íEíCfÃçü       Initializing Media      t the ADAM world via the ADAM News Network.  The first part, originally published in the ADVISA, was recently       featured in the Puget Sound ADAM Network, PSAN, newsletter, the PSAN   Newsnet.\\\\\    I covered some of the basics of faster SmartWRITER in the first   of these columns, and now I want to deal with a miscellany of          techniques for getting the job done in less time and hopefully with    less aggravation.\\\\\    In no particular order, these ideas are some that I've used       succ9103ANN1   Uªÿ BOOT       DIRECTORY  ØFASTERSW02HIGLEANINGS2H	-INTRO_SB_4HÚERRORS2AFT

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yANNplansHTƒäBARRY_COMMH‘×READMETWOA•mBLOCKS LEFT—	 save.\\\\\    A decent, i.e. comfortable place to work is not only better for   you and the ADAM, making the whole process more attractive, but a      titanic timesaver.\\\\\    Working when you're fresh, eager and willing helps everything go  better. I know a lot of you will say why waste being fresh, willing    and eager on the ADAM, but that's your business.\\\\\    Storing often gets mentioned with boring regularity, but, it      doesn't hurt to keep it up. These days, paranoia is probably good  |JLUSION.\w\A\\\    Moving on from purely mechanical techniques, let's deal with some behavior modification. \\\\\    The best book on Time Management I've ever seen said\r~05,80\\\K\W\Q\CPAGE 3.\\\\FASTER SMARTWRITER.\\\\BY DAVE SANDS.\\\r~05,40\\\K\Q\AHere is the second part of Dave Sands' series of articles on     speeding up your word processing with SmartWRITER. This series is now  being circulated throughouessfully and can recommend.\\\\\    The more you use your ADAM. the better you'll be on it. It        doesn't have to be word processing, but doing everything on the ADAM   keeps you current -- no time spent remembering.\\\\\    A little thing like a power bar can save a remarkable amount of   aggravation. One switch on a conveniently located bar and everything   is on.\\\\\    Prices on these things are now down to the reasonable level if    you stay out of computer stores. Get your Club Z points and    mental health. The utility company is going to get you, if you work    without Storing.\\\\\    Preset formats can save a small amount of time every time you use them. If for example, you always write letters and print them out on   letterhead paper, make up your margin/tab settings, horizontal,        vertical, spacing etc., key in "Done" and then Store it as LTRFormat   or something you'll always recognize. Since you'll always put a disk   or data pack (DDP) into the ADAM to Store on, make LTRFormatrity for knowing all this    stuff -- everything I've learned has been The Hard Way.\\\\\    File management on media (disks and DDP's) saves time and         conserves space. If you are a good writer and revisor, you'll keep     improving your piece, probably Storing again and again. Culling those  early versions makes the Directory smaller. Storing the final perfect  effort on a separate medium lets you recycle the work tape/disk with   an INIT or Format and you can fill it again. When I look at DDP's  \\\      Attorney at Law,\\\\\      Dear Sir,\\\      Your client has made some completely unjustified and shocking   allegations about my payment habits and moral qualities, and besides,  the cheque is in the mail.\\\\\      Yours truly,\\\\\\     Adam Wombatt, Esq.\\\\\    An obvious timesaver, just change the names.\\\\\    Another great timesaver is having a good number of disks or       DDP's. Especially DDP's. Because they're slow, keeping even single     files on a single DDP can be a read     stop. \\*    You save time by having a dictionary and a guide to correct       English usage beside the ADAM. \\*    You save time by outlining if you find you work hard at writing   but never write what you wanted to say. \\*    You save time, for yourself and your reader, by editing           everything you write. \\\\\    Early studies of word processors discovered that they were slower than typewriters on first drafts, and faster on subsequent drafts.     They're slower because you can easilyhose Directory listings. Stick 'em in the packs or on  the sleeves. You can scan a dozen printed listings in the time it      takes to get a Directory on the screen.\\\\\    Sometimes you don't much care how much time the ADAM needs, but   others...\\\\\    Keep a supply of formatted disks or packs handy. Nothing wastes   time like looking for something that ain't where it should be. Same    goes for paper, ribbons and envelopes. I want you to know I am not     speaking from any feeling of moral superio the first file on each new one. When starting each letter, Get File your format  and save the resetting. Store the letter under its own filename, of    course.\\\\\    Envelopes benefit from this system, too. Because they're fussy,   setting up a format you know prints right saves real time the next     time.\\\r~45,80\\\K\Q\A\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\    If you write a lot of very similar things, letters for example,   its obvious that a preset complete letter will be useful:\\\\\      Barry A. Wilson,    filled with filenames that don't ring any bells I know it's time to    clean house.\\\r~05,80\\\K\W\Q\CPAGE 4.\\\r~05,40\\\K\W\Q\CFASTER SMARTWRITER,\\\\PART 2, CONCLUSION.\w\A\\\    Moving on from purely mechanical techniques, let's deal with some behavior modification. \\\\\    The best book on Time Management I've ever seen said it simply:   Time management is really Self management. So it is with word          processing. \\*    You save time when you know what you want to say, say it, anl time saver. The files on a DDP are stored one after another. The farther away from the Directory your     active file is, the longer it takes to Get. Keep the file selection    small and get there faster.\\\\\    But the more packs or disks you have, the greater the problem of  knowing where the file you want is among those assorted media. Here    I'm speaking from experience, all of it bad. Use a Catalog printing    program from the Public Domain or a good copy program like Backup +    3.0. Print out t go back and improve, correct     and, especially, edit.\\\\\    As someone has said, if you think Education is expensive, try     Ignorance. And if you think the ADAM and SmartWRITER is slow, go back  to typewriting your work. I have had to recently, and never again will a word of complaint pass my lips -- well, not soon.\\'ve ever seen said it simply:   Time management is really Self management. So it is with word          processing. \\*    You save time when you know what you want to say, say it, anwriters who were at ADAMCON and saw          demonstrations the most enthusiastic, which speaks volumes about  Brown's credibility.\\\         "To say our knowledgeable people were impressed is a    great understatement" Richard Clee, "Around the Circuit", MTAG,   Sept/Oct 90.\\\\\         The other big news item out of ADAMCON was rumors of    new equipment for the ADAM, particularly disk drives. It appears  from Metro Toronto ADAM Group and Metro Orlando ADAM Users Group  (MOAUG) newsletters, that the Œ	J    MTAG's Clee also reports some members --  "our more     serious hackers" --  are trying to improve on SmartWRITER. It's   not a small project, and the club is looking \r~05,80\\\K\W\Q\CPAGE 5.\\\\GLEANINGS.\\\\BY DAVE SANDS.\\\r~05,40\\\K\Q\A\         The "Hypercard" software that was demo'd at       ADAMCON 02 in Toronto is now available in the form of a demo      datapack from the writer, Jason Brown, 3l2 Add off the shelf models. If it all comes true,       having large-capacity, low priced drives will make the ADAM very  attractive either to keep or buy.\\\\\         In my almost vast, well, half vast, experience with     ADAM newsletters Vancouver and the Islands Senior ADAMphiles'     ADVISA newletter editor David Cobley is unique. As in the         dictionary definition: the only one of its kind. His Christmas    Bonus edition of the clubs' newsletter is a landmark of           ADAMnewsletterdom, a tinyd each card can link to any other card in any other stacks on tape. A stack   of 50 cards can be held in ADAM's memory at once and a single     stack of 50 cards occupies typically l4 blocks on a datapack.     This means you can contain linked stacks of virtually 900 cards,  (50 cards by l8 decks by l4 blocks each = 252 blocks) on a single 256K datapack."---Jason Brown, "Hypercard for ADAM", MTAG,        Sept/Oct l990.\\\         This development has created considerable excitement in the ADAM world, with d     stop. \\*    You save time by having a dictionary and a guide to correct       English usage beside the ADAM. \\*    You save time by outlining if you find you work hard at writing   but never write what you wanted to say. \\*    You save time, for yourself and your reader, by editing           everything you write. \\\\\    Early studies of word processors discovered that they were slower than typewriters on first drafts, and faster on subsequent drafts.     They're slower because you can easilysupplier will be Mark Gordon of     Micro Innovations. This is the developer of the hard disk drive   unit for the ADAM called PowerMATE. 320K 5.25" drives at about    $200 (U.S.$) and 720K 3.5" drives about $250, according to MTAG,  MOAUG and ADAM International Media (AIM) of ADAM's House,         Pearland, TX. Availability was to be December. Coleco used its    own electronic circuits for its disk drives: the problem Gordon   has solved obviously was duplicating those codes, the mechanisms  were low-priceelaide St. W., #805, Toronto,ON. M5V 1R2. Phone is 416-348-9978.\\\         "This programming software is a compact, text oriented  approximation of Hypercard for the Apple Macintosh Computer.\\\         The Hypercard for ADAM package consists of the Toolkit  and the Engine. With the Toolkit you create a 'stack' of cards of text information. You then offer the user several interactive     ways to navigate from one card to another through this Stack.\\\         Each stack may consist of up to 50 cards, an, often hapless little communications    niche where editions are late, slim, nonexistent, promised and    promised, thinly disguised advertising, undisguised advertising   often for the editor himself, occasionally a total waste of time, and never previously to my knowledge, Bonus to the subscription   promised.\\\         David Cobley's Bonus edition, produced for no other     reason than to thank the membership of his club for being there,  \\\r~45,80\\\K\Q\A\\\\\\\\\\\\\\and making the club t Didn't Dick Francis do a novel on a computer program to pick horse race winners ? He never did print out the program,     just did his usual crippled jockey hero, love affair and murders  thing.\\\\\         The Personal Calendar Utility program by Sol Swift has  other uses. MOAUG member Robert Slopsema uses it to create        business forms. He used a combination of PowerPAINT, Clipper and  Calendar programs. A dot matrix printer on the ADAM is another    necessity.\\\\\         A new wrinkle for betuser the capability of creating their own categories which can thereafter be sorted by entering a short     criterion. LABEL MAKER DELUXE (LMD) allows for the creation of a  90 record database with each record holding 10 categories (which  are user defined) of information." --Jim Notini, NIAD, in AUGER,  Emerald Coast ADAM Users Group, Dec/Jan. 90.\\\\\         Graphics and clip art programs are multiplying for the  ADAM. YuleTools 1 is a collection of Christmas - oriented clips;  480 sprites, a candy canre  zips through then...I just recently tried this and printed out    one of the sharpest, blackest letters I've seen come from the     ADAM printer. When I looked at the ribbon, there was no           overlapping of impressions at all. The only justification I can   think of to use this, is that the ribbon can be rewound and used  several times before its worn out." ----Capt. R. D. Symonds, MC,  USN, in Edmonton ADAM Users Group "ADAM's Leaf" via ADAM News     Network (ANN), Nov. 90.\\\\\          New to "Those Doggone      Dawgs" (sic) from Graftex Software ($l4.95 disk, $l6.95 pack,     from Joe Quinn, 6665 Timbers Drive, Mobile, AL. USA 36695.\\\         "This is an ingeniously simple program. It prompts you  for data available from the racing form, and using that data,     evaluates each dog and gives it a comparative score. When you get to the track you simply put your money on the dogs your ADAM has  rated highest." ----Monte Neece, reviewer, Metro Orlando ADAM     User's Group, Oct. 90.\\\        he success it is, gives the editor of every  other ADAM newsletter something to emulate. Or eat their hearts   out about. BRAVO ! Three Cheers and a Tiger!\\\         Onward!\\\\\         "LABEL MAKER DELUXE is TCR Software's second release    for the ADAM, their first being the great enhancement of the      public domain French SuperBASIC called SuperBASIC PLUS. LABEL     MAKER DELUXE is a simple but very powerful labelling program that can also function as a database program.\\\         It offers the ter looking printing on the ADAM   printer proves there's always a new way to do things with our     favorite computer:\\\r~05,80\\\K\W\Q\CPAGE 6.\\\\GLEANINGS CONT'D.\\\r~05,40\\\K\Q\A\         "Another fix, which stops the binding around the  knurled knob [ on the ribbon cassette ] but can be wasteful, is   to take the ribbon out from between the white plastic mechanism   on the left side of the cassette, and through which it passes on  its way to the take-up spool. Just let it ride free. Boy it sue alphabet, numbers,etc. Rated "terrific" by reviewer Faye B. Deere of AUGER. Producer is EyeZod, P.J.      Herrington, 1003 Oak Lake, Apopka, FL. USA 32703. Disk $13, pack  $15, shipping $3, all US.\\\\\         And Norman Castro, of the Omaha ADAM Users Group has    developed a way to enlarge sprites, using a combination of        programs and techniques. Details in the Dec/Jan. 90 AUGER.\\\\\         If your Florida vacation plans -- we can all \Uplan\u   -- include betting on the dog races, you need me is a listing for MAGnet ADAM User Group, c/o Eric Brennan, 888 Templeton Ave. Winnipeg, MB. R2V 3S6, also      publishes a newsletter. Listing appeared in the Sept/Oct. NIAD    Bulletin Board.\\\         [I wrote to MAGnet ADAM User Group, in my role as New   AUG Co-ordinator for the ADAM News Network, but my letter was     returned "MOVED"]. BDC.\\\\\         NIAD is marketing two combination program/instruction   sets which will interest the advanced ADAM user. Accessing VRAM,  and Mastering Music.o liquidated ADAM systems, most people       bought them for less than $300! Not bad at all for an $800        computer. When presented with a cost of $275 just for a disk      drive, most people failed (and continue to fail) to consider all  the benefits of the device, and fall back instead on the          comparison between what it will cost versus what they actually    paid for the whole computer! It never dawns on them that they     paid a "liquidation price" for their ADAM." ---Ron Collins,       "Add-are becoming important again because of their          scarcity. NIAD now lists them at $59.95 US (Nov. '90). This is    certainly a recent high.\\\         "In the seven or eight drives I've repaired for myself  and friends, I've found that the heat build up usually causes     problems with Q-4 and Q-6 [chips] in the servo unit. This will    cause the data drive speeds to be erratic, or the motor will act  as if it is burnt out. If it acts like this and you try it too    many times, the motor WILL be burnyed on the screen by      simply pulling the cartridge reset switch!" --Alan Neeley, review of PNBL cartridge from Walters Software Co. ADAM Informant,       Sept.'90.\\\\\         One of the joys and concurrent frustrations of doing    the Gleanings column is the amount of material that is available  on a monthly basis. It is practically overwhelming. Any ADAM User Group member will be spending his/her time wisely by reviewing    exchange newsletters in the clubs' library. There is gold in      those hil on their in-development products and     services." NIAD, NOV.'90.\\\         "In our Southern California region, the outbreak of     viruses has suddenly grown vastly worse. \\\r~45,80\\\K\Q\A\\\\\\\\\\Almost no BBS has gone unscathed. Major BBS's are reluctant to    admit the extent of damage that they have experienced, because    they don't want these vandals to know the degree of havoc they    have been successful in creating." Thomas Keene, IEAUG,           Nov.'90.\\\\\         "When Colec Both deal with the ADAM's capabilities in    Video Random Access Memory and sound chip, respectively. \\\         Another software/book combo is "Learning to Write with  ADAM," Vol ll in a series that began with "Learning to Read with  ADAM." Aimed at the Z80 machine language enthusiast and those     seriously interested in ADAM EOS routines. Reviews by Jim Notini  in the Sept/Oct.'90 NIAD, available from the ADVISA Editor.\\\\\         Data drives, the unique-to-ADAM storage media and       mechanism, ons for the Coleco ADAM Computer", ADAM Informant,           Sept.'90.\\\\\         PNBL [Project Name By Line] can be acquired on disk or  tape from most User's Groups for practically nothing. However,    there are limitations when it is booted from any form other than  cartridge. If not in cartridge form, PNBL requires a 64K memory   expander. Even worse is that the nicest feature in this program   will not be functional -- the capability of capturing [high       resolution screen] graphics being displat out... I've also found that   the servo board, Revision "C" Q-6 is usually the culprit. Q-6 =   2SD1051 transistor which G.E., E.C.G. and ARCHER list no          subsitutes for. It is available through Matsushita  (that's       Quasar or Panasonic Service/Parts Depot)."--- Rick Lobbestael,    Data Drive Care, NIAD, Nov.'90.\\\\\         Some short takes on news and near-news in the ADAM      world, with sources:\\\         "OASIVE PENSIVE ABACUTORS and PHOENIX 2000 have         released no further newsls of ADAM publications -- and the answers to the        mysteries, probably of the universe, and certainly those your     ADAM has created for you.\W\C\\LATE BREAKING GLEANINGS.\w\A\\\         One of the most exciting hardware projects for the ADAM since the introduction of the hard disk units will be the ADAM    Image Maker (AIM) Board. Prematurely announced, and heralded, it  has now been demonstrated to the Metro Toronto ADAM Group.        President Rich Clee of MTAG says board, software and a Goldstae is anything on the l60K. Large capacity disks use a      different storage system that totally destroys files on small K   size disks. Read the Dec.'90 IEAUG newsletter for a detailed      discussion.\\\\\         There's another way to improve your ADAM screen image,  if the AIM Board or Radio Shack RF modulator don't appeal. Shack  part # l5-lll8, a signal booster, and one each #l5-1529, coaxial  cable and #42-2365 RCA cable are needed. Cut and splice the two   cables to make two coax to RCA units, ansets, which lack the resolution needed for finer display.\\\         The AIM Board uses a Texas Instruments graphics chip,   and apparently will require its own software and a monitor.\\\\\r`11~05,80\\\K\W\Q\CPAGE 7.\\\r`11~05,40\\\K\W\Q\CGLEANINGS, CONT'D.\w\A\\\         MTAG's Clee also reports some members --  "our more     serious hackers" --  are trying to improve on SmartWRITER. It's   not a small project, and the club is looking for encouragement.   SmartWRITER is on a microchip within the ADe is anything on the l60K. Large capacity disks use a      different storage system that totally destroys files on small K   size disks. Read the Dec.'90 IEAUG newsletter for a detailed      discussion.\\\\\         There's another way to improve your ADAM screen image,  if the AIM Board or Radio Shack RF modulator don't appeal. Shack  part # l5-lll8, a signal booster, and one each #l5-1529, coaxial  cable and #42-2365 RCA cable are needed. Cut and splice the two   cables to make two coax to RCA units, an09-00 and     Radio Shack part #275-016 will work.---Thomas Keene, 'ADAM        Printer Malfunction', IEAUG, via ADAM News Network. His entire    article appeared in the ADVISA Sept.'90.\C\\MORE-THAN-YOU-EVER-WANTED-TO-KNOW DEPARTMENT.\A\\\         The move toward large capacity disk drives has lead to  some large problems. Thomas Keene has discovered some and writes  about the disasters possible when transferring CP/M files from    720K disks to ADAM l60K using PIP.COM. The short answer is don't, if therr   l4" monitor bundle will be available for $350.\\\\\         The AIM Board will give the ADAM an "80-column display" capacity and far more and better screen graphics. The ADAM has    always been one of the better computers of its era for graphics   -- part of its "game machine" heritage -- and reports on the AIM  Board stress the improvement. The "80-column" display means "real computer" on the monitor screen to many of us. The ADAM was built to display only 40 characters because it was made to use TV d connect the booster     between the ADAM and your TV. [ Using RCA to Coax adapters, ready made cables may be available ]. Author says this fix will make    your color tv work as well as a monitor. If so, a great deal for  less than $20, US. --- Richard Slopsema, 'Blurry-Eyed ?' MOAUG,   Dec.'90.\\d to  some large problems. Thomas Keene has discovered some and writes  about the disasters possible when transferring CP/M files from    720K disks to ADAM l60K using PIP.COM. The short answer is don't, if therAM that is intimately  tied into the computers' operation, so any changes will affect    the whole thing. Anything they can do to speed up SmartWRITER and take out its bugs would probably get them nominated for           sainthood, at a minimum.\\\         MTAG is at Box l65, 260 Adelaide St.E., Toronto, ON.    M5A 1N0.\\\\\         Note to file and lose: the exact replacement for the    microswitch in the ADAM printer that governs the thing's          operation (the famous "clunk") is Sony part #1-5l5-3”	J\BY CHARLES A. SMITH.\\\\LESSON FOUR.\w\A\\Here is the fourth lesson in Charles Smith's series, Introduction to SmartBASIC. Our thanks to Charles for his continuing   \r`11~05,80\\\K\W\Q\CPAGE 8.\\\r`11~05,40\\\K\W\Q\CINTRODUCTION TO SMARTBASIC.\\\\BY CHARLES A. SMITH.\\\\LESSON FOUR.\w\A\\Here is the fourth lesson in Charles Smith's series, Introduction to SmartBASIC. Our thanks to Charles for his continuingnd can be one or two letters    followed by a dollar sign. eg, A$="HELLO"\\\\If that is included in a progam, every time you command:\\\\\r`11~45,80\\\K\Q\A\\\\\\\    ] PRINT A$     -    you get\\\\\      HELLO\\\\String Variables are very useful. Try this short program:\\\\\    ] NEW\\\    ] 10 HOME:PRINT"Please type in you name- ":INPUT N$\\\    ] 20 PRINT:PRINT"What city do you live in "N$"? ":INPUT C$\\\    ] 30 PRINT:PRINT"I've heard that "C$" is a pretty city"\\\\Note that the cont0-2*3+72/9*5\\\\so, according to the rule:\\\\\      10 - 2*3 + 72/9 * 5\\\            6     8   * 5\\\                        40\\\\\      10 -  6  + 40   = 44\\\\You might wonder why ADAM doesn't multiply 9*5 and then divide    that into 72 in which case the final answer would be 5.6. In      order to avoid any confusion I always use brackets. ADAM will set aside his built-in rules and perform all bracketed operations     separately. If your future programming is to involve powers,      roots, lw. Like so:\\\\\    ] NEW\\\    ] 10 HOME:PRINT"Want to play chess? Y/N ":INPUT A$\\\    ] 20 IF A$="Y" THEN GOTO 50\\\    ] 30 PRINT:PRINT"Later maybe."\\\    ] 40 END\\\    ] 50 PRINT:PRINT"You want Black or White? ":INPUT B$ (etc)\\\\You'll notice that we didn't have to say 'IF A$="N" THEN...' it   is obvious to ADAM that if A$ does not equal "Y", he is to go on  to the next command which in this case is Line 30. We put in the  'END' command that ADAM would not just go from there to the PRINT cogling I will      periodically check it out by substituting numerals and running it through on a calculator.\\\\STRING VARIABLES - We learned earlier that a numerical value can  be represented by a letter. It is then referred to as a           'variable' because the letter may have different values from time to time within the program. \\\\We can also assign letters to represent names, words or groups of words and even a combination of letters and numbers. In that case it is called a 'String Variable' a           commitment to our education. BDC.\\\\In the last lesson reference was made to some parts of the        SmartBASIC Manual for study and I thought we might begin this     discussion with a look at those aspects of programming:\\\\ARITHMETIC ORDER OF OPERATIONS - What does '2 plus 3 times four'  mean? The answer could be 20; or it could be 14 depending on the  order in which you do it. ADAM has a rule; it multiplies and      divides first and then adds and subtract. Try this:\\\\\    ] PRINT 1ents of a String Variable must always be within quotation marks. You will notice that the SmartBASIC manual shows a different method for String output. Both methods will work but  I think the method above is a little better because it allows you to insert the variable anywhere within the PRINT command.\\\\IF/THEN COMMANDS - An extremely useful feature both in arithmetic as well as string variables. Basically, what you are telling ADAM with this command is; when one event occurs, another event must   folloogarithmic and trigonometric functions along with other   exotica you will soon get lost without brackets.\\\\Even if you use brackets within brackets ADAM will do as you did  in High School; clear the inside brackets first. Try this:\\\\\     ] PRINT 10-(2*3)+((72/9)*5)\\\\\       44 is the answer. Now try this:\L\\\     ] PRINT 10-(2*3)+(72/(9*5)) and you will get:\A\\\       5.6\\\\If you are using letter variables in your program, brackets are   essential. When I do that sort of arithmetic jugmmand in Line 50.\\\\One of the early truths to recognize in programming is that the   computer responds not to mathematical or equational reasoning but to pure deductive logic. Here is a perfectly reasonable           command:\\\\\    ] 100 IF B<>1 THEN B=1\\\\What you have told ADAM is that, say at the end of some           calculation, that you want B equal to 1 regardless of its current value. (The symbols, <>, mean 'not equal to').\\\\\    ] 200 IF B=1 AND C=2 THEN B+C=10\\\\Again, a logical  takes over, prints  the message, and prompts for input again. Try entering strings    (words) instead of numbers, same reaction. Guess our error        handler is not too smart. Try entering 0,0 to exit and find that  the error handler takes over since it tries to do the division    before checking for the EXIT cue.  So type 0,1 to end. Now,       delete line 40 and run the program again....CONGRATULATIONS, your first unbreakable program!\\\\RESUME can be used in an error handling routine to return to th\r`11~05,80\\\K\W\Q\CPAGE 11.\\\\EXPLORING SMARTBASIC\\\\BY GUY COUSINEAU.\\\r`11~05,40\\\K\W\Q\CERRORS.\w\A\\Here is another in our Exploring SmartBASIC series by Guy         Cousineau of the ADAM User Friendly Group, of Ottawa. The         articles were supplied to us by Ron Mitchell, President of        AUFG.\\\\If you want a professional looking program which does not crash   upon improper input or behaviour, you can use error trapping. You can use complicated error traps to make it virtually  it really? \A\\Try typing ^C several times. If you are fast enough, you might be able to catch the operating system off guard and break with a     strange message like Break in 17042. But there is no such line    number!. At this point, you should reboot BASIC.\\\r`11~45,80\\\K\Q\A\\\\\\\\\\\\\\Although any other action may result in a FATAL SYSTEM ERROR,     strange things have been known to happen.\\\\CLRERR is used to turn off the error trapping and is an essential companion to ONERR. If thonsibility to write an appropriate error     routine. ONERR will trap ALL errors (including ^C), except the    "Extra Ignored" which is not an error but a warning.\\\\\    10  ONERR GOTO 60\\\    20  INPUT x,y\\\    30  PRINT x/y\\\    40  IF x=0 THEN END : REM allow the program to terminate\\\    50  GOTO 20\\\    60  PRINT "division by zero error"\\\    70  GOTO 20\\\\Try running this program with normal values; everything behaves   as expected.\\\\Now enter 1,0 and your error handling routinecommand and ADAM won't argue with your           arithmetic. In this case you ordered a conclusion based upon two  premises; perfectly OK but you must always use just one IF for    every THEN.\\\\Next lesson we will look at some of the other useful commands you can use to advantage in your programming such as:\\FOR/NEXT\\\\GOSUB/RETURN\\\\DATA/READ\\\\(Just for fun see if you can create a program that will convert   from pounds to kilograms and vice versa.)\\not just go from there to the PRINT coe  line number that caused the error. Note that it will try to       re-execute the statement that caused the error rather than skip   to the next statement. To prove this point, re-write the program  above and substitute 70 RESUME. Now when you generate an error    with input like 1,0 the program locks itself in a loop and keeps  reprinting the divide by 0 error and then insisting on            re-executing line 30.....CONGRATULATIONS, another program that    gets out of control and can't be broken! But isimpossible   to break into your programs.\\\\WARNING! This is an advanced subject and can lead you into        serious difficulties and the loss of valuable programs if used    incorrectly. Save all your error trapping until a program is      completely debugged. Even so, work on a duplicate copy of your    program just in case something goes wrong.\\\\ONERR activates the error trapping sequences it will send the     program to an error handling routine via a GOTO statement. It is  the programmer's respe routine illustrated above is part of a bigger program, you don't want ALL errors to branch to a DIVIDE   BY 0 message. Consider the following:\\\\\    10 ONERR GOTO 60\\\    20 INPUT x,y\\\    30 PRINT x/y\\\    50 GOTO 80\\\    60 PRINT "division by zero error"\\\    70 GOTO 20\\\    80 CLRERR\\\    90 INPUT x,y\\\   100 PRINT x/y\\\   110 END\\\\Run this program and enter 0,0 the first time; the error handler  takes over.\\\\Now enter a valid value like 4,2 and get 2 for an answer. As we or handler           smarter.\\\\\   10 ONERR GOTO 60\\\   20 INPUT x,y\\\   30 PRINT x/y\\\   50 GOTO 20\\\   60 err=ERRNUM(0)\\\   70 IF err=133 then print "divide by zero error":GOTO 20\\\   80 IF err=255 then print "Program Aborted":END\\\   90 Print "Unknown error #";err\\\  100 END\\\\Now we have an error handler that can make decisions. If the      error is divide by zero, tell the user and try again. If ^C was   pressed, end the program. If any other error occurs, show the     error coded it in for future reference.\C\\\    ERROR MEANING\L\\\    2 range error; parameter too large to handle by parser\\\    5 end of data in a file read (see 42)\\\    7 file not found\\\    8 bad read or write to disk/DDP (ambiguous error)\\\    9 directory or disk/DDP full\\\   10 file is locked in write or delete operation\\\   11 bad file name or other syntax in ^D operations\\\   12 too many characters after a ^D or too many files open \\\   13 file type mismatch; trying to run a binary file\\\/O error here\\\   50 ...\\\  100 ONERR GOTO 150\\\  110 FOR x=1 to 10\\\  120 INPUT x :REM from file\\\  130 NEXT x\\\  140 CLRERR:GOTO 200\\\  149 REM handle end of data, syntax, and disk I/O error here\\\  150 ...\\\\Each section of the program has its own error trap and can handle them more efficiently via ERRNUM(0). Note the CLRERR statement at the end of each critical routine.\\\\NOBREAK has been the subject of a few discussions and it seems    very few people understand it. Here's my bestE 12.\\\\EXPLORING SMARTBASIC, CONT'D.,\\\r~05,40\\\K\W\Q\CERRORS, CONT'D.,\w\A\\\  120 same array specified twice in DIM statement\\\  133 division by zero\\\  163 type mismatch\\\  176 string longer than 255 characters\\\  191 formula too complex\\\  224 using FN (function) with no DEF FN (function definition)\\\  254 bad response to INPUT like STRING when number was          expected\\\  255 a STOP statement was encountered or ^C was pressed.\\\\Now back to our first program to make the err  are now at line 90, try entering 0,0 and get the usual BASIC      message since the error trapping has been turned off at line      80.\\\\ERRNUM gives error handlers the ability to be a bit more          intelligent by interpreting the error. Information on error codes is sketchy but you can augment the table below by running a       program WITHOUT an ONERR statement.\\\\Whenever an error occurs, type PRINT ERRNUM(0) to find the        corresponding error code. If it does not appear in the table, ad and end the program.\\\\Although there are several ways of handling errors, my            recommended approach is to make one routine for each critical     part of your programs. That way you always know where you are.    Although DATA FILE ACCESS will be discussed at a later date,      consider this sample program which handles errors in stages.\\\\\   10 INPUT "File Name ";f$\\\   20 ONERR GOTO 50\\\   30 PRINT CHR$(4);"Open ";f$\\\   40 CLRERR:GOTO 100\\\   49 REM handle bad file name and disk I   16 illegal function in a READ or INPUT statement\\\   22 RETURN encountered with no GOSUB pending\\\   42 out of data in a READ statement (see 5)\\\   53 illegal quantity in STRING operations, \\\      or PEEK POKE SPC TAB, etc.\\\   69 floating point or integer number too big to handle.\\\   77 out of memory (too many nested loops, program too big, \\\      etc.)\\\   90 undefined statement for GOTO or GOSUB\\\  107 bad subscript; using values outside the limits of DIM\\\r~05,80\\\K\W\Q\CPAG interpretation. \\\\\r~45,80\\\K\Q\A\\\\\\\\\\SMARTBASIC continually scans the keyboard for a ^C and aborts     your programs at your request. Using the NOBREAK command defeats  this feature, but not entirely. When a program writes to the      screen, a ^C will always work. Try the following program:\\\\\   10 PRINT "Press control-C"\\\   20 NOBREAK\\\   30 FOR x= 1 TO 5000:NEXT\\\   40 PRINT "It did not work, did it?"\\\   50 PRINT "Press control-C"\\\   60 GOTO 50\\\\During the first loAK; it reactivates the ^C checking  in your program.\C\\ROUTINE ADDRESSES\w\A\\ONERR executes at 8114 (1FB2). It verifies that a program is      running since it is not a valid COMMAND in direct mode. It then   extracts the line number from the command line and saves it at    address 16126 (3EFE) after setting the ONERR flag.\\\\CLRERR executes at 8313 (2079). It checks for run mode and that   ONERR is active. It resets the ONERR flag and reloads the program counter with the line number where the error HGR2\\\   20 NOBREAK\\\   30 GET c$\\\   40 HCOLOR=VAL(c$)\\\   50 FOR x=0 to 255\\\   60 HPLOT x,100\\\   70 NEXT\\\   80 do=do+1\\\   90 IF do=10 THEN TEXT:END\\\  100 GOTO 30\\\\Run this program and press 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 in rapid succession    and WAIT. You will see the line changing colours as each colour   value is interpreted. After 10 iterations, the program ends. Note that without line 90, the program would lock up...another         UNBREAKABLE program.\\\\BREAK is the opposite of NOBREoup's newsletter. The series was provided to us by Richard      Clee, President of MTAG. It is my understanding that John Burns   is no longer a member of MTAG and has ceased providing them with  further articles in the series. Rather a pity, because they       contained a great amount of information, useful to those of us    that are not, as yet, experienced data processors. BDC.\C\\DATABASES ON ADAM: \\BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO RESEARCH AND SELECTION.\A\\THE HOUSE OF CARDS:\\\\What's a database?. You hear occurred.\\\\REAK\\\   30 GET c$\\\   40 HCOLOR=VAL(c$)\\\   50 FOR x=0 to 255\\\   60 HPLOT x,100\\\   70 NEXT\\\   80 do=do+1\\\   90 IF do=10 THEN TEXT:END\\\  100 GOTO 30\\\\Run this program and press 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 in rapid succession    and WAIT. You will see the line changing colours as each colour   value is interpreted. After 10 iterations, the program ends. Note that without line 90, the program would lock up...another         UNBREAKABLE program.\\\\BREAK is the opposite of NOBREop, ^C is disabled since there is no screen    output. When line 50 gets executed in a loop, ^C will abort.\\\\So what's the advantage? Since the keyboard is not scanned, you   can increase a program's speed (only marginally) by using NOBREAK in your CPU intensive tasks.\\\\The best advantages come into play when you use HGR2 mode. Since  there is never any screen output, NOBREAK will make a program     harder to abort. The best advantage, however, will be TYPE AHEAD! Consider this program:\\\\\   10 †	JCPART FIVE "A", CONT.,\w\A\\PROCESS is the actual mechanical and electronic activity of       selecting FIELDS or tying the database to your FORMATS. You have  to know th\r~05,80\\\K\W\Q\CPAGE 13.\\\\KEEP YOUR ADAM RUNNING.\\\\BY JOHN BURNS.\\\r~05,40\\\K\Q\W\CPART FIVE "A".\w\A\\Here is the first part of the final article in the series written by John Burns and originally published in the Metro Toronto ADAM  GrAK; it reactivates the ^C checking  in your program.\C\\ROUTINE ADDRESSES\w\A\\ONERR executes at 8114 (1FB2). It verifies that a program is      running since it is not a valid COMMAND in direct mode. It then   extracts the line number from the command line and saves it at    address 16126 (3EFE) after setting the ONERR flag.\\\\CLRERR executes at 8313 (2079). It checks for run mode and that   ONERR is active. It resets the ONERR flag and reloads the program counter with the line number where the error all kinds of talk about them and you know they refer to a lot of computer stored information, but what are they really?.\\\\A database is nothing more than an electronic stack of filing     cards with standardized information titles on any subject entered on them. The database will not only deal the cards out in piles   (SEARCH FOR A SUBJECT) but will extract, assemble and collate     information lines from each card. (REPORT GENERATION.)\\\\HANDLING RAW DATA:\\\\You create a database by entering infoLDS on your RECORD cards. You have   to remember to do the filing (the entries) the same way every     time just like training an animal. If you don't do it the same    way every time, the poor thing gets confused and can't give the   results you want.\\\\DATES:\\\\For example, you have to decide, once and for all, how you are    going to enter something as simple as DATES. Suppose you want to  enter the 19th DAY of the MONTH of March in the YEAR 1990. Your   first reaction is "That's simple". Really?.  name, address, phone numbers, likes  and   dislikes, hobbies and birth date, when they last entertained you, and whether they sent you a birthday present or whatever. When it came time to send gifts or decide who just got a Christmas card,  you would go through the FILE drawer and make selections from the RECORD cards, stacking the cards in BATCH piles, according to the information contained in the headings or FIELDS. The problem      arises when you have somebody who should be selected for more     than ome easier equals faster.) Regardless  of which you use, the human brain would look at them and          recognize all as variations of the same date, even if mixed up.   ADAM can't handle that mix up and not many computers can. Most    computer programs don't care how you enter information, as long   as you do it the SAME WAY EVERY TIME.\\\\PICKY, PICKY.\\\\It is sort of petty pickiness that sometimes deters people from   using or creating a database/ They just can't be bothered. On the other hand, for ngs on your friends. It won't make the gathering of the informatio any easier or       quicker. In some cases, entering the gathered information into    the computer FIELDS takes even longer than just making up filing  cards because you are locked into certain information formats.    Because no computer is as flexible, as easily prompted or as      association-memory triggered as is the human brain, you have to   be exact and painstaking in the creation of the headings,         questions, or information FIErmation into the computer   in the same way you would make up a Christmas shopping list and a birthday card list on all your friends. You could make two or     three different lists covering, say, Christmas cards or Christmas gifts, but the way most of us do it, especially if we're doing it over a period of time, is to first try making listings on a page, and when we discover that this isn't flexible enough, we go to    filing cards and make up one card for each friend. On that card   you would record theirConsider again!. Will it be entered as Mar19/90, 19Mar/90 19,03,90, March 19-90, or     full numerics such as 031990, or 190390. The more recognised      conventions are the American Date Presentation Format MM/DD/YY,   the British format of DD/MM/YY, and ANSI format YY.MM.DD. There   are also French, German and Italian formats. Database programmers manuals seem to suggest using the ANSI format because the date is arranged in proper SORT order and makes for easier handling by    the microprocessor. (I presune card pile and you have only one card. What do you do     about the friend who has a birthday in December?. Their record    card is already on the pile for those who get a Christmas gift.   Oh! Oh!. Now you have to start creating duplicate cards. That's   the hard way. Enter the tool of the century, the computer         database.\\\r~45,80\\\\\K\Q\A\\\\\\\\\\\\WHAT IT WILL NOT DO:\\\\Databases WILL NOT eliminate the drudgery of typing the RECORD    cards or creating the information FIELD headithose disciplined individuals who are willing to  put up with the pickiness of computer entry input, there are      great great benefits. A database will intake all your information (Known as RAW DATA) one time, then select, manipulate and display it in many ways and many times. It could be by the FIELDS of      alphabet, by location, postal code, telephone number, likes,      dislikes, shoe sizes, the number of children or whether they sent you a gift last year. \\\r~05,80\\\K\W\Q\CPAGE 14.\\\\KEEP YOorm request. Say, that the normal retirement  age for your machine operators is 65 but you really have no       specific field for retirement dates. You could get the            information in short form like this, (DISP MACH OPS AGE 65 BY     311290). The computer, if it has the right program, will          correctly interpret it to mean that you want a list of those      machine operators who will be 65 by year end and due for          retirement. \\\r~45,80\\\K\Q\A\\\\\\\\\\LOGIC:\\\\Some datab can be trained) to handle anything from  a simple customer/prospect list to a completely cross-referenced  encyclopaedia with index. (Not recommended on ADAM!) It will      handle character or text information, numbers and logic           questions.\\\\EXAMPLES.\\\\It can handle business inventories or production solutions. (HOW  MANY QUARTER INCH BOLTS IN BIN No. 4 AT LAST INVENTORY?), (HOW    MANY QUARTER INCH BOLTS IN TOTAL INVENTORY NOW?). For that repeat order of Widgets, it can remember  (and youADSHEETS.\\\\A database will do accounting and payroll and keep track of bills payable and accounts receivable. (DISPLAY ALL ACCOUNTS DUE NEXT   WEEK.) If you are heavy into accounting, financial tracking or    playing the "What if" projection game, (WHAT HAPPENS TO OUR       COMPANY IF SALES PROFITS GO UP 2% BUT THE UNION WANTS 9%?), then  you should consider the SPREADSHEET. It is a database             specifically specifically geared to financial problems.\\\\FIELD LAYOUT:\\\\The secret to this ab mailing labels by extracting a multi-line        address (Usually 5) or keep track of product development          information. (DISPLAY COMPONENTS FOR X-151 SHOE-SCRAPER). \\\\It will keep corporate personnel records and give returns such    as, (DISPLAY AND PRINT ALL MACHINE OPERATORS) or more specific,   (DISPLAY MACHINE OPERATORS IN DEPT 1011). \\\\Some DB (database) programs will allow you to be sneaky and ask   something not really programmed in. More than that, they will     understand a short fUR ADAM RUNNING. CONT.,\\\r~05,40\\\K\W\Q\CPART FIVE "A", CONT.,\w\A\\You can quickly decide who gets the gifts and who gets only the   greeting. (SELECT THOSE WHO SENT ME A GIFT LAST YEAR.) You can    print out lists, generate mailing labels or send a personalized   form letter to some or all of them and do it FAST.\\\\WHAT A DATABASE CAN DO.\\\\For computer APPLICATION USERS who are not into programming, a    database can be a real business or education tool. It can be      trained (or the operatorase programs will handle logic problems. LOGICAL is     when the question can be answered with YES, NO or TRUE, FALSE.    Questions like this (IS THIS EMPLOYEE LEFT-HANDED?) or (VALID     DRIVER'S LICENCE?). This makes the database excellent for fast    input and result gathering of multiple choice tests or            examinations. You just input the YES/NO, TRUE/FALSE selections    and the computer will give you a correct score count. (Plus do    averages and bell curves if you feed it properly!)\\\\SPRE can locate) the final production settings that worked best on milling machine No. 3 to  produce the last order.\\\\It can generate selective customer mailing lists, (DISPLAY        ACCOUNT NAMES/ADDRESSES WITH SALES GREATER THAN $2000             ANNUALLY).\\\\It will do mail merge for personalized form letters, provided you do the proper samples or FORMATS. Instead of "ATTENTION           OCCUPANT", it will insert "Dear Larry", or "Dear Mr. Johnson"     when it types the letter. \\\\It will generateility to locate, select, display and print   information is in the FIELDS you establish on the RECORD card     entry to the database.  It will handle information on practically anything you can type into HORIZONTAL ROW form or into VERTICAL   HEADING templates. Horizontal is when the headings, or FIELDS,    are laid out across the top of a columned, accounting type sheet. You tab across the ROW and fill in each box. Vertical Headings    are where the FIELDS are repeated once for each card or RECORD on the s of EOJ, that are the net result you want?. (If you have a 640K instead of a 64K, the identification list could be much      longer than just 3 or 4 items.) Identification of this list is    CRITICAL before you start buying programs, let alone start        designing the RECORD FIELDS or FORMATS.\\\\There is no point in getting a database program that is so        sophisticated that you can't understand it or if it uses more     memory than your computer has available. If you just want a       program that and considerations of HOUSEKEEPING, PROCESS and END OF JOB.\\\\HOUSEKEEPING is things like the design of the FIELDS. Are they    the proper title length, have they been defined as Character,     Numeric, Logic or Text?. Am I exceeding my record limitation of   characters?. Housekeeping and the ease of operation is what keep  the database growing. Design a sample run of 20 records and try   some manipulations and format merges. You'll soon find out if     your housekeeping is a good design you can live wiDAMite, or, finally, you can beg,    borrow or buy the program and try it. You need to learn things    like FIELD Title and INPUT limitations, RECORD limitations,       Search and Display characteristics and Merge capabilities. Most   people get so concerned with the creation and input of the RAW    database, they forget the importance of those outside FORMATS (or FORMS). A database without them is like a telephone book without  a phone. FORMATS are the real users of your database. You've got  all that infoof   difference in speed and ease of operation. This is where          experience counts because documentation rarely tells you what     will cause the software to bomb.\\\\END OF JOB. This is the real heart and justification of a         database operation. When all is said and done, what is it to do?. Establish what you want and what you expect the database to do    for you. It is a tool. You are buying it and building the         database to do something. What are the THREE MAIN items?, your    versioncreen and you go down the list, typing in your responses,    (DATA).\\\\ESTABLISHING DATABASE USE AND FIELDS:\\\\The difference between having a good, smoothly working database,  that gives you the returns you want, and one that is difficult to read and inconvenient to access or use with Print Formats is in   the advance planning you do, and the experimentation you try.     DON'T DEPEND SOLELY ON THE DOCUMENTATION. When you are setting up your database, you should define the planning of the whole task   will alphabetize your address book, then don't pay   for a full-blown database. Unless the features are of benefit to  you, they are wasted money.\\\\Let us assume you have established your EOJ and it justifies      buying a database. Regardless of what type of DB you get, it will have limitations. Your mission is to use and take full advantage  of what you pay for. You can only do that by research on          brochures, (Watch out!. They lie, or at minimum, exaggerate), or  you can check with a fellow Ath.\\\r~05,80\\\K\W\Q\CPAGE 15.\\\\KEEP YOUR ADAM RUNNING, CONT'D.\\\r~05,40\\\K\W\Q\CPART FIVE "A", CONT.,\w\A\\PROCESS is the actual mechanical and electronic activity of       selecting FIELDS or tying the database to your FORMATS. You have  to know the limitations of what you can ask your program to       handle or you may get the dreaded CRASH CURVE. Overload!.         Insufficient memory!. Cannot Access This File!. Cannot Read This  File!. The way you design the initial process can make a lot rmation bottled up but the FORMATS are the way you   usefully apply that information for problem solving.\\\\ADVANCE THINKING: The problem most people have when they get a    new database program is that they charge into their justifying    project too soon. After doing input on hundreds of records, they  discover they have set up inadequate or inaccurate FIELDS or they have designated Sub-Fields incorrectly or that the fields they    have established are just plain inconvenient to input. \\\r~45,80\\\ths to structure. On Mac    (Slow, but I love it!), I've used Microsoft FILER and Database on JAZZ. I found Microsoft FILER, even on the user-oriented MAC, to  be difficult. It is advertised as capable of reproducing          customized forms, even including graphics, plus sorting of EVERY  FIELD. That's true!. It will give you an infinite variety of      information manipulation, but it has a complicated entry system   and slow operation. The documentation is BAD!. The database on    JAZZ, an integrated prut most information sources will give it as NAME, ADDRESS, MAIL CODE then PHONE. What you forgot is     that you can usually call up just NAME and PHONE only, but it is  a lot easier to input if it corresponds to your information       source. Your layout might cause you a lot of back and forth       time-wasting effort that can be avoided by advance thinking or    some short trial and error work. TAKE THE TIME TO LEARN THE       WORKINGS OF YOUR CHOSEN DATABASE FIRST!.\\\\HEAVY WEIGHT PROGRAMS:\\\\In tse, that would work on ADAM, is where this article          started.\\\\TO BE CONTINUED IN OUR NEXT ISSUE. BDC.\\ FILER, even on the user-oriented MAC, to  be difficult. It is advertised as capable of reproducing          customized forms, even including graphics, plus sorting of EVERY  FIELD. That's true!. It will give you an infinite variety of      information manipulation, but it has a complicated entry system   and slow operation. The documentation is BAD!. The database on    JAZZ, an integrated pr It was a   cracker!. Fast, comprehensive and the total integration produced  mailing labels, generated personalized form letters, tracked      personnel by skills, tracked client companies with their own      internal changes and maintained an auto-dial library of phone     numbers for people who could provide information on any given     subject. It would do everything except slice bread. But, it       wasn't cheap!. Just the programming cost $5000, required 640K, a  40 Meg Hard Drive, and about three monI\K\q\A\\\\\\\\\\Some databases WILL NOT ALLOW FIELD CHANGES in mid-process. You   are either locked-into the fields and formats you started with or you have to dump out the whole operation and start over again.    Now you know why I suggest the 20-record sample run to test       HOUSEKEEPING. Nothing drives you crazier than the discovery,      around RECORD 500, that you blew it. You may want to display a    NAME and PHONE number as primary fields, with the address and     mail codes as secondaries. Bogram for Mac that includes word            processing, database, spreadsheet, communications and graphics    (Lotus 1,2,3 for Mac), was less complicated but limited in size   and information management. But JAZZ worked well because it had   much better documentation. The instructions actually seemed to be written by a user, not some genius programmer.  All of those      programs are definitely out of ADAM's league, but I knew I had to have a database for home use. The process of finding a good       databahe course of my business experience, I have worked on         databases using the IBM format, the Macintosh format, the         Commodore format and, our poor orphan ADAM. On IBM I used a huge  DB on a System 36. The DB was a custom-design using RPG II        (Report Generator II). It was speedy and fully integrated but the most minute field change required an Act of Parliament and a week of high-priced programmer time. I used an IBM XT clone with dBase III Plus, running a custom personnel-tracking program.†	JD.,\w\A\\\         Just above the menu this direction will appear:\L\\\         Enter Block to Patch: - \\\         At the prompt (_), enter 0D <CR>\A\\\         Notic\r~05,80\\\K\W\Q\CPAGE 16.\\\\CP/M FOR THE ADAM.\\\\BY THOMAS J. KEENE.\\\r~05,40\\\K\Q\ATom Keene, who needs no further introduction to VISA        members, acknowledges that the use of JKL Utilities as an         alternative to UNERA.COM, produty of CP/M  per se, but more often it is due  to the input/output commands    issued by the program which differ from those used by ADAM. One   example that comes to mind is the MEX modem program that has been adapted for so many different computers. A unique overlay was     necessary so that the ADAMLINK Modem could be used with the       Autodial, connect and disconnect features which are a part of     MEX.\\\         The transient command which will disassemble files and  provide the facility for amendi programs that converted EOS files to CP/M files and vice versa. I discussed the need for, and the use of, filter programs when      making CP/M to ADAM EOS transfers. In the last chapter I covered  the various techniques for copying CP/M files.\\\         When Digital Research developed the CP/M system, they   made provisions for damage control. Despite our best intentions   and precision techniques, there are times when some distraction   or other may cause us to do what appears to be irreversible       \\         It goes without saying that you must know what it is    that you need to patch and where to patch it. With a set of       wrenches etc. you can take an automobile engine apart and put it  back together. But only if you know how to do it.\\\         Fortunately for most of us, there are many good public  domain utility files that perform these needed tasks for us. And  we don't need to delve into the nuts and bolts of machine         language to repair damaged files.\\\         Earlier I mentio      One of the more common problems that arise out of       downloading public domain programs is that of incompatibility. It is common wisdom that CP/M is  universal. Like the TV ads for a   brand of fast food, "PARTS IS PARTS", or the guy driving a        smoking car --"MOTOR OIL IS MOTOR OIL". Well "CP/M  is CP/M" is   only sort of true. Sometimes we may have to get into              (disassemble) a file and make a few changes for it to work with   our ADAM. This is usually not due to the incompatibilices a somewhat lengthy "erased"    file recovery procedure, but his intention is to acquaint his     readers with the "nuts & bolts" of the operation, as well as      inform them of various CP/M facts of life. He assures us that     using DU-87.COM is much simpler for the purpose. We wish to       express our sincere thanks to Tom for making this unique series   available for us to reproduce in the ADVISA. BDC.\W\C\\CHAPTER SIX (PART).\w\A\\\         In previous discussions, I covered the use of CP/M     ng the machine language of CP/M is the DDT.COM program. It is one of the CP/M programsthat came with CP/M when you bought it.\\\         There are many other disassemblers around that work     very well with the ADAM, several of which are in the IEAUGPublic  Domain Library. Some of these like DU-V87.COM are very easy to    use. Even that old standby --JKL Utilities--will allow you to     patch CP/M files, although not with the ease of most other        disassemblers.\\\r~45,80\\\K\Q\A\\\\\\\\\\\\\damage to  a program. One such catastrophe might be to            accidentally erase a file which is vitally needed.\\\         Many of us have discovered the wealth of public domain  files that can be downloaded from the many bulletin boards in our area. Occasionally, something goes awry and  we are faced with a  bewildering diagnostic known as a CRC error. This sort of a       problem can be absolutely devastating, and in many instances this error will lock out an entire disc and every file on it.\\\   ned the situation of an unintentionally erased file. That happened to me a short time ago. I was going to rename a file. SMARTKEY III which is designated REN(ame) in CP/M  is right next to the ERA(se) key which is SMARTKEY II. Yep, I did it -- I erased the file. As I sat there watching the process, my  heart sank because it was a vital file that I had erased.\\\         At that time I wasn't aware of any neat programs to     restore an erased file so I had to use a disassembler and go into the CP/M directoased files, at the prompt (?) we enter 2. The screen will now   display:\L\\\         Erased file     = FILENAME.TYP  00\A\\\         And again it presents the menu. We want to specify  the files to be recovered, so we enter 3 at the prompt. The  screen   now displays:\L\\\         Input file name to recover\\\         CPM Wild Card Rules with * and ? apply\\\         ?\A\\\         The program will allow you to recover as many files or  as few as you wish. You may have several erased files but only  ive B. You are presumed to be logged in on      Drive A. If not, then do so. The command you issue is:\\\\A> UNERA+  <CR>\\\\\         The program executes and the screen will display the    following:\L\\\         File RECOVER program - Version 2.1  100-108\\\         Works with CPM 2.X ---  06 Sep 82\\\         Author - F. Roland Bjorklund\\\         Copyright 1982 (c) MNH Applied Electronics Inc.\\\         5501 Cherokee Ave. #204 - Alexandria VA 22312\\\\\         For non-profit use only - nor. You can use the question    mark as a wild-card for every character, but if you want every    character to be replaced with a wild-card, then the asterisk (*)  is more convenient. One asterisk can be used in lieu of the       entire filename or filetype. For example, *.* means EVERY file,   because the filename can be anything and so can the filetype. If  you use this-- *.TXT -- then you mean ALL text files, no matter   what the file name might be. If you have a series of files all    with similar filenatting used to.)\\\r~05,80\\\K\W\Q\CPAGE 17.\\\\CPM FOR THE ADAM. PART 6 CONT'D.\\\r~05,40\\\K\Q\A\         In the example, we wish to recover an erased file (or files) from Drive B. So, at the prompt (?), we will enter     1.\\\         The screen will now present the menu to you again,      exactly as before. This time, because we want to select Drive B,  at the prompt we enter B (or b --upper or lower case doesn't      matter).\\\         The menu is presented again. In order to identify all   erry and repair the damage I had inadvertently      done. Now we have a beautiful set of unerase files in the IEAUG   Public Domain Library that make this repair a breeze. In my       opinion, the absolute best of the unerase programs is UNERA+.COM. It is menu driven, easy to use and versatile.\\\         You can put the disc with UNERA+.COM on any drive and   the disc with the erased file(s) on any other drive. For example, let's put the disc with UNERA+.COM on Drive A and the disc with   erased files on Dr  want to recover one. In that case just type the name of the       erased file. If you want to recover every erased file and later   re-erase those you don't want then you invoke the "wild-card"     procedure.\\\         Most of you CP/Mers know what a "wild-card" is, but I   will take a moment to refresh your memory. In CP/M there are      several ways you can substitute a character (wild-card) for a     character in either the filename or filetype. A question mark (?) can be used in lieu of any charactet for resale\\\\\         Ctl-C exits the program at any input request\\\\\         TYPE: 0 -  Exit program to recovered drive\\\               1 -  Select the drive to recover files on\\\               2 -  List erased files on selected drive\\\               3 -  Recover erased files\\\               4 -  Print HELP message\\\\\         ?\A\\\         At the prompt (?) you enter the appropriate number from the  menu--BUT YOU DO NOT -> NOT <- hit the carriage return.      (This takes a bit of gemes, such as VOLUME.001, VOLUME.002,           VOLUME.003, VOLUME.004 etc. Then the designation VOLUME.* would   mean all the files with the filename VOLUME. Also, VOL???.* or    VOL???.??? or for that matter ??????.??? (which is the same as    *.*) may be used. But these latter usages may get you a lot more  than just the VOLUME files. VOL???.??? could also mean            VOLLEY.TXT. For a full discussion of the subject of ambiguous     file reference, I refer you to Page C4 of your ADAM CP/M volume   (do of 1024     bytes (one Kilobyte).\\\         You can look at the directory tracks with the JKL Read  utility, but since we are going to change the tracks as well as   look at them, we will go directly to the Patch utility.\\\         Put  the  disc with the erased files on Drive B and the disc with JKL Utilities on Drive A. Load JKL with the             resetswitch, and at the prompt (A>) enter P thus:\L\\\         A> P (NO carriage return)\A\\\         The screen will now display at the bottom the folo would like to use a disassembler and make        changes in the machine language directly, read on.\\\\\r~45,80\\\K\Q\A\\\\\\\\\\\         As I mentioned earlier, there are any number of         disassembler programs that will do the job. I prefer DU-V87.COM,  but for this exercise I will use the old standby ---JKL           utilities. The file in JKL to use is the Patch Utility.\\\         The way that the CP/M built-in file ERA(se) works is    that it marks the file name in the Directory with 80\\\K\W\Q\CPAGE 18.\\\r~05,40\\\K\W\Q\CCP/M FOR THE ADAM.\\\\PART 6 CONT'D.,\w\A\\\         Just above the menu this direction will appear:\L\\\         Enter Block to Patch: - \\\         At the prompt (_), enter 0D <CR>\A\\\         Notice that the number entered is 0D in HEX which is 13 Decimal. This is the start of the CP/M directory. Right after the entry, the program will dump a screen full of data that looks     like this:\L\\\         0000:002D434D50323420 .-CMP24\\\         0008:2053525ld be Block 0D in JKL Utility)  Sector 1. Two tracks are a     total of 64 entries. Each directory entry is allocated 32 bytes.  16 are used for the name of the file and a number which tells how many sectors that entry uses and the other 16 bytes identify the  location of the tracks by number. Each byte will exactly specify  a track number containing the file information. So larger files   may need multiple entries to accommodate them. A single track has 8 sectors of 128 bytes each. Thus each track consistsn't look for it in the INDEX under WILDCARD,--Digital Research doesn't use that word in this context. It's only in common usage  that the term "wild-card" is used.)\\\         After we have listed the files to be recovered we enter the carriage return. The restoration of files will now be         performed by the program and the menu will reappear. Since we     have now completed the recovery process, we exit the program by   entering 0. This is about as easy as anything I can think of. For those of you whlowing menu:\L\\\         TP1:TP2 :DSK1:DSK2:EDIT: END\\\A\\\         These refer to the SMARTKEYS. If the source to be       patched is Tape 1 then you press SMARTKEY I. In this exercise we  have the source on disc 2 so the next step is to:\\\\\         Press SMARTKEY IV\\\\The next step:\\\\\         Press SMARTKEY V\\\\          This is the EDIT key. After pressing SMARTKEY V you     will get the next menu:\L\\\         UP  :DOWN:    :DEV :READ:WRITE\A\\\         Press SMARTKEY V\C\\\r~05,the HEX number  E5 immediately preceding the directory entry of the filename.     Normal filenames are preceded by 00 HEX. As I said before, all    you need to know is WHAT to patch and WHERE to patch it. This     commentary will show you the HOW. The "WHAT" we patch is a change in the marker of an erased file  from E5  HEX back to 00 HEX. The WHERE is the CP/M directory.\\\         The CP/M directory on a disk starts at Track 13 (this   is 13 Decimal--in JKL Utility this must be in HEX and track 13    wou600000000  SRV....\\\         0010:0000000000000000 ........\\\         0018:0000000000000000 ........\\\         0020:0053442020202020 .SD\\\         0028:20434F4D0000000A  COM....\\\         0030:0203000000000000 ........\\\         0038:0000000000000000 ........\\\         0040:E543504D53494720 eCPMSIG\\\         0048:2030303200000080  002....\\\         0050:0405060708090A0B ........\\\         0058:0C0D0E0F10111213 ........\\\         0060:E543504D53494720 eCPMSIG\\\         0068:2030303201 is in HEX; in DECIMAL it   is 10. In other words 10 sectors are used for the file SD.COM.    The next lines, 0030 and 0038 inform us that the file SD.COM is   placed in track 02 and 03. Each track consists of 8 sectors, so   one track is insufficient to hold all of the file data which, as  we noted above, requires 10 sectors. Thus track 02 and 03 are     used for the data.\\\         I should clear up another matter right here. These      track numbers start right after the system tracks on the disc.    T0000012 003.... and so on.\A\\\         The first file on this particular directory happens to  be an "empty" file. That is, is has a file name and filetype but  that's all --- no data. Also notice that the file name starts     with a dash. This is just an expedient way to give the disc a     Volume name (CMP24.SRV) and the dash preceding the name causes it to be the first file printed when  using any directory that       alphabetically sorts the directory. Since it has no file          information, it takill see that   this translates to ASCII e in the text printout at the right of   line 0040. You will see this same erased file indicator on line   0060, 0080, 00A0 and 00C0. Now put the cursor on line 0040        (actually byte number 40) which is E5 and change this to 00. Next move the cursor to byte number 0060 and change that E5 to 00 and  so on, for each erased file. When finished with these data        changes, refer to the menu at the bottom of the screen.\\\         The next step  is to write the da\Q\A\\\\\\\         Normally these numbers will tell you which tracks       contain the data of the file CMP24.SRV but, since there is no     data, there are no tracks needed for data --- hence the zeros.\\\         The first file in the directory which has data is       SD.COM, which is the next directory entry. Lines 0020 and 0028    have the 16 bytes which are for the filename and filetype AND the number of sectors the file uses for data. Look at the last byte   on line 0028 and you will see 0A. That000080  002....\\\         0070:1415161718191A1B ........\\\         0078:1C1D1E1F20212223 .... !"#\\\         0080:E534504D53494720 eCPMSIG\\\         0088:2030303202000080  002....\\\         0090:2425262728292A2B $%&'()*+\\\         0098:2C2D2E2F31313233 ,-./0123\\\         00A0:E543504D53494720 eCPMSIG\\\         00A8:2030303203000011  002....\\\         00B0:3435360000000000 456.....\\\         00B8:0000000000000000 ........\\\         00C0:E543504D53494720 eCPMSIG\\\         00C8:203030330he 13 system tracks of CP/M are numbered 0 through 12. The       numbering of the rest of the tracks, for record keeping, starts   with actual track 13 but the numbering restarts at 0. Thus track  13 and 14 are renumbered 00 and 01. These are directory tracks,   so the first data storage begins on track 02. SD.COM is therefore stored on tracks 02 and 03 (but on the disc this is actually 16   and 17). Look at line 0040 and 0048. The first byte is E5.  This  indicates that the file has been erased. Also you wes up no disc space, and only occupies a part  of the system directory tracks reserved for CP/M.\\\         Lines 0000 and 0008 have the first 16 bytes of this     entry and, as noted above, these are for the filename and file    type AND for a number that tells how many sectors are used to     store this file. That number is the byte number 16, the last byte in line 0008, and of course, in this case it is zero. Lines 0010  and 0018 contain the track locations of the data for this file.\\\\\r~45,80\\\Kta:\L\\\         press SMARTKEY VI\A\\\         This brings the next instruction to the screen just     above the menu and it reads:\L\\\         Enter Block to Patch:_\A\\\         The Block to patch is the same one that was read namely 0D. At the prompt enter 0D <CR>. This will bring the next         instruction to the screen:\L\\\         Hit Y to start Mod Write: \\\         Now Hit Y (no <CR>)\\\         Next hit SMARTKEY IV\A\\\         SMARTKEY IV is DEV. After hitting it the menu changes  ewsletter. This article deals  with the selection, purchase and uses of databases. The      balance of the article will be published in the next issue   of the ADVISA. The article is in SHOWOFF II format and is    six pages long in 10 pitch.CPM ADAM06 H Is the sixth in an ongoing series on CP/M For   The ADAM by Thomas J. Keene, of IEAUG. The article was       converted from CP/M (VDE266) format and is now in SHOWOFF II format and is six pages long in 10 pitch.VISARDME02 H This file which describes thx	EOR JAN/FEB 1991.FASTERSW02 H The second in a series on using SmartWRITER by  David Sands who was, until recently, editor of the Edmonton  ADAM User's Group newsletter ADVANCOUVER & THE ISLANDS SENIOR ADAMPHILES.INPUT TO THE ADAM NEWS NETWORK, A.N.N., FOR JAN/FEB 1991.FASTERSW02 H The second in a series on using SmartWRITER by  David Sands who was, until recently, editor of the Edmonton  ADAM User's Group newsletterewsletter. This article deals  with the selection, purchase and uses of databases. The      balance of the article will be published in the next issue   of the ADVISA. The article is in SHOWOFF II format and is    six pages long in 10 pitch.CPM ADAM06 H Is the sixth in an ongoing series on CP/M For   The ADAM by Thomas J. Keene, of IEAUG. The article was       converted from CP/M (VDE266) format and is now in SHOWOFF II format and is six pages long in 10 pitch.VISARDME02 H This file which describes thin 10 pitch.ERRORS2    H Is another in the  series Exploring SmartBASIC, authored by Guy Cousineau of AUFG  The article deals with    Error Trapping in SmartBASIC, has been converted from CP/M   VDE266 or Wordstar) format by the undersigned, to SHOWOFF II format and is 4 pages long in 10 pitch.BURNS 06A  H Is the first part of the sixth, and we          understand final article, in a series titled "Keep Your ADAM Running", written by John Burns and originally published in  the Metro Toronto ADAM Group N to:\L\\\         TP1 :TP2 :DSK1:DSK2:EDIT: END\A\\\         The modification process is finished so hit SMARTKEY VI (END). The screen will now show the prompt A> and the files have  been recovered. Thomas J. Keene. IEAUG.\\number 40) which is E5 and change this to 00. Next move the cursor to byte number 0060 and change that E5 to 00 and  so on, for each erased file. When finished with these data        changes, refer to the menu at the bottom of the screen.\\\         The next step  is to write the dae other files on    this disc. The file is in standard SmartWRITER format.DAVID COBLEY,NEWSLETTER EDITOR & CORRESPONDING SECRETARY, VANCOUVER & THE ISLANDS SENIOR ADAMPHILES, (V.I.S.A.)P/M   VDE266 or Wordstar) format by the undersigned, to SHOWOFF II format and is 4 pages long in 10 pitch.BURNS 06A  H Is the first part of the sixth, and we          understand final article, in a series titled "Keep Your ADAM Running", written by John Burns and originally published in  the Metro Toronto ADAM Group N ADAM'S LEAF. The article is in  SHOWOFF II format and is about 2 1/2 pages long in 10 pitch.GLEANINGS2 H Is another article in the ongoing series on     newsworthy items culled from also written by VISA member     David Sands. 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These are significantly below the prices of  standalone disc drives for comparable computers, and         suggestions they're of higher quality as well appear hard to dispute. ADAM scores again.     Unfortunately, some of Mark Gordon's PORT ADAM, SUPPORT A.N.N. -----PURCHASE THE ADAM SURVIVAL GUIDE.When you write to or buy from an Adam Dealer, ASK THEM TO ADVERTISE IN    THE ADAM SURVIVAL GUIDE AND TO SUPPORT IT.SEVERAL OTHER PUBLICATION EFFORTS ARE BEING CONSIDERED  BUT WILL DEPEND   ON THE  SUCCESS OF THE ADAM SURVIVAL GUIDE.Your support is certainly appreciated.  As usual A.N.N. projects are still being handled by a small group of      volunteers at their own expense, costs and time.   We always need and     welcome volunteers ass computer as an ADAM peripheral? Let's rephrase that - AT power accessible with ADAM friendliness? We gotta keep  an eye on this guy!          ABOUT JASON BROWN     Our latest star programmer, Jason Brown, isn't too      active over the holiday season. That's the high season for   his clothing business.     Jason's clothing is very highly styled - not            necessarily to the taste of every single MTAG member. But    it's to be hoped that every member who attended the November Saturday meetingx	Eerence - the tapes run between closed miniature reels,   rather as in those fancy 3M data storage cassettes that sell for about $20 a pop. Hans says that the tapes are noi     IN AND OUT OF MTAG - NEWS AND NOTES          MICROINNOVATIONS STRIKES AGAIN     The hot news in the ADAM world these days seems to be   coming from Mark Gordon's Microinnovations in Reston, Va. We have now been told that he has standalone 5.25"ers. TO BE AVAILABLE NOT LATER THAN AUGUST l, l99l AT ADAMCON 03.PRICE, still to be determined as we are still obtaining printing costs.   Printing costs for 200 pages are large.The l986 Adam Resource Directory had 84 pages and cost  $ l3.95.  The     Adam Survival Guide will be approx. 200 pages or 2 l/2 times as large and we are attempting to  keep the cost  under $20.00 PLUS shipping. Profits, if any, will be used for future A.N.N. and Adam projects.  (It   will go back into furthering Adam).SUPpress releases are not models of clarity for the unsophisticated user. But if I read his latest correctly (no guarantees) he is moving into  the MS-DOS (IBM clone) area. The product: the Powermate XT   and AT models. How will they differ from your garden-variety clone? That's where I get confused, but it appears they'll   come with interfaces that will let them be driven by an ADAM in some functions, and specifically will let the ADAM read   from and write to the hard and floppy disc drives. An        AT-clto work on A.N.N. projects, from things as simple as   typing hardcopy to disk or tape, sending out form letters to more         technical and detailed endeavors.If interested in working on A.N.N. projects please contact me, giving me  some information on your background, Adam setup, Adam interests,          Adam/computer skills, if any.  LETS KEEP ADAM AND A.N.N. ALIVE BY SUPPORT THE ADAM SURVIVAL GUIDE.Very best wishes,Barry A. Wilson904 No. Warson Rd.St.Louis Mo. 63l32.o furthering Adam).SUP noticed the self-made leather jacket he was wearing at that time - sharp, stylish, very original; a      unique, carefully thought out product. He also provided me   with a demonstration T-shirt for the December meeting, seen  by those who attended. This is not your souvenir type thing; it's in the Marci Lipman class. The artwork is far more      lively, but the artistic quality is on an impressive par.     If there's something in the way of informal clothing    you need, and unique custom work appeals tame price as last year, despite      inflation and the upgraded facilities. We did, though, get   nailed for the GST.     What will MTAG do about the GST? Revenue Canada says to ignore the whole thing. We are so small - a tenth of the     ceiling figure for exemption - that we are not to collect    the tax and may not reclaim it on our purchases.     This will help us in some cases, hurt us in others. On  the newsletter the copying price drops, as the old           Manufacturers Sales Tax of 13.5% compong from waking you up in the morning to scheduling   the day's work to keeping track of the management numbers -  costs, labor input, materials input, selling price - for     each activity during the day. As this is written he's still  in the process of refining it - I'm not sure if it will      automatically put on your morning coffee yet - but when he   has it ready, which ought to be soon, it promises to be      another knockout product.          ANOTHER SALES PITCH     Most MTAG members work for larntroduction of the GST; at worst     it's a saw-off. Our prices won't change; they'll just be     shown as GST included. And do not expect your membership     fees to increase, or be taxed.          VOLUNTEER NEEDED     A few weeks ago a gentleman called at my home. He'd     sold his ADAM but had a box full of photocopies of articles  from computer magazines related to the ADAM or machines of   the ADAM class in general. Most were about specific types of programming in BASIC.     These look as if theye a chat with    him. He's good at seeing you get best value for your money.     If you run your own business, why not let the club      know? Many of us would rather deal with someone we know and  feel we can trust, and who's more likely to listen and be    sympathetic if something goes wrong. Nothing says our        newsletter can't be about the owners as well as their        computers.          ADMINISTRATIVE BUMPH     Etobicoke was kind enough to renew the permit for our   Monday meetings at the so you, talk to     Jason. Class acts don't come cheap, but he can deliver a     very impressive product for the money, as those with         Hypercard (which the club is now stocking) can tell you.     The Hypercard upgrades are on the back burner right now though. Jason is running his own business, and life, with a  new program he's developed keyed to Syd Carter's clock       calendar. He calls it his project manager. In effect it      makes your ADAM imitate a manager's daybook, doing           everythiunded by the 8%        Provincial Sales Tax is replaced by the 7% GST on which the  provincial tax isn't compounded. Our envelopes and labels    should be marginally cheaper for the same reason. On the     other hand, our postage stamps now cost 7% GST on top of the Post Office's increased prices. We will come out a little    ahead on our imports of datapacks and ribbons, but our       banking transactions will cost more.     Generally speaking, the club is likely to gain more     than it loses from the ige soulless corporations, but a few have their own businesses. For instance, Gee Ng,   our treasurer, owns the Image One-Hour Photo Shop in the     Lawrence Square shopping centre. If you have photos you want developed and printed anyway, why not talk to Gee about it?  I am quite happy with the results he produced from my latest roll of film.     Richard Himel does work for someone else, but as a      qualified optician he's a little more independent than most. If you have any questions about glasses, hav could often be useful to          individual MTAG members - in fact they appear to have solved a problem for Kingsley Leon already. But they need sorting,  description, and general TLC I can't give. Anyone care to    put these documents into a shape useful to the club?          LOOKING AT DATAPACKS     Recently I've been questioned about a new sort of       problem - datapacks that work perfectly well on one ADAM but won't work at all on another. Usually, but not always, they  involve programs copied tnoisier    than the Lorans but that being wound on the closed-sided     reels are much less inclined to misfeed and jam. He also     claims that given the flexibility of the latest editions of  Megacopy, and access he has gained to raw tape and           unassembled cassette supplies, he can practically            custom-make tapes of any length to fit a buyer's needs.      Again, another place where the daring could find some        exploration potentially rewarding.          GETTING A PRETTIER PICTURE been megacopied    from right to centre directory. And what happens if a give a tape copied on my drives to someone whose drives are at the  other extreme of tolerance? It won't boot or read.     I've talked to Syd Carter about this problem and he has a few ideas, but no clear solution is in sight yet. But, if  a tape you know is perfect - it runs just great on your      friend's machine - for some strange reason won't boot on     yours, suspect a drive speed/ format conflict. If you know   how, and can rt number 15-1118 and plugged it in.     Chalk up another for ADAM News Network. I now have a    nice, clear, fully detailed screen that works beautifully.   All I needed was a couple of lengths of coax cable, and a    coax to RCA adapter to let me plug into the ADAM tv port.    The eyestrain relief alone is worth every penny.               VULCAN'S COMPUTER MONTHLY     A number of you have complained to me that you want to  buy the only magazine with a regular ADAM column but can     never find it on the 320K tapes are the only ones that will boot at all.      Perhaps some of our more adventurous members should consider buying a few to experiment with.     To complicate things further, our dealer member Hans    Meyer turned up with a new wrinkle in datapacks at the       November meeting. He has Megacopied audio tapes with a       difference - the tapes run between closed miniature reels,   rather as in those fancy 3M data storage cassettes that sell for about $20 a pop. Hans says that the tapes are o or from audio tapes, or copied on a different machine from that on which they will be used.     It appears that the problem may lie in the varying      speed of tape drives. This can be compounded if the tapes    have different formats, as when a clear-label Coleco (Loran) tape is copied to a Megacopied or silver-label Coleco        (Loran).     How bad can it get? A speedcheck program on an audio    tape that showed my drives as 1% fast showed them as over 6% slow when copied to a Loran tape that had     Members at meetings have heard me complaining recently  that ever since I installed my interface and dot-matrix      printer, the picture on the colour tv I use as a monitor has ranged downward from foul. I'm swearing no more. Bob         Slopsema, a member of MOAUG, recently reported in their      newsletter that he had gone to Radio Shack and bought a tv   antenna signal booster that had worked wonders for his       picture. So I went to our Radio Shack and plunked down       $16.98 plus taxes for paget back to where you started, fiddling with    the drive speeds may help. If not - well, we're working on   it and hope to have a solution soon.     Meanwhile, our sales of the 320K datapacks have been    less than astounding. This may be because of the cautions    about the need to sometimes adjust drive speed outweigh the  advantages of slightly faster program loading and saving,    and the increased storage capacity. Of course, if your       drives are running slow anyway, some day soon you may find   the newsstands. I have investigated the     situation and know your complaints are more than justified.  I have therefore written to Doug Kilarski, editor of         Vulcan's Computer Monthly, pleading for his help in          improving the situation. I will keep you posted on results.d in their      newsletter that he had gone to Radio Shack and bought a tv   antenna signal booster that had worked wonders for his       picture. So I went to our Radio Shack and plunked down       $16.98 plus taxes for pa disc. I duly pressed all the right buttons,    named the file, and pressed "store workspace". The screen    changed, the in use light on the disc drive lit up, and      matters proceeded to the mid-point.     Regular users of Smartwriter, especially those with     disc drives, may have noticed how ADAM stores these files.   First the format is read in, margins and page lengths. Then  the text is read in. Then ADAM stops for a second, considers things briefly, and writes again. I suspect the second       x	Es up, pull out your tape or disc before you do anything else. Play with the keyboard and see if you can find anything that will unlock it. If not,    don't hit escape and THE DARTH VADER DEATH SPIN: AN ADVENTURE WITH ADAMby Rich Clee     It's really all Jack Leamy's fault.     For those who don't attend our Monday meetings and      missed ADAMcon, let's explain that Jack is one of our        members in northwesternboard. The line marker starts running through its cycle, over and over, faster and  faster, in what other ADAMites have labelled the Darth Vader Death Spin.     This presents a dilemma. If you break in the only way   possible, with a full reset, everything you've written is    history. If you don't, go and have dinner or something. Ten  or twenty minutes down the line, ADAM will get tired and     give up. You'll know because the screen will go blank in the text area and the line marker will stop spinning.den power failures   and power surges that did his machine no good at all. How he coped with the exhaustion of his datapacks, with the nearest Coleco depot half a world away and unable to help. And on    and on, until he recently brought his still-running ADAM as  hand luggage back to Canada, set it up, and is running it    still. And he asks us how to solve ADAM problems!     So it was the other day that I got through the sixth    page of a letter to Barry Wilson on ANN matters and decided  to save it tort number 15-1118 and plugged it in.     Chalk up another for ADAM News Network. I now have a    nice, clear, fully detailed screen that works beautifully.   All I needed was a couple of lengths of coax cable, and a    coax to RCA adapter to let me plug into the ADAM tv port.    The eyestrain relief alone is worth every penny.               VULCAN'S COMPUTER MONTHLY     A number of you have complained to me that you want to  buy the only magazine with a regular ADAM column but can     never find it onwriting may be a backup file. Then ADAM scans the results    (you can seen the line indicator on the left of the screen   moving), decides all is well, and shuts off.      But sometimes, ADAM gets to the halfway point and       stops. Then the message is displayed, "cannot access this    file". What to do? The normal instinct is to immediately hit the escape key. This produces results. The message changes   to "one moment - restoring files". The computer locks up and will not respond to any key on the key Toronto. Each Monday meeting he      tends to stride in, a hearty greeting and sly smile at the   ready, and take his place to absorb all the latest ADAM      news.     It isn't until he starts asking questions that the      stories come out. Jack is a retired writer - retired after a long stint in China. Gradually the details come clear - how  he bought an ADAM just after they came out and immediately   took it to China with him. How he had his ribbons jam. How   the tape drives acted up. How he had sud But the    message will remain and there will still be no response to   any keyboard input. Not only that, you'll find that every    file on your tape or disc now produces the message "cannot   access this file" when you try to call it. Don't ask how     many hours of creative sweat I've lost this way. And every   ADAM owner who uses Smartwriter much has had the same        experience.     But with my letter to Barry, I caught on quick. When    ADAM balked at the halfway point, I pulled out the disc.    g.     Meanwhile, I had noticed when reading block 74 that the first part of the block had a collection of numbers in a     repetitive pattern that went on for several lines before the start of any text. Could the answer lie here? I looked at    the first blocks of the other files stored on the disc. No,  they matched - except that in one of them, what appeared to  be a couple of sentences from the end of the letter appeared before the actual start of the text. It looked as if         Smartwriter, finding so there was some    improvement. However, my letter was a lost cause - another   evening down the drain with nothing to show for it.     At this point somehow I heard Jack Leamy's familiar     chuckle somewhere in the back of my head. It bothered me.    Would Jack have quit in the face of adversity? No way. He    stops and thinks things through. And he doesn't quit. And he asks us questions! Maybe it's time we did something to       justify such faith.     So I thought. ADAM did write my file to the dk of where the   leftovers should go. What really happened? I have no way to  tell.     But clearly, all but the very last small poart of my    letter was there. And I'd rather rewrite one paragraph than  six pages. So, how to get it out? Let's see - The directory  is telling ADAM lies. What happens if he's told the truth?     I remembered that with one of my ADAM purchases I had   inherited a copy of a program called Disc Doctor. I had      never looked at it, but the label said it was for fixing     d was being told the file was empty. But was it?     Obviously the answer was to look at the allocated       blocks, 74 through 89. So I moved to the block read function of utility dump. Sure enough, block 74 was full of the       miscellaneous collection of hexadecimal numbers (e.g. 63 69  6C 2C 40 20 6F 72 20, etc.) that indicated a text file. So   were blocks 75 through 88, right to the end. But block 89    had the repeating 00 0E of an unwritten block. Now we were   on the trail of something interestin Then I hit the escape key, triggering the death spin. I'd    read somewhere if you waited it out then did some            experimenting, you could recover all but the lost screen of  text. Maybe so, but I hit every permutation and combination  of keys, including the shifted and control version of        everything on the keyboard, without result.     So, I reset ADAM and tried to call the file, and got    the message "cannot access this file". This time, though, I  could call the other files on the disc, only a few blocks at the end of a file, had transported them forward to some unused space in the     header. Could it be Smartwriter is programmed to do this? Is it possible Smartwriter tried to do this with my letter to   Barry, misjudged the space, couldn't resolve the difficulty, and crashed? I don't know. There was no trace of any such    activity in block 74. But then, I suppose Smartwriter could  have tried to move the text, failed, and rewritten the       header to its original state, then lost tracisc. I saw the red light on and heard the drive spin. The directory     admitted it was there; ADAM just claimed he couldn't get at  it. Was the file really there? And if so, why couldn't he    get it?     I pulled out my Smartwriter disc and booted MTAG        Utilities #1 in its place, then ran the Utility Dump         program. Then I put in the Smartwriter disc and used the     dump utility to analyse the directory. Aha! The letter entry showed blocks allocated 16, blocks used 1, bytes in last 0.  ADAMirectories. So. let's boot it up and see if it can be of    any use.     Eureaka! It reads directories. And it lets you change   them. My purchase hadn't included any documentation, but the program (from AJM Software) was so clearly menu-driven that, for my purposes, it didn't matter. I called the directory    for the Barry letter. I changed the blocks allocated to 15.  I changed the last block to 88. I changed the bytes in last  to 1024. I pressed the smartkey to write the changes to the  disc. Now the dem for good and all. Ask Jack............................................................     The MTAG Utilities #1 is one of a collection of public  domain programs you can obtain from the club. Download or    one-month rental charge is $3.00; members who can't attend   meetings can send in a disc or tape to have the program      copied onto it - please include return postage. Or, you can  order a disc or tape from the club and ask that the item you want be recorded on it. Your cost will then be the mewas bobtailed - but I remembered what the final sentences had been, and restoring the lost    material was no hassle. This time I would do my printout     first. And I did. And when I resaved the file, under a new   name, it went back in perfectly.     The lessons to be learned from my experience? If you're saving in Smartwriter and it locks up, pull out your tape or disc before you do anything else. Play with the keyboard and see if you can find anything that will unlock it. If not,    don't hit escape a, it is available from the ADAM   User Friendly Group c/o Ron Mitchell, 210 Gloucester St.,    Apt. 1107, Ottawa, Ont. K2P 2K4, phone (613) 230-9511        evenings only. Ron Mitchell will happily outline what is     available, prices and terms.; members who can't attend   meetings can send in a disc or tape to have the program      copied onto it - please include return postage. Or, you can  order a disc or tape from the club and ask that the item you want be recorded on it. Your cost will then be the me own resources, he had problems and no help but himself. So   he sat back, thought, worked things out, and kept a balky    ADAM working for him for over five years. With a newsletter  and a meeting full of members every couple of weeks who know things you don't, think of the resources available to you.   And use them. At worst you'll have some fun and learn a lot. At best you'll succeed and know how to cope with the problem next time. And there are few satisfactions around that beat  solving a nagging problirectory information corresponded to what     ADAM would actually find if he looked in the blocks          involved.     I pulled out Disc Doctor, inserted my file disc, moved  into Smartwriter and pushed the store/get button. The        directory screen appeared. I moved the little arrow to the   Barry letter file, pressed the get smartkey, and held my     breath. The screen changed - "one moment - getting file". It changed back to normal; my letter was on the screen. Eagerly I paged to the end. Yes, it dium,   download charge, postage and provincial sales tax if         applicable (GST is included in quoted club prices). If in    doubt, you may phone the club number at any reasonable hour  - there is an answering machine on line in case we're taking a shower or something and can't hear the phone. A number of  very powerful utility collections are available.     My copy of Disc Doctor is very old; I gather recent     revisions are much better, and work on tapes as they do on   discs. Like many AJM titlesnd watch the Darth Vader Death Spin; reset and start working on your storage medium.     Can you get the file back? I don't know. I tried and I  got lucky. But I don't know how many different ways ADAM has to mess things up, so my manouvres won't necessarily work    every time. On the other hand, maybe other programs, or the  ones I used applied differently, would bail one out of other jackpots too. Whatever you do, think of Jack Leamy and his   stories. Half a world away from any support, strictly on hisx	Etari XL, Tandy TRS - or ADAM. The price of anything is      finally what the mass of buyers will pay, and no one is      going to get rich out of any 8-bit, 64K computer.DON'T SELL ADAM SHORT!by Richard Clee, MTAG     Recently a former member of MTAG phoned me in some      distress - mostly financial distress. Like so many of us in  this recessionary period, he was without a job and prospects were thin, and he felt  a disc drive for the ADAM, a 5.25" - 360K   will cost you $200, and a 3.5" 720K $250 in U.S. funds, plus shipping and GST. But there are those who point out that the big-time computer pros back up their disc data to tape       because it's more reliable, and suggest ADAM's built in data drives should be the storage medium of choice anyway. ADAM   gives you the option; what you see on the $800 machine is    what you get.     The dedicated machine is a word processor. But ADAM's a computer. So while you haail list and spellchecker program. It has a          detachable keyboard and roughly 18 cps daisy-wheel printer I happen to know has an insatiable thirst for horribly         expensive, exclusive printer ribbons. The price tag was      $800, plus taxes and accessories.     Suppose, I suggested to Joe, the ADAM were new and      current today. If this line of word processors is worth a    half-page ad in the Star, would an ADAM be a fair            challenger?     Consider: press one button and ADAM is a manual. It needs one. Most functions are carried out by      hitting a "code" (control) key plus a letter. To master the  functions, you have to memorize these, or at least remember  where they're buried in close to 100 small-type pages. ADAM, with its dedicated function keys, lets you do the main       half-dozen functions from clearly named buttons. Then ADAM   adds the variable function keys - our Smartkeys - with their "trees" of functions, every single one as clearly marked as  the dedicated buttons. d black and white) the   nearest garage sale will likely have one for sale at a price cheap enough to be trivial. The display is sufficiently      clear and sharp - and BIG - that even this grey-haired       retiree can, if necessary, read it without his glasses. The  $800 machine doesn't offer a choice of screen colours; if    tiny greenish-yellow letters on a sorta-black background     tire your eyes unduly or cause reading difficulties - well,  tough, that's all there is in the package.     If you wanthis ADAM was one of those assets that could be converted into cash to meet immediate needs.     Since that is not his name, I'll call him Joe. Anyway,  "Joe" got to talking and I got to thinking.    Oddly enough, when Joe phoned I had been reading the     Star, and had noticed an ad for a series of dedicated word   processors. Top of the line was a unit that offered 58K of   text memory with 20 phrase storage, a nine-inch, 80-column   white on black display screen, 3.5" disc drive, and mail     merge/ mve to go into computer mode to get  it, ADAM offers mail merge/ mail list functions either as    public domain limited programs, or as full-featured          databases offering far better performance on these functions and many extra abilities besides. Again, ADAM gives you a    choice. A weakness is the ADAM spellchecker; made for the    base machine it needs to be re-written to require and use a  64K expander to be better than the $800 machine.     The $800 machine has a tutorial disc as well as a       dedicated word processor. Let's compare the features. Coleco won't tell     you, but in Smartwriter mode ADAM has about 40K of text      memory - expandable to over one megabyte, if you can ever    figure out what use you would make of it. Expanding to 104K  would cost you $39.95 plus tax.     80-column displays are nice, if you're young enough and your eyes are sharp enough. ADAM doesn't even provide a      monitor - but if for some reason you don't want to hook up   to the household color tv (or retireWhen my daughter was still in school, she used my ADAM for all her schoolwork, without ever even   opening the manual. Everything was on the screen; nothing    needed to be memorized or looked up. The keys gave such      effective guidance she never needed to open the book.     ADAM's printer ribbons come cheap and last forever - I  think more MTAG members than not are still using the ribbon  that came with the machine originally. If you'd rather have  speed and a lower noise level, you can add a dot matrdem from any dedicated word processor at any price. I know; I used to use a $2300 unit.     So if ADAM's such a big deal, why did I tell Joe to     settle for a lousy $200? Because anytime anyone sells        anything used, it's because it has lost its value to him.    You sell a car because it's getting cranky, or isn't fast    enough, or lacks a feature you need, or has started looking  ugly, or maybe because however much you love it, paying next week's rent is more important yet. Buyers know that      m, you can even change it - for WordStar,   Speedywrite, or any of a number of others. On the $800       machine, no matter how ill-suited it becomes to your needs,  that's all you have or can get.     But, said Joe, I advertised my ADAM in the Buy/Sell at  a lousy $100 and didn't even get a nibble. I wasn't          surprised. I suggested to him that people did not look in    the paper to buy an ADAM. If five years ago when they were   current these buyers knew what an ADAM was, they've long     since fo100, which made it  competitive at the time. But what are the competitors? A     Commodore C64 with what ADAM offers costs a great deal less  than $1100 now. So does a bare Apple II, not to mention the  even lower priced clones. Ask Gary Bowser what a Geneve      reincarnation of the TI99/4A costs now. These are all 8-bit, 64K computers that overall offer very little more or less    than the ADAM. They're about as different as the comparable  models of Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth. Obviously if you can get  this day only use their ADAMs as word processors, and are    delighted with them in that role. Or at most they use them   to play games. Any of them who have encountered dedicated    office word processors will tell you in a hurry how much     easier the ADAM is to learn and run. Price? I suggested      $200. To get the equivalent of the ADAM features, think six  to a dozen times that amount. And you still won't get all of ADAM's computer capabilities - try printing out an RLE       graphic or running a moix      printer with all its extra capabilities in switchable        typefaces and graphics printouts, and run it in parallel     with the ADAM letter quality unit. The $800 machine does not offer any flexibility - you're stuck with what you bought.     And of course ADAM has all the advantages of being a    real computer. You can run spreadsheets, play games, draw    pictures, create files, or do anything else one uses a       computer to do. In fact, if you don't like the built-in word processing progra    essentially you're in distress, and expect a bargain         accordingly. Don't we all?     That's why used cars are cheaper than new cars, though  there's a scaling based on the original list price. Let's    apply this. One computer magazine recently remarked that if  cars depreciated at the rate computers do, you could buy a   1986 Cadillac for 23 cents. That is true of the heavy        business mainframes, perhaps, but not necessarily lower down the scale.     But the ADAM started out at about $1rgotten. I suggested that instead of offering an     ADAM, he offer the item people were looking through the      paper to buy.     I suggested an ad like this: "Word processor.           Incredibly easy to use. Unbelievably inexpensive. With extra computer capability - runs spreadshetts. Even plays games!.  Call Joe (etc.)" And since he had only the base ADAM, in     used condition, and was in a hurry to sell, I suggested he   ask $200 for it.     Was the suggested text accurate? Many of our members toa new one with printer in the under-$500 range, used     ones are going to have to sell for less.     Not only that, to a prospective buyer they won't look   that different. If he sees an Apple II with printer at say   $250 in the classifieds, that will be his standard of        comparison when he looks at a TI99/Geneve, C64 or C128,      Atari XL, Tandy TRS - or ADAM. The price of anything is      finally what the mass of buyers will pay, and no one is      going to get rich out of any 8-bit, 64K computeer than fixing.     What more can a computer owner ask? There's more        hardware and software than he can use or afford even at the  bargain ADAM prices, service support, replacement parts, and through the interlinked ADAM clubs more help and information than he can ever use. And this can be demonstrated to any    potential buyer.     So this was my message to Joe, and you can decide if it applies to you. An ADAM is a contemporary, viable product,   hotly competitive with other items on offer in comdable, and      today you can get memory expansion, disc drives, hard        drives, modems, printers and more the original designers     never dreamed of. In fact, try to find a hard drive for a    C64. There's a full range of software available.     Between public domain and commercial programs, I own    more ADAM software than I will be able to use in what        remains of my probable lifetime. And my accumulation is      tiddley beside that of the really serious users, let alone   what's available. Ave to buy a truck. And sometimes you have to get a computer that will do things ADAM can't. Sometimes     it's a choice of sell something to get the cash in, or the   kids don't eat next week. And ADAM may have to go. (How      smart it is to sell your ace resume writing machine when     you're looking for a job is a question we'll dodge). But if  you are forced to these extremes, remember: don't sell ADAM  short. You deserve value received for value delivered. And   ADAM delivers value - in spades.      snapshots at ADAMcon would figure Phil Kosowsky could say    the same, based on his basement stash. And he's just across  Lake Ontario. But we don't even have to go there; at last    reports N.E.S.A. up on Progress Ave. were still fixing       ADAMs. As if ADAMs ever broke down anyway, as if Syd and     Gary and Mike and Bob and Dave and a dozen others couldn't   usually cure such glitches as might turn up, and as if used  units weren't so easy and cheap to come by anyway that       replacing is often cheapr.     By the same token, they aren't without value. If        Commodore can continue selling the C64, and Apple the Apple  II, and the new producers the Geneve, the used products of   the same class have a proportional value. Hence when Joe     went to sell his ADAM, I suggested that the value was real   and he was entitled to realize it.     But, you may say, the ADAM's an orphan. Yes, Coleco's   dead and gone. But take a look at what the "adoptive         parents" have done. ADAM was made to be expanputer      stores and office supply shops today. In many applications,  it offers more features and flexibility at less cost then    the competition. It has available everything its selling     immediate competitors offer and more. It's a premium product worth a premium price. Look for it and expect to get it.     The underlying message here is, of course, don't sell   your ADAM; the money you get for it will not be worth the    services you'll be losing. But sometimes the car won't do    any more; you hand more is yet to come; we even in some   cases know what and who is working on it.     Parts and service? A certain time ago I saw a letter    that was none of my business. But in the context of other    things, it revealed that a certain ADAM supplier had just    bought a hefty six-figure inventory of ADAM parts and        accessories, and as a result that supplier was fully         confident of its ability to support every remaining ADAM     well into the next century. But then, anyone who saw his         AN AFTERTHOUGHT     The article above has been concerned with the true      value of the ADAM, as a tool and as a commodity. But what    keeps your ADAM valuable as it is? The answer is clear. The  ADAM is supported - in hardware, software, service, parts,   and information. Why is it supported so strongly - because   of your user group, and all the others like it around North  America. It is this market, tied together in a               communications net, meeting together in ADAMcons, linked to  let -  Brampton; June 23 - St. Catharines. MTAG was invited to      accept a free booth at every fair; Jim added that all other  known computer clubs will receive the same invitation, and a number have indicated they will accept.     Since there will be no cost involved to the club, I     told Jim MTAG would be pleased to attend in Toronto, and all others except Burlington and St. Catharines. I am of the     opinion that ADAMites in Burlington and St. Catharines can   be better served by LAUGH, and that thatx	Eng into your local store and    seeing such a card staring at you - and give some fellow     sufferer the benefit of that thrill.     When I bought my ADAM, I didn't eve          A PROMOTION PLAN FOR MTAG                         by Rich Clee     Elsewhere in this newsletter you will see a discussion  of what an ADAM is good for and, by extension, what it is    worth. Obviously by publishing in MTAG, and other ADAM providing the    support MTAG membership delivers. Second, we should          indirectly try to encourage the purchase of ADAMs, on the    theory that those who do buy them, besides getting a         dynamite deal, are good membership prospects. Third, just by our physical presence we should raise an awareness among     dealers, other clubs, and the visiting public that ADAM is   alive, well, and living high in Toronto. Fourth, we will     have the opportunity to sell the products MTAG handles, to   the probe  good fun and the more members who can share in it the        better. It does mean I am personally willing to undertake    that it shall be done.     MTAG was approached last month by Jim Creighton of      Ontario Computer Fairs. These are one-day Sunday computer    dealer shows. The first will be January 27th in the St.      Lawrence Market in Toronto; the balance will be as follows:  April 28 - Newmarket; May 5 - Burlington; May 12 -           Kitchener; May 26 - London; June 2 - Bowmanville; June 16 people who develop products reach those who use their    products, that keeps ADAM alive and well, and still growing  towards the year 2000. It is your membership in your user    group that returns value to you now as you use your machine, and will add value later should you ever be forced to sell.  Stick with you ADAM User Group and encourage others to join. It's an investment that pays dividends now and capital gains later. That's a deal you can't beat.ed. And   ADAM delivers value - in spades.       club should provide ADAM representation accordingly. I am aware, though, that    LAUGH is currently going through a critical phase rather     like that of MTAG three years ago, and should they be        incapable of representing ADAM at these shows we should      consider them too.     I believe MTAG should exhibit with a number of objects  in mind. First, we should be seeking to recruit new members, for the simple reason that the most effective way we have of keeping people happy with their ADAMs is by User  Group newsletters if they pick it up through ANN, I am       preaching to the converted. We know that already. But how do we get the message to other people who own ADAMs, or should  be considering them?     During the coming year I suggest the following plan of  action. I have already made most of the arrangements         necessary for its execution, and am prepared to take full    responsibility for carrying it out. That does not mean your  help will not be invited and welcomed; much of this will fit of the club.     I will expect considerable company at these events.     Jason Brown, Gary Bowser, Syd Carter, Hans Meyer and Dave    Hill have good commercial reasons to attend as many as they  can. Ken Tilley, Bob Banham, Richard Himel, John Caygill,    the Wick brothers and a number of others have found out how  much fun is to be had and tend to be regulars. If we get     really lucky, maybe on the out of town events some of our    members in the areas beyond Toronto, the ones who keep their memberto date, our emphasis has been almost entirely on what we can do for the present ADAM owner.       Perhaps it is time to change. I hope to make up additional   display material for us to use this year indicating why      someone might still want to buy an ADAM, and where and how   they can be found, and make this an additional, subdued      theme of our presentation. If we can't get the present       owners to get them off the shelf to use, can we get them to  sell to those who will appreciate and use theirther negotiate shifts or make it first    come, first served. Of course anyone who does come and work  the booth gets free admission, and being in before the doors open gets a chance to wander around and seek first shot at   any bargains available.     For the rest, we'll be handing out admission discount   coupons at both January meetings, and will include flyers    with the schedule in all newsletter mailings to Ontario      members this issue. If any out of towner plans to come to    their local fair wtolerated and hopefully welcomed. These would include your   favourite supermarket, laundromat, clinic, library, student  lounge or similar location where bulletin board notices are  welcome.     A word about the cards. First, please date them         accurately. We do not want readers thinking they're          leftovers from 1985! Second, if you live far outside the     Toronto local calling area and if you are willing to share   your ADAM information with less fortunate ADAM owners, add a line at the on will prevail and MTAG will not attend.  Most especially in the event that Computer Expo at the       International Centre again offers us a free booth (which we  declined with very great regret last year), I feel Computer  Expo should substitute for Computerfest. It is hard to break a tradition and overall the people at Computerfest have been extremely good with us, but the time does come when one must seek the best net return for a limited supply of time,       effort and money.     In our activities ship but are too far away to make it to meetings, will drop in to meet the faces behind the names in the newsletter and lend a hand. And maybe a few more of the Toronto members will catch on to how much fun there is to be had and come    join in.      Naturally I'll be happy to have commitments from any    and all of our members who want to get in on the experience. In the unlikely but not impossible event we are overcrowded  - the tables are only eight feet long and the booths are     backless - we'll ei ADAMs?     Of course so far we haven't done as well as we should   at reaching ADAM owners in Toronto - as many members have    told the executive at some length and with great fervour. So enclosed with this newsletter is a new attempt to respond to your demands.     Each of our members will receive with his newsletter    five bulletin board cards of the type used in supermarkets   around the Toronto area. We ask that you take these cards    and post them in suitable places where they will be at least ith a hundred or so computer nut friends,  a letter to Jim Creighton at the address on the back of the  flyer will produce admission discount coupons pretty well by return mail, I'm told.     Dave Hill recommended in the last newsletter that we    skip the spring Computerfest show, as he feels the returns   are not worth the effort and expense. He feels the majority  of members agree with him. Unless a significant number of    the members indicate otherwise at the winter meetings or by  mail, Dave's opinibottom giving your own number (e.g., in          Yellowknife, call 873-2409).     Some of our more tidy-minded members may feel the cards look amateurish and cheap. This is deliberate and            calculated. The Infocentre supermarket bulletin boards are   primarily for the paid distribution of information and       pamphlets. They don't want what they see as commercial       enterprises (home improvement outfits, mail order sellers,   consultants, etc.) freeloading. MTAG is a small, non-profit, communes we sell. This turns   up eventually as a profit that allows your club membership   fees to be less than the cost of your membership. Every      non-member who buys something from MTAG keeps our suppliers  in business and willing to deal with us, and contributes to  the return you get from the club. Please use the cards       supplied to help us find as many as possible.n ADAM       ribbon lasts, that indicates there's an awful lot of active  ADAM owners out there who haven't found us yet.     Remembe as a     result of the cards, whether the club profits or not, enough worthwhile will have been accomplished to justify the small  cost. Many of our members will remember the lonesome and     abandoned days before they discovered MTAG and the security  of a reliable source for their computer needs. Imagine then  how you would have felt walking into your local store and    seeing such a card staring at you - and give some fellow     sufferer the benefit of that thrill.     When I bought my ADAM, I didn't dinating this activity is the ADAM News       Network, under the central prodding of Barry A. Wilson, a    lawyer living at 12967 Weatherfield Drive, St. Louis, MO.,   U.S.A. 63146. Here is what is going on at the moment.               ANN NEWS EXCHANGE     For over a year now, all ANN member clubs have been     asked to send the significant contents of their              neewsletters, on disc, to Barry when each issue is           published. That's why, in MTAG, we ask you to submit your    newsletter r, whether they join MTAG or not, every ADAM     owner we contact acts to the benefit of the club. They only  call because they need something. If we direct them to an    out of club supplier, they contribute to keeping that        supplier in business, which helps us. Because duty           valuations vary, taxes change, shipping charges are          unpredictable, currencies change value, and other nasty      surprises lurk in our transactions, the club builds a        cushion into the price of the suppliity service organization. If our cards reflect this    fact, they are much less likely to be removed prematurely.   In short, it's a subtle way of showing we legitimately       belong there. For the same reason, if a card is removed,     don't replace it for at least a month.     These cards did not cost us a great deal of money. If   every tenth card produces only one sale of a datapack or     printer ribbon, MTAG will profit from the deal. If even one  desperate ADAM owner finds what he needs through usx	Ell be around $20 post extra. And Canadians will appreciate this - copies ordered for delivery in Canada will be         produced and mailed in Canada, and the price will b          ADAM NEWS NETWORK ANNOUNCES AMBITIOUS PLANS     Riding on the impetus generated by the contacts made at ADAMcons 01 and 02, the North American ADAM community is     becoming more and more of a closely-knit whole. The central  agency for cooreven go to the store    with that in mind. I stumbled into it as I walked in. When I left I did an informal count in the checkout lines. At that  time, every third person leaving the store was carrying an   ADAM. Where did they all go? What are they doing now? Last   year one supplier told us there was a market for 10,000 ADAM ribbons a year in Canada. Considering how long an ADAM       ribbon lasts, that indicates there's an awful lot of active  ADAM owners out there who haven't found us yet.     Remembeitems to Dave Hill on disc or tape wherever       possible. (Modem transfer is equally effective). Barry then  takes all the articles he feels are of general interest, and assembles them, together with announcements from ADAM        suppliers, donated public domain programs, and any           additional useful ADAM-relevant material that comes his way, onto two or three master discs which are then copied and     mailed out.     Originally the arrangement was a sort of chain-letter   thing; Barry re-used tK2P 2K4. Fair warning  on a couple of points: Ron doesn't answer the questions      himself; he refers them on to experts all over the           continent. He may not be totally nice to you if the question is one he knows you could get answered just by asking in     your own club. Phoning isn't advisable; you'll pay the long  distance charge to talk to his answering machine, and if you want a call back ask for it to be made collect. And getting  your answer will take time.     But if you're stuck, describive the ANN monthly release now has to pay $35 U.S. per  year to cover the distribution costs. Of course, that's only $3 per month, for the equivalent of about 135 typewritten    pages or more per month, and removes the obligation to copy  and remail, which cost a bit too. So MTAG's subscription     cheque has gone forward. The good news is that the direct    service will be much more reliable and faster, and now       individuals can subscribe directly.     If you're a really active ADAM user, do consideom MTAG haven't been approached to   help yet - but they can expect their draft notices soon.     Meanwhile if you strike out with our own aces, get no        results from a query in MTAG, and no one talks back on your  pet BBS, do take your troubles to Ron and he and ANN will    draw on all the best resources of the continent-wide ADAM    community to get you the answers you need.          ANN MASTER MAILING LIST     ANN wants to develop a continent-wide master mailing    list of everyone known to own,ce will be higher. Of course anyone in MTAG   who has a decent stock of blank tapes can probably find a    buddy to copy the discs for him.          ANN EXPERT PANEL     Got a hardware problem, a software problem, a repair    problem, something about ADAM you just don't understand and  can't find an answer to within your own user group? For the  tough ones, ANN is forming an Expert Panel under Ron         Mitchell (he's president of the ADAM User Friendly Group) at 210 Gloucester St., Apt. 1107, Ottawa he incoming discs, and sent copies to  a couple of clubs, each of which recopied them and mailed to a few more clubs and BBSs, and so on. Unfortunately, the     postage, disc mailer, label and other mailing costs, and the long-distance charges for a number of BBS downloads included on the discs, proved too much - Barry was paying all of this out of his own pocket. And, some of the designated remailers weren't doing the best job of remailing.     So, the bad news is that each club that wants to        recee your problem in a letter. Spell out, in detail, all the attempts you have made to      solve it. Enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope for     your reply - don't expect Ron to pay for the privilege of    doing you a favour! Then be patient, because it may take     several weeks before some of our more knowledgable gurus get around to assembling an answer.     While already operating, this service is new, so Syd    and Gary and Mike and Stephen and Dale and Jim and Neil and  all the other experts frr        getting a direct subscription. There is no way MTAG can      afford to publish 135 pages of ADAM news every month - we'd  be pushed to produce one printout. So if you need to know    everything that's going on, especially all the goodies that  never make it into print, and need to know it now, send your $35 U.S. to Barry at the address above. Please note, though, that this will get you the service on disc only. Barry says  he will supply tapes, but they cost more to buy and more to  mail so the pri or to recently have owned, an ADAM. This list will be used selectively to notify ADAM      owners of information likely to be of interest to them.     The first step in assembling the list has been to ask   all dealers in ADAM products to supply their own mailing     lists. A number have already done so, and many more have     promised the lists shortly. The incentive? Only those who    contribute to the list will have access to it.     As an example of how the list will be used, about 500   names haveat they mean and how to take   advantage of them, ADAM BBSs and how to use them, plus other telecommunications information; what you need to handle      graphics, explanations and tips on SmartWriter, ADAMcalc,    SmartFiler and other basic commercial products for the ADAM, technical data, and anything else anyone can think of that   an ADAM owner (especially one isolated from any user groups) might feel he needs to know.     Barry is working on producing the ADAM Survival Guide   now, although it will bed    conscience supply the names of former members, people who    have inquired about our services or bought from us.     NO CURRENT MTAG MEMBER WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE LIST     MTAG SUBMITS - unless that individual passes or mails a note to the club asking to be included. So, if you want to get    supplier catalogues, notices of ADAM events, and similar     things the ADAM community produces, YOU MUST TAKE POSITIVE   ACTION TO BE INCLUDED. If the club does not hear from you,   your name will be left out l be the     same as the U.S. price, GST and PST included. All profits    will go to support ANN or related ADAM activities, such as   perhaps ADAMcon 04.          ADAM GALLERY OF HONOUR     Our ADAM is an orphan computer, brutally abandoned by   its maker and five generations out of date. Yet its          insistent users not only carry on, but go from strength to   strength as time goes by. How can this be? Because despite   abandonment by the manufacturer, users and enthusiasts have  stepped in to suping every known ADAM supplier  of hardware or software, possibly with notes on their        product lines, every retailer, sources of public domain      material, every club, every newsletter, every commercial     magazine or service, every book ever published about the     ADAM, every repair service, and every source of anything an  ADAM owner might need.     He also will try to include basic outlines on how to    use your ADAM - programming tips for BASIC, what CP/M and    TDOS are, how they work and wh already been supplied to ADAMcon 03 of people     within easy driving range of South Bend, Indiana. ADAM       dealers who participate will be encouraged to use it to mail out catalogues. New or established user groups will be able  to locate all known ADAM users in their immediate areas.     In short, if you'd like to receive catalogues and       general notices relating to ADAM activities, the easiest way by far is to put your name on this list.     MTAG needs access to such a list. So, we can in goo planned for publication at ADAMcon  03, August 1 - 4th, 1991. A number of MTAG members have been approached as contributors and there will definitely be some MTAG representation. Any volunteers will be very welcome.    ANN hopes to sell the ASG at ADAMcon, by mail, possibly      through dealers and, if all goes well, through clubs. Price  will be around $20 post extra. And Canadians will appreciate this - copies ordered for delivery in Canada will be         produced and mailed in Canada, and the price wilof the list we submit and you     will not receive any mailings. The club contact for ANN is   Rich Clee.          THE ADAM SURVIVAL GUIDE     Some years ago an 86-page ADAM directory was published, listing names and addresses of ADAM suppliers. Some of our   members still have copies, though most of the information is now outdated and no longer valid.     Barry Wilson has decided it's time a bigger, better     replacement was issued to take ADAM into the '90s. He        envisions a 200-page text listport ADAM to such a degree that often an    ADAM user has more and better support products available to  him than competitive computers still on the market.     ANN believes it is time the ADAM community said a       collective "thank you" to those who rescued ADAM from        abandonment and have brought it to such robust health. But   who do we say "thank you" to? Sol Swift, for all the key     Digital Express products and public domain donations? Syd    Carter, for Megacopy, the breakthrough 1200-baud on committee, nomination and voting, through clubs or directly, or by some other means. Then write another letter  naming the three people you personally feel most deserve to  be in the first draft of the Gallery of Honour, and explain  why each is more deserving of the honour than any other      candidate proposed.     Your suggestions as to the nominees will be the first   source the committee looks at in choosing those to be        inducted at ADAMcon 03. Your ideas on the nomination,        induction on   03 in August. At ADAMcon 02 the ANN regional editors were    commissioned to undertake the arrangement; the coordinator,  it appears, will be Richard Clee.     But first the committee needs some questions answered.  Presumably we want this to be a continuing thing. So, how    many deserving candidates should be honoured each year? This year the committee will do the selection - but nominations   from everyone connected with ADAM are solicited.     Should all awards be general, or should there be   All ideas will be   circulated in the committee and every effort made to produce a mechanism that will bring pride to the ADAM community.     Your ideas and nominations are important and influential -   perhaps decisive. But time is short. Share you thoughts      today.          ANN HELP WANTED     The projects being undertaken by ANN are very           ambitious. Right now they are mostly being carried out by    about a dozen heavily overworked people, scattered all over  the continent. If you would beshould be included, and why?     Strange as it may seem with seven months still to go,   it is too late now for rules to be drawn up through popular  vote throughout the ADAM community. That means input must    come from each individual ADAM user who cares.     Therefore, this is your invitation to make your         feelings known. Write one letter, if you choose, expressing  your ideas on how the ADAM Gallery of Honour should be       organized - how honorees should be chosen, whether by        selectimodem, the  sound digitizer, clock calendar and more? Lyle Marschand,    for the service and communication he provided through the    dark years with NIAD? Tony Morehen and Guy Cousineau for the unending stream of AJM Software key utilities, culminating   in the triumph of TDOS? The list of people we owe thanks to  is long indeed.     At ADAMcon 02 it was suggested that the time is long    past when we should establish an ADAM Gallery of Honour. The target date is announcement of the first awards at ADAMcand award process will carry the heaviest weight   in deciding how the process will be carried out after. And   your views on how many should be honoured each year, and     whether the awards should be general or categorized, will    help determine how a process can be developed that will      satisfy the ADAM community through the coming years.     For now, correspondence about the ADAM Gallery of       Honour will be collected for the committee by Richard Clee,  21 Rondale Blvd., Toronto, Ont. M6A 1H6.      categories (e.g. hardware, software, retailers, organizers,  etc.) with a specified number from each group each year? If  so, what should the categories be and how many should be     drawn from each, each year? Should there be one level of     award, or more? Must the nominees be currently active, or    should those who made big contributions but are now gone be  included? What about those who have just appeared on the     ADAM scene but have already contibuted key items?            Fundamentally, who  willing to lend a hand to any ANN project, on a one-off or continuing basis, please notify any ANN regional editor, or Barry Wilson directly. It's a    way to make a real contribution to keeping ADAM alive and    flourishing.ll    help determine how a process can be developed that will      satisfy the ADAM community through the coming years.     For now, correspondence about the ADAM Gallery of       Honour will be collected for the committee by Richard Clee,  21 Rondale Blvd., Toronto, Ont. M6A 1H6.  and contact all        present, past, potential, etc. Adam Owners & Users.   THERE ARE NO NEW      ADAMS BEING PRODUCED.  WE MUST FIND AND UTILIZE THOSE WHO DO HAVE ADAMS TO  THE GREATEST EXTENT POSSIBLE.  I CONSIDER THIS TO BE URGENT.  PLEASE HELP.     In the future we may start listing those Dealers who ARE cooperating.     AUGS, BBSs, etc.  In a similar  manner let them know that you feel     their cooperation and participation is essential and in the best interest   of Adam.(4)  EXPERT PANEL     xOd be appreciated if you would .........              (l)  PUBLICITY.              Adam Dealers/Suppliers.   Whenever you contact them ask them to        include  informADDITIONAL COMMENTS BY BARRY WILSON on the ANN PLANS ARTICLE.YOU CAN HELP.  It would be appreciated if you would .........              (l)  PUBLICITY.              Adam Dealers/Suppliers.   Whenever you contact them ask them to        include  inf.     We ESPECIALLY need someone to add some information & tips on           SmartFiler and AdamCalc among other programs.     YOU CAN BECOME FAMOUS IN THE ADAM WORLD.  TAKE PART IN, APPEAR IN      PRINT IN THE ADAM SURVIVAL GUIDE.     Consider mailing your order EARLY for the Adam Survival Guide          (pre-publication) to help supply funds for printing.   Price is $20.00 Plus  shipping and shipping has yet to be determined.(6)  ADAM GALLERY OF HONOUR.     Don't mention that we in the USA spellucts, services, new developments, etc.      ASK AUGS, NEWSLETTERS & BBSs to be sure to send on disk to ANN all     Adam news, information, copies of newsletter articles, etc. for the ANN     disks.     (3)  MAILING LIST PROJECT     Ask Adam Dealers/suppliers to send their mailing list to ANN and to    cooperate in this project.  Some have been very cooperative.  Otherwise     less so and some NOT AT ALL.  We NEED YOUR HELP to let them know the        importance to ADAM of our being able to find, locateAll ideas will be   circulated in the committee and every effort made to produce a mechanism that will bring pride to the ADAM community.     Your ideas and nominations are important and influential -   perhaps decisive. But time is short. Share you thoughts      today.          ANN HELP WANTED     The projects being undertaken by ANN are very           ambitious. Right now they are mostly being carried out by    about a dozen heavily overworked people, scattered all over  the continent. If you would beSuggest to Dealer/Suppliers, AUGS & BBSs that they help publicize this and very important have their experts volunteer and contact Ron Mitchell to let them know of their availability.(5) Adam Survival Guide .  Recent & current ANN disks will have a list of   proposed chapters.  See where you or someone you know could be of help.     Have them contact Barry Wilson or Mel Ostler (Adam Survival Guide           Co-Editors) to volunteer to (l) write a chapter, (2) review a chapter, (3)  contribute to a chapterormation & announcements about ANN, ANN subscriptions & ANN     projects in ALL their mail outs  (catalogs, with invoices, shipments,       etc.).    Ask your AUG officers, BBS Sysops  and Newsletter Editor to be sure to  include  information & announcements about ANN, ANN subscriptions & ANN     projects in ALL their mail outs, at their meetings, on their BBSs, etc. (2) INFORMATION EXCHANGE     Ask Adam Dealer/Suppliers to be sure to send on disk to ANN all new    and current information on their prod it Honor, no sense making a     fuss with our Canadian friends who speak better English that we do ( or at  least I do or is it I does or duz I or whatever).     Do send suggestions to Rich Clee both as to procedures and inductees.     Do remember how to spell my name.  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