TORONTO TIMEX SINCLAIR USERS CLUB May/June 1994 July 18, 1994

Dear Out-of-Town Members;

Well, I think the letter from Jeff Taylor, our Editor, at the beginning of this newsletter, sums things up pretty well. We have become long in the tooth, and, at least for my part, I want to move onto other things.

It may seem rather drastic to simply close up shop, but my feeling is that it is best to terminate cleanly. Then maybe if there is a wish on the part of some members they can reconstitute it in a different Form. It did not seem practical to operate the club on the basis of an executive dispersed across the country.

We plan to put out a membership list with the next (last) issue, so that if users want to maintain contact with other members they will be able to do so. If you do not wish to be on this membership list, then do write and let me know.

Actually, I shall be maintaining my 2068 computer system for some time to come, and I can help any of you who run into a problem and need advice or help. So don't feel that you have been entirely abandoned!!! Any of you into MSDOS?; drop me a line. I'm certainly interested in things MSDOS-wise. Programs and such like.

The real problem is what to do with all the Timex stuff I have collected over the years!! A great deal of it is printed material; magazines, books, photocopies, schematics, back issues of Sinc-Link. To say nothing about the hardware items!! 1'li try to make a list for this newsletter. Interested? Seems too bad to chuck it out. We may offer to ship some of it to Don Lambert, TSNUG chief cook and bottle washer. That is, if he'll have iti!

My goodness, I am starting another collection of MSDOS and WINDOWS stuff; WORD, QBASIC, and all sorts of things.

One thing of interest is the Z80 Spectrum Emulator that I have loaded into the 486. It looks very interesting. There was an article about it in a recent SINC-LINK. | have sent away to get it registered, and I might have time for an article for the next newsletter. The registered copy has the capability of uploading Spectrum programs, (and saving them) from tape. Sounds challenging. We had an article about the emulator in the Sept/Oct 93 issue of Sinc-Link.

David Lassov has been working on Bill Jones' DAISY suite of programs. This is a set of interlinked Basic programs designed to make the 2068 more useful as a business application. David has been adapting it to the Larken Disk system; making it more efficient. It makes use of the Larken RAMdisk. He has sent me a copy for the club Larken Disk library. Anyone interested? Ask for a copy.

Shall close this off now, Sincerely,

George Chambers.