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NEWS RELEASE***%% May 12 1985

SUNSET ELECTRONICS announces ae new

line of EPROM cartridges for the TS 2068.

They will include an EPROM programmer,blank EPROM cartridge and a four slot EPROM expansion board-available complete,as a kit,or bare board.Also will be EPROM s of approximately 30% of all the TS 2068 cassette programs currently available.They are presently negotiating for duplicating rights with several companies.These EPROM s will also be offered as a "back-up" copy for anyone already owning a program on an original cassette tape.Products should be available June 15th.

PRO FOR CIVIL ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS GETS

A RATING OF 10 FOR THE PROGRAM REVIEIW BY GEORGE ZALAQUETT

In the past few years that I spent in the engineering profession I have encountered various microcomputers and worked with plenty of software including some of the largest turnkey CAD systems (Computer Aided Design or Drafting).

Although I am in the mechanical engineering end of it I have agreed to review PRO for civil engineering and land surveying. Since the day PRO was submitted for review I had to brush up on some surveying and try to remember what I could from the surveying job I held one summer in junior college. So in reviewing PRO I have done some homework by checking arround the industry to see what is available in the civil engineering software for the buisness computers.

PRO is the first real poffesional engineering software I have encounterd for

the TS"2068. PRO is a program that was.

written by a poffesional for his own use and since its application was so practical in surveying his fellow office mates Started using it and now it is available for professional civil engineers, Surveyors and students. The program lists for $245 which puts it out of the price range of nonprofessionals. The program will not pay for itself by using it once to see what a property Looks like on the computer and get a drawing on the 2040 printer or draw lines across. the screen, Although PRO is a great = surveying learning tool its price tag places it out of reach of the students that might own a TS 2068. Hence if you are a_ professional Surveyor and own a TS 2068 and do not have a buisness computer, PRO is the greatest buy yet even though I have compared equivalent software for the IBM and HP that had a smaller price tag.

The program is menu driven and divides the screen into several windows. The main feature of this program is the Continuious Video Graphics "CVG" window which is used for updated display of the work. When the help fuction is selected the abbreviated main menu window is displayed at the left side portion of the screen (see screen dump in Figure), and when a command is selected the menu disappears leaving the "CVG" window in its former state and a submenu will appear in the user friendly information window which occupies the Lower two Lines of the screen where comments and other questions the computer might ask to guide the user in Providing the computer with the required information. The author has generously

made the routine that makes the desapearing menu possible (which is called the "encroaching disappearing menu

window") available for the TSUG which will be included in this issue, A detailed hard copy menu can be obtaind on the 2040 printer. :

PRO will povide a plot on the screen of all the work being preformed. PRO has all the functions that a surveyor would

need for Lot and subdivision work, The

vocabulary is comprehensive and large

aie To order write:

Ken Pankow

Pankow Engineering Co. 1278 Hendersonville Rd. Asheville, NC 28803

approximatly fifty commands yet they are easy to remember and access espesially for someone with surveying knowlege. The main menu window which has all the primary functions and are accessible by pressing one letter only, which is usually the first Letter in the command. Among the many functions that PRO supports are area, curve fit, inverse and closure adjustment which provides the amount of error, then makes the adjustment. The program also Supports normal to Line traverse and rotate. The only command that is not in this program is the spiral which is popular on civil engineering software for the IBM and HP but it is not required for property and subdivision work.

As for the graphics which most of the readers are anxious to read about, it is excellent. The CVG always has an updated view of the work. By selecting the video command, the user may zoom in on a_ few points to view the poperty section by section. At this point the user may do whatever changes he or she wishes and then return to an over all view of the work, or select a certain scale. The computer will show the scale on the top of the screen at all times. The feature that makes your 2068 computer with the 2040 printer compete with the IBM and HP and beat them

hands down is the output drawing. The work can be transfered to the 2040 printer at any desired scale. This is

accomplished by having the 2040 printer take passes at the screen and by the joining the printer strips together, a large drawing is obtained. The computer will automatically decide how many passes

are required depending on the scale selected. (see Figure showing Large plot versus screen dump. The program also

allows the user to get a printout Listing of the points and their coordinates to the 2040 printer.

PRO is capable of handeling five jobs at once and they can be saved or loaded all at one time. Once the jobs are Loaded the user has the option of selecting any of the jobs and may go back and forth between jobs. Each job is capable of handeling up to 100 points of data which makes it capable of handeling a good size subdivision.

Now for the rating part. Since this program is written for use by a_ small percentage of the 2068 users it is difficult to rate. Therefore I will brake the rating into Three parts. First, the program itself which I will give 10 out of 10 since the program is complete and it does the job well and it makes the 2068 owner proud of his computer.

Second, the copy of the documentations which I received were Xeroxed 2040 printouts, as a result sections of the documentations were too light to read. I hope that is not what the author sends out with the software even though the program is self explanatory. The documentaions have lots

of room for improvement to make it clear to the new system buyer. For documentation contents 6 out of 10 is all I could grant for now keeping in mind that the author could be working on that and the packaging of the program.

Third, the price rating. If I was a professional surveyor I would probably give the price a good rating, but if I was your average computer owner the price would get a poor rating. Therefore, I leave the rating of the price for the reader to decide. The sample of work shown in the figure, shows what the program is capable of doing. Keep in mind that there is no other way to get a surveying CAD system (software, computer, printer and recorder), with graphics capability (video and hard copy printout) for less than $500.

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8k KOM BOARD FOR the TS 1000 by Bill Roberts

Dr. Paul Hunter, 1630 Forest Hills Dr., Okemos, Michigan 48864, has two excellent Products out for the TS 1000. One of these products, the 8K Nonvolatile Memory Board has already been reviewed in our newsletter. Dr. Hunter also makes an 8K ROM board, which I ordered as a kit several months ago and put together. After using the board for a while, I felt that it was time to share my assessment.

The actual PC board is the same board used for the NVM board, however, when used as a ROM board the circuit is much simpler. Most of the resistors, transistors, and diodes required for the NVM board are not needed on the ROM board. The kit consist of 5S capactors, 1 resister, 1 diode, 1 74LS139, 4 24 pin DIP sockets »1 16 pin DIP socket, 1 female 44 pin connector, 1 male 46 pin connector, 1 reset switch, and the FC board. It should take an average electronics hack about 2? to leisurely hours to build the kit.

No review of the kit would be complete without a few words about the PC board. It is the best board that I have seen for any electronics kit... bar none. The board is made of the highest quality material and is even solder masked! The position § and part number of each part is clearly stenciled on the board. When the board is finished, it has a nice solid "feel" to it. Make no jokes about this board, this is the standard against which all other FC boards for the TS 1000 should be judged against.

The instructions that I used to assemble the 8K ROM kit were included as part of the assembly instructions for the Nonvolatile Memory Board - there were no instructions included in the ROM kit that was mailed to me. I feel sure that if you order just the ROM board the instructions are included. As it turned out, I had no problems in building the board. Because there are a lot of options to choose, it did take me a while to figure out exactly how I wanted to build the kit.

There is one suggestion that is very useful to include in construction of the board. Instead of using the 24 pin DIP sockets included in the kit, use 24 pin ZERO INSERTION FORCE sockets. My board was built with two ZIF sockets and two regular sockets. It never occured to me that I might need more than two ZIF sockets. I now wish that I had used four ZIF sockets for greater versatility.

As provided the ROM board can be used only in a 32K system. By use of a jumper (J1), any of the four possible 8K blocks can be addressed. A simple modification though, allows the board to be used in a 64K system. For my board, I decided to have the board addressed in the 8-16K region. The procedure is as Follows: .

1) Bend pin 1 of the 74LS139 included in the kit up and over pin 2,

2) Carefully clip pins 4,5,;6,8,9,10,11,12, and 13 from a 74LS32. Bend pins 1 and 2 of this 74LS32 straight out. Bend pin 3 of this 74LS32 over and under pin 2. Bend pin 7 of this 74LS32 slightly towards the rear of the chip.

3) Mount the 74L§32 on top of the 74LS139 included in the kit with pin 1 of both chips at the same end. Use superglue or a rubber band to hold the chips together for next step.

4) Being VERY careful not to overheat the chips and using the smallest amount of solder possible, solder the. following pins together:

pin 3 (74LS32) to pin 1(74LS139) pin 7 (74LS22) to pin 8 (74LS139) pin 14 (74LS32) to pin 16 (74L8139)

5) Solder a small wire about 2" long to both pin 1 and pin 2 of the 74LS232.

6) Solder one of the two flying leads to A1S and one to MREQ NOT. As each lead goes to an input for an OR gate, it doesn’t matter which lead goes to which line.

7) Insert the dual ic package into its socket.

8) Connect, at jumper J1, the common line to the block 1 line

The board is now uniquely addressed in the 8K to 16K region and can be used in a 64K system. This circuit combines Ai5 and MREQ NOT to enable the board. The above procedure actually comes almost directly from Dr. Hunter’s assembly instructions for the 8K NVM board. Another option is to devise a paging system to allow both the 8K ROM board and the 8K Nonvolatile Memory board to be address in the same 8K block (this will be covered in another article soon -ed).

This ROM board will work with either four 2716's (8K) or two 2732’s (8K). It is possible, by paging between the sockets 1,3 and sockets 2,4, to fully populate the board with four 2732’s for a total of 14K of additional ROM.

The price for the kit is $22.95. I'am very pleased with my kit and feel that it, along with Dr. Hunter’s Nonvolatile Memory board, deserves a 10,

><—4s€ THIS Ss WORD SIinNnc KREE~.S d3€D€

Word Sinc [1.5 has been coapleted. This new version of the IX/TS classic was re-witten by Peter McNullin in co-operation with Powell Hargrave, to take full advantage of the EPROM SERVICES Centronics I/F for the 2X81/TS1000.

With only a einor change, WSII.5 can drive MENOPAK, AERCO, or OLIGER I/Fs too!

The prograa is “ready to load and start printing” with any EPSON code-coapatible printer. It is, however, extresely versatile and can be aodified easily to accomaodate any conaonly used printer.

Final Documentation is now under way. The prograa has a wide scope of features which say be customized to suit the user’s (or his printer’s) needs.- Therefore, an extreaely coaprehensive aanual seeas appropriate. With aver 10 pages of appendices coapiled so far, the WSII.5 User Manual aay approach the legendary 1.B. Woods’ ZX PRO/FILE sanual in aagnitude. In usefulness, too, we hope.

Word Font I1.5

is a custoe font package. Included is a loader prograa with 4 fonts: Script.2, Serif Heavy.2, Sans Serif Block, and Coaputa. A Font Designer utility, also included, allows the user to define his own unique character sets, or eodify characters in the supplied fonts, and view enlarged characters on the screen. The aanual covers designing characters on various width grids (8 dot height liait), and aodifying WSII.5 accordingly. Each supplied font occupies 1.3K, and aay reside anywhere in aesory. WordFont EPROMS will be available by aid-suaeer 85.

The PRINTER TOOLKIT

(for EPROM SERVICES I/F ONLY) a) REPLACES the EPROM SERVICES driver software. b) Provides several related Machine-Code and BASIC utilities.

TPTK gives two choices of Clive-Code to ASCII translation: INVERSE= CAPS, with a selection of CTRL codes & (ESC)$ or Inverse= lower, with lotsa punctuation & ASCII line graphics.

Routines are provided which perait sending any code fro 0-255 to the printer.

WordFont is supported, for BASIC programming and even LLISTing.

PRINTSCREEN## is included.

A BASIC program is included which facilitates bit-iaage graphics prograa@ing, using a READ DATA/ RESTORE routine for storage of cospressed literal data in REM statesents.

TPTK will be available to run in 8-16K, in a REM stateaent, or above RAMTOP.

44 PRINTSCREEN also available for ANY I/F listed above!

The CENTRONICS I/F which inspired this aad attack of prograsaing is available from: Or Directly froa: INTEGRATED DATA SYSTEMS EPRON SERVICES 30 Brookaount Road, 3 Wedgewood Drive,

Toronto, Ont. Roundhay, Canada N4L SNL Leeds LS8 1EF England

Legal size SAE and Postal Reply Coupons get you the £/S catalog, with NUMEROUS products for the IX/TS. With the Pound at its current value, this is worth investigating!

The Interface is a Dual Centronics Port, 1 in, 1 out. (Haga, interesting...) It works perfectly with 2X PRO/FILE. with PRO/FILE Poked as for a 152040. MEMOCALC is fully supported as well, although MEMOTEXT is not compatible. Believe it or not, we’re working on that, too.

The I/F supports LPRINT, LLIST and COPY, INCLUDING COPY as a direct command. Try that with your MEMGPAK I/F!

In wide-ranging software tests, the EPROM SERVICES i/F actually had a better ‘coapatibility ratio’ than the MEMOPAK I/F! It works with HOT Z, only if HOT 2’s COPY call is changed to directly call the I/F software. Both prograas

norsally use 16507 to store a jusp address, and HOT Z wins. ERERESEREERESEEEEA EE EEE EREL REESE TER EES ER EE ES EEL ELE EL ERTL ESE

WORD SINC I}.S.sccccecsceccsccscesceee $30.00 CAN #1.00 P&H (includes WSII.5 AND WSII.S6- ANY I/F)

WORD FONT [L.S..cccccccccvccescseesesedl2eu0 CAN +$1.00 P&H 2 Add?1 Fonts. ccccscccccsecveverceeese$ 8000 CAN #$1.00 P&H

The PRINTER TOOLKIT. ...csccecssccceees $15.00 CAN +$1.00 Phi

Prices subject to change.

AVAILABILITY GF ALL SOFTWARE: <<< JUNE 1, 1985 >>>

SOFTWARE HAS BEEN CONPLETED, BUT PREPARING DECENT NANUALS

TAKES SOME TINE.

Registered purchasers will receive free updates, as weil as good exchange discounts should a aajor revision occur.

The Software to be available froa Integrated Data Systeas, at the listed address, or directly fron:

PETER McHULLIN 2340 Queen St. E., Toronto, Ont. Canada NSE 159

Word Sinc [1.5 copyright c1985, P. Hargrave and P. NcMullin Word Font copyright c19B5 P. AcMullin

Printer Toolkit copyright c1985 P. McMullin

PrintScreen copyright cl985 P. McMullin

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Word Sinc II.S is the latest 8@+ column version of Powell Hargrave’s classic Word Sinc II.

WSII.S is a very powerful wordprocessor written to support a readily available printer I/F for the ZXB81/TS1000: the EPROM SERVICES Centronics I/F.

WSII.S does everything its Predecessor, WSII.4 (for the MEMOPAK I/F) does plus much more?

FEATURES INCLUDE:

% NEW AUTO—REPEAT action (courtesy of Powell): now has FAST repeat after a short pause. Romp thru huge text files with dymamic global-ranging cursor.

% ASCII FORM FEED sent with each page. (or from text)

% PRINTSCREEN feature prints ZX screen characters to any graphics—-capable printer. For hard copy of screen text, or use WSII:S to format printer graphic screens?

% SUPPORTS WORDFONT II.5, a multi custom font utility, used here with the SERIF HEAVY.2 font (single AND double-width characters ).

% EMBEDDED printer escape codes (using printer fonts) are transparent to text justify routines.

*% jwWSII.S contains complete driver code for the I/F ecard: NO separate I/F software to load?

% TEXT space is automatically set up to use as much RAM as is available: WSII.S checks RAMTOP & E_LINE.

% $SCREEN will periodically invert if abandoned in a “wait for Key” menu state, to avoid screen damage.

% jwWSII.SG version has a bit=-image printer graphics Programming utility which is incredibly byte-efficient. CIt’s “music to your memory” )

% ALL printer—dependent codes are easily modified.

LEFT MARGIN preset permits multiple justified columns text on 1 page WITHOUT cut-and-paste.

MULTIPLE TABs, Indents, Outdents: Can Do?

28 pumct. & math symbols + numerous ctrl. codes. (can substitute amy ASCII CHRS @-255)

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MY PET DINOSAUR by Dick Scoville

VERY-LONG-TIME READERS OF THE TSUG NEWSLETTER MIGHT REMEM- BER THE PRIDE (AND RELIEF) I TRIED TO CONVEY, WHEN, HAVING SPENT THE GOOD PART CF A SUMMER ON IT, MY MODEL 28 TELETYPEWRITER ACTUALLY BEGAN TO RESPOND TO RND USR°S FROM MY ZX81.

; THIS TIME AROUND, ON THE 2068, IT WAS FAIRLY EASY, BUT A

FEW PCINTS MIGHT BE OF ENOUGH INTEREST TO RECORD THEM:

FIRST, ALTHOUGH THE TIMEX MANUAL SAYS OTHERWISE, THE GROUND PIN ON THE JOYSTICK PORT WAS NOT CONNECTED. TO REMEDY THIS, I OPENED THE BACK, FOUND A BIG ELECTROLYTIC CAP NEAR THE JOYSTICK CONNECTOR, TOOK A CHANCE AND JUMP-WIRED THE JOYSTICK “GROUND” PIN TO THE MINUS SIDE OF THE CAP. THIS TAKES SOME COURAGE, BUT IT REALLY IS VERY SIMPLE.

WHY DID I DO THIS? BECAUSE THE MANUAL ALSO EXPLAINS HOW THE JOYSTICK PORT CAN BE USED FOR OUTPUT, AND SURELY A GROUND IS NEEDED FOR COMPARISON OF THE SIGNAL WITH GROUND.

SECOND, I HAD A FANATIC URGE TO PROTECT MY COMPUTER FROM THE 138 VOLT DC “CURRENT LOOP” OF THE MODEL 28, SO I USED AN OPTO-ISOLATOR AS FOLLOWS:

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THIRD, (ALTHOUGH THIS IS SECOND-HAND ALSO FROM THE TIMEX MANUAL, I FEEL MORE CONFIDENT ABOUT GIVING IT TO YOU) THIS IS THE CODE THAT TURNS THE LEFT JOYSTICK PORT TO AN OUTPUT PORT (ASSUMING REGISTER A CONTAINS THE BYTE TO BE SENT). KEEP IN MIND, HOWEVER, THAT ONLY FIVE PINS ARE AVAILABLE FOR OUTPUT, (JUST AS ONLY FIVE ARE AVAILABLE FOR INPUT). ONLY BITS @, 1, 2, 3 AND 7 OF A’ ARE SENT?

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FOURTH AND FINALLY, I DESCRISED RECENTLY HOW TO TURN “LPRINT"™ TO YOUR OWN PURPOSE, AND OF COURSE THIS PRESENT APPLI- CATION IS ALMOST IDEAL. (DON'T READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE EARLIER ARTICLE.) THE TRICK IS TO TAKE THE STREAM OF CHARACTERS FROM THE (MODIFIED) "LPRINT” STATEMENT AND TURN THEM INTO EDIELE FOOD FOR THE SERIAL DINOSAUR, WHICH CAN DIGEST ONLY BAUDOT CODE (MORE OR LESS EXTINCT, ALTHOUGH IT IS THE ORIGIN OF THE MODERN WORD “BAUD.” LATER MODELS OF THE TELETYPEWRITER USE ASCII.) IT WOULD BE SILLY TO DESCRIBE HERE THE ARCANE AND ARCHAIC WORKINGS OF THE MODEL 28 DINOSAUR--IF YOU OWN ONE, WRITE TO ME. SUFFICE TO SAY THAT WHEN YOUR PROGRAM IS WORKING, “LPRINT” WILL BEHAVE EXACTLY AS YOU WOULD WISH, SLOWLY BUT HAPPILY PRINTING OUT LINES OF 64 CHARACTERS.

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xxx NOTE *xx Our Group is Planning to havea “swap and = shop" meeting in November. If you have a computer, a program or whatever end you

want to sell it, bring it to the meeting. That will be Sunday ; December 1, 1985.

THE Last Woro

I WANT TO THANK PETER MCMULLINs 234@ QueEN ET. EAST» TORONTO » CANADA MGE1GS, FoR THE VEE OF WoRD SINnc 11.5 ano Woro FONTVI.S. LOOK FOR 4&4 REVIEW oF THESE WORD PROCESSING PROGRAME IN FUTURE ISSueEE,

WHILE WorRo Sine 11.5 TS FASTER THAN MEMOTERXT WHEN PRINTING WITH THE €£TANDARO CHARACTER SET) IT 1S SLOW WHEN PRINTING CHARACTERS TN GRAPHICS MOCE. THE PRINTING SPEED CAN BE DOUBLED, WITH SOME LOSS IN PRINT GUALITYs BY POKING 18419 wItTH 12) CECIMAL. THIS WORRE ON MY GEMINI-1@X-ec.

The Triangle Users? Group meets once a month on the first Sunday of each

month at 2:00 pm in the Dreyfus Auditorium of the Research Triangle Fark facility just off of Cornwallis Road. The public is welcome, in fact the public is invited. Membership in our Users* Group is $15.00 a year. We

have a large public that we serve, and we need sustaining contributions in the form of money, articles for the newsletter, or occasional letters telling us you are interested in receiving our publication. The donation Of goods and monies by members and business friends alike is a

welcome occurence and is also tax-deductible. TRIANGLE SINCLAIR USERS? GROUP OFFICERS: President: Doug Dewey, 206 James OTs. Carrboro, NC 27510, 919-929-3079, Vice Fresident;: Bill Roberts, 126 Manhattan Court, Cary NC 27511, 1-919-467-7755,

Secretary: Dick Scoville, 2313 W. Club Blvd., Durham, NC 27705, 919-286- 4959.

Treasurer: Mike Boyce, S313 East Oak Dr., Durham, NC 27712, 919-382-7000,

Roard of Operators

Special Assistance: Hiawatha Demby Jr. Refreshments: Carol EK. Roberts

Send mail and inquires to Doug.

It you would like to jOin our User*s Group then #111 out the application form below and send it along with a check for $15.00 (1 year*s membership) toa Doug’s address. You will receive 12 issues of the Triangle Sinclair User's Group Newsletter

NAME:

TOWN: STATE: ZIF CODE:

I own a: TS 1000 wens TS2068 .., OTHER: _. . I plan to buy a Qe

I own a modem___

I want articles ons hardware projects Teese software, reviews —_, machine code Pewee

I would like to write some articles for the newsletter __ I would like to

Doug Dewey 206 Jamee.St. - Carrboro, NC 27510