode, as well as your money and you take your choice.
when answering the phone. However, I The DaComs are a little overpriced in
wouldn't recommend using this facility taller than the AD. The switches can be relation to what is now and will soon be
with systems that automatically detect disabled (again via an internal DIP available in the same price range: for
your speed, as the two modems will switch) to prevent unauthorised the price of the GT, you could buy a
each be looking for the other and you changes. One of the front panel switch- V21/22/23 WS3000. V22 is nice to use,
could end up with an inconvenient es gives access to two test modes, ALB and is well -supported by online sys-
setting. (analogue loop -back) and DLB (digital tems (but only by Liverpool Mailbox in
If you are using the modem under loop -back), which allow the modems to the bulletin board world so far). Tanda-
computer control, you can turn off the be tested. ta and Steebeck are also planning
menus and use commands that are The user has more control over the V21/22/23 modems in the near future,
easierto use in programs. For example, GT's configuration than the AD: as no doubt are other manufacturers.
&DLN0514288924B<CR> will dial whether dial tone is to be detected, the The advantage of the WS3000 (pro-
Liverpool Mailbox in V21 mode (that's number of attempts at dialling a num- vided that the bugs are ironed out) is
what the 'B' is for). In this mode, the ber, voice or data call, and time-out that you can start with V21/23 and
modem's responses are also tailored values can be altered. Also (as pre- upgrade when you need to, or perhaps
for program control. viously mentioned), the number store when you can afford to. The Steebeck
An additional feature is that you an and software settings are held in offers Hayes auto -dial and auto -answer
give the modem a list of numbersto dial non-volatile memory so that they are at a lower price than any of the others.
and it will do so, marking any where it preserved when power is turned off. The Tandata modem works well as an
didn't get through and coming back to The GT also has an audio call integrated package, modem, software
them later. This is designed for users indicator, which rings like a telephone if and interface (if your system needs one)
who want to call a number of systems a call comes through without a modem from one source, but it doesn't offer as
without intervention. It could be used tone. The caller needs to be aware of the much in the way of features as the
by a company to call all its subsidiary fact because he will still get an earful of others. The Hayes version should make
offices overnight and send out a notice answertone when the modem answers it more competitive.
about new products, for example, or the phone, but if he hangs on, the Fig 1 includes a full list of features, so
you could use it to dial a list of BBSs and modem will eventually ring fora human you can decide what is of relevance to
pick up all your messages in the small to answer. your own application.
hours, when you are asleep. You would The major enhancements with the GT Which am I most sorry to lose? The
have to have, or write, the software to are auto-logon and ARQ (Automatic DaCom GT is very niceto use, and I liked
take over when the system at the other Repeat on reQuest). It is a method of the fact that it offers full manual control
end answers, but the dialling and error correction and needs a GT at each of its features. But the WS3000, with its
redialling (up to four attempts allowed end of the line to work. The software in Hayes compatibility and its expandabil-
by BT) is handled automatically. the modem monitorsthe incoming data ity (and lower price) is the one I should
The GT has all the above features, and requests a repeat of blocks with like to keep. END

OCTOBER 1985 PCW 165

 PageMaker
LaserWrit
Peter Bright looks at a very different package for the Macintosh,
PageMaker, which along with Apple's LaserWriter, can help you turn out
a very professional -looking publication.
It's not often that you receive a piece of double-clicking its ikon. You can either The bottom of the window contains a
software which is totally different from run it directly on its own, orwith another scroll bar and an icon display of the
anything you've seen before. Page - program such as MacWrite, by using number of pages in the file and the
Maker is one such package. It isn't a the Switcher RAM partitioner from current page; you move between pages
spreadsheet, it isn't a database, it isn't Apple. This is particularly useful be- simply by clicking the page icon. The
even a word processor. cause you can then write your master- system also contains 'Master' pages, in
PageMaker is a layout package. It piece in MacWrite, switch to PageMak- which you can lay out information that
allows you to arrange text and graphics er, and have the page laid out in you want to appear in all the pages of
as pages, in the same way as a seconds. your layout. This can save a lot of time if
newsletter, magazine or newspaper. In The release version of PageMaker all your pages look similar.
conjunction with Apple's new Laser- will contain a Switcher configuration In the top right-hand corner of the
Writer printer, you can use itto generate resource to allocate enough RAM to layout window is another small win-
very professional reports and newslet- PageMaker. After some experimenta- dow labelled 'Toolbox'. This contains
ters, lay out business forms, generate tion, I foundthat 300kwasthe optimum. eight icons which allow you to move
overhead transparencies, and so on. When PageMaker has loaded, you parts of a layout around, edit text, crop
Until now, comparable electronic are faced by a blank desk -top with a graphics to fit a space, and draw
layout machines have cost tens of pull -down menu bar marked File, Edit, rectangles, rounded rectangles, ovals
thousands of pounds. PageMaker runs Tools, Page, Type, Lines and Shades. and lines on the layout.
on the Apple Macintosh. To start a new layout, you simply select The normal display for the layout
The minimum configuration to run New from the File menu. window is to show a picture of the
PageMaker is a 512k Mac with twin disk The first stage of a new layout isto tell whole page on the screen. As soon as
drives and an ImageWriter printer. It the system what size paper you are you start laying out text and graphics,
will become obvious, however, that if using, how big the marginsare and how you need to be able to see a close-up of
you want to get the best out of the many pages you want. Each PageMaker the section you are working on. The
system, you will also need access to a file is limited to 16 pages, but you can PageMaker Page menu allows you to
LaserWriter, and if you are doing large enlarge this and still keep the automatic display portions of the page at actual
numbers of layouts, probably a hard page numbering correct by having size, or in 50 per cent or 70 per cent
disk as well. more than one layout file. reductions. If you are doing detailed
The system supplied for review was Paper sizes are US Letter, US Legal, work with small point sizes, you can
actually a pre-release version of Page - A4 and B5. You can elect either for the choose 200 per cent magnification.
Maker, so there was no packaging and page to be the normal way up, or on its Before I began to prepare and lay out
the manual was a photocopy of the side if you need extra width. a page, I usually wentto the Tools menu
proofs. The system was supplied on and selected 'Show Rulers'. As the
two disks - one system disk and one The layout window name implies, this displays vertical and
program disk. In addition to the usual When you have selected the type of horizontal rulers along the top and left
files, the system disk contained two paper you want, you are greeted by the side of the layout window. You can
special LaserWriter drivers. These are main layout window. The best analogy choose the scale on the rulers from
different from the standard Apple of this window is to a layout artist's either inches, millimetres, or picas and
LaserWriter drivers, so you must make paste -board. points. The current position of the
sure you have the correct ones pres- In the middle of the window is a blank mouse pointer is displayed on the
ent. The program disk contains the page with the margin guides in place. rulers so that you can use them
PageMaker code, which at over 200k The rest of the white portion of the accurately.
represents a fair portion of the available window is the cutting board where you
disk space. can keep scraps of text and pictures that The layout
PageMaker boots in the usual way by you may want to use later on the page. The first thing to do when laying out the
166 PCW OCTOBER 1985
The use of the new Apple LaserWriter is central to the really designed as a fast, quiet alternative to daisywheel
concept of PageMaker. Although you could use the printers. The Hewlett-Packard is more intelligent and
standard ImageWriter at a pinch, it really isn't up to the can handle both text and graphics, although graphics
job. can only take up a certain proportion of the page.
The use of the word 'laser' in the name of the new By contrast, the Apple LaserWriter is very intelligent.
printer shouldn't be taken at face value. Contrary to It actually outstrips the Macintosh in terms of proces-
some myths, it doesn't use a 'star wars' laser beam to sing power, using a 16 -bit Motorola 68000 running flat
burn the characters onto the paper. In fact, the out at 12MHz (the Mac's 68000 runs at 8MHz). It has 1.5
LaserWriter has much more in common with a humble Mbytes of RAM (even the Fat -Mac only has 0.5M bytes)
office photocopier than with laser cannon or other and has 512k of ROM (the Mac has 64k).
military hardware. The need for all this processing power soon becomes
Laser printers of this type work by using exactly the apparent when you realise that in order to be able to do
same copier drum, toner and mechanism as a full graphics, the machine needs to hold a bit -map of the
photocopier. The main part of the printer is a rotating whole A4, printed page. This alone takes over 1Mbyte of
drum which has a static charge over its surface. When RAM.
the print data arrives at the printer, a small semiconduc- The LaserWriter comes complete with two interfaces
tor laser is pulsed across the surface of the drum. Where to the outside world. One is a standard RS232 interface
the laser light hits the drum, the electrostatic charge is which is designed solely for connecting the printer to
destroyed; therefore by tracing the laser across the machines such as the IBM PC. If you use this interface,
drum, you can construct an electrostatic 'negative' of you lose the graphics capabilities.
the page to be printed. The second interface is an Apple Talk network socket,
After the drum has been set up, it is coated with which allowsyou to usethe printerwith a dedicated Mac
particles of charged plastic 'toner'. These particles only or share it on the network among a work group. I will be
adhere to the parts of the drum where the electrostatic looking at Apple Talk in greater depth next month, but
charge wasn't destroyed by the laser beam. Next, a one problem that is relevant here is that Apple Talk is a
sheet of paper is run past the rotating drum, which slow network so there is no question of sending a
deposits the toner onto the paper. Finally, the paper is 1Mbyte page bit -map down the networkfrom the Mac to
run through heated rollers which melt the plastic toner the printer.
onto the paper. To get around this problem, Apple has used a printer
Obviously, it wouldn't have made sense for Apple to control language, originally designed for professional
construct all the printer mechanism, so it went to Canon typesetting machines, called Postscript. Its great
which has a reputation for photocopier manufacture advantage is that instead of describing the page as a
and which also makes a basic laser printer, sold in a bit -image, it describes the shapes of the objects on the
modified form by Hewlett-Packard. page. Atypical Postscript page description uses around
Although the Canon, Hewlett-Packard and Apple 10k rather than the 1Mbyte needed for a bit -map.
laser printers all use the same basic mechanism, there is In use, the LaserWriter is a very impressive machine.
a marked difference in their performance. The Canon To make it work with the Mac, you have to install special
isn't particularly intelligent as laser printers go, and is driver files in place of the ImageWriter.
driver. Although

OCTOBER 1985 PCW 167

 page is to decide how many columns pointer in the toolbox, and you can then
the page is to have. PCW usually uses a click the block and drag it around the
three -column grid, but PageMaker lets screen ad infinitum.
you have between zero (that is, the Next, you can change the length of
whole page) and 10 columns. PageMak- the block. This is the most useful of all
er then displays appropriate column ca, but I find that this is too small to read the features. For example, you might
guides in the layout window. If you easily on the Mac screen. After I have lay out text down a whole column from
decide you want a special column finished the piece, I have to physically the top to the bottom of the page, and
layout, you can pick up the column select all the text (MacWrite doesn't then decide that you want a picture at
guide with the mouse pointer and drag have a 'Select All' facility) and then the bottom of the column, so you need
it to where you want. change the typeface and point size, to make a space. All you need to do is
One of the great advantages of before can run the text into Page -
I select the end -of -block marker and
PageMaker oversome of its rivals isthat Maker. move it up the column until you have
it can accept text and graphics from To import text or graphics into enough space for the picture. The extra
other packages. Text can come direct PageMaker, you use the PLACE... text will nowautomatically be moved to
from MacWrite or Microsoft Word, files command from the File menu. This the next column and space will be
and graphics can come either from shows a directory of available text made.
MacPaint or MacDraw. In addition, you graphics on the disks and allows you to Finally, you can change the appear-
can bring in either text or data via the select the file you want. ance of a block of text. To do this, you
Macintosh Clipboard. When you are back in the layout select the Edit ikon (capital A) from the
If you are dealing with graphics, it is window, the cursor icon will have Toolbox. You can then edit exactly as in
usually preferable to use MacDraw files changed from a pointer to either a text, any Mac word processor - you can
rather than MacPaint. This is because MacWrite, or MacPaint icon to show delete words, add extra text, justify,
MacPaint stores its graphics as a screen that you are in place mode. To place the underline, and so on.
bit -map, while MacDraw stores its text, you simply position the icon where To change the font or point size of
graphics as a series of graphic com- you want the text to start and press the selected text, you select Type Specs...
mands. The advantage of using com- mouse button. PageMaker will then run from the Type menu. This allows you to
mands is that they will work in different the text from the datafile down the choose from the usual Mac fonts with
scales and resolutions, but with a column you have selected, automati- the addition of Times and Helvetica,
bit -map, scaling is more difficult. cally wordwrapping the text so that it is which are built into the LaserWriter.
Another factor is that the LaserWriter is the correct width for the column. According to the manual, point size is
a lot happier with MacDraw files than it When it has finished, the text will be selectable between four and 127 point,
is with MacPaint. displayed in the column along with but, on the review system, the range
When text is brought in, most of its starting and ending block markers. If was six to 72 point.
word processor attributes are retained, there is overmatter (too much text) the In addition, you can set attributes
so font, point size, underline, bold, and ending block marker will show a '+'. If such as bold, underline, superscript,
soon, remain the same in PageMakeras you want to make another column, you and so on. You can also specify
they were when sent from the word can select the '+' on the end -of -block leading; this is the amount of space
processor. marker, the pointer will change back to between lines of print specified in
While this is generally a good idea, it the text icon and you can carry on as multiples of one point. It is usually setto
can be slightly problematic. When I before. PageMaker will only lay out one auto, but if you want more control, you
word process on MacWrite, use a I column of text at a time. can set it yourself.
12 -point Geneva. However, to lay out a When you have placed a block of text, Laying out graphics is achieved in
piece in PCW style, the text needs to be there are a number of things you can do much the same way. You use the
9 -point Helvetica. The obvious answer with it. You can move it around; this is PLACE... command from the file menu
is to word process directly into Helveti- done by selecting the arrow -shaped to select the graphic file you want to

the LaserWriter drivers take up more valuable space on the bit -map should be like and print the page. The worst
your system disk, they don't use the temporary print time I experienced was 11 minutes for a complex page.
files that you need with the ImageWriter. The main problem with my system was that the
The print quality is extremely good-the LaserWriter printer tied up my Mac while it was printing. I found this
has Times and Helvetica typesetting fonts built in. Other frustrating, as I could have been getting on with
Macintosh fonts can be printed, but they aren't of quite something else. Apple points out that the LaserWriter is
the same quality. Different point sizes, outline, under- designed for use on a network when it would be hooked
line, and so on, are fully supported. The printer is also into a fileserver which could spool print files. While this
very quiet - it makes no more noise than a desk -top is true, I feel that Apple could have fitted a bigger buffer
photocopier. inside the LaserWriter so that it could take larger
In real terms, the LaserWriter is also a veryfast printer. documents without tying up the Mac.
Thetrouble is that, whereas you can watch a daisywheel The main drawback of the LaserWriter is its price. At
printerhead printing the lines, the LaserWriter just sits £6995, the price is nearly double that of the Hewlett-
and thinks and then prints a whole page at once. Packard Laser Printer, which is based on the same print
Maximum print resolution is 90,000 dots per square mechanism. However, this machine was designed for
inch. This is superb by normal computer printer use on a network, so its cost can be shared among a
standards, but isn't quite up to typesetter standards, number of users. In addition, if offers featureswhich are
where 1.5 million dots per square inch is standard. just not possible on other laser printers: PageMaker, for
The actual time taken to print a page varies according example, can onlywork at its best due to the possibilities
to what you wantthe printer to do. As you would expect, opened up by the LaserWriter.
plain text is the fastest - it takes about 30 seconds to All in all, the LaserWriter is a superb machine. For
print a standard page of text. Life gets harder if you are general-purpose text printing it is expensive unless it is
printing graphics, where it can take anything from 30 used in a network, but as a partner to a package such as
seconds to 15 minutes for the printer to work out what PageMaker, it's cheap at the price.

168 PCW OCTOBER 1986

use. The pointer will then change into review within this article). There is no Using the LaserWriter printer driver,
eithera MacPaintor MacDrawicon. You other computer printer that can match you can either print the pagefull size, or
then move the icon to where you want the quality of the LaserWriter when you can scale the whole page. It can be
the graphic to be displayed and click the used with PageMaker. important sometimes to match the bit
mouse button.
If you want to move the graphic a File Edit Tools Page Type Lines Shades
around, you can select the arrow -0 Untitled
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around the screen. Using the arrow k .- I- A

pointer, you can also scale the graphic
to make it fit into a specific space. You
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can make a graphic thinner or wider,
taller or shorter, or both, by selecting
one of its 'handles' and dragging it with
the mouse. Holding down the Shift
button on the keyboard while you scale
the graphic will automatically ensure
that it stays in proportion.
In addition to scaling a graphic,
PageMaker also lets you 'crop' it,
trimming the edges of the picture so
that it fits the space. The advantage is
that the graphic stays at full size; the
disadvantage is that you may lose quite
a lot of the original picture.
In addition to allowing you to import R i6.:f:.. - Iffl 57 I i_ _ ii*Itli
pictures from graphics packages, the
PageMaker Toolbox also has some The layout window
drawing facilities built into it which are
useful for drawing rules to separate it File Edit Tools Page Type Lines Shades
columns, boxes around pictures, ovals
for logos, and so on. A particular Fetes Layout
Petes Layout11Pir''r-
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advantage is that you can specify
shades for boxes. Benchmarks in PCW,
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what has been typeset come back to us
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other than drafts of layouts. Thumbnails' print up to 16 pages on the LaserWriter

The LaserWriter is superb (see the
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 169
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images of the graphics and the Laser- work at around 1500 dots per inch
Writer or typesetter you are using. You rather than the LaserWriter's 300. But
can also produce 'thumbnails' of all the all is not lost. PageMaker talks to the
pages on one sheet of paper. This looks LaserWriter in a language called Post-
good and is useful for making sure that cript. This language is also used by
double -page spreads are correct before quite good enough for use in maga- some Linotype professional photo-
you print the whole publication. zines such as PCW, on which profes- typesetting machines, so it should be
However, even the LaserWriter isn't sional phototypesetting machines possible to take your Mac disk, plug it
into a Postscript -compatible typeset-
ting machine and produce professional
typeset pages.
This package offers 'what you see As an additional feature, Linotype is
also working on a phototypesetting
is what you get' page creation. machine which will plug directly into
the Mac just like any other printer. No
Bringing together elements created prices are available yet (it is likely to be
veryexpensive), butthis would open up
on MacWrite, MacPaint and the whole professional layout field to
the Mac and PageMaker.
MacDraw, full publication pages
Documentation
are easily constructed, yet it's I was only supplied with a photocopy of
ease of use is equal to that of the the pre -production manual, but it
looked very good. The manual was
Mac itself. prepared using Pagemaker and the
LaserWriter. The quality of the text is
good, with plenty of screendumps. I

liked the handy hints section atthe back,

Example text from a Linotype typesetter which explains different printer resolu-
tions and the print reductions neces-
sary for the best results.
I used PageMaker for about a month
before the manual even arrived, and
this kind of ease of use seems to be par
for the course for Mac software these
days.

Conclusion
I can't count the number of times I've
shown someone my Macintosh, and
they've said: 'But it's just a toy! It may
look pretty, but an IBM is much more
useful.' Now at last I can show Page -
Maker to them and say 'Let's see your
IBM do that!.
At first sight, it may seem that
PageMaker is a specialised product
only for those interested in publishing.
However, the more you think about it,
the more uses you can find. It adds a
Example text from the LaserWriter new dimension to internal company
reports, presentations, newsletters,
and form design. Any executive who
needs to present high -quality reports
could find a use for PageMaker.
Indeed, PageMaker isn't designed for
heavy magazine production. I'm sure
that if you found the right typesetter
you could produce a decent colour
magazine, but it would not be as easy as
using professional electronic make-up
equipment. But then professional elec-
tronic composition machines cost tens,
or hundreds of thousands of pounds-
PageMaker is expected to sell for
approximately £400.
I was extremely impressed with
PageMaker. It's the best Mac layout
package I've seen so far.

PageMaker is distributed by Pete and

Example text from the Image Writer Pam. Tel: (0706) 21744. END

OCTOBER 1985 PCW 171

 SCREENTEST

Telewriter
Telewriter combines the features of a word processor with the
communications capabilities of electronic mail. Nick Walker looks at the
IBM PC version of this versatile package.

In theory it should be possible to create Installation start or end of a document by using the
specified function keys. The function
a document on your word processor,
load up yourcommunications package, Like most PC programs, Telewriter has key on its own moves you down the
and send the document to whoever you to be installedforyourparticularset-up. document by the specified amount and
want through electronic mail. In prac- You can run the program straight off the shifted function key will move you
tice you create it on your word proces- but, unless you're very lucky, you'll up again, an arrangement that soon
sor, spend an hour converting the soon run into problems, especially if becomes very natural to use. There is
document from word processor format you try to print or use the communica- no facility to move one word within a
to a form suitable for your communica- tions facilities. Set-up is a menu -driven document.
tions program, load up your com- program that enquires into the basic Telewriter's normal mode of opera-
munications program, configure it for system you are using: for example, tion is Overwrite - that is, new text is
the electronic mail system you're using, whether you're using a decent display not automatically inserted in existing
and send it down the wire. or IBM's colour one, and which serial text but overwrites it. I find this easy to
It would seem that a combined word port the modem is hanging off. Overall work with, but most people prefer insert
processor and communications pack- Set-up is very comprehensive with mode. You can toggle to insert mode
age would be useful. Surprisingly, the options for type of printer, specific with one of the function keys, but be
only packages I've heard of for the IBM printer configuration, two communica- careful - certain function keys switch
PC that combine the two functions are tion settings, answer -back and pre-set off this mode, while others can be used
the full-scale integrated packages such responses, and defining your own in conjunction with it. The insert func-
as Symphony and Framework which printer characteristics. It will, for exam- tion key followed by the line, paragraph
also include spreadsheets, databases, ple, perform micro -space justification or page function keys will insert a line,
and so on. with top-quality daisywheel -type prin- paragraph or page respectively.
If all you want to use is a word ters. One frustrating feature of Set-up is The delete function key works on
processor or electronic mail, it's overkill that it assumes either a parallel printer lines, paragraphs, pages and even
to use an integrated package, apart and modem in serial port A, or a serial entire documents in the same fashion.
from expensive. Telewriter is a package printer in port A and a modem in serial Interestingly, Telewriter has a clear
thatfills this gap in the market, allowing port B. My set-up had a parallel printer, option, used in the same way as insert
you to toggle between word processor a mouse on serial port A and an and delete, which just wipes text
and communications mode whenever onboard modem on serial port B, so leaving a blank area where it used to be.
you want. This will, for example, let you was not supported. Cut -and -paste is provided, and at first
read your electronic mail into a docu- proved rather confusing. Rather than
ment and edit it as required, or send a Editing highlighting the textto be manipulated,
document straight from the word pro- Having installed the program you can Telewriter makes a copy of the text
cessor to an electronic mail system. now run it; no intermediate menus are which is then moved around with the
The version of Telewriter reviewed displayed and the program loads cursor and other control keys. When
here is for the IBM PC. This will run on straight into the main word processing you're used to large chunks of text
the IBM PC, IBM PC/XT, IBM PC Portable screen. Most of the screen, as you wandering merrily around the screen
and IBM PC/AT, but not on any of the PC would expect, is available for your pretending to be a cursor, it's as easy to
compatible machines. document. Running along the bottom is use as any other method.
Separate versions are available for a menu bar showing the current func- All the other basic word processing
the major compatible manufacturers tion of the 10 function keys (Fig 1), and operations are consistently supported,
such as Olivetti and Compaq. There is below this is a status bar which tells you including search -and -replace, under-
also a version for the Apricot range of which of two co -resident documents line and 'centring. The format of the
machines. you are working on and the current function to be performed followed by
Telewriter in its entirety occupies page, line and character positions. either the line, paragraph, page or
only 35k so it will run on the smallest The cursor keys move you by charac- document key runs right through the
machine, and being all memory resi- terwithin a document. You can move by package.
dent is quite fast. line, paragraph and page, and to the A secondary menu is opened up by
172 PCW OCTOBER 1985
hitting the F10 key, revealing a host of background, leaving you to edit text, key followed by one of the function
other functions. From this menu you get or store text files, and perform most keys. If you use three of these presets as
can access some of the more powerful other operations while the printing the telephone number, user ID and
of Telewriter's word processor fea- takes place. I can'tthink of a reason why, password, it is possible to log -on with
tures, and access the communications but one of the things you can't do while just three keystrokes, providing, of
aspects. printing is use the cut -and -paste option course, you have an auto -dial modem
One of the nicest features of Telewri- - very strange. The Set-up program to take the telephone number.
ter is its abil ity to hold two documents in contains information to drive 10 popu- In addition to receiving directly into
memory at the same time and switch lar types of printers, and Telewriter memory, Telewriter gives another nice
between them with a single keystroke. customises itself very well to optimal- communications facility-the ability to
The full power of this isn't realised until ise any particular set-up. send a prepared text directly from the
it is used in conjunction with Telewri- word processor, with a couple of
ter's communications ability and one of Communications keystrokes. When sending text, Tele-
the features of the secondary menu. Telewriter will work with either 300 or writer automatically enters terminal
From the secondary menu you can 1200 baud rate modems in either full or mode so you can see exactly what is
split the screen so that half is document half -duplex via the serial port. I used an being sent.
A and half is document B. With this, you internal modem board and told the I was very surprised to find an
can abstract a document from elec- program it was hanging off serial port B, encryption facility built into Telewriter.
tronic mail by cutting and pasting -and it worked quite happily. Two Given a particular password, Telewriter
across to the document you are creat- communication settings can be acces- will scramble any documents to be
ing. Incidentally, it was during this sed from within the word processor, so transmitted, making them completely
operation that I found a bug in Telewri- a 1200 baud modem could communi- unreadable to any unauthorised reci-
ter - not a serious bug, but a bug cate with both 1200 and 300 baud pient. Another user (with Telewriter, of
nonetheless. Another option from the systems without ever leaving the word course) can unscramble the text, pro-
secondary menu is switching off the processor. vided he knows the password. This is
menus at the bottom of the screen. If Hitting the ONLINE key from the usually done by a separate, expensive
you dothis while in split-screen mode, it secondary menu will put you in termin- package so if encryption is important to
only switches off half the menu, leaving al mode, where Telewriter is used like you, this facility alone may make
the other half stranded in the other any other communications package. Telewriter worth buying. can't com-
I

document. It doesn't harm either docu- The really useful feature of Telewriter's ment on the quality of the encoding but
ment, it just looks untidy. communications, however, is that at can confirm that the text is truly
Another nice feature of this second any time you can hit a function key and scrambled and unreadable,which must
command menu is the support of go back to the document you are give at least some extra security.
multi -column documents. As with all editing. All communications now write
good, friendly software, it's easier to directly into your document, so you can Documentation
use than describe this facility. You can skip all the logging -on and switch to edit Telewriter is supplied with a 60 -page
divide the screen into as many columns mode just before the information you manual and a 10 -page quick -reference
as you wish, and use the TAB key to want in your document arrives, going guide. Both are well -written and ex-
move from one column to the next. back to terminal mode for the logging - plain the program operation thor-
When you are editing multi -column off sequence. oughly.
text, a whole range of key sequences It is possible to automate your
becomes relevant. In particular the dialling and sign -on procedure. Within Prices
cursor control keys are used more, the Set-up program you can define 110 Telewriter costs £295 plus VAT for both
extending functions to work on col- preset responses which can be sent the IBM PC and Apricot versions, and is
umns. Unlike other word processors automatically to the modem. Each distributed by the Bristol Software
with a column function, everything response is sent by pressing the ALT Factory. Tel: (0272) 735022.
works as you would expect it to. The
only thing I missed was the ability to Function Primary menu Conclusion
specify the required number of col- key (editing menu) As a word processor, Telewriter con-
umns and leave Telewriter to space Unshifted Shifted tains as many featu res as it possibly can
them equally. Fl Document without losing its easy -to -use
Telewriter has quite extensive calcu- F2 Page approach. While some of the opera-
lating facilities built into the word F3 Paragraph tions are rather odd to use, when
processor. Probably the most useful of F4 Line compared with other word processor
these is the ability to total a column of F5 Paste Cut packages, the consistency of keys-
numbers within a document, with the F6 Delete Insert trokes needed to perform any operation
result being delivered neatly at the F7 Rule Underline makes it one of the simplest word
bottom of the column. You can also F8 Clear Centre processors I've ever used. After master-
enter mathematical expressions into a F9 Send Print ing the basic keystrokes, most opera-
calculation area and have the results Fl 0 Home Switch menu tions follow naturally, and even opera-
dropped into your document at the tions you never performed before can
current cursor position. Function Secondary menu often be utilised without reference to
key (command menu) the manual.
Disk and printer handling Unshifted Shifted The combination of word processor
Unlike many word processors, Telewri- Fl Indent Size with communications facilities makes
ter performs all its disk and printer F2 Reverse Split for a very powerful package. At £295 I'd
operationsfrom the same level of menu F3 Justify Calculate have reservations about recommend-
as the editing functions. By specifying F4 Local terminal ing it purely on the basis of its word
wildcards in the usual DOS format with F5 Online processor. If you want a word processor
the get -file option, the program will F5 Tab and also see yourself regularly using
display a corresponding directory. This F7 Sort electronic mail, this package is the
really comes into its own when dealing F8 Password Find simplest method to achieve this for
F9 Get Store both the IBM PC and Apricot micros. If
with a number of documents and
Telewriter's two -documents -in -mem- F10 Help Edit security and encryption are also impor-
ory feature. tant, then I'd doubt that you'll find a
Fig 1 Function key con better package at any price. END
Telewriter does all its printing in the
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 173
 IN BUSINESS

On the transfer list

GeoffWood presents some useful implementations ofthe DIFtransfer file
structure within spreadsheet programs, based on VisiCalc on an Apple II
The Data Interchange Format, com- figures for monthly sales and other ram such as FlashCalc or VisiCalc to a
monly known as DIF, is intended mainly items, you can transfer the values in database program such as DBMaster or
for transferring data between prog- these rows to Apple Business Graphics, PFS File.
rams that recognise DIF files. If you PFS Graph or VisiPlot in order to draw a However, DIF has other uses within
have, say, a worksheet devised on a graph or bar chart. Or DIF can be used to spreadsheet programs. Firstly, it can be
spreadsheet program with rows of transfer data from a spreadsheet prog- used to save memory in large work-
sheets. An area of the worksheet
Column>A B C D E F G H
containing many formulae can be
saved as a DIF file, and this file can then
Rowl Departmental Cumulative Totals
2 Cumulative Totals be reloaded into the worksheet in the
3
same area. DIF does not save the
4 Date Depart- Code Amount Dept A Dept B Dept C Dept D
formulae but only the answers, so the
ment DIF file uses less memory.
5
Another use for DIF is to copy rows or
6 Jan 3 Dept A 1 1000 1000 0 0 0
columns of cells containing formulae
7 Jan 9 Dept B 2 1100 0 1100 0 0
into other rows or cells and, at the same
8 Jan 13 Dept C 3 1900 0 0 1900 0
time, convert the formulae into num-
9 Jan 20 Dept D 4 2000 0 0 0 2000 bers. This can be useful for transferring,
10 Jan 27 Dept A 1 1200 2200 0 0 0
say, quarterly summary figures into
11 Feb 1 Dept B 2 1800 0 2900 0 0
another position for annual consolida-
12 Feb 9 Dept C 3 3000 0 0 4900 0
tion; the monthly figures can then be
13 Feb 15 Dept D 4 1300 0 0 0 3300 blanked out, and data for the next
14 Feb 20 Dept A 1 1700 3900 0 0 0
quarter can be entered.
15 Feb 27 Dept B 2 4000 0 6900 0 0
DIS can also be used to change a set of
16 Mar 4 Dept C 3 1400 0 0 6300 0
data from columns to rows. When you
17 Mar 10 Dept 0 4 1600 0 0 0 4900 save (or load) a DIF file, you are asked
and so on to whether you want to save (or load) by
97 Dec 5 Dept A 1 1300 118000 0 0 0 row or by column. If you save a DIF file
98 Dec 10 Dept B 2 8000 0 117800 0 0
by columns and reload it by rows, the
99 Dec 14 Dept C 3 1800 0 0 166000 0 columns are converted into rows and
100 Dec 20 Dept D 4 1200 0 0 0 138000 vice versa. The same thing happens if
you save a DIF file by rows and reload it
Fig 1 Departmental cumulative totals by columns.
Most spreadsheet manuals give little
Column> A B C D E F information on the uses of DIF, so some
Row 1Ouarterly and Annual Summary examples will not come amiss. The
2 Quarterly examples here are based on using
3 Month Apr May Jun Total VisiCalc on an Apple II, but they can be
4 readily adapted for other spreadsheet
5 Sales 30000 26000 30000 86000 programs on other micros.
6
7 Materials 15000 13000 16000 44000
Savingmemory
8 Wages 5000 4000 5000 14000 Worksheets which contain many for-
9 Overheads 7000 6000 7000 20000 mulae can absorb large amounts of
10 memory. For example, the worksheet
11 Profit 3000 3000 2000 8000 illustrated in Fig 1 contains formulae in
12 every cell in columns E to H, and it
13 absorbs 20k of RAM. But if the area from
14 Quarter 1st 2nd 3rd 4th Total E6 to H100 is saved as a DIF file and
15 loaded back into the same columns, the
16 Sales 92000 86000 178000 worksheet uses only 11k of memory.
17 This is a saving of 9k or 45 percent of the
18 Materials 47000 44000 91000 original. A 20k worksheet is well within
19 Wages 16000 14000 30000 the capacity of VisiCa lc on most micros,
20 Overheads 22000 20000 42000 but this example is given purely to
21 illustrate the extent of the saving in
22 Profit 7000 8000 15000 memory.
Fig 2 Quarterly and annual totals The memory savings are not shown
accurately by the VisiCalc display,
74 PCW OCTOBER 1985
 next three months, you will lose the
Column> A E F G totals in column E and the copies in the
Rowl Columns to Rows lower part of column C. By turning off
2 the automatic recalculation feature you
3 Year 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 Totals can hold the answers, but they will
4 change as soon as you recalculate. An
5 Cust A 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 6000 alternative is to use the # key to change
6 Cust B 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 6500 theformulae in the lower part of column
7 Cust C 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 7000 C into numbers, but this is tedious and
8 Cust D 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 7500 prone to error with more than a few
9 Cust E 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 8000 entries.
10 Instead, you can use DIF to save the
11 Totals 6000 6500 7000 7500 8000 35000 contents of column E, then load the DIF
Fig 3 Data by columns and rows file back into the lower part of column C.
When you blank out the entries for
Column> A April, May and June, the quarterly
Row1 Rows to Columns totals will be held in column C and, at
2
the same time, the cells in column E will
3 Year Cust A Cost B Cust C Cust D Cust E Totals revertto zeroes ready to accumulatethe
monthly data.
4 1980 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 6000
Again, this example is deliberately
5 1981 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 6500
simplified to illustrate the principle. In
6 1982 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 7000
practice, there could be many more
7 1983 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 7500
rows of data to save in the DIF file.
8 1984 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 8000
A similar technique could be used to
9 Totals 6000 6500 7000 7500 8000 35000
transfer data between worksheets. The
quarterly totals, saved as a DIF file,
Fig 4 Data after transfer by DIF could be loaded into a different work-
sheet for accumulation into annual
Column> A C D E F G totals.
Row1 Rows to Columns Columns to rows
2
3 Year Cust A Cust B Cust C Cust D Cust E Totals How often have you spent an hour or
4 more designing a worksheet, only to
5 1980 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 6000. real isethat itwould have been far better
6 1981 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500 6500 to have the row headings in columns
7 1982 1200 1300 1400 1500 1600 7000 and vice versa? If you clear the work-
8 1983 1300 1400 1500 1600 1700 7500 sheet and start again, you have wasted
9 1984 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 8000 hours of work. DIF enables you to
10 transfer the contents of rows into
11 Totals 6000 6500 7000 7500 8000 35000 columns and columns into rows in a
matter of minutes. Even though you
Fig 5 Data by rows and columns lose formulae in the process, it is
quicker to rebuild the formulae by
which records the remaining RAM to worksheets. replication than to start from scratch.
the nearest kilobyte only. Another If the cells you save with DIF contain Fig 3 shows a simple worksheet with
indication of the saving is given by the values that are rounded for display data for several customers over several
number of sectors occupied by the purposes, the DIF file when reloaded years, and with totals per customer and
worksheet on a disk. Fig uses 74
1 will display the numbers with as many per year. To change this worksheet
sectors on a disk whereas, after chang- decimal places as will fit in the column from columns to rows, thefi rst step isto
ing columns E to H with DIF, the file width. (The reloaded cells can be locate the cursor in A3 and save a DIFfile
occupies only 31 sectors, a saving of reformatted but this can be tedious.) (by rows, not columns) with G11 as the
nearly 60 per cent of the original. The Alternatively, before saving the DIF file, lower -right cell.
DIF file itself occupies only 12 sectors. you can use the ROUND function of The next step is to clear this area out
This means that worksheets with Advanced VisiCalc, FlashCalc, Magi- of the worksheet, locate the cursor in A3
many complex formulae can be saved Calc and SuperCalc or the INTEGER and load in the DIF file by columns, not
in DIF form on a disk in less than half the function of PractiCalc and VisiCalc. rows; the worksheet will then look like
space needed for the full version. Of Fig 4. This can be tidied by deleting the
course, you lose the formulae but you Conversion blank columns and inserting blank rows
may be interested in saving only the Worksheets for budgets and other with the result shown in Fig 5. The
answers. plans are often designed to accumulate formulae for totalling the rows and
The formula in E10 is @IF (C10=1, weekly data into monthly periods, columns can then be re-entered and
D10+@MAX (E5...E9),0). Similar for- monthly data into quarterly periods, replicated.
mulaeareentered in columns F, G and H and quarterly data into annual periods. Even with this simple example, it is
to test the value of the entry in column C Fig 2 shows a simple worksheet with fasterto use DlFthan to start again from
for the numbers 2, 3 and 4 and, if TRUE, data for three consecutive monthly scratch. With a bigger example, the
to enter the cumulative total in column periods accumulated into a current time saved could be quite substantial.
F, G or H; otherwise enter 0. The quarterly total. The problem is to hold
formulae are replicated down the col- the quarterly total for accumulation into Conclusion
umns using R, R, N and R for the four an annual total and then blank out the These examples show that DIF is not
variables in the formulae. This example data for the three months. just a means of transferring data
shows ony 100 rows and four columns You can enter +E5 in cell C16, +E7 in between different programs. It can also
of formulae; with more rows and C18, and so on, and the quarterly totals be used within spreadsheet programs
columns, this technique might prevent will be copied, but when you blank out to save memory, to convert formulae
your spreadsheet program from run- the monthly figures for April, May and into figures and to convert rows into
ning out of memory with very large June, ready to accept figures for the columns. END

OCTOBER 1985 PCW 175

 Mix'n'match
While compatibility is rife at the business end of the
market, home micros fare less well. Richard Sargent looks at
moves towards software compatibility on the Memotech,
Einstein and Enterprise.
In the early days of home computing, Even so, Sinclair didn't repeat the
most micros had only a very limited mistake. The second attempt to break
Basic. If, for example, a listing pub- with tradition proved serious for Jupi-
lished for the TRS-80 was typed into the ter Cantab. Its micro, the Ace, didn't
Commodore PET, it could reasonably have Basic, and although it had Forth,
be expected to work without much the public demonstrated its lack of faith
modification. Screen displays were by not buying it.
extremely simple, and the program was Basic and computers were insepar-
usually written as though the output able in the eyes of the home users, but
device was a teletype - all program the machines didn't need to have a
output (which was invariably text was Basic that was in any way compatible
sent to the lower left-hand corner of the with other Basics. Differences are
monitor screen, and it simply scrolled accepted by the user because they are
upwards as the program developed. always described as 'improvements'.
Teletypes understood the ASCII char- Even the most simple of commands
acter codes, so there were three main- vary from one computer to another: for
stays of computer compatibility - example, positioning the character
Basic, ASCII and the teletype screen. cursor. TAB(1,2) SCREEN 1,2 LOCATE
There was even a standard for cassette 1,2 PRINT AT 1,2 are just four com-
tape recording. Called Kansas City (or mands which will print a character at
CUTS), it stated the rules for recording position 1 on line 2 of the VDU.
the bits as 1200Hz and 2400Hz tones on Alternatively, RND(x) is a function
the tape. It did not, however, lay down which looks the same on most Basic
the rules for block structures or header keyword lists, but doesn't always func-
information - that would have made tion in the way you might expect.
things too compatible!
This compatibility didn't last long. Conversion software
Screen output became more compli- If you want to convert Basic programs
cated, graphics were introduced, and on today's micros, it's an uphill strug-
Basic listings began to sprout PEEKs gle. PCW has, in the past, produced
and POKEs as users frantically tweaked conversion charts which outline the press the software houses, which are
their machines to get the best out of differences between Basic dialects, and reluctant to produce programs for the
them. It was soon hardly worthwhile thesearecertainly a helpforsmall-scale machines. With few software packages
typing anyone else's computer prog- conversion tasks. But if the modern available, the selling strength of the
ram into your own machine, unless, of micro is as powerful as the makers micro is naturally impaired -a classic
course, your favourite pastime was claim it is, then shouldn't the machine chicken -and -egg situation. But if the
correcting the hundred or so syntax be doing its own conversion? Could micro can run selected BBC or Spec-
errors which invariably cropped up in Basic or machine code be translated trum titles, then, in theory at least,
even the shortest of programs. automatically or with minimal supervi- the software base can be expanded
However, standardisation was alive sion from the user? Conversion soft- overnight.
and well in some quarters. Well- ware does exist, but such software Enterprise advertises a Basic -to -
informed users could pass unblocked takes time to develop, and those Basic cassette in its 1984 literature. In
tapes between the Nascom 2, the BBC holding the purse strings have to be fact three cassettes are planned, read-
Model B and the RML 380Z. All these convinced that a market exists for the ing in and converting Basic from the
micros have Kansas City tape format. product. There are also niggling (but Spectrum, BBC and Commodore into
They also have RS232/RS423 interfaces potentially expensive) little points such the resident IS -Basic. Work on the
for more immediate communication, as copyright ownership to be sorted Spectrum version is nearly finished:
but in both cases it would only be out. Then, at the end of the day and if the the Enterprise is reading Spectrum
worthwhile transferring ASCII files as wind is in the right direction, micro X tapes, but there are still bugs to be
their Basics are dissimilar. can run micro Y's program and read its ironed out.
Two attempts to completely disre- tapes and data files: compatibility will It may be, of course, that the company
gard convention met with widespread have arrived. will have as many problems in making
disapproval. Sinclair's ZX80 and ZX81 Memotech, Tatung and Enterprise this package available as it had bringing
did not use the ASCII character set, make low -volume sales computers, the the original computer into the market
although this didn't prevent the compu- MTX512, the Einstein and the Enter- place, but no-one has ever claimed that
ters becoming runaway successes. prise. Modest sales figures don't im- compatibility comes easy! The oppo-
176 PCW OCTOBER 1985
sition, however, are rather better less in terms of a bonus for loyal make it work on computers which have
organised. customers. The Spectrum emulator is strange screens, strange keyboards
Tatung is supplying BBC Basic (Z80) in production and will be available and strange disk or tape systems. That
free with the Einstein. Unlike the primarily through the Memotech User someone is Richard Russell, and he
Enterprise system, BBC programs are Group. owns the copyright on the Z80 -code
not converted to the resident Basic: version of BBC Basic. As Gerald Parry,
BBC Basic is simply loaded instead of In practice director of M-Tec, is happy to report,
Crystal Basic. The Einstein has 3in disks The idea of brand X computer running Z80 BBC Basic is extremely popular.
and no tape interface, so other the best Spectrum and BBC software is If you're notworried about sound and
machines' programs have to be moved quite appealing: a great deal of excel- graphics capabilities, then any Z80
across on RS232 as untokenised files, lent software has been written for these machine running CP/M 2.2 (or later
which might prove tricky if the other two machines. The next logical stage is version) can run BBC Basic (Z80). There
machine isn't in the same room. to suggest that the BBC Micro should will also be a version for 8088/8086 CPU
Memotech has gone a stage further run Spectrum material and vice versa. machines soon, which may well please
and persuaded its MTX512 (or ex- However, there are enormoustechnical IBM and MS-DOS users, but it's the
panded MTX500) to read and play difficulties behind the program emula- emulation on the smaller machines
Spectrum games tapes. The system is a tion concept. M-Tec Computer Ser- which is perhaps the most interesting.
combination of software and hardware, vices, the Norfolk firm which has The Einstein has virtually identical
and the hardware add-on is clever and successfully marketed the Z80 version port and sound facilities to the BBC
inexpensive. In a separate project, of BBC Basic, probably knows a lot Micro, yet the chips are completely
Memotech has also configured the about these problems. different. The main problem is the
MTX to behave like an MSX machine BBC Basic is a public -domain lan- screen resolution, which at 256 x 192
and read MSX tapes - a slightly less guage and can therefore be freely pixels is not large enough to pretend to
difficult task, and one which doesn't copied. However, someone had to write be a BBC MODE 0, 1 or 4 screen. The
have an immediate application. the Z80 version, get it going at some- extensive use of MODE commands in a
Memotech sees both projects more or thing like the speed of the original, and program can therefore upset the
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 177
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 SOFTWARE
Einstein's BBC Basic, but the Einstein designer of Memotech's Spectrum of the host computer being equal to or
has much more memory than the BBC emulator,which will copewith machine better than the original. The screen
Micro and can cope with graphical code programs but not with Basic. resolution is the same (256x 192 pixels)
calculations which take a drawing off but after that everything is better: the
the Einstein screen. Spectrum Basic processor runs at a faster speed, there's
Instead of crashing the computer, the Spectrum Basic does not lend itself to more memory, the keyboard is larger
graphics continue to plot themselves, rewriting and it wouldn't be a viable and there are more colours to choose
even though the user can't see the undertaking to load it into the MTX, from. Even so, it takes an extra four
result. The lines reappear when the plot even though it is technically possible to integrated circuits to persuade the
coordinates come back intothe Einstein do so, due to the legal implications. machine code running in the MTX that
screen memory area. Spectrum Z80 games code, on the other the computer (and particularly the
This highlights the emulation prob- hand, can be loaded into MTX RAM keyboard) is a Spectrum. Fortunately
lem; if a micro is to pretend to be without any fear of reprisal - it is not a these are inexpensive ICs and can be
another, it needs to have either the condition of sale that a cassette tape be easily plugged into one of the many
same or much better facilities. The made to run on a particular computer! MTX ports, so establishing the concept
Enterprise, with its 672x256 pixel The difficulty is knowing what to do of software compatibility is likely
screen and 256 colours, should be able with the code when it's in the host to be attractively inexpensive from
to cope with all the BBC screen modes. computer, which in this case is the 64k Memotech's point of view.
On the Einstein, compromises have to MTX512.
be made. Sound is handled well, Tony Brewer's solution is to page out Conclusion
despite the chip involved which is the Memotech 16k ROM at a suitable The current development work at
General Instruments' AY -3-8910 and point in time and replace it with the Memotech is not confined to Spectrum
not the Texas SN6489A as used by the RAM normally mapped in the second emulation. The MTX series computers
BBC Micro. Adval is also supported, 64k page. The computer then becomes have a hardware specification which is
although again the analogue -to -digital a RAM -only machine, and there is room very close to the Japanese MSX stan-
for the Spectrum program (5CB6H to
FFFFH), the Spectrum video RAM
The MTX series (4000H to 5AFFH) and the Spectrum `There has never been
computers have a workspace (5B0Oh to 5CB5H). Calls to much evidence of a
hardware specification the Spectrum ROM (0000 to 3FFFH) are
intercepted by small sections of spe- demand for compatibility
which is very close to the cially -written code placed in key loca- between low-cost micros
Japanese standard . . . tions in what should be the Spectrum - games -conscious
ROM area. This code is known as the
the MTX512 will soon be interface code, and it is slightly different users bought the
able to behave like an for each Spectrum game. Spectrum or the
MSX computer.' Tony Brewer has so far looked at 30
Spectrum games, and has successfully
Commodore 64 . .

written interface code for 20 of them.

chips used in the two computers are How many he converts will depend on dard, and it is likely that the MTX512 will
different. Perhaps the best feature is the the interest shown in the first interface soon be able to behave like an MSX
operation of the Einstein disks, which is tape, which contains all the code to computer. This will not be a dramatic
rather more impressive than the BBC enable a mixed selection of 20 Spec- breakthrough, but a reminder that the
system. trum arcade games to be played on the MSX idea was a valiant attempt by the
Disk file -handling is not particularly MTX512. The original games must be Japanese (with a little help from Micro-
well -explained in the BBC documenta- bought by the user in the normal way: soft) to break into the European home
tion, but it is in the BBC Basic (Z80) Memotech is not offering Spectrum computer marketplace with a range of
manual, and by way of a bonus, the games for sale. compatible 8 -bit computers. The failure
Einstein disks are faster, quieter and This particular Spectrum emulation to impress the computer -buying public
hold far more information than the is very clever, and the end -result is in Britain is now so much history, and
average BBC disk system. suitably impressive. Even so, com- the MSX invasion was something of a
By Christmas the Amstrad will have promises have been made and, as Tony non-starter.
BBC Basic, and Acorn/Olivetti might Brewer is the first to point out, the Whether 1986 will see another
begin to realise that it's losing its edge system can't cope with two areas, attempt by the Japanese (or anyone
on the competition. sound and embedded Basic. Lines of else for that matter) remains to be seen.
Machine code is something of a Basic which help the machine code There has never been much evidence of
problem: there is nothing that can be can't work as the Basic interpreter is a demand for compatibility between
done to make 6502 code run on a Z80 simply not present. The small Basic lowicost micros - games -conscious
machine or vice versa. Embedded loading programs are no problem as users bought the Spectrum or the
machine code is as good a way as any to they are not part of the actual program Commodore 64 and in the boom years
scotch attempts attranslation or emula- and can be easily bypassed, but any- there was a wealth of software, of
tion. CALLs, USRs, PEEKs and POKEs in thing else and the program can't be whatever quality, available to keep the
a listing spell danger, and both M-Tec interfaced. Sound is less of a problem pundits happy.
and Enterprise concede that there is and is simply ignored, and as most As software houses fade into obli-
little they can do about it, but credit Spectrum arcade games suffer from vion, it may be that the new micros will
must be given to M-Tecforthe inclusion poor -quality sound anyway, this is not a need to be able to load and run existing
of an inline (Z80) assembler in its BBC major tragedy. software. The thought of a new 16/32 -
Basic (Z80). You can have machine code The MTX and the Spectrum share bit micro running old 8 -bit software
in your programs, provided you write it very few features apart from their Z80 may not appeal to product image -
yourself! processor, and the emulation is makers, but as a way of keeping the
Tony Brewer has approached the achieved by making use of the MTX's public happy and selling computers, it
problem from the other angle. He is the superior specification. Again it's a case might merit serious consideration. END
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 179
 HARDWARE

On the mend
When the manufacturerof your machine ceasesto exist and the dealer
doesn't want to know, who do you turn to forservice when things go
wrong? Wendie Pearson has uncovered some third -party maintenance
and repaircompanies willing to help out-in most cases, that is.

You're in need of a fast, cheap and miles away, so our service has the provides maintenance for all magnetic
efficient repair service-where do you advantage of locality too,' he said. media including disks and cartridges,
go? With companies seeming to be Lakey says the main headache is but not tape.
dropping like flies, who picks up the printers, closely followed by the break- The company not only cleans your
pieces when a manufacturer goes down of mechanical parts on disk equipment, but will also tell you if your
down? drives. This opinion was echoed by the environment is too mucky. 'Each com-
The last 18 months has seen a rapid vast majority of repair companies I puter room has its own problems,' said
growth in the number of third -party spoke to, making peripherals appear to managing director Alwyn Jones. 'It
maintenance companies springing up be the main liability. could be air conditioning that isn't
to repair orphaned machines and their 'Where software is concerned, we'd working properly and is bringing in
peripherals. While some may accuse ascertain what the problem was over dirty air and dust. It could be dirt,
such companies of behaving like vul- the phone and see whether it was a mishandling, a head that's beginning to
tures, ready to swoop with their ser- hardware or a software fault. If there's a drop and harm the disks, for example.
vices the minute someone else can't bug in the program, we're not allowed Dirt is a big problem, but people pay us
come up with the goods, it reminds you to help, but we'd act on the customer's to tell the truth, whether they like it or
thatthe law of the jungle is by no means behalf to get the problem corrected at not.'
dead. Wherever companies collapse, author level,' he said. 'We are totally impartial, doing care
leaving users without support, other Another company in the business and maintenance as a service - not
companies step in to provide whatever field is CDS, with offices in London, repairs, refurbishing or selling. We
service the public needs. Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester, clean things on -site but damage is not
Scotland and Ireland. It copes with our forte, although we can recommend
Services Apple, IBM, Sirius, Mac, Apricot, and people,' she said.
Machines whose manufacturers con- Lisa machines plus associated A minimum charge within a 40 -mile
tinue to thrive also need servicing, and peripherals, and an eight -hour turn - radius of Acron's office is £100 a day for
there's a wide range of firms to turn to. round is the norm. up to 20 packs of any kind, with
For example, there's Personal Compu- Contracts manager Hazel Wood- subsequent packs costing £5 each.
ters, based in London and Leeds, an house said that a basic Apple system Down in Surrey's commuter belt is
authorised dealer for Compaq, IBM and including monitor and disk drives Engineering & Maintenance in Woking,
Apple whose clients include the Lon- would be £400 upwards per annum for which does IBM, Olivetti, Sirius and
don Business School and London fully comprehensive cover including Apricot repairs. An IBM PC colour
University. Sales director Stuart Lakey parts, labour and travel. In comparison, system with up to 256k memory is £300
said: 'We charge our own rates, based a 256k IBM PC/XT would set you back a year or £85 quarterly, while a 10Mbyte
on eight or nine percent ofthe product's £408.25 a year for on -site cover, but that hard disk Sirius system would be £450 a
retail price for on -site service, and all is an absolute minimum. year or £120 quarterly. Monitors cost
our engineers are manufacturer Computer Terminal Services will between £45 and £60, while a Shugart
trained.' mend your IBM, Sirius, Superbrain, or Qume disk drive repair would be £35.
There is a same -day service for Apple, Cortex or Epson micro, but its This is fora 24 -hour response time with
on -site, fully comprehensive cover, as main forte is printers. It has 25 en- the offer of a replacement machine if
well as a priority time and materials (PT gineers throughout the UK, and the unit cannot be repaired on -site.
& M) service whereby the client is charges are based on 10 per cent of a Printer repairs vary roughly between
charged a small annual premium. The machine's purchase price, with mainte- £50 and £275 a year depending on the
latter is the cheaper option at around nance contract customers receiving a model you have, and can also be
one per cent of the purchase price, 24 -hour service while those without a charged at the quarterly rate.
which meansthata system worth £7500 contract get a 48 -hour service. And now for the news on Apple
would cost you £75 a year for same -day 'We aren't connected to any of the repairs! Although Apple might tell you
service. companies; we're purely maintenance, to contact its recommended repair
Alternatively, repairs can be done on so we live and die on what we do,' said a company, GCS, you may find yourself
an ad hoc basis when someone has a spokesman. 'We lend equipment to on a bitof a wild goose chase as: a)there
problem but no maintenance contract. people to go on with while we repair are six electrical companies in Mid-
However, Lakey points out that this is theirs, and although some people may dlesex which go by the name of GCS;
more expensive than the other two be cheaper, we still feel our prices are and b)the companyyou're looking for is
options. competitive.' no longer called GCS but Bell Technical
'Peopletend to cometo us ratherthan But if you're looking for someone to Services. (Will someone please tell
the manufacturer as we move quicker, spring-clean your magnetic media everyone at Apple?)
and our terms and conditions don't rather than mend your micro, you Bell Technical Services was formed
demand that you have to go to a place should consider Acron Services, which in January this year as a result of a
180 PCW OCTOBER 1985
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merger between Cable & Wireless and that if you want a problem -free busi- getting on a bit. The main problem with
GCS Engineering, and the resulting ness micro, you must be bald and micros is the interface chips, while
company mends IBM, ACT, NEC, Sharp refrain from wearing nylon underwear. with printers there are problems with
and Osborne machines as well as all And you will have to keep your corn- printheads.'
makes of Apple. flakes away from your machine. The company does most makes of
Responsible for warranty work on However, if the damage has been micro with the exception of the Spec-
micros from Sharp, NEC, Osborne and done and your system has a nervous trum, and customers include Stirling
Apple, the company does a 24 -hour, breakdown as a result, you can bank on and Strathclyde universities as well as
two-hour or four-hour response time, forking out £360 for an Apple III with many businesses.
and warranty on repairs isthree months monitor and single disk drive, or £440 Trident Enterprises in Berkshire
(although, under the Jaw, no-one is for an IBM PC/XT single -disk colour specialises mainly in Commodore
obliged to give you a warranty on system with printer. A single -disk IBM machines, Sinclair QLs and Spectrums,
repairs done, according to the Trading PC/AT is £264, an Osborne 1 £225, an although it does some peripherals, too.
Standards Authority). Epson FX100 printer £85, a Brother HR1 Minimum charge for business systems
According to Bell's marketing ser- £104, an Apple monitor £23, a Macin- such as the C4000 is £46 plus parts, with
vices manager David Aird, most of the tosh 128k£215, and an NEC PC 8000 64k the Commodore 64 costing £15 plus
recurring problems are caused by business system (including keyboard, parts and the Spectrum £10.50 plus
things users do, most of which seem to monitor, dual disk drive and expansion parts. The fixed charge for schools is
happen around breakfast time. These unit) £230. £23 per machine inclusive, and turn -
include 'cornflakes and coffee in All these are annual premiums which round is 24-48 hours.
keyboards, people using floppy disks as provide for a 24 -hour response time. If Trident attracts a lot of foreign users
coffee mats, and people demonstrating you want a four-hour response it'll cost and, like most other third -party mainte-
how floppy their disks are'. you 30 per cent extra, while a two-hour nance companies, puts its success
Aird was also eager to point out that response is 100 per cent extra (any oil down to competitive pricing and fast
you shouldn't put freezing cold disks sheikhs please take note). turn -round.
into hot machines, as condensation If you're located in Scotland, Holdene Spectrum owners based in Suffolk
could result. Not onlythat-theworst is Microsystems in West Lothian repairs could try CE Systems which specialises
yet to come. According to Aird, micros and printers for home and solely in Sinclair products. A small,
'women's underwear causes static business, including ACT and Commod- local operation, the company charges
problems. So does their hair'. On ore models. £16.95 all -in for Spectrum repairs and
enquiring what precisely it was that Prices start at £25 an hour plus parts, £12.75 for a ZX81. As various repair
puts women's underwear in the dog- or £50 an hour on -site, and a courier companies don't feel it's worth their
house, it appeared that the offending service is available for users who can't while repairing ZX81s, it's worth mak-
property was nylon - in which case, personally deliver to Holdene. ing a note of this if you've grown
men will have to watch what they wear, Engineer Len Chapman said: 'The attached to yours and don't want to
too. biggest problems are with Commod- throw it on the scrap -heap.
The message from Bell seems to be ore, as some of their machines are Managing director Paul Crisp will
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mend QLs although 'they'll cost at least I tried Toshiba instead, where the international repair work, too.'
£20 to do, depending on the dearest response was a lot more encouraging. It has two kinds of contract. Type A
component'. During September, the Product manager Chris Greet said the means a customer brings in the
first QLs come out of warranty and look company was training dealers selling machine and collects it, and this gives
like being expensive machines to re- MSX machines to provide mainte- you as many repairs as you need for an
pair, but you can save around £30 by nance, so that when warranty began to annual price of £24. Type B applies only
going to an independent company expire in September, a full repair to the Greater London area and pro-
rather than to Sinclair, which charges service would be available. Greet said vides for repairs on -site for £40 a year. If
an amazing £60 to mend the QL. he expected other MSX manufacturers someone lives outside this area, travel
In Buckinghamshire, GC Bunce &Son to follow suit on the subject of repairs, costs are added on, and if you have no
deals with broken Commodore, Sinc- and that, where Toshiba was con- contract at all, a one-off repair will cost
lair, BBC and MSX offerings. 'MSX cerned, prices would be in line with about £20. Turn -round is one week, and
machines, particularly Sony and Toshi- those charged on other electrical the company also mends all Cumana
ba, are starting to flow in now- repairs goods. drives, Microvitec monitors and Epson
on those vary between £15 and £25,' Extracting information from Acorn FX80 printers.
said director Mark Bunce junior. was harder. As the entire Acorn man- Being Acorn approved, spares are no
'The most common faults on these agement team was unobtainable, I problem. 'The most common problem
occur around the flap where you put in spoke to chairman's secretary Angela on BBCs, issues three and four down-
the cartridge. 90 per cent of wear and McGarney who refused to give any wards, is the ULA data RAM buffer
tear is circuitry breakage caused by information whatsoever on mainte- 74LS245,' he said, 'whereas with issue
forcing in the cartridge, but not enough nance for Acorn machines, either in or seven, there are short or long circuit
R&D went into their design in the first out of warranty. Each question was met problems or connections going down,
place, and I estimate that about 30 per with 'no comment' and she refused to rather than problems with compo-
cent of MSX machines that have had shed any light on where users should nents.'
go for support. The reason given was
that Acorn 'wasn't talking to the press'.
. the law of the jungle
.
A few minutes later, a mystery male 'Most third -party
is by no means dead. voice appeared on the phone claiming maintenance companies
Whenever companies to represent Acorn but refusing to give say that not only do they
its name. 'I don't think my name is
collapse, leaving users necessary,' it said. The voice said that have technical expertise
without support, other users should go to the dealer where which many dealers lack,
they bought their machine: 'All our
companies step in to dealers have a procedure.' A procedure but they provide repairs
provide whatever service for what? asked. 'For making sure
I much faster and more
the public needs.' Acorn machines are repaired,' it re- cheaply. .
plied.
The alternative, said the voice, was to
12-18 months of use will have prob- contact Acorn's customer service de- With Sinclair's repair prices at £30 for
lems,' he said. partment which will send you a pre- the Spectrum, £60 for the QL and a
The only machine that's giving the paid label so you can mail off your ailing quoted turn -round of 10 working days
company a real headache is the BBC, machine to an approved Acorn repair (although many users have found the
due to the spares situation. Although centre. But on asking who its approved reality a great deal slower), the Micro -
some companies managed to get these repair agents were, the mystery voice Surgery in Manchester is well away in
without too much trouble, Bunce &Son said that no-one had ever asked such a terms of competition. Spectrums are
has had a good deal of difficulty. thing before. £9.50 all -in, while a ZX81 is £7.50 plus
'There's a problem mending the BBC as Another call, this time to Acorn's parts (Sinclair doesn't bother to mend
we can't get the spares. Now that service department, made it clear that these at all) and repairs are done within
they've become involved with Olivetti, the mystery voice was not a hoax and seven days.
it's time Acorn pulled their finger out as that users should in fact go to their local When asked why users should use his
far as spares are concerned,' he said. dealer with any problems. Most Acorn service rather than Sinclair's, manag-
Repair prices for the 64 fluctuate, machines, I was told, are then sent to ing director Steve Bell said: 'Sinclair
depending on the state of the US dollar. RCS Computer Services in Middlesex sub -contract out to people like me
As the value of the dollar directly which does most of Acorn's repair anyway, and then charge the user an
influencesthe price of spares over here, work. arm and a leg for it. The only difference
the price can fluctuate between £15 and At RCS, consumer services advisor with Sinclair is that it goes through their
£35, but Bunce never charges over £35, Lesley Hogg confirmed that it was the system.'
as that is what Commodore charges. biggest company to do BBC repairs. You have to contact Bell via a box
Spectrum owners have a standing Prices are £29 for an Electron and £39 number or phone him at home. 'I don't
charge of £14 if they bring in their micro, fora BBC B. like to give my home address in case I
or £16.10 if it's sent by post. The Another Acorn -approved service get burgled,' he says. 'I'm a fully
company will also fix QLs. centre is Micro Fix in west London, qualified engineer, working on 16 -bit
A particularly sturdy make, Bunce which like Mr. Bunce, wasn't too minis as a permanentjob and doing this
finds, is the Atari 800 and 300 series. chuffed with Acorn either. 'The fact that in my sparetime, so repairswill be done
'They were built to a good specification Acorn doesn't actually refer people to to good engineering quality.'
and the person who designed them us doesn't help, because we have to Bell says he deals with a lot of
knew what he was on about. You don't struggle ourselves to let people know intermittent faults which he's trained to
see many problems there with broken we're here,' said partner Derek Mull- look out for, and some of the tools he
circuitry - it's more likely to be a ings. 'But we're an approved service uses are intriguing, to say the least. 'I
cosmetic problem with the case, for centre and we take care of most of the use all sorts of things like hairdryers and
instance.' Inner and Greater London repairs. Also, freezing sprays to find out what's
After several fruitless attempts to because we're based within an In- wrong,' he says. 'For instance, if a
discover Sony's policy on maintenance formation Technology Centre, we do circuit has an intermittent fault, and you
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heat it up or freeze it, it creates the different. Group marketing manager 'Each dealer has a charter to provide
circumstances that make the fault James Blackledge explained: 'When a servicefor Atari after warranty runs out,
occur, so you can spot it.' customer buys an ACT system, he gets and he may elect to do it through a
Readers parked on the North Sea in a document which he should fill in and third -party organisation. There are two
Harrogate should visit CRAM, which return to us within two weeks of alternatives: you can send it to Atari via
repairs most home micros except Atari the purchase if he wants extended the dealer whereyou bought it, ortake it
as it can't get the parts. There's an warranty.' to one of Atari's 60 service centres
£18.50 set charge on the Spectrum, but If you haven'tfilled that in, you should throughout the UK which are perfectly
prices vary on other micros. 'We'd be phone your dealer who will arrange for capable of repairing Atari products.'
cheating the customer if we charged a maintenance, although this will cost Turn -round is one week.
£10 minimum and it was a £5 job,' said more than the latter method. 'If you've Les Player, Atari's European technic-
managing director Peter Calpin. 'Com- boug ht a 256kApricot with twin double - al manager, said prices for the Atari XL
modore are a little slow on parts, but sided disk drives and you signed the and XE were £32 including postage,
they do arrive, and there's three months agreement within two weeks of buying while the 1050 disk drive would be £60
warranty on work we do.' and a typical printer £37. Warranty on
With each repair, CRAM sends an 'With companies repairs is three months.
engineer's report and a note saying that Of all the manufacturers I spoke to,
they fulfil all statutory regulations, so seeming to be dropping Amstrad (along with Acorn) was bot-
you can see what you're paying for. like flies, who picks up tom of the pile when it came to a helpful
You may of course chooseto gotothe attitude, which is surprising, consider-
manufacturer when warranty expires.
the pieces when a ing its otherwise excellent reputation.
IBM, for example, has a system known manufacturer goes After many attempts to contact
as Serviceplan, available direct from down?' marketing manager Malcolm Miller, his
the company or from dealers. eventual response was apathetic to say
This is made up of three options. You it, then warranty for one year will cost the least. 'Asking me for guidance on
can bring your ailing PC into any one of you £145 while two years' cover would repair prices is like asking me how long
15 service points throughout the UK, be £360,' said Blackledge. If you didn't a piece of string is,' he said. 'Quite
post it in,or paya biggerfeefora courier sign the agreement, the damage is £270 frankly. ..if people want mainte-
who will come and collect it. for one year and £450 for two years. nance... they go off to Rumbelows . . .

'If there's something wrong with the Blackledge also pointed out that or Curry's, or somewhere like that.
keyboard, printer or display, you get an although ACT's repair agents are called Their service departments are stocked
immediate exchange, but ifthefault lies Apricot Computer Maintenance, they with spares from us and the turn -round
within the system unit itself, we take it mend ACT's entire range including the would be one ortwo weeks.'
away and repair it, and the customer Sirius. Turn -round is 24 hours and
can come and claim it within eight there's a three-month repair warranty. Insurance
hours,' IBM said. Commodore said that all repairs had If you own a home micro, it might be
As the annual charge is 10 per cent of a 90 -day warranty and that turn -round best to insure it. Verran Computer -Fix
the machine's cost per year, a small PC was five to 10 days. A repair on the 64 is and the Micro Repair Club operate
set-up is around £200 per annum for £35, while having a Vic -20 fixed is £25 insurance schemes in conjunction with
mailing or bringing it in, while a courier with the cassette unit costing £11. the Domestic & General Insurance
service is 10 per cent extra. At Atari, Max Bambridge, European Company. At Computer -Fix in Camber-
ACT's arrangements are somewhat sales and marketing manager said: ley, yearly premiums are £16.60 for
micros worth up to £150, £22.60 for
Maintenance/repair companies machines worth between £150 and
Acron Services, 3-6 The Colonnade, High Street, Maidenhead, Berks. Tel: £299.99, and £30.60for machines worth
(0628) 37444 up to £600. It also insures peripherals
Apricot Computer Maintenance, Demuth Way, Junction 2 Industrial Estate, and prices vary.
Oldbury, Warley, West Midlands. Tel: (021) 552 1555 In comparison, the Micro Repair Club
Bell Technical Services, 13 Mount Road, Hanworth, Feltham, Middx. Tel : (01) will insure your micro at £24.95 for the
898 5251 firstyearwith subseq uent years costing
CDS, Downham Road, Ramsden Heath, Billericay, Essex. Tel: (0268)710292 £14.95 each.
CE Systems (Computer Division), 32 Churchill Crescent, Wickham Market,
Suffolk. Tel: (0728) 746759 Conclusion
CRAM, 82 Meddowcroft, Bilton, Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Tel: (0423) Most third -party maintenance com-
65270 panies say that not only do they have
Computer -Fix Services, Units 2H & 2J, Albany Park, Frimley, Camberley, technical expertisewhich manydealers
Surrey. Tel: (0276) 66266 lack, but they provide repairs much
Computer Terminal Services, Bryant House, Bryant Road, Strood, Kent. Tel: faster and more cheaply than the
(0634) 724333 manufacturers, should the latter still be
Engineering & Maintenance, Lansbury Estate, 102 Lower Guildford Road, afloat. Whether you own a BBC or an
Knaphill, Woking, Surrey. Tel: (04867) 88301 IBM, repairmen are popping up to
GC Bunce & Son, 36 Burlington Road, Burnham, Bucks. Tel: (06286) 61696 service all sectors of the marketplace at
Holdene Microsystems, Dalriada House, South Street, Bo'ness, West competitive prices, and their locality
Lothian, Scotland. Tel: (050682) 7506 and ability to provide personal service
Micro Fix, 191 Freston Road, London W10 6TH. Tel: (01) 968 9214 are just two of the advantages.
Micro -Surgery, PO Box 4, Cheadle, Cheshire. Tel: (061) 436 2688 It's worth finding out, however, if a
Personal Computers, 220-226 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4JS. Tel: (01) firm will give you replacement equip-
377 1200 ment on loan while your system is fixed
RCS Computer Services, Enterprise House, Central Way, North Feltham - and try, if possible, to obtain a quote
Trading Estate, Feltham, Middx. Tel: (01) 844 2044/1333 rather than an estimate when it comes
Trident Enterprises, 37 Linden House, Common Road, Langley, Slough, to prices. An estimate can mean just
Berks. Tel: (0753) 48785 about anything, but a quote is a definite
figure that you can budget around. END
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cost of purchasing the hardware and mission rate of 120 cps to cope with This slow speed is unlikely to affect
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manuals and training; and the sear- want to buy a faster one, you can get a minute.
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information is useful, but you don't run on your micro. This is especially have a good telephone line, preferably
think it's worth investing the time and important with IBM lookalikes, as some direct rather than through a switch-
the money in learning how to do it software packages written for the IBM board. This will minimise the chance of
yourself, there is another option. In- will not run on some 'compatibles'. As a interruption or line noise.
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Centre publishes a guide to these Modems have a multitude of diffe- use one of the public data transmission
services. rent facilities and specifications. I'll networks. The cheapest option is a
start with the simple distinction be- direct -dial local call, but this is usually
Hardware tween the ones that plug directly into only available to London subscribers.
If you think that online information the telephone socket and acoustic Long distance and international direct
would be invaluable and you have couplers - the ones with two rubber dial calls are expensive, so it's better to
some money to spend, it's worthwhile cups for the telephone handset. use British Telecom's Packet Switch -
investing in your own facilities. Don't The plug-in ones have several advan- Stream (PSS). With PSS, you pay forthe
skimp on hardware and software which tages - they're faster and more reli- volume of data transmitted plus a low
might be difficult to use and limited in able. Most acoustic couplers can only hourly rate and the cost of a local call.

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 Many databases not available by order that no-one can see them on the maintained by either non-profit making
direct dial include the PSS telecom- screen. It should also allow you to set up or government organisations.
munications costs in their online your own passwords to stop unautho- One particularly interesting example
charges. Before shelling out the £25 rised use of the disk. is a foreign affairs database which
connection charge to PSS, it's worth The other facilities you should look containstranscripts of radio broadcasts
finding out if you will need to have your for are: the printing and viewing of files from around the world. The BBC offers a
own password, as many of the hosts while online; x/on x/off, a facility which similar monitoring service which is
provide a free one. If you find you need tellsthe remote computer to temporari- available on Nexis and World Reporter,
to subscribe to PSS, dial your local ly stop sending data down the line; and but you have to pay through the nose
telephone sales office which will give the ability to be able to filter out whereas it's free from Clearpoint.
you the number of the nearest PSS unwanted control characters. Buying A useful guide which compares
sales office. the right hardware and software will database costs on different hosts has
save both time and money in the been produced by Martin Woodrow,
Software long -run: you can save over 50 per cent the County Information Librarian for
There are a large number of com- on searching costs by using a faster Hertfordshire Library Service. It gives a
munications software packages on the modem and good searching software. detailed breakdown of all the main
market, but only a limited number At the end of this article there is a list of hosts and the rates they charge for time
specifically designed for online sear- three such communications software online, as well as the charges for other
ching. There are three types available: packages. services such as offline printing.
those dedicated to your micro; those Another useful feature of Woodrow's
dependent on the particular host; and Database chart is that it gives a rough idea of the
general gateways to all hosts. With 3000 databases available, it's total cost likely per hour, including
The general gateway is probably the likely that there's more than one which Telecom charges. For example Cancer -
best bet if you can find one that runs on will suit you. When you require in- lit, a medical database about cancer,
your machine. It certainly gives you the formation in a particular area, it's costs approximately £48 an hour on the
freedom to diversify at a later date in essential to find the most relevant Swiss host Data Star and only £13 an
whatever way you wish. The following database. You could waste a fortune hour on the German host Dimdi. With
is a list of the facilities you should look sifting through a dozen databases, this degree of variation in cost, it's
for when choosing communications picking up one or two records from worth doing your homework. Before
software, and an indication of how the each, when a search of one database signing, obtain as many brochures as
facility can prevent problems and may provide all the information you possible and arrange for demonstra-
reduce search costs. need. There are several directories tions-the hosts are only too pleased to
Autodial This allows you to store available: one is free from Euronet show off their service.
telephone numbers on disk, and, by Diane, others such as the comprehen- Most databases do not require sub-
pressing a couple of keys, to make the sive Cuadra directory can cost over scriptions, so the cost of being online is
computer dial the number. It saves you $100 a year. confined to the manuals. Others have
the bother of remembering the number One of the best ways to cut costs is to large subcription costs or minimum
and, as often happens, re -dialling be well-informed about the cheapest usage agreements, but it is often
half -a -dozen times. sources of information and where to possible to use the same service
Variable communications settings The- find them. Although similar services without these large fixed costs. For
re are many different data transmission are yet to reach the UK, the US has a example, you can subscribe to the
standards and parameters. The com- newsletter, Data Base Informer, pro- Nexis/Lexis service from Butterworths,
munications program should allow you duced by Information USA, which the UK agent for £400 per month. If you
to set up the parameters in advance and exists especially to 'identify exisiting subscribe directly to the US outfit, it
then store them, so rather than spend- unique, free or low-cost computerised only costs $50 a month.
ing half an hour setting up the correct databases which can be accessed Before deciding on your method of
protocal, all you have to do is press a directly or indirectly'. subscription to this host, look into the
few keys and you're logged on. If you're There are a large number of free different charges, bearing in mind the
accessing several remotecomputers all databases, although the information exchange rate. If you are going to use
using different settings, this facility is contained on them may often seem the service heavily during normal
essential. somewhat obscure. Many of these are office hours, it might be better to
Downloading Most printers cannot
print as fast as the data comes down the
telephone line, so to keep costs down, 1) Use a 1200/75 modem
the program should allow you to store 2) Use a fast printer, at least 160 cps or a print buffer, or make sure that your
the contents of the search on a disk. communications software can download to disk
Many databases forbid downloading 3) Use a small number of hosts - different search languages can be
and it is technically in breach of confusing
copyright, so check first. Avoid prog- 4) Find the right database on the most convenient host
rams which limit the amount of in- 5) Find the cheapest way of accessing that host
formation that you can download at any 6) Attend as many free courses and demonstrations as possible before
one time. Downloading has the added paying for the databases
advantage in that the information can 7) Take full advantage of the free time offered to new subscribers
be edited later using a word processor. 8) Use the training, help line and search aids before you go online
Programmable function keys These 9) Most database hosts have help lines. Phone them, and ask them to take
allow you to set upyour search strategy you through the first search
in advance, thereby saving online time, 10) Unless you want to waste a lot of money, plan your search and be
especially if you're a slow or inaccurate familiar with the database commands before going online. Do your
typist. This is important if you are thinking before you go online
searching different databases on the 11) Remember that in some databases, you pay for both connect time and
same host for the same subject. the number of records displayed. Make your search as fast and accurate
Security If someone steals a password, as possible
you are responsible. At £90 an hour, it 12) Always log off if you get stuck
wouldn't take long to run up a debt of
Fig 1 The Golden Rules of Online Searching (or, how not to go bankrupt while
thousands. The program should allow
you to store your passwords securely in online)

OCTOBER 1985 PCW 187

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subscribe via Butterworths. Some of money through lack of experience Membership costs £30 per year, and for
the files on the Nexis service are also and/or inefficient and sloppy searching. that you get a regular newsletter, use of
available on World Reporter. These There are certain ground rules that are the library and all the help you need.
hosts have varying pricing structures, worth bearing in mind which, although The Online Information Centre
so it's sensible to subscribe to the one they appear to be obvious, are easy to 26/7 Boswell Street
that will fulfil your information require- forget. London WC1N 3JZ
ments at the lowest cost. Make sure you know howto get out of Tel: (01) 430 2502
It has been estimated that for the the system. Putting the phone down at
average user, 80-90 per cent of the your end does not always guarantee Different hosts have different
searching costs are database charges. that you will be immediately logged off charges for databases. One useful
As these are generally based on time the system: it might take the host a few source of information is:
spent online,the keyto cheap searching minutes to realise that it has a dead line. Information USA Inc
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retrieval of information. some systems. Potomac
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vice provided by Finsbury Data is slow ble with the skills involved in searching. major commercial databases, contact:
and will cost you a fortune on a complex Get into the habit of disciplining your- Martin Woodrow
search. It has recently upgraded its self into thinking carefully about what County Information Librarian
system, but it's still bestavoided at peak exactly it is that you want. If you're Hertfordshire Library Service
times. trying to gain as much information as County Hall
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evening for Dialog and BRS, and the particular company, for example-this Tel: (0992) 556629
direct subscribers to the Nexis/Lexis needn't be too difficult. Problems begin There are a number of general -
databases, usually a saving of about 50 when search strategies become too searching software packages. For a
per cent. If you are prepared to do your general and wide-ranging, which itself demonstration, contact:
searching in the evening, you can save is usually a prod'uct of being unsure of The Library Technology Centre
on both telecommunications and data- what you're doing. 309 Regent Street
base costs. Write down exactly what you want to London W1R 8AL
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many users are on the databases, so to the different words which might be Three of the most commonly -used
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twice as long to do a search in the early Some databases have special codes Userlink
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morning when the US is asleep or go for led terms' make searching much more Mansion House Chambers
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free dayfronn time to time. A good place ase or the process of searching itself. It The most comprehensive database
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publication produced by the Online methods of searching is going to find it Cuadra Association Inc
Information Centre. an inexpensive undertaking given the 2001 Wiltshire Blvd
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forget a particular command, especial- Information sources is available from:
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 SCREENTEST

Personal
Consultant
Is Texas Instruments' Personal Consultant a useful tool for building an
expert system? Mike Liardet evaluates this specialist package for the
Professional Computer range.
In general, computers compete with Overview -there is little mileagefor anyone,TI or
humans on dull, unimaginative and otherwise, in trying to go it alone with
repetitive tasks. But there has been a Personal Consultant is supplied as a software and hardware which is only
recent spate of activity, in the field of ring -bound manual with four disks. The superficially compatible.
'expert systems', which has led some programming language IQ -Lisp is re- Personal Consultant is intended to be
industry observers to believe that this quired to run it, and the review system used in the first instance by an expert
state of affairswill not last much longer. included this- another manual with a who may spend some considerable
An expert system is a computer single diskette. It is not strictly neces- time and effort in building up a know-
program which can substitute for a sary to be greatly familiar with Lisp, or ledge base (database) containing a
human expert, especially in activities IQ -Lisp in particular, in order to use the good deal of his skill, expertise and
involving knowledge or reasoning abil- system. However, it does help to know judgement. Following this, the know-
ity. If the instensity of expert system ledge base can then be available for
press coverage is an indication, then advice sessions with non -expert end -
there should be many human experts 'Personal Consultant users who would otherwise need to
currently feeling very nervous about consult the human expert.
their jealously -guarded monopolies on
organises its knowledge There are two very different classes
skill and expertise. in a "context tree" .a . . of Personal Consultant user: the expert
A recent expert systems arrival is a convenient way of who builds the knowledge base; and
Texas Instruments (TI) product called the ordinary user who uses it. These
Personal Consultant. Expert systems dividing up the problem two types of user each employ a
productsfal I neatly into two categories: domain.' different Personal Consultant module:
the expert systemsthemselves, and the the 'builder program' for the expert and
systems to build them. The majority of the 'client program' (or 'knowledge
products to date are in the latter something of Lisp, and in the long -run, engine') for the end -user. These two
category, as is Personal Consultant. It is to get the best out of Personal Consul- programs can be thought of as being
a specialist tool for building expert tant it will probably be necessary to quite distinct-the onlything they have
systems on personal computers, cur- revert to Lisp for some activities. in common is that they both access the
rently restricted to the Texas Instru- The software runs on a Texas Instru- knowledge base, but in each case for
ments Professional Computer range. ments Professional Computer with a quite a different purpose.
Personal Consultant is a commercial- 10Mbyte Winchester disk and a mini- The end -user should not need to
ised version of an expert system builder mum of half a megabyte of RAM. The understand a great deal about the
called E-Mycin which was developed at Professional Computer is a rather internal workings of Personal Consul-
Stanford University, California. quaint machine as it looks like an IBM tant. He arrives at the keyboard with a
Although expert systems have only PC, runs MS-DOS, works with PC problem, answers the questions gener-
recently become widely known, Stan- format disks, but otherwise has a very ated by the knowledge engine, and is
ford has been working in this field for 20 low level of software compatibility. then given the answer. He obviously
years. E-Mycin is only one of many Conversely, some of the Professional needs to know the necessary keyboard
developments at Stanford, all emanat- Computer software, including Personal procedures, and may wish to ask why
ing from a pioneering project of the Consultant and 10 -Lisp, will not run on the answer was given, or why certain
mid -Sixties- a system called Dendral, the IBM. The word from TI is that this questions were asked, but can other-
which was expert at deriving chemical state of affairs may change in the near wise remain completely ignorant of the
structures. future, and it is to be hoped that it does knowledge base structure and the
190 PCW OCTOBER 1985
intricacies of the knowledge engine, framework and structure for the know- the status of the starter motor would
and so on. ledge base. Attached to each context generate questions to the user on
Clearly the expert needs a much there are a number of 'parameters' and smoke, sparks and squeaks until the
deeper understanding of Personal Con- 'rules', together with some control status could be satisfactorily derived.
sultant. He needs to be able to encode information. Failing that, the third rule introduces a
his knowledge into the knowledge The parameters are values that are Personal Consultant trick of the trade -
base, test it and correct it, and organise associated with the particular context: essentially it says that if nothing can be
the format of advice sessions for the for example, a Starter Motor context found to be wrong with the starter
end -user. The key issue is that he might have parameters concerning motor, then assume that it's OK. Notice
should have sufficient understanding 'type of starter motor', 'status' (OK, that 'status' appears in both halves of
of the general structure of a Personal repairable, replace), and soon. In some the rule. This is 'self -referencing', and
Consultant knowledge base and how instances, these parameters may be set Personal Consultant will only use rules
the knowledge engine uses it, in order directly from values entered by the of this type if all else fails.
that he can phrase his knowledge so user. The type of starter motor would There are various ways in which a
that it can be entered into Personal probably be directly determined by a context's control information comes
Consultant. If he is not a computer visual inspection, and so would be into play. A simple one occurs when the
expert, he is likely to find it too difficult asked for directly. knowledge engine, in trying to derive
to work directly with the builder, and If a parameter cannot be determined the parameters for one context, has to
would instead use a specialist 'know- by a direct entry from the user, then it is drop down a level of detail to a
ledge engineer' as an intermediary. determined by using the rules. The sub -context. For example, when work-
Personal Consultant organises its ing in the Transmission Problem con-
knowledge in a 'context tree', which is a . it is invaluable for
.
text (Fig 1) it may have derived that
convenient way of dividing up the there is a transmission fault, but then
problem domain. For example, part of a building systems for have to consider the transmission
context tree for car fault diagnosis may diagnosis, guidance and components one by one in order to
look like Fig 1. In this example, the 'root determine, say, the 'component to be
context' of the tree is Car Fault Diagno- decision -making, but it fixed' parameter. Is it the gearbox or
sis (yes, the tree is upside down), and it should be remembered differential, and so on.
has 'sub -contexts': engine, transmis- that there are other One type of context control informa-
sion and electrical. These in turn have tion makes it possible to specify that a
their own sub -contexts, and so on. The tasks performed by context can only be considered if the
advantage of using the context tree is experts . user says so. If the gearbox context
that it is possible to divide the problem were of this type then the user would
area into small, manageable 'chunks', 'status' of the starter motor might be first be asked: 'Do you want me to
which can be encoded in isolation. determined by rules such as: consider the gearbox?' in the middle of
Somewhere at the 'tips' of the treethere IF belching smoke and sparks analysing his transmission problems,
will be contexts for Starter Motor and OR completely dead and if he said 'no', then the gearbox
Fuel Pump, which are sufficiently sim- THEN status is replace would be ignored. This could save him
ple to be dealt with without further the bother of answering a lot of tedious
breakdown. IF it's a bit squeaky questions about it, if for some reason he
There is nothing absolute about the THEN status is repairable already knew there was nothing wrong
context tree for a given problem, and with the gearbox.
different experts in the same domain IF status is (otherwise) unknown In some instances, an expert's know-
may develop completely different con- THEN status is OK ledge may not be completely precise.
text trees. For example, an alternative Personal Consultant's knowledge en- For example:
to Fig 1 might divide car fault diagnosis gine uses a technique called 'backward IF patient is sneezing
into Broken Down, Running Badly and chaining' when it needs to use rules to AND has a slight temperature
Minor Ailments. (An RAC mechanic determine a parameter value. It looks AND has a sore throat
might see the domain this way, in for rules whose THEN part appears to THEN PROBABLY has a cold
contrast to a garage mechanic.) For match the parameter whose value is Typically, experts form these 'rules of
simple problems the context tree need being sought; it then tries to find the thumb' when their domain knowledge
not really be used -the whole problem value of the parameters in the IF part. is imprecise or incomplete. This may
area can be dealt with in a single context This may involve looking at further happen either due to personal ignor-
(the root context, which has no sub - rules or asking for values directly from ance, or the need to save time (both
contexts. the user, or a mixture of both. theirs and the end -user's), or simply
The context tree provides the overall For the rules, attempting to discover because their domain of expertise has
not become sufficiently developed to
provide a precise explanation. In the
Car Fault Diagnosis above example, who really knows all
the mysteries of the common cold?
Personal Consultant can handle im-
and so on precise rules, formulated by an expert,
by allowing 'certainty factors' to be
attached to rules. A certainty factor can
range between -100 and 100: 100
Engine Transmission Electrical means that the conclusion of the rule
problem problem problem (after the THEN) is definitely true when
the hypotheses (after the IF) are; -100
and so on means the conclusion is definitely false
if the hypotheses are definitely true.
Inbetween values indicate less de-
cisiveness in the conclusion. Personal
Cylinder Crankshaft Gearbox Differential Consultant also substitutes words such
head as 'definitely', 'probably', and so on, for
the numeric values, and these are
Fig 1 Part of a possible context tree for car fault diagnosis usually simpler to understand.
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 191
 The user can also attach a certainty option to load whatever knowledge
factor to the answers he enters directly. bases happen to be on the current disk
He might record 100 for loud and drive, or to create a new knowledge
regular sneezing, -100 for none at all, base, or to quit.
and 50 for irregular sneezing where he
does not want to indicate complete A consultation
certaintyaboutthe symptom. Although To gain some familiarity with Personal
there is no compulsion to use the Consultant, it is best to start working
facility, it should be noted that this can
be a bad technique for building an
SCREENTEST with an existing knowledge base. Re-
grettably, the demonstration disk only
expert system, as in order to work software. These latter disks incorporate offers three, one of which is the tutorial
properly, it relies on both expert and a copy -protection scheme - the files example used throughout the manual.
end -user attaching the same probabili- arefreelycopiable, butthe software will This example is concerned with advis-
ties or meanings for the same situation, not run unless one of these disks is ing on whether to lease or buy an asset.
which is highly unlikely. present in the computer. If the lease/buy knowledge base is
Personal Consultant uses complex It is possible to customise various selected, it is loaded from a disk and the
mathematics to manipulate the prob- features of Personal Consultant, but master menu is then displayed. From
abilities, but I won't go into detail here. this is achieved by tinkering with this menu, the major Personal Consul-
Generally, if the hypotheses of a rule IQ -Lisp so is not to be recommended for tant activities can be selected. The first
have been deduced or entered with first-time users. option is Go, which starts the know-
some uncertainty, then the conclusion When the files have been copied ledge engine, resulting in a consulta-
will be even less certain. Following across, a batch file can be executed to tion with the user based on the know-
from this, Personal Consultant has ledge base just loaded.
built-in facilities for ignoring the very The lease/buy knowledge base uses
woolly conclusions that do not really `Personal Consultant is just two contexts and approximately a
say anything. Readers who are familiar intended to be used in dozen rules and parameters, but can
with Bayesian statistics should note the first instance by an result in quite an extensiveconsultation
that Personal Consultant does not use (see Fig 2). The consultation itself is not
Bayes Theorem, but an ad hoc system expert who may spend presented in the 'glass -teletype'
which is reported to be as effective in a some considerable time fashion shown in Fig 2. Instead, Per-
consultation, but more simple for the sonal Consultant uses a windowed
builder. and effort in building up approach - the top area is used for
a knowledge base . . . titles and general prompts, the middle
In use
It is relatively easy to install Personal containing a good deal is used for data entry or menu selection,
and the bottom identifies the currently
Consultant. A hard disk system is of this skill, expertise and active function keys. As each question
necessary, and it is simply a matter of
using the MS-DOS COPY facility to
judgement.' is asked, the previous question and
answer is cleared. If only a limited
transfer the contents of the supplied load IQ -Lisp and the Personal Consul- number of responses are necessary, a
disks onto the hard disk. There are five tant code, and then to start executing it. menu is presented. This is frequently
disks containing IQ -Lisp, sample know- This takes several minutes and is the case when a yes/no response is
ledge bases, facilities for converting accompanied by a number of cryptic needed, or when good/fair/poor re-
standard E-Mycin knowledge bases messages, then the screen clears to a sponses are required as in the example
into Personal Consultant format, and standard Personal Consultant menu presented here.
two copies of the Personal Consultant display. This first menu offers the It can be seen that the dialogue is not
completely smooth and natural. For
The following is a demonstration system which reflects a part of a example, in question one ASSET -1 is
lease/buy/finance decision support system. the internal name of the root context,
1) What is the asset that you are considering for ASSET -1? butthis fact does not hold a great deal of
COMPUTER meaning for the ordinary user. Having
2) How do you describe your current credit rating (Good, Fair, Poor)? stated thatthe asset being considered is
FAIR a computer, the word is never men-
3) When you go to borrow money, does the lender check on outstanding tioned again. It would be preferable if
leases you have? subsequent references to ASSET -1
YES could be replaced by 'computer', but
4) How would you describe your cash reserves (Good, Fair, Poor)? this does not appear to be easy to
FAIR arrange in Personal Consultant.
5) In your business, do you need to maintain larger -than -average cash Apart from simply answering the
reserves to maintain larger -than -average cash reserves in order to take questions, there are a number of
advantage of unexpected opportunities? different actions available to the user
NO during a consultation. At the touch of a
Conclusion: since experience shows that buying is almost always cheaper function key it is possible to ask why a
than leasing, and since the special cases in which leasing offersan advantage question is being asked, and how a
do not seem to apply in your case, buy the asset. particular conclusion was reached. This
6) Would you care to analyse the financing for ASSET -1? facility sounds better than it really is, as
NO unless the user is well -versed in the
Recommendation: my recommendation is: buy the asset ways of Personal Consultant, he will
Payment on the asset for ASSET -1 is: None make little sense of the system's
replies.
Fig 2 Sample consultation with Personal Consultant's lease/buy demon- At any time in a consultation, it is
stration advisor possible to return to the previous
question and change the answer given.
192 PCW OCTOBER 1985
 Premise of rule002:
1.
($AND ($OR (SAME CNTXT CANNOT -BORROW)
(SAME CNTXT PRESERVES -CREDIT) (SAME' CNTXT PRESERVES -CASH)))
2. Action of rule002:
(TEXT NIL. (TEXTAG TXTG1.)) TALLY 1000) (CONCLUDE CNTXT BUY
F TALLY 100)))
3. Type of TXTG1:
TEXTAG
4. Trans of TXTG1:
(lease the asset)
Fig 3 A small fragment of the dialogue to build the lease/buy knowledge base

Unfortunately the previous reply is expansions specified for all the identi-
overwritten by the next question, and in The knowledge -builder fiers, it can be neatly and clearly printed
any case it is not possible to go back The master menu contains several out (Fig 4).
more than one question. Nonetheless, options which are concerned with the Although Personal Consultant does
the facility can be useful for correcting tasks of entering, testing or modifying offer some help with rule entry in the
slip-ups at the keyboard; without it, the knowledge. As has already been form of an abbreviated rule language,
only alternative would be to go back to pointed out in the overview, the know- you should be warned that it can only
the beginning and answer all the ledge base for Personal Consultant is print out, not understand the text of Fig
questions again. This is also necessary based on a tree -structured framework 4. Bearing in mind the difference in the
to correct a mistake made earlier than of contexts which have parameters, two figures, this is an important point
one question previously. rules and control information attached. which artificial intelligence researchers
The final question in the consultation seem reluctant to emphasise in articles
is asking whether Personal Consultant on expert systems (see Byte, April 1985,
should enterthefinance context, where page 303 for a good example of this).
repayments can be calculated. In this . it does help to
. .
Conclusion
instance, many finance contexts can be
arbitrarily created as sub -contexts of know something of Lisp, I have given an overview of Personal
the root asset context, each considering and in the long - Consultant and attempted to show
different types of finance option. In the run it will probably
. .
what it would be like to use, both from
consultation given, zero finance con- the viewpoint of the expert and the
texts are created. be necessary to revert to end -user. However, Personal Consul-
From the master menu there are Lisp for some activities.' tant is a very complex system, and
other facilities which may be of use to inevitably some valuable features and
the ordinary user. One of these is the facilities have been omitted. To
ability to 'record' the dialogue. If this summarise the omissions, it can safely
option is selected, the knowledge The main menu has specific options for be said that Personal Consultant is very
engine is run in the normal way but all creating, deleting or changing each of powerful, and for flexibility and utility it
questions, answers and prompts are these components. In addition to the islikely to compete very well with
remembered. At the end of the advice end -user facilities, it also features any other expert system currently
session they can be written to a file, options for debugging, and for creating available.
from which they can be played back at Lisp code, plus other more complex But to introduce a note of caution: in
any time using the master menu facilities. common with all other expert system
Playback option. It is not possible to givefull
a builders, Personal Consultant particu-
It would be unfortunate if this dia- run-down of Personal Consultant's larly favours certain specific problem
logue dissuaded users who are really powerful knowledge -building facilities areas and not others. In Personal
familiar with the domain. Clearly it here, but I'll show a randomly -chosen Consultant's case it is invaluable for
contains a number of howlers, and it fragment of the dialogue involved in building systems for diagnosis, gui-
should be said that TI could have building the lease/buy demonstration dance and decision -making, but it
chosen a better knowledge base to advisor. This should dispel any illusion should be remembered that there are
demonstrate its product. For example, that a non -programming expert can other tasks performed by experts, for
in question five, the system should ask easily set up the knowledge base example spatial reasoning and
the user for his cash reserve require- himself (Fig 3). teaching, to name but two. For these
ments, and so on, and then reach its One of the key features of Personal othertypes of system, Personal Consul-
own conclusion about whether this is Consultant is that it uses short internal tant is not especially well-equipped.
larger than average. This type of thing identifiers for the parameters, and so Anyone contemplating the purchase
could easily be put right by a real expert on, but can also expand them for of Personal Consultant should be fore-
who knows what 'average require- printouts. Therefore, although Fig 3 warned on two points: it is currently
ments' mean- obviously the end -user looks very complex, when the know- restricted in use to TI hardware; and it is
does not. ledge base has been set up and unlikelythat a non -computer expertwill
be able to build -in the knowledge
directly. In fairness to TI, it should be
If 1) your credit is too low to get a loan, or pointed out that this latter criticism
2) this lease does preserve your credit rating, or is a fault shared by surprisingly
3) this lease does preserve your cash reserves many expert system builders currently
Then 1) it is definite (100%) that my recommendation is lease the available.
asset, and
2) it is definite (100%) that determination to lease or buy the Personal Consultant costs £2,000 for
asset is F. the package used to build the expert
system, and £250 fora run-time module
Fig 4 An example of the fragment of knowledge base created in Fig 3 to consult the system. ED
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SCREENTEST

ViewStore
Kathy Lang assesses Acornsoft's ViewStore, a BBC B data management
system aimed at novice users which has links to other View packages.

As a regular user of a 16 -bit machine noting are the choice of date formats - have up to four indexes kept up-to-date,
with a hard disk, it was with some DD/MM/YY or MM/DD/YY - and of and a further three read-only indexes
trepidation that I approached the task of character formats. The primary differ- which have to be reconstituted when
using a data management system on ences between these is in the way you have made changes which affect
the BBC Model B with a single disk drive selection works. For alphanumeric their ordering, or added new records. If
- it gives about a quarter of the fields, matching is carried out on the you subsequently wish to change the
processor speed and about 10 per cent whole field, while for text fields, each index field specifications, you can alter
of the memory of my usual system. In word within the field is tested for the file definition and then usethe Index
most respects, I was agreeably sur- matching. This could be quite a help in utility to create the desired new in-
prised by both the features and the applications with a lot of free text (more dexes.
performance of ViewStore, Acorn's on this under 'Selection & sorting'). ViewStore will also ask you to define
data management system which forms Validation facilities include testing to the maximum record size and the
part of a group of packages centring on see if a number or character string lies maximum file size. The usual way to
its word processor, View. within a range of values, and checking define maximum record size is to
ViewStore comes in two parts: the whether it matches an item in a request the total of field sizes plus an
main commands, including those for prespecified list. allowance for fields which may be
editing, are in a RAM chip which you can greater than their displayed size. This
fit to the BBC (or the BBC+) yourself; File creating and indexing gives some flexibility, but in practice
and a disk containing a variety of The first step in creating a data file is to you may still have to ask for the largest
utilities for creating and running re- define the fields: you must give a type size any record could attain.
ports, setting up a data file, and so on. for each field, you may give a name and As to file size, you need not specify
You must have at least one disk drive to also the size of the field. Unusually, this this at set-up time, but if you do not and
use ViewStore - it doesn't work from indicates the width of field to be the disk contains other files, you may
cassette tape. The package is initiated displayed, not necessarily that stored. find that the file cannot be extended
by typing a *STORE command from You can specify whether the field is to even though there is disk space left. For
within Basic; thereafter, asterisk com- be scrolled or not, thus 'freezing' the this reason, Acorn recommends having
mands such as *COPY and *CAT are display of fixed items such as codes and one data file per disk on floppy systems,
still available from within ViewStore numbers, but allowing you to display or allocating as much space as you
when you are at the command level just part of a long text field and scroll could ever need. (You would certainly
(that is, not running a utility or editing within it when the cursor is in the field. have to watch the space problem,
data). This could be very helpful in providing especially if you have single -sided
ViewStore has some of the attributes compact display of records containing disks. ViewStore files cannot span
of a conventional flat -file package in long text fields. disks, so with one single -sided disk
that each record in a data file has the Field names may be no longer than drive you would be limited to about 800
same number of fields and occupies the field widths. You can get round this by records of 100 characters each after
same amount of space, and you cannot having a caption or message attached allowing space for indexes.)
relate two dissimilar sets of records. to each field, which is displayed at the When a file has been set up with data
Within those limits, it is a powerful and top of the screen when the cursor is in entered into it, reorganisation is possi-
flexible package, with a number of that field. The other attribute to be ble in two ways. If the changes fall
features rarely found in much more decided when the file is set up is within the additional space allowed at
sophisticated systems. indexing. Unless told otherwise, View - the beginning, fine. Otherwise, the file
Store displays information in the order must be copied using the Convert
Constraints in which it is entered. Each file may have utility.
The major limitations on the use of a number of indexes attached to it, each
ViewStore are shown in Fig 1. The index providing an ordering based on a Data input and updating
constraints on record and file size singlefield (or the first few characters of You can add or amend records on the
shown are maxima; the actual limits it, if you prefer). screen either in a one -record -per -line
depend on the amount of memory and The number of indexes depends on format, or in a mode which mirrors the
disk space you have, and the details are the filing system you are using. For the conventional card index. To retrieve
shown in Fig 2. Other points worth widespread DFS from Acorn, you can records for editing, you state which
194 PCW OCTOBER 1985
 Maximum file size 4000Mbytes Screen display ments. Register values make it possible
Max record size (ch) 60,706 chars to accumulate expressions over all
Max no fields 254 When you are adding, editing or records and over a sub -total range. You
Max field size 239 chars viewing records, you can show the data can specify as many levels of sub -totals
Max digits 10 either in a table format very similar to as you wish, but the file should first be
Max prime key length 105 chars that used by spreadsheets, or in what sorted into the appropriate order to
Special disk format? No ViewStore calls 'card' mode, where make the specification meaningful.
File size fixed? No each record can occupy more than one ViewStore also provides a special
Link to ASCII files? Yes, several line of the screen. An initial form of card type of report for printing address
formats mode is set up by ViewStore from the labels, allowing, among other features,
Data types No,char, information provided when the record the ability to print several sets of labels.
date,text format is defined; you can either Any type of report can be produced
Fixed rec structure? Yes modify this, or create new formats of either on the whole data file, or on a
Fixed record your own. ViewStore will then fit as selected set of records.
length stored? Yes many records on the screen as it can, The ViewStore manual states that the
Amend recstructure? Copy data file using this format. This is a good deal package comes set up for a very basic
Link data files? No more flexible than is normally possible, type of printer which does not provide
No data files open Not possible as most packages oblige you to have emphasis, and that if you want to use a
No sort fields Unlimited one record per screen when editing. more sophisticated printer you should
No keys 7 You can have as many different ways seek help from your dealer. In fact, I

Max key length of displaying a set of records as you could not get the line lengths to work
(chars,fields) 105,1 wish. Field widths may be zero, provid- out properly even with an Epson matrix
Subsiduary indexes ing a way to allow junior staff to display printer, without issuing an *FX com-
kept up-to-date? 4 UTD and edit parts of files which contain mand (which not everyone wants to
Data validation Good confidential information, such as know about), so you should check this
Screen formatting PAS, default salaries. aspect with your dealer before you buy.
Unique keys No ViewStore also provides two forms of
Report formatting Cols, default, display for groups of records selected Selection & sorting
close link to for viewing only. A simple list format is The fastest method of selecting indi-
WP available if you want to show records vidual ViewStore records or sets of
Store calculated data No selected on the basis of non -key fields; records is via the indexes. These can be
Totals & statistics Totals, sub- this shows one record per line, with as maintained automatically, or set up ad
totals, many fields as ViewStore can fit onto hoc as you need them. They are based
calculations one screen width (that is, without on single fields, and on values which
in reports sideways scrolling), and without sort- match exactly or are as near as possible
Store selecn criteria Permitted ing. For more sophisticated formats, or to the test value. For more powerful and
Combining criteria And, Or when you need to sort the records into varied selection, there is a utility called
>1 criterion/field? Yes another order, it is possible to display Select. This allows you to either list
Wild code selection? String within on the screen reports set up with the records directly to the screen or printer,
Report utility. in order by the index currently in use, or
Browsing methods Any key
to save the selected records in a file for
Interaction methodsMenus, Printed reports
commands subsequent use, in which case they
The simple list format, one record per may be sorted first.
Reference manuals+ ***
** * line, can also be used to provide printed You can compare the values of fields
Tutorial guide+
Reference card+ ** ** output, but normally you will want to with constants, using the usual range of
** produce more sophisticated reports, comparison operators including equal,
Online help+
and ViewStore has a report utility for not equal, less than and greater than;
Hot-line?
this purpose. This allows you to use as both the values and, unusually, the field
many lines for each record as you wish, names may contain wild codes. The
For a full explanation of ability to include wild codes in field
abbreviations, see 'Database and to specify precisely wherethefields
are to be placed. This is done by setting names means, for example, that if you
dossier', page 188, January issue have four address lines called Addr1,
up, under ViewStore's instructions, a
data file which containsthe instructions Addr2, and so on, and you want to find
Fig 1 Features and constraints all your customers who live in Bristol,
forformatting the report. This approach
index you wish to use, and then specify makes it possible to edit the report you can ask fora match on 'Addr*View-
thevalue of the keyfieldforthe record to format using the same techniques as StoreBristor, and the correct record will
be edited. When a record has been you use for editing data. be selected regardless of where the
retrieved, you can then browse for- A simple example of a ViewStore town occurs in each record.
wards or backwards in the file in order report format is shown in Fig 3; the % ViewStore allows you to have as
by the current index, using the cursor symbols represent the format to be many tests in a single selection as you
keys. If you specify a key value which used to display the fields shown on wish, provided the total length does not
does not exist, ViewStore provides the each line. Items may be field values (the exceed 255 characters. To combine
next record in the file. Key value full length or only part), expressions, tests, you can use AND and OR in any
specifications can include wild codes: * register values, page ejects or corn- combination, using brackets to control
matches any sequence of characters,
while ? matches any single character,
just as in the BBC's own commands. Screen Mode 0 Mode 3 Mode 7
(You can, if you wish, omitthe specifica- Maximum record size 5k chars 9k chars 25k chars
tion of an index and just scroll through
records in the order of entry.) 40 -track 80 -track ADFS Winchester
All editing is interactive - there are drive drive drive drive
no facilities for specifying automatic Maximum file size 100k chars 200k chars 720k chars 1 OM bytes
updating if a group of records all require upwards
the same change. Nor are there any
facilities for calculating the value of a Fig 2 Model -specific constraints
fieldfrom another when data is input.
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 195
the order of evaluation and ensure the you may well survive. My own criticism
correct selection. Matching is, howev- is that this means there is no way to
er, case -blind, so a test for 'FORD' abandon an editing session - if you
would match 'Ford' and 'ford' as well. make a real mess, the only way out is to
For ordinary alphanumeric fields, restore the back-up copy (a means
tests are said to be satisfied if the whole which, of course, we all take regularly).
field (allowing for wild codes) matches There isn't even any way, as far as I
the test value. For items set up as text could discover, to 'start over' editing a
fields, tests are carried out on each single record-if you make a change by
word within the field. This could prove SCREENTEST mistake, you have to re-enter the
very useful in an application such as a instructions and responses for display- original information.
library catalogue, where you might ing the report on the screen, reissue
want to find key words within an them as often as you need, editing the Links with outside
abstract without necessarily storing report format each time until the report ViewStore is quite flexible about the
them in separate fields. is correct, and then finally change the record formats it can read and write,
Using the Select utility, you can sequence to send the report to the although I couldn't figure out a way to
request sorting on as manyfields asyou printer. write or read DIF formatfiles (of the kind
wish: for example, surname within There are two ways to invoke such used by most spreadsheets). This
department within region in a person- stored command sequences. You can probably wouldn't matter to most
nel application. You can restrict the sort store them in a file, called an Exec file, people, as ViewStore can read and
to the first few characters for a field if and invoke them by typing *Exec write files used by the View spread-
that will suffice for uniqueness. The followed by the file name, or you can sheet. Indeed, ViewStore can read and
number of sort fields is limited only by store them as a sequence to be invoked write flexibly to all the other View
the total number of characters to be by pressing a function key. The major modules (see Fig 4). A particularly
sorted, which may not exceed 250. difference is that command sequences useful and unusual feature is the ability
The output from Select may, and stored in files can subsequently be to write totals and sub -totals in View -
must if the records are to be sorted, be edited, while those stored as function Sheet format, as what you usually want
sent to a workfile. This file is in a special key sequences cannot- they can only to do is to forecast changes from
format which can be read by the Report be replaced. aggregate information, not from the
and Label utilities; it can also be raw data. (For example, you would be
translated, using the Convert utility, Security & housekeeping interested in projecting sales figures
into a data file which can then be Each type of file used by ViewStore - from the total sales of the last 12
processed using the full range of data, index, report, format, and so on- months, not from individual sales
ViewStore features. You should take is stored in a separate directory on disk. records. The latter could be summed in
care to rename any file of selected You can pre -assign these directories in your spreadsheet after transfer, but
items which you wish to keep, as only order that ViewStore will always look only if they would all fit in memory,
one Select workfile is retained - the for them on a specific drive, thus saving which is unlikely.)
next selection which you make and typing and more remembering. All the Apart from other View product for-
store overwrites the previous set of standard DFS and other BBC com- mats, ViewStore can read and write
selections. mands are available through View - most regular ASCII files. You can
Store by typing the command name specify field and record delimiters
Calculations prefixed by an asterisk, just as in Basic. (which can be more than one character
When producing ViewStore reports, As you add or amend records to each), as well as skipping headers and
items printed may be expressions; you ViewStore, the edited records are trailers, and there are many other useful
may also accumulate field values in automatically written to disk. There- features.
registers. Each register has two values fore, unless you do something very silly
- a totals value which is reset at the such as turning off the power or User image
beginning of the report, and a sub -total pressing BREAK in the middle of a You might expect that a package with
value; all sub -total registers are reset session, your precious data should be basic features would be simple to use,
when a set of sub -totals is printed. (If safe, and even in those circumstances but that is not always the case. Happily,
you have several levels of sorting, you
would need to think about the level at V iewl ndex ViewSpell
which to accumulate sub -totals.)
Altogether 26 registers are provided.
Of these, one is used to store the page
count, and anotherto countthe number
of records processed. VIEW
Multiple files
ViewStore does not provide any facili-
ties for handling several sets of records
of dissimilar structure. V 11'W 110i

Tailoring
Apart from the usual facilities for
adapting screen and report formats to ViewStore View Sheet
your requirements, ViewStore's tailor-
ing facilities are limited to an ability to
store the key sequences used to carry
out functions that you need to do often Printer Driver
in the same way. This can also be a help Generator
when developing more complex re-
ports. You can store the appropriate Fig 3 View interrelationships

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ViewStore is extremely easy to use, The two modes of display comple- The extensive and flexible use of wild
with its blend of a few commands for ment each other well, especially when codes is also an unusual and valuable
major operations, such as setting up a you remember that it is also possible to feature. It saves a lot of typing, but it also
report, and sensible use of function have several different forms of the card allows you to do a good many things
keys for tasks such as switching be- display. The unusual flexibility of this that would be impossible in other
tween the table and card modes of approach did a lot to make up for the packages. (The example of selecting a
display and examining the record drawbacks of using a data manage- post town from several address fields
format. The most extensive use of ment program on a television screen, provides a good illustration of this.)
lengthy typed commands is in the but I still think that for most people, the
setting up of selection criteria, and here investment in an 80 -column monitor Documentation
I strong ly ag ree with ViewStore's desig- would be well worthwhile. (This is ViewStore is supplied with a manual, a
ners that the simplicity and power of especially true if you want to exploitthe keyboard template, and a reference
this method of specifying complex selection facility fully. My only criticism summary card suitable for carrying in a
selections overwhelmingly compen- is that the prompt, which appears on pocket or handbag. The first few
sates for the small extra penalty of every line, uses 17 precious characters chapters of the manual explain the
learning the simple selection syntax. out of 40 on a TV screen.) editing and retrieval features, using as
illustration a sample data file distri-
buted on the utilities disk. The remain-
Supplier: Acornsoft der of the manual describes features
Tel: (0223) 214411 notso easily illustrated in this way, such
Cost: £59.80 as setting up a data file of your own, but
Systems: BBC B, BBC B+ throughout the language is reasonably
Type: Novice use, structured records clear and the approach understand-
Features: Stores records of homogeneous structure in flat file able.
format. Flexible record display, powerful selection The only exception to this is in the
including matching words within fields, good section on report formats, when the
reporting features including labels. Good links to examples are referred to but not
other View packages, especially ViewSheet reproduced on the printed page. This is
Drawbacks: Main disadvantage is limited disk size on most the only place where this happens to
BBCs - can be used on hard disk. any extent, and the one place where it
No file link feature should not have happened, as report
Ease of use: Very good. Sensible mix of commands and formats are quite difficult to come to
functions keys, extensive use of wild codes. Good grips with whatever the method of
prompting, little other help implementation.
The manual is typeset and well -
Fig 5 Comparison of similar data management packages printed (although in one colour only),
with the screen displays being photo-
graphs of real monitors. There is a good
Package Cost (f) Summary index, but apart from the page number
DMS+ 195 Stripped -down version of Delta from same supplier there are no headers or footers at all.
- one file open at a time, no tailoring. Good This lack of any clues about one's
letter -writer. Usable manuals, but no road map of whereabouts is a real problem in a
menus. Separate set-up and execute (for example, manual which must subsequently do
in selection) tedious. Good value for money at this duty as a reference document. Includ-
price. ing the chaptertitle on each page would
Files 295 Good value, easy -to -use package, with basic link have made life so much easier.
file facilities (three open, eight linked). Good use of
Folders screen when setting up files. Good list and sort Conclusion
features; no letter -writer. Menu -driven, no tailoring I found ViewStore easy to use and
or batch processing. Usable manuals, no road map. remarkably powerful for a package on a
Friday! 195 Simple, cheap, good -value package for single -file, small system. It could certainly be used
fixed -format records. Drawbacks are clurhsy for plenty of home file tasks, and would
approach in letter -writer and designing screen not be inappropriate in a small office;
formats. Excellent tutorial manual and menu the only real problem being disk
charts, reference manual is good used from screen capacity. (The program will run on the
to manual. higher capacity ADFS disks, and on
Pearl 195 Economical storage of varying length records, Winchester hard disks, too.)
multiple indexes allowed and kept up-to-date, The documentation is also of a
paint -a -screen formatting for screens and reported reasonably high standard, especially
(although no letter -writer). Entry screens can write the reference card.
to several files at once. Good manuals. Excellent I do, however, have one real bone to
value. pick with Acorn. How can anyone
TIM IV 295 Good value for money as an easy -to -use package distribute a disk filing system without a
with basic features. Extensive indexing gives disk formatting program?The aggrava-
flexible direct access and ordering. Especially tion that this deficiency caused me far
suitable where you need simple relationships exceeded any minor hitches experi- I

between files, or output to range of spreedsheet enced in coming to grips with the
formats. package.
ViewStore 59.80 Unusually powerful package for a small system.
Well worth considering for BBC owners, or as a
simple system on reasonably -priced hardware.
Gives basic data management features, including
flexible display, reporting and selection. Helpful There wasn't time to run the Ben-
text -handling. chmarks for this issue- the results will
be included in next January's round -up
Fig 4 Cursor movement chart of database reviews. END

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 Epson's new
'near- as- makes- no -
difference -to -
Epson's new
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 TEACH YOURSELF LOGO

Procedure
define thyself!
Harvey Mellar looks at how procedures are built up in Logo, and
presents a simple program generator.
In the September issue introduced
I An example of its usewould be UNTIL programs in which the proceduresto be
programs for pattern -matching based [XCOR > 100] [FD 1], which would run are not known at the time of writing
on lists. This month I'll show how lists cause the turtle to keep on moving the program. A simple case would be a
enter into the actual 'mechanics' of the forward one unit until its x-coordinate menu:
language- how to evaluate a list as if it exceeded 100. TO MENU
were a command input from the Looking at the definition of UNTIL, PRINT [MENU]
keyboard, and how the definitions of RUN is used twice. The first use is to PRINT [1 SALES LEDGER]
procedures are themselves built up cause the original command (ACTION) PRINT [2 PURCHASE LEDGER]
from lists. These features allow such to be obeyed again; this is achieved by PRINT [3 NOMINAL LEDGER]
things as adding new control structures storing the command as a list and then MAKE "INPUT READCHARACTER
and creating procedures that write RUNning it each time. The second use is IF MEMBER? INPUT [1 23] THEN RUN
other procedures, but be warned - it's to re-evaluate the condition (COND) (LIST WORD "PROG :INPUT)
worrying when programs start writing under each new set of circumstances, MENU
themselves. All the old cliches about whenever the procedure is caled. END
computers only doing what you tell Logo does make one concession to To see how this works, imagine that
them suddenly begin to look somewhat iteration by including REPEAT, but the user types 1. The input character is
less than obvious. otherwise an equivalent could have stored in INPUT, then WORD "PROG
I'll also examine how keyboard input been defined as: :INPUT creates the word PROG1 which
is dealt with and how errors can be TO .REPEAT :NO :LIST is the name of the procedure to run the
trapped. These extra features com- IF :NO < 0.5 THEN STOP sales ledger. ( LIST WORD "PROG
bined with existing knowledge will RUN :LAST :INPUT) now takes the word and makes
allow us to write a simple program .REPEAT :NO - 1 :LIST it into a list-the brackets are needed
generator. END here to inform Logo that LIST is only
The primitive RUN takes one input, a RUN has many other uses besides going to have one input rather than the
list, which it evaluates (runs) as if it had adding new control structures, and I will usual two. We now have something,
just been typed in at the keyboard. RUN give more examples later. Basic and [PROG1], on which RUN can work in
[FD 50] would have the same effect as Pascal have no equivalent to RUN, but order to run the correct procedure.
FD 50, and RUN [ :X < 5 ] would return Lisp has the very similar function EVAL. This procedure would be unsuitable
TRUE or FALSE depending on the value None of the procedures presented so for uses such as video games, and in
of :X. The usefulness of RUN is evident far have needed to read any data from such cases the procedure READKEY
in those cases where a procedure the keyboard, due to the interactive can be useful:
constructs a list which can then be run nature of the language. I have defined TO READKEY
as if it had been a command. Another procedures that require inputs rather IF RC? THEN OUTPUT READCHAR-
use for RUN is to find the value of an than ones which have to ask the user for ACTER
expression at various times during the certain values while they are running. OUTPUT"
running of a program. There are clearly circumstances in END
RUN can be used to add new control which it is important for a procedure to READKEY outputs a character if there
structures to the language. Most ver- be able to tell if a key has been pressed. is one waiting in the buffer, but
sions of Logo do not have equivalents To handle this task, Logo has two otherwise outputs the empty word so
of WHILE ... DO or REPEAT . . UNTIL primitives, RC? and READCHARACTER that there is no delay in waiting for a
constructions as the same results can (or KEYP and READCH in LCSI Logo keypress.
be achieved by using recursion, but if versions. When a key is pressed, the
you find it easier to understand and corresponding character is stored in an Procedure DEFINE thyself!
write programs using these structures, input buffer. READCHARACTER causes Now for the really interesting bit. Logo
they are easily added. For example, Logo to read the next character in the procedure definitions are stored as
here is a form of a REPEAT ... UNTIL input buffer; if the buffer is empty, Logo lists. Logo can manipulate the defini-
loop: waitsforthe next keyto be pressed. RC? tions of procedures, and by using the
TO UNTIL :COND :ACTION is set to TRUE if there are any characters two primitives DEFINE and TEXTwe are
RUN :ACTION waiting in the buffer, otherwise it is set able to make procedures look into other
IF ( RUN :COND THEN STOP to FALSE. procedures, to disect and rewrite them,
UNTIL :COND :ACTION Now that we can read characters to create new procedures - even to
END from the keyboard, it is possible to write rewrite themselves!
200 PCW OCTOBER 1985
 dure to draw a flag might look like this:
TO FLAG
; THIS PROCEDURE DRAWS A FLAG
; FIRST DRAW THE POLE
FD 80
; THEN DRAW A SQUARE
REPEAT 4 [FD 30 RT 90]
; THEN GO BACK TO WHERE YOU
CAME FROM
BK 80
END
When it comes to running a set of
procedures, space may betight, and it is
then useful to be able to strip all the
comments away but leave the rest of
the program unaltered. This is what the
procedure STRIP does:
TO STRIP :PROC
DEFINE :PROC ( FPUT ( FIRST TEXT
:PROC) ( STRIP1 BUTFIRST TEXT
:PROC ) I
END
This redefines the procedure. The
first element of the list making up the
new definition is the same as that in the
original - this is simply the list of the
inputs. The rest of the list is obtained by
omitting any lines that begin with ;.
STRIP1 removes all the comment lines
and outputs the remaining text:
TO STRIP1 :LIST
IF EMPTY? :LIST THEN OUTPUT [1
IF FIRST FIRST :LIST = "; THEN
OUTPUT STRIP1 BUTFIRST :LIST
OUTPUT FPUT FIRST :LIST STRIP1
BUTFIRST :LIST
END
To understand how this works, re-
member that the text of a program is a
list of lists, so one element of this text
will be a listcorresponding to one line of
the program. The next line of the
program is given by FIRST :LIST; the
first word on this line is therefore FIRST
FIRST :LIST, and it is this we want to
examine to see if it is a ;.
Type STRIP "FLAG and then examine
FLAG to see what has happened.
To try this out, it is worth first defining FD :SIDE Omitting whole lines of a procedure
a simple procedure in the editor: RT 120 is not difficult, but it is less easy to
TO TRI END replace particular numerical values in a
FD 50 Now type PRINT TEXT "TRI and you procedure with newvalues that must be
RT 120 should get. calculated at the time the procedure is
FD 50 [:SIDE][FD :SIDE][RT 120][FD :SIDE] run. The next example shows how
RT 120 [RT 120][FD :SIDE][RT 120] DEFINE and RUN can work together to
FD 50 The first sub -list is simply a list of the solve this problem.
RT 120 inputs to the procedure. The procedure GROW takes two
END The primitive which takes us the inputs - the name of a simple shape -
TEXT takes a procedure and outputs otherway and defines a procedure from drawing procedure, and a list defining
its definition as a list. Try PRINT TEXT a list is called DEFINE. Try DEFINE an operation to be performed on every
"TRI - the result should be: "SQUARE [ll [REPEAT 4 [FD 50 RT 90]1], side -of that shape. GROW "TRI [+ 20]
[][ED 50][RT 120][FD 50][RT 120][FD then try running SQUARE and examin- will define the TRI procedure with all its
50][RT 1201 ing it in the editor to see exactly what sides 20 units longer.
PRINT always removes the outer has happened. The procedures as shown here will
level of brackets when it prints a list, so One very simple use for these primi- only rewrite procedures whose draw-
this is a list composed of lists, each of tives would be to combine them in ing commands are all of the form FD
which is a single line of the procedure. order to make a copy of a procedure. For followed by a constant, and do not
To see what the initial list is for,
[] example: allow the use of REPEAT, but it is not
change the procedure to one involving DEFINE "TRICOPY TEXT "TRI difficult to add a number of sophistica-
inputs: A more sophisticated application of tions to this basic design.
TO TRI :SIDE these procedures would be to write a TO GROW :PROCNAME :OPLIST
FD :SIDE program that removes comments from DEFINE :PROCNAME REWRITE.
RT 120 a Logo program. In most versions of PROC TEXT :PROCNAME
FD :SIDE Logo, a ; is used to mark a line as a END
RT 120 comment. A well -commented proce- GROW does the redefining of the
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 201
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 TEACH YOURSELF LOGO
procedure, but it passes the whole task the editor, define a procedu re and come PRINT1 [STEP?]
of determining the test of the new out again, and still be in this procedure, MAKE "STEP REQUEST
procedure to REWRITE.PROC. rather than back at top level. This END
TO REWRITE.PROC :TEXT procedure shows the highest -level
IF EMPTY? :TEXT THEN OUTPUT [] structure of the Logo interpreter- print TO REPETITION
OUTPUT FPUT REWRITE.LINE FIRST a prompt, get a command, run it, and do PRINT [DO YOU WISH TO]
:TEXT REWRITE.PROC BUTFIRST itall again. PRINT [1 DO ONCE]
:TEXT Some versions of Logo (including PRINT [2 REPEAT A FIXED NUMBER
END most LCSI versions have a primitive OF TIMES]
REWRITE.PROC divides the proce- CATCH which enables us to deal with PRINT [3 REPEAT INDEFINITELY UN-
dure into lines, and passes the task of errors without the procedure losing TIL A CONDITION IS MET]
rewriting each line to REWRITE.LINE control. We have added a simple form MAKE "CHOICE FIRST REQUEST
TO REWRITE.LINE :LINE of error trapping to our earlier version IF :CHOICE = 1 THEN ONCE.CODE
IF EMPTY? :LINE THEN OUTPUT [] of *Logo in the following example: IF :CHOICE = 2 THEN REPT.CODE
IF FIRST :LINE = "FD THEN OUTPUT TO OUTER IF :CHOICE = 3 THEN UNTIL.CODE
CHANGE BUTFIRST :LINE CATCH "ERROR[*LOGO] END
OUTPUT FPUT FIRST :LINE RE- PRINT [THAT WAS AN ERROR]
WRITE.LINE BUTFIRST :LINE OUTER TO ONCE.CODE
END END MAKE "TXT LPUT :STEP :TXT
This looks for any occurrence of FD Type OUTER. On meeting the line END
and replaces it with a new expression. If including the CATCH, Logo runs the
FD 20 and :OPLIST is [* 3], the new final list, which in this case is simply the TO REPT.CODE
command should be FD 60. This is the procedure *LOGO. However, if an error PRINT1 [HOW MANY TIMES?]
task handled by CHANGE. occurs while running *LOGO, control MAKE "NO FIRST REQUEST
TO CHANGE :LIST reverts to the line following CATCH MAKE "TXT LPUT (LIST "REPEAT
OUTPUT ( FPUT "FD FPUT ( RUN "ERROR in OUTER. This prints an error :NO :STEP :TXT
FPUT FIRST :LIST :OPLIST ) RE- message and then starts again. The END
WRITE.LINE BUTFIRST :LIST ) only way now of breaking out of this
END loop is through CTRL -G or BREAK. TO UNTIL.CODE
Notice the use of RUN here to cause the Some versions of Logo enable you to PRINT1 [UNTIL WHEN?]
evaluation of the expression to take examine the error and print out MAKE "COND REQUEST
place before the elements are put appropriate error messages or default MAKE "TXT LPUT ( LIST "UNTIL
together in the new line. to the original Logo error messages as :COND :STEP) :TXT
Most Logo editors do not include a required. END
global replace command which would
replace all occurrences of X by Y within Program generator TO UNTIL :COND :LIST
a procedure, for example. It is quite Thefollowing program asksthe userfor RUN :LIST
feasible to write a procedure along the a few inputs and creates a procedure. It IF ( RUN :COND) THEN STOP
lines of those given here, which can be then tries to run the procedure and if an UNTIL :COND :LIST
used outside the editor to perform this error is found, it asks the user to start END
task. again. This particular program gener- The individual procedures are not
We often need to read in a line of text ator enables someone with very little difficult to understand, and as to how it
in one go. This is achieved in Logo by knowledge of Logo to create interesting all fits together, this can be explained by
the command REQUESTwhich putsthe turtle graphic procedures without us- an example interaction. In the follow-
input into a list. ing the editor. ing, the user's input is underlined.
MAKE "INPUT REQUEST causes TO DEF NAME? SPI
Logoto halt until a line of text isentered, CATCH "ERROR [DEFN] STEP? MAKE "X 5
and then assigns it to INPUT. Individual PRINT [ERROR, TRY AGAIN] DO YOU WISH TO
items from this list can then be selected DEF 1 DO ONCE
using the list processing commands. If END 2 REPEAT A FIXED NUMBER OF TIMES
only one word was typed, it still would 3 REPEAT INDEFINITELY UNTIL A
have to be selected by means of FIRST TO DEFN CONDITION IS MET
:INPUT. The advantage of this method NAME (User presses 1)
is that it does make it very easy to input COMMANDS
several words and then to access those DEFINE :NAME FPUT [] :TXT STEP? FD :X RT 120 MAKE "X :X + 5
words individually. RUN ( LIST :NAME DO YOU WISH TO
RUN and REQUEST, used simul- TOPLEVEL 1 DO ONCE
taneously are perhaps the two most END 2 REPEAT A FIXED NUMBER OF TIMES
fundamental commands of Logo. Con- 3 REPEAT INDEFINITELY UNTIL A
sider this little procedure: TO NAME CONDITION IS MET
TO*LOGO PRINT1 [NAME?] (User presses 3)
PRINT1 "? MAKE "NAME FIRST REQUEST
RUN REQUEST MAKE "TXT [] UNTIL WHEN? :X > 100
*LOGO END
STEP? END
END
(For PRINT1 use TYPE on LCSI The procedure defined would be:
TO COMMANDS
versions. Run this procedure and TO SPI
STEP
nothing happens! The procedure be- MAKE "X 5
IF :STEP = [END] THEN STOP
haves exactly like Logo itself (at least UNTIL [:X> 100][FD :X RT 120 MAKE
REPETITION
until an error is found, at which point COMMANDS
"X :X + 5]
there is an error message and control END
END
returns to Logo). We can even go into TO STEP This is part five of a six -part series. END

OCTOBER 1985 PCW 203

 The nights are getting longer, and David Taylor is engrossed in books
about graphics, music and computer -aided design in this month's
literary selection.

gant claims, suggesting that all their TV and publishing, plus high-powered,
Nights drawing in graphics are streets ahead of a pen and big -budget business.
paper, but whereas the meaning or This is where the ooh-er pictures are
Title: Computer Graphics even insight may be clear enough, it's at their densest and beautifully pre-
Author: John Lewell doubtful if the image will be up to much. sented they are, too. The author seems
Publisher: Orbis Alien bugs might be absorbing, or pie almost spiritually affected by the won-
Price: £12.95 charts instructive, but such typical der of it all and concludes with an
In the still watches of the night, after a micro graphics are scarcely breath- impassioned, if rather woolly specula-
feverish day of word processing, data- taking visual art. tion of where it's all likely to lead. Parts
base rummaging and occasional bursts Just about everything in John of this are unintentionally black com-
online to some far-flung host, after I've Lewell's slim but handsomely illus- edy ('The CIA rarely gives a presenta-
checked the electronic mail boxes, trated survey is, on the other hand, tion to the US President without the
backed up a few irreplaceable files and state-of-the-art. After a hurried intro- support of computer -generated analy-
put the dog out prior to turning in, ductory section defining terms, and an tical graphics') and other parts absurdly
there's often the temptation to spend a irritating chunk which tries to précis bleak ('By enhancing sight at the
heavy -lidded half-hour with Micro- what all computers do ('A computer expense of touch we may literally be
soft's mesmerising Flight Simulator. does nothing until it is given a role to losing touch with reality . .. high tech-
As off we bob from Meigs Field, the play') he gets down to business with a nology may simply enhance our ability
simulated Cessna and I, I'm invariably review of hardware: vector and raster to build factories, destroy landscapes,
struck by the program's ingenuity, its displays, host computers, display pro- upset delicate ecosystems and create
vivid appeal to Biggles-ish imagination, cessors and sophisticated I/O devices. an urban wasteland').
and its frankly pig -awful graphics. The All this is fascinating stuff and all of it Computer -stimulated philosophy is
sad fact is that computer graphics are a way beyond the means of any amateur, seldom my cup of tea, any more than
bit of a let -down on all but the most hence his next section on current quick chapters summarising progress
sophisticated (and pricey) of machines. applications - in industry, specialised since Babbage. Inbetween these re-
Micro manufacturers make extrava- sciences from medicine to space, films, grettable extremes of indulgence, John

204 PCW OCTOBER 1985

Lewell has a good primer on profes- package that's fun, fun, fun.
sional -standard graphics. can't wait Still, Mr Stewart'squite right-C is an
I

for a flight simulator on a parallel - Try this for synthesize up-and-coming language (its popular-
processing set-up one of these days, or ity is likely to accelerate even more
nights. Title: Electronic & Computer Music when (or if) bulk deliveries of IBM's
Author: Peter Manning PC/AT begin in earnest) and he's right
Publisher: Oxford University Press again when he says you don't ha veto be
Price: £19.50
Cad, bad and It's a source of immense relief to me that
Unix -based to have a go with C.
What you will need is a C compiler
Mozart came before Moog, or that and the presence of mind to master
dangerous to know Donizetti quit before the digital revolu- compile and link commands, C input/
tion. Try as I might to come to terms output, parameters and relational oper-
Title: CAD/CAM with Personal with Parisian musique concrete or ators, not to mention recursion, multi -
Computers Cologne's Elektronische Musik, let file and bit -level operations.
Author: Patrick R Carberry alone Zappa or Zinovieff, cloth -eared If any of that sounds absorbing, then
Publisher: Tab Books insensitivity as a rule prevails. All Warren is all set with a well -structured
Price: $14.95 (paperback) aggressively avant-garde music, so and nicely presented tutorial which
Yet another all-American Tab paper- cunningly concocted from manipu- does not, he says, require prior know-
back (there are over 750 to date), this lated juice, tends in the end to sound to ledge of Basic or any programming
one addresses the superficially tanta- me like a demented plumber's concerto experience at all (although I would not
lising area of computer -aided design/ for klaxon, bin -lids, doorbell and under- recommend you to chance it) and which
computer -aided manufacture (CAD/ water drills. will certainly give you a good feel for C.
CAM) using only a PC and, frankly, it's a I have a sense of shame about this. How you might then choose to go on
real dog's dinner. When Radio 3 recently hammered out and do something useful with C is not
It is for a start ironic that a book its Karlheinz Stockhausen week, I did sit within the scope of this book. It's strictly
trumpeting computer -aided design for hours hoping for revelation, yet still for compulsive programmers, but of its
should be padded out with such a had finally to admit that I'd get as much kind is a recommended buy.
wealth of execrably duff illustration. from sitting with my ear pressed to our
More seriously, while it's true that Hotpoint doing a full 91b boil wash.
CAD/CAM applications for mainframe Notwithstanding this Philistine See Jim run
and minicomputers have revolution- streak, let me say at once that I envy
ised industry, it's rather stretching it to Peter Manning's empathy and greatly Title: Microcomputing and Children
imply that with cheap software and a admire this excellent book. It's a lucid, Author: AJ Obrist
few odds and sods 'you, too, can tap this well-informed and thoroughly enter- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
space-age technology for an amazing taining history of 'artificial' music from Price: £5.95 (paperback)
range of time and money -saving ap- its first (19th century) stirrings, through Hats off to Edna Pollard. Edna coped
plications'. its uncertain progression until the most efficiently, says the author, with
You can have a bit of fun with second world war, the explosive, 'clas- his handwriting and the word proces-
graphics, but you cannot design your sical' 1950s, and thus to the extraordin- sor. Mrs Obrist, too, deserves a men-
own VLSI chips or, for that matter, ary strides which have been made in the tion. She apparently contributed much
re -invent the mousetrap using CAD/ last couple of decades, especially in from her wide experience of education
CAM techniques on an average micro. works for tape, live electronic music and succeeded in keeping people away
Aboutthe only thing I've seen which is a and the use of electronics in rock. while author Obrist tackled critical
startlingly original, quasi -CAD applica- A (Durham) academic with consider- periods.
tion for the kind of micro most happy able hands-on experience of computer- Here are just a few of the penetrating
hackers can or might one day be able to ised ker-plunks, Mr Manning strikes a things this crack team have come up
afford is the soon -to -be -released Mac nice balance between critical perspec- with:
Publisher. It is not mentioned here. tive and technical know-how, but do not 'The microcomputer (or micro as we
This book, alas, is all overthe place- imagine either is by any means easily shall call it has only appeared very
dodging about between fatuous potted absorbed. recently.'
history ('The cost of computers has If your musical acuity is as pin -sharp 'Micros should prove just as compell-
dropped tremendously in the past 35 as your predilection for sounds as ing to mothers as to fathers.'
years') and simplistic explanations science, I don't imagine you'll find a 'Parents and teachers (and other
('Some of the most popular auxiliary more readable résumé of this fascinat- people) are all involved in bringing up
storage devices used today are the ing, frustrating field. Those who do not children.'
following: *Tape cassette players know their Nyquist frequency from 'Every normal child learns to speak,
*Floppy disks *Hard disks. These are their elbow might be better advised to not at school but in the home. What else
shown in Figs 1-10'), or indigestibly take up the banjo or stick with Music do they learn? Well, for instance, they
technical asides ('The magnetostrictive Works on the inestimable Mac. learn to walk and they learn how to
digitizer functions like the sonic digitiz dress themselves.'
er, except that wire, as opposed to air, is 'Given the enormous number of
used as the interface to receive the
signal to be transmitted') and glib
For those in peril home micros, it is to be anticipated that
many could be used as a truly effective
statements of the obvious ('When a aid for our childrens' education.'
user designs something on a CAD/CAM using C 'Teachers on the whole are now
system, the images that are generated familiar with the micro. If they are not
need to be sent to either a printer or a Title: Surefire Programming in C then it is quite easy for them to find out
plotter'). Author: Warren A Stewart about it.'
There is an attempt to review such Publisher: Tab Books 'The micro has a memory too, so that
established (and pricey) packages as Price: $16.95 (paperback) it can "remember" the program which
AutoCAD, CADplan and FutureNet I'd have called this book 'The Cruel C' as tells it what to do.'
DASH -1 for the IBM PC, or Robo- I don't findthe Unix environment half so 'Rapid change is difficult to cope with
graphics CAD -1 for the Apple II, but surefire and inviting as Warren A successfully, and in a situation as
this section, too, is confusingly bitty. Stewart clearly does, nor am I wholly diverse as the one we are considering
On the whole, as you may have convinced that C combinesthe speed of this is even more true.'
gathered, I wasn't much for this book. assembly and the ease of Basic in a This book is 124 pages long.

OCTOBER 1985 PCW 205

 SUBSET
David Barrow presents more documented machine code
routines and useful information forthe assembly language
programmer. If you have a good routine, an improvement
orconversion of one already printed, orjusta helpful
programming hint, then send it in and share itwith other
programmers. Subroutines foranyofthe popular
processors and computers are welcome but please include
full documentation. All published code will be paid for.
Send your contributions to SubSet, PCW, 32-34 Broadwick
Street, London Wi A 2HG.

6502 BIT encode the bit -image data of a

vertical line of eight dots.
RTS ,Exit, rotation completed. 60

Many home computers use

ROTATION an eight by eight matrix for
ROTBIT (Datasheet 1) from both graphics and cycles code

Andy Armstrong of alphanumerics in ENTRY PHP leave flags to stack first, 3 08

Newcastle-upon-Tyne is a monochrome modes. In these PHA
TXA
,followed by accumulator,
,then X and V index registers
3
2
48
8A
short and speedy version of systems ROTBIT could be PHA ,both pushed via A. 3 48
BITROT (PCW, July). used for turning single TYA
PHA
.This leaves A - Y, with
,flags N & Z set for V value.
2
3
98
48
Andy uses a much characters around in steps of
90 degrees to produce Routine code
improved algorithm to cut the
routine's length from 69 to movement. However, colour EXIT PLA :Restore V and X index register 4 68
TAY ,from stack via A. A8
only 17 bytes and reduce and high resolution graphics PLA
2
4 68
execution time to only 919 systems can utilise quite TAX 2 AA
PLA .Restore accumulator, then 68
clock cycles (assuming that varied bit -attribute mapping PLP .finally the flags.
4
4 28
the loops don't cross a page and a much more
RTS ,Exit with all register and 60
boundary). sophisticated, system -specific flag values as on input.
The rotation is useful for routine would be needed to
converting screen -mapped produce the same effect. Fig 1
graphics based on an 8 -bit by ROTBIT would be SubSet
8 -bit matrix (eight bytes Class 1 if only the registers
stacked vertically) to printer - and flags used in the routine
were returned unaltered on
Z80 BIT ROTCH is SubSet Class 1
standard. All registers and
ready bit -image values. This is
necessary when dumping exit. The only way to do this is flags used by the routine are
normal screen formats to shown in Fig 1. Unfortunately, ROTATION preserved on stack during its
Epson standard printers. this slight enhancement Datasheet 2, from John operation and, like ROTBIT,
Video logic usually maps the would add 12 bytes to the Hardman of Welling, is a Z80 this adds four bytes to the
eight bits in each byte to a routine's length, four bytes to version of the 8 -bit by 8 -bit stack use (AF and BC only are
horizontal line of dots but its stack use and 36 clock matrix rotation. Designed saved for this purpose: the
printers expect each byte to cycles to its execution time. specifically for rotating saving of HL is due to the
characters in situ, it is called routine's pointer
ROTCH. manipulation). However, the
Datasheet 1 The first part of ROTCH Z80 PUSH and POP
forms the rotated matrix in instructions act on any double
ROTBIT Rotate an 8 . 8 matrix.
lim
reverse order in stack register and so only four
.JOB To rotate an 8 . 8 bit matrix, stored as eight memory. This process bytes are added to the length
contiguous bytes in page zero, clockwise by 90
degrees, staring the result similarly. destroys the source. The of the routine itself.
ACTION For source byte 7 to source byte 0
C Read source byte to accumulator.
second part pulls the eight Because the full 2 -byte AF,
For destination byte 7 to destination byte 0 bytes of the rotated matrix not just A, has to be pushed,
C Shift accumulator msb to Carry.
Rotate Carry into destination byte ash. 7 7
from stack and restores them the stacking of the
to the source matrix space in 8 -byte result in ROTCH takes
CPU
HARDWARE
6502.
None.
the correct order. 16 stack bytes.
SOFTWARE None.

INPUT 8 -byte source matrix in MO to M7.

OUTPUT 8 -byte destination matrix in MB to MF.
A- 0. ImYm *FF. P changed. Datasheet 2
Source (MO to M7) i unchanged.
ERRORS None.
RE8 USE PAXY ROTCH Rotate an 8 x 8 matrix.
STACK USE 0
RAM USE MO to MF inclusive. JOB To rotate an 8 . 8 bit matrix, stored as eight
LENGTH 17 contiguous bytes, clockwise by 90 degrees, storing
CYCLES 919 the result in the original source space.
ACTION Address matrix byte 0.
CLASS 2 -discreet interruptible promable For count of 8
- reentrant relocatable robust C Save matrix pointer.
For count of B
C Shift addressed matrix byte lsb to Carry.
ROTBIT LDY M7 ,Index / count of 8 -byte source. A0 07 Rotate Carry into accumulator lab.
. Increment matrix pointer.
RB -SRC LDX 67 ,Index / count of 8 -byte dest. A2 07 Restore matrix pointer.
LDA MO,Y sRead next source byte. B9 MO 00 Push accumulator value.
s Address matrix byte 7 + 1.
RB -DST ASL A .Shift next source bit to Carry 0A For count of B
ROR M8,1 sand rotate into next dest. byte. 76 MB Pull to accumulator.
DEX .Repeat for 8 source bits into CA Decrement matrix pointer.
BPL RB -DST smsb of 8 destination bytes. 10 FA Move accumulator to addressed matrix byte. 7
:

DEY .Repeat for all 8 source bytes. 88 CPU Z80.

BPL RB -SRC I 10 F2 HARDWARE 8 -byte block of RAM containing matrix.

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 :SOFTWARE None. C IF dst-ptr < src-ptr
a
THEN C Accumulator - (src-ptr).
.INPUT HL address 1st byte of 8 -byte source matrix. Shift 0bmory (dst-ptr to src-ptr -1) to
:OUTPUT HL addresses 1st byte of 8 -byte destination matrix, g memory (dst-ptr . 1 to c-ptr).
(i.e. HL is unchanged). . (dst-ptr) - accumulators]
All registers and flags are unchanged. ELSE C Src-ptr - dst-ptr. ]
:ERRORS None. Dst-ptr - dst-ptr + I.
,REG USE HL Src-ptr - src-ptr . no. of columns - pass -cot. ]
:STACK USE 20 Restore src-ptr.
)RAM USE None. Src-ptr . src-ptr . 2.
.LENGTH 30 Pass-cnt - pass-cnt . 1. ]
:CYCLES 3191
CPU 6809.
:CLASS 1 *discreet *interruptible *promable HARDWARE RAM containing matrix.
*reentrant *rlocatable *robust SOFTWARE None.

INPUT X add 1st byte of matrix.

ROTCH PUSH AF ,Save flags and registers for F5 A contains number of columns (1 to 256, *00 . 256).
PUSH BC suss in ROTCH. CS B contains number of rows (1 to 256, *00 - 256).
LD C,8 ,Set count for 8 result bytes. OE 08 ,OUTPUT Transpose of source matrix occupies matrix space.
CC is changed.
RC-RST PUSH HL sSave pointer to matrix byte O. E5 All other registers are unchanged.
LD 8,8 .Set count for 8 source bits. 06 08 ,ERRORS Loop count error if input number of columns . 1.
.RE8 USE A B X CC
RC -SRC SRL (HL) seat next source byte lsb shifted CB 3E .STACK USE Se 15
RLA sinto current result byte lsb. 17 RAM USE None.
INC HL sPoint to next source byte and 23 LENGTH 83
DJNZ RC -SRC .repeat until result byte filled. 10 FA ,CYCLES Not given.

POP HL sRestore pointer to matrix byte 0. El :CLASS 2 -discreet *interruptable ispromable

PUSH AF Push current result byte. F5 -****- *reentrant *relocatable -robust
DEC C srepeat until all 8 result bytes in OD
JR NZ,RC-RST reverse order in stack memory. 20 F2
OSMATR PSHS U,V,X,D .Save registers used in OSMATR. 34 76
Loop RC -SRC leaves B O. LEAS -7,5 .Allow for variable storage. 32 79
Move result from stack to matrix memory, reversing order. DECA ISet col-cnt - no.of cols. - 1. 4A
CLR 6,S Set pass-cnt - 0. 6F 66
LD C,8 .Set BC - 8, add to matrix pointer OE 08 TFR X,Y Set src-ptr - dst-ptr. IF 12
ADD HL,BC sto address byte following matrix. 09
LD B,C Set count for 8 destination bytes. 41 LCOL STY ,S sSave src-ptr at pass start. 10 AF E4
LDB 8,S :Get row-cnt for this pass. E6 68
RC -DST POP AF Pop next result byte. Fl
DEC HL ,Address next destination byte 2B LROW STY 2,S :Save src-ptr for comparison. 10 AF 62
LD (HL),A sand store result, repeating for all 77 CMPX 2,S ,If src-ptr - dst-ptr then no AC 62
DJNZ RC -DST result bytes in reverse order. 10 FB BED LSKP :rotation needed. If src-ptr 27 1B
BLT LOK :above dst-ptr then rotate. 2D 04
POP BC Restore registers and flags CI .

POP AF used in ROTCH, and exit with Fl TFR X,Y :Else equalise src-ptr and IF 12
RET :rotated matrix in same space. C9 BRA LSKP ,dst-ptr ready for increments. 20 15
s

:... Rotate all memory between destination and source pointers,

1... moving byte at src-ptr to location at dst-ptr.
transfer the result after LOK STD 4,6 Save col-cnt & row-cnt. ED 64
6809 MATRIX transposition, then see
MATRAN (PCW September,
LDA
TFR
,Y
V,U
.Get byte at (src-ptr).
sMove src-ptr to shft-ptr and.
A6 A4
1F 23
STX 2,S stave dst-ptr for shift end test. AF 62
1983) which does the job in
TRANSPOSITION only 26 bytes. The extra 57 SHFT LDB ,-U .Dec shft-ptr & move next shift E6 C2
SIB 1,U byte higher by one location. E7 41
OSMATR from Richard bytes of OSMATR is the cost CMPU 2,8 Test if shft-ptr at dst-ptr 11 A3 62
Bamford of Nottingham is a of sophistication. BNE SHIFT .repeating until so, shift done. 26 F7
6809 routine to transpose a
.

For the record, the 6502 STA ,X .Store rotated byte to dest. A7 84
matrix of single byte elements own -space transposition, LDD 4,5 Restore col-cnt & row-cnt. EC 64
in its own space. TRANS (PCW November,
LSKP
Transposition is the action 1983), is 102 bytes long. The LEAX 1,X
STB 2,8
,Increment dst-ptr.
Teeporarily save row-cnt and
30 01
E7 62
of converting from storage Z80 equivalent, OSMTRN EXG X,Y smove src-ptr to X for increment. 1E 12
row after row in memory, to (PCW January, 1984), is only 1

LDB 7,S ,Get initial cols. and subtract E6 67

column after column. The 35 bytes in length but uses a SUBS 6,6 pass-cnt then add to E0 66
ABX ssrc-ptr as next src address. 3A
action of OSMATR on a small slower method involving .

matrix is shown in Fig 2. more exchanges. As yet, no EXO X,Y .Restore src-ptr to V and 1E 12
LDB 2,S restore row-cnt from stack. E6 62
If you don't need to put the one has submitted a DECB Repeat for row-cnt as one pass. 5A
result matrix in the same transposition routine for the ,
BNE LROW 26 CC
space as the source, or can 8086 or 68000 series. DECA .Repeat for col-cnt p 4A
BED TERM sthen end. 27 09
:

Cols Rows Starts Row following Row. LDV ,S .Restore pass start src-ptr and 10 AE E4
LEAY 2,Y sincrement past completed part. 31 22
4 3 al a2 a3 a4 bl b2 83 b4 cl c2 c3 c4 INC 6,5 :Increment pass-cnt, pass done, 6C 66
BRA LCOL sand go do another pass. 20 BB
s
3 2 b2 83 b4 cl c2 c3 c4
TERM LEAS 7,S ,Clean up stack variable space 32 67
PULS U,V,X,D and restore registers used. 35 76
3 1 al c2 c3 c4 RTS ,Exit, matrix transposed. 39
s

2 2 al bl cl a21 -1a3 -1a4-4.821 b3 b4 c2 c3 c4

2 1 al bl cl a2 b214,13 -+.14-+63-1,64-4c21 c3 c4

1 2 al bl cl a2 b2 c2 a31-ka.4-i631 b4 c3 c4

1 1 al bl cl a2 b2 c2 a3 631-1a4--kb4-Sc3-1 c4

0 0 al bl cl a2 b2 c2 a3 b3 c3 a4 b4 c4
Endo Column following Column.

Fig 2

Datasheet 3
OSMATR Own Space Matrix Transposition.

:JOB To transpose 2 -dimensional array, or matrix, of

single byte elements, in its own space, with
sequential row storage becoming sequential column
storage, or vice versa.
ACTION Col-cnt - no. of columns - 1.
Src-ptr dst-ptr.
Pass-cnt - 0.
FOR col-cnt
C Save src-ptr.
Row-cnt - no. of rows.
FOR row-cnt

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 SCREENPLAY

With padded gloves and silky shorts, Stephen Applebaum enters the ring
to challenge Frank Bruno. He also suffers mental problems while
bouncing on a spring, and goes on the road across the US. Just some of
the scenarios featured in this month's top games selection for the
Commodore 64/128, Spectrum and Amstrad.

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cheat. Elite's game is virtually identical. The graphics used throughout Frank
Below the belt Soon after the program has loaded Bruno's Boxing are of a far higher
Title: Frank Bruno's Boxing from cassette, a prom pt appears asking standard than any I have seen in similar
Computer: Spectrum 48k,Commodore for the player's initials; that done, the games on the Spectrum. During a fight,
64, Amstrad fight can begin. Before you can throw the player is given a view of the action
Supplier: Elite Systems any punches, you have to wait for your from behind Bruno's back; this shows
Format: Cassette antagonist to go through his ritual Bruno, his opponent, and the crowd
Price: £6.95, £7.95, £8.95 warm-up. As he goes through his outside the ring. Above the main
pre -fight callisthenics, you have a display is a box containing two bars
Slightly bruised after last month's chance to see his speciality. In the case representing the strength of the two
excursion to the land of the rising sun, I of the first boxer, Canadian Crusher, boxers. Each time a fighter receives a
now find myself thrown into a boxing that means a bear hug; on the other blow, the bar diminishes, while the
ring in the middle of Wembley Arena, hand, Fling Long Chop, the second opposite happens when he lands one,
apparently as a challenger for the challenger, wouldn't look out of place in so the way to knock out a boxer is to
world title in Frank Bruno's Boxing Way Of The Exploding Fist with his fast bludgeon him until his strength falls to
from Elite. kicking and lightning movements. zero.
If you've played Punch Out in the There are seven pugilists who have to Frank Bruno's Boxing is as big as the
arcades, you'll have some idea of what be faced before the world champion man himself and twice as hard. It'll take
Frank Bruno's Boxing is all about. For can be taken on. a long time for anyone to reach the
those who haven't, it's a game where As each of the boxers occupies quite a world champion, and even longer to
you control a wire -frame boxer as he lot of the Spectrum's memory, all, beat him.
fights several computer -controlled except Bruno, are stored on the B-side If you want a game that's going to
fighters, each of which has a very of the cassette. None of these can be pose a challenge for more than just a
different interpretation of the Queens- loaded until you have obtained a few plays, get hold of this one: you
berry Rules - in other words, they special password from winning a bout. won't be disappointed.
Supplier: Gremlin Graphics
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1110111811111111NINNIMINNIMINIMININ month's Screenplay. First off is the
t2CCNs LIQCS 10 SOROCNS -10 2.21.45 10 strangely -named Abu Simbel (Profan-
ation).
I3roy--111..,4111,149.f/ Somewhat deceptively, the game's
cassette inlay sports an Indiana Jones
type figure leaping over a grotesquely
large spider. In reality, the character
Title: Abu Simbel (Profanation) featured in Profanation is closer to
Temple of doom Computer: Spectrum 48k Q*Bert than Harrison Ford, and hardly

208 PCW OCTOBER 1985

comparable to a human in any respect to break the spell cast by Rameses II is to well -animated snakes, spiders and
- except, perhaps, for the fact that it reach the temple's mortuary chamber bats, all of which are fatal to the touch.
has two legs. That aside, Abu Simbel is and discover its secrets. Even being splashed by water dripping
a high -quality ladders and levels game, Searching the temple takes a great from the ceiling proves calamitous. As
and an extremely difficult one to boot. deal of time and concentration, and you find yourself bumping into these a
Quite simply, the idea is to enter the certainly isn't for anyone who gives up great deal, Dinamic, the Spanish com-
temple of Abu Simbel, built 3000 years easily: for example, ittook me well over pany that programmed Abu Simbel,
ago by Rameses II, and find the treasure 45 minutes to get through the first has been kind enough to give you 10
hidden within. Prior to your expedition, screen. lives to play with. However, if your
no-one had attempted to explore the The instructions supplied with Abu game skills are as wanting as mine,
temple, put off by the curse placed on it Simbel are rather sparse, so I'm not you'll probably find that not even these
by its creator. It would have been better sure how many rooms there are to are enough.
if you too had heeded the stories, as far explore. I managed to get through five Abu Simbel (Profanation) is not
from being superstitious nonsense of them, each of which was garish in its particularly original but is well -prog-
they are all true, and you soon find decor and very detailed. Wandering rammed, and a lot of work has obvious-
yourself in a lot oftrouble. The only way around some of the chambers are ly gone into the graphics.
changes can be made by declutching
(releasing the fire button) and pushing
the joystick forward. Pulling the stick
back causes the car to break.
As you speed along the road, other
cars, motorbikes and even lorries hurtle
past in abundance, buttheycan soon be
caught by putting your foot (thumb)
down on the gas. Remember to keep an
eye on you rfuel gauge-it's easy to run
out of gas and have to pump the
accelerator all the way to the next fuel
station.
coast of the US, on what must be some On some of the longer races you have
Pumping gas of the country's busiest highways. to drive through the night, watching out
Title: The Great American Cross - There are four races, the longest of for any grey objects that emerge from
Country Road Race which is the American Tour, taking in the darkness. These are either sign-
Computer: Commodore 64/128 every city between the two coasts. posts or other vehicles, so they're best
Supplier: Activision Shorter, but no less arduous, are avoided. When you finally reach a city,
Format: Cassette straight runs between two major cities; the word 'welcome' flashes up on the
Price: £9.99 Los Angeles to New York, Seattle to top of the screen and a tune, plagiarised
Miami, or San Francisco to from Pole Position, plays to herald your
The Great American Cross -Country Washington. arrival.
Road Race is no ordinary motor racing After selecting a race, a map screen Unlike many of the current racing
game; it is a colourful odyssey across allows you to choose a route. Not only games, The Great American Cross -
the varying terrain of the US. Although does this allow you to plan your route, Country Road Race has plenty of
there are obvious touches of Pole but also helps you avoid bad weather. variation; there are snowy wastelands
Position and smatterings of Enduro, During a race, you are presented with to drive across, raindrenched highways
Road Race is a classy program with a view looking down the road. Below to skid over, and even the odd police car
some inventive moments. the main display is a mileage indicator, to outmanoeuvre. Highly recom-
The object of the game is simply to a speedometer, a rev counter, and a mended for those who yearn for the
drive from the east coast to the west radar for detecting police cars. Gear open road.

subterranean monster.
Apparently, the only one who can
save us is Thing on a Spring, a cute little
character who bounces around the
screen like Zebedee on speed. Before
ssssissssssssssrs he can kill the goblin, our hero mustfind
ISIS S 5151515151 nine pieces of a jigsaw which, when
S
S
assembled, will yield a clue asto how he
S SJ IS Si can be destroyed. While searching the
goblin's underground installation,
Thing often comes into contact with
some of the monster's followers; these
dastardly creatures have the fatal habit
around different levels, exploring lots of rusting Thing's spring to the point of
Mental Problems of trap -laden rooms. However, unlike disintegration. Although luckily some-
Title: Thing on a Spring the former, Thing on a Spring contains one has left cans of oil lying around, so
Computer: Commodore 64 several mental problems which give it all is not lost.
Supplier: Gremlin Graphics greater lasting appeal. In play, Thing on a Spring is one of the
Format: Cassette Instead of Pharaoh's curses and most amusing and essentially frustrat-
Price: £7.95 poison spiders, Thing on a Spring ing games I have reviewed in a long
contains an evil, megalomaniac goblin time. As well as bouncing around the
Thing on a Spring is the second of the who is wreaking havoc on the world various platforms of the goblin's fac-
two games reviewed from Gremlin from his underground lair. Unless he tory, there are elevators and moving
Graphics, and is by far my favourite. In can be stopped, the planet will be floors to be negotiated.
some respects it is similar to Profana- sucked dry of all its wealth and trea- It took me a long time to realise that I
tion as once again you have to jump sures and held to ransom by the couldn't use the elevators without first
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 209
 SCREENPLAY
finding a special parcel containing a Thing on a Spring is eclectic in its this a better than usual platform -and -
gadget to allow me to do so. There's a scenario but is totally original in the way ladders game for everyone who likes a
lot more of that kind of thing in this it has been executed. Great graphics challenge, although not at the expense
slightly offbeat game. and wonderfully playful music make of the odd chuckle.

The wizard lives in a collection of help you out of some of the more
Magic practice caverns occupied by strange creatures difficult situations. These don't last very
Title: Wizard with stranger habits. The only other long, so don't wait but use them as fast
Computer: Commodore 64, other things in this unusually limited world as you can wave your arms in the air.
versions planned are diamonds, jewels, gold bars, pearls, The animation, sound and colour for
Supplier: Ariolasoft ropes, fires, ladders, machines, magic, the caverns and their denizens are
Format: Cassette, disk weird electrical phenomena ... the list superb, and are full of neat little
Price: £9.95, £12.95 is seemingly endless. The wizard's sole touches. It's worth using lateral think-
purpose in life is to gain greater ing to discover how to pass some of the
Wizards and magic have been part of experience and to become a better objects in your way. Even if things look
folklore for centuries, and have recently wizard, but you in your adopted perso- desperate from the start, don't despair:
undergone a revival due to the popular- na are really after the chance to there is a lot of magic in the caverns, and
ity of fantasy books such as Lord of the progress to the next level and score you can trigger it quite accidentally.
Rings and their many offspring. points. As usual, this attitude hinders If you get bored with the screens
Wizards also made their way into the the game a little, but then we do all live available on the disk, or you can't
world of computer games with rapidity, in the real world, not a programmer's manage their difficulty, you have the
bolstering the popular conception of imagination. opportunity to design your own, up to
programmers as people living in a In your role as wizard, you enter the 99 of them. Although these cannot
dream world. caves via an easy cavern where you can include all the features of the original
Despite this saturation of the compu- work out what you need to do; you also set of caverns, you can prepare some
ter games world with fantasy and get practice in the simple methods of very nasty surprises for your enemies
adventure, Wizard presents magic in a dying like falling off rocks or jumping (or friends). I only made it as far as the
slightly new light although not a new from ropes high up in the air. When you seventh screen at the lowest of several
format. You will see from the screen - do proceed to the next cavern, things levels and at an average speed, so you
shots that this is in part a platform -and - become more exciting, and you are should have a few sleepless nights with
ladders game, the novelty being the chased around and treated as a casual this one.
addition of magic, and the clever way in object of random malevolence. Fortu- All in all, Wizard is rather more than
which the program works. nately, you can acquire spells that will just another platform game.
adventure with masses of detailed Alternatively, you could try to pass
description and lush prose. The game's the extremely mean, vicious and hun-
Okay, what do you want to do now.
?enter post office
Post Office
packaging is also up to the usual gry poodle in the street. When this is
This is the lobby Of the Festeron Post
Office. The walls are lined With snail standard and includes the game disk, done, things start to happen, and you
private mai ibexes and wanted posters. n
service counter runs along the entire
length of the roots.
an official postal map of the small, eventually find your way through to the
Your boss, Or. Crisp, is behind the sleepy town of Festeron, a special - Magick Shoppe where you are greeted
service counter reading other people's
postcards. delivery letter for the proprietor of Ye by an old woman. She asks you to read
Mr. Crisp hAdes the postcards away as
r"hin:nrril""Cga=e you been?" he Olde Magick Shoppe, a local history the letter to her (which you should not
Ye beent
' looking even=geal: release of the Legend of Wishbringer have opened until this point- it addsto
gl;rt:ITi%Ign 171 =tb,WiGg!7'' and a mysterious g lowing stone. As this the atmosphere of the story).
Vhot next?
is an introductory level Infocom adven- You discoverthat all is not as it seems
ture, there isa lot of general information in the sleepy little town, and set off to
on the company's adventures. discover the Evil One who has kidnap-
The basic scenario is that you are a ped the old woman's cat. Who knows
daydreaming postal clerk for the local what darkness may bring, and why
Not what it seems Post Office. Your boss, Mr Crisp (or does Festeron look so different in the
Title: Wishbringer Corky to the librarian Miss Voss) is a twilight and the fog? You will have to
Computer: Commodore 64 plus others cranky, nasty man who asks you to play the game to find out, as I didn't get
Supplier: Infocom, Softsel deliver the special -delivery letter to the much further than back to town after
Format: Disk Magick Shoppe and hurry up about it. delivering the letter.
Price: £31.95,04.95 This presents the game's first difficulty, Just remember that all small, quiet
as you need to work out how to pass the towns aren't what they seem - nor is
This is yet another release from the uncommunicative gravedigger in the everyone exactly who you imagine
master of the adventure game, In- murky and mysterious graveyard full of them to be. Think of Norman Bates at
focom. As usual, this is a text -only tombstones and old bones. the sleepy Bates Motel. END

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to display all occurrences of Write('Case sensitive srch (Y/N 7) ReadLn(ch);

UTILITY the string and where they

CVT2LC:= notIch in C'Y',ea'F']); If CVT2LC then 1Case(Pattern);
Assign(Out_file, OutFil ename); Rewrite(Out_file);

appear on the screen.

This is the Unix GREP Use is made of the
function written as a Pascal windowing facility in Turbo BEGIN (MAIN)
nit;
program in Turbo Pascal for Pascal but this can be avoided for no files :. 1 to (max no files do begin
- 1)

or omitted for other Assign(in file, nryIno_filesln

the IBM PC. It should be easy GoToXY(1,)2); ClrEOL;amear Write(Tile
Reset(in file);
',namearraytno_files:::
to convert to Pascals for other machines. Window(1,14,80,25); ClrScr; beep; Line_No:= 0;
While not EOF(in file) do begin
machines. The GREP function Finnban P Murphy line_No := line No + 1; readLn(in file, inItnel);
inline2:. inlinel; if cvt2lc then-lcase(inline2);
If Pos(petternonline2) <0 0 then WriteLn(Line_No:5,
===.= = ............. =2 ....... =65 . End;
GREP.PAS WRITTEN BY F.P.MURPHY, CORK, IRELAND 30/01/1985 Window(1,1,80,25);
End;
Searches one or more files for each occurance of a specific pattern, Window(1,1,80,25); GoToXY(1,24);
distinguishing between uppercase lowercase if necessary, end outputing
the complete line together with its line number to either the console or
printer.

Written for use on an IBM PC using TurboPascal and PCDOS 2.0.

of the beginning of the string.

PROGRAM GREP;

TYPE
stringE10 stringEBOl;
BBC ' The string is then checked by
looking at the first, third and
f ilestring StringE141;
sixth characters of the string,
VAR
In File . text;
COMMANDS so these will have to be
Out_File
NameArray
. text;
arrayEl..101 of filestring;
different for each command.
Have you ever wished that The program is loaded into
.

OutFileName . iilestring;
Pattern string80;
InLinel string80; you could turn a machine the function key section of
Intine2 string80;
Line No integer; code routine into a newt*: memory at &BOO, and is
Max_No_Files
cyt2lc
: byte;
boolean; command? This utility shows initialised by ?&208=&600
No Files byte; you how and includes a few MOD 256:?&209=?B00 DIV
:= ................. examples. It is done by 256.
FUNCTION LCIK l char): char; making use of a subroutine in If the characters in the
BEGIN ROM which handles all the'*' command stored in memory
i(77). 2") and
i I A') then lc,. Chrlord(x)+32) commands (the command don't correspond to the name
CND;
line interpreter or OSCILI). By of your new routine, pass
intercepting its vector (CLIV) control back to OSCLI using
PROCEDURE LCASElvar x string80); at locations &208 and &209, it JMP?&208+256*?&209.
,BAR is'byte: is possible to include the new Otherwise, when your new
:EGIN
for i:. to lengthlx) do x[i]:. IcixEll);
commands. routine has been completed,
The routine intercepts the pass control back to the Basic
I

ND;

call to OSCLI, and checks to interpreter using RTS. The

UNCTION EXIST (filename : filestrIng) : boolean; see if one of the new example here makes use of
VAR : file;
commands has been this new routine to provide a
BEGIN
requested. If it has, it executes comprehensive set of new'*'
Assign(Fil, Filename);
(4J-) Reset(Fil) CSI+1;
it and returns. If not, it passes commands.
END;
EXIST i. (IORESULT . 0); on the OSCLI. The X and Y
registers contain the location Carl Dunkley
PROCEDURE BEEP;
BEGIN LIST
IOREM BASIC extension
Sound(900); Delay(200); NoSound; Sound(60E0; Delay,300/1 LioUnd,
20REM (c)C.Dunkley 1985
END;
30
40MODE6
50PROCassemble
PROCEDURE INIT; WREN Activate new command routine....
7078,208.0:04209069
LABEL B1; 80PROClist
90E ND
VAR ch char; 100
: byte; 110DEPPROCassemble
120REM All comments after \ character can be omitted
BEGIN 130FORN.0701
C1rScr; WriteLn(" GREP Version IA, 27/01/1985'); WriteLn; 140P%.6B00
Max_no_files :. 0; 15000PTO
Repeat 160.cli
Sl: max_no_illes := max_no_files +, 1; nem ..... yEmax_no_filesl:. 170PHAITX01:PHA:TYA:PHA: \Save the A.X,Y registers
Write( Search file name (CR - Exit) > '1; 18OLDA480:PHA: \and the values of locations
y:- WhereY; ReadLn(n ..... ray[max_no_filesl); 'SOLD/IASI:PHA; \SAO and SRI onto the stack.
if (not EX1ST(nam ..... yImak_no_filesl) and 2005TX&80:STY481
(namearrayImax_no_filesl ")) then begin 210
GoToXY(60,Y); Write('UNKNOWN/INVALID FILE '1; Beep; GoToXY(1,Y+1); 220LDYfliLDA18800,Y,ORAf32:PHA: \Load A with first chr$ of string
max_no_files:. max_no_ftles - 1; GoTo Bl; 23OLDYf3;LDA(480).Y.ORAf32:TAX: \X with the fourth
end; 24OLDYf61LDA(680),YiORA02:TAY;PLA: \and finally Y with the sixth.
for I:. 1 to 14 do begin 250
namearrayEmax_no_fileelCili= UpCase(namearray(max_no_files7[11); 260.keyboard

212 PCW OCTOBER 1985

 270CMPfASC.k.:BNEescape A and N are as previously demonstration of the routine.
280\
290.keyboard_sub described. The lines before
300LDXf11CPYEASC.n.:BEQfn_keyboard:DEX
510CPVEASC.f.1BROfn_keyboard:JMPo1d
1000 give a simple Keith Finlay
320.fn_0eyb0ard LDAf178:JMPos
3500 10 REM FORMAT DEMONSTRATION
540
350 20 PRINT "1234567890"
360.escape 30 FOR I 4 1 TO 18
370CMPfASC.e.:BNEcaps_Rursor 40 LET N = RND
380CPXfASC.c.:BNEcaps_cursor 50 PRINT FN ES(8,4,N)
390\ 60 NEXT I
400.eScapesub 70 STOP REM END OF' 56880 PROGRAM
:

410LDXf1:CPYEASC.f.:BEOfn_escape:DEX
420-fn_escape:LDAf229:JMPos 1000 REM FORMAT FUNCTION.
1010 REM COPYRIGHT K.A.F1NLAY
1020 REM APRIL 1985
at,,,cans_c,trsor 1030 REM
470:-MPfASc.c":BNEzero 1040 REM ROUND THE NUMBER TU A SPECIFIED NUMBER OF PLACES
480CPXRASC.r,BNEcaps 1050 REM
490, 1060 DEF FN R(X,A) = (INT (()(410"A) 0.51)/ (10'A)
50Q.cursor sub 1070 REM
510LDXfO:CIYfASC.f.:BE0fn cursorA1NX
320.fncursor LDA123,15FAFFEE:LOACI:JSRAvFEE1TXA:JSR&FFEE:LDXf7:LDAEO 1080 REM PUT A ZERO BEFORE THE DECIMAL POINT IF THERE ISN'T (RE.
530.[oopl JSRaFFEEIDEX:BNEloopl:JMPend 1090 REM FOR INTEGER NUMBERS ADD A DECIMAL POINT.
1100 REM
550 1110 DEF EN 11(11) (.0. AND X5(1)4"..) r XS 1. (... AND VAL XS=
560 INT YAL XS)
570.caps CPXfASC.p.:BNE.ero 1120 REM
580\ 1130 REM MOVE LEFT UNTIL DECIMAL POINT 15 IN CORRECT PLACE. THF-
590.caps sub THREE LOGICAL EXPRESSIONS ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE.
,,,,DxcA87,,pyfamr.se.R.BEgIn cmAmELD*(40
610.fn _caps LDAf202:JMPos 1140 REM
6200 1150 DEF EN AS(11,1,8,8) 4 (XS AND (XSET-A14...)
630 (X5(2 T0)+ " AND (XS(6-81<> AND 01(1)4 ") )

640 1. "( TO T) AND (XS(T-A)<> "." AND XS(1)<>".)

650..tero 1160 REM
660CMPfASC.z.:BNEsound 1170 REM MOVE RIGHT UNTIL ALL SPACE'S FILLED UP.
670\
680.zero sub
1180 REM
690LDXf164:LEWO 1190 DEE FN BS(XS.T.A,N) = 1" AND LEN XS<T) XS
700. loop2 STA8403,X:BEX:BNfloop2:3MPend 1200 REIN
710\ 1210 REM RECURSIVE: FORMATTER.
720 1220 REM
730 1230 DEF FN ES(T,A,N) 4'
740. sound FN WEN AS( FM AS( EN AS( FN AS( EN AS( FN As( FN AS:
750CMPEASC.s.:BNEplusl EN WEN RS( EN BS( FN BS( EN BS( FN BS( FN HS( FN BS(
760CPXfASC.u.:BNEplusl FN IS( STRS FN R(N,A))),T,A,N),T,A,N),T,A,N),T,A.N),T,A,N)
(
770\
780.sound sub ,T,A,N),T,A,N),T,A,N),T,A,D),T,A,N),T,A,N),T,A,N1.1',0,6)
79OLDXf14EPYCASC.f.:BEQfn_sound:DEX .7.4,41,T,A,N1,T,A,N)
800.fn_sound L0Af210:3MPos 1240 REM
810\ 1250 REM END OF FUNCTIONS.
820
830
840.plusl
850CMPfASC.p.:BNE01d
locked.
860CPXfASC.u.:BNEold
870\
880.Plusl sub
BBC DIRECTORY How it works:
Lines 100-190 are the heart
89OLDVES:EDA(880),Y:ORAf32:LDYE0
900CMPfASC.f.:BE0fn_plusl off of the program.
91OLDAf27:LDXf4FF:JMPplusi end
920.fn_plusl off LDAfaDbILEXf&FIrINV CHANGER B?0 sets up the drive
530.plusl _end STA,1212:STX4213:LBAf163:LDXf128:3SRAFFF4:JMPend
940\
BI1 points to a location in
950 This program is for those who memory
960
9700., ,,,,,,,,,, ,,, ,,, need to frequently copy files B?5 number of parameters
980.014:
990PLAISTA&80:
\If none of the new commands
\have been chosen then pass between disks when all the (track, sector, and so on)
1000PLA:STA681:
1010PLA:TAYIPLA:TAX:PLA:
\control to COCCI.
\After restoring the valves of 8,0.0,880 and481. files are in different B?6 specifies read (&53) or
1020.1MP262080256078209
." ".
directories. As the Acorn DFS write (&48)
1030\ ........ "
1040 does not allow the wild card B?7 is the track
1050
1060\ symbols * and # to be used B?8 is the sector
1070-os LOYCO:JSR&FFF4
1080 .end: \If a new ,ommand has been executed with the *RENAME B?9 specifies one sector to be
1090PLA.STA480:PLA:STA8.81: \then rest em values of A.4,0,580 ary command, changing all the read
1100PLA:TAY:PLA:TAX:PLA:RTS: \and retur to BASIC'. Interpreter."
1110)NEXT files on a disk would mean Lines 210 to 320 print each
1120ENDPROC
1130DEFPROClIst typing a separate command file and its directory, and
1140CLS
1150PRINTTABC8):BASIC ertensi on VI.I. for each file to be changed. allow the user to alter the
1160PRINTs
1170PRINT.e0JR_ON.TAB(14,'Turns Cursor ON
This program solves the directory via the subroutine at
1180PRINT.eCUR_OFF.TABC14)' " 's problem by individually 370. If the directory number is
1190PRINT
1200PRINT. *SOU_ON.TAB( 14) .Fnabl es Sound output. listing each file and its greater than &7E, the file is
1210PRINT.eSOL,OFF.TAB,14)"01sables "
1220PRINT
".
directory and then allowing locked. To obtain the
1230PRINT.0KEV_ON.TAB(14).Enables FryborE, operatloW:
".
the user to alter the directory directory, subtract ?BO.
Disables "
1240PRINT.eKEY_OFF
1200PRINT of the file, even if the file is Meirion Morgan
1260RRINT,CAP-ON.TAB(14).Turns CAPS LOC, ON.
1270PRINT,CAP-OFF.TAB(14). " " s' OFF.
1290PRINT
1290PRINT,ESC-ON.TAB(14).Enables Escap. Rev.
.1300PRINT,ESC-OFF.TAB(14).0,sables se, ". 10 REM ** DIRectory changer **
131OPRINT
20 REM ** by Meirion Morgan **
13igRINT.:.:N11:2KTWOITnigT.F.',Rr 30 MODE 3
1340PRINT
1350PRINT,ZERO.TAB(14),er, all Integer varlables. 40 PRINT 'STRING$(79,"*")
1360PRINT
1370E1,01:T70C: 50 PRINT '" DIRECTORY CHANGER FOR BBC MICRO
USED ON 8271 - BY MEIRION MORGAN
)
'

performed recursively, and is 60 PRINT 'STRING$(79,"*")

performed up to eight times 70 INPUT TAB(0,8)"Which drive ",drive
SPECTRUM to allow for the magnitude of 80 IF drive<0 OR drive>3 OR INT(drive)Odrive G
most numbers. The listing OTO 70
PRINT USING gives a small demonstration
100
90
DIM B 12:DIM H 255
of an 8.4 format with eight
110 A%=&7F:X%=13 MOD 256:Y%=8 DIV 256
character positions in total,
COMMAND four after the decimal point. 120
130
B?0=drive
B!I=H
The function has three
140 B?5=3
This routine allows output to arguments: T- the total 150 B?6=&53
be formatted by specifying a number of characters to be 160 B?7=0
number of character positions printed (including the decimal 170 B?8=0
for an entire number, as well point); A- the number of 180 B?9=&21
as a number of character digits to come after the 190 CALL&FFFI
positions for the decimal part. decimal point; and N - the 200
The function bears some number to be printed. 210 CLS:yes=0:8?6=&48:name$=""
resemblance to the Fortran F In the listing, the function 220 FOR files=14 TO 254 STEP 8:IF (H?files)>&7E
descriptor in the FORMAT comes after line 1000 and is OR (H?files)<&20 GOTO 330
command. called by a line of the form 230 FOR peek=files-6 TO files
The formatting is PRINT FN F$(T,A,N) where T,
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 213
 TJ'S WORKSHOP
problems. The Commodore most useful feature- unless
240 nameinname$+CHRUH?peek) versions of the receive you add an extra ",1" onto the
250 NEXT peek:dir=H?(files+1) software needed a fiddle to load command, a program
260 IF dirA7E dirndir-&80:yes=1 ELSE yes.° turn respectable ASCII into will be loaded into the normal
270 dirtsCHR$(dir) the internal representation of Basic start position. All the
280 PRINT dirt;" ";nameS;
.
upper and lower case - but line -links will be set
290 IF yes=1 PRINT ;" Locked Change ? "; ELSE
. that has now been resolved. automatically- irrespective
PRINT ;" Change ? "; Transmitting software instead of where it resided at the time
300 cS=GETSIIF INSTR("YyNn",c$).0 GOTO 300 ELSE of text has its problems, but of saving. You, therefore, only
PRINT icf; has some simplifications too. need to save the code just
310 IF INSTR("Yy",c$) GOSH 370 ELSE PRINT Since the code must be captured onto disk or tape,
320 name$=""iNEXT files different for each machine the and it can be loaded again as
330 PRINT ""*********** END OF PROGRAM ******#* problems of 'universality' are a normal program.
**" avoided. Each program can To save the code as a
340 CALL&FFFI be tailored specially for its program, bend the system
350 REPEAT UNTIL FALSE recipient, and individual pointers so that they refer to
360 changes introduced as the received code rather than
370 PRINT ;" To directory ? ";idS=GET$ necessary. The first essential to the visicode reception
380 PRINT ;c1$;:byte.ASC(d$) is to change the test in the
390 PRINT ;" Lock ? ";:lockS=GET$
software - don't forget to
existing receive software, so save this receive program
400 IF INSTR("YyNn",lock8)=0 GOTO 390 ELSE PRINT
that instead of waiting for first, since it can self-destruct
;lock$
410 IF INSTR("Yy",lock$) byte.byte+&80
<control> -U each machine when used.
420 ii7(files+1)=byte
waits for its own individual Line 100 now becomes:
430 RETURN code. For the Amstrad this 100 R(0)=R:POKE 44,32:
will be <control> -A, POKE
(hexadecimal $141), for the 45,INT(R/256): POKE
BBC Micro, <control> -B 46,R(0)AND255
old colours, thus creating new (hexadecimal & 142), for the then we save the code either
ORIC SHADE ones.
The command takes the
Commodore <control> -C with:
and for the Spectrum 110 SAVE "NEWPROG"
form !SHADE A,B,C where A <control> -S. for cassette, or
COMMAND and B are the two colours to The bulk of the software will 110 SAVE "0:NEWPROG",8
Many Oric owners must want mix and Cis the type of be unchanged, especially the for disk.
to display more than seven shading. IF C=1 there will be a machine code. This is simply We can now dive straight
colours on the hi-res screen paper shade, and if C=0 there concerned with catching the into the new software by
simultaneously. This routine will be an ink shade. bytes and handing them to adding:
adds a command to mix the Trevor Latham Basic to deal with. So apart 120 POKE 56,159:CLR:LIST
from the change of get -going If it looks plausible, then run
0 FOR F=0400 TO 0490ILETT=T.A code, the software performs it. But you can use a version
READ All
I A=IIAL C "0".4At ) :POKEF , A :NEXT
2 DATA AD,C0,02,C9,02,D0,03,4C,E4,CF
the same function of receiving of the software which will
3 DATA A9,53,20,06,CF,A9,18,20,0B,CF bytes and tucking them away restore the pointers to the
4 DATA A9,41,20,0B,CF,A9,44,20,08,EF into upper memory. The receiver program. First you
5 DATA A9,45,20,0B,CF,EA,EA,EA,EA,EA problem arises when we want will have to note them, by
6 DATA 82,00,89,00,90,E0,02,E8,E0,0A
7 DATA 00,18,20,0F,EB,A9,01,80,61,02
to get them back to execute as adding line 90:
8 DATA 81],[3,02,20,90,67,85,33,85,00 a program. 90 R(1)=PEEK(45):R(2)
9 DATA 20,09,CF,20,90,E7,A5,33,85,01 The changes to the BBC =PEEK(46) then use a
10 DATA 20,09,05,20,90,67,85,33,C9,01 routine to enable it to receive substitute line 120:
11 DATA 00,05,A9,10,85,03,EA,G9,00,00
12 DATA 05,A9,00,85,03,EA,EA,EA,EA,EA
software are shown in Fig 1. 120 POKE44,8: POKE45,R(1):
13 DATA 18,A5,00,65,03,85,00,85,0],65 All lines ending in a 0 contain POKE46,R(2):END
14 DATA 03,85,01,EA,EA,EA,EP,EA,EA,EP changes to existing lines. The The receiver program is
15 DATA A2,64,8E,E0,13F,85,01,80,65,02 other lines are new ones. then ready to run again - but
16 DATA 20,FA,E8,85,00,80,65,02,20,FA
17 DATA EB,AE,E0,6F,CA,00,E7,80
The Commodore 64 you still do not know if your
18 IF 1021560 THEN CLSIPAPEReI1NK7IPRIN program is somewhat received code is garbage or
1"Checksum urons-error in p simplified. It is no longer not! You will have to load it to
POPP.," necessary to perform the find out.
IF 1021560 THEN PRINT"I,nes 3-17."IS Finally, an update on what
TOP
19
upper-case/lower-case
20 PR1NT"OK-AII correct":00KEU2F5,0400:H amendment, since the PCW has published so far on
1RES received code is now unique visicode. In July an article
21 FOR F=1 TO 99:CURSET 120,100,3ICIRCLE to the Commodore 64. The including receive routines for
F,1:NEXTF listing therefore has very few the BBC Micro and
22 FOR F=0 10 7:FOR 0=0 TO 7
23 PR1NT"Ink skinde":!SHADE F,G,0:WA1T100
changes from the version on Commodore 64 was
24 CL5 page 166 of PCW, July 1985. published - Spectrum and
25 PRIW"Paper shade":!SHADE F,G,1:418111 The code change is easily Amstrad 464 versions
00 made in line 15, by changing followed in August, along
26 GLS:NEXTG,F
27 !SHADE 12,1,0
"CU=85" to "CU=66". By the with slight corrections to the
28 WAIT 500:TEXT time you reach line 80, the Commodore 64 routine. Final
29 Pi2lNI"Yeu have just been shown the to code has been received and (and again slight) corrections
II 42" tucked away in memory from to three of the routines were
30 PRINT"shades using the new shade norm
and"
location $2000 upwards. You published in September's
don't want to print the code bludners- the Spectrum
out at this stage, so lines version is the one that hasn't
beginning of September the 100-110 must disappear. been altered.
VISICODE Database TV programme
intended to broadcast
The Commodore 64 has a John Billingsley, Jim
Crowther
software, starting with a 1145 PRINT'S Print text"
REVISITED Halley's Comet Predictor.
1170
1225
UNTIL A)430 AND A<M36
IF A6835 VDU2sPROCviewsVDU3iENMPROC
The visicode transmitted 1530
1531
UNTIL /43.A8C91" AND B76.1 OR AKaASC"B" AND 8361
CX0A3
The first broadcasts of the had a prefix <control> -U, 1532 IF tawASC"U" THEN TX...TRUE ELSE TX -FALSE
1561 IF TX ELSE PRINT "To receive tokenised DASIC1-"."Use save
Visicode system for sending indicating that it contained options when menu reappears"
data over the TV consisted of text which could be received 1590 UNTIL AX<)CX AND BUM
1620 IF T% THEN CALL osascl
text transmissions. But at the universally; and that led to
214 PCW OCTOBER 1985
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 COMPUTER ANSWERS
Simon Goodwin takes his toolkit to your problems. The
address to write to is Computer Answers, PCW,
32-34 Broadwick Street, London W1A 2HG.

that the Quicksilva game static cursor. merging them -a rather

Zombie Zombie has the The lack of flashing cursor laborious process.
circuit diagram of a simple hardware shouldn't make the PG Clarke, Stockport,
MIDI interface printed on the cursor disappear altogether, Cheshire
cassette insert. The game however. If this problem only
uses this circuit to provide occurs when you use certain Your problem stems from a
sound effects on a powerful programs, you probably have bug in the disk system
Yamaha DX -7 synthesiser (for an applications software software. The end -of -line
those Spectrum owners lucky problem. error occurs because
enough to own one, but the Make certain that the programs are - by default -
circuit is appropriate to any operating system and saved in their tokenised form,
MIDI synthesiser and only software you are using are where they contain lots of
costs a few pence to build. Apricot Fl -specific, and, if this 'invisible' control characters
If you use this approach is the case, explain your to convey information such as
you'll have to write your own problem to the software line lengths and numbers. If
software. The Spectrum's vendor or publisher. any of these characters
network port (used to If the 'fault' happens on all happen to have the code 26
generate the MIDI signal) is at your programs, it is more (Control Z) they are treated as
I/O address 247; you can likely to lie in the operating end -of -file markers by the disk
produce a signal (at the system or the user. Most system, which then
Music and network socket on the back of operating systems recognise
a certain sequence of
prematurely stops reading
the file.
Interface 1) by alternately
writing odd and even values characters as meaning 'turn There are two solutions to
the micro to that port, using the OUT the cursor on' or 'turn the this problem. The simplest is
I read with interest the article instruction. Some cursor off'. On many to save programs in their
on MIDI, the Musical experimentation will probably machines, these characters textual form rather than
Instrument Digital Interface, be needed to get the timings are Control 0 and Control N tokenised. This is done by
in PCW May. I am interested right. You may find Basic too respectively; the relevant appending a comma and a
in writing music software and slow for this purpose, but a characters for the Apricot letter A, standing for ASCII, to
would like more information. language like Forth should be should be in the User Guide. If the normal SAVE command.
Firstly, can you recommend well -suited to the task. the cursor disappears shortly ASCII is the standard code
any books on music and after you have started to use used to represent text inside
computing which are not the program, it could be that micros. Such a file contains
specific to a machine or you have accidentally hit the no spurious control
sound chip; and secondly, cursor -off sequence. The characters so it merges
where can I get detailed The blinking solution is to type 'Cursor On'
and continue where you
perfectly.
The snag is that the file is
information on MIDI codes
and synthesiser -specific left off. longer and transferred more
codes? Apricot cursor Neither ACT nor anyone slowly than the tokenised
I Smith, Ripley, Derbyshire I run an Apricot Fl with else I spoke to has ever heard version. If this is irritating,
Omicron, Cardbox and Select of this problem before, so it contact Amstrad on (0277)
A good introductory book software. My problem is seems likely that it is of an 228888, and it will send you a
about computer music is The simple but very frustrating - operational nature rather than short 'patch' program which
Musician and the Micro by the cursor does not flash. an inherent property of your corrects the code used for
Ray Hammond, published by My Apricot dealer and ACT hardware or software. merge so that it reads up to
Blandford Press at £4.95. both say 'Sorry, there is the logical end of the file,
If you need more nothing we can do'. Can the rather than up to the first
information about MIDI than fault really be in the end -of -file character.
was in PCW's article, you will unmodified MS-DOS version
probably need to contact
Sequential Circuits in Holland.
2.11? Amstrad
My secretary now refuses
It will provide a full MIDI to use the word processor
specification for a few due to the saga of the merge bug
pounds, and can be found at disappearing cursor. I have an Amstrad CPC464 A Sharp lookout
Sequential Circuits Ltd, Post JA Slater, Blackburn, with a DDI-1 disk interface. I own a Sharp MZ-700 which
Bus 16, 3640 AA Mijdrecht, Lancashire When I load a Basic program was bought in the UK about a
Holland. from disk, and then try to year ago. Although I find the
Alternatively, you may be ACT tells me that the flashing merge another Basic machine a good one, I cannot
able to get some information cursor which is a feature of program, I usually meet an say the same for the software
from synthesiser dealers in the Apricot PC and XI end -of -file error. A or add-ons, therefore I have a
the UK. The May 1985 issue of machines has been replaced subsequent list shows that number of questions.
the specialist magazine by an unblinking one on the there is now no program in Do you know of any CP/M
Electronics and Music Maker cut-price Fl machine, which the memory. Basic programs system for the machine? Are
is also worth examining - lacks hardware to make the can be merged from tape there any good Lisp, Prolog or
you should be able to find a cursor flash. Even so, it without any problem. C interpreters or compilers?
copy at your local library. should be possible to produce I would like to know if this What about other languages?
If you'd like to find out a blinking cursor in software is a firmware bug (rather than Is there a low-cost RS232
about MIDI at a very low cost, but it will take some a fault on my system) and if serial interface, modem or
and you already own a operating -system level you know of any way to get 80 -column card? Finally,
Spectrum and Interface 1, you programming. In short, around it, short of resaving which is the best chess
may be interested to learn you may be stuck with a programs on tape and then program available for the
216 PCW OCTOBER 1985
machine? produced whenever the ROM work on a socket -by -socket vertically. 64 columns is the
PE Fouliras, Salonika, is to be accessed. The ROM basis. practical limit for most home
Greece then looks at the address to Some ROMs are turned on computers used with a TV set.
decide exactly what when the chip select signal is You may well find that hard to
CP/M is not available for the information it must supply. high (logic 1) and others read, in which case you could
MZ-700, and it is not possible If you connected two ROMs respond to a low level (logic go for characters six points
to read CP/M disks unless to one socket (by connecting 0). If you are replacing one wide and eight deep-this
you're willing to write some all the pins together) you type with another some gives 40 characters per line on
intricate machine code. As far would run into problems as circuit changes are needed, or the Einstein. A similar format
as I know, the languages you they would both try to present the new ROMs will only assert is used by the Memotech, and
mention are not available on information at the same time, themselves when they are not in the Hobbit adventure game
the machine; Hisoft's subset and in the same place, but the wanted. This problem is most for the Spectrum.
of C should be portable to the information would differ and common when replacing
Sharp, but I don't think a be muddled together. EPROMs with ROMs.
conversion is likely. There are What you need is some way
Pascal and Forth compilers, of turning off one of the ROMs Really random
available from Kuma and when you are using the
other Sharp dealers. alternate one. You can do this
Peterson Electronics, of by only allowing the chip Extra columns numbers
Academy Street, Forfar, select signal to go to one of I have an Amstrad CPC464
Tayside DD8 2HA specialises the components. If you direct and I want to write certain
in add-on hardware for the the signal to the Oric ROM onscreen simulation programs. In order
MZ-700. It offers an RS232 - you will be able to use your In your review of the Tatung to verify them, I need to know
interface and a modem, but old software, whereas new Einstein it was stated that it the formula of the random
no 80 -column card. programs will work when the had a 32 character -per -row number generator
I think you may find the signal is passed to the video chip, but it is fooled by (congruence formula) of the
quality of chess programs on Atmos ROM. software to give 40 machine; unfortunately it is
the Sharp rather poor, but you You should connect all but characters. Is it possible to do not in the manual. If you don't
can obtain a full list from the chip select pins of both this on other computers as know it, can you suggest a
Kuma Computers of Unit 12, ROMs to the socket. This is well, giving say 60 or 80 method to crack it?
Horseshoe Park, Pangbourne, usually done by soldering one columns per row? NA Papadakin, Athens,
Berks RG8 7JW. component to the back of the M Gottlieb, Edgware, Greece
other (piggy -backing), and Middlesex
folding the chip select pins No-one at Amstrad was able
out from the packages. It is You can squeeze extra to give me the formula used
probably wiser to build a columns onto the screen of by the generator, which is
Upgrading your small circuit board to hold
both chips, unless you're very
any micro which has a 'bit -
mapped' display - that is, a
apparently buried deep in the
ROM. Almost all micros use
sure of your soldering. Keep display where individual an integer formula of the
ROMs interconnection lengths to a points can be lit or form:
I have recently purchased an minimum - there are signals extinguished with software. SEED := (CONST1 * SEED +
Oric Atmos keyboard, and I running around those chips at On other types of computer, CONST2) MOD CONST3
am hoping to buy the Oric a rate of millions of pulses a such as the Commodore Pet where SEED is used as the
word processor. To my second, and it is easy for them and Sharp MZ-80K, it is only basis of each 'new' random
surprise, I received the Atmos to get lost or cause possible to generate a specific number (each number being
ROM as well. The problem is interference. set of (usually 256) symbols generated from the previous
that most of my software The next step is to take the - you can't control the points one. MOD is the remainder
only works on the Oric ROM, chip select signal from the individually. function (so 10 MOD 7 is 3)
and not with the Atmos. Is socket to the ROM pins via a The Einstein, like the BBC and CONST1, CONST2 and
there anything I can buy or two-way (change -over) Micro, Atari XE and many CONST3 are constant values.
build that will enable me to switch. You should not other machines, can work CONST1 and CONST2 are
switch from one ROM to the operate the switch while the either way. The second usually fairly small in relation
other? computer is turned on. It may scheme has the advantage of to CONST3. Preferably all the
J Green, Widmer End, be worth enforcing this rule speed and economical use of constants are prime numbers.
Buckinghamshire by using a three -position memory, as it is only Successive calls return a
double -pole switch, with necessary to store one byte to jumbled sequence of
This is a problem for users of different ROMs enabled at produce an entire character numbers ranging in value
a variety of machines which opposite ends of the switch on the display, but it restricts from one to CONST3, which
can run more than one ROM; travel, and the DC supply to you to a single size and shape repeats itself every CONST3
the Sinclair ZX80 was the first the computer cut off in the of character. calls.
popular machine which could middle position. It is possible to produce Some computers, such as
run two different Basic ROMs. The location of the chip characters on a bit -mapped the Apple II, jumble the
The solution is simple, but it select pins on the package will display by lighting and sequence still further by using
requires experimentation and depend upon the type of ROM extinguishing groups of the code or timing of the last
some precise soldering -I you are using - you'll need to points- in fact, this is the key -press in place of CONST2.
would only recommend it to look them up in a catalogue or only method available on the Luckily the Amstrad doesn't
those confident of their ability trace through the computer's Spectrum and Electron. The do this, or analysis of the
to work with digital circuit to find the chip select less points you use for each sequence could become
electronics. I don't know of line. character, the more you can extremely difficult.
any firm offering such a This method pre -supposes cram onto the screen, but the The problem should be
service. that you aim to replace a cruder and harder to read the solved if you put the
The ROM contains the single ROM with a single display becomes. command RANDOMIZE 22 (or
instructions which give the replacement, and that they The practical limit beyond any other constant number) at
computer it's 'personality' - both work without which it becomes impossible the start of your program. The
the commands it recognises, modification in the same to represent a full alphabet RANDOMIZE function
the editing mechanism, and socket. It also assumes that comes when characters are provides a new 'seed' for the
so on. The processor the ROMs do not impose a approximately four points random number generator, so
indicates that it wants to read significant load when not wide and six high. On this you always get the same
the ROM by generating an selected; this is generally the basis, you could get 64 sequence of numbers after
'address' which corresponds case, but should be checked if columns and 32 rows onto the using RANDOMIZE with a
to the ROM. Logic inside the you are not sure. If you are display of the Einstein or specific value. This makes the
computer detects appropriate replacing a set of chips with a Spectrum, as they offer output of the generator
addresses, and a special different number of control over 256 dots predictable, so it can be
signal, called 'chip select', is components, you will need to horizontally and 192 reliably analysed . END

OCTOBER 1985 PCW 217

 NETWORKS

Fido links
Peter Tootill looks at the inner workings of FidoNet, and rounds up the
new bulletin boards at home and abroad.
Fido is not only a bulletin board, but also hence to keep costs down. them operate FidoNet, but the sysops
part of a network of Fido BBSs called Jennings hopes to extend the will, of course, be able to tell you.
Fido Net. One of the drawbacks of the FidoNet concept to include non-Fido There are around 500 Fido systems
standard BBS is that it is a single systems as well. The FidoNet software worldwide, mostly in the US with a few
system, and you can only use it to would take over the micro at certain in other countries. If anyone wants a full
exchange messages with people who times of the day, and interface with the list, the sysops of any of the Fido
call that particular system. Fido is host BBS message -handling system. systems listed should be able to help.
different: you can ask it to forward a Fido is written in C, but Jennings firmly
message to another Fido system used refuses to release the source code. The New BBSs
by the person you want to contact. compiled programs, however, are in The number of new systems is
A Fido system consists of two parts. the public domain. increasing at a rapid rate. New ones
Firstly, there is the BBS software (which The main drawback with running a that I have come across are:
is quite a sophisticated BBS program in Fido system in Europe is that it requires CoCo BBS (091) 265 1944 9pm-10am
its own right), and secondly, there is the a Hayes -compatible modem (Hayes is a weekdays 24 hr Sat & Sun
FidoNet software which handles the US modem manufacturer which sets DUBBS Dublin (0001) 885 634 V21
networking side. The FidoNet software the standard for auto -dial modems over 8pm-8am Mon -Fri 24 hr Sat & Sun
takes control for a short period each there) to use all its features. There are MBBS Leconfield (0401) 50 745 V21
day, called 'network time' (at night very few Hayes compatibles available 8.30am-midnight (24 hrs soon)
when call rates are low), and shuts over here. The V23 (1200/75) standard Gnome at Home (01) 888 8894 V23 7
down the BBS. Each system organises also causes problems: the high speed bits, even parity, 24 hrs
messages to be forwarded into packets standard in North America is 1200 full System 2000 Redcar (0642) 486 643
and automatically dials other FidoNet duplex (equivalent to V22). If using V23, V21 7pm-7am weekdays (sponsored
members. It sends the packets to the FidoNet needs to be able to control the by Multi -Coloured Micro Shop)
relevant systems, and packets can even modem, so that when it is sending Gosport Apricot BBS (0705) 524805
be routed via other Fido boards to their messages it works at 1200 transmit, 75 V21, 24 hrs
destination. If the FidoNet software receive (so-called reverse Prestel Overseas: TBBS Melbourne (010 613)
receives an engaged tone when it calls speeds) and the opposite way round 878 6847 V21 24 hrs
another system, it simply waits for a when it is receiving. No doubt it is only a Oslo: (010 47 2) 431 840 V21 (V22/
random period (in case other Fidos are matter of time before these problems 22bis coming) 24 hrs, 22Mbytes of
trying to talk to it) and goes on to the are sorted out. If anyone is interested in public domain download files
next on the list. It repeats this process running a Fido system, contact one of Germany: Mercator (010 49 203) 782
until network time is over, or all the the sysops who will be able to provide 497 & 596 146. 10pm-8am Mon -Fri,
packets have been sent. If a call is all the software. It needs an IBM- 8pm-8am Sat & Sun
received during network time, a mes- com patible system and an auto -answer Brazil: CBBS Do Prado (010 55 11) 813
sage is displayed to warn users that the modem (Hayes compatibility is only 2016; CBBS Do Pinto (010 55 21) 247
system is only taking calls from other needed if you want to run FidoNet). 8440; CBBS Do Otto (010 55 41) 262
FidoNet nodes. If a successful connec- A list of the Fido systems running in 4743; Forum 80 (010 55 21) 287 8844;
tion is established, the two nodes Europe at the time of writing is given in Sistema Samoa (010 55 11) 853 6273.
exchange packets, marking the ones Fig 1 and a couple more should be All systems are V21.
that have been successfully transmit- online soon. I don't know how many of
ted so that senders know that their
message has been despatched.
The author of the software, Tom FidoUK1 (0635) 46480 ** OFFLINE, SYSOP HAS
Jennings, who works for Phoenix MOVED**
Software in San Francisco, reckons that Fastnet(Bell 103) (051) 260 5607 Liverpool 10pm to 9am
the network system works well and Fidofore (01) 301 4110 ** OFFLINE UNTIL
that, after a few 'collisions' (engaged FURTHER NOTICE**
tones), the system settles down and the Compulink (04867) 6535 ** OFFLINE UNTIL
majority of calls will get through. FURTHER NOTICE**
Obviously, sending messages in this Fido Day Rainbow (010 465) 413 3170 Karlstad Sweden 24 hours
way costs the operator of the BBS Sun City Fido (010 465) 416 6988 Karlstad Sweden 24 hours
money for phone charges, so each Fido NL1 (010 31) 8380 37156 Ede Netherlands 24 hours
person using thefacility has an account. Hughs Fido (0534) 36433 St Helier Jersey 6pm to 8am
He pays a sum into his account, and it is Fido Ben (010 31) 3480 2107 Woerden Holland
debited each time he sends out a 7.30pm to 3am
message. The costs are not high as all Fido HCC DB (010 30) 945889 Netherlands 5pm to 9am
the calls are made at off-peak times: for Fido HCCN (010 72) 116080 Netherlands 11pm to 7am
example, a 2k file can be sent to the US ATL (010 465) 102 0409 Lidkuping Sweden 24 hours
from the UK for around 40 pence. Colchester Fido (0206) 865737 Colchester 6pm to 8.30am
FidoNet uses text compression to Fig 1 Fidos in Europe
reduce the size of the messages and

218 PCW OCTOBER 1985

UK free networks
Bulletin Board Phone Number Notes
Aberdeen ITEC (0224) 641585 V.23
BABBS-Bath (0225) 23276 300/300 baud rate; 9pm-8am weekdays, 9pm-noon
weekends; Atari -based system, ring -back system
BABBS-Felixstowe (0394) 276306 300/300 baud rate; 24 hours daily; Apple users' group
BABBS TWO -Basildon (0268) 778956 300/300 baud rate; 24 hours daily; Apple users' group
with special area for queries to Apple UK
Basildon ITeC (0268) 22177 Prestel type service
(0268) 25122 Atari based 300 baud. 24 hour
BASUG (01) 373 6337 24 hour
Blandford Board TBBS (0258) 54494) 300/300 baud rate; 24 hours daily
CABB TBBS (01) 631 3076 300/300 baud rate; 24 hours daily + 1200/75
CBBS SW (0392) 53116 300/300 baud rate; 24 hours daily
CBBS Surrey (Woking) (04862) 25174 1200/75 and 300/300 baud rates; 24 hours daily; jokes,
jobs, reviews, news
Chatham (Kent) (0634) 815805 6pm/9am daily + weekends 7 bits, even parity; sales and
wants - cars, houses, computers
CNOL Lancaster TBBS (0524) 60399 300/300 baud rate; 24 hours daily; Clinical Notes Online
service, mainly for medical users; works in conjunction
with a database on the Datastar network
Computers Incorporated Newcastle (CBBS) (0207) 543555 300/300 baud rate; 24 hours daily; primarily business -
oriented
Forum 80 Hull (0482) 859169 300/300 baud rate; 5-11.30pm weekdays, noon-11.30pm
Sundays, Bell 103 standard, midnight-8am daily; interna-
tional electronic mail, library for up/downloading
Forum 80 SPA (0926) 39871 300/300 baud rate; 11pm-midnight daily; TRS-80 and
Genie users' group
Forum 80 Wembley (01) 902 2546 300/300 baud rate; 7-10pm weekdays, midday-10pm
weekdays; electronic mail, library for down loading; ring
and ask for Forum 80
Fido Compulink (06286) 63571 24 hour
Fido Fastnet (051) 260 5607 10pm-8am BELL 103/212a tones only at present
Fido Fore TBBS (01) 301 4110 Fido lam-8am
Hackney BBS (01) 985 3322 V.23 Password: PUBLIC
Hamnet Hull (0482) 497150 300/300 baud rate; 6pm-8am daily
Livingstone, Scotland (0506) 38526 Atari, 24 hours daily
London Underground (01) 863 0198 24 hours V.21/V.23 (Viewdata coming soon) BBC Based
(colour for BBC users)
Liverpool Mailbox TBBS (051) 4288924 300/300 baud rate; 24 hours daily; sponsored by INMAC;
electronic mail, program downloading, TRS-80 informa-
tion; messages for PCW can be left on the board and will
normally be read by us within 24 hours
Mactel (Nottingham) (0602) 289783 V.21/1/.23 Macintosh users 24 hours daily
Mailbox -80 W Midlands Stourport TBBS (0384) 635336 300/300 baud rate; 6pm-8am daily
Manchester Open Bulletin Board TBBS (061) 7368449 300/300 baud rate; 24 hours daily + 1200/75
Marctel (01)346 7150 10am-10pm daily (24 hour coming, watch for announce-
ment on Marctel) BBC based system (FBBS) with colour
for Commstar users
MBBS-Mitcham (01) 648 0018 300/300 baud rate; 24 hours; BBC -based system with jokes,
graffiti, electronic mail, and Atari and BBC sections
MG -Net CBBS London (01) 399 2136 300/300 baud rate; 5-10pm Sunday; electronic mail,
program downloading
Microweb Manchester TBBS (061) 4564157 300/300 baud rate; 24 hours daily; Micro User magazine,
mainly for BBC users
NBBBS-North Birmingham TBBS (0827) 288810 300/300 baud rate; 24 hours daily
NBBS-E BBC Micro (0692) 630186 BBC Based 24 hours daily V21N23
NBBS Lutterworth (04555) 4798 Mon -Fri 8pm-8am, weekends 24 hrs
NKABBS (0795) 842324 9.30pm-midnight
OBBS Manchester (061) 4271596 300/300 baud rate; 24 hrs
except 10am-10pm
Octopus RAS (0272) 421196 (Bristol) 6pm-8.30am V21 using public domain Octopus software
PIP -Sheffield TBBS (0742) 667983 300/300 baud rate; 24 hours daily. Bell 9pm-8.00am
REACT UK (0376) 518818 24 hours. Mainly Dragon
SABBS Glasgow (0698) 884804 Atari, 24 hours daily
SBBS Southern (0923) 676644 (Watford) 11pm-8.30am daily; BBC based V.21N.23
Southern BBS (0243) 511077 300/300 baud rate; 8pm-2am daily; ring -back system (dial
the number, let phone ring once, and then ring back);
messages, downloading
Stoke ITEC (0782) 265078 1200/75 Viewdata system; 24 hours daily
TBBS London (01) 348 9400 300/300 baud rate; 9am-7pm daily
TYNESIDE BBS (091) 251 4271 V.21 BBC based
VISA (01) 958 7098 8am-11pm daily V23 Prestel type
WABBS-Worthing (0903) 42013 300/300 baud rate; 24 hours daily; ring -back system (dial
the number, let phone ring once, and then ring back);
Atari -based

UK subscriber commercial/business systems

Bulletin Board Phone Number Notes
Comet (0527) 28515 Message handling system: Details from Istel Ltd, Grosve-
nor House, Prospect Hill, Redditch, Worcs
Micronet 800 (01) 278 3143 Prestel database information for micro users. Details from
Micronet 800, 8 Herbal Hill, London EC1R 5EJ
Prestel Freefone 100 Subscribers only
Prestel sales
Telecom Gold (01)403 6777 All information from Sales Adm in, 60-68 St Thomas Street,
London SE1 3QU

OCTOBER 1985 PCW 219

 A iNFIL
Your chance to buy, sell or swap equipment.
SIRIUSNICTOR (0226) 790435. Wordstar, DBase II, WANTED. Used Sinclair Cobol, £850 ono. Line printer
SOFTWARE. Micro MICROTAN 65 with Supercalc, Visiplot, Visitrend, Spectrum in working order, VI, Centronics interface,
modeller, and Supercalc, graphics option. Tanex with Visicalc, Apple -Writer, reasonable price. Tel: 131/2in for above, £200 or
£225. Tel: Chris Hatt (0323) Xbug, extra VIA, RS232C, Zaxxon, Sargon II, Format 80 Reading 695916. both for £1,000 ono. Tel:
895900 (after 6pm). also mini motherboard, hex + others, £350. Excellent TANDY CGP115 colour (05645) 78218.
TANDY TRS80 Model 3 keypad and manuals. All in condition. Tel: (0304) 614447 printer plotter with spare APRICOT. Immaculate twin
Level 2. Basic, integral excellent condition, £175 (after 6pm or weekends). paper and lead, £100. Also 320k disks, 256k RAM, 9in
monitor, cassette recorder, ono. Tel: (021) 705 4495 TAS-80 MODEL I for sale. ORIC-1 plus software, monitor. 11 months old and
software, manuals. As new (after 6pm). 48k, expansion interface and manuals, £100. Both for barely used. Original boxes
£160. Tel: Uxbridge (0895) DRAGON 32. Immaculate. green screen monitor. £175, hardly used. Tel: Dave and manuals plus some extra
57396 (working hours) or Manual, inverse video Includes games, business Yan on (021) 552 6126 (work software, £1,095 ovno. Tel:
Abingdon (0235) 24824 (after switch, cartridge ON/OFF programs and utilities, plus number). 01-622 0801.
7pm and weekends). button, lightpen, joystick, Electric Pencilword SHARP MZ80k (48k). Plus SHARP MZ80A. 48k and
SPECTRUM 48k. Sinclair Alldream, assem/disassem, processing program. Price Basic and assembler, plenty Basic. Tiptop condition, £180
printer, Comcon joystick text star word processor, negotiable.Tel: (0727)50727. of games and manuals, ono. 96 High Street,
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compiler, assembler, adventure games, 'Dragon monitor and tape drive). Quick sale, hence £180. Tel: Tel: 01-946 7649 (anytime).
disassem, beginners me Companion', £120 ono. Tel: Complete with Basic Gary on 104621816980. SHARP MZ-80A. Built in
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MICROCHESS
A grandmaster plays blindfold against a strong West German computer
program. The contest is observed by Kevin O'Connell.
I once had to describe to someone who 7 Ba4-b3 d7 -d6 pawns. Of course it is even easier when
knew nothing at all about computers, 8 c2 -c3 0-0 you are one of the two best players in
but a great deal about chess, how a 9 h2 -h3 the world. Black's plan? - to survive!)
computer 'sees' a position on the (The starting point for the main 22 . . . Rb8-b7
board. I used the analogy of the human variation of the Closed Spanish.) 23 Re1-h1 Nh7-f6
master playing a game blindfold. Ex- 9 ... Nc6-a5 24 Ra1-91 Qd8-b6
hibitions of blindfold play are very rare, 10 Bb3-c2 c7 -c5 25 Kg2-fl Rb7-d7
especially by players of the first rank. 11 d2 -d4 Qd8-c7 26 g4 -g5 h6xg5
However, the challenger to the world (This position has been seen in 27 Nf3xg 5 Qb6-b7
title, Garry Kasparov, recently gave a master level play many thousands of
display of blindfold simultaneous play times.
against nine very strong West German 12 d4 -d5
players and the strongest West German (This, however, is a rarity, but an
computer program. excellent move to play against a com-
Without sight of any chessboard, puter, as it guarantees that the
Kasparov crashed through the opposi- centre will remain closed and that it will
tion, scoring eight wins and two draws. be extremely difficult for Black to
In case you think that is no great formulate a plan, while White mounts a
achievement, just try playing one game steady and progressive attack on the
without a board and set and see how king -side. Because of the points I have
long it is before you lose track of the just mentioned, allied with the prove-
position of all the pieces. nance of this opening, players some-
White: Kasparov. Balck: Mephisto. times refer to these variations as 'The
Opening: Spanish Opening Spanish Inquisition'.)
1 e2 -e4 e7 -e5 12 ... Bc8-d7
2 Ng1-f3 Nb8-c6 13 b2 -b3 Qc7-b6 Kasparov's White army!
3 Bf1-b5 (13 . . Na5-b7 14 c3-c4 b5 -b4 was
.
(Now Black has a lot of pieces on the
(This is the Spanish Opening, in- played by a human, the Yugoslav queen -side, but Kasparov has his entire
vented by the Iberian cleric Ruy Lopez in grandmaster Matanovic, against Kas- army pointing at Black's king.)
the 16th century.) parov in a tournament at Banja Luka in 28 Ng5-e6! f7xe6
3 . a7 -a6 1979. Matanovic drew that game, but 29 f5xe6 Rd7-c7
4 Bb5-a4 Ng8-f6 Kasparov is now a much stronger 30 Rglxg7+! Kg8xg7
5 0-0 Bf8-e7 player than he was six years ago and 31 Be3 -h6+ Kg7-h8
(Black cannot win a pawn with Mephisto is nowhere near as good as
5... Nf6xe4 (the Open Variation) - Matanovic.) OD
White can regain the pawn comfortably 14 Nb1-d2 Rf8-c8
with 6 Rfl-el or 6 Qd1-e2 or 6 d2 -d4 15 Nd2-f1
b7 -b5 7 Ba4-b3 d7 -d5 8 d4xe5 (the (This knight manoeuvre is always an
main line).) important part of White's plan in this
6 Rf1-el b7 -b5 line- it is headed for g3 and then f5.)
15 . h7 -h6
16 Bc1-e3 Qb6-d8
17 Qd1-d2 Nf6-h7
18 Nf1-g3 Ra8-b8
(All Black's pieces are developed, but
what can they do? Where is the plan?)
19 Ng3-f5 Bd7xf5
20 e4xf5 Nh7-f6
21 g2 -g4
(The commencement of the type of Closing in for the kill
pawn storm that has been seen on
countless occasions in this opening.) 32 Bh6 -g7+!!
21 Nf6-h7 (Now Black will have a vast amount of
22 Kg1-g2 extra material, but the next world
(It is very easy to formulate a plan for champion has all he needs.)
White here - move the rooks to h1 and 32 ... Kh8xg7
g1, get the king out of the way and (If 32 . . Kh8-g8 then 33 Qd2-h6 and
.

A variation of Closed Spanish charge forward with the king -side mate next move.

OCTOBER 1985 PCW 221

 MICROCHESS
33 Qd2-g5+ Kg7-f8 35 Bc2-g6+ Ke8-d8 (It is mate in two moves: 36. . .Be7
34 Qg5-h6+ Kf8-e8 36 Qh6-h8+ Black resigns I -f8 37 Qh8xf8+ Nf6-e8 38 Qf8xe8.)

NUMBERS COUN
Mike Mudge investigates problems in the theory of continued fractions.
Definition An expression of the form: The converse is also true, any on Atlas at S R C Chilton!
ao + 1 periodic continued fraction represents Problems 1) Determinethe period of the
a1+1 the root of a quadratic equation. continued fraction expansion of a given
a2 + 1
x = (1;7,7,7,...) = (1;7, 1 I quadratic irrational that is, p + q (x)1/2..
x-1 try (4517'/2 - 61)/3.
a3 + 1 2) Determine the continued fraction
here x = 1 + 1
(where ao,al,a2,a3, . are positive inte- expansion of a real number given to an
gers) is called a regular (or simple) 7 + lx - 1 )
thus x2 + 5x -7 = 0 and x = (531/2 + 5)/2 arbitrary precision. Try 0.1234
continued fraction. 56789101112131415116.
For ease of printing it is written approximately 1.140054944
It should be noted that (1;7) is
3) Compute exactly the rational num-
lao;al,a2,a3, .), the a, are called the ber (fraction) corresponding to a
partial quotients. approximately 1.142857142 (1;7,7) =
57/50 = 1.14 while (1;7,7,7) = 407/357 is given finite continued fraction. Try
Theorem I Given any rational number (1;2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,..n)
greater than zero, that is a fraction p/q approximately 1.140056022.
Certain special continued fractions 4) Compute the positive real root(s) of
where p and q are positive integers with a given cubic (or higher degree equa-
no common factor, the associated are to be found in the literature, for
example, Continued Fractions by C D tion) equation to arbitrary precision and
continued fraction is finite. usethe result of (2)tofind the continued
131/17 = (7;1,2,2,2) = Olds Appendix II includes (Euler 1737)
e = (2;1,2,1,1,4,1,1,6,1,...) = (2;1,2n,1) fraction expansion.
7+1 The statistical distribution arising in
n = infinity
1+1
n=1 this theory will be discussed in a later
2+1 also (Lambert 1770) Numbers Count article if the response
2+1 Pi = (3;7,15,1,292,1,1,1,2,1,3,1,14,2,1,1, warrants it.
2,2,2,2,1,84,2,...) with no apparent pat- Readers are invited to submit their
2
tern. program listings, together with hard-
Theorem II (The converse of theorem I.) ware descriptions, run times, any com-
Any finite continued fraction repre- However general results are some-
what sparse. In the summer of 1970 the ments and of course the output relating
sents a rational number. (Loosely we to the above problems. These submis-
may say that any finite continued Maniac computer at Los Alamos used
25000 decimal digit arithmetic to calcu- sions will be judged, using suitably
fraction can be 'wrapped up'!) vague criteria, and a prize will be
(2;3,1,7,) = 70/31 late the first 8000 partial quotients in the
continued fraction expansion of the awarded to the 'Best' entry received at
Theorem III (See for example Con- 'Square Acre', Stourbridge Road, Penn,
tinued Fractions by A Ya Khinchin, cube root of two; the theoretical in-
terest centring around the statistical Nr. Wolverhampton, Staffordshire
translation from the Russian published WV4 5NF; (tel (0902) 892141) by 1
by The University of Chicago Press in distribution of these a1.
Nearer home, J lnst Maths Applic January 1986.
the Phoenix Science Series 1964, pp Please note that submissions can
47-50.) (1969) Vol 5 pp 318-328 R F Church -
Any positive real root of a quadratic house and STE Muir report that the real only be returned if a suitable stamped
equation has a periodic simple con- root of x3 - 8x - 10 = 0 (approximately addressed envelope is provided. Ex-
tinued fraction. 3.318628217750185) was calculated to panded reviews of previous problems
21/2 = (1;2,2,2,..) = (1;2) 200 decimal places and the first 200 together with, subject to the approval of
31/2 = (1;1,2,1,2,1,2,...) = (1;1,2) partial quotients (beginning (3;3,7,4,2, the contributor, copies of detailed
71/2. = (2;1,1,1,4,1,1,1,4,1,1,1,4,...) = 30,1,8,3,1,1,1,9,2,2,1,3,22986,2)) were programs from the prize winning entry
(2;1,1,1,4) also determined in a total of 10 seconds may also be requested.

MULfiEM VER, 850621 T1ME: 00:00:02

Prize winner April
pee MIA.116RADE OF ORDER 6:
The first response to Sums of Powers
A. 39 38 28 27 16 10 5 1 used a simple approach in Basic on a
8: 40 34 31 25 14 13 3 2 TI -99/4A, subsequent contributors
TRANSLATION = 150
ranged over the spectrum of combina-
tions of theory and empirical program-
NUM8E8 Of TERMS . 8 ming and overthe globefrom Oxford to
A: 151 155 160 166 177 178 188 189
Cambridge to Saudi Arabia.
8: 152

POWER SUMS:
153 163 164 175 181 186 190
The winner this month is Henry
A' I . 1344 B"1= 1364 EQUAL SUMS FOR EXP. . 1
lbstedt of 4, rue Gramme; 75015 Paris, a
A ' 2 234060 B " 2 = 234060 EQUAL SUMS FOR EIP, = 2 regularcontributortothe mailbag, with
A ' 3 . 40418048 8"3= 40418048 EQUAL SUMS FOR EXP, . 3
a very well presented combination of
7022349636
A ' 4

A " 5 =
.

1227303591344
'

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4

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=

=
1022349636
1227303597344
EQUAL SUMS FOR EIP, .
EQUAL SUMS FOR EXP. =
4

5
theorems with proofs, followed by
A ' 6 * 215710267243380 B'6= 215710267243380 EQUAL SUNS FOR EIP. = 6
detailed implementation in Basic for an
A ' 1 . 3.811648835146717016 1"7= 3.811648824139351016 IBM PC with 256 kbyte Ram. The
A ' 8 .
11ME: 00:01:14
6.7692930831775640418 I " 8 = 6.769292934047113018
detailed results would suffer badly
from the condensation needed to fit the
Fig 1 available space. Fig 1 gives a sample of
Henry's style.
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and sort its characters into alphabetical When the King of Babylon died he left (not backs of envelopes) to PCW Prize
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SURE' we would get the character would receive one half of the coins, and Entries to arrive not later than 31
string 'EEILRSU'. each of his 11 daughters an equal share October 1985.
Suppose we could make a character of the remainder.
string, in this manner from every word When it was time to share out the July Prize Puzzle
in the standard dictionary. It would money, it was found that the son's There was a fairly good response to the
certainly make a useful anagram dic- share had been laid out in the form of an 'roll of cloth' problem- over a hundred
tionary. If we then sorted all the exact triangular array, and that the entries received, including correct solu-
character strings into alphabetical remainder had been set out in equal tions from as far afield as the US, Malta
sequence, clearly, the first entry in the square arrays. and the Middle East.
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Your chance to contribute to the magazine.
We're offering readers the chance to who have the most interesting things to for consideration. Remember to put
get rich (well, at least richer) and say, so don't worry if your prose is less your name and address on both the
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magazine - by writing for it. We polishing. along with a daytime phone number if
welcome approaches from would-be If you have an idea for a feature write, possible. Manuscripts should be typed
writers, including those who have with a brief synopsis, outlining the or printed out (dot matrix output is fine),
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Any accompanying program list- look at the Back Issues advertisementto we're more likely to accept something
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ACC NEWS
As the autumn season opens for computer clubs, Rupert Steele casts his
eye over the latest events.
The Association of Computer Clubs I have also had a couple of letters Avenue, Eastcote, Ruislip, Middx, HA4
(ACC) is an amateur, democratic body from the Independent Enterprise User 9RL. He is involved with Eastcote
which looks after the common interests Group, and the first issue of its very ComputerTown. It meets on the first
of affiliated computer clubs in the UK. attractive newsletter called 'Private and third Tuesday of each month, 6pm
The early autumn is a particularly Enterprise'. The group was originally to 8pm at the Eastcote library, Field End
important time for computer clubs, conceived as a club for Enterprise Road, Eastcote. Machines in evidence
which are often closed in August (and owners in London, but it has been include the BBC, Apple and Spectrum.
sometimes early September). It marks broadened to a national (internation- The ComputerTown concentrates on
the start of a new 'season', and many al?) user group. It may still have London providing information for new and
clubs will have taken special care over meetings if there is a demand. The prospective computer users and offers
the summer to set up a good program- membership for the remainder of 1985 training in programming.
me of events to kick off with. So it's a is £4, and includes the first three isues of The Comex 35 National Users Club
good time to visit your local computer Private Enterprise. If the next two are has moved! You should now contact
club and see what it is doing. If you don't anything like the first, it must surely be a David Hitchins at Fyfe Crescent,
1

know where your local club is, try must for Enterprise owners. For more Baildon, Shipley, West Yorks, BD17
looking in libraries, computer shops, information, contact the club president, 6DR or call David on Bradford (0274)
scan the events column in your local Mark Lissak, 40 Mansfield Road, Lon- 580519.
paper, or contact the ACC. It will try to don, NW3 2HT. A mention for John Day and the
put enquirers in touch with their local Further out is the Southgate Micro Nottingham Microcomputer Club,
computer clubs, as listed on the nation- Club. It meets on alternate Wednesdays which is one of the more impressive
al database. during term time in room B106, South- clubs around at the moment (lull of fizz'
gate Technical College. The sessions is how John describes it). It meets on
What's on are 7.30pm-9pm. Mondays at the Castle Cate Congrega-
The Kensington & Chelsea Computer John Mileham writes as the assistant tional Federation Building (opposite
Society (KCCS), meets at the Parish education secretary of RACS. He runs the central Nottingham branch of
Rooms, St Philips Church in the Earls two groups; a ComputerTown which Marks & Spencer). The first Monday of
Court Road. Many members own BBC meets at the RACS offices, 147 Powis the month is the club's 'main monthly
micros, but the club welcomes all micro Street, London, SE18 6JN, on the first event'; the second is a user group for
enthusiasts with a varied programme Thursday of each month; and a club Atari, BBC and Dragon; and third is for
of talks and demonstrations by mem- ROYCOM of which I have no details. Amstrad and Sinclair and the fourth is
bers and visiting speakers. For more You can get more information by for Atari and Commodore. It is setting
information, write to me at the address calling John on (01) 854 2000 ext 408. up an extra evening meeting for spe-
given at the end, or call (01) 370 0601. The machines that tend to feature at cialistg roups, a bouttraining, Basicode,
Also in London is the North London club meetings are the BBC and Com- communications and projects; these
Hobby Computer Club, one of the modore 64, but there are usually TI and groups will involve owners of many
earliest and largest groups in the Atari machines about. different machines.
country. It is based on the 'Recreational Sharpsoft has written to me to say The club also has a library of books
Computing' microcomputer course at that it runs a newsletter service for and magazines, and contributes from
the Polytechnic of North London. There Sharp owners. The main group is time to time to the weekly computer
are weekly lecture sessions on Mon- known as Sharpsoft User Notes (SUN), programme on the local Radio Trent.
days, Tuesdays and Wednesdays dur- and published six issues in 1984. The For more information, contact John
ing term times, as well as an informal notes are edited by Dr Mike Brinson of Day, 8 Warkton Close, Chilwell, Notts,
BBC group on Thursdays, a Com- the Polytechnic of North London, but NG9 5FR or call him on (0602) 225660.
munications group (third Tuesday for information you should contact
monthly), and Sinclair/hardware Sharpsoft Ltd, 86-90 Paul Street, Lon-
groups on Mondays. Additional possi- don, EC2A 4NE, or call (01) 739 8559. For a mention in this column, to notify
bilities are groups looking at MS-DOS, Moving on to Barnet, Tony Gibbs has the ACC of a new or existing club, or to
Unix, C and Prolog. Now is the best time given me details of the Milfield Compu- obtain club address labels: Rupert
to join the club, as the subscription is ter Group, of which he is the publicity Steele, 12 Philbeach Gardens, London,
tied to the academic year, so contact secretary. His address is Farover, Bar- SW5 9DY.
Chris Carter on (01) 226 1234 ext 2221 or net Road, Arkley, Barnet, Hens, EN5 Any other enquiry, including the
write to the Department of Electric and 3HB, or you can call him on (01)4499619 address of your local club: John Bone,
Communications Engineering, Poly- if you are in the area. ACC Chairman, 2 Claremont Place,
technic of North London, Holloway And finally from London, Mr A Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, NE8 1TL, or
Road, London, N7 8DB. Shipton writes from 17 Woodlands call (091)477 0036. END

228 PCW OCTOBER 1985

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For details on submitting your own, see the end of
London Road, Elephant & Castle this section.
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Tel: 01.928 2900 Ext. 472 Program of the Month is a complex and Again for the BBC is an educational
IBM is the trademark of International Business Machines difficult football manager game for the program to help teach 0 and A Level
STAND 2032, PCW SHOW Spectrum. Guide your favourite team students how simple logic gates work.
from third division to European Cup The program has been tested on real
without leaving your seat. This prog- classes, and pupils have found itto be of
ram is one of the best and most realistic great help.
simulations I have seen, including the For the Commodore 64, there's a tiny
commercial ones. Don't expect exciting program to print the time in the top
COMPUTER AND action, but do expect tussles with the left-hand corner of the screen and keep
PERIPHERAL REPAIRS boardroom, injuries to players, trou- it there, even when the screen is altered.
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All types of printers, vdu's and (or rises if your team is doing well). making disk operations friendlier. For
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r Games

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230 PCW OCTOBER 1985

 PROGRAM FILE MICROMART
10 GO SUB 7500
11 LET sx-sea..10
12 DIM 2S(sx,32)
13 DIM ciS(1,17)
15 RESTORE 9800: READ ea,xe,xf,xp,ef,ep,he,ae,b,epl
17 RESTORE 9810: READ yx,xhe,xee,p,q,s,c,g,d
1B LET sx-sea..10
19 GO TO 1115
20 RESTORE 9830: REM ....* new season ......
30 READ rep,z(4),z(5),win,y,t,ha,cp,1,u(5),u(4),e,x,ps
data buffers
40 LET x3-1.-INT (RND..15)
50 LET x1.-3.75 print buffers T -switches
60 IF d-1 THEN RESTORE 9930
70 IF d.-2 THEN RESTORE 9920 buffered protocol converters
BO IF d..3 THEN RESTORE 9910
90 IF d-4 THEN RESTORE 9900 telecommunications buffers
110 PRINT AT 9,0; PAPER 6; INK 2;" .
120 PRINT PAPER 6; INK 2;AT 11 ,O; " .
125 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 9,29; PAPER 0; INK 7;" 0 ";AT 11 ,29; " 0 "
130 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 9,12; PAPER 0; INK 7;" 0 ";AT 11 , 12; " 0 " Formats:
140 GO SUB 9600
200 READ CS: REM ...... main season o.... IEEE -488 or Centronics parallel,
205 LET z(6)..z(6),1
210 IF d..1 AND 1-19 THEN RESTORE 9930
or V24/RS232c serial, or any
215 IF d-2 AND 1-19 THEN RESTORE 9920
220 IF d-3 AND 1-19 THEN RESTORE 9910
conversion combination.
225 IF d-4 AND 1-19 THEN RESTORE 9900
IF 1-20 THEN LET ha -1 230 Buffer sizes:
235 LET ciS(1)-1$
240 IF 1<7 THEN GO TO 2B0 From 2k to 1 megabyte RAM.
245 IF 2(6)-1 AND z(1)-1 THEN GO TO 2500
250 IF 1>31 THEN GO TO 260
255 IF z(6)-2 AND z(1).1. THEN GO TO 2510 Computers:
260
265
IF
IF
z(6)-3 AND z(2)-1 THEN GO TO 2600
1>33 THEN GO TO 275
IBM PC, Hewlett-Packard, DEC,
270
275
IF
IF
2(6)-4 AND z(2)..1 THEN GO TO 2610
z(6)-5 AND 2(3)-1 THEN GO TO 2700
Apple, Sirius/Victor, Televideo,
277 IF 1>35 THEN GO TO 280 0 Super Brain, Commodore, BBC,
279
280
IF
IF
z(6)-6 AND 2(3)-1 THEN GO TO 2710
z(6)-7 AND z(4)-1 THEN GO TO 4000
Tandy, Sharp, Osborne, NEC,
285
292
IF
GO
z(6)-8 THEN LET z(6)-0: IF z(5)-1 THEN
SUB 9500: REM print positions
GO TO 4100 Data -General, etc, etc.
295 GO SUB 9700; REM clear bot.screen
0 305 IF 1F-0 THEN GO TO 8200: REM injury Applications
307 LET r -r-.1
310 IF r>u THEN GO TO 8300: REM injury recover Input buffering (data collection,
315 GO SUB 9000
317 IF 1-33 THEN GO SUB 9400 telecommunications, etc.).
320 IF 1>..34 THEN PRINT BRIGHT 1;e0; INK 4; PAPER O;"PRESS ANY KEY FOR NEXT M
ATCH ": PAUSE 0: INPUT -; GO TO 360 Output buffering (accounts/pay-
R
325 PRINT
"
BRIGHT 1;AT 15,0; INK 1;" 1: BUY A PLAYER "
INK 3 '"ANY: PLAY NEXT MATCH "
' INK 2'" 2: SELL A PLAYE roll printing, plotting, graphics
dumps, assembly listings, word
'

335 PRINT '-0; BRIGHT 1;" PRESS 1,2 or ANY "

337 PAUSE 0
340 INPUT "" processing, telecommunications,
345 IF INKEYS"1" THEN GO TO 2e3
350 IF INKEYS-"2" THEN GO TO 2200 etc).
355 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 10,0; PAPER col,"
360 GO SUB 9700: REM cl Got screen
365 GO SUB 9300: REM talc scores Support:
375
370 GO SUB 8600: REM print teams 8 scores
GO SUB 9100: REM talc pos 8. cap
We are the leading specialist
0
395 IF 1-40 THEN GO TO 1e3 distributor of UK -designed
400
410
IF 2(1)-1 OR z(2)-1 OR z(3)-1 THEN GO TO 200
IF 1-20 AND p>11 AND d>2 THEN GO SUB 5000 buffered interfaces, with a range
420
450
IF 1-20 AND p>16 AND d<3 THEN GO SUB 5000
GO TO 200
of products second to none in
1000 GO SUB 9500, REM .... end of season .... scope, price and reliability.
1001 PRINT INK 7; PAPER 3; BRIGHT O;AT 16,0,"
END OF SEASON
° 1002 FOR j-1 TO 3
1003 FOR rt...8 TO 20
1004 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 17,0; PAPER 3; INK 9; OVER 1;" " PAUSE S
A ) Line
0 1005
1006
PRINT BRIGHT O;AT 17,n; PAPER 3; INK 9; OVER 1 ; " "
NEXT n: NEXT j: CLS
0 Dataspeed Devices Ltd
1007 GO SUB 9600: REM print header MICRO BUFFER DISTRIBUTORS
1008 LET ep1-0
1010 PRINT AT 3,0;" SEASON ";s;" RESULTS DIVISION:";c1
:

1015 PRINT AT 5, 13; "GP W D Pts Pos-

.. 1017 PRINT AT 6,0; BRIGHT 1; PAPER col;"
w 1020 PRINT AT 6,0; BRIGHT 1; PAPER col; INK 9;a$ TAB 13;1;TAB 17;win;TAB 21 w;TA 3 Auburn Road
B 25;t;TAB 29;p Blaby
1025 GO SUB 6000: REM track record
1027 IF d-1 AND p>1 THEN GO TO 1032 0 Leicester LE8 3DR
1030 IF p-3 OR p-2 THEN LET zS(yx, 15 TO ).." PROMOTED ": LET yx-yx.1 : GO TO 1035 21 0533 778724
1031 IF p-1 THEN LET zS(yx, 15 TO 27)-" CHAMPIONS ": LET yx-yx+1 : GO TO 1035
9 1032 IF p>18 AND d<>4 THEN LET zSCyx,15 TO )-" RELEGATED "; LET yx-yx.1: GO TO 0
1035
1034 IF p>18 AND d-4 THEN LET zS(yx).-. FAILED TO BE RE-ELECTED " : LET yx-yx.1
1035 PRINT AT 12,0;c$(2);AT 12,16;"ROUND:";u(2): IF z(2)-1 THEN PRINT AT 12,16;
PAPER 6; INK 2; FLASH 1;uS; GO SUB 6100
1040 PRINT AT 14,0;=S(1);AT 14,16;"ROUND ";u(1): IF 2(1)-1. THEN PRINT AT 14,16;
PAPER 6; INK 2; FLASH 1;uS: GO SUB 6200
1042 PRINT AT 16,0;cS(3);AT 16,16;"ROUND ";u(3): IF z(3)-1 THEN PRINT AT 16,16;
PAPER 6; INK 2; FLASH 1;u%: GO SUB 6250
1045 PRINT AT 10,0; "CAFITAL;E";c 1-4 LANGLEY COURT, LONDON WC1 2E 9EY
.. 1046 IF u(2)-0 THEN PRINT PAPER 7; BRIGHT 1;AT 12, 16; "DID NOT COMPETE"
''' 1047 IF u(1)..0 THEN PRINT
1048 IF u(3)-0 THEN
PAPER 7; BRIGHT 1;AT 14,16;"DID NOT COMPETE"
PRINT PAPER 7; BRIGHT 1;AT 16, 16; "DID NOT COMPETE" DATABASE
1050 PRINT AT 18,0;c8(4);AT 18,16;"ROUND "0_:(4): PRINT BRIGHT );AT 20,0;c8(5),A
T 20, 16; .ROUND "0_1(5)
1052 IF u(4)-5 AND z(4)-1 THEN LET 2(3).1.
PROGRAMMING
1055 IF u(4)-4 AND z(4)..0 THEN PRINT AT 18, 16;sS
0 1060 IF u(4)5 AND z(4)-0 THEN
d Baselqd Base M
PRINT AT 18, 16; tS
1070 IF u(4)..5 AND z(4)-1 THEN PRINT AT 18,16; INK 3; FLASH 1;uS
1075 IF u(5)5 AND z(5)1 THEN LET zC1)-1
1077 IF u(5)..4 AND z(5)..0 THEN PRINT AT 20,16;sS
II 1080 IF u(5)-5 AND z(5)-0 THEN
1085 IF u(5)-5 AND z(5)-1 THEN
PRINT AT 20,16;tS
PRINT AT 20,16; INK 3;
FLASH 1;uS Informix & C
1087 GO SUB 6300
0 1088 IF d-1 THEN GO TO 1092
1090 IF p<4 THEN PRINT AT 8,10; INK 1;"PROMOTED"
1092 IF 11. THEN PRINT AT 8,10; PAPER 6; INK 0; FLASH 1 ; "CHAMPIONS"
Sensible Solution
0 1093 IF d-4 THEN GO TO 1096 0 Regd Trademarks Ashton Tate. RDS Inc. O'Hanlon Systems
1094 IF p>16 THEN PRINT AT 8,10; INK 2; PAPER 7;"RELEGATED"
1095 IF d-1 AND p-1 THEN LET z(2)..1.
.. 1096 IF d-4 AND p>18 AND c<1000 THEN PRINT AT 20,0;"YOU HAVE FAILED TO BE RE -EL 0 FULL ACCOUNTS, STOCK OR
"' ECTED GAME OVER .: PAUSE 150: GO TO 6500
1097 PRINT e0; BRIGHT 1; INK 4; PAPER 0;"PRESS ANY KEY FOR NEXT SEASON" TIME - MAILING - BROKING -
1098 PAUSE 0
1099 IF s -see -1 THEN GO TO 1200 MATCH & RETRIEVE - ETC
1100 IF p<4 THEN LET d..(1-1: IF d<1 THEN LET d-1

0
1105 LET 5-5.1
1110 IF p>18 THEN LET d -d..-1: IF d>4 THEN LET d-4
01-240 3118
APPLICATIONS TRAINING SUPPORT
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 231
MICROMART 1112 LET p-10
PROGRAM FILE
0
1115 IF d-1 THEN j-400, LET k-1500: LET x2-41
LET
1120 IF d...2 THENLET j-100: LET k-500: LET x2-41
1125 IF d-3 THEN LET j-25: LET k-100: LET x2-38
IBM-PCTM and Compatibles 1130 IF d-4 THEN LET j-101 LET k-75: LET x2-38
1132 LET wages -q200
300 DISKS FULL OF FREE PROGRAMS 1135 LET r..1
The contents of the Santa Clara and New York 1140 CLS 0
PC User Group Libraries 1145 LET if -0
1150 FOR n-1 TO 5: LET w(m)0, NEXT n
Games, Utilities and Business Software 1155 LET .(6)-0
1160 GO TO 20
Buy Rent 1199 REM .... cheat last season ......
All 300 £450.00 £222.00 1200 PRINT AT 10,0;"
1210 PRINT AT 12,0;"
Vols 1-100 £150.00 £75.00 1220 GO SUB 9700
Vols 101-200 £150.00 £75.00 1230 PRINT AT 10,0;"THIS IS YOUR LAST SEASON AS MANAGER OF ";aS
Vols 201-300+ £150.00 £75.00 1240 PRINT AT 13,0;"IT IS POSSIBLE TO CHEAT YOUR WAYINTO ALL THE EUROPEAN CUPS F
OR THIS LAST SEASON"
1250 PRINT AT 17,0;"IF YOU WISH TO DO SO THEN PRESS -c- FOR CHEAT"
Disk rentals are for 14 days and include return 1260 PRINT AT 20,0;"IF NOT PRESS ANY OTHER KEY"
carriage and 20% blank disks, ie includes +60 1265 PAUSE 0
blanks on Full Library 1270 IF INKEYS-"c" THEN GO TO 1300
1280 PRINT FLASH 1;AT 21,0; PAPER col INK 9;" GOOD LUCK FOR YOUR LAST SEASON "
ALL PRICES EX -VAT but include delivery (UK). 1285 PAUSE 200
COD or 3% CWO discount 1290 GO TO 1100
1300 FOR A...1 TO 3
1310 LET z(A)1 0
1320 NEXT n
MID -SURREY MEDIA 1330 PRINT FLASH 1;AT 21,0; PAPER col; INK 9;" O.K. CHEAT ! WIN SOMETHING ,
"

90 Southbank Technopark
1340 PAUSE 200 0
1345 LET .S(ux)" CHEATED LAST SEASON !!!"
London Road, Elephant & Castle 1350 LET wxnjx.1
1355 GO TO 1100
London SE1 6LN 1500 CLS
Tel: 01.928 2900 Ext. 472 1510
1515
BRIGHT 1: BORDER 1: PAPER 1: INK 5
CLS
IBM is the trademark of International Business Machines 1520 GO SUB 7800
1530 PRINT AT 5,0;"YOU ARE THE MANAGER OF A THIRD DIVISION FOOTBALL TEAM"
1535 PRINT
1540 PRINT "YOUR AIM IS TO WIN AS MANY CHAMPIONSHIPS AS YOU CAN IN A SET
AMOUNT OF SEASONS."'"WINNING MILK CUPS,F.A.CUPS & EUROPEAN CUPS ON THE WAY."
1545 PRINT
1550 PRINT "YOU START WITH A CAPITAL OF £50,000 AND A SQUAD OF 13 PLAY
ERS"
1555 PRINT
1560 PRINT "THE MAXIMUM SQUAD ALLOWED IS 17 PLAYERS,"'"THE MINIMUM IS 13 PLAYERS
0

ITEC
1565 PRINT ,0;"PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE"
1570 PAUSE 0
1572 IF INKEYS.,"c" THEN COPY
1575 INPUT ""
1580 GO SUB 6900
M(0524) 39749 1585 PRINT AT 5,0;"PLAYER PRICES"
1590 PRINT
1595 PRINT "DIV.4:£10,000 TO £75,000"
ELECTRONICS 1600 PRINT "DIV.3:f25,000 TO £100,000"
1605 PRINT "DIU.2:f100,000 TO £500,000"
1610 PRINT "D1U.1:£400,000 TO £1,500,000"
1615 PRINT
1620 PRINT "BUYING A PLAYER INCREASES YOUR
* Industrial and ING A PLAYER DECREASES IT.
SCORE POTENTIAL BY .5 1 or 1.55E11
,

(DEPENDING ON THE PRICE)"""YOU MAY BUY AND SELL PLA

-
YERS AT ANY TIME EXCEPT IMMEDIATELY BEFORE ANY CUP GAME AND AFTER 34LEAGUE G
commercial electronic AMES HAVE BEEN PLAYED."
1625 PRINT ,0;"PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE"
1630 PAUSE 0
computer repair, service 1632 IF INKEYS-"c" THEN COPY
1635 INPUT ""

and design * 1640 GO SUB 6900

1645 PRINT AT 5,0;"AT THE BEGINING OF EACH SEASON YOUR SCORE POTENTIAL 15 2.75"
1650 PRINT
1655 PRINT "YOUR OPPONENTS IS 3.75"
1660 PRINT
C9 ST LEONARDS HOUSE 1665 PRINT "IN THE MILK & F.A. CUPS ONLY
TEAM WHICH IS DRAWN AT HOME."
YOUR SCORE POTENTIAL COUNTS TO THE
1670 PRINT
LEONARDGATE 1675 PRINT "LEAGUE POSITIONS"
1680 PRINT
LANCASTER 1685 PRINT "DIVISION's.";TAB 14;" 182 ";TAB 24," 384 "
1690 PRINT "RELEGATION";TAB 14;"43pts.";TAB 24,"39pts."
1695 PRINT "PROMOTION";TAB 14;"76pts.";TAB 24,"70pts."
LA1 INN 1700 PRINT "CHAMPIONSHIP";TAB 14;"80pts.";TAB 24;"74pts."
1705 PRINT :PRINT " WIN - 3pts. DRAW - 1pt."
:

il 1710 PRINT .-O;"PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE"

1715 PAUSE 0
1717 IF INKEYS-"c" THEN COPY
1720 INPUT ""
1725 GO SUB 6900
FAST EFFICIENT REPAIR SERVICE 1730 PRINT AT 5,0;"AS YOU MOVE UP THE TABLE YOUR ATTENDANCE GOES UP,IF YOU DRO
P DOWN THE TABLE YOUR ATTENDANCE GOES DOWN."
SPECTRUM ... £18 inc 1735 PRINT
We also repairCBM64, VIC20, BBC, AMSTRAD, ORIC, 1740 PRINT "YOU RECIEVE ALL THE GATE MONEY FROM HOME LEAGUE GAMES, HALF THEGATE
DRAGON, disc drives and printers MONEY FROM ALL CUP GAMES."
RING FOR DETAILS 1745 PRINT
1750 PRINT "EXPENCES (£5,000) AND PLAYERS WAGES (£200 PER GAME EACH) ARE DEDU
PRINTER BARGAINS CTEO AFTER EACH GAME"""FOR ALL GAMES AGAINST EUROPEAN CLUBS EXPENCES ORE £7,00
DATAC DX120 PANTHER II NLQ £320.85 0"
MICRO P MP165 NLQ £270.00 1755 PRINT 'O;"PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE"
MICRO P CPA80 £199.00 1760 PAUSE 0
STAR SG -10 £264.50 1762 IF INKEYS-"c" THEN COPY
JUKI 6300 DAISYWHEEL £848.70 1765 LET s-0
CPP 40 PRINTER PLOTTER £88.55 1770 GO TO 7525
EPSON LX80 NLQ (new) £250.00 1999 REM ... player purchase
EPSON FX80 £366.85 2000 PAPER 1: INK 7: BRIGHT 1 0
2005 GO SUB 9700
DISK DRIVES 2010 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 15,1; INK 7;"PLAYER PURCHASE"
CUMANA CSX200D DS/40T £121.50 2015 IF (4'1.7 THEN PRINT BRIGHT 1; FLASH 1;AT 17,0;" YOU CANNOT HAVE MORE THAN 0
CUMANA CSX400 DS/80T £140.75 17 PLAYERS IN YOUR SQUAD ", GO TO 2085
CUMANA CD400D DS/40T Twin Drive £271.95 2020 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 16,1;"Nekl Players cost: "'"E",j..1000," to f";10.1000:" "
CUMANA CD800S DS/80T Twin Drive £302.40 2025 GO SUB 9200
UDM DDFS when bought with any disk drive £90.00 2030 PRINT AT 18,0; INVERSE 1;" THIS PLAYER:"; INVERSE 0;" f";i.
UDM DDFS only £105.00 2035 PRINT BRIGHT 1; INVERSE 1;AT 19,0;"SCORE POTENTIAL:"; INVERSE 0;" ";s1
All prices include delivery and VAT. 2040 IF 1>c THEN PRINT FLASH 1; BRIGHT 1;AT 20,0; INK 7;" IS MORE THAN YOU CA
Please allow 14 days for delivery N AFFORD ": GO TO 2085
Please add f8 for 5 day service 2045 PRINT "0; BRIGHT 1;"Do You Wish To Buy? Y/N "
Mail order customers make cheques payable to:
2050 PAUSE 0
2055 INPUT ""
0 0
NEWCROWN COMPUTERS LTD 2060 IF INKEYS.,"n" THEN GO TO 2085
2065 LET q -c0.1
Dept PCW1 2070 LET x.x,s1
76B Dallow Road 2075 LET wages..wages.200
Luton Beds LU1 1LY 2080 LET cc -J.
Ter (0582)455684 2085 PAPER 7: INK 0: BRIGHT 0
Overseas erputroes welcome 2090 GO SUB 9500

232 PCW OCTOBER 985

 PROGRAM FILE
2095 PRINT "0; PAPER 4; INK 0; BRIGHT 1 PRESS ANY KEY TO PLAY NEXT GAME "

2100 PAUSE 0
2105 INPUT ""
2110
2115
GO SUB 9700
GO TO 355
BEST UK
2199 REM ..." player sale .....
2200 PAPER 2: INK 7: BRIGHT 1
2205 GO SUB 9700
SOFTWARE PRICESX
2210 PRINT BRIGHT 1,AT 15,1; INK 7;"PLAYER SALE" Buy from TriSoft Ltd., the specialist software company
2215 IF q-1<13 THEN PRINT FLASH 1;AT 17,0;" YOU CANNOT HAVE LESS THAN 13 formed by microcomputer consultants.
PLAYERS IN YOUR SQUAD ": GO TO 2285 * Over 400 leading software packages (inc. Apple)
2220 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 16,1; INK 7;"Player sale raises: "'"f";jm1.000;" to f";10. * Independent advice in making your choice
1000;" "
* Professional staff + network of consultants
2225 GO SUB 9200 * Most formats. All programs latest versions
2230 PRINT INVERSE 1;AT 18,0;" THIS PLAYER:"; INVERSE 0;" f";i
2235
2240
PRINT BRIGHT 1; INVERSE 1;AT 19,0;"SCORE POTENTIAL:"
PRINT "0; BRIGHT 1;"Do you wish to sell'°(PRESS Y/N)"
INVERSE 0;" ";51
SAGE ACCOUNTS £245
2245 PAUSE 0
2250
2255
INPUT ""
IF INKEYS-"n" THEN GO TO 2085 SAGE PLUS £485
2260 LET wages -wages -200 List Our List Our
2265 LET c-c.i. Price Price Price Price
2270 LET x -x -s1 dBase II 395 DMS Delta 4
225 495 375
2275 IF x<-1 THEN LET x-1.25 WordStar Prof 399 Super Project
245 395 299
2280 LET q -q-1 Lotus 1-2-3 430 Multimate 3.3 399
289 265
2285 IF 1-33 THEN PAPER 7: INK 0: BRIGHT 0 GO SUB 9700: GO TO 290 dBase III 550 295
MS Pascal 295 235
2290 GO TO 2085 Framework 550 295
Dataplot Plus 195 155
2499 REM mmm europe cups main routine mmo 0
ALL PRICES EXCLUDE VAT AND CARRIAGE
2500 LET xa-0: LET xf-1: LET u(xf)-u(xf).1: LET x3..x3.1: GO TO 3000
2510 LET xa-1: LET xf-1: GO TO 3000 The prices quoted are for IBM/Apricot only. For all formats
2600 LET xa-0: LET xF-2: LET u(xf)-u(xf).1: LET x3..x3.1: GO TO 3000 please enquire. Please phone or write for our comprehensive
2610 LET xa-1: LET xF-2: GO TO 3000 price list.
2700 LET xa-0: LET xf-3: LET u(xf)-u(xf)+1: LET x3 -x3+1: GO TO 3000 PLEASE SEE PAGE 178 FOR OUR MAIN ADVERT
(,
2710 LET xa-1: LET xf-3: GO TO 3000

Mitt OFIPLIES
i
411
3000 GO SUB 8700: GO SUB 9500
3005 LET qS(1)cS[xE)
3010 IF xe-O THEN LET r5-eS(1) Crown Square, Matlock, Derbyshire DE4 3AT
3015 IF xa-1 THEN LET rS-eS(2) Tel: 0629-3021 (6 lines)
3020 IF 1>30 THEN LET rS-e$(4)
3025 PAPER 7: INK 0: GO SUB 7000 Telex: 8950511 ONEONE G
3030 IF r5-eS(4) AND a>h THEN GO SUB 8420: PAUSE 150: LET z(xf)..0, LET v(xf)..0,
LET ta(xf)0: LET xe-0: GO TO 3050
3035 IF rS-eS(4) AND a<h THEN GO SUB 8400: LET v(xf)..0, LET w(xf)-0: LET xa-0:
GO TO 3050
3040 LET v(xf)..v(xf).h: LET h-v(xf)
3045 LET w(xf)-w(xf).-a: LET a-w(xf)
3050 PAUSE 150
0 3055 LET qS(1)...1.$
3060 IF xa-O THEN LET b5-55: GO TO 290
3065 GO SUB 7100
3070 IF h>a THEN GO SUB 8400 GO TO 3085
3075 LET z(xf)-0
3080 GO SUB 8420
3085 PAUSE 150 0 NG!
3090 LET v(xf)-0: LET w(xf)-0 .TYPEsETT
3095
3100
LET b$-kS
GO TO 290
Typesetting
3500 IF r$ -e%(2) THEN PRINT
10, 30;h
BRIGHT 1;AT 10,13;a: PAUSE 30: PRINT
3510 IF r5<>eS(2) THEN PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 10,13;h: PAUSE 30: PRINT
BRIGHT 1;AT
from your computer
BRIGHT 1;AT Our customers have been typesetting
10,30;a
3520 IF a>h THEN GO SUB 8420 books, magazines, brochures, ads and
3530 IF h -a THEN GO SUB 8410 database files on their micros. Now they use
3540 IF h>a THEN GO SUB 8400
3545 RETURN
3999 REM m..... domestic cups main routine .....
4005 GO SUB 9500
TYPENET
The on-line complete typesetting system
4010 LET u(4) -u(4).1
4020 LET qS(1)-cS(4) operating 24 hours a day, every day.
4030
4105
GO TO 4200
60 SUB gsoo
Why don't you join them and find out
4110 LET u(5),i(5)+1 how you can save time and money?
4120 LET q$(1) -c$(5)
0 4200 IF 1>36 THEN LET rS-eS(4) GO TO 4250 0 RING 01-658 6942 300 BAUD
4210 IF 1>28 THEN LET rS.-eS(3) GO TO 4250
4220 LET hb-INT (RND..2)
or send for your info pack
4230 IF hb-0 THEN LET r5.aS(1) LONDON, GLC & WEST
4240 IF hb-1 THEN LET r5-eS(2) 22 Queens Road
4250 GO SUB 9000: REM next fixture Beckenham, Kent
4260 PRINT AT 14,0;r$;"Vs:-";b$
4270 FOR n -1S TO 20: PRINT AT n,0;"
4280 IF r$-eS(2) THEN GO SUB 8900: GO TO 4300
", NEXT n 01-658 8754
4290 IF rS<>eS(2) THEN GO SUB 8800: LET c-c+g Telecom Gold 83: BTL001
0 4300 GO SUB 9300: REM talc scores 0
4310 PRINT BRIGHT 1 ; .--0; INK 4; PAPER 0; "PRESS ANY KEY FOR RESULT"
4315 PAUSE 0
4320 INPUT ""
4330 GO SUB 8100
4340 IF h -a THEN GO TO 4600
4350 IF rS<>eS(2) AND h>e THEN GO TO 4500 READ & PRINT
0 4360 IF r5-eS(2) AND h<a THEN GO TO 4500
4370 GO SUB 8420
4375 PAUSE 150 BAR-CODES USING
4380 IF qS(1)-cS(4) THEN LET z(4)-0
4390 IF 9S(1)-cS(5) THEN LET z(5)-0
4400 LET 0(1)-1S
ANY COMPUTER
4410 GO TO 292 e Complete identification system including microprocessor
4510 GO SUB 13400 controlled scanner hardware plus software to print barcodes
4515 PAUSE 150 on Epson (or similar) dot matrix printer. Most industrial
4520 LET g-g.le3 & commercial codes can be read. Packages
0 4525 LET rep -0 available for virtually any computer. Our systems are in
4530 LET 0( 1 )-1S regular use by many private & public sector
4540 GO TO 292 organisations worldwide.
Prices start from 050. More information on
4600 REM mmo replay routine omm request.
4610 GO SUB 8410
4620 IF rep -1 THEN GO TO 4700
4625 LET rep=1
411 4630 PAUSE 150
4640 PRINT AT 14,0;" REPLAY ": LET g -g+500
4645 IF rS-eS(4) OR rS-eS(3) THEN GO TO 4270 0
4650 IF r5-eS( 1) THEN LET rS-eS(2) : GO TO 4270
4660 IF rS-eS(2) THEN LET rS-eS(1): GO TO 4270
4699 REM .... extra time dom . cups....
4700 LET rep -0: PAUSE 150 0
4705 GO SUB 9700
4710 PRINT AT 14, 0; "EXTRA TIME"
4720 LET h-h.INT (RN0m3) 0 ALTEK
9730 LET a-a+INT (RNDm3) INSTRUMENTS
4740 PRINT '0; BRIGHT 1; INK 4 PAPER 0;"PRESS A KEY FOR EXTRA -TIME SCORE" Enterprise House
4745 PAUSE 0 44-46 Terrace Road
4750 INPUT "" Walton -on -Thames, Surrey
4760 GO TO 4330 KT12 2SD
4999 REM mom boardroom routine mom Tel: (0932) 244110
0 5000 GO SUB 9500: PAPER 6: INK 0 Telex: 295800 CWAOL

OCTOBER 1985 PCW 233

MICROMART PROGRAM FILE
5005 GO SUB 9700 0
5010 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 14,0; PAPER 6; INK 0; FLASH 1 ; "CALLED TO THE BOARDROOM"
5020 PRINT AT 15,0;"The board are not happy with the teams performance this
season. YOU MAY (1)Ask For more money (2)C
ut Players Wages (3)Sell a player"
MID -SURREY MEDIA 5030 PRINT .-0; BRIGHT 1;"PRESS 1,2 or 3 "
5033 PAUSE 0
5037 INPUT ""
The Floppy Disk 5040 IF INKEYS-"1" THEN GO TO 5300
5O4S IF INKEYS-"2" THEN GO TO 5200
Specialist 5050 IF INKEYS-"3" THEN GO TO 5100
5100 60 SUB 9700
3.5"DiskPrices 5110 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 14,0; PAPER 0; INK 6;"CALLED TO THE BOARDROOM"
All disks are Double Density Double Tracking 5115 GO SUB 9200 0
(135tp0 5120 PRINT AT 15,0; "PLAYER SALE Selling a player has raised
:"'"£";1.;'"This will not effect your score potential."
Prices relate to boxes of 10
IF c+i<0 THEN PRINT AT 19,0;"THIS IS NOT ENOUGH TO CONTINUE": GO TO 5500
SIDESBRANDCODE
Single Sony D3440
1-4 5-9
£28.00 £26.85
10+
£25.20
51255130 LET c-c+i
5132 LET q -q-1
Double Sony D4440 £38.00 £36.85 £35.20 5133 LET wages -wages -200
Single Fuji MF1DD £26.10 £25.20 £24.50 5135 LET bdr-RND*15 S
Double Fuji MF2DD £36.40 £35.20 £34.00 5140 IF bdr<.5 THEN GO TO 5500
Single Own CN1DD £25.75 £24.50 £24.00 5142 PAPER 7: INK 0
Double Own CN2DD £33.75 £32.50 £32.00 5145 GO SUB 9500
SPECIAL LIMITED OFFER 5150 PRINT 'O; BRIGHT 1; INK 4; PAPER 0;"PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE"
Single BASF £25.75 £24.50 £24.00 5155 PAUSE 0
All Own -Label Disks are packed in See -10 Containers 5157 INPUT ""
Bulk Packs of 50 Disks Clear Clip No Labels 0 5158 GO SUB 9700
Single S8050 £115.00 Double D8050 £155.00 5160 RETURN
Media Storage 1 box 2-5 boxes 6+ boxes 5200 GO SUB 9700
See -10 Plastic Lib Case £ 1.75 £ 1.65 £ 1.55 5210 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 14,0; PAPER 0; INK 6;"CALLED TO THE BOARDROOM"
40 Capacity Lockable £14.85 £14.35 £13.85 "Players wages have been cut by
5220 PRINT AT 15,0; "CUT PLAYERS WAGES" '"Players £50 each
60 Capacity Lockable £15.95 £15.45 £14.95 per match"
5225 LET bdr-.12NO*15
MID -SURREY MEDIA 5230 IF bdr<7 THEN PRINT AT 19,0; "HALF THE PLAYING SQUAD HAVE
NSFERS ": GO TO 5500
REQUESTED TRA
Southbank Technopark, 90 London Road 5235 LET wages-wages-q*S0
London SE1 6LN 5240 PRINT ,-0; BRIGHT 1; INK 4; PAPER 0;"PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE"
Tel: 01-928 2900 Ext 472 5250 PAUSE 0
5252 INPUT ""
All prices exclude VAT. Free delivery (UK) 5255 PAPER 7: INK 0 0
5257 GO SUB 9700
5260 RETURN
5300 GO SUB 9700 0
5310 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 14,0; PAPER 0; INK 6; "CALLED TO THE BOARDROOM"
5320 PRINT AT 15, 0; "REQUEST FOR MORE MONEY"
5325 LET bdr-RND*15
5330 IF bdr< .5 THEN PRINT AT 19,0; "THE BOARD ARE UNABLE TO RAISE ANY MORE FUN
DS GO TO 5500
ALL TYPES OF
" :

5340 LET frld-( INT (RW0.10).1000

5345 PRINT AT 16, 0; "The board are able to provide f" ; End 0
5350 IF c+fnd<0 THEN PRINT AT 19,0; "THIS IS NOT ENOUGH TO CONTINUE
BUSINESS COMPUTER 00
": GO Ti] 55

0 5355 LET c-c+fnd

SYSTEMS BOUGHT, 5360 PAPER 7: BRIGHT 0
5365 PRINT '0; BRIGHT 1; INK 4; PAPER 0;"PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE"
5370 PAUSE 0
SOLD AND EXCHANGED 5375 INPUT ""
5380 GO SUB 9500
5385 GO SUB 9700
BESPOKE PROGRAMMING 5390 RETURN
5500 PAUSE 300
SERVICE IN BASIC, 0
5505 GO SUB 9700
5510 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 14,0; PAPER 0; INK 6;"CALLED TO THE BOARDROOM"
5520 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 16,0; PAPER 5; INK 0;"THIS WAS THE WRONG DECISION TH
COBOL OR PASCAL E BOARD HAVE REQUESTED YOUR RESIGNATION GAME OVER
5525 PAUSE 400
ALL TYPES OF NEW 5527 GO SUB 6000
5530 LET zS(yx).." SACKED '

EQUIPMENT SUPPLIED 5535 LET yx-yx+1

5540 GO TO 6500
5999 REM *** team records ***
Telephone: 6000 LET z$(yx)-" SEASON "+STRS s+" RESULTS DIVISION:"+STRS d
6010 LET yx-yx+1
6020 LET z$(yx)-" GP
0602 761504/278620 6025 LET yx.-yx+1
W 0 Pts Pos"

6030 LET zS(yx)-a$

D+R COMPUTER 6032
6035
LET zS(yx,14 TO )-STRS 1+"
LET yx-yx+1
"+STRS win+" "+STRS y+" "+STRS t+" "+STRS p

SERVICES 6040
6100
RETURN
LET zS(yx)-c$(2)+" "+u$
6105 LET yx..yx+1
6110 RETURN 0
6200 LET zS(yx)-c$(1)+" "+uS
6205 LET yx-yx+1
6210 RETURN
6250 LET zS(61x)..c5(3)+" "+u$
6255 LET yx-yx+1
COMPUTER SERVICE 6260
6310
RETURN
IF u(4)-5 AND z(4)..0 THEN LET zS(yx)-c$(4)+" "+tS GO TO 6330
6320 IF u(4)-5 AND z(4)-1 THEN LET zS(yx)..c$(4)+" "+uS GO TO 6330
8 WORKING HOUR 6325
6330
LET zS(yx)-c$(4)+" ROUND "+STRS u(4)
LET yx-yx+1
6410 IF u(5)-5 AND z(5)-0 THEN LET zS(yx)..cS(5)+"
RESPONSE 6420 IF u(5) -S AND 2(5)-1 THEN LET zS(yx)-c5(5)+"
"+t$
"+u$
GO TO 6430
GO TO 6430
6425 LET zS(yx)-cS(S)+" ROUND "+STRS u(5)
for 6430 LET yx-yx+1
6440 LET zStyx)-"........%`...............................M........%%%%%"
6442 LET yx-yx+1
£69.50 PER ANNUM + VAT 6445 IF seas THEN PAUSE 150: GO TO 6500
6450 RETURN
per system 6500 CLS
Large savings on normal 6510 GO SUB 9600 0
6520 FOR n-1 TO sx
Maintenance costs 6525
6530
IF zS(n)-"
PRINT z$(n)
" THEN GO TO 6545

6540 NEXT n
Details on Registration can be 5545 PRINT BRIGHT 1; "...e...........e...'e.................o.........e......................"
6550 PRINT
obtained from: 6560
BRIGHT 1;"GAME OVER PRESS 'C' FOR COPY"
PRINT '0; BRIGHT 1; FLASH 1;" ANOTHER GAME? (Y/N) "
6570 PAUSE 0
SUMLOCK ELECTRONICS 6572
6575
IF INKEYS-"c" THEN GO TO 6600
IF INKEYS-"n" THEN STOP 0
6580 GO SUB 8000
LIMITED 6590 GO TO 11
6599 REM ....* print records *0*
GOTHIC HOUSE 6600 CLS
MARKET PLACE 6605 GO SUB 9600
6608 LET w..19
PENKRIDGE 6609
6610
IF sx<17 THEN
FOR n-1 TO w
LET w-Sx

STAFFS ST19 5DJ 6620 PRINT z5(n)

6630 NEXT n
Tel: 078-571 5151
234 PCW OCTOBER 1985
 6640 COPY
PROGRAM FILE MICROMART
6650 FOR n-20 TO sx
6660 IF 2S(n)=" " THEN GO TO 6690
6670 LPRINT 2S(n)
6680 NEXT n
6690 LPRINT "W.%%%".%%"..4%%%....................................."
6695 GO TO 6560
6900 FOR r,4 TO 21: REM eee clear screen .
6910 PRINT AT n,0;"
6920 NEXT n
6930 RETURN
'

development tools
6999 REM .... europe cups sub routine ......
7000 GO SUB 9700 C-DOC: a cross-reference and
7005 GO SUB 9000 documentation system, £275.
7010 IF x3>15 THEN LET x3-1
7012 LET kS..b$: LET b*.cIS(x3)
7015 PRINT AT 14,0; r5; "Vs: ";b$ The Program Tuning Kit: a sym-
0 7020 PAUSE 150 bolic execution profiler, £145.
7025 IF r$-e$C2) THEN GO SUB 8900: GO TO 7035
7030 IF rS<>e$(2) THEN GO SUB 8800 The C Browser: an intelligent code
7035 GO SUB 9300 display system, 1125.
7040 PRINT BRIGHT 1;,0; INK 0; PAPER 4;"PRESS ANY KEY FOR RESULT"
7045 PAUSE 0
7050 INPUT "" All three £445.
7055 GO SUB 3500
7065 IF rS-e$(4) AND Inc
- THEN GO TO 7300
7070 IF rS-eS(4) THEN LET v(xF)..0, LET w(xF).-0 An invaluable suite of British tools
7080 RETURN for C software development under
7100 GO SUB 9700 MS-DOS/PC-DOS.
7110 PRINT BRIGHT 1 ; ,-0; INK 4; PAPER 0 PRESS ANY KEY FOR AGRIGATE SCORE"
7120 PAUSE 0
7130 INPUT ""
7140 GO SUB 8150
7150 IF h -a THEN GO SUB 8410: GO TO 7300
Figure Rem Ltd
7160 RETURN
7300 LET xS-" PRESS 'A' FOR EXTRA -TIME SCORE "
7301 LET el -3
0473 822917
7302
7305
PAUSE 150
GO SUB 9700
411
" + 44 473 822917
7310 PRINT BRIGHT 1 ; .-0; INK 4; PAPER 0; xS
7325 LET h..h.INT CRNDeel) is
7330 LET e.a+INT (RNDeel)
7340 PAUSE 0
7345 INPUT ""
7350
7360
IF r5-eS(4) THEN GO SUB 8100: GO TO 7365
PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 10, 13;e;AT 10,30;h
WI/Software
7365 IF h -a THEN GO SUB 6410, GO TO 7375 For the ()I.:
7370 RETURN WD Utilities (3rd ed) (base £5.50)
PRINT 60 -file DIRectory or pew it on one screen, one -key LOAD. COPY or PRINT 60
7375 PAUSE 150: LET FcS-"FRESS'A'FOR GOAL SHOOT OUT SCORE" tins with one key (allows for namesakes). Multiple FORMATting to prevent
7380 LET el -0 corruption by stretching of tape TOOLkit to give dated, numbered modules in
7385 GO SUB 9700 program developrnent. PRUNE old files to release space (one key DELETEs a file).
Full instructions in QUILL file. Use up to 6 EXTRA MICRODRIVES (add on your
7390 GO TO 7310 Spectrum ones)!
7500 REM eee instructions eee
7505 BORDER 1: PAPER 1: INK 6
WD Utilities for CST Q -Disks (2nd ed) (base £8)
0 As above, with extra utilities: 100 -file capacity, for CST/Computamate disk systems
7510 CLS AND up to 4 extra microdrives. User-friendly timesavers. Update 1st ed for 25p
7515 LET a-1 (C1.25 outside Europe)
7520 GO SUB 7850 RefOL (5th ed) (base £5)
7525 BRIGHT 1: CLS 900 use OL references in an ARCHIVE file (too long to share cartridge with other
software). Also ARCHIVE 2 search program.
7530 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 0,2;" .L. ";TAB 27," L
7535 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT
"

1 ,2; " 'M ' " ; TAB 27; " '.0.. "
For Spectrum/QL/BBC/Electron:
0 7540 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 2,2; " 4* " , TAB 27;" at " WD Morse Tutor (base £4)
From absolute beginner to beyond RYA and Amateur Radio receiving. Adjust pitch.
7545 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 3,2; INK 3;" 4116. " ; TAB 27;" alt. " Set speed to your test level (4-18 wpm) Learn from single characters, via groups
7550 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 18,2;" .1. " ; TAB 27; " .1.. " with wide spaces to random sentences; decrease spacing to normal. Write down
7555 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 19,2; " 'M ' " ; TAB 27;" .='-"' what you hear, then CHECK on Screen or Printer (or speech for Spectrum with
Currah Microspeech). Also own message, random figures, letters or mixed.
7560 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 20, 2; " 0 " ; TAB 27;" 0 "
7665 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 21,2; INK 3;" IL, ";TAB 27;" (try " For Spectrum 48K
7570 INK 5 WorDfinder (microdrive/disk only) (base £8)
For CHEATING at crosswords. Finds m-ss--g letters, solves anagrams of shinglE
7610 PRINT AT 6,0; "CY MIME EWE MEW NAM MRS M M words 13,000 word vocabulary. 10 -letter word ending in ATE? No problem!
7615 PRINT AT 7,0;"H MINIM M MMIll M Tradewind (base £4)
9,0;"IMMEMIMMIMMI MIME MI
7620
7625
7630
PRINT
PRINT
PRINT
AT
AT 9,0;"C
AT 10,0;"SS
MISSIM
IMMO MOM
MIMNIO
M =MR MI 0 ammo mum
IM Sailing/trading strategy game with graphic surprises.
Jersey Quest (base £4)
Text adventure with Bergerac and the Dragon. Based on genuine folklore of the Island
MN MOM
-

7635 PRINT AT 12,0; "J MWM311 MUMMA Al I., of Jersey. (Not on SPDOS).
N0111
1

7640 PRINT AT 13,0;"A N 1M MI 0" 0 Prices (and Europe postage - elsewhere add El): Cassettes - base price only.
el or Spectrum Microdrires - fteartridge plus base price: 5.25" floppies C2,
7645 PRINT AT 14,0;"M MEM M . im mom NM NMI OM" 3.5" floppies Ed plus base (SPOOSIBeta/OPUS disks for Spectrum). State required
7650 PRINT AT 15,0;"E
7655 PRINT AT 16,0;"S
ma
*
nim
=NM MUM * *"
ma "

0
format when ordering. ACCESS/MasterCard welcome Myer fel.
Two or more programs on one medium - pay medium base. Eg: WD Utilities and
Morse on rnicrodrive for C11.50, but IMPOSSIBLE to mix DL/BBC/Spectrum
7660 IF 110 THEN GO TO 0e3 programs on one medium. Send YOUR cartridge and base price, but FORMAT it
7665 PAUSE 200 FIRST 6 times like us for reliability.
4111
7670 GO TO 1500 WDSoftware, Hilltop, St Mary, Jersey
7800 PRINT INK 6;" _L.
7805 PRINT INK 6;" ,ar Tel: (0534) 81392
qUIP "
7810 PRINT INK 6;" ip
7815 PRINT INK 3;" 46 4116 "
7820 PRINT AT 1,7; PAPER 5; INK 0;" FOOTBALL MANAGER "
7825 PRINT AT 2,9; PAPER 6; INK 0;" INFORMATION "
7830 PRINT AT 3,6; PAPER 3; INK 7;" PRESS -C- FOR COPY " 0
7835 RETURN
7849 REM ee4. graphics ......
7850 RESTORE 9931 DUST COVERS
7860
7870
FOR 11.1SR "a" TO USR "n".7
READ b, POKE J,b: NEXT j
AMSTRAD CPC 464,664/6128 £6.95
7880 RETURN Matching proofed nylon, treated with anti -static inhibitor.
8000 INPUT "ENTER YOUR TEAMS NAME (MAXIMUM 12 LETTERS) ";eS Piping on monitor cover, 464 green, 664 blue, 6128 red.
8002 INPUT "ENTER TEAM COLOUR CO to 7):";col AMSTRAD CPC on keyboard cover.
8005 PRINT AT 21,0; BRIGHT 1;" 10 SEASONS TAKES APROX. 1 HOUR " Please state model, Colour or Mono.
8006 INPUT "HOW MANY DO YOU WISH TO PLAY ";sea
8007 DIM cS(5,17): REM eee cup titles ..... Tatung Einstein £7.50
8009 REM cup titles/team names eee
8010 LET cSC1)-"CUP WINNERS CUP" One piece cover for monitor and keyboard in proofed light
8011 LET cS(2)-" EUROPEAN CUP "
0 grey nylon. Piped in red with name on keyboard.
8012 LET cS(3)-" EUAFA CUP "
8013 LET cS(4).."
8014 LET cS(S)-" F.A, CUP "
MILK. CUP " Business Machine Covers
8015 LET 1S" LEAGUE GAME " Matching proofed nylon with toning piping and name on
8016 LET BS.... SEMI-FINALISTS " keyboard; ACT SIRIUS, APRICOT PC (12"), EPSON
8017 LET tS-" FINALISTS " 0 QX16, IBM PC, OLIVETTI M24 (MONO), SANYO MBC,
8010 LET uS-"
8020 LET d$(1)-"BAY/N MUNICH"
WINNERS" TIPC, ALL £8.50. OLIVETTI M24 (COLOUR), IBM AT
£9.50, APRICOT PC (9"), APPLE II C, APPLE MAC £7.00.
8021 LET dS(2).."LIVERPOOL"
8022 LET rISC3)."DY/M0 MOSCOW" Matching covers for Printers
8023 LET dS(4).'"BARCELONA"
6024 LET dS(5)"S .U.HAMBURG" Amstrad DMP-1, Brother HR5, M1009, Canon PW 1080A,
8025 LET dSC6)"REAL MADRID" Epson FX 80, RX 80, LX 80, Mannesmann MT -80, Shinwa
8026 LET dS(7)-"MANCHESTER U" CP 80, CPA -80, Taxan KP810, Tatung TP100. All £4.50.
8027 LET dS(8)-"AJAX" Brother HR15, Juki 6100 at £5.50.
8028 LET dSC9).."DUKLA PRAGUE" 0 Othercovers available on request, formonitors, discdrives,
8029 LET dS(10)-"INTER MILAN" printers etc.
8030 LET dS(11)-"ST. ETIENNE" Please add 50p on European Orders
8031 LET dSC12).."JUVENTUS" 0
8032 LET dS(13)-"NOTTS.FOREST" BBD COMPUTER DUST COVERS
8033 LET dSC14)-"BRISTOL RVS." 39 MANSE AVENUE, WRIGHTINGTON WN6 9RP
8034 LET d$(15)"EUERTON"
8035 LET pS(1)-,CENTRE FORWARD" Telephone: 0257 422968 a=.4
TRADE ENQUIRIES WELCOME

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MICROMART PROGRAM FILE
8036 LET p$,2) --GOAL KEEPER"
8037 IFT pS(3).-TFAM CAPTAIN"
8038 LET pS(4).."SUFFAER"
TOP QUALITY 8040 DIM 55(4,11)
8041 LET se(1)." HOME "
8042 LET eSCR)." AWAY "
FLOPPIES AT 8043 LET 5e(4).. FINAL "
8044 LET eS(3)."SEMI-FINAL '
8049 PAPER 7: BORDER 5: INK O. BRIGHT 0: CLS
WHOLESALE PRICES 8050 DIM z(6): DIM u(5): DIM v(5): DIM w(5)
8052 REM ... cup indicators
COST PER DISK 8055 FOR r1.1 TO 5
1-9 10-50 51 8060 LET z(n)-0
8065 LET u(n)-0
SS/DD 1.25 1.15 1.10 8070 LET v(n)-0
8075 LET w(n)-0
DS/DD 1.65 1.55 1.50 8077 NEXT n
8080 RETURN
SS/QD 1.65 1.55 1.50 8099 REM print scores
8100 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 10,13:h
DS/QD 1.95 1.85 1.80 8110 PAUSE 30
8120 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 10,30;a
PRICES INCLUDE VAT 8130 RETURN
8150 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 10,13;a
POST & PACKAGING FREE 8160 PAUSE 30
8170 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 10,30;h
Orders taken for any quantity, simply use 8180 RETURN
price bands for cost per disk and multiply 8200 LET b.RND.15: REM player injury .0.
by number required 8205 IF b>,5 THEN GO TO 315
8207 PAPER 5: BRIGHT 1
Cheque with order please 8210 GO SUB 9700
8215 LET u.2*INT (RND*9)
8220 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 14,0; PAPER 7; FLASH 1;" PLAYER INJURY "

HOLLBARN LTD 8222 LET pl-l+INT (RN0.4)

8223 GO SUB 9200
8225 PRINT AT 15,0;"Your ";0(p1);" has been"'"1njured.He will be out of actionf
8 Alexander Road, Stotfold or up to "; PAPER 7;u; PAPER 5;" games."
8227 IF p1-2 THEN GO TO 8285
Hitchin, Herts 8230 PRINT AT 18,0;"YoUr score potential has been reduced by "; PAPER 7;s1
8235 LET x-x-sl
8240 LET if -1
8242 PAPER 7: BRIGHT 0
8245 GO SUB 9500
8250 PRINT BRIGHT 1;,0; PAPER 4;"PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE"
8260 PAUSE 0
8265 INPUT ".
8270 GO SUB 9700
8280 GO TO 307
8285 PRINT AT 113,0;"Your oponents score potential has been increased by ": PAP
FOR ALL YOUR ER 7;s1
E1290 LET xl-xl+sl
8295 GO TO 8240
8300 PAPER 5: BRIGHT 1
DISK COPYING 8305
8310
8315
00 9U9 9700
PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 14,0; PAPER 7; FLASH 1;" PLAYER INJURY
PRINT AT 16,0; "Your " ; ) " is now" '"recovered. "
;
"

FORMATTING 8320
8325
8330
IF p1-2 THEN GO TO 8380
PRINT AT 18,0;"Your score potential has been
LET x-x+sl
re- adjusted."

8335 PAPER 7: BRIGHT 0

VERIFICATION 8340
8345
8350
GO SUB 9500
PRINT BRIGHT 1; PAPER 4;.-0;"PRESS ANY KEY TO CONTINUE"
LET r.0
AND BULK DISK 8355
8360
PAUSE 0
INPUT "

NEEDS TRY: 8365 LET if -0

8370 GO SUS 9700
8375 GO TO 315
8380 PRINT AT 18,0;"Your pennants score potential has been re- adjusted."
DISCO TECH 8385
8390
8399
LET xl.xl-s1
GD TO 8335
REM win/lose/draw
8400 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 17,9; PAPER 3; INK 7; FLASH 1;" W N
(UK) LTD
I

8405 RETURN
8410 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 17,9; PAPER 1; INK 7; FLASH 1;" DRAW
3-6 ALFRED PLACE 8415
8420
RETURN
PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 17,9; PAPER 2; INK 7; FLASH 1;" L 0 5 E
LONDON WC1 8425
8499
RETURN
REM ... capital position calculations
Tel: 01-631 3600 8500
8505
GO SUB 8800
LET c.c.g.2
8510 LET c -c -wages
6515 LIT c.c-5000
8520 GO SUB 8100
8525 IF h.a THEN LET t.t+1: LET y.y*1
8530 IF h>11 THEN LET t -t+3: LET win.win*1
B535 LET 1.1+1
8540 LET ha -1
DOCUMENT YOUR 8550 RETURN
8630 IF ha -0 THEN GO TO 8500
8640 GO SUB 8900
BASIC PROGRAMS 8645
8650
GO SUB 8150
LET c.c-wages
* VARLIST, a basic programmer's 8654 LET c.c-S000
8655 IF 11.0 THEN LET t..t+1: LET y.y+1
documentation and development BBBO IF h>a THEN LET t -t+3: LET win.win*1
utility, available for most CP/M 8677 LET 1-1.1
8678 LET he -0
machines. 8679 RETURN
8700 REM capital calculation europe
* Produces a list of variables from 8710 LET c.c.g.2
your own basic program in sorted 8720 LET c -c -wages
8730 LET a.c-7000
order along with line numbers at 8740 RETURN
8799 REM .* . print teams/league
where they occur. 8800 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 10,0; PAPER col;"
* Results can be printed out or used 8810
8820
PRINT AT 10,0; BRIGHT 1; PAPER col; INK 902S;TAB 17;bS
RETURN
as a disk file and be edited by a 8900 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 10,0; PAPER col;"
standard word processor. 0910
8920
PRINT AT 10.0; BRIGHT 1; PAPER col; INK 9;bS;TAB 17;s$
RETURN
* Contains a library of reserved 0999
9000
REM print next Fixture
PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 13,0;"NEXT FIXTURE:"04S(1)
words which can be changed to suit 9010 RETURN
different dialects of basic. 9099
9100
REM position/gate calce
LIT p-x2-INT (t/1.20)
9110 IF p>21. THEN LET p.21
£65 (includes P&P) 9120 IF p<1. THEN LET p-1
Cash with order, or write for further 9130 IF p-1 THEN LET g.g+250: GO TO 9170
9140 IF p.21 THEN LET g.g-250: GO TO 9170
information to: 9150 IF e<ps THEN LET g.g.500
9160 IF pips THEN LET g -g-500
Amos Spence Ltd
Leeds LS3 1JP
9170 LET ps.p
9175 IF g<1500 THEN LET g-1500
92 Burley Road,
236 PCW OCTOBER 1985
 PROGRAM FILE MICROMART
9180 IF g>45000 THEN LET cp45000
9190 RETURN
9199 REM player price calve
9200 LET fa,j.INT (RNO*(k-j+1))
9210 LET iesle3
9215 LET spINT (k -j)/3
COMPUTER
9220 IF e<p.sp THEN LET sl..5: RETURN
9230
9240
9250
IF e>j+sp AND e<k-sp THEN LET
LET s1.1.5
RETURN
RETURN
CARRYING
9299 REM 4.4.4. score cabs
9300 LET troINT (RNDx)
9310
9320
LET a-INT (RNDxl)
RETURN
BAGS
9399 REM last chance
9400 PAUSE SO
9405 FOR n-1 TO 3
9410 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 10,0; FLASH 1;" LAST CHANCE TO BUY OR SELL "
Padded water-resistant
9420 PAUSE 50
9430 IF d<3 THEN PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 10,0; "PROMOTION 76pts:RELEGATION 43pts": GO
NYLON BAGS
'10 9445
9440 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 10,0;"PROMOTION 70pts:RELEGATION 39pis"
Anti -static lined
9450
9455
PAUSE 150
NEXT n
to fit most micros
9460 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 10,0; FLASH 1;" LAST CHANCE TO BUY OR SELL
9470 RETURN
9499 REM print capital etc.
"
BOW - SAUNDERS LTD
9500 PRINT AT 3,0;"CAPITAL f";c;" ";AT 3,20;"POSIT/ON:";p;" "
9510 PRINT AT 7,0;"SQUAD:";O;TAB 22;"POINTS:";t FREEPOST
9520 PRINT AT 5,0;"DIVISION:";d;TAB 16;"GAMES PLAYED:";1
9530
9540
PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 21,2;" SQUAD SCORE POTENTIAL:";x;" "
PRINT AT 12,0;"ATTENDANCE:";g;"
PO Box 69
9550 RETURN
9599 REM print header Warrington WA 1 1 BR
9600 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 0,0; PAPER 1; INK 6;" PAPER 5; INK 0;" FOOTBAL
MANAGER "; PAPER 1; INK 6;"
No Stamp Required
_L. "
9601 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 1,0; PAPER 1; INK 6;"
9602 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 2,0; PAPER 1; INK 6;" "; PAPER 4; INK 1;"1
Tel: (0925) 572425
1"; PAPER 1; INK 6;" 41.
9603 PRINT BRIGHT 1; PAPER col; INK 9;AT 1,9;"
9605 PRINT BRIGHT 1; PAPER col; INK 9;AT 1,10;a$
9610 PRINT BRIGHT 1;AT 2,7; PAPER 4; INK 0;"SEASON No.";s;" ";AT 2,20;"oF "is
en 256 COLOURS FOR YOUR BBC MICRO
9620 RETURN
9699 REM 4.4.4* clear loot/screen ***
AND NOW FOR THE U SPECTRUM TOO!!
9700 FOR r,14 TO 20 The COLOUR EXPANDER replaces the eight boring colours on the
BBC micro or ZX Spectrum with a selection of eight from 256. Every
9710 PRINT AT n,0;" colour you could ever want is there silvery greys, shades of brown,
9720 NEXT n pinks, golds. subtle aquamarines, warm oranges . etc etc.
9730 RETURN Applications are almost unlimited. The most spectacular computer
9799 REM variable date art is possible, 3D graphics using true shading techniques, fabulous.
9800 DATA 1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,5,0 games, business graphics enhancement, many educational applica-
9810 DATA 1,0,0,10,13,1,584,663,3 tions etc.
The COLOUR EXPANDER is a unique device which will open up a
9830 DATA 0,1;1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2.75,10 whole new world of graphics. It is compatible with most RGB
9900 DATA "ALDERSHOT","HEREFORD" "BLACKPOOL" "READING" "BRISTOL C" "MANSFIELD" " monitors and comes complete with a cassette of demonstration &
CHESTER","NORTHAIIPTON", "CHESTERFIELD", "SWINDON", "DARLINGTON", "COLCHESTER", "DONCA utility programs. The BBC version COLOUR EXPANDER costs £85
STER","WREXHAM","HALIFAX","TORQUAY","PETERBOROUGH","HARTLEPOOL","ROCHDALE","CREW + (VAT & P&P) = £99.75.
The COLOUR EXPANDER for ZX SPECTRUM costs only £95' +
(VAT & P&P) - £11 1 .55
9910 DATA "BOLTON","WIMBLEDON","BOURNEMOUTH","PRESTON","BRENTFORD","MILLWALL","E 'Requires a Ferguson MA20 monitor interface adaptor which we can
XETER","WALSALL","HULL","BURNLEY","NEWPORT","ORIENT","BRADFORD","OXFORD","LINCOL supply for £26 + (VAT + P&P) - £29 90
N","FLYMOUTH","W1GAN","PORT VALE","SCUNTHORPE","GILLINGHAM" INCH PORTABLE MONITOR
9920 DATA "BARNSLEY","FULHAM","BLACKBURN","HUDDERSFIELD","CARLISLE","CAMBRIDGE", The new and improved HILTEC TMC2R portable monitor with 5"
"CHARLTON","CARDIFF","CHELSEA","DERBY","CRYSTAL PAL","MAN. CITY","GRIMSBY","SHRE monochrome CRT isideal for computing on the move, portable
WSBURY","LEEOS","NEWCASTLE","OLDHAM","BRIGHTON","PORTSMOUTH","MIDDLESBORO" business computing, home and professional video or any application
9930 DATA "ARSENAL","LUTON","ASTON VILLA","WEST BROM.","EVERTON","STOKE","IPSWIC where a really compact, lightweight, low power monitor is needed.
H","TOTTENHAM","LEICESTER","NOTTS COUNTY","0.P.R.","NOTTS FOREST","SOUTHAMPTON", Will display 120 column text. It measures just 180mm x 105mm x
"SUNDERLAND","NORWICH","WATFORD","COLJENTRY","WEST HAM","WOLVES","LIVERPOOL" 230mm and will run off mains or from batteries in its integral battery
compartment. The TMC 1R is only £92 + (VAT + P&P) = £188.60.
9931 REM graphics date *4..
9932 REM PROFESSIONAL PAL ENCODER & UHF MODULATOR
9933 DATA 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,13 A high quality PAL encoder module superbly designed
HILTEC. by
This unit accepts digital RG8 inputs, (9 TTL data lines allow 512
9934 REM b-(1) colours) and produces a 75 ohm PAL colour output together with a
9935 DATA 56,56,56,16,124,56,254,255 modulated UHF colour output Digital timing techniques and state of
9936 REM cC, ) the art Cs guarantee long and reliable operation together with high
9937 DATA 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,96 signal quality.
9938 REM Only £70 + (VAT P&P) = £82.50.
Please send SAE for more information about any of these products.
9939 DATA 19,17,16,16,8,6,1,1
9940 REM 8-11") HILTEC ELECTRONICS LTD
9941 DATA 255,255,254,254,254,254,255,255 Airlie Gardens, Campden Hill Road, London W8 7AJ
9942 REM f() ) Tel: 01-727 5956 or 07987-316
9945 DATA 144,16,16,16,32,192,0,0 Mail order only Please allow 28 days for delivery
9946 REM gr.( 4)
9947 DATA 0,1,3,3,1,0,0,0
9948 REM h -C!)
9949 DATA 254,255,255,255,255,254,56,254
9950 REM )
9951 DATA 0,0,128,128,0,0,0,0
9952 REM J...( LOWEST PRICES IN UK?
9953 DATA 1,1,1,3,7,15,7,3 MICROS ACCESSORIES
IX Expansion System
9954 REM kC. ) Simian SoeCirom 4814
f ree Sonware 6 Paci. PI Microdrpre. Interlace A Software 2115
9955 DATA 0,0,0,128,192,224,192,12E1 Sinclair Spectrum Plus Specirom Lyn(nve interlace Lit
Free Solbrare 5 Pack 2911 DO ironies Pen Lit
9957 REM 1..,(M" Sinclair OL 8105 Sinclair Interlace 2 (Free Ron, I Ell
S960 DATA 254,189,93,125,125,135,187,255 Sinclair it klicrovirec Monitor OW Program Joystick Interlace 211
Commodore 64 030 Ouicir Snot 0 Joystick 011
9962 REM ri,up(4".,..) Commodore 64 Pacii Cassette Player int
FCC Parday Voucher lor Iwo f170 DisketteS 31.1 SS 00 - 10 211
9965 DATA 0,24,36,66,129,231,36,60 Amstrad CPC A %Work.. Cartridge
9967 REM r,clown(47,) Colour Alenilor 1 over 2100Sornirare [201 Saga Emoror I ireoarci "2'42
AmstratICPAI 464
9970 DATA 60,36,231,129,66,36,24,0 Green Monnor I over [100 Software 1204 CASIO
Arrrstra0CPC 6126 Green Monitor 1344 P6770
Amstrad CPC 6128 Wax Mondor on P0700 EN
ini' re3
MONITORS rP1SDP its
Mier.. 01_ Monitor f235 F% 120P
Prism 01. I 4 MN 004000P 034
Commodore Colour Monitor Elio riti CO 02
PhihosrSanya preen moon, 1012 PS 110 C33
Data Bank Pr 3100 034

Sirius Diary
PRINTERS Casio 1 V 015
CommorlooMP5601 eta WyboaoleT/12
comm00ommin1702Fmasy5crva AeYboard MT 100 traj
Nuefinams aa Watches trom 01
04
cm.mow.mslmmeeEms.0 mn Calculators Porn
an
SivmaCHWO 2110 MISCELLANEOUS
130 Casio Typrivnier CW10 2154

by Barbara Binless
CanoWW1000A
agzesiv9iTo.mv4 Canon typewriler 1,1).1106 C165
Me Sinclair T V f55
12oe Prior organiser LW
tztwprodu&N.eo MO Sanyo Answ Machine 1100
Sa3alreln,,,;tr,
[55
AS Mr
hiono 1205 2112

Diary is designed to keep track of ies can be included in data statements DISC DRIVES
Panasonic Anew Machine i506
Penne/wen. Machine
515 Mem./
nw
com..e.1541rreeEnr Sone rte
appointments, holidays and annivers- at lines 61000 onwards. Entries for each Amstrad rte
NT21"="- 2211

aries for a year at a time. Easter and day consist of up to three lines with up Comp.e rano. of Casio art Spectrum:commodore 400 ons at discount pricres Prices Goods
ceexclude
noti.,,ce A10.1.pri,
svoiect to availability and dente w;,1,140 .,s,"n, VAT P&P CS *Rhin UAI Trade

other important dates are generated to 16 characters each, displayed in a

automatically when the file for the first scrollable window of 10 x 3 characters. El K. K. STATIONERS
year is opened, and other repeating A full month appears on the screen at a 187b8gwveRoad
Marble Arch
126E84wweRowl
Marble Arch
1720aenswa
Chwenswey
London W2202 London W2
dates such as birthdays and anniversar- time. Hard copy is available as a chart
London W2 1ET
Tel 0 1 7 2 3 1436 Tel 01-4024592 Tel:01.22113247

OCTOBER 1985 PCW 237

MICRAIART for each month, as a planner for the a double vertical. Function keys 1 to 7
PROGRAM FILE
year, and as a list of dates with entries. are expected to return ASCII values 241
Every computer needs
%/I II, I I h=. 0 em o.
The program is written in Microsoft to 247 respectively.
For ZX81
"Listen creep, I am the leader. Basic and should compile without The printed output needs a wide
alteration. It shouldn't be too difficult to carriage printer or compressed print.
- -

SPECTRUM )
SPEECH
BBC
TRS.A4
To.K;1:00 SYNTHESIS
to
adapt it for any other machine with an The year planner requires 162 columns
APPLE
NASCOM C\----- ''
i WILLIAM
STUART
80 -column display, reverse, underline (131/2ins at 12 pitch), the monthly charts
VIC PET 64 t
SYSTEMS, and an addressable cursor. Lines 5130 take 120 columns (10ins) and the simple
(Please stale,
CO C39
to 5550 are specific to the Sirius, but list is 90 columns wide. If hard copy is
NEW! PITCH vil r334rE
only make the year planner display not required, then lines 4000-4170,
EXCLUSIVL,

CHATTERBOX II
CONTROL

T" can say anything,

Pig' ~ more clear by reversing weekends and 4200-4300 and 4500-4570 should be
Genuine phoneme synthesis - not just recorded highlighting alternate weekdays; col- replaced by RETURN statements.
speech - hence unlimited vocabulary.
Programmable pitch for more natural intonation
our could be substituted to good effect. The program is menu -driven, and
(exclusive to Wm Stuart Systems)- solid tone CHR$(177) is a grey block, CHR$(176) is instructions in theform of HELP screens
cabinet for quality sound - integral beep -music a central vertical line, and CHR$(186) is are provided.
amplifier PLUS expansion socket for BIG EARS
voice recognition system. Full instructions
technical notes and software supplied with this i . DIARY (a screen -a -month diary facility)
outstanding educational unit. 2 '

DEALER ENQUIRIES WELCOME 3 ' For any year the program creates and maintains a calendar/diary displaying a
4 ' month at a time for text entry/update, Lp to three lines of 16 characters can
5 ' be stored for each day. The diary can be printed as a chart for each month,
As seen on BBC TV "Computer Programme"
6 as a list of entries in date order, or (abbreviated) as a year planner.
*BIG EARS* .N.,°9,
'

7
,,i.,,,
'

DIM INFO$(31,3),MONTH$(12),DAY$(7),DAYSS(12),D8(12),R8(31),C8(31),GRA(28) 10
SPEECH 17 .

INPUT 18 ' Camon initialization block

FOR ANY SPEECH RECOGNITION 19 '

COMPUTER 20 DEF ENCSUICWS,COLIO=ESC$+"Y"+012$(31+R40W11)+012$131+COLIO :

DEF ENRAND(X11)=INT(RND(1)*X8+1)
Hugely successful Speech Recognition System
complete with microphone software and fug 30 DEF ENCEVERES(RCWA,TS)=FNCS(RCES,40-LENIT$)\2)+TS '
Instructions ONLY £49 DEF ENUP$(X$1=CHRS(ASC(X$+"-")+32*(ASC(X$+"-")>96))
BUILT TESTED & GUARANTEED 40 ESC$w01RS(27) CL.S$=ESC$+"E"
: EREOIS=ESC$+"K" EREOF$=ESC$+"J" : : :

PLEASE STATE COMPUTER UK101 ERBOLS=ESC$+"o" ERBCFS=ESC$+"b" :

SPECTRUM. ATOM NASCOM2 Vic 20. Micron, 50 HIONS=ESC$+"(" HIOFFS=ESC$+")" :REVONS=ESC$+"p" REVOFFS=ESC$+"q" : :
2X80 81 PET TRS80. MZ8OK APPLE II. BBC MICRO, CAM 64 :

UN)DN0=ESC$+"0" UNDOFF$=ESC$+"1" :

60 CURONS=ESC$+"y5" CUR0FFS=ESC$+"x5" CIRSAVS=ESC$+"j"

: : :

ZX81/SPECTRUM NEW!
70
CURBAKS=ESC$+"k" FIF1x$wCHR$(7) :

LINCW$=CURSAVS+ESCS+"x1"+ENC$(25,1) - LINCFF$=ESC$+"y1"+CURBAK$ :

v 8RATO BLINKONS=ESC$+"2" BLINKOFFS=ESCS+";"

MUSIC SYNTHESISER (Stereo) :

CONTROL 80 CLRALLS=ESCS+"z" TESS= -1 Naa=0 viroTH 255: WIDTH LPRINT 165

- 16 LINE CONTROL PORT : : :

97
Play 3 -part music sound effects drums etc Full
'

control of attack. decay and frequency 98 ' Get calendar base name and year required
Input Output lines provide control and monitor 99 '

facility for Home Security. Robot Control. Model 100 GOSUB 6000: PRINT SCREENS FNC$(10,15) 'What year do you want" FNCS(10,40);
Railway etc etc Works with or without 16K RAM 110 INPUT YEARS PRINT 970'$(11,15) "Name (up to 6 letters)" ENC$(11,40);
:

Full instructions software inouded AmAZiNG VALUE

120 INPUT BASES XS=BASE$ : COSUB 7000: BASE$'oX$
: TA=VAL(YEARS) : GOSUB 6500 :

Add keyboard to make a Sue performance AT ONLY '6 147 .

O0,3030131C synthesiser, 148 Cpen calendar file

£19.50 put
'

Note up 10 3 units can be used simultaneously 149

625.50 (BUILT)
.

giving 9 music channels A. 48 0 lines

150 OPEN "R",E1,BASES+RIGHTS(YEARS,21+".DRY",64
160 FIELD £1,16 AS SPEC$,16 AS INFO1$,16 AS INF025,16 AS INED3$
THE COMPOSER TALKING HANGMAN 167 '

Prramme
Fe: Cneoo,
ar 4..., Get header record, display and burp last -used date
T,3a Was game
Eme, & Way 3 0a.,,a,mOr, Vams aS VICUMS V., 169 '

invudas Oamonswa,w, .4en a 0, ,,Owa 170 GET £1,1 IF LEFTS(SPECS,7)0"OLDFILE" THIN GOSUB 10000
:

i Spectrum ZaCH ...a...a C7 arromsnrtan. So, r. - 16

FINE PRINT FNC$(13,15) "Last updated:" ENC$(13,401 INFO'S : FOR K=1 10 1000: NEXT
ill 180 LSET SPECS="CLDFILE" : ism INFO1S=DATES : PUT E1,1
CHROMACODE,,,,,, 187
51( ARP/DRUMSE0 7-=
=
.

Ow, yOk. we," me 00,0 Wr 188 .' Imp until 'quit' pressed
Fa°,...`g Symelasour
clamOnsv.ons O.. --.... vc..., me save. 189
=it'
--
'

automatK sequawcef awl comwnaHan Othre te ,Hs

p,a, op.., Hoyt: care Some 00' Wm Cnaterpos Hwce 190 FINISHED8=1,08 . 06=0
wava Oat, ,Swamml C6 owe, iSott,,,,,, 200 WHITE NOT FINISHED%
210 IF 1:40 THEN 300
kir116 220 GOSUB 2500 GOSUB 2000
COLOUR MODULATOR 227 '
:

FiGB.n PAL UHF Out (not for Z3,1 meTE22 . 228 ' Update info on screen, then replace in file
Please add VAT at 15% to prices. All enquiries "" 229 '

Barclay Access Orders accepted by telephone S A E please 230 KEEPS=140% GOSUB 3000: IF NCT KEEP% THEN 300
:

WILLIAM 12"'",,,r"'"e =MEI

MU
240
250
FCR Il. TO DUN%) (SET SPECS=INED$(I%,O)
:

LSET INE101$=INFOSUS,1) LSET INFID0S=INFO$(I11,2)

STUART
:

N, Saiisoury Al. 260 LSET INFO3S=INFO$(1%,3) PUT El,SKIPS+I% :

W.Itsn re SPA OOP
SYSTEMS Ltd Tel cy,;3064 235 270 NEXT
297 '

298 ' Get next =nand

299 '

300 PRINT SCREENS R4T1$ CUROFF$ FNCENERE$(5,"Using diary file ..+BASES+YEARS)

310 PRINT ENCENTRE$(23,"Press ore of these function keys")
320 KEY1W) : WHILE KEY%<1 KEY11=AX(INPUT$(1)) -240 : WEND :

COMPUTER AND PRINTER 330 CN KE0% GOSUB 8000,500,1000,4200,4500,5000,5000

6' 340 WEND CLOSE : RESET
: PRINT CLRALLS END : :

REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE AND 500 FINISHEDS=YES% RETURN :

997
SUPPLIES
'

998 ' Get month to use 0

999 '

Tel: 01-968 8622 1000

1010
PRINT SCREENS FMT2S
INPUT moten$
PRINT F74C$(12,20) "Month to edit ";
X$44ONTH$ : GOSUB 7000: NOETHS=X$
-
:

IF MONTH$="" THEN RETURN :

1020 IF MONTHS="SPECIAL" THEN GOSUB 11000

* EPSON * IBM * APRICOT * 1030 EN:=13 MS=VAL(MONTHS) : IF M%<13 AND M%>0 THEN 1100
: 'month nunber entered
SIRUS/VICTOR * 1040
1050
FOUEDA=ND% K4=1
:

WHILE NOT FOUND% AND M%<13

1060 IF MONTHS=LEIT$(MONTHS(M%),LEN(MDINH$I) THEN FOUND%=YES% ELSE M%w1411+1
WE HAVE A SAME DAY SERVICE BY 1070 WEND : IF NCT FOUND% THEN RETURN 'not recognised
APPOINTMENT, IF YOU BRING YOUR 1097 '

1098 Get day nunber of first day

COMPUTER OR PRINTER, OR WE WILL 1099
'

'

COME TO YOU. 1100 Yl%=(Y% -11\100 Y28=Y% -1 -100.'11%

: D6=(1+Y2S+Y2%\4+Y1%\4 -Y1% -Y1%) MUD 7 :

D%=(DAYSS(M% -1)+D%) MCD 7-2 IF DUI THEN D%-1:)%+7 : 1110

EASY FREE PARKING. ALL ENQUIRIES 1120 RETURN

1997
WELCOME, TERRIFIC PRICES ON 1998
'

Draw calendar for month

SALES TOO! 1999
2000 PRINT CLS$ E0473$ CUROFFS
2010 FCR I%wl 10 21 STEP 4

LOGIFIX LTD 2020

2030
2097
PRINT ENC5(I6,1) VHS PRINT VS
NEXT : PRINT E705(1,5) UNDOES MONTEN(M%)
: :

"
PRINT V$ PRINT VW:
" YEAR$ UNDOFF$
:

HORMEAD WHARF, HORMEAD ROAD, 2098 Fill in the dates and stored info
2099
PADDINGTON, LONDON W9 2100 KDAYS=DAY% : FOR DAYS=1 TO DS(M%)
2110 R8=4*((DAYS+0%)\7)+1 CS=11*((DAY8+0E) MCD 7)+2
Evening and weekend collections possible 2120 R%(DAYS)=14+1
:

C%(DAYS)=C% :

2130 PRINT FNCS(RE,C%) UNDOES; PRINT USING "EE";DAY%; :

2140 PRINT " " LEFFS(INFOSODAYS,0),7) UNDOFFS; GCRUB 3500 :

238 PCW OCTOBER 1985

 PROGRAM FILE
2150 NEXT : PRINT P1$ P2$ P3$ P4$ CURONS; : DAY9=KDAY% : RETURN 0
2497 '

2498 ' Get info for each day in month M%

2499 '

2500 SKIP%=I+DAYS9(M% -1)

2510 FOR IP,=1 10 D%(M%) GET £1,SKIP%+I% :

2520 INFOS(I8,0)=SPEC$ INF0S(19,1)=111131$ :

2530 INP0S(1%,2)=INF02$ : INFOS(1%,3)=I8F03$

2540 NEXT RETURN : BETTER SERVICE, BETTER PRI
2997
WIDER CHOICE
.

2998 ' Update info for this month, loop until saved or aborted
2999 '

3000 DAY%=1 ODL%=C9(DAY%) : : QUITI=ND% : 19=0 COMPUTERS SANY now Including IBM compatible and 2 x 8001,
3010
3020
WHILE NOT QUIT% 0 versions) APRICOT 8 OLIVETTI plus widest choice of IBM COMPATIBLES.
Tailored systems from under £1000.
19=19 -(19k3) ROW%=R%(DAY%)+I% -1 PRINT UNDOFFS;: IF 19=3 THEN PRINT (MONS; : :
NEW FERFIANTI PC860 IBM compatible. fast 8086 processor. Perfect 2
3030 PRINT FACS(R04%,COL%); INS=INPUTS(1) : MOV%=NO% :
software. Hi-res monitor. FREE ON -ODE WARRANTY £1199
3040 IF INS=CHRS(27) THEN INS=INKEY$ GC613B 3400 GOMD 3200 Cursor keys : : '
FARRANTI PC86001, as above with 10Mb hard disk E1999
3050 IF 1NS>CHR$(240) THEN CN ASC(INS) -240
(C6013 3240,3220,3210,3230,3270,3250,3260 Itt3 GCCO 3200 Function keys : : ' STOP PRESSIII ATARI 520 ST now available
3060 IF INS -2H2$(13) THEN 3200 Enter '

3100 INFO$="" : PRINT FNCS(ROW%,C01.%) SPACE$(10); Replace info

3110 WHILE IN$<>CHRS(13) AND IN$<CHR$(240) AND NOT MOV%
'
SOFTWARE Full range of WI,. spreadsheet and database software,
etc, plus Accounts, Payroll. CAD, Communications packages. etc. All at very
3120 IF INS=CHR$(8) THEN INS="" :
special prices.
IF LEN(INFOS)30 THEN INFOS=LEFTS(INFOS,LEN(INFOS) -1)
PRINTERS All leading models supplied, eg.
3130 PSN%eLRN(INFOS) -8 IF PS199<1 THEN PSN8=1 :
* EPSON LX80 (NLO) NEW! * £205
3140 INFOS=LEFTSCINFOS.INS,16) PRINT FNCS(RCW9i3O)L%) MIT5(INFOS,PSNI),10). .
* KAGATAXANKP810 ( CANON PW 1080A)* £239
3150 INS=INPUTS(1) IF INS=CHRS(27) THEN INSeINKEY$
* MP165 NLO at 75cps *
. :

£229
INFOS(DAY8,1%)=INFOS GOSUB 3500: GOSUB 3400
3160
,
* SAKATA 1200 + outstanding NLO!* £229
IF INS=CHRS(13) CR INS>CHR$(240) AND 1NS<>CHR$(242)
* MANNESMANN TALLY MT85 NEW!180cps NLO * £329
THEN INF0S(DAY8,1%)=INFOS
3170
* NEC PINWRITER, inc i/f * £459
IF INS>CEIRS(240) THEN ON ASC(INS) -240
UCHICIA/DAISYSTEPTMENDATA, 18cps
038248 3240,3220,3210,3230,3270,3250,3260 19=1
3180 WEND
:
Oume compatible daisywheel £199
: IF INS<>CHR$(13) AND NOT MOV% THEN 19=I% -1
3200 WEND : REICIRN
* BROTHER HR15 DAISYWHEEL * £315
3207 .
* NEC SPINWRITER 2000 * £379
3208 ' Deal with function keys PRINTER BUFFERS Serial/parallel m or out. 86-5126. eg
* 3209 '
86-E75 166-085 320-095 646-E119.
3210 10EEPYES% 'F3 Store this month PLOTTERS We supply a full range of plotters from A4-£169
3220 QUI11=YES% RETURN (MCP -80 and Sher Reed 1050) A3-04195 (HITACHI), £749 (ROLAND
. 'F2 Abort changes
3230 GOSUB 4000: RETURN 880) A1.-£2995 (HOUSTON) Use independently or as pad of a CAD
0 3240 GOSUB 8500: RETURN
'F4 Print the month
'Fl Help routine 0 system.
3250 GOSUB 3500: RETURN 'F6 Left scroll DISKS-SAME DAY DESPATCH-POST
3260 GOSUB 3600: RETURN 'F7 Right scroll
0 3270 SKIP%=DAYS9(Mil -1)+1 : GET El,SKIP%+DAY% .F5 Restore original data
FREE!!!
3280 INFOS(DAY8,0)=SPECS : INFOS(DAY8,1)=INF01$ DYSAN
3290 INEOS(DAY8,2)=INF02$ : INFOS(DAY8,3)=INF03$ Boxed in 10's - 100% guarantee
3300 GOSUB 3500 RETURN : Fixed order charge per box
3397 . £14.40
3398 ' Movement between Mies 00011.45 £20.90
3399 SSOD £1.45 i £20.90
3400
.

IF INS="A" THEN DAY9=DAY9+7*(DAY9>7) MOV%=YES% :

0 DSOD £1.65 £26.85

3410 IF INS="B" THEN DAYW=DAY% -7*(DAY%<(D8(M%) -6)) : MO79=YES% SONY

3420 IF INS="C" THEN DAY9DAY9-(DAY%<D8(M%)) MOV%=YES% :
3.5" (labelled)
0 3430 IF INS="D" THEN DAY%=DAY%+(DAY%>1) MOV%=YES% :
Fixed order charge per box
3440 I%=0 COL9=C8(DAY%)
: PRINT FNCS(RCVA,C01,%) UNDOFFS; RETURN : : SS E3.30 £23.50
3497 ' DS £3.30 £33.50
3498 Scroll box left or right
.

AMSTRAD
3499 '

3500 FOR J%=1 TO 2

CF2 £36.00
3510 PRINT UNDOFF$ FNCS(RII(DAY%)+J9-1,C%(DAY%)) LEETS(INFOS(DAY%,J%),10);
3520 NEXT Top quality unlabelled disks - even lower prices. Please add £2.00 to the
3530 above prices if required in "See 10' Library Case.
PRINT FNCS(R%(DAY%)+2,C9(DAY9)) UNDONS LEFTS(INFOS(DAY1,3),10) UNDOFFS;
3540 RETURN
FANFOLD PAPER I I- x 9.5" £9.75 A4 Clean Edge 011.69 2000
sheets per box. All sizes available.
3600 FOR 79=1 TO 2
3610 Delivery £2.25 (fixed) + £1 per box. LABELS from £1.70 per 1000. RIBBONS
PRINT UNDOFFS FNCS(R8(DAY%)+J%-1,C%(DAY9)) MIDS(INFOS(DAY9,J9)+SPACE$(10),7,10);
All types available at low prices eg Jut 6100-99p. Shinwa CPECIA80 £1.19
3620 NEXT Epson FiEMX/RX 80 £2.49. flume MS F2.65. KagaCanon E5.25.
0 3630 PRINT FNC5(R9(DAY%)+2,C8(DAY%)) UNDONS MIDS(INF0S(DAY8,3)+SPACES(10),7,10) UNDOFFS; 0 PRINTWHEELS from £3.79. Delivery 95p (any quantity ribbon& printwheels).
3640 RETURN Official Goyemment/Educationab
3997 .
Local Authority orders welcomed.
3998 ' Print this month Please add 15% VAT to all prices (inc. carriage). Limited space precludes listing
3999 '
of our full range of products. Please telephone ii you do not see the item you
4000 LPRINT MONTHS(M%) " require.
" YEARS LPRINT : LPRINT
.
:

4010 FCR Ie=3 TO 6 LPRINT USING " \*:pAySr(i%+51 mcp 7),

0 4020 [PRINT [PRINT
\
P%=((11)8+2) MOD 7)-1
:
:

P9=P%-7*(P%<0) :
NEXTT
Pr4=((Cei(M%)+P%)\7+1)*7 : :
:

ADVANCED MICROCOMPUTER
4030 FOR I8=1 10 PD8 STEP 7
4040 FOR J% 10 6 LPRINT "I"; IPJ9=I%-P%+J% : :
APPLICATIONS (A.M.A.)
4050 IF IPJ%>0 AND IPJ%<=09(M%) THEN LPRINT IPJ%; Dept G. 8 Glebe St. Beeston
4060 [PRINT TAB(17*J%+18); NOTTINGHAM NG9 1BZ Tel 0602 255415
4070 NEXT LPRINT "I" [PRINT IS
: :

4100 FOR 1(8=0 TO 3 0

4110 FOR J93 TO 6
LPRINT "I"; IPJ9=I% -P190% : :

4120 IF IPJ%>0 AND IPJ%<009(M%) THEN LPRINT INFOS(IPJtddr%);

4130 LPRINT TAB(17*J9+18);
4140 NEXT : LPRINT "I"
4150 NEXT : LPRINT 1$
4170 NEXT : RETURN
4197 '
0
4198
4199
4200
4210
.

.
Print year planner

LPRINT BASES " Year planner " YEARS

FCR M9=1 TO 12 LPRINT USING "\
LPRINT
\";MONTHS(M%);
:
:
118
e-IMITECMA/Ltm
4220 GOSUB 1100 : GOSUB 2500: LPRINT SPACE$(4*D9) "I"; Books Self -Tuition Software Games
* 4230 FOR I9=1 TO D%(M%) LPRINT USING " EEI";I%; NEXT : LPRINT : : Books PAP inc for UK
4240 FOR K9=0 TO 3 LPRINT TAB(10) SPACES(4*D%) "I"; :
From Chips to Systems £19.75
Assembler Lang for Fortran, Cobol & PUI Props £31.00
4250 FCR I9=1 TO D%(M%) LPRINT USING "\ \I";INPOS(19r,K%); :
Your IBM PC 8 XT; A Guide £21.65
4260 NEXT LPRINT :
IBM 8 IT Assembler Lang (Scanlon) £23.15
4270 NEXT : [PRINT TAB(14) STRINV,$(149,"-") Prog IBM PC with COBOLAvith Fortran 77 each £17.95
4280 NEXT LPRINT TAB(15);
. Word Processing on IBM PC £14.65
4290 FOR Ik=0 10 36 LPRINT USING "\ \ ";DAYS(II) MCD 7);
: NEXT [PRINT : :
Using 1.2-3/for Business/Tips Tricks Traps each £15.25
4300 13113 RETURN 1-2-3 Macro Library £19.75
:
Accounting wrth 1-2-3 £21.45
4497 .

MS DOS Guide/PC DOS Guide each £15.25

4498 ' Print non -blank dates for year C Prog Guide/C Prog Library each £17.75
4499 '
0 Everyman Primer dBase IhdBase III each £18.25
111
4500 [PRINT BASES " calendar for " YEARS System Design Guide dBase I £17.50
4510 [PRINT : LPRINT M%=1 :
Using Word Perfect/WordStar Made Easy each £16.95
Discovering Knowledgeman/Usinq Symphony each £19.50
4520 FOR I9=1 TO DAYS8(12) Dena, Data 8 You./The ACT Sirius Computer each £11.45
4530 GET E1,I9+1 IF 1%>DAYS%(M9) THEN M9=48+1 [PRINT : :
The Art of Programming (Knuth) 3 Vols £62.00
4540 IF SPECS+INFO1S+INPO2S+INF03$=SPACES(64) THEN 4570 SPECIAL OFFER
4550 LPRINT USING "\ \ EE "; MCNTES(M%);I% -DAYS9(M% -1); How to Use SuperCaK SuperCalc SuperModels £25.00
4560 [PRINT INFO1$ " " INF02$ " " INF03$ " " SPECS Mostly BASIC: Applies for IBM PC, 118 Props 2 Vols £27.00
4570 NEXT RETURN
:
Games for IBM PC; Apple; DEC; APri8ot 084
4997 eg The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
'

£35.00 + VAT
4998 ' Display year planner, showing first two characters only 0 .
4999 ' Salt-Tultkin Software
5000 PRINT CLRALLS LINCNS CUROFFS; GET £1,1 : for PC DOS, BASIC; WordStar; Cobol; Business, etc
5010 FCR M9=1 TO 12 PRINT FNCS(M%+M% -1,1) RION0 LEFTS(MONTHS(M%),3);
:
eg PLATO Pricing for Profit £95.00 + VAT
5020 GOSUB 1100: PRINT " " HIOFF$ STRINGS(D9+D% -2,177) HIC195;
5030 FCR DAY11=1 TO D%(M%) PRINT USING "PE";DAYS; NEXT : :
Pnces may fluctuate. Current lists available
5040 PRINT HIOFFS STRINV4(2.(38-08-16)(M)),177) Cheque or Visa:Access to:
5050 PRINT " " UNDON$ STRINGS(D9+D% -2,177) HIONS;
5060 FOR DAY8=1 TO 08(M%)
MITEC MAIL (DEPT PCW)
5070 GET £1 IF KEY9=7 790129 INFOS=SPEC$ ELSE INF05=INF01$ :
15 Sandy Lane, Hightown, Liverpool L38 3RP
...
ir
5080 PRINT USING "\\";INFO$; 0 /01 Tel: 051-9292764

OCTOBER 1985 PCW 239

 CROU1.,..VIART PROGRAM FILE
0 5090 NEXT PRINT HIOFF$ STRING$(2"(38-D%-DUMN)),177) UNDOFF$;
:

5100 NEXT : PRINT FNV$(25,5) HIONS;

5110 FOR 18=0 10 36 PRINT USING "\\";DAY6(I% MOD 7);
:
NEXT : PRINT HIOFF$ :

5120 PRINT REVONS; PRINT USING "\ \";YEAR6; : PRINT REVOFF$ LINOFF6;
:

DISK-OUNT DISKS 5127

5128
.

'
Reverse video weekends and un-highlight alternate weekdays
FROM 5129 '

FOR 144=1 10 5
5130 DEF SEGF&HF000 :

MONAS OVERSEAS UK LTD 5140 START4=(M% -1).14+4 ATTIOr=64

SOUIT%=START1+2 : GOSUB 5500
00SUB 5500 : :

5150
UNIT 34, CANNON WORKSHOPS 5160 ATIR%=192 GCGUB 5500': GOSUB 5500 a

5170 ATTR%=64 : GOGUB 5500

CANNON DRIVE, WEST INDIA DOCK 5180 NEXT : START%=START8+2 : GOMM 5500
5190 AS=INP(rT$(1) : PRINT CURON$ DEF SEG 18=0 RETURN :

LONDON E14 9SU. Tel: (01) 987 3213

: :

5497 '

5498 ' Mark next two colums

Prices per box of 10 disks 5499 '

5500 GOSUB 5510

51/4" 5510 STARTN=STARM+1
5520 FOR XPI.START% TO 2000 STEP 80
DYSAN 1 2-5 6-9 10 5530 XX%=XP%+XP% -1
POKE XX%,(PEEK(XX%) CR AVM)
: IF PEEK(XX% -1)=21 17402) 5550
5540
SS/DD 15.00 14.75 14.50 13.60 5550 NEXT : RETURN
5997
DS/DD 21.90 21.20 20.50 19.20 5998
.

' Define graphics and prompts

SS/OD 21.90 21.20 20.50 19.20 5999 .

9CREENS.a.RALL$+HICNE+REVON$+FNCENTRES(1," DIARY ")+REVOFF$

6000
DS/QD 28.10 27.40 26.40 24.90 6010 RESTORE 60000: FOR I9.3 TO 6 READ DAY$(1%) NEXT SEPS=REVOFF$+" "+REION$
: : :

6020 PMT'S." Help "+SEP$+" Quit "+SEP$+" Edit "+SEP$+" P.P1sR "+SEP$i"
P.list "+SEP$+" D.plan "+SEA$+" D.splan '
MAXWELL 1 2-5 6-9 10 6030 PMT16=1,INONS+' "+REVONG+FMT16+REVOFFG+LINCET5
6040 PMT2$=" Enter month required or type .SPWIAT. "

SS/DD 12.80 12.00 11.60 10.90 6050 FMT26=LINONS+REVC416+FNCENDIE$(25,PMT26)+REVOFF$+LINCET1

ENT36=FMT3$+LEFT6rDAYWI8+5) MOD 7)+SPACE$45),11) : NEXT
DS/DD 17.80 17.20 16.60 16.10 6060 FUR I9=0 TO 6 :

6070 R4T3$.1.INENS+REVON$+" "+144T36+REVOFF$+LINOFFS

SS/QD 18.50 17.80 17.20 16.10 6080 Pl$=076$(21,46)+ERE014+RE40616+UNDON$+"Fl -Help "+UNDOFFS+SEPS+UNDONS+
"F4 -Print "+UNDOFFS+SEPS+U4DON$+"F6 -Left "
DS/QD 23.00 22.40 21.70 20.30 6090 P26=FNCS(22,46)+EREOL$+F2 -Abort "+UNDOFFS+SEPS+UNDCNS+"F5-Restore"+
IMOFFS+SEPS+UNCONS+"E7 -Right "
1.6Mb 33.70 32.40 30.00 28.00 6100 P36.FNUS(23,46)+ERBOL$+"E3 -Save "+RAIXOFF6+UNDORF$
.

6110 P46=FNO(24,46)+ERDOL$+" Cursor keys move between days"

FUJI 1 2-5 6-9 10 6120
6130
176.CHR$(179)+SPACES(10) V$=)4+Ve0+41+V6+V$+CHR$(186)+SPACE$(10)+V$+CHR$(186)
;

VNG=424104$+V$+UNDOFF$ : 14..1"+STRINGS(16,"-") : IS=1.5+1.S+L6+L$+LS+LS+L6-01.

SS/DD 13.00 12.50 12.00 11.60 6140 FOR I%=1 10 12 READ MON1H$(I%) NEXT , RETURN
a ,

6497 '

DS/ DD 18.50 17.80 17.20 16.50 6498 '

Get ranter of days before start of each month for this year
6499
DS/OD 22.30 21.50 20.70 19.90 6500
'

RESTORE 60020 : DAYS%(0)=0

1.6Mb 28.50 27.50 26.40 24.60 6510 FOR 18=1 TO 12
6520 READ D8(1%) a DAYMIN)=DAYSMIN-1)+DMI%)
6530 NEXT a IF Y%<100 IHEN Y8=1900+Y%
P & P: 1-5 Boxes: 50p per box 6540 IF Y% MOD 4>0 THEN RETURN
6550 IF Y% Mm 400.0 THEN 6570
6+ Boxes: FREE In UK 6560 IF Y% MOD 100-0 THEN RETURN
6570 D4(2)=29 FOR I%=2 TO 12
, DAYSMI%)=DAYSUI%)+1 : NEXT : RETURN a

BARGAIN 31/2" DISKS 6997

6998
'

' Convert x$ to upper case

SONY 1 2-5 6-9 10 6999
7000
'

XL%=1E4(0) X8=1 a

SS/DD 28.00 27.00 26.50 24.50 7010 WHILE X%<=XI% : MIDE(X$,X4,1)=FNUMMID$(X$,X8,1)) : X8=X8+1 , was)
7020 RETURN
DS/DD 38.00 37.00 35.00 34.00 7997 '

7998 ' Help screens

7999
2-5 6-9 10
.

FUJI 1 8000 SCREENS : PRINT , PRINT , 084.1

PRINT
8010 PRINT
"Press:-" PRINT PRINT
SS/DD 27.00 126.00 I 25.50 23.50 8020 "'Edit'PRINTto add information to the diary.
;

When asked for a month, enter "

,

DS/DD 37.00 36.00 34.00 33.00 8030 " PRINTeither the month number or a few letters of the name, or type"
'Special' to add information to the spu,ial line" a PRINT
8040 " PRINT
8050 "'Quit'PRINTto exit fran the program" PRINT :

FREE P & P ON ALL 8060 "'P.plan' for a hard copy of the year planner"
PRINT PRINT :

8070 "'P.list' to print out a list of all dates with entries"

PRINT PRINT :

31/2" DISKS IN UK 8080 "'D.plan. to display year planner showing first two letters for each day,"
PRINT
8090 " PRINTthen press <space> to return to carnand monde" PRINT ;

8100 PRINT
".D.splan. to display year planner showing first two letters of special"

El ALL PRICES EX. VAT

(Subject to Availability)
8110
8120
8130
8500
"

SCREENS
PRINT

WHILE
dates, press <space> to return"
L1NCN$ REVON$ FNCENIRE$(25," Press space when ready ") REVOFF$
PRINT
impurs(1)<>" " : WEND PRINT C1S$ L1NOFF$ a RETURN
PRINT
PRINT PRINT : ,
;

8510 PRINT
"Move to the right date using the cursor keys, then enter text as required,"
8520 PRINT
"the box will scroll if necessary to allow 16 characters for each line. If"
8530 PRINT
"there is already an entry on a line, pressing <return> will move to the next"
8540 PRINT
"line without destroying any information." PRINT ; PRINT :

8550 PRINT
"The function keys act as follows: -" PRINT ,

8560 PR/NT
"'Abort' forgets any changes to this month and returns to corrrnand mode"
8570 "'Save'PRINTsaves the current data for the month and returns to cconnarad mode"
8580 PRINT
"'Print' prints a copy of the current data for this month only"
8590 PRINT
"'Restore' gets the original contents of the cursor box from the disk"

TYPESET DIRECT 8600

8610
"'Left'PRINT
PRINT
"'Right'
8620 COMB 8120
scrolls cursor box to the left"
scrolls to the right"
GOSLM 2000 : RETURN
FROM DISK
81/ :

9997 .

9998 Initialise file '

9999 '
y Anvil direct typesetting from micro disks puts 10000 PRIIrr Ft42$(15,15) 'Cresting a new diary called " BASE$ YEARS
10010 FOR I8=2 10 LAYS8(12)+1
you firmly in control of your photo -typesetting. 10020 LSET SPB28=" : LSET INFOLS="" : LSET INS32$="" : LSET INF03$=""
Mark up your text using your usual 10030 PUT El,I%
wordprocessor commands (as long as you are 10040 mix
10097
using WordStar, Wordwise or another similar 0
.

10098 Get repeating days from data

'

CP/M, MS-DOS or PC -DOS wordprocessing 10099 .

program). 10100 RESTORE 61000 : REND M%,D%,INFO$

10110 WHILE 0800 0
y TypeFit software copyfits (casts off) your text 10120 Ger S1,14CAYSMAS-1)+04 : (SET SPECS=TNEO$ Fur 81,1-FDAYSUMO-11,D% a

files on your micro in exactly the same way as a 10130 READ MB,DS, Rees
10140 lama)
photo -typesetter. 0 10197 '

Create copyfitted wordprocessor files which 10198 ' Work out and add EAster & related dates
can be typeset line -for -line and character -for - 10199 '

RE9/CRE 60500 : FOR 14=1 TO 28 READ G44(I%) NETT

10200 : ,

character. 10210 GMS=(Y101) MOD 19 : IF GW4=0 THEN GN6=19

10220 IF YV0100 THEN Sam ELSE SIA=5
Write or telephone now for details of low-cost 10230 SLI=(INT(1.254T4)+SIA) MCD 7 Il. : FOUNDNO% a

TypeFit demo software and FREE Anvil 10240 WHILE POUN)% AND 14(29 tar
typesetting offer. 10250 IF GWONS(II) THEN FOUNETYFS% ELSE IS=I9+1
10260 WEND : IF NOT POEMS THEN PRINT 'Data error at line 60500" STOP a

10270 D%=(13-SL4-(I%+1) MCD 7) MCD 7 : IF D8=0 THEN D8=7

Wordsmiths 10280
10300
D8=21+I%+Eft : IF D%>31 THEN D8=04-31 IMV-4 ELSE MS=3
INFO$="Easter Day" : GOSUB 10500: D8.C4 -2 : IF D%<1 THEN 171:=08+31 : 44*=3
:

33 Clerkenwell Close London EC1 10310 INFO$="Gool Friday' : GOSUB 10500: DI=D8-19 : IF C011<1 THEN D8=D8+31 : M%=3 .

IV (01) 608 1868 10320 INED$="Mothers Day" : GOSUB 10500 ; 08=D%-25

10330 IF 4483 IIIEN IF D%<1 THEN 08D114-28 :t412 : DS=D%-(DAYS8(12)=366)
19 West End Street Somerset 10340 IF M6=4 TURN IF D9<1 THEN 0808+31 448=3 :

It (0458) 45359

240 PCW OCTOBER 1985

 PROGRAM FILE MICRCIVIART
. 10350
10360
INFO$="Ash Wed."
INFOWShrove Tue."
: GOSUB 10500: D%=04-1
: GOSUB 10500: RE7URN
IF D4=0 THEN 04=28-(DAVS4(12)=366)
: : M4=2

10500 GET £1,1+DAVSUMM-1)+011

10510 IF SFH4,$=SPACES(16) THEN LSET SPEC:S=INFO$ ELSE LSET INFD1S=INFO$
10520 P171 E1,1+DAYS$(M-1)+01%
10997
10998
'

'
RETURN :

Allow for other details like holidays etc.

SPECTRUM REPAIRS
10999 '

11000 PRINT SCREENS FNC$(5,1) 'Ehter special details -' : CONEIND%

11010
11020
PRINT RESW$ LINR49 FNCEWIRES(25," Press return to stop " ) REVIDFF$ LINOFFS;
WHILE NOT DOREX PRINT
:
SPECTRUM 16/48K £18.95
11030 INPCYP 'Month number "(8% IF M%<l Cl) 40012 THEN CONEW=YES%
: GO70 11060
: SPECTRUM PLUS £18.95
11040 INPOP 'Day ";D% : IF [39<1 Cl) DAV8>D4(M%) THEN 11030
11050 INPUT 'Nbte ';INFO$ GOSUB 10500
: INTERFACE 1 £18.95
11060 WEND : PRINT SCREENS RETURN
£18.95
:

59997 ' INTERFACE 2

59998 Data block
MICRODRIVE £18.95
'

59999 ' 0
60000 DATA Wednesday,Thursday,Friday,Saturday,Sunday,Monday,TUesday
60010 DATA JANUARV,FEBRUARY,MARCH,APRIL,MAV,JUNE,JUIY,AUGUST, MEMORY UPGRADE £34.00
60020
SEPTEMBER,OCTCBER,NOVEMBEF,DECEMIIER
DATA 31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31
QL PHONE FOR PRICE
60499 . next line is used to fix Easter
60500 DATA 14,3,0,11,0,19,8,0,16,5,0,13,2,0,10,0,18,7,0,15,4,0,12,1,0,9,17,6
60999 .
following is for repeating dates - birthdays, anniversaries eg: THE PRICES SHOWN ARE FULLY INCLUSIVE
61000 DATA 1,1,New years day,2,14,Valentine's day,3,17,St Patrick
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BBC Logic Tester 45 WYCHWOOD AVENUE

CANONS PARK, EDGWARE
MIDDX HA8 8T0
Telephone: 01-951 0124
by Anthony Philips
This is an educational program in- random set of input states for the initial
tended to provide a method of testing gates. The user then has to give the THE CRACKER
The spreadsheet designed for normal people
the understanding of simple logic output state for each gate, ending up who make mistakes. Instant error detection and
circuits. It has been tested by students with the final gate. The program marks easy correction. Yes, this is a special feature. It
means that what you do is right, first time, most
on A Level courses in Physics and the answers, and gives the option to try times. For Businessmen, Engineers, Scientists
Physics with Mathematics. again or display the correct answers. and most simpletons.
£100 £2pp + VAT, CP/M-Z80, CP, M-86, MP/M-86, CCP/
The user is asked to follow through a Each circuit is displayed with three M-86, MSDOS, PCDOS
simple series of logic gates and predict different sets of input, and then a new DISASSEMBLERS, Z80, 8086
the output at each point, given the initial circuit is generated. Powerful practical file based disassemblers.
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handle. .CMD, .COM and .EXE files also ROMS.
£80+ VAT, CP/M-Z80, CPM-86, MP/M-86, CCP/M-86,
10 .FX225,128 MSDOS, PCDOS
20 MODE4
30DIMSPX(8),SPY(8) TRANSLATOR 8080/Z80 TO 8086
40D1MG(9,24),A$(9) This is a single pass translator designed to allow
50DIMGATE(8),8(16)
60PROCINIT
you to get your Z80 source code into an 8086
70 4FX15,1 form easily. It has no real size limit and works
80 PRINT.D0 YOU WANT THE INSTRUCTIONS (ENTER Y OR N). fast. Data areas handled intelligently. Output for
90 At=GETS popular assemblers. An easy way to learn 8086
0 100 IFAS=.Y.THENPROCINST:G0T0120 assembly language.
110 IF14$<>.N.TREN90 £80+ VAT CP/M-Z80, CP/M-86, MP/M-86, CCP/M-86,
120 CLS MSDOS, PCDOS
130 PRINTTAB(113,2);"LOGIC";TAB(18,3);"TEST";TAH(10,5);"A.PHILLIPS";TAB(18,6);"
(c) 1985."
140.FX15,1
Software Technology Ltd
150.F0138,0,128 PO BOX 724, BIRMINGHAM B15 3HQ
16OPROCFKEY TEL: 021-454 3330. TELEX: 337675 TELPES G
170FORI=1704
180A=ORND(1).100)
0 190IFA>75THENPROCSETOR:8070230
200IFA>50THENPROCGETAND:G0T0230
210IFA>25THENPROCSETINV:GOT0230
220PR3CNOGATE
230PROCDGATE(SPX(I),SPY(I),GATE(I))
24ONEXTI

0
250FORI=5707
260A=RND(1)*50
olivetti =_ -= COMPAQ

0
270IFA,25THENPROCSETOR:60T0290
280PROCSETAND
290PROCDGATE(SPX(I),SPY(I),GATE(I))
300NEXT
-PCCOM-
3101=8 The Real Communications Software
320IFRND(1).6THENPROCSETINV:G0T0340 Program
330PROCNOGATE
340PROCDGATE(SPX(3),SPY03),GATE(8))
350PROCL INKS Simple to Use
0 360IC=65 Copy to Hard Disk
370FORI=11-04
380IFGATE(I)=1ORGATE(I)=2THEN400 CP/M 80 compatibility
39080T0430 Intelligent Terminal Emulation
400G1f=81$+CHR$(1C)+. .+CHR$(1C+1) 75 to 9600 Baud in ANY Combination
4101C=IC+2 Text (ASCII) and Program (binary) Transfers
4200010450 No Modem dependent Features - Remote Operation
43081$=G1$+. "+CHRE(IC)+" " Error Detection/Correction to International Standards
440IC=IC+1 etc.
45061.3=61$+. " ** FREE Autodialling INCLUDED **
460NEXTI BARGAIN AT £67
470NIP=IC-65
480CT=6 (Delivered in UK for just £78 cash with order)
490ICS=IC Designed in England
500IFGATE(8)=3THENCT=7 for IBM PC/XT and compatibles,
510CNT=3 128K RAM and PCDOS/MSDOS 2
520REPEAT
0 530IC=ICS
540RESTORE3290 MERCANTILE & GENERAL FACILITIES
550FORI=ITOCT
56OREADTX,TV 14 TEMPLE SHEEN, LONDON SW14 7RP
570PRINTTAB(TX,TY);CHR8((1-1)+IC)
58ONEXTI
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590IC=IC+CT Telex: 912882 CWUKT G quoting ID:MGF

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MICROMART PROGRAM FILE
600 I FCT=7ANDN I P=8THENH$="P " ELSEHS= .0.
610PRINTTAB (27,9 ) ;HS
620F0R 1=1 TOLEN (GI $ )

IMPROVED SANYO SYSTEMS 630PRINTTAB (1,1+1 ) IMID$ (61$, I, 1 )

640 NEXT
650FOR 1=1 TONIP: PR INTTAB (9+ ( ( I-1) .2) , 20) I CHR$ ( 64+ I ) I : NEXT
SANYO MBC 550 660FORI=ITO ( IC -NIP -65)
with 670PR INTTAB (9+ ( ( I-1 ).2) , 24) ; CHR$ ( I +NI P+64 ) I
680NE XT
INTEGRAL 690PR I NTTAB (9,27) ; HS
700 PROCBL (0)
10 Megabyte 710 A=INT (RND ( I ) .2^N IP )
WINCHESTER 720 PROCG I P (A)
73000=1
DRIVE 740FOR I =1 TO4
750 I FGATE ( I ) =1 THENPROCGOR ( B (CV ) , B ( CV+1 ) )
SHARED 760 IFGATE ( I )=2THENPROCGAND (B (CV) , B (CV+1 ) )
770 I FGATE ( I ) =3THENPROCG I NV( B (CV) ) . CV=CV-1
WITH a second 780 I FGATE ( I )=4THENR=B (CV) . CV=CV-1
MBC 550 790CV=CV+2
BOOB (8+1)=R
ALL -IN with 810NEXT
820CV=9
b/w monitors 830FOR1=5T07
£2950 +vat 840 I FGATE ( I ) =I THENPROCOOR ( B (CV ) , B ( CV+ 1 ) ) ELSEPROCGAND ( B (CV I , B ( CV+1 ) )

850CV=CV+2
8608 ( I +8 ) =R
870NEXT
AND add later: 8808(16)=-1
more terminals 0
890 IFGATE (8) =3THENPROC6 INV ( B (15) ) : B (16)=R
900 FORI=I TONIP: PRINTTAB (9+ ( ( 1-1 ).2) , 21) 113 (I) ; :NEXT 0
more storage 9106070930
other MS-DOS 920PRINTTAB (8,25) I . 'I TAB (8,28)0"
925PROCBL ( 0)
machines 9301=8: L=25

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1000 I FASC ( A.) =48THENI030
1010 I FASC (A$ ) =49THEN1030
0 10206070980
1030PR INTTAB A*
);',,,A*;
SERIOUS BUSINESS 1040A$ ( 21-2+1 ) =A$
OR SERIOUS HOBBY 1050 X=X+2
10602=Z-1
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Torch, Triumph Adler. 1120PRINTTAB( X, L); . .1
SPECIAL SUMMER PROMOTION 1130 X=X -2
Taxan/Kaga 810 NLO printer £229.00 + VAT = £263.35 11402=2+1
Philips 7502 Green monitor 12" 20MHz £65.00 + VAT = £74.15 1150 IFZ >21 THEN 2=21: X=19
Amstrad 664 + Colour monitor £350.00 T VAT = £402.50 1160PRINTTAB(X,L).. ..TAB(X,L) I
Atari 520ST + Hard disc/ printer SPECIAL PACKAGE DEAL 11706070970
Fun 3.5 Discs SS 135TP - Boxes of ten £26.00 + VAT = £29.90
Apricot PC 256K/720K DualRes
Drives/monitor I 180PROCBL (2>
£1
Atari 520ST (500K Disc/Hi- Mon./Mouse/Gem etc.) + Box 10 Free Discs 1190PR INT TAB (8,28 ) .. > .; CHR$ (127) ;
£652.00 1200PROCFKEY: 811=A$
BBC Model 'B' £279.00 1210 I FAE=.1 .ORAS=.0. THENPRINTA. I . 60101230
BBC Model 'B' + DES E339.00 122000T01200
Commodore PC -10 (IBM Compatible) £1449.00
Sanyo MBC-775 (IBM Compatible) + Bundled Software
1230 Af=6ET$
£1640.00
5" 100K 407 Disc Drive £80.00 1240IFASC ( A$ ) =127TAEN I 180
5" 800K 40/801 Dual E280.00 1250IFASC ( A$ ) < >13THEN1230
Cannon 10800 NLO £260.00 1260 PR1NTT AB (10,25) I
Brother M1009 Dot Matrix £152.00 1270 CR=0
Juki 6100 Daisywheel £305.00 1280 FORI=1TOCT
Philips 7002 RGB/CTV Colour Monitor £196.00 1290 Pl."): "
Microvitec RGB Monitors from £169.00
1300 I FVAL (AS ( I ) ) =8 ( I +8) THENPS=CHR$230ELSECR=CR+ I
All prices exclude carriage & VAT. We carry most 1310 PRINTT AB (10+ ( ( I -1 ) .2 ) , 25) I PS
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(COMPUTER DISCOUNT GROUP)
, 13402=0
1350 I FVAL (BS) =B ( 9+CT ) THENPS=CHR$230. Z=1
1360PR INTTAB (10,28 ) I P$
8 WESTWOOD LANE, WELLING, 1370 PROCBL ( I )
1380 IFZ= I ANDCR=OTHENPR I NTTAB (1,30) ..WELL DONE, ALL CORRECT . ; . 80701580
KENT DA16 2HE. Tel: 01-301 3745
13901F2=1ANOCR< >OTHENPR I NTTAB (1,30) ; "LUCKY GUESS ON THE FINAL STATE"'
CALLERS BY PRIOR APPOINTMENT ONLY 1400 I F2=0ANDCR=OTHENPR I NTTAB ( I , 30) I "PRESS THE WRONG KEY HUH?"
1410 IFZ< >1ANDCR< >OTHENPR I NTTAB ( I , 30) I . SORRY , YOU DIDN'T DO TOO WELL-.."
1420PROCBL (6)
143014$=8ETS
14401FA$=.R.THENPROCBL ( I ) . 0010920
14501FA.< >. "THENI 430
1460RE5TORE3290
1470FOR I = I TOCT
1480READT X , TY
GENIE & TRS-80 Model 1 411 1490PR INTTAB ( TX , TY ) ; CHR$ (8 ( I +E) +48) I
1500NE XT
0
15106H=1:FORI=ITOLEN (81$)
Don't sell your computer upgrade to latest 1520 IFMIDS ( 61$, I, I ) =. .THEN 1540
spec: 1530PR INTTAB (I, I +1 ) I CHRS ( B (6H) +48) . . GH=6H+1
1540NEXT
Genie 48K RAM £39.95 1550PROCBL ( 1)
15600P=B (16 ) .IFB ( 16 ) =-1THENOP=B (15)
Lowercase Genie £27.95 1570PR I NTTAB (27,9) I OP
Lowercase TR 80 Mod 1 £27.95 1580IFCNT=1THENPROCBL (5 ) : 60701600
1590 I FCNT=2THENPROCBL ( 4) ELSEPROCBL ( 3)
Hi speed CPU £27.95 (Nearly double speed) 1600 REPEAT UNTIL GET$=. .

Centronics printer interface Genie £44.95 1610 FORI=07014.PRINTTAB(I+8,25)1. .. TAB ( I+8,28) ; .

1620 PROCBL (1)
. ; :NEXT

Centronics Printer TRS Mod 1 £54.95 1630 CNT=CNT- I

RS232 -C interface Genie £64.95 1640 UNT ILCNT< 1
1650CLS
R232 -C interface TRS Mod 1 £75.95 16607 I ME=0: REPEAT UNTIL T I ME >125
Double density disc upgrade £79.95 167ORUN
1680DEFPROCSETOR
Full spec. 4564S £1.95 each 16906ATE ( I ) =I
1700ENDPROC
Please add £1.50 p&p and 15% VAT 1710DEFPROCSETAND
0 17206ATE ( I ) =2 0
I 730ENDPROC
1740DEFPROCSET I NV
ARC ELECTRONICS 1750GATE ( I ) =3
1760ENDPROC I,

54 HERON DRIVE 1770DEFPROCNOGATE

17806ATE ( I ) =4
WAKEFIELD, W. YORKS 1790ENDPROC
Tel: (0924) 253145 1800DEFPROCDGATE ( G X, 6Y, 6N)
1810FORD X=1703
1820FORDY=0702

242 PCW OCTOBER 1985

 PROGRAM FILE
1830PRINITAB(SX.DX,GY,DY);CHRS(G(«DY)(3)+DX),GN));
MICROMART
1840NEX7DY
1850NEXTDX
1860ENDPROC
18700EFPROCINI7
1880.FX20,1
1890RESTORE
1900FORI.11-08:READSPX(I),SPY(I):NEXT
1910DA7A4,2,4,6,4,10,4,14,10,4,10,12,15,8,21,8
1920FORI.17024
1930FORJ=1709
1940READG(J,I)
1950NEXTJ
1960NEXTI
C LANGUAGE PROGRAMMING?
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21600ATA32,32,32,78,79,84,32,32,32 Math/science function libraries
0 2170DATA32,32,32,65,78,68,32,32,32
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41
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2210.FX20,1
2220V111123,200,&FE,&47,&20,&F0,&10,8,8,8 DeSmet £145
2230VO4J23,201,0,0,&E0,&18,6,3,0,0 (11 Lattice £340
2240V01123,202,0,0,0,0,0,&80,&40,&30 Computer Innovations £285
2250VDU23,203,&C, 4,4,2,2,4,4,&C
2260VDU23,204,8,4,2,1,1,2,4,8 .0 Microsoft V3 £365
2270VOU23,205,8,8,8,&FO,&10,&20,&47,&FE Mark 'Williams £435
2280VDU23,206,0,0,3,6,&18,&E0,0,0,0 Aztec C86p £170 C86d £275
2290VDU23,207,&30,&40,&80,0,0,0,0,0 0
2300VDU23,208,7,4,4,&FC,4,4,4,4 8080/Z80
2310VDU23,209,&FE, 1,0,0,0,0,0,0 BDS C £135
2320VDU23,210,0,&80,&40,&20,&10,8,4,2 This month's features
2330VDU23,211,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4
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2370VDU23,215,2,4,8,&10,&20,&40,&80,0 Aztec C86p £170 C86d £275
2380VDU23, 216,6,5,4,4,4,4,4,4
2390VOU23,217,0,0,&80,&40,&20,&10,8,4
Mac C £395
0 2400VDU23,218,4,4,4,&FC,4,4,4,4 Megamax C £295
2410VDU23,219,2,1,0,0,0,0,1,2 IBM PC ASYNC COMMS LIBRARIES
2420VDU23,220,0,&1C,&A2,&41,&41,&A2,&1C,0
2430VDU23,221,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,6 C function libraries (with source code) for com-
2440VD023,222,4,8,&10,&20,&40,&80,0,0 munication applications via RS232 COM1 and
2450VDU23,223,0,0, 0,&FF, 0,0,0,0 COM2 ports:
2460VDU23,224,0,0,0,8(F0,1(10,&10,&10,&10 0 Blaise Async Manager £155
2470VDU23,225,&10,&10,&10,&1F,0,0,0,0 usual price £175
2480V0U23,226,0,0,00(1F,&10,&10,&10,&10
2490VDU23,227,&10,&10,&10,&F0,0,0,0,0 Greenleaf Async Library £165
0 usual price £185
2500VDU23,228,&10,&10,&10,&10,&10,&10,&10,&10
2510VDU23,229,&10,&10,&10AFF,&10,&10,&10,&10 C Powerpack 5: Comms £130
2520 VDU23,230,0,1,2,4,8,&10,&A0,1(40 usual price £150
2530ENDPROC
2540DEFPROCLINKS
2550PROCDGATE(7,3,6) Prices exclude £4.00 P&P and VAT
2560PROCDGATE(7,11,6)
2570PROCDGATE(7,6,7)
2580PROCDGATE(7, 14,7) The Core Store Limited
2590PROCDGATE(12,8,9) 59 Station Rd, Northwlch, Cheshire CW9 5LT
2600PROCDGATE(13,5,8) Tel: 0606 45420
2610PROCDGATE(13, 11,10)
2620PROCDGATE(18,8,4)
2630PROCDGATE(24,8,4)
2640PRINTTAB(25,16);"TABLE SELECTION"
2650 PRINTTAB(28,18);"f0= OR GATE"
2660 PRINTTAB(28,19)("f1=AND GATE" 0
2670 PRINTTAB(28,20);"42=NOT GATE"
2680PRINTTAB(29,22);CNR$230;"= CORRECT"
2690PRINTTAB(29,23);"x= WRONG"
2700X=1
2710FORI=1704
2720IFGATE(I)=3ORGATE(I)=4THENGN=4ELSEGN=5
SPECIAL OFFER

DISKS
2730PROCDGATE(X,M1-1)=4).2),BN)
274ONEXT
2750PRINTTAB(1,20)("INPUTS:";TAB(1,21)("STATES:"
2760PRINTTAB(1,24);"OTHERS:";TAB(1,25);"STATES:"
2770 PRINTTAB(1,27);"FINAL :";TAB(1,28);"STATE
278OENDPROC
2790DEFPROCFKEY 100% ERROR FREE
2800AS=INKEY$(0)
28101FASC(AS)=128THENRESTORE2900:801-02860 LIFETIME WARRANTY
2820IFASC(AS)=129THENRESTORE2960:GOT02860
2830IFASC(At)=130THENRESTORE2080:80T02860
2840IFASC(A$)=-1THEN2930 EACH
285060702930
2860FORP=1708
2870READTX,TY,GN
2880TX=TX-3
89P + VAT SSDD
289OPROCDGATE(TX,TY,GN) 0
2900NEXT EACH
2910PRINTTAB(29,1);"TRUTH TABLE"
2920PRINTTAB(35,3);"GATE"
2930ENDPROC
29409ATA33,2,22,32,5,18,35,5,1,38,5,19
99P + VAT DSDD
PACKS OF 25 MIN QTY 50
2950DATA34,9,11,37,9,13,34,12,12,37,12,15
29600ATA33,2,21,32,5,18,35,5,2,38,5,19
0 P&P -£1.25 PER PACK
2970DATA34,9,11,37,9,13,34,12,12,37,12,14
29800A7A33,2,20,32,5,24,35,5,3,38,5,19
29900AT034,9,16,37,9,23,34,12,17,37,12,23 Kambal Data
(10
3000DEFPROCGAND(A,B)
3010R=A AND B
Systems
3020128=CHRS(R+48)
3030ENDPROC
5 Hanson Street, London
3040DEFPROCGOR(A,B) W1P 7LJ
3050R=A OR B
3060R4=CHRS(R.48) Tel: 01-631 1213

OCTOBER 1985 PCW 243

MICROMART 3O7OENDPROC
PROGRAM FILE
3080DEFPROCGINVIA)
3090R=0
3100IFA=OTHENR=1
3110RS=CHRS(R+46)
CBM 64 owners - 3120ENDPROC
3130DEFPROCONAND(C,D)
Did you hear the amazing 0 3140PROCGAND(C,D)
3150PROCGINV(R)

MICROVOX 3160ENDPROC
3170DEFPROCDNOR(C,D)
3180PROCGOR(C,D)
3190PROCGINV(R)
digital sampler and sequencer 3200ENDPROC
S
at The PCW Show? 3210DEFPROCGIP(N)
3220FORI=7TOOSTEP-1
3230 Z=1
MICROVOX is not a toy. With sampling 0 3240N=N-(2-I)
rates of up to 42kHz, a graphical sample 3250IFN<OTHENN=N+2-ItZ=0
3260 B(I+1)=Z
editor, and a powerful sequencer it is a 3270NEXT
professional system at a price that's unbe- 3280ENDPROC
lievably low, just £229.95 for the MIDI - 3290DATA10,3,10,7,10,11,10,15,14,8,14,10,20,8
3300DEFPROCBL(M)
compatible model! 3310IFM=ITHEN3390
SUPERSOFT specialise in software and 33201 FM=2THEN3410
hardware for Commodore computers, not 3330I FM=3THEN3430
3340IFM=4THEN3450
just the CBM 64 but PETs and PCs too. 3350IFM=5THEN3470
Write or phone for a free catalogue. 3360IFM=6THEN3490
3370PRINTTAB(1,30);"ENTER ALL EXPECTED STATES EXCEPT FINAL THEN PRESS RETURN";
338060703500
3390PRINTTAB(1,30);"

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Winchester House, Canning Road, Wealdstone,
340060103500
3410PRINTTAB(1,30);"ENTER OUTPUT STATE THEN PRESS RETURN

342060703500
0

Harrow, Middlesex HA3 7SJ 3430PRINTTAB(1,31);"PRESS SPACE BAR FOR NEXT TRY";
Telephone: 01-861 1166 3440 60703500
3450 PRINTTAB(1,31);"PRESS SPACE BAR FOR LAST TRY";
346060703500
3470PRINTTAB(1,31);"PRESS SPACE BAR FOR ANOTHER CIRCUIT";
346060703500
3490PRINTTAB(1,30);"PRESS SPACE BAR TO DISPLAY CORRECT STATES OR R TO TRY
AGAIN";
3500ENDPROC
3510DEFPROCINST
3520 CLS
3530PRINT'"Instructions for logic test.
3540 PRINT'.The object of the exercise is to work through the various stages 0
of a randomlychosen network of the three basic logic gates, AND,OR,NOT"
3550 PRINT'.I will select the series of gates and then choose a random series
of inputs, you then enter the state at which you think each intermediate sta
OF EX -DEMONSTRATION 0 ge is. You then predict the final output state..
3560 PRINT"' will then tell you how you did. There will be three tests fo
& OVERSTOCKS r each network then a new one will be built up..
EX -DEMONSTRATION 3570 PRINT'"You may look at the truth tables for thegates in use and the tables
1x10 MB Hard Disk SIRIUS £2000 v, are selectedby the function keys..
3580 PRINT".Press the space bar for the next page"
V07N
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1 x Spectravideo SV328 Computer, nii.ciaix ReCOKIer £45 VAT 3600 CLS
,3 MONTHS WARRANTY ON EX DE MO MODE lS)
3610PRINT".The first three function.'.keys select the truth.'.tables for the t
hree gates"'"in use"
OVERSTOCKS 3620PRINT'"These gates are as follows"
2 xTorch Graduates £850 ea, VAT 3630PROCDGATE(4,11,1)
1 X ACO R N Hard Disk System (for BBC Micro) £1025 3640 PROCDGATE(12,11,2)
3650 PROCD6ATE(21,11,3) 0
5x Memotech 500 computers-£87 .1C11.VAT 3660 PRINTTAB(2,15);"OR GATE AND GATE NOT GATE"
2 x CIL Microvitec monitors-£199 3670PRINT'"Try the function keys for a bit until you are ready to try the tes
ter..
2x SANYO 14" Audio/Pal Std. Res. Monitors £139 3680.FX136,0,128
1 x SANYO 14" Std. Res. RGB Monitor £129 ,ixf 3690PRINT'"80=OR GATE. f1=AND GATE"'"f2=NOT BATE."
5 x Sinclair Microdrives £39 0 3700 PRINT'.Entry of the states is by either pressing 0 or 1 for each st
age.When you are happy all are correct, press the return key -Delete can be us
5 x Sinclair Microdrive Interfaces C39 ed to correctmistakes..
3710PRINT'"Entry of the final state is as above." "Press the space bar to use
the tester -"1
3720PROCFKEY
Micro Power Limited, Northwood House. 3730.FX15,1
North Street, Leeds LS7 2AA. 374OREPEAT
3750PROCFKEY
Tel: 0532 458800 3760UNTIL cri=" "

3770ENDPROC
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VOLUME 1 - STATISTICS AND CURVE FITTING
Mean, SO, Normal Distribution, Partial Expectation, Chauvenets Criterion,
Least Squares Fit to a Polynomial and Arbitrary Function, Repetitive Least
Pascal Wall Calendar
Squares Fits, Covariance Matrix, Chi -Squared Statistic, Matrix Inversion,
Solution of Linear Simultaneous Equations.
VOLUME 2 - LINEAR PROGRAMMING
Reduction of a Simplex Tableau, Integer Programming, Partial Integer
by HM Keegan
Programming, Conversational Linear Programming System, Least Cost Mix
Problem This is a short program written in Pascal on and off in Hisoft Pascal. This
VOLUME 3 - FURTHER STATISTICS
Ranking. Duantiles, Frequency. Correlation Coefficient, T, Chi -Squared and to print out a yearly calendar in either procedure can be replaced by the
F Distributions and their Inverses, T Test, Chi -Squared Test, Wilcoxson
Test, Linear and Multiple Regression, ANOVA 1 -way and 2 -way. standard or academic year format. It is appropriate procedure in another
VOLUME 4 -- TRANSFORMATIONS AND SORTING ALGO-
RITHMS
written in Hisoft Pascal for the Amstrad compiler.
Fourier and Fast Fourier Transforms, Numerical Integration and Differentia-
tion, Harmonic Analysis, Interpolation, Coordinate Transformations, Ex-
CPC464, but will easily convertto run on Lines 157-160 set up the screen
change Sort, Cluicksort, Shellsort, Tree Sort.
All routines are written in BASIC for easy implementation on any machine.
other Pascal compilers and machines. display for the Amstrad. These state-
Machine readable source code - £75 plus VAT per volume. (Most disk
formats plus DL microdrive now available).
The program will produce a calendar ments are not strictly necessary, and
Manuals including full source listings with implementation notes and
documentation - £25 per volume.
for any year from 1985 to 9999, and can be deleted or amended if required.
CP/M TO DEC FILE TRANSFER output can be directed to a printer or the Lines 63-64 are used to turn under-
Software to read and write RT-11 format RX01 diskettes under CP/M80.
Supplied on 8" SSSD diskette - £25 plus VAT. screen. lining on and off. The codes used here
SERVICES
Micro Logic Consultants specialise in scientific data processing and the The only modifications which may be are for a Taxan Kaga printer and should
interfacing and control 01 laboratory instrumentation. We can advise you on
the best approach to your problem, or provide a complete solution. Contact required are as follows: be replaced if a different printer is used.
Derek Clifford on 0860 319482.
Lines 67-71 are used to toggle con- The program is carefully docu-
MICRO LOGIC CONSULTANTS LTD trol -P (chr(16), used to turn the printer mented internally.
57 Station Road, Southwater, Horsham
W. Sussex RH13 7H0 1 PROGRAM wallcalondarl (PROGRAM BY H M KEEGAN)
Telephone: 0403 731818 2 (WRITTEN IN HISOFT PASCAL) I
244 PCW OCTOBER 1985
 3 CONST bc="41";
PROGRAM FILE
(FOR THE AMSTRAD CPC464)
MICROMART
4
5 TYPE
6 months=(JAN,FEB,MAR,APR,MAY,jUN,JUL,AUG,SEP,OCT,NOV,DEC);
7 monthlengths=28-31;
8 years=1985-9999; SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY OFFER ON COMPLETE SYSTEMS. LIMITED NUMBER
9 meek=1-7; AVAILABLE TO VAT REGISTERED 8: PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE

10 switch=(off,on);
0 COMMODORE PC10, PC20, PC20S, FERRANTI PC860, PC860 XT,
SANYO, MBC RANGE, EPSON, NEC PRINTERS 8 MONITORS etc.
11 montharray=ARRAY f1..181 OF char;
12 caltype=(acadewic,normal); WRITE OR PHONE FOR DETAILS
13
14 VAR IBM ETC. XT CONY. KITS
15 year :years; COMPLETE WITH CONTROLLER BOARD 1/2 HEIGHT 10MB (F).
16 firstday :meek; WINCHESTER DRIVE WITH 4 HEADS- 2 RIBBON CABLES ETC.
17 monthstringsmontharray; ONLY £649.00
18 printswitch:smitch; SANYO UPGRADES (Per Drive)
19 key :char; 160K £95.00 360K £105.00 BOOK £118.00
20 calendar :caltype; DS/DOS PLUS £45.00 MITERM £60.00 BIS/PUS £45.00
21 f
1/2 HT DRIVE FOR BBC FROM £75.00
22 FUNCTION isleap(year:years):boolean; APPLE FROM £115.00
23
24 BEGIN SAGE SUPERDEALS
25 isleap:=(year MOD 4=0) AND (year MOD 100<>0f OR (year- MOD 400=0); List Our List Our
26 END; Price Price Puce Price
Sage Accounts 375 240 * Accountant 495 355
27 ( )
Sage Plus 695 480 * Accountant Plus 695 460
0 28 FUNCTION numdays(monthsmonths):week; e Sage Payroll 195 140 Mt Chat 130 105
29 AcesrPayrol; 495 355 GC with MODEM 395 295
* Bookeeper 295 195 Options 145 110
30 BEGIN (* MS -005 only)
31 CASE month OF All the above prices include Hot Line support.
32 JAN,MAR,MAY,JUL,AUG,OCT,DEC:numdays:=31; We are authorised Sage Superdealers.
33 APR,JUN,SEP,NOV:numdays:=30; VAT and carriage extra
34 FEB:IF isleep(year+l-ord(calendar)) THEN numdays:=29 ELSE numdays:=28 0
35 END; CONFUTER 2 Kings Highway, Plumstead,
36 END; London 5E18 23J
37 (
38 FUNCTION daylsweek; (determine day OF week 1st day falls on)
) FAC ITIES 111 Tel: 01-854 531N
Telex: 8813271 Ref. 5140
39 (A. Springall Ltd.)
40 VAR yr:years;
41 day:integer;
42
43 BEGIN
44 IF calendar=normal THEN day:=6 ELSE day:=5;
45 FOR yr:=1985 TO year DO
46 IF isleap(yr-ord(calendar)) THEN day:=day,2 ELSE day:=day,l;
47 dayl:=(day MOD 7)+1;
48 END;
THE NEWBRAIN FILES
49 ( ) A completely new book all about the
50 PROCEDURE spaces(num:integer); 0 NewBrain & its graphics & the 25 device
51
52 BEGIN drivers & all 80 operating system Z -calls
0 53 WHILE num>0 DO with their parameters & how to get them
54 BEGIN
55 write("); num:=num-1; & the most from the BASIC & how the
56 END; 0 paged memory works & CP/M's BIOS &
57 END; why VIDEOTEXT & all the other things
58 (
59 PROCEDURE underline(uline:switch);
)
they never told you before plus lots of
60 routines & examples & a text &a
61 BEGIN
62 IF printswitch=on THEN
database & smart graphics & details of
0 63 IF uline=on THEN write(chr(27),chr(45),chr(I)) (turn on underlining) key memory locations & what's there &
64 ELSE write(chr(27),chr(45),chr(0)) (turn off underlining) how to read it & change it.
65 END;
66 I
67 PROCEDURE printer;
1
The NewBrain Files
68 £9.50 incl. UK p&p
69 BEGIN
70 write(chr(16)); (toggles CTRL -P)
71 END; Europe: El 0 by Eurocheque or
0 72 f bankers draft in sterling.
Elsewhere: £12 by Eurocheque or
73 PROCEDURE prtmonths(first.last:months); bankers draft in sterling. Vitagraph Ltd
74 If you pay by cheque in foreign
75 VAR month:months; raddr ,i,cey t yo i,n,tlav3kelz; 26 College Road
76 next:week;
rip-off bank
77
doe
harges.
exchange
Bromley, Kent
78 PROCEDURE printmonth(daysinmonth:monthlengths); 013061 8152h

79
eis9ig VitagIrSal3p
Ltd. BR1 3PE
80 VAR day:integer;
81
82 PROCEDURE pm(sp:integer; monthstring:montharray);
83
84 VAR k:integer;
85
86 BEGIN (pm)
87
88
89
spaces(sp); underl ne(on);
k:=1;
REPEAT
COMMODORE
90 91
92
write(monthstring[kl);
ks=k,l;
UNTIL monthstringEkl=".";
0 2001.3000
93
94 END;
underline(off); spaces(sp);
4000.8000
We have the world's largest selection of software for
95
96 BEGIN (printmonth) the PET/CBM range. We supply to schools, universi-
97 write(bc); spaces(10);
ties, large and small companies, government depart-
98 CASE month OF
99 JAN:pm(2,'JanuarY '1; ments, and of course home users.
0 100 FEB:pm(1,"February "); We also manufacture add-on boards and plug-in chips
101 MAR:pm(4,'March '1;
that can make your computer more powerful - the
102 APR:pm(4,'A p r i 1 );
MAY:pm(6,'M a y '9; most popular add-ons are our high resolution graphics
103 ill

104 JUN:pm(5,"3 u n e '9; boards which give your PET better resolution than an
105 JUL:pm(5,'J u 1 y '1; Apple)
106 AUG:pm(3,'August '1;
IF YOU OWN OR USE A PET/CBM COMPUTER WRITE
0 107 SEP:pm(0,'September ');
108 OCT:pm(2,'0ctober "); OR PHONE FOR A FREE CATALOGUE. By the way, we
109 NOV:pm(1,'Noyember '); also offer software for the Commodore 64.
110 DEC:pm(1,'December ')

Ill END;
112
113
114
115
116
spaces(49); writeln(bc); writeln; write(bc);
write(' Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun');
spaces(41); writeln(bc); writeln; write(bc);
spaces((firstday-1).5);
SUPERSOFT
Winchester House, Canning Road, Wealdstone,
117 Harrow, Middlesex, HA3 7SJ
118 FOR day:=1 TO daysinmonth DO 0
119 BEGIN Telephone: 01-861 1166

OCTOBER 1985 PCW 245

 MICROMART 120
PROGRAM FILE
write(day.5);
121 IF ((day MOD 7).firstday) MOD 7=1 THEN
122 BEGIN
123 spaces(41); writeln(bc);writeln; write(bc);
124 END;

COMMODORE Pc10 125

126
127
END;
IF (firstday,daysinmonth) MOD 7=0 THEN next:=7
ELSE next.=(firstday+daysinmonth) MOD 7;
£1,289.00 128
129
spaces(76-(next-1)=5); writeln(bc);
writeln; write(bc); spaces(76); writeln(bc); writeln;
2 x 360k drives, 256k RAM, monitor, k/b 130 END;
131
132 BEGIN (prtmonths)
COMMODORE Pc20 133
134
FOR month.=first TO last DO
BEGIN
£2,150.00 135
136
printmonth(numdays(month));
firstdayi=next; 0
137 END;
360k drive, 10mb Winchester, 256k 138 END;
RAM, monitor, k/b 139 (
140 PROCEDURE titles;
Full range Pc/XT software available including: 141
DB11, DB111, Multimate, Wordstar, Word, Supercalc, 123. 142 VAR 1,J:integer;
Symphony, Framework, Omnis 1, 2, 3, Open Access. For other 143
software, ring for latest prices. 144 BEGIN
Please add £15 carriage on computers, £3.00 carriage on 145 FOR I:=1 TO 4 DO
software without computer. Add VAT @ 15% to total order 146 BEGIN
C.W.O. Mail order only. Personal collection of goods by 147 write(bc);
appointment. 148 FOR J:=1 TO 9 DO 0
149 BEGIN
Order line: 01-940 0529 (24 hour service) 150 write(year.4); write(year.1-ord(calendar):4);
151 END;
0
LANDATA ASSOCIATES 152
153
writeln(year:4,bc);
END;
171 Sandycombe Road 154 END;
155 (
Richmond TW9 2EN 156 BEGIN (main PROGRAM)
157 write(chr(4),chr(2)); (mode 2)
158 write(chr(28),chr(0),chr(23),chr(23)); (paper)
159 write(chr(28),chr(1),chr(0),chr(0)); (pen)
160 write(chr(29),chr(23),chr(23)); (border)
161
162 writeln(' CALENDAR');
163 writeln(' '); writeln;
164 0
165 ,writeln; write('Enter year: '1; read(year);
166
167 calendarv=normal.
ONE STOP 168
169
170
writeln; write('Normal or Academic Calendar (N/A):
readln; read(key);
IF (key='A') OR (key='a') THEN calendar;=academic;
);

MICRO SERVICE 171

172
173
printswitch:=off;
writeln; write('Printer on? (YIN): '); readln; read(key);
LTD 174
175
176
IF (key='Y') OR (key='y') THEN printswitch.=on;

IF printswitch=on THEN printer;

0

5 Years of Micro Service 177 writeln; titles;

Experience 178
179
write(bc); spaces(76); writeln(bc); writeln;
firstday:=dayl;
Home Computer Repairs: 191 IF calendar=normal THEN prtmonths(JAN,DEC)
180

BBC Spectrum, 182

183
ELSE
BEGIN 0
Commodore Apple 184
185
prtmonths(SEP,DEC);
prtmonths(JAN,AUG);
Amstrad QL 186
187
END; 11)

We give free estimate 188

189
write(bc); spaces(76); writeln(bc); titles;
IF printswitch=on THEN printer;
Business Computer Repairs: 190 END.
191 (

IBM Apricot Epson, etc 111

A

Free estimates
Ask for same -day module
replacement (keyboard, disk BBC Multicolour
drives, logic boards)
On -site maintenance contracts by Jonathan Temple
available
Upgrades carried out on all Have you ever looked enviously at other which blend together, creating new
above computers computers with all those different colours. Any areas on the screen of one
We sell all types of cables for colours to choose from? This program of the normal colours can be replaced
computers provides the BBC Micro with about 28 by one of the new colours.
We sell ICs and connectors, new colours in mode 2, and will also To do this, use PROCreplace
etc work in modes 0 and 1. (0,C1,C2) where 0 is the old colour to
We buy and sell home To trythe program, type in the listing, replace, and C1, C2 are the two colours
business computers and save it and then run it. This gives a to mix to create the new colour. For
demonstration of some of the new example, to colour the whole screen
spares colours. To use the utility in your own orange, use:
ALL REPAIRS HAVE 90 programs, include PROCreplace and COLOUR 129
DAYS WARRANTY PROCassemble near the end of your CLS
IBM HARD DISK + CONTROLLER program, and a line such as '10 PROCreplace (1,1,3)
£690 + VAT (20MB) PROCassemble' near the start. Here 1 is red, the colour to replace,
IBM HARD DISK + CONTROLLER The program works by colouring and and 3 are red and yellow,
1
£550 + VAT (10MB) alternate pixels in different colours combining to make orange.
227 TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD
10 REM MULTI -COL
LONDON W1P 9AE 20 REM (C) Jonathan Temple
(Lower Ground Floor) 30
Tel: 01-631 0139 40 PROCassemble
Easy Link 19010780 G 50 MODE 2

246 PCW OCTOBER 1985

 PROGRAM FILE MICROIVIART
60 REPEAT
70 PLOT 85,RND(1279),RND(1023)
80 PROCreplace(7,RND(7),RND(7))
UNTIL FALSE
90
100 END PERIPHERALS
110
120
.

DEFPROCreplace(SX,X%,Y7.) OSBORNE TO IBM

130 LOCAL A%,137.0.1%,N%,R%
140
150
MX=?&355
IF M%>2 ENDPROC
* Drive C from £400 *
(depending on model)
160 R%=&C424-(M%=1).2-(MX=2).6
170
180
?&70=R%?S%
A%=?&362
* Hard disk from £1,500 *
190 8%=?&363 * Web from £1,400 *
200 !&71=0
210 FOR N%=1 TO (2-M7.)*2 Included free with Drive C, a new
220 '&71=?&71+(R%?X% AND A%)+(RX,Y7. AND 8%)
230 '&72='&72+(R7.7Y% AND A%)+(R7.2X7. AND 87.) Supersize, Supercalc, Spreadsheet
* 240 AX=A%/2 0
250 87.=137..2 The new BIOS uses a sector format that is compatible
260 NEXT with your IBM PC and M -DOS software. The new
270 .&AOA=&C53000AD format lets you use your TSL hard disk on both CPM
280 .&A13=&AD300080
290 CALL &A00 and MS-DOS machines-
300 ENDPROC Just for the cost of an adapter!!
310 :

320 DEFPROCassemble
330 FOR pass=0 TO 2 STEP 2 CONTROLLED PROGRAM
340 P%=&A00
350 COPT pass MAINTENANCE
360 .loop
370 LDA &72 30 Leegate
380 PHA Lee Green
390 LDA &71
400 STA &72 London SE12 8SS
410 PLA
420 STA &71 Tel: 01-318 1231
430 .screen 0
440 LDA &3000
450 CMP &70
460 BNE next
470 LDA &71
480 .store
490 STA &3000
500 .next
510 LDA screen+1
520 CLC
ADC #1 530

540 STA screen+1

550 STA store+1
560 LDA screen+2 ORDERED TODAY -
570 ADC #0
580 STA screen+2 DELIVERED TOMORROW
590 STA store+2
600 BPL loop
610 RTS
620
630 NEXT SHINWA CPA 80
640 ENDPROC
650
660
:

REM Use PROCreplace(0,C1,C2) where

0
£1 65.00 + VAT
670 REM 0 Is the colour to be replaced and
680 REM Cl and C2 are the colours to be relaxed

EPSON LX 80
£205.00 + VAT
Commodore 64 Jiffy Clock
KAGA TAXAN 810
by las & Key
£235.00 + VAT
This program provides an interrupt- To change the time shown when the
driven clock with timing in Vioth-of-a- clock is running, reload the program
second intervals. It will be temporarily and use RUN 700. CANON PW10 80A
destroyed by certain machine code Follow the instructions given
routines and screen -scrolling, but will in the program exactly or it may
£240.00 + VAT
return rapidly. crash.

1 POKE53280,0:POKE53281,11:PRINT"7",C0
JUKI 2200
2 AP25069:1.A2
5 REM *** CHARACTERS FOR MAIN SCREEN *** £245.00 + VAT
10 DATA"M JIFFY64 IS WRITTEN BY JAS 8 KEV 1985 "
15 DATA"10 JIFFY IS AN INTERRUPT DRIVEN CLOCK..."
e 16 DATA"Il SYS64738 & SYS8192:SYS33792 TO RUN.."
18 REM .** READ IN CHARACTERS ... CANON 1156 or KAGA 910
19 FORUY1T03
20 READAS
30 FORX1T038,1.SMIDS(AS,X,1) £335.00 VAT
40 PRINTTABCX)LS"1.0ffl6^r;:FOKE645,15:FORT-.11.010 :NEXT:NEXT:NEXT
c.
41 REM ... M/CODE DATA .**
42 DATA120,169,13,160,32,141,20,3
43 DATA140,21,3,88,96,169,6,141 0 *FULL RANGE OF CABLES &
44 DATA32,208,206,41,32,208,16,169
45 DATA2,141,41,32,162,7,169,7 INTERFACES FOR ALL MICROS
46 DATA141,32,208,142,32,208,76,49
47 DATA234,2,0
48
49
FORIOT042:READA:POKEI+8192,A:NEXT
SYS8192
PRINTERLAND
70 DATA173,166,2,240,10,169,128,13,14 Unit 27 Estate Buildings
72 DATA221,141,14,221,48,8,169,127,45
74 DATA14,221,141,14,221,159,127,45
Railway Street
76 DATA15,221,141,15,221,173,208,195 0 Huddersfield
78 DATA41,128,141,208,19S,173,209,195
79 DATA32,28,197,13,208,195,141,11
80
02
DATA221,173,210,195,32,28,197,141
DATA10,221,173,211,19S,32,28,197
TEL HUDDERSFIELD
84
86
DATA141,9,221,159,0,141,8,221,120
DATA173,20,3,141,214,195,173,21,3
0484 514105/512037
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 247
MICROMART PROGRAM FILE
88 0676141,215, 195,169,76,141,20,3
90 DATA169,196,141,21,3,88,96,120,173
92 DATA214,195,141,20,3,173,215,195
94 DATA141,21,3,88,96,173,216,195,201
John Holmes Computers 96 DATA6,240,3,76,6,197,169,255,141
98 06TA216,165,173,213,165,240,243
S/H AND DEMO COMPUTERS 100 DATA173,11,221,170,41,1213,208,6
120 OATA169,1,76,111,166,166,16,141,38
EPSON DX 10 + FX 80 C/W DATASTAR & 140 DATA4,173,212,165,141,38,216,166
160 DATA13,141,35,4,173,212,165,141,36
REPORTSTAR £980 180 0616216,138,41,16,32,14,197,141,28
OSBORNE DD 80 COL BUNDLE SOFTWARE 200 OATA4,173,212,195,141,28,216,138
C/W D BASE II AND ZIP £300 220 DATA32,22,197,141,29,4,173,212,195
SANYO 555 256K RAM, 2 x 800K 2.11 DOSS 240 OATA141,29,216,169,58,141,30,4,173
260 DATA212,195,141,30,216,173,10,221
C/W BUNDLE SOFTWARE AND SANYO 280 DATA170,32,14,197,141,31,4,173,212
MONITOR £750 300 OATA195,141,31,216,138,32,22,197
M BASIC COMPILER FOR OSBORNE £125 320 DATA141,32,4,173,212,195,141,32
T.L.O. FOR OSBORNE £150 340 DATA216,169,47,141,33,4,173,212
360 DATA195,141,33,216,173,9,221,170
380 DATA32,14,197,141,34,4,173,212,195
400 OATA141,34,216,138,32,22,197,141
NEW APRICOT, SANYO BUSINESS 420 DATA35,4,173,212,195,141,35,216
SYSTEMS 440 DATA169,46,141,36,4, 173,212,195
460 DATA141,36,216,173,8,221,105,48
COMPLETE RANGE OF ACCESSORIES AND 480 DATA141,37,4,173,212,195,141,37
CONSUMABLES 500 DATA216,238,216,195,106,214,195,74
520 OATA74,74,74,24,105,413,96,41,15,24
E.G. KARGA KP 810 NLQ PRINTER £230 540 OATA105,48,96,160,255,56,200,233
MP 165 NLQ PRINTER £230 560 DATA10,176,251,105,10,141,217,195
JUKI 6100 £325 580 0616152,10,10,10,10,13,217,195,96
600 OATA42131,REM DATA CHECK
PHONE FOR LATEST PRICES 605 OP..0,LAPPA
HOLMES COMPUTERS, FULBECK, 606 REM INITIALIZE CLOCK 8 RUN
610 FORP.LTOL+343,READX:OPOP+X:POKEI,X:NEXT
GRANTHAM, LINCS. 620 READX:IFOP<>XTHENPRINT"lOATA ERROR!"OP
Tel: 0400 72818 630 FORI337927033792.2,READA:POKEI,A:NEXT
All Prices exclude delivery and VAT 640 DATA76,218,195
700 PRINT "1 INPUT TIME
710 INPUT" MOUR";HR
720 INPUT" SEC";SEC
730 INPUT" MIN";MIN
740 INPUT"COLOUR 3601.91231114g PAUM4,10311.12n13=14W;COL,NOP50126
750 INPUT"AM/PM";AS
751 IFAS"AM"THENLOP-0:601.0754
COMMODORE 752 IFAS"PM"THENLOP.-128:60T0754
753 GOT0750
754 POKENOP,LOP
REPAIRS 755 POKENOP.1,HR
756 POKEN0P+2,MIN
757 POKEN0P+3,SEC
756 POKEN0P+4,COL
BY COMMODORE 759 INPUT" DISPLAY Y/N?";PS
760 IFFS"Y"THENPOL1:0070763
APPROVED ENGINEERS 761 IFFS"N"THENPOL'0,60T0763
762 6070760
763 POKEN0P+5,POL
VIC 20 modulators £6.50, VIC 20 764 PRINT"M SYS 33792 TO START CLOCK -:END
from £14.50, CBM 64 from READY.
£18.00, C2N from £7.00, Prin-
ters, Disk unit etc.
For more details, write or tele-
phone
Atari IWDOS
G. C. BUNCE AND SON
by Paul Lay
36 BURLINGTON ROAD, BURNHAM,
BUCKS SL1 7BO This program will work on all 8 -bit Atari 642 bytes of memory located at the 30k
computers with disk drives and 32k+ of boundary, and use the 29k to 30k area to
Tel: (06286) 61696 memory. When typed in, the program store parts of the screen memory that
should be saved as 'IWDOS'; it can become overlaid by a window. Three
then be executed by RUN 'D:IWDOS'. routines are available:
When run, the program displays six 1) Open a window - this routine is
options that should be selected via the located at address 30720 and takes the
Apple LISA 2/10 keysAthrough F. A roll -down menu will following form <var> =
then appear, and an option can be (30720,X,Y,A) where X and Y are the
USR
(Macintosh XL) selected from these using the cursor up coordinates of the top left-hand corner
and down keys but without using the of the window. The last parameter, A, is
1 MB memory, 10 MB Winchester, 31/2 control keys. The RETURN key will the address of a string containing the
inch floppy drive and large 12 inch select an option. list of options to be presented in the
display. All DOS commands are im- window; this string should be in the
plemented, except for binary LOAD/ form OPTION:OPTION: ::.
Complete with 15 inch lmagewriter text/graphics
printer and Lisa 7/7 integrated office system SAVE and some of the duplicating Different options are separated by
software with word processing, business options. Any option that requires a the vertical bar character (SHIFT=) and
graphics, spreadsheet, project planning, com- filename to be entered will accept the the list isterminated by two ofthese. For
munications and drawing programs. wildcards * and ?, and drive one will be example, A=ADR("Up: Down: Left:
assumed unless otherwise specified. Right::")
Can also be used to run Macintosh software
using Macworks As IWDOS sits above DOS and accesses I= USR(3072 0,5,5,A) will open a win-
DOS functions via the X10 command, it dow at 5,5 with the given options. Note
should be compatible with all versions that this routine has no error detection,
Price £3,600 + VAT ono of DOS. so make sure that the parameters you
Lines 10 - 330 contain the machine use make sense.
code routines to control the windows; 2) Select an option - this routine is
Tel: (0703) 767841 these routines can be used in located at address 31274 and takes the
GRAPHICs mode 0. They are held in form <var> = USR(31 274). It allowsthe
248 PCW OCTOBER 1985
 PROGRAM FILE MICROMART
userto move the highlighted bar up and form <var> = USR(31106). It removes
down, and make a selection from the the open window from the screen and
previously opened window. restores it to its previous state, as it was
The option number selected will be before the window was opened.
returned in the variable <var> used to As the routines stand, only one
call the routine. window may be opened at a time, but
3) Close a window - this routine is the routines could be expanded to allow
located at address 31106 and takes the multiple open windows.
. 0 REM ** IWDOS (C)1985 By Paul Lay **
. ATHANA
10 REM ** Window Routines M/C .0
20 GRAPHICS 18:POKE 16,64:POKE 53774,64:POSITION 1,5:? #8;"o
ne moment please"
30 FOR De30720 TO 31362:READ A:POKE I,A:NEXT I
DISKETTES
40 DATA 104,104 104,141,127,121,104,104,141,126,121,165,88,1
41,129,122,165,69,141,130,122
The Great Unknown
50 DATA 162,40,173,129,122,24,109,126,121,141,129,122,144,3,
238,130,122,202,208,238,173
60 DATA 129,122,24,109,127,121,141,129,122,144.3.238,130,122
51/4" SSDD 51/4" DSDD
,104,141,125,121,104,141,124
70 DATA 121,169,0,133,207,169,108,133,208,172.124,121,132,20
£0.99 ea. 48 TPI E 1.09 ea. 48 TPI
3,172,125,121,132,204,160,0 E1.54 ea. 96 TPI E 1.84 ea. 96 TPI
80 DATA 140,126,121,140,127,121,140,128,121,177,203,230,203,
208,2,230,204,201,124,240,5
90 DATA 238,128,121,208,239,173,128,121,240,13,238,126,121,2
05,127,121,144 223,141,i27 121
100 DATA 176,2i8,173,129,1i2,133,203,173,130,122,133,204,177
Lifetime Warranty
.203,32,207.121,169,81,145,203 ATHANA DISKETTES ARE MADE
110 DATA 200,162,0,177,203,32,207,121,169,82,145,203,200,232
236,127,121,208,240,177,203
UNDER STRINGENT QUALITY
120 DATA 32 207,121 169,69,145,203,173.124,121.133,205,173,1 111
CONTROL PROCEDURES BY
25,121,133,Z06,169,6,141,129
130 DATA 121,165,203,24,105,40,133,203,144,2,230,204,160.0,1 OUR PARENT COMPANY IN LOS
77,203,32 207,121 169,124
140 DATA i45,203,i00,162,0,142,128,121.177,203,32,207,121,16
ANGELES. AND WE MAKE THEM
1.205,230,205,208,2,230,206 TO OUT PERFORM JUST ABOUT
150 DATA 201,124,240.11,32,105,121,145,203,200,238,128.121,2
08,228,198,207,165,207,201,255
ANYTHING WE'VE SEEN ON THE
160 DATA 144,2,198,208,173,128.121,205.127.121,240.15,177,20 MARKET, BIG NAME OR NO -
3,32,207,121,169,0,145,203
170 DATA 200.238,128,121,208,233,177,203,32,207,121,169,124, NAME.
145,203 238,129,121,173,129,121
180 DATA 20,126,121,240,3,76.190,120,165,203.24,105.40,133.
WHEN YOU MAKE DISKETTES
203,144 2 230,204 160,0 THAT ARE PREFERRED BY
190 DATA 177,203,52 207,121,169,90,145,203,200,162,0,177,203
,32.207,121 169,82,145,203 MAJOR SOFTWARE COMPANIES
200 DATA 206,232,236,127,121,208,240,177,203,32,207,121,169,
67,145 203 169,1,141 129,121
AND OEM'S, THEY HAVE TO BE
210 DATA 3Z 249,121,66,41,127 201,32,16,4.24,105,64,96,201,9 GOOD. AFTER ALL, WHEN THEY
0 6,16 4,56,263,32,96 96,0,0,0,6,0
PUT THEIR NAME ON A
220 6ATA 0,104,169,0,133,207,169,108,133,208,173,129,122,133
,203,173 130.12,133,204,169 DISKETTE THEY CANNOT
5 30 ATA'0,141,129,121 160,0,32,229,121,145,203,200,162,0,32
229 121,145,203,200,252
Ill

AFFORD TO TAKE CHANCES.

240 DATA 236,127,121,208,244,32,229,121,145,203,165,203,24,1
05,40,133,203,144 2 230,204
250 DATA 238,129 121,173,129,121,56,233,2,205,126,121,208,20
4,96 72 165,207,141 220,121 DISKETTE STORAGE CASES
260 DATA lg 209 141,221,121,104,141,255,255.230,207,208,2,2
30,208,96,165,207,141 240,121
270 DATA 165 208 141,Z41.121,173 255,255,230,207,208,2,230,2

I 08,96,173,125,12.133,203,173 '

280 DATA 130,122,133 204,162,0,236,129,121,240,14,165,203,24

,105,40 133,203.144,,230
290 DATA 204 232 208,237,162,0,160,1,177,203,73.128,145,203,
200,232,236,i27,121,208,243
300 DATA 96 169,255,141,252,2,173.252,2,201,255,240.249,201,
12,240,55,201,14,240,6
310 DATA 201 15,240,22,208,230,32.249.121,206,129,121,208,6,
173,126,121,i41,129,121,32
320 DATA 249,121,76,42,122,32,249,121,173,129,121,205.126,12
I 1,208,5,169,0,141,129,121
DEPART-
330 DATA 238,129,121,32,249,121,76,42,122,173,129,121,133,21 OUR PURCHASING
2,169,0,133,213,169,255,141,252,2.104,96,0,0
340 REM .. Draw Icons n. MENT MADE A MISTAKE AND
350 GRAPHICS 0:POKE 16,64:POKE 53774,64:POKE 709,0:POK E 710, PURCHASED THESE STORAGE
122:POKE 712,118:POKE 752,1:DIM F$(40),DIR$(300)
380 ? " IWDOS Version 1.0 Copyright 1985" CASES. WE DON'T WANT THEM
370 FOR 11.0 TO 1:FOR C.) TO 2:COLOR 17:PLOT 2+12*C.1+6*R:COL
OR 5:PLOT 13+12*C.1+6*R:COLOR 3:PLOT 13+12*C,6+6*R
SO OUT THEY GO AT 0.87P
380 COLOR 26:PLOT 2+12*C,6+6.11:COLO$ 18:PLOT 3+12*C.1+6*R:DR EACH + VAT OR BUY 50
AWTO 12+12.C.1+6tR:PLOT 3+12.C,6+6fli
390 DRAWTO 12+12.C.6.8*R:COLOR 124:PLOT 2+12*C.2+6.11:DRAWTO DISKETTES AND PAY ONLY
2+12*C,5+6*R:PLOT 13+12*C,2+6*R:DRAWTO 13+12*C,5+6*R £ 3.42 + VAT FOR 5. THEY ARE
400 FOR IRO TO 3:FOR IC=9 TO 2:READ A:COLOR A:PLOT 3+12*C+I
C,2+6.R+IR:NEXT IC:NEXT IR:FOR I=0 TO 2:READ PS RED AND EACH ONE STORES 10
410 POSITION 7+12*C.3+6*R+I:? F$:NEXT I:POSITION 12+12*C.2+6
R:? CHRN(193+C+3*R):NEXT C:NEXT R
DISKETTES - OFFER GOOD
420 DATA 160,160,160,160,148,174,160,252 160,13,13,13,Disc,M WHILE THEY LAST!
enu17,18,5,124,160,124 124 149,124,11,149,12
430 DATA Cart,Contr1166,166,10,160,160,160,160,160,160,149
,149,149,Flle,Utlle.,160,160,160,160,148,174,160
440 DATA 252,160,13,13,13,Dlec,Utils.,8,149,10,32,8,136,32,1 ORDERS & INQUIRIES:
0 49,32,32,149,32,Help,8,32
450 DATA 10,138,160,136,32,160,32,32,149,32,Copy,Utils,
460 REM 0. Main Program ..
470 GOSUB 1250:18 C<65 OR C>70 THEN 470
480 ON C-64 GOSUB 490,620,680,780,900.980:GOTO 470
07842-48519
USE YOUR ACCESS/VISA
490 REM .. Disc Menu ..
500 A=ADR("ExitlDrive #1 DirectorylDrive #2 DirectorylDrive
CARD. C.O.D. IS O.K. TOO!
#3 DirectorylDrive #4 DirectorYII") OBVIOUSLY, A MONEY BACK
510 P.USR(30720,3,6,A)
520 N..USR(31274):IF N=1 THEN 580 GUARANTEE APPLIES!
. 530 FWD.:*.*":F$(2,2)..STR$(N-1)TRAP 610:OPEN #2,6,0,F$:TR
AP 590
MINIMUM ORDER £15.00.
540 DIRW Disk Drive #7 Directory) 1":DIR$(14,14)=STREN-1)
C...0:ERR=0
Athana International Ltd.
550 INPUT #2,F$:DIEWLEN(DIR$)+1)=F$:DIRCLEN(DIR$)+1),="1":C
..C+1:IF C<10 THEN 550
BLACKBURN TRADING ESTATE
560 GOSUB 1340
570 I9SR(31106):I=USR(30720,3,6,ADR(DIRU):GOSUB 310:18 N
NORTHUMBERLAND CLOSE
OT ERR THEN 540 STANWELL
580 CLOSE #2:I-USR(31106):RETURN
MIDDLESEX TW19 7LN
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 249
MICROMART 590 IF C=0 THEN 580
PROGRAM FILE
600 ERR1:GOT0 560
610 TRAP 520:CLOSE #2:GOTO 520
620 REM .. Cart Contrl ..
DISCOUNT COMPUTERS 630 A-ADR("ExitlReturn To BasiclAtari Dos11"):I=USR(30720,9,
6,A):NAISR(31274):I=USR(31106)
COMPUTERS SOFTWARE 640 ON N GOTO 650,660,670
Amstrad CPC -464 mono £209 Sage Accounts C259 650 RETURN
Amstrad CPC -464 colour £295 Sage Accounts Plus C495 660 GRAPHICS 0:POP :NEW
BBC Model 8 £297 Sage Payroll 0145
0199
670 POP :DOS
Apricot Fie £525 Sage Book-keeper
Apricot F10 £2,060 Sage Accountant £375 680 REM ..1 File Utile **
Apricot Xi £2.195 Sage Accountant Plus C495 690 AADR("ExitIDelete File(Rename File(Protect FilelUnprote
Sanyo MBC 550 series £695 Sage Chit -Chat 0110 ct Filell"):I=USR(30720,21,6,A)
Commodore PC -10 (IBM comp) Chit -Chat 8 modem L799
700 N=USR(31274):IF N=1 THEN 760
£1,499 Sage options £115
£1,595 Lotus 1-2-3 0325 710 POSITION 2,21:0N N-1 GOSUB 720 730,740,750:GOTO 760
Wyse PC (IBM comp)
Olivetti M24 from £999 Lotus Symphony C425 720 ? "Delete, enter filename.":GO6UB 1100:GOSUB 1210:TRAP 7
PRINTERS Wordstar 2000 C330 70:X10 33,#2,O,0,F$:GOSUB 1200:RETURN
Epson LX80 * NEW * 5229 Supercalc 3 U59
Shinwa COPA-80 £195 OBase III 0325 730 7 "Rename, enter DnIOLDNAME,NEWNAME.":GOSUB 1100:GOSUB 1
Cannon PW1080A NLO £289 Sycero £450 210:TRAP 770:X10 32,#2,0,0,F$:GOSUB 1200:RETURN
Micrp MP -165 NLO £260 COMMUNICATIONS 740 ? "Protect, enter filename.":GOSUB 1100:GOSUB 1210:TRAP
Brother EP -44 £219 Sage auto modem with Chit -Chat 770:X10 35,#2,0,0,MGOSUB 1200:RETURN
Juki 6100 daisywheel C359 software £299
Shinwa CPB-136, 136 col £339 MISCELLANEOUS 750 ? "Unprotect, enter filename.":GOSUB 1100:GOSUB 1210:TRA
Epson RX100 F/T £395 Hercules graphics card £349 P 770:X10 36,#2 0,0,F$:GOSUB 1200:RETURN
MONITORS Printer buffer. 48K £149 760 IUSR(31106):RETURN
Philips 017001
Philips BM7002
Sanyo 8/12CX
Microvitec 1431
£75
£85
C95
£209
Printer T -switches
3M SS/DD
CONSUMABLES
£45
£17

Complete range of disks, ribbons.

780 REM .11 Disc Utile .x
770 GOSUB 1200:GOTO 700

790 AADR("ExitlFormat Drive #11Format Drive #21Format Drive

Microvitec 1451 £245 listing paper etc. . .
#31Format Drive #41Save "IWDOS.11")
All prices exclude VAT. 800 I-USR(30720,3,12,A)
Add £5 (P&P £1.50 under £50) 610 N=USR(31274):IF N..1 THEN 870
Send for complete price list 820 IF N=6 THEN 890
MAIL ORDER ONLY 830 POSITION 2,21:? "Are you sure (y/n)?":? ">_";CHR$(30);
840 GOSUB 1250:IF C<>76 AND C<>89 THEN 840
BRADFORD COMPUTER SUPPLIES 850 ? CHR$(C);:IF C..76 THEN 880
860 FWD?:":F$(2,2)-STRUN-1):TRAP 880:XIO 254,#2,0,0,F$:GO
Legrams Mill, Summerville Road SUB 1200
Bradford BD7 1NH 670 IUSR(31106):RETURN
880 GOSUB 1200:GOTO 810
Tel: (0274) 577636 890 TRAP 610:SAVE "D:IWDOS":GOTO 870
900 REM .. Help x.
910 D1R$=" Instructions' 'Select an icon via thelA to F
keys and a windowlwill pull down with thel"
920 DIR$(94)-"first option highlighted.1":GOSUB 1340
930 IUSR(30720,7,12,ADR(DIR$)):GOSUB 1310:DIR$(22)="ilse the
? 6 ? keys tolmove the highlightedll"
940 DIR$(65)-"bar up B down through theloptions available...1"

SUPERWRITING :DIR$(30,30)-CHR$(28):DIR$(34 34)CHR$(29):GOSUB 1340

950 IUSR(31106):IUSR(30720,3,12,ADR(DIR$)):GOSUB 1310:D1R$
(22).01Finally,when your choiwelis made.press the"
If you're using SuperWriter on your Apricot 960 DI118(64)" RETURN1key to execute thatioption.1":GOSUB 13
micro, you also need PASD ... the Professional 40
970 DkUSR(31106):I=USR(30720,7,12,ADR(DIRW:G05UB 1310:I -US
Authors' SuperWriter Disk, prepared by experi- R(31106):RETURN
enced authors, crammed with 300K of aids, 980 REM .. Copy Utile .
utilities and information at a painless price. 990 A-Am("ExitIcopy Filell"):I.USR(30720,26,12,A)
1000 N-USR(31274):ON N GOTO 1070,1010
* Keyboard configuration * Two -column print- 1010 POSITION 2,21:? "Copy File, enter SOURCE,DESTINATION.":
ing * Expanded and corrected dictionary * GOSUB 1100:GOSUB 1210
1020 TRAP 10810:0PEN #1,4,0,F$:N.0:FOR Il TO LEN(F$):IF N=0
Programmed MS and TV script formats * AND FCI,IW," THEN NI
Powerful "Execute files" to speed routine work * 1030 NEXT I:IF fim0 THEN 1080
Purpose -designed font * Display, customizing 1040 F8=F$(N.1):GOSUB 1210:TRAP 1090:0PEN #2,6,0,F$
and housekeeping utilities * Detailed 28pp 1050
1060
TRAP 1060:GET #1,C:PUT #2C:GOTO 1050
CLOSE #1:CLOSE #2:GOSUB 1200
instruction booklet * Much, much more! * 1070 I=USR(31106):RETURN
1080 TRAP 1000:GOSUB 1200:CLOSE #1:00T0 1000
Available by mail order only. £46.00 including 1090 TRAP 1080:CLOSE #1:GOSUB 1200:CLOSE #2:GOTO 1000
VAT (or send SAE for more details) to; 1100 Fl=".!
1110 POSITION 2,22:7 ">";F$;" "
ANSIBLE 1120 GOSUB 1250:IF C=27 THEN 1190
1130 IF C=94 THEN 1170

94 London Road 1140 IF NOT (C42 OR C-44 OR C..46 OR C-63 OR (C>47 AND C<59
) OR (C>64 AND C<91)) THEN 1120
1150 IF LEN(F$)>32 THEN 1120
Reading 1160 FULEN(F$)+1)CHR$(C):GOTO 1110
1170 IF LEN(F$)<2 THEN F$="":GOTO 1110
Berkshire RG1 5AU 1180 F$F$(1,LEN(F8)-1):G0T0 1110
1190 POSITION 31-LEN(F$),22:7 " ":RETURN
1200 POSITION 2,21:? CHR$(156);CHR$(156):RETURN
1210 IF F$-" THEN F$-"D:":RETURN
1220 IF LEN(F$)>1 THEN IF F$(1,2)-"D:5 THEN RETURN
1230 IF F$(1,1)-"D" THEN IF LIN(FS)>2 THEN IF (F$(3,3)=":" A
ND ASC(F$(2))>481 AND ASC(F$(2))<53) THEN RETURN
1240 FOR ILEN(F8) TO 1 STEP -1:F$(1.2,I+2)FS(I,I):NEXT I:F
FAST REPAIRS FOR THE $(1,2)="11:":RETURN
BBC MICRO BY 1250 OPEN #1,4,0,"K:"
1260 TRAP 1250:GET #1,C:CLOSE #1
THE ACORN
M CR O
APPROVED
1270 IF C>126 THEN CC -1218
1280 IF C>96 THEN C -C-32
1290 IF C<27 THEN C-C+64
SERVICE CENTRE 1300 RETURN
191 FRESTON ROAD 1310 POKE 764,255
1320 IF PEEK(764)=255 THEN 1320
LONDON W10 6TH 1330 POKE 764,255:RETURN
PHONE: 01 968 9214 1340 DIRE(LEN(DIRE)+1)" 'Press any
key to continuel1":RETURN
REPAIR CENTRE FOR BBC MICROS, DISC DRIVES,
MONITORS, PRINTERS, ETC.
BBC MICRO REPAIRS: AVERAGE COST £1 2-£20
COMPLETE DISC DRIVE CALIBRATION: £15/DRIVE
UPGRADES: DISC -£85 £10 INSTALLATION
ECONET-£50 £15 INSTALLATION Dragon Graph Plotter
DISCOUNT FOR 5 OR MORE UPGRADES
4411111i'
OTHER UPGRADES CARRIED OUT AS REQUIRED
ALL REPAIRS FULLY GUARANTEED by Anthony Durrant
EXTENDED WARRANTY AVAILABLE ON ALL YOUR
EQUIPMENT
This program will work on both the character mixed text and graphics
COMPUTER EQUIPMENT: Dragon 32 and 64. The main part of the screen used in the program.
LOWEST PRICES FOR CUMANA DISC DRIVES, program is in the first 24 lines; the Type in the listing exactly as shown,
ACORN COMPUTERS AND PERIPHERALS
remainder consists of 24 subroutines but substitute # for £. If BREAK is
ACORN AUTHORISED ECONET SUPPORT CENTRE
EXPERT INSTALLATIONS AND TROUBLE SHOOTING
covering things such as menu genera- pressed, the program can be restarted
RING 01-968 9214 AND ASK FOR
tion, sorting, calculation, regression without loss of data by GOTO 70. When
MARK DUFFILL OR DEREK MULLINGS analysis, and control of the 51*24- a graph isonscreen, pressing G will give
250 PCW OCTOBER 1985
 PROGRAM FILE MICROIMART
the gradient of the best -fit line and the pressing !,",#,$,%, and', - try them
y -intercept. Pressing G again restores to see what they do.
the screen. Pressing the space bar All graph -scaling is automatic, so
returns you to the menu. Special any data may be entered and the
characters can be used in labels by graph will adjust itself. COMPUTER
0 PCLEARB:CLEPLAR600
SO, GRAPH
SO
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100 IFTrl ORT)13 TIIESPIIS-
120 1E1.1 THEN8OSUB3000: 003004000
:130.916000: 00.90

130 IFS'S ANOTr12 TIIENPA-1341 PRS-STRINOS(23,32): G05.16000: PA -13413:P. --Pleas we

Membrane/Tenplate £9.00
ie.: sasuals000
140 IFT-2 THENGOSUB21000 Keyboard mat £10.00
160 IFT-3 THEN605.22000:1105064000
170 IFT4 TNE.05.23000
180 IFT-5 THENGOSUB24000.5.4000
41
Monitor/Video output £8.00
190 IFT-6 111.6.111313000-505.4000
200
210
1E1,-7 ANOT(-10 THEN6115.5000:1305.6000
IFT-8 ORT-10 THENG05U97000:605.14000 OTHER COMPUTERS BY QUOTATION
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250 IFT,ITHENGOSUB5000:311.13.00:005.7000:006.113000
260 IFT-1.11.60511219000
g: 4;1;g...605.20000
000 *mom MENU *mom
1005 .00E4,5:COLOR0,5:PCLS
1010 LINE(2,0)-(255,30),PSET,13:LINE(0,2)-(2,32),PSET,SF:LINE-(253,30),PSET,OF
ask for Simon
1020 P1-1,1.-9:PRS-.GRAPI,ORAW.S.
1030 FOICIP-60 TO62.5.16000:XP-Xl...60:PRSm.PLOTTER.:SCSUB16000:XP-XP-60:P.--DR
APR.:NEST
1040 XP -61
COMPUTER HOSPITAL
1050 FORYP-B TO10:605111316000:0P,P60:PRS--PLOTTER.:60.816000:XP,P-60:PRIIm-GRA
151.:NEXT
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1060 ORAW-54.
1520 LINE(245,136)-(122,50),P5ET,11
1530 LINE(132,50)-(132,42),-(10,42),PSET:LINE-(10,130),PSET:LINE-(122,1
North Humberside
30),PSET
1550 LIRE(13,44)-(10,132),PSET,W:LINE-(122,130),PSET,EF
1550 P1NE(121,51)-0,P0,12:P00-(242,138),PSET,. Trade enquiries welcome
1560 PI -011:1.. AVAILABLE.:605.16000:LINE(27,56)-[117, We play adventures
1570 Prm.411:1...-.1. Input new det:13050916000
1580 ....462,...2. List current data...816000 41
1.0 PR,513:PRS-.3. Add extra data.:601916000
1600 PA-564:PRS-.4. Delete [N.B.:MS.16000
1605 PA-EIS:PR.., Change deta.:60SUB16000
1610 PA -666:P.-.6. Swap x end y s.../316000
=g 1:::;6;4::::;1: Plot :=7t71''IM?:=7figg0
1.0 PA,83:PR..11. Join points vith.:OOSUB16000
1650 PA-4.7:PRS-.streight lines.:60.1316000
1660 PA -484:2.1-.10. As "mCHRS(123)*.9....(123).. with best...50E16000
1670 PA-539:PRI1-.fitting line-.60SUB16000
1680 PA -5136:1).--11. Obtain x,y paire.:GOSUB16000
1690 PA-641,...(beetEit only).:0090016000
COMPUTER EPAIR
170 PA-6813:PES-.12. Save data to [an.:6050816000
1710 PRs739:PRS-.13. Load date from tope...S.16000
1720 PA -843:P. -.Your choice .Y":130.1116000
1800 LINE(2,156)-(255,186),PSET,B:LINE(0,158)-[2,1881.PSET,BF:LINE-(253,186),P.
181E
1810 PI-0:PA-1022:PR5-.When a prop,' with 600(211 line is on the acreen.:805.160 * APRICOT * ACORN * SINCLAIR *
10 P1-0:PA-10.79 PR.001.1231.-4spaceber7.<0.1112.0. returns to !hie menu.:111 * COMMODORE *
5.16000
1030 P1m0:PA.1129.P.-.1111(123)......(123).. togglea gradient end u -i,..,..1.
.:609.16000 Spectrum £20.00
1050 RETURN
2000*nom INITIALISE Om."
Spectrum Plus £20.00
2010 0161)(100),13(100),01100),0(100),01100),01(174),020174)
2020 PIMP...
Interface 1 & 2 £20.00
2022 FORI. TO32:READPRS(1):NEXTI
2024 FORI-651.091:REAOPR3(1):NEXTI
Microdrive £20.00
2026 FORT-5913641READPRS( I ) : NEXT I
20213 FOR I .33.513: RUMP.( 1 l: NEXT I
BBC A/B excl. psu, K/B £35.00
2040 RETURN Commodore C-64 £35.00
3000 . INPUT NEW DATA
'

3005 PHOOEY, 1: COLO., 5: PCL5 :.REEN1,1 41 Vic 20 £30.00

3010 P1-0:PA-0:PRII-Thig routine deletes all current data --,60501316000:21.M.E.PR
m-clo you wish to continue (V OR Nr7,3051.11316000 All prices are inclusive of parts, labour and return
3020 T.INKEYS:IFTS-THEN3020
3030 IFTS<7,-.111.11<)-y-TREN3370 postage (insured) and three months guarantee.
41
11 3035 FORS -1T0100: X IN 1-0 :).(111-0 : NEXTII
3040 PCLS:L ISE( 2,0)- ( 255 , /3 ) , PM' ,13: L I NE (0,2 )- ( 2,45 ) , PSET , BF: LINE- ( .3,43) , PSET ,
Send faulty unit with cheque and description of
OF fault
3050 1 INE ( 2,501,255,19. , FSET, B: L INE ( 0,521,2,191 ) , PSET , BF: L I NE, 253,1139). PSET ,

41
BF
3060 XP -106: YP-3 : PI -1 : 2.- -N. 0ATA.:13051.1016000: LINE(102,11,1050,10,,PSET
0 ON -SITE REPAIRS FOR APRICOT
3070 PA-103:P1-0:PR../low eery data eats to be entered 7.:13091B16000
30130 VT -0: 20-139:61051.11317000: 6-I NT( 1St
BUSINESS COMPUTERS AVAILABLE
3090 1,1172 ANONrIOITREN3100
3095 FOR I -1 TOLEN ( INS : ORAS1,51.137L07107.71.07U7C0-: NEXT 1: 60T030130
Please phone for details and prices of
3100 PA-154:PR.Label for x-axie -:61:15)816000
:
maintenance contracts
3110 VT -1 : PA -173: 613311617000: XS-1NS: !FLEW X.720TRENXS-LEFT. XS , 201
3120 PA-2.PIES-Lebel for y -axle : :131391.1816000
3130 PR -224 :1305081700EI: YS -I NS : IMES( Y., 15THENIS-LEFTS(SE, 15)
3140 I-1
3150 XP-S,P-54,1-1:P123-X-COOROINATIS ..xs:aosuals000
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11 LIVERPOOL TERRACE, WORTHING
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3160 FORS -0 T014

3170 M-5.1:P1-0:2A-510.08001:PRS-- X(..11113NTS(..01),LENISTRS(M))-Ilm.) - ..:
PRS-RIGHTS(PRS,LEN(P.1-LEN(STRI(M)).2):809U016000:0T-0:PA-PAmLEN(P.1):605061.700 WEST SUSSEX BN11 1TA
0:X(9) -IN
3180 IFYI-N TMEN3230
3190 NEXTS
Tel: (0903) 38199
3200 19401100,4 :rctss:PCOPM133 : PC01,4302 :11111004,1 : COLORO, 5
3210 L ISE I 2,501, 255,11391 , PSE T, 6: LINE(., 52)-(2,1911, MET .13F , LINE -( 253,109 ) , MET,
BF 41
3220 1-1.15:00T03150
3230 1-1
3235 P600E0,4: 1.1_55: PC0PY4T03 : PCOPY41132 : P00E4,1 : COLOR°, S
3240 LINE(2,50)-(255,113.3),PSET,11:LINE(0,S2)-(2,191),PSET,B,LINE-(253,189),PSET,
41
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3250 XP-5:11.-54:01-):PRS--Y-COORDINATE9 -.1.6050016000

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3260 FORSmOT014
3270 6,41:P1-0:PA-,S1,6133.41:PRS-- Yr -mlimicrs,snrscrn,LEN(STRS(11))-1)..) -
PRS-R I ORTS ( PRS , LEN(1.11.-LENI ST.( 11))2 ) : 8051116000, VT -0 :151-213LE04( PR. , 0051.101 7 Oa
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3200 IFM-N THEN3330
3290 NEXT5 DEPARTMENT OF EXTRA-
3300 I -1.1S: 013T03235
364:,. 1...I.NFE I 158,91)-(231,123 l , PSET , II : L ISE( 156,63) - ( 158,125 ) , PSET , BF : L I.-1229,123)

3340 PA -645: PI -0: PRS-.PLE.E WAIT- : 0611816000

41
MURAL STUDIES
3350 PA-697:0211--dets twine:130.016000
3360 PA-750:02!w-.sorted.:1305U1316000

111
3370
4000
RETURN
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41
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4010 FORS-1TO(N-1)
4020
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FORT -1 TO(N-9)
41
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4040 IFX(1),-.1.1)THEN4090
4050 XC-X(11:1.C.M.(1)
4060 X(1) -X(14.1),(1),(1.1)
4070 X(1.1)..X.Y(1.1)-. WE HAVE COURSES TO SUIT YOU... Re-
4080 M-1
4090 NEXT]
41 sidential...day...evening...whether you want to
4, 4100 IFM-OTREN4120 listen to a tutor explaining computers...use a
4110 NEXT!
4120 RETURN computer for the first time...extend your comput-
5000 mmmn CALCULATE PLOTTING POSITIONS ....
'

5010 X1,1E30:01(..-1.0:16,1.0:Y.-1E30
41 ing skills and carry out a project in a workshop
5020 FORII,TON setting...learn to programme...wordprocess...
5030 IFX(9))011 TREN00..X(M)
5040 100(11)001. TRENXLmX(M) Our lab with the new Research Machines Nibus,
5050 IFY(1117. TMENTH,(6)
5060 IFY(11)<YL THENYL,(6)
11 running the MS-DOS operating system - the
5070 NEXT. standard in business and now the recommended
5080 213101.ITON
5060 no.-acm-01.0/(0.0-xL)245.5 standard for school doubles our capacity for
5100 13(11,186-(1(6)-YL)/(YR-YL/s181
5130 NEXT,' teaching in modern high-powered 16 bit compu-
5140
6000
RETURN
nmem CALCULATE POSITION OF AXES 0.....
ters running the latest software, while we con-
tinue to offer our successful courses on the
'

6010 1201100 1.00601.250

6020 IFXL7w0 THEN01.5 41
6030 IFYR0m0 THENYlmS widely used and popular BBC Micro and Com-
6040 IFYL). THENY1-1136
6050 00EIX1r0 THENXI-285UL)/(ABS(XL)-.85(X.)246.5 modore Pet.
6060 !FEM. ANOYLr0 THENYI-A85(151)/(AOSCalmA851.)).1181.5
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7010 S1-0 : 5.0 : 93-0: 5,0 : 95-0
7020 FORM -)TON
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7030 5151X(11).52 -5241,1):53-53.1((M),(9):54.5
7040 NEXTM
41 ter M13 9PL or tel 061-273 3333, ext 3076.

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MICROMART 7050 .(.53-5152)/0004-51,11
7060 e-(94.42-51.53)/.94-9151,
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7070 FOR(1411114
7000 Ort1/4.X(r1301-3011

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7090 55,00(4)01(1)
7100 42X01
7110 0131(11055/01-2»
7120 S.9010(NADENDO)/0484-51.511,
All prices for IBM PC and compatibles, but most are also 7130 561512R,(000110.54)/(NA54-51°31)1
available for other MS-DOS machines. ie APRICOT, 7140 111.3(1)
7150 R2,001.5
HITACHI, SANYO etc., and CPM-80, CPM-86 machines. 7160 86-186-(R2-1(./(36-YL1A181
State computer when ordering. We will try to beat any 7170 IFREAS 0101101136 THENR1,11(.004,08-XL,00007150
7180 1(5,81-0-1/(08-XL)P245.5
genuine competitor's price. PLEASE 'PHONE 7190 113,(14,
7200 R,(04(3.11
RAP PRICE RRP PRICE 4115 )210 R110186-02,31-,/(YM-0.).181
7220 IFRB(5 0000106 10251113.R3- .004(01 -XL/ :G0307200
TURBO PASCAL v 30 70 55 Sideways 54 39 7230 R74(R3-XL)/(XX-XL)P245.5
dBase 11 v2.43 395 224 Sidekick(UnprMecte4) _72 56 7240 RETURN
dBase 111 550 289 Sidekick (Protected) 47 37 8000 '*4 DR. AXES Ass*
430 VolksvadeDeLuxe 289 199
0005 MODES. 1:COLOR0.1:PCLS:SCREENI ,0:1.1 (2.1),(255. 1133),PSEL,0 LINE(021-11 , 19
Sycero 595 PSET,B,LINE-(253,189,,PSET.Eff
Lotus 123 430 299 PemonalPead 190 130 8010 L(NE(5,31)-(250,41).PSET
Symphony 595 389 PedectWriter111 149 109 0020 LINE(X1,5)-(X1,186),PSET
Framework 550 289 PedectCalc11 149 109 8030 FORK -%1 00505TEP20:PSET(0,01(1):NEXTM
189 PerfectFiler11 149 109 8040 FOR((-%1TOS STEP-20:PSET(4.1101),NEX01
Wordstar 295 050 FORM -Y1 T0186STEP20,PSET(X1-1,M):NEXT11
Wordstar Professional.... 399 259 Knowledgeman 414 299 060 FORM -Y1 TO5 STEP-20PSET(X1-1,(1,NEXTM
Wordstar 2000 465 299 Open Access 550 385 070 RETURN
Sage Bookeeper 295 195 MS Basic Compiler 385 289 000 LABEL AXES PAPA
Sage Accountant 495 339 MSBasicInMrpmter 340 256 020 IFX1(128 TMENX,138ELSEX,15
030 1,1496 iNENY,Y1(3ELSEY,Y1-5
Sage Accountant Pius..,, 695 495 MS Bus. BasicCompeer 450 339 040 I, : PIIRX.: GOSUB16000
Sage Payroll 195 139 MSCobolCompkr 680 510 000 11,1)S6 IMENT,90ELSEP,180
Sage Options 145 105 MS Pascal Compiler 295 220 OSO IFX1(120 TMENXP,1(3 ELSEXP,(1-0
Sage Chit -Chat 130 95 MSMacroAssembler.._150 115 110 PRS.Y0DRAW.A3.,10SUB16000,0RALWAO.
130 RETURN
Psion Xchange 495 355 MSC Compiler 485 365 0000 ((PP PLOT POINTS sPo(
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Supercalc 3 v.2 360 249 MSFonmnCampMn 340 256 0010 FORP.ITON

Pulsar Accts. (1 module) 195 149 NortronUtilitiesv. 30 86 64 0020 ORAW.84.(5106(161.01)/1 ,(SERS(INT(B(B)ll
Multimate v. 3.3 455 325 DR Assembler plus tools 165 135 0030 0006,1201U2021,
Multiplan 190 145 MSFlightSimuMtion 65 51
0040 NEXTM
0050 RETURN
Spotlight 1 3 81 AST Ram Disk + Print 1000 *PPP JOIN POINTS AAA.
'

Crosstalk 161 119 Spooler 34 1010 PORN110(0-1)

1020 LINEIA(2).8011)-00011,8(14.1/),PSET
ASHLEY 1030 NEXT.

A DD
1040 RETURNPs.
COMPUTERS LTD. 2000 DRAB REGRESSION LINE ("(
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2010 LINE(R5,R61-(37../.PSET
42 Harefield Avenue, 2020 RETURN
3000
Cheam, Surrey SM2 7NE SWAP AXES AAP*
3010 FORI,ITON
3020 XCAX(8)

01-661 9240 3030 %MAYO"

3040 3(1)4XC
3050 NEXT,.
3055 002401:011011:10,(XR
3060 RETURN
4000 PPP. REGRESSION 0INEIEMS. *PAP
4010 810064.1:COLOR0.11PCLS:P,I,P,,P.131PR3-REBR SSION ANALYSIS.,GOSUBI600
4020 LINE(5.21)-(102,21/.PSET
4030 PIO:P.155,PRSGrad1811,:GOSUB16000
4040 PA4206:PRSASTRS(A,GOSUB16000,1.4260,PRS-STR6(5A),GOSUB1600010RAW..20,40;

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40S0 P0130411:PRS.Y-I4.0208(.:2050816000
4060 0,350PR,31.23(8):GOSUB16000:PP,113:PR,STRSIS8)1611151.1816000:012.,020,64;
R20402R2L48041(4.

REPAIRS 4070 LINE(3.10)-(105,73,.P521,0LINE(1.12)-(2.75).PSET,B,LINE-(103,74,,PSET,BF

4000 621,1.10)-(105,75).R1.6
4050 RETURN
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S010 GET(131.20)-(235,85).82.6
computers since the introduction of the Z80. 5020 TC40
5030 OR4INKEMIF06().. AN0011(0.6,0000().6TNEN15030
5035 INA,. .T5E615080
Don't waste money on estimates - we repair 5037 TCPTC.1
5040 TMENPUT(131,201-(235,85),R1,PSET
Sinclair computers at price quoted (inclusive 5050 IFTC2 TMENPUT(131,20)-(235,851.R2,PSET
5070 1FTC2 13E015020 ELSE15030
parts, labour, postage, VAT, irrespective of 5000 RETURN
6000 MIRES TEgT ROUTINE (Ps.
fault. No hidden charges.
.

6010 IFPI, TMEN16040

6020 X,INT((PA/51-INT(PA/511,51..5,5
Repairs guaranteed for 3 months. 6030 YP-1NTIPA/51,6
6040 DRAS-11M,SIRSCINTOIP11.-,-.51R6(INTIYP.
6050 FORT -1 TOLENCPRSI
Spectrum £18.75 inc parts 6060 IFPRS.--TRENDRAWPRIIIASC(MIDSCPRS,MM,111-321
6070 NEXTMM
ZX81 £11.50 inc parts 6080 RETURN
6500 DATA C5D7RU7R07RU7RD7U7.03.6.1.3.2RU2EFM5.3.021211.21.43.021.212
16 KRam £9.95 inc parts 1.41053.2.520.48R2
6510 DATA 000.2.1190511.2511S3R1D6R.4.63..061.3.63.2.02.1.3.631..9.
Microdrive £15.95 inc parts .4.6
6520 DATA 011.021.2.150.2.1.2.,..1.1_92115E439DEBR.219.4,90.3.2.3,9069
Interface 1-11 £18.75 inc parts URI)...
6530 DATA SOSE311623.114FREU4.9.3.01RD5122.6.339DERF.39.0116.239DERFDGFOG
also 1805085
6540 DATA 15.63.0.6.2,005FREU2912U2R3.2,803.F.1.3.0.365.11.202BRFEW63
BBC £22.00 + parts 90FOOFREUMEUM1.4
6550 DATA .2.3LMUERF0302.41.63.0.205R4BUS..090299.5.6,B.G3F3.2.5.9112
Electron £19.95 + parts 3.213.4.5
5560 DATA F393.581163BDERF90.921109..6,8DERF0491911ERBE3,......3.2.4313
XK Memory Expansion Kit £15.95 R.41112.5
.70 DATA .2.1.4.8.1.6399.31.4...2,..3021.0.3.2.6,130.3.1.2ER
Computer Retailers please phone for Special 9.33.6..U.362R3.2.4
6550 DATA 06U4.194.21.63.90119204.4.6,9.00.2041.4.63136112.202,20.1. 63
63.R
Trade Price 06.4.6
6550 DATA .204U3R3D3U4SE2,5196U4R2F93.2.63203112FREu2.1.2.43.6U4R3D2121914.
,903ER2D4U212.4
Call or send with cheque or P.O. .00 DATA 806U4R2.31.23.6R.21.2.811.2231.06U41221..4,1113293FREU31.29.3.
02FDRUF11291125.
T.V. Services of Cambridge Ltd. 6610 DATA BO2D4U.1.41.2.23.2.92.3.2E.2.2,0020.92R.FUSUFBR2,902.99.3
52.6.13.0u13:33".
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French's Road,Cambridge CB4 3NP 6.0 DATA IMIRLD603..30.4MU.3,11.2EUMLREUXLSR4.191DYFRE 2314.13R4,13.2FO4.2XU69.
5R35110L3u3.12113R3SR2
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ODSPREUSBR2
V6513 DATA 06.3112.02002,06R38220/6336(15R305U6.2.06USR0.6020FU6202,06R3USL3BR

R2D6U61716660 DATA D6U3S3U313B.,51703FRFSU2U3MLOR4,1316883121.1REUNL2OR5,605FREUXLMUERFIIR3,

.2
16670 DATA 05FREU55.304FORLIEU413122,13611.1.68.3070290.3U10210882.132FR0.3.2.2
,R3060392.3.21.6
17000 141.5 INPUT ROUTINE
PAPERMAC COMPUTER LIBRARY 17010 IPPI, 1110117040
17020 X,143,(PA/51-INT(PA/511/.51.0.51,

SOFTWARE
17030 TM116T(PA/51)11
17035 INS4
17040 IIRAWl2P,STRS(XP)..4STRI(NT)
17050 21161(210:IPP14010117050
17055 ,ASC(211):1F,13 01E417200

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170E0 IF,S6 OR 2,8 OR I0122 OR (F)II .0 P(323 36E617050
17070 INS-INS.P.IFP-111 /*ARAN< 1ns,, 3116617035
17000 IFP, TMENORABCSLE7LU7LEPLU7L07U7C0:1611,211.8,110,LEN(1511-21: ELS2ORANPR
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17090 80T017050

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17200 IFUT41 TMEN17500
17210 .051,0
17220 INVAL, I.): 1,14(10 050117500
17230 FORT -1 TOLEN(1101:1,101(145, rm.1)--o-oR11ncl. min, 1,-- . -111.101,1011:1YEI
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17240 IFLEPTIRINS.11.-.111E0(8,02.1
17e550 in11.83,EHCINIIMEN17500
17260 DRAWYBM-x5IRSIX..,-.STRISIY.
7270 FORMM-ITMENCINS..
I:DRARPRSIO,NEXTMM
17030 GOT017035
17500 RETURN
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.

15010 PrIODE4,1:PC1_55:0110110,53FLOPYST01:11NEI231561,255311361,P5ET,B:LINEIO,150.

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18040 P.1074:PRIW.X4:BOSUB IMOD: PA -1076 UT -0: D0.917000: 00 -IN
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19060 D07016050
0 12070 PAY1074:PRSY-Y--:5051.1516000:P01.107060SUB17000:10- IN
* How to submit your programs 18000 X1)(10-6)/A:PAP1036:142X5STRS(X0):003(11311000
18030 PA411601,211--Mor ?":00.816000
* How to safeguard your copyright 18100 In. I NI(EVII:IFASP.,16618100
18110 IFAIWIe0.11,TMENPCOPVITC18:62,0113140
18120 182871'.02/22- -6 .12217PC 0,217. P02016020
10130 RETURN
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Published on 29 August, price £6.95 10140
19140
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0 333 38882 8 19010
9020 PM..
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19050 FORM-1TON: PRINTS -1 , WU ,Y0.1/ : NEXTM
Papermac 19060 CLOSES -1
19070 RETURN
4 Little Essex Street 20000 *Yoe LOAD FROM TAPE .AAA
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Tel: 01-836 6633
PAP 20010 PA0641,1m0IPRI-STRIN050233321:0135.16000
20020 PRS-. FlIsname -:10.1116000:VT-1:PA-1.1:005U017000:FS-INS
20030 OPEN-1-3E-1,FS

252 PCW OCTOBER 1985

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20060 INPUTS -1,XINT,TINI.ITNOTEOF1 -11TMEN200S0
20010 CLOSES -1

21000, ;.:*** LIST CURRENT DATA

20020 RETURN

COMPUTER
21010 PM00C4,1:COLORO,S,PCLS:SCREEN1,1

REPAIRS
21020 LINE12,01-I2SS,1291,PSET,S,LINE(0,2)-12,1SII,PSET,111,LINE-(253,16611,PSET,I1
P
21030 211:X0.E1:11.5:2R111001RENT DATA.,130SU0113000:LINE(95,13)-1160,131,2SET:11 ei
NM 12B , 21 X- f 120.1721, PSET
21010 PA104:21.:PRIW.X-1.1ALINES V-UALUEST:13090113000
21050 MRS.. T0113
21000 XN.S.I
21070 Pas-- x(..ltuarrscsresol,,LIEWSTRSIM31-11.,:PRRRIEINTS(PRS,LEN<PRII)-LE
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N<STR11011 /.2 )4STRII( X< A) ) , Pit. IS.3,511 : SOSUSI6000 Spectrum - £10.50, QL - £30, 1541 Disk
21000 PRY.. V(..RIGNTSCSTRS011,LEN(STRS<I1/)-11..,..:PRS..R11311TS<PRS,LEN<PR11,-LEN
CSTRe(lt)).21STR11(1(1)):2A,ST3/.5127:081016000 Drives - £20, and all Commodore systems.
210130 IAN. TNEN21120
21100 NEXIS,11.1S:1.*11313:2RY,Speceber, For mor.:130SU61S000
Send faulty machine with note describing fault to:
21110 IFINICETY. .TNEN21010ELSE21110
21120 2..1133:2RS..<Speceber, to return to senu.:0133.16000
21130 IFINKET.X. .0110121130
211. RETURN
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22005 IFN100 TIlEN22070
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22010 MOD., 1 : PCL55 : COLOR° , 5: PC01.101, L I NE I 2 . 156)-(255,155) , PSET .13, LIMO:1,1.1
-(2,1130),PSET,OF:1101-(253.106),PSET.DF:P1-0:PA,022:PRY.111X1 EXTRA Digt,:131861
6000: MODE,. 5 : 2031,11133: COLORO, 5
22020 We., PRY.X...:1.11A107.1:130511515000: VT., PA1075 :13051.1017000, X< hl, IN, PRY,...
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22040 Ae,NCETS: IFAS....TIIEN22010
22050 IFA,.T.ORAIN....TNESPCOPTIT00,130T022020 37 LINDEN HOUSE
22050 PCDPVITON
22070 RETURN
23030 DELETE DATA
23005 1FN3 TREN23010
COMMON ROAD
23020 FRS
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23010 PA,341:P0:21S-STRINNS(23.32):13135111315000
No . 7: 2811315000, UT.: PA.53:005:111117000
23030 FOR111N T0(N-11:X<II)X(11.1):NEXTA:NY1-1
411/
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23040 RETURN
24000 HAN. DATA <A...
2.1010 PlIODE`1,1:2C155,2COPTEIT01:13111.0,5:LINE(2,155),2SS,11361,2SET,ITLIPECO,1503
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.:60SUI3113000:20013MS:COLORO,5
24020 PCOPTYTOEI
24030 UT:2A,015:13051017000:9,INT, Ito
24040 IFSN<1 ORSON DIEN2.10515
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PCW is interested in programs written in any of the
major programming languages for all home and small
business micros. When submitting programs please
Single board computer.
include a cassette or disk version of your program,
.01.

12k RAM and 8k ROM

(expandable).
brief but comprehensive documentation, and a listing * All c -NOS for lower power. FORTH
language. Compiled and fast.
on plain white paper-typed if you have no printer. On -board screen -editor, compiler
and debug facilities.
* Easy connection with serial
Please ensure that the software itself, the and parallel channels, A/D, D/A
converters, triacs, printers,
documentation and the listing are all marked with your keyboards and displays.

name, address, program title, machine (alone with any

minimum requirements) and if possible -a daytime , 5.Services)4 Limited;:

phone number.
Check through the previous Program Files to see the 1F
kind of programs we prefer. As a rough guide, original
ideas are always welcome, as are good
implementations of utilities and applications. WHY PAY MORE??
FERRANTI ADVANCE 860
Obviously the programs should be well -written, easy to IBM PC compatible micro with: integrated
understand, and preferably not too long (remember Spreadsheet,
BASIC A.
Wordprocessor, and Database and
Used by many organisations including
that other readers have to type them in). British Steel and British Rail.
ONLY £1205
All programs should be fully debugged and your own including monitor and box of disks andoaper.
Ferranti 860 XT, as above but with 10 megabyte hard
original, unpublished work. disk
£2045
We prefer to receive programs with a maximum COMPLETE BUSINESS SYSTEM
80 -column width printed in emphasised typeface. Ferranti 860 Micro, Printer and Monitor. SAGE
Accounts Software. Integrated Spreadsheet,
We will try to return submissions if they are Wordprocessor, & Database and BASIC A. Box of
Disks and Paper.
accompanied by a stamped addressed envelope of the ONLY £1595
Advance 86B still available for limited period from:
appropriate size, but please keep a copy of everything. £900
Star SG 10 £359 inc VAT
Programs are paid for at the rate of £50 per page of Star SG 15 £389 inc VAT
published listing, plus a £50 bonus for the Program of Other software at very competitive prices.

Leicester Computer Systems

the Month. Send your contributions to Owen 26 Brookfield Way, Kibworth
Linderholm, Program File,PCW, 32-34 Broadwick Leicester LE8 OSA

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of data files. Einstein
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GUARANTEE A SWIFT & There are certain tasks - such as mail merge, monthly
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flowcharts. 3-D contours etc. Here's what you get: This may turn your basic programs into
4 Additional BASIC commands - which can be machine code, allowing them to run up to
MICA BONNIER AIDED DEW 4 safely mixed with existing BASIC keywords. 20 times faster!
Comprehensive flexible CAD software for your Invoke BASIC PROCs from function keys or by
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MICAD- easy to use, low cost educational software V Run up to 8 independent countdown timers. INCLUDES FULL GRAPHICS, STRING
demonstrating the most important principles of The SPIDER is a powerful combination of RAM AND FILE HANDLING.
computer aided design. £29.95+ VAT and ROM mounted on a butterfly board
it leaves the Beeb's memory intact. £26.95 CASSETTE
RR DIGITAL TRACER 0. It's easy to install with no soldering required - £28.95 DISK
Produce illustrations on your computer simply and and a comprehensive manual is supplied.
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Simply run the tracer head over anything you want Control Applications
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MICROMART MICROMART MICROMART
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Up to 400 disks packed with FREE software available We at THETFORD MICROS have just put
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specialise in repairs on the Spectrum IBM COMPATIBLE
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31 megabyte Winchester (IBM AT)
A better way to buy or sell used computer
MEMORY 25 megabyte tape streamer from £845.00
All Ws include cables and instruction manuals
UNCASED HARD DISKS equipment.
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16K £56 130 watt PSU for IBM pc £145.00 including, Apricot, IBM, DEC, Epson, Apple
WD 1002/SWX controller card £245.00
32K £65 Dual 51/2" floppy disk £280.00 and the BBC.
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128K £115 Full 31/2" 5/5 disks box of ten £26.00 modest 10% of the selling price. If you are
Maxwell 51/4" s/s 96110 £23.00
256K £149 Maxwell 51A4 d/s 960 £26.00 looking for a particular type of machine that is
Save time and money by freeing your 51/4" drive cleaning kit
31/2" drive cleaning kit
£15.50
£19.50 not currently on offer we will include you on our
computer of the burden of a slow printer. MONITORS
£99.95 lists at no charge. Send s.a.e. for current list.
All prices include VAT & P&P (please Kap/Taxan monochrome
KagafFaxan RGB from £220.00
specify printer type when ordering). IBM monochrome £130.00 5A THE BALCONY, QUEENS ARCADE
IBM RGB £350.00 LEEDS LS1 6LF
P.C.M.L. Ltd PRINTERS AND LEADS ALSO AVAILABLE
PRICES INCLUDES CARRIAGE AND VAT Or ask for John White on 0532 435583
ROYAL MILLS, ESHER, SURREY NEW GENERATION COMPUTERS Callers at our shop premises in Leeds City Centre
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OCTOBER 1985 PCW 255
 BACK ISSUE SERVICE Here is a guide to PCW back issues. Machine reviews are indexed by
manufacturer, software and peripherals by product name.
Camputers Lynx March83 Financial Director Financial June83
Coleco Adam April82 Director

MACHINES Commodore
Commodore
Commodore
64
128
Plus/4
May 83
July85
Oct84
HomeAccounts
Microtax
Sage 400
Diamondsoft
Tax Planning
Sage
Jan84
July83
Oct 83
Commodore Vic 20 Sept81 Communications
MANUFACTURER MACHINE ISSUE Dragon Data Dragon 32 Aug 82 Datatalk Datasoft Jan85
Desk -top Eaca International Colour Genie June83 Perfect Link Perfect July84
Acorn ABC 310 April85 Enterprise Enterprise Nov84 Software
ACT Apricot Oct 83 IBM PCJunior March84 Vicom AM Technology Sept85
ACT Apricot F1 Oct 84 Jupiter Cantab Ace Jan83 Database
ACT Apricot F10 Sept85 Mattel Aquarius Nov83 1982 Database Various Dec82
Advance 86 July84 Memotech Memotech RS Oct84 Round -up
Apple Apple Ill May82 128 1983 Database Various Dec83
Apple Lisa July83 Multitech Micro-Profes- Sept83 Round -up
Apple Macintosh March84 sor II 1984 Database Various Jan84
Atari 520ST June85 Oric Products Atmos May84 Round -up
British Micro Mimi 801 July82 Oric Products Oric I April83 Aquila Kent Barlow Sept82
C/WP Cortex Dec84 Sharp MZ-700 Feb84 Assocs
Canon AS -100 Dec83 Sharp MZ-80A June82 Aspect Microft Oct 84
Canon CH -1 Nov82 Sinclair QL June84 Technology
Casio fx-9000p Feb82 Sinclair ZX 81 June81 Beta Ormskirk Aug 83
Casio fx-900p Feb83 Sinclair ZH Spectrum June82 Computers
Commodore 715 Jan84 Sony HB-75 Sept84 Busifile European Jan84
Commodore Amiga Aug 85 Sord M5 Aug83 Information
Commodore PC10 May85 Spectravideo SV-318 & SV- March84 Busipost Busipost Feb83
Compudata Tulipsystem 1 Oct 83 328 Cardbox Caxton Aug 82
Corvus Concept March83 Tandy MC10 Nov83 Software
Digital Equipment Rainbow 100 Nov82 Tatung Einstein Aug84 Complete Manager Pipeline March85
Epson QH-16 July85 Texas Instruments TI 99/4A March82 software
Epson QH-10 July83 Tradecom Newbrain RD July82 Condor Database CondorCorp Nov82
Ferranti Argus PPC Nov83 Lap -held Dataflex Equinox Aug85
Future FH2O Oct 83 Data General Data General Dec84 Dataplan Personal Aug83
Hewlett-Packard HP -150 May84 One Software
Hewlett-Packard HP86 Oct 82 Epson PX-8 June84 Dataprism Bonsai March83
Hewlett-Packard HP -125 March82 Epson HX-20 Dec82 Dbase II Ashton Tate May82
Hitachi MB16001 June83 Gavilan Gavilan MC Feb84 Dbase III Ashton Tate Nov84
IBM 9000 March83 Grid Compass June84 DBMS 2 GW June82
Instrumenta- Hewlett-Packard HP -110 July84 Computers
tion NEC PC -8201A Dec83 Delta Compsoft Oct 83
IBM PC Nov81 Sharp PC5000 May84 Everyman Vector Feb84
ICL OPD Dec 84 Talbot Computers Dialtex-4 Feb85 International
LSI M -Four Apri183 Tandy Mode1100 Aug83 File (Macintosh) Microsoft July85
MAD MAD 1 Sept84 Texaslnstruments ProLite May85 Files & Folders ACTPu Isar Dec84
Monroe OC 8820 April82 Thorn EMI Liberator Sept85 Filevision Telos Dec84
NCR Decision Aug 83 Luggable Software
MateV ACT Apricot Nov84 Friday! Ashton Tate July84
NEC APC Sept83 Portable Information BPI April84
Olivetti M20 Sept82 Apple I lc Aug 84 Management
Olivetti M24 Sept84 Ericsson Portable Sept85 Infostar MicroPro Sept83
Research Machines Nimbus April85 Gulfstream Hyperion Oct 83 Knowledgeman Data Base Feb85
Sage Sage II Feb83 Hewlett-Packard Integral PC June85 Experts
Sanyo 550-2 Jan85 Jonos Jonos April84 Omnis Blyth July83
Sharp MZ-5600 Nov84 Morrow Pivot Two Sept85 Computers
Sharp MZ-800 Feb85 Osborne Encore Aug84 Optimum Uveon Nov83
SMT Goupil-3 Dec83 Osborne Executive July83 Pearl Pearl Software Oct 82
Sony SMC-70 Aug 82 Quadram Datavue Sept85 Perfect II Thorn EMI May 85
Sord Exleigh Expert Aug 82 Semi -Tech Pied Piper Sept83 Personal Database Supersoft March84
Texaslnstruments Professional May 83 Visual! Commuter May85 Power Base Accent April85
Torch Computers Torch Jan83 Wren Computer Wren April84 Computers
Victor Sirius 1 Feb82 Zenith Zenith 171 Sept85 Rescue MBS April83
Xerox 820 Jan82 Multi-user Retrieve II Derwent Jan85
Hand-held Ashton Technology Crystal July84 Datasysems
Canon H-07 March84 Compaq Deskpro 286 Aug85 RMS Dragon Data June84
Casio 602p May 82 Fortune Fortune 32:16 Aug83 Search & Find Hitan Systems Dec83
Casio Fx-820p March 85 IBM PCAT Dec84 Secect Bonsai Sept82
Casio PB-100 May83 Kaypro 286i Aug85 Sensible Solution O'Hanlon Sept84
Hewlett-Packard 15C& 16C Sept82 North Star Dimension March85 Systems
Hewlett-Packard HP -75C Nov82 Computers Silicon Office Bristol July82
Microwriter Microwriter Sept82 TDI Pinnacle Jan85 Software
Sharp PC -1350 March85 Superfile Southdata Jan83
Sharp PC1251 Feb 83 Sycero System C July85
Sharp PC1500 June82 TIM IV Paradigm Sept85
Texaslnstruments TI -59 Jan83 Tomorrow's Office Stage One June83
Texax Instruments TI -88
Home
Acorn BBC Micro
July82

Jan82
SOFTWARE Desk organiser
QED +
Software

Quantec March85
Acorn Electron Oct 83 PROGRAM SUPPLIER ISSUE Sidekick Borland March85
Amstrad 464 May84 Accountancy Spotlight Software Arts March85
Amstrad Amstrad 6128 Sept 85 Accountancy Various June83 Entertainment
Atari 400/800 Oct 80 Round -up Hitch -Hiker's Guide Infocom Jan85
256 PCW OCTOBER 1985.
 Music Master Supersoft Jan85 1984 Spreadsheet Various Dec84 Homelink NBS March84
MusicTypewriter Romantic Jan85 Round -up Knowledge Index Dialog Sept85
Robot Dynacalc Dragon Data June84 Portman modem Interlekt Oct84
Musicalc Paradox Jan85 Ecalc Epson July83 Teletext adapter Vector April84
Group Fcalc Sord Jan84 Marketing
Expert system Financial Planner Ashton Tate Dec83 WSS2000 modem Minor May84
ES/PAdvisor Expert Sept84 Masterplanner Comshare April84 Miracles
Systems Mathemagic ISM Aug83 Expansion
ExpertEase Expert June84 Micro FCS EPS Oct83 Graduate Torch June85
Software Consultants McMill 68008 card Stellation Two July85
Integrated system Multiplan Microsoft April83 Graphics
Appleworks Apple July84 Peachcalc Peachtree March84 BitStick Robocom Nov82
Framework Ashton Tate Aug84 Perfect Calc Perfect Oct83 Koala Pad Audiogenic Jan85
Jane Arktronics July84 Software Penpad Kode Oct84
Jazz Microsoft Aug85 Perfectll Thorn EMI May85 Stack lig htpen Stack March84
Open Access SPI June84 Plannercalc Comshare May83 Mass storage
Smart Innovative Sept84 Planstar MicroPro July84 AMS drive AMS Jan84
Software Prophet!! Busi- March83 Discovery 1 Opus Supplies May85
Symphony Lotus Aug84 computers Hobbit Ikon Jan84
Hchange Psion Oct84 The Spreadsheet Micro! Sept83 Microdrive Sinclair Oct83
Viewsheet Acorn Jan85 TCCR530 Tandberg July84
Language Visicalc Visicorp June 83 Miscellaneous
Basic (M acintosh) Apple Feb85 Vu-Calc Psion Sept83 Music 500 Acorn May85
Basic 2 (Macintosh) Microsoft May85 Utility Omni -Reader Oberon May85
BCPL (BBC) Acornsoft June85 E40 Keel Codes Sept82 RGBtelevisions Various March85
BCPL(QL) Metacomco June85 PCAutomator Direct July85 Telesketch Gamma June85
C (Spectrum) Hi Soft Nov84 Technology The Ferret GCS June84
Lisp (QL) Metacomco Feb85 Word processor Printer/plotter
Logo(BBC) Acornsoft Feb85 Homeword Sierra On -Line Feb84 Alphacom 81 Alphacom Sept84
Logo(BBC) Logotron Feb85 HP41CText Editor Hesselberg Nov82 EP44 Brother April84
Logo(BBC) Open Feb85 Lisawrite Apple Aug83 Epson FX-80 July83
University Micropen Intelligence May83 HR -5 Brother Sept84
Logo (Spectrum) Sinclair Oct84 Ireland Juki 6100 Micro Dec84
Modula 2 (PC) Volition Feb85 Microscript Intelligence May85 Peripherals
Systems Ireland MT160L Mannesmann Aug83
Pascal (Amstrad) Amsoft Feb85 Paperback Writer Paperback Aug85 Tally
Pascal (QL) ComputerOne Feb85 Software Penman Penman Feb85
Pascal, ISO (BBC) Acornsoft Feb85 Perfectll Thorn EMI May85 TC6000 Brother April85
Pascal, ISO (QL) Metacomco July85 QXText QX Software July84 Speech
Pascal, Turbo (PC) Borland April85 Samna + Thorn EMI July85 Acorn speech Acorn Jan84
Miscellaneous Scred Stable Aug83 system
Brainstorm Caxton Feb84 Software Adman synthesiser Adman Jan84
Software Scripsit 2 Tandy Feb82 Amstrad SSA -1 Amstrad Sept85
Codewriter Codewriter April85 Spellbinder Lexisoft Aug 81 BBCSpeech Chips Acorn April83
Entrepreneur Tryptych March85 View Acornsoft Aug83 Chatterbox WSS Jan84
Micro Cat Software Dec84 Word (IBM PC) Microsoft June84 Microspeech Currah Jan84
Connection Word (Macintosh) Microsoft June85 TI Speech Texas Nov84
TK! Solver Softwa re Arts Feb84 Word Handler!! March83 Command Instruments
Operating environment Wordspell Griffin March84 Voicedrive Supersoft Aug84
Desq Quarterdeck Dec83 Software Votan VPC 2000 Voice Input May85
GEM Digital Feb85 Wordstar 2000 MicroPro Feb85 Vision
Research Workwriter Data Nov84 Microsight 1 Digithurst Oct83
Top View IBM Aug85 Applications Snap Micro Nov84
Visi-On Visicorp Nov83 Robotics
Visual! Trillian Jan84
Windows Microsoft Aug85 Personal Computer World Specials: 1984
Operating system Microcomputer Benchtest Special: (£2.40
CP/M-86 Digital Oct82
- 20 leading micros reviewed by
PERIPHERALSSincp&p)

Research
MS-DOS Microsoft Oct82 the PCW team. Desktop Computing: (£2.25
MS-DOSversion 2 Microsoft May83 PERIPHERAL SUPPLIER ISSUE inc p&p) - comprehensive guide to using
Revelation Cosmos Inc April84 Communications micros in your business. Binders: (£3.95
Spreadsheet Buzzbox modem DaCom Jan84 each inc p&p) - keep your copies in order
1-2-3 Lotus Nov83 Compunet Compunet Dec84 with these strong, attractive yellow bin -
1983 Spreadsheet Various Dec83 Demon modem Demon July85 ders.
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Financial Planning, Training, Education. Enhancement Boards.

We take most major credit cards.

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 More Computer for Your Calculating Pound
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POLYPRINT from Silicon City £44.95
DE
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£14.40
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£12.40
DOUBLE DENS/S.S
PRINT -SP for Spectrum DOUBLE DENS/D.S 745 £19.60 £18.20 £16.90
Low cost Centr. IJF with CABLE. S'ware on tape £31.25 QUAD DENS/S.S 746 £22.00 £20.50 £19.00
QUAD DENS/D.S 747 £25.50 £23.80 £22.00
EPROM PROGRAMMERS
BB -PROM for the BBC. With fast pgm'g, Z1F skt, Vpp generator At a'ware 51/4 " TDK SPECIALIST DISTRIBUTOR
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DOUBLE DENS/S.S £14.50 £13.50 £12.50
Q -PROM for the QL. A powerful programmer with Fast and Smart pgm'g DOUBLE DENS/D.S M2D-S £20.60 £19.20 £17.80
s ware in firmware. For 2764/128 & 'A types, usable in ROM cartridge for QUAD DENS/S.S M1DX-S £21.20 £19.70 £18.30
your own utilities etc. CHECK, READ, CRC, BLOW & VERIFY part or all QUAD DENS/D.S M2DX-S £25.10 £23.40 £21.60
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Ingenious unit for Spectrum, with 2x28 pin sockets and a Reset button allows up Apricot FIE £644 PRINTERS
to 16K of Basic or M/C program to RUN or LOAD instantly from EPROMS. Apricot Fl £918 Canon PW1080 £289
Cabled connector and full extender card. NOTE: Does not disable Sinclair CI) Apricot PC (2 x 315K disk) £1493 Shinwa PbA
ROM. £29.95 m Apricot PC (2 x 720K disk) £1679 Epson LX80 £269.95
2764's at £5.50, 27128's at £8.50 x VAT
Apricot other £POA Juki 6100 £389.00
PROMER-SP for Spectrum Advance 86b 256K £675 + VAT Brother HR15
An economical Spectrum programmer for 2764/128. Zero insertion force £385.00
socket & software on tape £29.95 Ferranti 860 Promotional Price Brother HR10 Call
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PROMER 81-S Panasonic £319.95
The very popular ZX81 programmer for 2761/32 EPROMs has been adapted BBC Range POA Smith Corona (Fastext 80) £165.00
to the Spectrum and the price is kept low £24.95 Amstrad 6128 Green £298 Brother EP44 £234.95
DHOBI 1 Amstrad 6128 Colour £398 Brother M1009 (Gent + RS232)
UV ERASER £195.95
Compact. Mains powered. Safe. Fully cased. Up to 3 EPROMS £18.95 Sanyo 555 £799 + VAT Full Star Range of Printers POA
Olivetti M21 Call Seikosha GP505 (Spectrum)
DHOBI 2 With automatic timer £22.95 £89.95
Olivetti M24 Call Seikosha GP50A £115.00
Only with a Camel Programmer & while stocks last
* YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT! THIS MONTH'S BARGAINS
Computer Furniture
NEW 2764 or 27128 £2.99 each Advance 866 (256K, Perfect Software. 1year's
Hugo, Opus, Shincrest
CRAMIC-SP NEW for Spectrum maintenance) £675 + VAT
Ingenious software paged 16K non-volatile CMOS RAM to coexist in the same Amstrad 464 Green £198 Disk Drives
area as Spectrum ROM. Easy storage and retrieval of BASIC, M/C or DATA Amstrad 464 Colour £298 Opus, Pace. Cumana also Quest Winchesters
on a 48K Spectrum 189.95
Amstrad 664 Green £298 Computer repairs available
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 HARD DRIVES
Upgrade your IBM PC or compatible to exceed XT specs!
Prices include installation & testing at your premises and
one year maintenance (certain limitations apply, call for
details). Older IBM PCs require power supply upgrade;
heavily loaded new machines may also.
10 megabyte upgrade £799
20 megabyte (recommended) £999
130 watt power supply £125

Using our DIY memory upgrade kits to expand memory

C TOOLS
can result in HUGE savings. Installation instructions plus 9 Newest versions, for MSDOS/PCDOS 16 -bit machines
dynamic RAM chips per kit. Lattice C £325
64K RAM for IBM PC and Desmet C88 £145
compatible £12.95 Computer Innovations C86 £269
128K RAM "piggyback chips" Microsoft C £325
for PC/AT* £59.95 Wizard C £345
256K RAM for Compaq Deskpro, RUN/C £99
Olivetti M24, etc. £49.95 Lattice Cfood Smorgasbord £120
Gnostic General Functions DOS/B105 interface,
string functions, screen, graphics, etc;

Turbo Pascal v3.0

TURBO! £45
source, no royalties
Greenleaf Communications library, source
£99
£155
Greenleaf General Functions 200 + routines,
Turbo Toolbox £45 ASM C source £155
Turbo Tutor £29 Lattice Cfood Smorgasbord £119
Graphics Toolbox £45 Lattice dBC c -to -dBASE II or Ill
Turbo Pascal with 8087 (specify) interface package £195
support £89 Softfocus Btree source £69
Sidekick (protected) £39 Softfocus ISAM runs above B tree, source £39
Sidekick (unprotected) £59 C -to -dBASE interface, source £119
Superkey £59

ISALEISALEISALE!
SOFTWARE for IBM or compatible Soft style Set FX+ £25
ATI How to Use Your IBM PC £25
Software Publishing pfs : Graph £35
Borland Turbo Pascal (v2.0) £29 pfs : Proof £35
Decision Research Chartmaster £145
Digital Research PL/1 £295
HARDWARE t, IBM or compatible
Enertronics Energraphics £195
Tandon TM 100-2A floppy drives,
Fox & Geller dGraph 360K DSDD £95
£95
Quick code II £125
Sigma Design floppy controllers
Harvard Project Manager £195 (up to 4 drives) £75
Human Edge Sales Edge £99
Orchid Technology PC net starter
kit* £295
Leading Edge Nutshell £95
Word Processor with Sigma Design 20 MB drive
Merge £95
(ex demo unit), installation,
one year maint. £699
MDBS Knowledgeman 1.06 £195
Kgraph 1.06 £25 SOFTWARE for other machines
Kpaint 1.06 £25 Lotus 1 2 3 (WANG) £195
Microsoft Business BASIC Software Publishing pfs : File &
Compiler £195 Report (MACINTOSH) £95
Multiplan £95 Digital Research CBASIC
Pascal Compiler £145 compiler (CP'M 8") £195
Northwest Analytical Statpak £195 Microsoft Multiplan (CP M 8") £85
Rosesoft Prokey 3.0 £45 Samna Word II*
Samna Word III £295 (DEC Rainbow) £145
These items were obtained from liquidation; in some cases a more recent version exists (get update from manufacturer). This
offer is unrepeatable at these prices, and is limited to stock on hand.

Add £1 P&P, then 15% VAT to total. Offer subject to availability and prior sale; prices may be changed without notice.
Orders shipped within 2 working days, except starred (*) items may take 2 weeks. Callers by appointment only. We
accept official orders. Send cheque'p.o. to
Bristol Micro Traders
12a Baldwin Street, Bristol BSI I RZ
Bristol (0272) 292966 Extension 100
London (01) 935 1118
A division of Memory Merchants, Ltd., Reg. No. 1840900, reg. office 35, Brock Street, Bath BA1 2LN.
OCTOBER 1985 PCW 261
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modem serial interface plus software FULL

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I enclose cheque/postal order Stirling Microsystems are London's Apple Macintosh specialists.
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THE BUSINESS COMPUTER STORE
Atari Support 1, Miracle Technology (UK) Ltd,
St Peters Street, Ipswich IP1 1XB. 231 BAKER STREET, LONDON NW1 6XE
Tel (0473) 216141
reg'd trade marks of the companies concerned 60171CHIMOGY TELEPHONE: 01-935 5262
OPEN MONDAY -FRIDAY 9.30 AM-6.00PM
disk drive £229 (£230) £260. Atari data recorder £34
ORIC AND SINCLAIR (037) £47. Atari disk drive £172 (£1711 £191. Atari
1020 printer £93 (£99) £115. Enterprise 64 computer
COMPUTERS
AL-TUKHAIM PA
NELO:TXXEM"
ARE
£172 (0170) £190. Enterprise 128 £233 (£229) £249.
Goldstar MSX £138 (0138) £158.

ACORN COMPUTERS
prMicro Computer Centre Acorn Electron £119 (£119) £139. New 64K BBC
Model B Plus with double density disk interlace £457
(0441) £471. BBC Model B £345 (0333) £373. Acorn
MCP40 Oric printer/plotter £109 (£110) £122. Sinclair disk i/f + DNFS £97 (£95) £100. See below for
MINERVA HOUSE, SPANIEL ROW, NOTTINGHAM NG1 6EP. pocket TV £97 (£95)Sinclair QL Computer suitable disk drives. Colour monitor £188 (0228)
£374 (£365) £386. OL Floppy disk interface £107
Tel: (0602) 410502. Telex 37369 (£103) £109. 3.5" disk drive to suit this interlace £177
£268.
(0176) £196. Sinclair Spectrum Plus Computer 48K
MIDDLE EAST AGENTS:
(T.M.C. Ibn Khaldon Street, PO Box 43265, Hawaii', Kuwait. Telex: 30282 TMC KT)
£123 (£127) £147. Original 48K Sinclair Spectrum
£89 (£95) £116. Kit to upgrade the Spectrum to
CUMANA DISK
(Rahhal Electronic Establishment, Amman Street, Sueleh, Amman) Spectrum Plus £30 (0301 £40. Microdrive £49 (0501
£60. RS232 interface 1 £49 (0501 £60. Special offer:
DRIVES
Microdrive + Interface 1 f 4 cartridges £97 (£99) To suit disk interfaces of Sinclair Spectrum and BBC
We are specialists in various aspects of the Micro -Computer Industry for £107. Blank microdrive cartridges £2.50 (03) £4. B. Single: 40 track single sided £117 (£120) £150, 40
Spectrum floppy disk interlace (See Cumana disk tr double sided £149 (£149) £179, 80 tr ds £166
Business, Education and Home Users. We can provide Hardware, Software, section for suitable disk drives) £97 (£89) £99. (£166) £196. Dual: 40 tr ss £209 (£211) £251, 40 tr ds
Peripherals, Interfaces, Accessories. Computer spares, Computer Furniture, Interface 2 £20.45 (£20) £24. 32K memory upgrade £285 (£283) £323, 80 tr ds £307 (£304) £344.
kit for 16K Spectrum (issue 2 and 3 only) £31 (£28)
Personal Robotics and Books, in fact you need look no further, we can fulfil
your every Computer need.
£30. Spectrum Centronics printer interlace £46 (£42)
£47. ZX printer has been replaced by the Alphacom PRINTERS
32 £61 (£59) £72. ZX81 computer £29 (£29) £39.
We are specialists in the Exporting of all the above into various Middle East
countries. COMMODORE
The Products we support are:
COMPUTERS
Commodore 128 £269 (£249) £279. Commodore 64
COMPUTERS: Ericsson, Octopus, Wren, Amstrad, MSX Goldstar, Oric, £161 (£159) £189. Commodore 64 recorder+
software £187 (£213) £243. Convertor to allow most
BBC, Commodore 64 ordinary mono cassette recorders to be used with the New Epson 1X80 £249 (£249) £282. Tractor for LX80
PRINTERS: Vic 20 and the Commodore 64 £9.78 (09) £11. £25 (£33) £53. Brother HR5 £148 (0152) £184.
Brother Range, Epson Range Commodore cassette recorder £43 (£44) £50. Cen- Brother M1009 £201 (0203) £234. Shinwa CTI
MONITORS: Microvitec Range, Fidelity Range tronics printer interface for Vic 20 and the Commo- CPA80 £218 (£222) £258. Cannon PW1080A £309
dore 64 £45 (£41) £46. Disk drive £191 (0186) £217. (0306) £356. Brother EP22 £125 (£114) £134.
SOFTWARE: Business - Educational - Home - Systems, for various Brother EP44 £212 (0208) £228.
Micros AMSTRAD, ATARI
MISC: Tape duplicating/copying machine, software display racks
ENTERPRISE AND BUSINESS
EXCITING NEWS FOR ALL AMSTRAD USERS - "GENPLOT IS HERE" MSX COMPUTERS COMPUTERS
Apricot F1E £637 (£614) £658. Apricot F1 £894
GENPLOT is a general plotting packVERSATILopE
age develed by experts tor the AMSTRAD, it contains a Amstrad 464 Colour £342 (0348) £388. Amstrad 464 (£870) £933. Epson PX8 £900 (£872) £892. Com-
sophisticated ' nand a ' PLOTTING FACILITY.' Green £232 (£247) £287. Amstrad 664 Colour £439 modore PC10 £1595 (£1564) £1664. Commodore
(0431) £481. Amstrad 664 Green £331 (0332) £382. PC20 £2573 (02485) £2685. Sanyo MBC 775 £1920
GENPLOT can also support a variety of Dot Matrix printers, also Pen -Plotters. Alan 130XE computer £158 (£163) £183. Atari 520ST (£1899) £1999. Cannon A200C £1609 (£1586)
computer with 3.5" disk drive, mouse, monitor and 21686. Sanyo MBC550 £723 (0699) £799. Sanyo
GENPLOT can help in the Business world in the preparation of Sales Projection Charts and Graphs, it software £675 (06701 £730. Atari 800XL computer k MBC550-2 £975 (£939) £1039. Sanyo MBC555-2
can also be very .useful to the Home User, as visual displays are tar easier to read and comprehend recorder £120 (0123) £143. Atari 800XL Computer f £1343 (01322) £1422.
than a screen full of crunchy numbers.

Please send me copies of 'GENPLOT' at £14.95 (tape) £29.95 (disk) incl. P & P
If you are charging your order to Access or Barclaycard please complete where necessary: SWANLEY ELECTRONICS
Access No: Barclaycard No'
The Computer Export Specialists
Dept PCW, 32 Goldsel Rd, Swanley, Kent BR8 8EZ, England
NAME
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ADDRESS
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for export customers in Europe and includes insured airmail postage.
PCW 10/85 The third price is for export customers outside Europe (including
POST CODE SIGN Australia etc) and includes insured airmail postage.

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system and mouse enable virtual
MODEL 4: Upgraded to 20MB hard
foolproof operation if you are new to the
If you need to expand your system to disk FREE £4695
computing world. The excellent
two or more users then either a network MODEL 5: Includes FREE year 1

or resource sharing system is required. £5690 graphics packages available with the
maintenance
MAC are not only reasonably priced but
You can expand the number of 286 MODEL 2: Includes FREE 1 year
£5195 extremely powerful, adding a whole
terminals with the revolutionary UDM 1 maintenance
new dimension to the meaning of
or with standard PC's. This will allow 286 MODEL 3: Includes FREE 1 year
SYSTEM UNITS: £6045 Personal Productivity limited only by
you to share Programs or peripherals maintenance
including printers and modems. DESK SAVER £30 the imagination of its user. With the
For large departments or Businesses, or advent of JAll the MAC now has real
as a file service in a Network. £6
70MBPAQBAG FIXED DISK UPGRADE business applications. A software list is
IBM ATE: Includes fitted 360K drive PC NET £4550 itemised below as the MAC only runs
FREE £4264 STARTER KIT £1040 TILT/SWIVEL disp stand £40 software written especially for it
IBM AT BASE: Includes fitted 20MB STATION ADAPTER £475 TECH REF MANUAL £50 MACINTOSK 128K: Includes FREE
drive FREE £2833 IBM PC CLUSTER drive £1795
See the IBM software list for selection.
For medium sized Businesses. STARTER KIT £995 Full range carried in all stores. Call for MACINTOSK 512K, Includes FREE
IBM XTE: Includes fitted 640K + STATION ADAPTER £395 advice if you are unsure if a package Imagewriter . £2595
Maxi Card FREE £2997 IBM PC NETWORK will run. ASK ABOUT OUR SUMMER ADDITIONAL DRIVE £349
IBM XT FD: Includes fitted 640K + STARTER KIT £1500 COMPAQ SPECIAL. IMAGEWRITER PRINTER £385
Maxi Card FREE £2973 STATION ADAPTER £542 DAISYWHEEL PRINTER £1332
For small Firms or for the Self Employed
Businessman.
TAPASTRY FILE SHARER
TAPASTRY TERMINAL
£495
£395 Apricot LASERPRINTER
APPLE MODEM +CABLE
call
£295
IBM XT DD: Includes fitted 640K + IBM NETWORK £66 MAC BAG £39
Maxi Card FREE £1930 UDM 1 PC TERMINAL £999 MAC CHARLIE (IBM) £1650
IBM PC 64: Includes fitted 640K + JAll £395
Maxi Card FREE £1207 OMNUS DATABASE £395
Network demonstrations by appoint- MACWRITE/PAINT £149
ment. Call us now. MACPASCAL £99
DISPLAYS AND ADAPTERS:
FULL RANGE OF IBM HARDWARE AND MACPROJECT £99
For Business use with limited graphics SOFTWARE ON DISPLAY. PRICE LISTS MACDRAW £99
requirements. AVAILABLE ON REQUEST. MAC TERMINAL £69
MONOCHROME DISPLAY £186 THINK TANK £125
AMBER DISPLAY £215 * Call for complete software catalog.
IBM MONO ADAPTER £182
HERCULES MONO ADAPTER £399
HIGHGRAPH MONO ADAPTER
£295 Compaq APRICOT, probably the most
MAINTENANCE
If you require maintenance or are
For Colour or graphics systems of handsome of desktops, these models unsatisfied with your present service,
limited resolution. though not IBM compatable have a give us a call and allow us to quote. We
COLOUR DISPLAY £552 complete range of popular software. offer guaranteed service on all the
IBM COLOUR ADAPTER £196 They use the new 3.5" drives and come equipment we supply, and we mean
HERCULES COLOUR ADAPTER with wordprocessing, database and service.
£225 spread sheet software. You can select
either nine or twelve inch monitors, and
For high resolution colour or if your application is not strictly
monochrome applications. business then the Fl range is ideal for ORDERING INFO: PCW9 SS
ENHANCED COLOUR DISPLAY personal productivity. Price includes
£775
ENHANCED ADAPTER £495
ACT Sketch, ACT Paint.
Fl E
Fl
£495
£775
MICRO WARE
MEMORY EXPANSION:
For small businesses or owner PLEASE SEND ME INFORMATION
Increase the power of your system with COMPAQ manufacture a robust range managed firms. ON
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upgrades. The world beating Portable is highly F10 Call SYSTEMS
64K MEMORY MODULE £45 recommended, or for larger For any small business. Price includes
PRINTERS
128K AT MEMORY MODULE £310 applications on the move the Portable SOFTWARE
Supercalc, Superwriter, Superfiler,
For maximum memory expansion. Plus. The desktop range are extremely II ADD ONS
DOS andBASIC.
384K MEMORY CARD (64K) £195 fast whilst maintaining complete
PC 315 £1440 NAME
As above with Clock,
compatability with both IBM software
Battery, PC 720 £1650
and hardware.
Calendar, Games port, Iwo serial & one PCX110 £2515 ADDRESS
parallel port, spooler and silicon disk. PC XI 10S £2965
384K MAXI CARD (64K) £245 COMPAQ PORTABLES: PC 20 £3415
384K MAXI CARD+ DISK For personal productivity on the move.
PC 20S £3865
CONTROLLER. Provides extra free
slot £295 ALL 86 PORTABLES COME WITH 640K DISPLAYS
RAM FITTED FREE.
9" MONOCHROME £180 TEL
COMPAQ PORTABLE ..... £1795 12" MONOCHROME £225
COMPAQ PLUS 10MB. £3595 10" COLOUR +ADAPTER £625 MIDLANDS 14 Charles Street
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COMPAQ PLUS 20BM + TAPE Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
MEMORY UPGRADE (07821 269 883
£3995
256K RAM UPGRADE £250 NORTH 637 Holloway Road
512K RAM UPGRADE £495 LONDON London N19 5SS
ALL 286 PORTABLES COME WITH 12 5.25" drive for loading IBM 01-281 2431
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286 PORTABLE MODEL 1 £3695 LONDON Upper Norwood
See the software list for standard
286 PORTABLE MODEL 2 £5195 London SE19
packages but be sure to confirm 01-771 6373
286 PORTABLE MODEL 3 £6045 availability before deciding.
 JUKI PRINTERS: DATABASE: MODEMS:
Printers The new printers from Japan, JUKI Increase the accuracy and speed in WS2000 From £139
offer an exceptional range of high finding facts, figures, records and Call for list of options
quality, low cost daisywheel printers. tiles. We specialise modifying
in RACAL BYSYNCH £530
DBASE to provide you with 'Up to the RACAL ASYNCH £680
JUKI 6300 40 CPS £699 minute management reports and RACAL ASYNCH INTERNAL £350
xi
JUKI 6100 18 CPS £399 information at the touch of a button. CROSSTALK £145
2200-i KEYBOARD 12 CPS £245 xENOCOPY . £149
DBASE II £299
DBASE III £450 APPLE TURNOVER £275
DB COMPILER £695 NORTON UTILITIES £89
PROGRAMS IN DBASE Call TOP VIEW £135
CANON PRINTERS: TOP VIEW TOOLKIT £395
DELTA 4 £455
IBM PRINTERS: DMS PLUS £195 PROFESSIONAL DEBUG £144
IBM also produce a complete range of DGRAPH III £295
FILING ASSISTANT £108 TELEX SYSTEMS:
printers. Each unit is 100 % compat-
able with the IBM PC family and is the REPORTING ASSISTANT £99 TELEBOX III £1395
logical choice for serious computer EVERYMAN DATABASE £479 BRAID TELEX SYSTEM £1590
users. The Quietwriter gives excellent
quality print and is strongly recom- We specialise in customised computer
mended for WP use, whereas the solutions for the following trades,
Proprinter dot matrix not only provides including expert training, hotline sup-
NLQ but has high speed for draft port and maintenenace.
purposes along with some nice user
features, call and book a demonstra- Value for money dot matrix NLQ INSURANCE BROKERS:
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GRAPHICS PRINTER £333 for labels and forms. multiuser plus separate Motorquotes
PRO PRINTER/ 1156 156 COLUMN £399 module.
INTRO OFFER ONLY £450 1080A 80 COLUMN £350 Combine Graphics, Database, Word-
QUIETWRITER £1295 processing, Spreadsheets and Com- EWE AGENTS:
WHEELWRITER £999 munications all in one program Recordkeeping housematching, mail -
Full range of sheetfeeders, tractors, FRAMEWORK £495 shots and portfolio management.
cables and stands are carried in SYMPHONY £555
EPSON PRINTERS: £399 POINT OF SALE:
stock. We also carry Paper, ribbons OPEN ACCESS
and a choice of daisywheels and offer Provides data input direct to computer
a fast custom print service for all Produce financial reports and fore- from your Cash Till with link to
computer users. casts with graphical presentation, accounting package for creation of
including 'What It' calculations and final accounts.
DISK STORAGE BOXES £19.95 models, Complete management
IBM DISKETTES PC £2.99 accounts and statistical models can PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
votostawookauaiaaoasowaaavsswaawagoawswkwv*.d IBM DISKETTES AT £8.00 be compiled to your specification. A
Produce resource scheduling:project
APRICOT DISKS DS £5.00 large range of standard models in
PAPER plans. Create GHANT and PERT
Current market leaders in dot matrix Call stock.
PRINTER RIBBONS Call diagrams, critical path, cashflow and
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The LQ1500 offers high speed WP £159 PERTMASTER 1000 £646
MULTIPLAN
output, with optional Feeder PERTMASTER 2000 £845
MICROSOFT CHART Call
FX100-r
RX100-t
£495
£399
Software SUPERCALC III
FT MONEYWISE
£255
£395
HORNET 4000 £2750

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN:

FX8O- £399 The reason you are buying your PLANNING ASSISTANT £108
£275 computer is to use the software, so GRAPHIC ASSISTANT £99 Complete with interfaces for Digitisers,
U(80 FT
JX80 COLOUR £495 make sure you have seen all the Mouse, plotters and IEEE applications.
options before you buy. Microware ACCOUNTING: Autocad has become one of the most
HI80 PLOTTER £350
HP INT. FOR H180 £108 have specialist programmers in house Pegasus are market
leaders in popular drafting packages for the PC.
LQ 1500 £995 who can modify standard packages, accounting software and offer both AUTOCAD DRAFTSMAN] -2 £2000
write complete applications to your single and multi user versions. All AUTOCAD DRAFTSMAN 1 £1500
specifications and provide as much modules can be integrated for accu- AUTOCAD £1000
HEWLETT PACKARD training as you feel you need. We also racy and speed and data can be MANUAL £35
offer a TRY BEFORE YOU BUY option transferred into one of the above
Top quality plotters that are acknow- spreadsheets in order to create fore-
and complete packages written espe-
ledged as the industry standard. The ORDERING INFO: PCW.9 85
cially for certain industries and trades casts and projections based on real
Laserjet laser printer is highly recom-
where the standard package just will figures. Various modules exist for
mended and can print at the stagger-
ing rate of 700 CPS.
not do. Call us today and
analyse your needs and offer a quote
let us specialist trade applications allowing
creation of accounts from specialist iCROWARE
M FLATBED 2 PEN 7470 £999 for the system that is right for your data entry requirements.
A3 FLATBED 6 PEN 7475 £1750 business. SALES LEDGER £295 PLEASE SEND ME INFORMATION
LASERJET LASER PRINTER £3995 £295 ON
PURCHASE LEDGER
WORDPROCESSING: NOMINAL LEDGER £295
INVOICING £295 SYSTEMS
BROTHER PRINTERS: PRINTERS
PAYROLL £295
JOBCOSTING £295 SOFTWARE 0
BILL OF MATERIALS £295 ADD ONS 0
STOCK CONTROL £295
CUSTOM MODULE (INV) £295 NAME -

Discounts for more than one module ADDRESS

purchased at a time. Call for pricing
on the Multiuser modules. FULL
RANGE OF PEGASUS PRE-PRINTED
FORMS STOCKED.
Microware are Master Dealers for
Brother and offer top quality service Increase the efficiency and productiv- EACH PACKAGE INSTALLED AND SET
Brother offer the ity of your paper flow. Standard letters, UP FOR YOUR SYSTEM. TEL
on their range.
-

highest quality medium speed daisy- multilingual, multiple copy, spelling A FULL DAY TRAINING FREE ON
wheel printers together with a com- checkers and address merging. EVERY PACKAGE. MIDLANDS 14 Charles Street
plete range of accessories. Ask to see Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
WORDSTAR PROFESSIONAL £250
the superb quality of the new 2024
NLQ dot matrix.
DAISYWRITE 1 Communications NORTH
(0782) 269 883
637 Holloway Road
£335
HR15 DAISYWHEEL £399
DAISYWRITE 2
MICROSOFT WORD £299 8 Utilities LONDON London N19 5SS
01-281 2431
HR25 DAISYWHEEL £699 WORDCRAFT £395 Communications is one of our
We stock many SOUTH 67 Westow Street
FIR35 DAISYWHEEL £899 MULTIMATE £295 specialities. soft-
LONDON Upper Norwood
SHEETFE EDERS £220 WRITING ASSISTANT £108 ware hardware solutions. Why don't
London SE19
TRACTORS £99 PERFECT WRITER £145 you give us a call and discuss your 01-771 6373
2024 DOT MATRIX £999 SIDEKICK £69 application now.
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It's a sad fact that most people who buy a micro become
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 ATHANA
DISKETTES
THE GREAT UNKNOWN
Now You Can Buy The Diskette Favoured
By Major Software Companies

Lifetime Warranty
WHO IS ATHANA? WHEN MEMORIES ARE
WE HAVE BEEN MAKING DISK WORTH KEEPING...IT'S
MEDIA FOR 14 YEARS, FOR SOME ATHANA DISKETTES!
OF THE BIGGEST NAMES IN THE
INDUSTRY. COMPANIES WHOSE ATHANA DISKETTES ARE
NAMES ARE HOUSEHOLD WORDS MANUFACTURED IN THE U.S.A.
AROUND THE WORLD. WE HAVE UNDER STRINGENT QUALITY PRO-
ALWAYS CONCENTRATED OUR CEDURES...AND YOU'VE USED
RESOURCES INTO WHAT IS THEM FOR YEARS AS COPY PRO-
KNOWN AS THE "OEM" SEGMENT TECTED ORIGINALS AND
OF THE MARKET. FEW DISKETTE UNPROTECTED ORIGINALS. IT'S
MANUFACTURERS MEET THE 0 EVEN POSSIBLE THAT THE SYS-
REQUIREMENTS OF AN OEM. 51/4" DSDD TEM MASTER THAT CAME WITH
ATHANA DOES AND WE ARE NOW YOUR COMPUTER IS AN ATHANA
OFFERING THIS EXCELLENT £1.09 48TPI DISKETTE.
QUALITY DISK TO YOU... £1.84 96TPI
INEXPENSIVELY!!!
THESE DISKETTES ARE SOLD IN
MULTIPLES OF 25 ONLY. DISK-
ETTES ARE SHIPPED WITH TYVEK HOW TO ORDER
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07842-48519
CASES USER ID LABELS AND WRITE PRO-
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HOURS AND WE OFFER A MONEY
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WHY CHOOSE ATHANA? FOR POSTAGE & PACKING. PLUS
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BECAUSE THEY WORK TIME
AFTER TIME ,EVERY TIME! AFTER
OUR PURCHASING DEPT. MADE A ALL WHEN A SOFTWARE COM-
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STORAGE CASES. WE DON'T ON A DISKETTE THEY CANNOT
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.87P + VAT OR BUY 50 DISKETTES
AND PAY ONLY £3.42 + VAT FOR ATHANA DISKETTES ARE ALSO
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GOOD WHILE THEY LAST. ORDER 50.

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 Don't Panic
QUALITY DATA CABLES

''-
SCREENED MULTI -CORE CABLES
FULLY SCREENED CABLES WITH SLEEVED JOINTS We can supply the Software that you have
Cable manufactured to Defence Standard 61-12 part 4 PVC covered to
'--------................ BS 6746 type 6.
Overall braided copper screen of high conductivity & a MI factor of 70%
been searching for.
7/0.2mm copper conductors. insulated with PVC to BS 6746 type 2.
....
.., High quality solder joints, strengthened & insulated with clear neat shrink
tubing (irradiated polyolef in).
High quality connectors with gold plated contacts.
Using modern techniques we can quickly
All cables are manufactured in our own workshop by skilled staff. Every cable is electronically tested. carefully
packaged and guaranteed for five years. Screened for RFUEMI interference suppression. and efficiently prepare a system to suit
RS232/V24 CABLES your needs at a modest cost.
£ cost per cable. Lengths in metres Per
Pan No. Description extra
2m. 3m. 5m. 10m. metre

ASD-101 Lines 1, 2, 3, 7 A 20 10.90 11.40 12.40 14.65 0.50

Telephone for a chat about how we can help
ASD-102
ASD-103
Lines 1.8 A 20
Lines 1-8, 11 & 20
12.90
13.90
13.65
14.85
15.15
16.75
18.40
21.00
0.70
080 you to make your business operations more
ASD-104 Lines 1-8, 15; 17, 20, 22 & 24 15.85 17.85 22.00 0.80
ASD-105
ASD-106
Lines 1.8, II, t2, 14.17, 20, 22-25
411 25 lines extended.
14.90
16.90
18.90
1840
21.00
21.40
25.20
28.15
34.70
1.40
1.60
effective and competitive.
Fitted with 25 pin 'D' plugs, male I ingerscrew backshells A wi ed pin to p'n.
Hawthorn Computing
Female connectors and/or female screwlocks may be specified et no extra cost.
Alternative pin -outs, cross -ovary 8 jumpers may be specified et no extra cost.
Slidelock fittings 8 bookshelf 0950 extra per connector. "The Hawthorns"
Metallised Plastic beckshell 03.00 extra per connector.
Diecast Aluminium backsbell (for total shielding) ...... 0600 extra per connector. Slip Lane,
CENTRONICS PRINTER CABLES Robley Heath,
Pad No. Description
£ Coot per Cable. Lengths in metres Nr. Welwyn,
1m. 2m. 3m. 4m
Hertfordshire.
ASC-201 36 way to 36 way. ApricoNsirius only. 1890 19.65 20.40 21.15
ASC-202 36 way to 36 way. All Centronics application. 23.90 25.60 27.30 29.00 RL6 9UF
ASC-203 36 way to 25 way '0' plug. IBM PC/X7 23.90 25.60 27.30 29.00
ASC-204 36 way to 37 way D' plug. Samurai 25.90 27.60 29.30 31.00
ASC-205 36 way M 50 way Amphenol. Diablo 630AP1 29.90 31.60 I 33.30 35.00 Telephone (043131 813419
ASC-207 36 way to 25 way 'D' socket. Torch 1090 19.65 21.15
ASC-209 25 way to 25 way 'D' plug. IBM PC/XT 18.90 21.00 25.20 34.70

Recommended maximum length is lour metres.

Order with confidence. All of the above cables offered on 28 days approval.
Custom cables built to your specification. Phone today fora quotation.
Official orders welcomed. Despatch usually within 24 hours Courses for October
All items are carriage paid vie Parcel Post. Overnight delivery extra at cost.
All prices quoted are exclusive of VAT. (15% at time of going to press)
Fast service. An order phoned through today can be with you tomorrow. Rn Introduction to Micro Computers in Business
©1985

46 HOMESTEAD ELECTRONICS
Trelawney Industrial Court, Trelawney Avenue,
O Rn Overview of Jazz on the Macintosh
Langley, Slough, Berks. SL3 7UJ. IIIIMAY4.0
Making the Most of Multiplan
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A card designed to send all 256 ASCII codes to a parallel printer, whilst also providing 16 I/O
lines for control applications.
4 SOCKET SIDEWAYS ROM EXPANSION CARD £18.35
Designed to exploit the powerful sideways ROM expansion capability of Amstrad
computers. Any mix of 8 or 16K ROMS. The expanding range of ROM software now includes:
HONEYCOM PRESTEL Terminal and Database Comms ROM £19.95
Once you have used a digitizer - the Communicate with PRESTEL, TELECOM GOLD, EASYLINK, MICRONET. Emulate Heath,
electronic input board with stylus or cursor Televideo, Hazeltine, Ampex and ADM terminals. Transfer programs and data between
you will never want to go back to mouse, trackball computers. Compatible with the Honeysoft and Amstrad RS232 interfaces. Also available on
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computers, with customized versions from stock for ISM PC and BBC models ARNOR UTOPIA BASIC Utilities ROM £29.95
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 WREN
THE COMMUNICATING
MICRO
Inside every Wren Executive business micro is a
complete communications system trying to get
out. Show it the nearest telephone point and this
remarkable transportable computer will link you
with Prestel or Micronet, give you access to the
British Telecom Gold electronic mailbox or turn it
itself into a terminal to communicate with other
on-line databases or computers. Its secret is a fully
approved auto -dial modem which will even take
the strain out of making phone calls.
But communications facilities are only part of the
story. The Wren Executive is one of the most
versatile business micros on the market and its
CP/M 3 (CP/M Plus) operating system makes
it about the friendliest computer around.
The Wren's Quantec Executive Desktop
system provides a unique range of everyday aids -
electronic diary, notebook, address and telephone
directory, clock, calculator, even a typewriter
mode for that urgent memo.
Considering how much we
managed to pack into this transportab e marvel
11111111111111111P you might think we also got carried away on the price
- but the Wren Executive costs only £995 + VAT.
You can learn more about the Wren by calling
Opus Supplies on 0737-65080 or simply post the
coupon below.

0. a

Add more than £600 worth of free Perfect

business software offering word processing,
spreadsheet and file management applications,
BBC Basic and compatability with all graphics
modes of the BBC micro in full colour without the 1)JRNf
loss of user memory, and you begin to see why the
1
Wren is such an impressive package. 1

In fact together with its sheer good looks and ii (' 1'11 tlr i:1 I: It'
ingenious design, the Wren's specification makes
impressive reading:
Twin 250 K S%" disc drives
Built-in amber high resolution screen
67 -key keyboard
On -board auto -dial modem
RS232 and Centronic printer ports rTo: Opus Supplies Limited, 55 Ormside Way, Holmethorpe Industrial Estate, Redhill, Surrey.
Winchester disc interface I Please rush me the following: (PRICES INCLUDE CARRIAGE)

RGB high resolution colour monitor output I _Wren Executive(s) at £995 + VAT each I enclose a cheque for £
Twin Paddle/Joystic controls or please debit my credit card account with the amount of £
64K of RAM expandable to 256K
32K of video RAM I My Access Barclaycard H no. is:
16K of ROM
50 bytes of battery -packed CMOS RAM NAME
CP/M 3 (CP/M Plus) operating system

Opus.
ADDRESS
BBC Basic
Four sound channels
Free subscription to Telecom Gold opu,,upplics
TELEPHONE
Free nylon carrying case
 For under £30 this ROM -based
Organise your tiles on package from MIRACLE TECHNOLOGY GET
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Specialists in all kinds of floppy diskettes mail, bulletin boards and databases,
WITH
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Diskette Prices per box of 10
handling baud rates of 1200/1200, DATABEEB!
Dot Matrix Printers 75/1200, 1200/75 and 300/300.
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Software Technology
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 CHIP CHAT
When is a clone not a clone?: to replace Mental Institution'. chewing the cud by having a leaving a recent press
Guy Kewney mocked Digital It doesn't say whether any job micro thrust before them, conference huddled together
Research last month for losses are involved. what would you suggest for in an old Cortina. Our reporter
having the less than bright Idiot -proof: perhaps Apple is the caption? That was what didn't notice whether there
idea of releasing different going too far in its efforts to we asked in July, and Neil was a nodding dog in the rear
versions of GEM for IBM's PC make its products easy to use. Thraves of Barkingside wins window.
and each of various clones. For example, if you wait too £10 for his answer - 'Sun Careering along: a careers
Infuriatingly, we hear that long before feeding your editorial staff being instructed bookshop in Sheffield has
only one three -character original into the LaserWriter, on the use of the word decided to go back to
instruction needs changing the beast springs into action processor in modern handling orders manually.
on the PC version to make it on its own. It prints out a nice journalism'. 'This decision,' it explains,
run on the clones. document telling you how to Logically speaking: one 'has been made because the
Redeployment: in Sweden, feed it. Step one, wait for the microcomputer dictionary computer system, as most of
they're moving people yellow light; step two, insert offers an interesting definition you are aware, is far too
suffering from mental illness your paper; step three, of ambiguity. It explains that slow.' We tried to explain to
out of institutions and back 'repeat steps one and two 'I'm leaving' means that them that a ZX81 wasn't up to
into society. So what happens until your document is someone is announcing his the task, but they wouldn't
to the mental institutions? We completed'. Step 4, throw this departure -'or, if spoken by listen. Or could this be
have the answer- or at least instruction sheet in the bin? a tree, means Spring is near'. another case of an over -eager
a press release has given us What a winner: if you were Hard to argue with that really. salesman misrepresenting
the answer. Its headline states presented with a photograph Sign of the times: Acorn's the benefits of new
baldly: 'Swedish Science Park of cows being diverted from directors were spotted technology?

Send your suggestions (along with your name,

address and phone number) to the Great MUD
Challenge, Personal Computer World, 32-34 Broadwick
Street, London W1A 2HG (only one entry each, please).
We're looking for the most imaginative and closely
argued solution to arrive here by 4 October, and
we'll contact the winner by post to sort out the training
details. The solution and winner will be announced in the
December issue of PCW.
And now, on with the story.. .

It's a long way between the towns of Mollidor and

Herewhorm, but at least you can be sure of rest and
refreshment along the way at the home of your old
friend Diron. Diron's a shy, retiring haifling shunned by
his native village of Longhollows because of his
fascination with black magic and other matters that
don't appeal to the village's close-knit community, so on
his coming of age Diron moved out of Longhollows and
found himself a nice little home in the Bright Woods
where he has lived alone for the last 20 years. But even
now, 20 years on, thehalflingsof Longhollowsblamehim
for any mysterious and untoward happening in their
village, regardless of the fact that Diron now lives over a
day's journey away. Although his home is quite near the
The cult dungeons and dragons game, Multi -User main road running north through the woods, few
Dungeon (MUD), is to be presented to the whole world travellers know of its existence and Diron keeps himself
by British Telecom. The part of Telecom which launched to himself, preferring to watch the travellers from a
the Firebird range of games (it has Elite rights) distance rather than announce his presence.
announced the MUD 'standalone' version at the PCW Indeed, if it wasn't for that day when you were hiding
Show. from the Dark Guardians, you probably would never have
Normally, you have to stay up after midnight to play met Diron yourself. But over the years he has become a
MUD on Essex University's mainframe, and you have to great friend and, although a little eccentric, he's really
be quick to dial in if you want a game. The new version quite harmless and his so-called interest in black magic
runs on the DEC Vax mini, model 750 (no, you can't extends no further than the collection of unusual black
afford one) and will give more than 100 players magic curios that adorn the walls of his house.
simultaneous access when it is fully operational. So, as the night drew in on October the 31st, you
To celebrate the arrival of this new version of the approached Diron's house looking forward to his usual
game, British Telecom is running a knockout challenge hospitality. Today's journey had been particularly tiring.
(The First MUD Spectacular) between 10 MUD With all the strangers currentlytravelling north, you have
champions - one of whom could be you. had to be particularly alert. Today alone you have seen a
In advance of the final, each champion receives online mischievous band of elves and, even more worrying, a
tuition from an Arch -wizard and a free MUD pack (no, bunch of brigands, each wielding a new-fangled
that's not a beauty treatment, it's the £20 kit you need blunderbuss - those things create havoc wherever
which gives you instructions on playing the game and they're seen.
three hours of playing time. You'll need the right Just after leaving the main road you hear two
modem and terminal software to participate - call (01) explosions, followed by a series of unearthly shrieks
608 1171 for more details. When trained, you'll then have coming from the direction of Diron's house. Fearing the
an expenses -paid trip to the MUD Spectacular at the worst you run towards the house, but it is too late - at the
London Dungeon on 5 November where you'll take on bottom of the steps leading down to the house lies Diron.
the nine other challengers. If you defeat them you'll win On closer examination you find the following scattered
100 hours of playing time and £100 in cash, with free over the steps: the hats of three wizards, a number of
MUD time for two runners-up. firecrackers, a blood -stained dagger and cloth, Diron's
To become PCW's champion and representative in the favourite housecoat (unstained), a witch's broom and a
finals (what honour could be higher?), all you have to do single live frog. Diron's body is unscathed and, given his
is read the following story (imagine it's an extract from nervous disposition, it seems likely that he died of heart
JRR Tolkien's great unfinished novel) and then write failure. After surveying the scene, you soon come to a
50 words on how you think Diron met his end. conclusion on how Diron met his death.

280 PCW OCTOBER 1985

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