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this  point in time.  They aremuch faster, much better, and thedisks are much cheaper than data-paks; and you can  purchase disksanywhere.  You must purchase datapaks from your ADAM User Group ora supplier, since you cannot FOR-MAT these cassettes yourself, un-less you happen to have MEGA COPY(Syd Carter's Formatter).   You can  format disks for yourADAMnet disk drives  yourself, byusing  various  FORMAT  programs.U2 (One Minute Formatter) in yourclub library, is a good program.   So gi„%ed  the ADAMcomputer system ten, or so, yearsago; the data drives (DDD's) wereconsidered state-of-the-art.   These drives, which  used tapecassettes  to store  inform     -CONCERNING DATA DRIVES----------------------------------   When Coleco produced  the ADAMcomputer system ten, or so, yearsago; the data drives (DDD's) wereconsidered state-of-the-art.   These drives, which  used tapecassettes  to store  infAMat this  point in time.  They aremuch faster, much better, and thedisks are much cheaper than data-paks; and you can  purchase disksanywhere.  You must purchase datapaks from your ADAM User Group ora supplier, since you cannot FOR-MAT these cassettes yourself, un-less you happen to have MEGA COPY(Syd Carter's Formatter).   You can  format disks for yourADAMnet disk drives  yourself, byusing  various  FORMAT  programs.U2 (One Minute Formatter) in yourclub library, is a good program.   So giately the volume of or-ders for  these drives has reallyslowed down; and  they are takingup  space  that we  could put  tobetter use.  If this continues, Iam afraid  that we will NO longercontinue to  stock them  for saleto the membership.   This means  that you will haveto make your data drive purchasesfrom one of the ADAM dealers.   Any ADAMite who makes MUCH useof their computer should certain-ly consider  getting  an  ADAMnetdisk drive, or two.  These drivesare the state-of-the-art for ADههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههve a  disk drive a lot ofthought!  If you  have  one, con-sider  a second one, as a backup,or for  operations  that  require(or are easer with) two drives.                         -----NJDontinue to  stock them  for saleto the membership.   This means  that you will haveto make your data drive purchasesfrom one of the ADAM dealers.   Any ADAMite who makes MUCH useof their computer should certain-ly consider  getting  an  ADAMnetdisk drive, or two.  These drivesare the state-of-the-art for ADormation,were a good storage system.  How-ever, time has passed them by andthey are  no longer  the BEST wayto store  the data that you  wishto keep for future reference.   They are still in good supply,at  this time; but they  will notbe available forever.  They are acomplicated mechanism and requirea great deal of labor  to repair.Although  repairs are  available,it is just as cheap to purchase aNEW one, as of now.   The club has been stocking thedata drives  for some  time, now.However, l„%s.  10 and 70 arethe horizontal  margins  when youturn ADAM on.  You can change themargins by pressing SmartKEYS I &II.  You see the  LEFT and  RIGHTmargins before yo---------WORD PROCESSING---------   We mentioned the "default" (orstandard) margins.  10 and 70 arethe horizontal  margins  when youturn ADAM on.  You can change themargins by pressing SmartKEYS I &II.  You see the  LEFT and  RIGHTmargins beforeline. Anything over the 36 spaces(or characters,) will then  go tothe next line on your screen. (Itdoesn't matter  what your marginsare.)  So one line of type on thepage, appears as two lines on thescreen  before you.  I know  thismay sound a little confusing; butjust watch your  WHITE cursor in-dicator at the  top of the screenas you type, and you will be ableto follow the lines. This happensbecause ADAM  was set up to allowyou to use it with a TV set for amonitor, and you end up with a 36cmargin; then  IVand the  BOTTOM arrow key to makea change in the BOTTOM margin.   Watch the RED margin indicatorat the top of your screen, so youcan see right where your horizon-tal margins are.  The RED indica-tor at the  left  of your  screenwill tell you where your verticalmargins are.  Watch them  move asyou press the arrow keys in orderto change the margins.   Many ADAM users  have trouble,in  the  beginning,  with  ADAM's"word wrap" and the 36 charactersthat  you can get  on one  screen.  I feel that theywill give you something  to thinkabout.  Here they are:   SmartLOGO............$110.00   SOFT LIBRARY...........70.00   SmartLETTERS & FORMS...60.00   EXPERTYPE..............60.00   ADDRESS BOOK FILER.....80.00   MARKET MONITOR........150.00   TAX PLANNER............90.00   CP/M 2.2 & ASSEMBLER..125.00   ADAMCALC...............70.00   64K Memory Expander..$300.00   5-1/4" Disk Drive.....435.00   AdamLINK Modem........160.00   After reading this list, I be-gin to feel tholumn screen.  If the  last wordon a line  won't fit, it  goes tothe next line. This is word-wrap.More on it later.                         -----NJDsee right where your horizon-tal margins are.  The RED indica-tor at the  left  of your  screenwill tell you where your verticalmargins are.  Watch them  move asyou press the arrow keys in orderto change the margins.   Many ADAM users  have trouble,in  the  beginning,  with  ADAM's"word wrap" and the 36 charactersthat  you can get  on one  screen you; press III andthen  use the  LEFT  arrow key tochange  the LEFT margin  to what-ever you wish it to be.  Then youpress IV, and use the RIGHT arrowkey to make the RIGHT margin whatyou want.  However, if the  RIGHTmargin is set lower than what youwish the  LEFT margin to be; thenyou have to move the RIGHT marginfirst, to get it out of the way.   Press  I and III,  and you getthe vertical margin settings.  Ifyou wish  to change them, you canpress III and the UP arrow key tochange the  TOP  ~%n article by TonyWong, in which  he quotes some ofthe prices for  ADAM software andhardware that  Coleco  advertisedjust before their  abandonment ofADAM  in  1985.  --------THE PRICE IS RIGHT-------   In  a June issue, of the  NIADnewsletter, is an article by TonyWong, in which  he quotes some ofthe prices for  ADAM software andhardware that  Coleco  advertisedjust before their  abandonment ofADAM  in  1985line. Anything over the 36 spaces(or characters,) will then  go tothe next line on your screen. (Itdoesn't matter  what your marginsare.)  So one line of type on thepage, appears as two lines on thescreen  before you.  I know  thismay sound a little confusing; butjust watch your  WHITE cursor in-dicator at the  top of the screenas you type, and you will be ableto follow the lines. This happensbecause ADAM  was set up to allowyou to use it with a TV set for amonitor, and you end up with a 36cat maybe Coleco didall of us a favor, by fleeing thescene when they did.   A lot of people complain aboutprices concerning their ADAM com-puter; like  paying  $50.00 for a64K  expansion board.  Well  now,how would you like  to buy one ofthem from  Coleco, for  six timesthat amount!   Sort of puts a new perspectiveon things, doesn't it?---------------------------------tes some ofthe prices for  ADAM software andhardware that  Coleco  advertisedjust before their  abandonment ofADAM  in  1985cters and the othernecessary operations.   ASCII is a code used by BASIC.Your Adam computer converts it tomachine language.                         -----NJDx%dems  can operateat 300, 1200, and 2400 Baud.   What is a  BAUD?  It refers tothe speed  at which you can down-load information.  So a  BAUD  isan available unit of  -------------A BAUD--------------   The ADAM modem operates at 300Baud.  Other  modems  can operateat 300, 1200, and 2400 Baud.   What is a  BAUD?  It refers tothe speed  at which you can down-load information.  So a  BAUD  isan available unit ory.   Don't forget, you have  64K ofmemory  (RAM)  built  into  ADAM.ADAM has  80K of built-in memory,but 16K is reserved for graphics.   With ADAM's 64K, plus the add-itional  64K from your 64K memoryexpander board, you have  a totalof 128K of RAM available.                         -----NJD~%American StandardCode for Information Interchange.   It's comprised of numbers thatrange from  0 to 127.  These  128numbers stand for all the variouskeyboard characte--------------ASCII--------------   ASCII (pronounce it ask-ey) isam acronym for  American StandardCode for Information Interchange.   It's comprised of numbers thatrange from  0 to 127.  These  128numbers stand for all the variouskeyboard chara.  I feel that theywill give you something  to thinkabout.  Here they are:   SmartLOGO............$110.00   SOFT LIBRARY...........70.00   SmartLETTERS & FORMS...60.00   EXPERTYPE..............60.00   ADDRESS BOOK FILER.....80.00   MARKET MONITOR........150.00   TAX PLANNER............90.00   CP/M 2.2 & ASSEMBLER..125.00   ADAMCALC...............70.00   64K Memory Expander..$300.00   5-1/4" Disk Drive.....435.00   AdamLINK Modem........160.00   After reading this list, I be-gin to feel th~% 10th power).  Byadding  a  64K expander  board toyour ADAM, you have  64 times 1K,or 65,536 bytes of memory.   With a  256K expander, you get262,144 bytes of memory.------------KILOBYTES------------   A  Kilobyte (or one K) is 1024Bytes  (2 to the 10th power).  Byadding  a  64K expander  board toyour ADAM, you have  64 times 1K,or 65,536 bytes of memory.   With a  256K expander, you get262,144 bytes of memof  data trans-mission speed, usually  equal  toone bit per second.   The name  Baud  comes from theinventor J.M.E. Baudot, who  diedin  1903.  It originally referredto a  unit of  telegraphic trans-mission speed.                         -----NJD0 PM.                                         Robert Keating                                         SecretaryPresent:Joe QuinnRobert McMannDavid ElzbeckLenn TalbotCecil MannFrank GrahamMarj GrahamBruce ShipleyRandy HoneymanHoward PinesFaye~%mbler"program for the ADAM, is becomingmore difficult to find. There wassome conjecture  on what could bedone, since it was not public do-main, and had to be purchase           ---T-DOS---   As has been  mentioned before,Coleco's  "CP/M  2.2 & Assembler"program for the ADAM, is becomingmore difficult to find. There wassome conjecture  on what could bedone, since it was not public do-main, and had to be purchle havinga  "disk problem", he  rememberedan article by  Thomas Keene, fromIEAUG (Inland Empire AUG).   Take a "bulk eraser"  that youuse to "clear" a  video tape, (ora cassette tape eraser), and  runit over your disk. These are pow-erful electric magnets, that tendto  line up the metallic filings,in the disk coating, in the rightorder.  Leave the  cover  on yourdisk, or cover it with a sheet ofpaper or  plastic.   This  shouldtake care of  any  BAD or MISSINGblocks on your disk.   However, ou have a memory expandercard, or a Dot-Matrix printer.   The proper installation of thesystem will depend  on your driveconfiguration; therefore, we willsend the disk or data-pak for theproper  configuration  with  yourorder of T-DOS.   If you change  your configura-tion later; you can  reinstall ityourself, or order a  new disk ordata-pak with the right system.   The  Disk (Data-Pak)  with theBooklet, can  be  purchased  fromE.C.A.U.G.  Contact us! not public do-main, and had to be purchle havinga  "disk problem", he  rememberedan article by  Thomas Keene, fromIEAUG (Inland Empire AUG).   Take a "bulk eraser"  that youuse to "clear" a  video tape, (ora cassette tape eraser), and  runit over your disk. These are pow-erful electric magnets, that tendto  line up the metallic filings,in the disk coating, in the rightorder.  Leave the  cover  on yourdisk, or cover it with a sheet ofpaper or  plastic.   This  shouldtake care of  any  BAD or MISSINGblocks on your disk.   However, „%-------   Having trouble formatting yourdisks, or a  BAD block on a disk?   An  article  by  Jerry Vrancksin a  463 ADAM newsletter, calledto mind a solution.  While ---------------------------------        -DISK PROBLEMS?----------------------------------   Having trouble formatting yourdisks, or a  BAD block on a disk?   An  article  by  Jerry Vrancksin a  463 ADAM newsletter, calledto mind a solution.  Whiased.   Tony Morehen provided the sol-ution when he developed his T-DOSsystem; which is the  replacementfor CP/M 2.2 for the Adam.   The holdup  was in getting the"DOCs"  (documentation)  printed.We now have  the information; andwith the  author's permission, wehave compiled  and  published theT-DOS Documentation booklet.   You can order T-DOS on Disk orData-Pak.  We need for you to letus know  what your  configurationis---that is, do you have  2 DataDrives, 2 Disk Drives, 1 of each,and do ydo  NOT try this withyour  DataPaks, unless you have atape formatter.  As an alternate,try a permanent magnet.  Also, doNOT use any of these methods nearany of your good  tapes or disks,or you may regret it.  Electricalor magnetic fields  will wipe outany stored files on your media!   And, of course, you  will haveto "re-format" your  disks  afterthis "cleansing" process!                         -----NJD---------------------------------n a  463 ADAM newsletter, calledto mind a solution.  Whiased.   Tony Morehen provided the sol-ution when he developed his T-DOSsystem; which is the  replacementfor CP/M 2.2 for the Adam.   The holdup  was in getting the"DOCs"  (documentation)  printed.We now have  the information; andwith the  author's permission, wehave compiled  and  published theT-DOS Documentation booklet.   You can order T-DOS on Disk orData-Pak.  We need for you to letus know  what your  configurationis---that is, do you have  2 DataDrives, 2 Disk Drives, 1 of each,and do y‚K                                      COLUMNS             0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   A   B   C   D   E   F             |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   From 463 ADAM newsletter - 3/93               EASY HEXADECIMAL CONVERSION CHART                                       COLUMNS             0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   A   B   C   D   E   F             |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |94 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207    D ---- 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223    E ---- 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239    F ---- 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 To use the chart, find the number you wish to convert.  Write  down its    row designation and then its column designation.  For example, the number 125, located in Row 7, Column D, would be 7D  in       hexadecimal.  250 would 5  86  87  88  89  90  91  92  93  94  95 R   6 ----  96  97  98  99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 O   7 ---- 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 W   8 ---- 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 S   9 ---- 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159    A ---- 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175    B ---- 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191    C ---- 192 193 1GS w/prgms) received.  NOTICE:    I will sell to any "Paid Up to Date" local member any six back     issues (1 years worth $20) w/programs (on your media) for $15.SUBSCRIPTIONS:  This newsletter is published 6 times a calendar    year.  $5 to any US address; $7 to Canada (Dollars, US currency),  and $10 Foreign (in US funds).  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(working backwards to convert  a hex       number, "D3" would be the number 211.)05 106 107 108 109 110 111 O   7 ---- 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 W   8 ---- 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 S   9 ---- 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159    A ---- 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175    B ---- 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191    C ---- 192 193 1   |   |   |   |   |   |   |             |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |    0 ----   0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10  11  12  13  14  15    1 ----  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27  28  29  30  31    2 ----  32  33  34  35  36  37  38  39  40  41  42  43  44  45  46  47    3 ----  48  49  50  51  52  53  54  55  56  57  58  59  60  61  62  63    4 ----  64  65  66  67  68  69  70  71  72  73  74  75  76  77  78  79    5 ----  80  81  82  83  84  8‚Cےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےقےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےے OMAHA ADAM USERS CLUB NEWSLETTER APR/MAY 93 # 53 The oldest active ADAM newsletter in the USA I Established 11     July 1984 by Norman R.  CastroThanks for your confidence and support.  The OAUC is a local club  with fees of $20 per 6 issues (PK94 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207    D ---- 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223    E ---- 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239    F ---- 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 To use the chart, find the number you wish to convert.  Write  down its    row designation and then its column designation.  For example, the number 125, located in Row 7, Column D, would be 7D  in       hexadecimal.  250 would y contributor(s) of any capacity make any   warranty either express or implied with regard to information      contained herein, either by interpretation, use, or misuse         Reviews & opinions submitted by the readership at large do not     necessarily reflect the opinions of the editor or staff.  OAUC     has no affiliation with Coleco Industries.  Unless stated          otherwise, all correspondence shall be considered as "open to      public review".  Attempt hardware projects and/or repair at your  hen cut out for usage. DRAGON THE CHINESE CHALLENGE FACE MAKER CABBAGE PATCH PICTURE SHOW DR.  SEUSS-FIX-UP MIX PUZZLE LINKING LOGIC LOGIC LEVELS MONKEY ACADEMYYou can have any five for $2 postpaid.  These were made on         SmartWRITER and they fit good and are a great help to me.PARTICIPATE IN AN ADAM USER GROUPThe Action Editor from the World-Herald wrote to me with another   computer problem.  Mary is trying to find a computer chess game    for her nephew.  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The local stores and dealers that she has contacted do not have    such a program any more.  There was two or three such programs     available when the GS was popular.  Now the GS is out of style     and the MAC is in.  So, it is impossible to find a chess program   for the GS.I contacted our local APPLE club in Omaha and you CAN still get    one of several chess games either in Lincoln or in Omaha.          Contact: COMPUTER SYSTEMS ATTN:  GEORGE KIPLEY 2819 South 125th Strorth) $4.25.  Two years $8.  4 years $15.       SPECIAL sale 6 years $20 PostPaid Issue #1 was in July 1984.TRADES:  OAUC is happy to trade newsletters with any other ADAM    organization:  Address inquiries to Norman R.  Castro.OAUC is a member of ADAM NEWS NETWORK (A.N.N.).  For info          contact:  Dean Roades, 8522 Hohman Avenue, Munster, IN 46321 $35   year for 24 disks +.IDGE REVIEWS with SECRET GAME TIPS 3.  THE BEST OF AIM, Hints, Tips etc., Most popular ADAM          Software reviews, Expanding the ADAM computer and an ADAM          GLOSSARY of computer terminology used.coVision EXPERIENCE Mag ALL THREE ISSUES $8 Foreign $10        EXPANDABLE COMPUTER NEWS Any 6 issues for $14GARDEN OF ADAM (The only issue issued) INCLUDES 2 inserts BACK ISSUES:  Back issues of this newsletter are available.  Any   6 issues (1 years weet Suite 276 OMAHA, NE 68144 Phone:  (402) 330-3600The OAUC meeting dates for the rest of 1993 are: 6 Apr, 1 Jun, 3 Aug, 5 Oct, 7 DecFor the BEST VALUE IN 1993 Send $2 and receive the following in    the ADAM INFORMATION KIT from ADAM'S HOUSE, ROUTE 2, BOX 2756,     1829 COUNTY ROAD #130, PEARLAND, TX 77581-9503 Phone:  (713) 482-  5040 For orders Phone:  (800) 999-5040 1.  His latest ADAM'S HOUSE Catalog which includes Educating The  Children and Family is 22 pages long. 2.  A 24 page CARTR‚CےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےقےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےThis is from SAFEWARE NEWS Phone 1-800-822-2345 for computer       insurance.  It is recommended that only surge protectors with      Metal Oxide Varistor components be used for computers.  Another    recommendation is that only protectors with indicato.  When it     gets to asking your name enter it BUT at this point when you hit   RETURN your printer will type your envelope.If you wish to print smaller envelopes then lines 200 to 230 will  have to be changed from TAB(34) to TAB(24).  If you do this        change line 10 to show 6.5 x 3.5.  To use this program with a Dot  Matrix printer line 90 will have to be changed from PR#1 to PR#2   for a parallel printer or PR#3 for a serial printer.  You will     have to load your PRINTER PROGRAM along with Sma       companies cannot control.Another common source of problems are older buildings with         inadequate grounding and wiring which leads to power surges and    sags.  Each of these problems causes wear and tear on power        systems, which eventually requires repairs.  Anything computers    owners can do to keep power irregularities out of their systems    serves to prolong its useful life.orth) $4.25.  Two years $8.  4 years $15.       SPECIAL sale 6 years $20 PostPaid Issue #1 was in July 1984.TRADES:  OAUC is happy to trade newsletters with any other ADAM    organization:  Address inquiries to Norman R.  Castro.OAUC is a member of ADAM NEWS NETWORK (A.N.N.).  For info          contact:  Dean Roades, 8522 Hohman Avenue, Munster, IN 46321 $35   year for 24 disks +.‚CےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےقےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےNow save this to a Data Pack or Disk.  Put paper in your ADAM      printer and type run.  You will be asked the name of the person    who you are sending this to; Type in their name PRESS RETURN and   answer the questions by typing the asked informationr lights       which show if the surge protector is still active should be used.A good consumers guide for surge protectors is Underwriters        Laboratories, which tests protectors and assigns ratings.  A UL    Rating of 1449 is the minimum recommended for computers and other  high value electronic equipmentWhile utility companies effectively regulate voltage most of the   time, events like lightning strikes, cycling of large appliances   and even traffic accidents cause irregularities that power  rtBASIC. 1.  My printer has a paper-out switch.  Envelopes being short in  length cause my printer to FAULT (stop printing) so I had to       disable that feature.  This was done by inserting a line 75 with   the correct codes:75 PRINT CHR$(27);"[:z" 2.  I wanted the senders address to be printed smaller than the   main address and to print in less space.  I set the printer to 8   lines per inch (80) and set the print size to 20 characters per    inch (85):80 PRINT CHR$(27);"[4z"85 PRINT CHR$(2ctions.1.  To clean the ColecoVision/ADAM cartridges you could go out     and buy a Nintendo Cleaning Kit for $10 at the local toy store.    The kit comes with 3 cartridge cleaning pads with nice handles, a  large system unit cleaning pad, and a bottle of solution.  The     cartridge cleaning pads have a slight bend on the handle that      makes getting into the cartridge area a breeze.  All you need to   do is add a couple of drops of solution and run the pad up and     down on the cartridge contacts a RO, 809W 33rd Ave., Bellevue, NE 68005 (402) 291-4405 ing the ADAM computer and an ADAM          GLOSSARY of computer terminology used.coVision EXPERIENCE Mag ALL THREE ISSUES $8 Foreign $10        EXPANDABLE COMPUTER NEWS Any 6 issues for $14GARDEN OF ADAM (The only issue issued) INCLUDES 2 inserts BACK ISSUES:  Back issues of this newsletter are available.  Any   6 issues (1 years wrtridge contacts a few   times.  The cleaning solution is specially made for cleaning       cartridges.  It is made by 3M and smells a lot like tape/diskette  head cleaning fluid.  So you should be ok in using it without      fear of ruining a cartridge plus you are only going to clean it    once anyway and may never have to again.4.  As far as cleaning the contacts on the unit itself I've not    had to do it on mine yet probably because of the dust flap         protecting the entrance well or most likel‚CےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےقےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےOMAHA ADAM USERS CLUB NEWSLETTER APR/MAY 93 PKG # 53This is page 5 of 6 pages.  ShowOFF II compresses each page into   one column.This is from 463 ADAM, 8522 Hohman Ave., MUNSTER, IN 46321.  via   ANN by Fred Horvat.  Cleaning Game Cartridge Conne7);"[7w" 3.  The main address I wanted spaced at 6 lines per inch(192)     and 10 characters per inch typed in correspondence mode(195):192 PRINT CHR$(20);"[3z"195 PRINT CHR$(27);"[4y" 4.  And finally I had to enable the paper-out switch(235):235 PRINT CHR$(27);"[<zy"As stated this set of instructions apply to the Tally Printer but  all printers have similar enabling codes try them out is a good    exercise in setting your printer to perform for you the way it     was designed.NORMAN CASTfew times and you're all done.2.  The system cleaning pad will not fit into the ADAM game        cartridge port without some cutting to it's plastic case.  I have  not cut mine up yet to see how it fits because my unit works       fine.  For most people, they will not likely need to get a         cleaning kit, plus that's a bit pricey just to clean a game or     two that are giving you trouble.3.  Another method is to use a cotton swab with a little           isopropyl alcohol and rub it across the caorth) $4.25.  Two years $8.  4 years $15.       SPECIAL sale 6 years $20 PostPaid Issue #1 was in July 1984.TRADES:  OAUC is happy to trade newsletters with any other ADAM    organization:  Address inquiries to Norman R.  Castro.OAUC is a member of ADAM NEWS NETWORK (A.N.N.).  For info          contact:  Dean Roades, 8522 Hohman Avenue, Munster, IN 46321 $35   year for 24 disks +.y by constantly using    the cartridge port keeps the contacts cleaning from use.  I hope   this helps a few of you gamers out there.NOTE:  Fred Horvat operates FMH I.S.  GAMES, PO Box 493,           Chesterland, OH 44026.  He specializes in buying and selling used  and new game cartridges for the Atari, ADAM,and Intellivision      game systems and computers.  Tell him you saw this in the OAUC     newsletter via ANN.  Thanks..This is from IEAUG, 3141 E.  Palmyra Avenue, ORANGE, CA 92669.     This CPM d the problem.  In order to make an    orderly presentation of the way we swapped components, I will  show two columns.  The left is ADAM #1 (my ADAM) and the right  column   is ADAM #2.  At the outset, ADAM #1 would not print anything that was stored on the RAM drive (the M:Drive) while  ADAM #2 could print any test file stored on the M:Drive.ADAM #1 ADAM #2RAM DRIVE - - - - - - - - - > functions OKThis indicates that the 1 Meg RAM card was removed from ADAM #1     and put into ADAM #2 and the quge space will depend on the number of SIPPs installed. riter can't do.  Heaven knows there are enough of them.   But ADAM's a computer, not a dedicated word processor.  So we can feed in Showoff or Speedywrite or VDE266 or Wordstar and accept  the         complications to get the special effects we want.  The flexibility is there when you can't get the results without a hassle - you just don't have to put up with it all the time. to change.     One by one we have taken every component from ADAM #1 and           installed it in ADAM #2 and at no time could we induce a failure.   Conversely, we have taken every component from ADAM #2 and          installed it in ADAM #1 but was never able to print a text file  on the 1 Meg RAM drive with the Dot Matrix Printer.  There is a        remote possibility that two components taken together was the       reason for my ADAM #1 to fail.  For example, maybe it was the       combination of the EP‚DےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےقےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےA TALE OF TWO ADAMSIt was my turn at the February IEAUG meeting.  I had the ADAM  with the problem.  We had plenty of time, so we decided to swap  out     every component of my system, one at a time.  We agreed that        sooner or later we should finbased newsletter is done by THOMAS J.  KEENE and is       extremely well done and always has been.Something worth remembering is that RAM drive capacity is          determined by the system which is used to cold boot CPM.  Not      only the storage capacity but also the size of the RAM DIRECTORY   is determined.  If a 160k disc is the system source the RAM drive  will be limited to 145k and a directory of 32 files.  If cold      booted from a 720k disc, the RAM directory will be 64 files and    the storaestionable RAM drive functioned      perfectly in ADAM #2.  After each test, both ADAMs were returned    to their original configuration before the next test.Fails to print < - - - - - - RAM DRIVEPOWER SUPPLY - - - - - - - -> Functions OKFails to print < - - - - - - POWER SUPPLYADAM ITSELF - - - - - - - - > Functions OKFails to print < - - - - - - ADAM ITSELFKEYBOARD & CABLE - - - - - > Functions OKFails to print < - - - - - - KEYBOARD & CABLEAt this point there doesn't seem to be anything left  Obviously with my little business I have to keep files.  As a  librarian I  certainly had lots of experience in keeping files, and I know the time and effort they demand.  That's why, now that  computers with adequate memory have at last become available, libraries are computerizing as fast as they can.  It saves money  ---        enormous amounts of money.  (The most expensive part of any library is the catalogue, because of the input labour needed to  create it).  To the extent I need files, again theSON LQ-510 and the RAM drive that provided     the incompatibility.  Maybe it takes both of them together to       cause this malfunction.  That doesn't seem to be likely, but none   of the above tests ruled that out.Now the reason for a possible suspicion is that one can configure   CP/M with ABP25 (or 26 or 27) so that the A:Drive and B:Drive may   be designated 145K or 720K.  Whether this might have a bearing on   this problem is unknown.  I do know that my CP/M is set up for a    hybrid drive combinaSmartWriter.  Your allowed up to    6 characters across and three lines of data in each space.2.  Cut the top and bottom so that NO lines show.3.  Place Scotch Magic 1" wide tape on the front to stiffen overlay.    When cutting the LEFT side let the lines show.  Leave at least    1/8" on the RIGHT side to allow overlay to be removed.|- - - -|- - - |- - - - |               |- - - -|- - - |- - - - |  |       |      |        G               |       |      |        G   |       |      |        A     all one has to  do to    restore an erased file is to change the E5 back to 00.Norman Castro, 809W 33rd Ave, Bellevue, NE 68005 (402) 291-4405 d in Showoff or Speedywrite or VDE266 or Wordstar and accept  the         complications to get the special effects we want.  The flexibility is there when you can't get the results without a hassle - you just don't have to put up with it all the time.      |      |        E               |       |      |        E  |       |      |        |               |       |      |        |  |       |      |        H               |       |      |        H  |- - -  -|- - - |- - - - E               |- - - -|- - - |- - - - E  |        |      |        R  Leave Blank  |       |      |        R  |       |      |        E               |       |      |        E  |       |      |        |               |       |      |        | |       |      |        |               |   ‚Eےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےقےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےے                        |- - - - - - - - |                        | JOYPAD SKELTON |                        |  DESIGNED  BY  |                        | NORMAN  CASTRO |                        |- - - - - - - - |1.  You can fill this out by pen or tion and Gord Cook's CP/M is for a 145k drive   only.  I realize this seems like I'm grasping at straws, but have   any of you had a similar experience which could help clear up  this situation?When a CP/M file is erased, the only change made is that the  first byte of the directory entry is changed to E5.  This first  byte     identifies the User Area where the file is stored.  If the  file is erased, E5 replaces the user area notation.  If the user  area is   the default area the first byte is 00.  So           |       |      |        A  |       |      |        M               |       |      |        M  |       |      |        E  Leave Blank  |       |      |        E  |- - -   -|- - - |- - - - |               |- - - -|- - - |- - - - |  |        |      |        T               |       |      |        T  |       |      |        I               |       |      |        I  |       |      |        T               |       |      |        T |- - - -|- - - |- - - - L               |- - - -|- - - |- - - - L  |   Obviously with my little business I have to keep files.  As a  librarian I  certainly had lots of experience in keeping files, and I know the time and effort they demand.  That's why, now that  computers with adequate memory have at last become available, libraries are computerizing as fast as they can.  It saves money  ---        enormous amounts of money.  (The most expensive part of any library is the catalogue, because of the input labour needed to  create it).  To the extent I need files, again the    |      |        |    |- - - -|- - - |- - - - |               |- - - -|- - - |- - - - | |- - - -|- - - |- - - - |               |- - - -|- - - |- - - - |  |       |      |        G               |       |      |        G  |       |      |        A               |       |      |        A  |       |      |        M               |       |      |        M  |       |      |        E   Leave Blank |       |      |        E  |- - -    -|- - - |- - - - |               |- - - -|- - - |- - - - |  |        | ssing program built right into it,  and is one of the least expensive systems that can be found        today. This is probably why you are an ADAM owner.  The price was        right, and it doesn't take an electronic genius to operate it.     However, as with all things, the older it gets, the more parts     there are that need replacing.  Since the ADAM is no longer in     production, these replacement parts have become even more scarce. One of the parts that has become almost impossible to get is th - |- - - - E  |        |      |        R  Leave Blank  |       |      |        R  |       |      |        E               |       |      |        E  |       |      |        |               |       |      |        | |       |      |        |               |       |      |        |    |- - - -|- - - |- - - - |               |- - - -|- - - |- - - - |   flexibility is there when you can't get the results without a hassle - you just don't have to put up with it all the time.  more, but  it saves you money on disks, and it retains your data better.      The cassettes deteriorate in time, and can cause you to lose       valuable files.  Also, data cassettes are becoming more scarce.    In time, they will no longer be available.  I do not want to       spend a large amount of money to replace my trusty computer.  The  purchase of a $200 DISK Drive will fix the problem nicely.  This   means that you might do well to think about saving for the         purchase of that DISK Drive.‚CےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےقےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےTHE PRESIDENT SAYS Have you ever noticed that the more complicated the electronic    equipment is, the more expensive it is? The ADAM computer is just  about as uncomplicated as a computer can be.  It comes with the    operating system and word proce     |        T               |       |      |        T  |       |      |        I               |       |      |        I  |       |      |        T               |       |      |        T |- - - -|- - - |- - - - L               |- - - -|- - - |- - - - L  |       |      |        E               |       |      |        E  |       |      |        |               |       |      |        |  |       |      |        H               |       |      |        H  |- - -  -|- - - |- - - - E               |- - - -|- -e  ADAM 300 baud modem.  Another is the Digital Data Drive.  These    ARE available in some quarters, but spending a little more money   means you have a peripheral that is much more efficient, and       faster to use.  In both cases, spending the extra money means      that the item pays for itself in short order.  Therefore, it       makes sense to spend the money in the first place instead of       letting outdated equipment bleed your pocketbook. In the case of the Data Drive, the DISK Drive may cost Obviously with my little business I have to keep files.  As a  librarian I  certainly had lots of experience in keeping files, and I know the time and effort they demand.  That's why, now that  computers with adequate memory have at last become available, libraries are computerizing as fast as they can.  It saves money  ---        enormous amounts of money.  (The most expensive part of any library is the catalogue, because of the input labour needed to  create it).  To the extent I need files, again the  -Faye B.  Deere        |- - - -|- - - |- - - - |  |       |      |        G               |       |      |        G  |       |      |        A               |       |      |        A  |       |      |        M               |       |      |        M  |       |      |        E   Leave Blank |       |      |        E  |- - -    -|- - - |- - - - |               |- - - -|- - - |- - - - |  |        | es some experienced program-mers, fast readers, or anxious game players.  Don't try to guess    how fast someone can read.  Fill a screen and GET a keypress to     move to the next screen.  You can disable SPEED with: POKE 12043,195:POKE 12044,15:POKE 12045,76Note that the three POKEs must appear on the same line or BASIC     will crash. Before discussing INVERSE  video, let's look at the way BASIC      handles the screen.  There are two tables in VIDEO RAM that         control characters.  BASIC ‚DےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےقےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےSMARTBASIC WORKSHOPEXPLORING SMARTBASIC by Guy Cousineau of the ADAM User Friendly     Group.  Reprinted from the V.I.S.A.  ADVISA, and made available  by Ron Mitchell.  - Editor The entire PRINT execution routine is found from 7800 to 7899      (n, you may already know that you must write the  character in two places if you don't want funny results.                                                    |       |      |        E               |       |      |        E  |       |      |        |               |       |      |        |  |       |      |        H               |       |      |        H  |- - -  -|- - - |- - - - E               |- - - -|- -ar the TEXT WINDOW, including the 4 lines in GR and  HGR mode.  It also places the cursor at the top of the screen  (The     TEXT command does the same thing in TEXT mode.  In graphic  modes,  TEXT takes you BACK to TEXT mode.  - Editor).  If you want  to home the cursor without clearing the screen, just type:  PRINT           CHR$(128) <RETURN>. SPEED controls the delay between each character sent to the        screen.  It can be useful for special effects but should  generally be avoided as it infuriat     |        T               |       |      |        T  |       |      |        I               |       |      |        I  |       |      |        T               |       |      |        T |- - - -|- - - |- - - - L               |- - - -|- - - |- - - - L  |       |      |        E               |       |      |        E  |       |      |        |               |       |      |        |  |       |      |        H               |       |      |        H  |- - -  -|- - - |- - - - E               |- - - -|- -routinely alternates between these two   tables regardless of the FLASH, INVERSE and NORMAL settings.        Normally, these two tables contain exactly the same (i.e.  the      characters to be displayed on the screen).  If INVERSE is on,  both tables are set to the inverse of the character being printed.  When FLASH is on, one page has normal text, and the       other page has inverse text.  For those of you who may have         experimented with direct writes to VRAM to place the characters  on the scree1E78-1EDB) with the actual entry point at 7854 (1EAE).  The PR     command is used to select device output.  Similar to IN, this       command accepts up to 8 devices with all but PR#1 being the same.   The command sets a flag to channel output to an external device     (e.g.  the printer).  It is possible to patch in other PR vectors   to point to drivers for DOT MATRIX printers but they are of         limited value in BASIC. The following are screen format commands.  The HOME command is     used to cle‚Cےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےقےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےے WORKING WITH SPEEDYWRITE.  COLUMN THREE IN THE SERIES: BY DAVID SANDS.This series is written for original publication in the VISA        ADVISA, newsletter of the Vancouver Island Senior ADAMphiles, and  is distributed by (ANN), the ADAM News Netu could create with SpeedyWrite is your Christmas  Letter.  If you're not impressed with those things--and they       sometimes do set your teeth on edge-- pass on this.  But, if       informing your wide circle of friends about your year, is a        chore, when you handwrite it, here's where the computer can help.Here are a couple of other ideas:  if you need a lot of copies,    having a local 'quick-print', or photocopy shop do them, after     you get a good "original" from your ADAM printer, will cer        That's an inventory sheet for daily ordering, and it helps         guarantee essentials don't get missed.  If forgetting to buy       salt, flour, potatoes, whatever, is a problem, use SpeedyWrite to  make your own multiple column list and you'll never forget nails,  towels, cigars, bullets or cinnamon again.Depending on your own ADAM system, make sure you've got your       SpeedyWrite disk or tape, loaded in the drive from which you       started SPW, press Store/Get, and then work your way throthe paper.  If   you're using a dot matrix printer that has a 'landscape' mode,     you may be able to print it out yourself, otherwise, it's a cut    and paste job.  When its folded, you have a little booklet.        Pages 1 and 4 on the back of the page, and pages 2 and 3 on the    front.  With two simple folds the pages line up correctly and it   all goes nicely into a card envelope.While we're thinking about long documents, lets review page        numbering, and headers, footers and footnotes.  SPW g good luck!.  The format    comes up onscreen showing a set of instructions, so you don't      have to remember exactly what to do each time, and you can do a    test printout to see if you've got it working.Those instructions don't print out--they are 'comments' created    with the Control-V;(semicolon) command.  This is a feature you     can use if you're creating a document for yourself, that you want  to print out for someone else, without revealing your sources or   real opinions.Another thing yowork.Letters aren't the only things we write in our daily lives.  We    write ourselves notes, grocery lists, and we certainly write       cheques (or checks), and sign various and sundry pieces of paper   other people thrust at us.  Using a word processor for some of     these odd jobs isn't sensible, or is it?Let's eliminate signing cheques immediately.  We'd all like        that!.  But -- think of your grocery lists.  Many businesses, of   all kinds, use a 'par stock' or 'basic stock' list system. tainly   save time.Check with the copyshop/printer.  If they can do reduced sized     copy, the result could be sharper, and easier to read.  It may     even fit into a card envelope more easily.  If your letter is long, think about formatting it so it can be     printed on both sides of the paper, and then be folded.Here again, this is a job you can take to the photocopy shop       after you get a good original.  Format your file so it fits        neatly into two columns, across the short side of ugh the   options, with your arrow keys, to System, then to Load and         through the What Drive prompt.  SPW wants you to be exact when     you enter filenames.The filename, for the two column listing format, with a page       number at the top, is ColumnsP.  Nothing else will do.  Remember   as well that, this has to be at the top of your page, the very     first thing showing on your screen.  If three columns, would seem better than two, study the            programming of the ColumnsP format, andives you      page numbering with its regular Control-V and code sequence.       There are four different page numbering styles, centred, top and   bottom and right hand, top and bottom.  Also, SPW offers another   System file, entitled TwoSidedA, that will allocate alternate      page numbers to the outer edges of the pages, when you're          printing both sides of your sheet.Headers and footers appear on every sheet of a long document,      sometimes to identify the author and document as for freela to access the ADAM Echo without worrying about long         distance phone charges.  If you live in the Chicago area and own  a modem, please log on to CHICAGO SYSLINK and let George know you     exist.  CHICAGO SYSLINK, Fidonet #1:115/622, (708) 795-4442.  The   BBS will accomodate 300 to 2400 baud modems, and the parameters     are 8-N-1. This comes from the 9/92 NIAD.  Chris Braymen of Bonafide          Systems, 45280 S.  Oakview Drive, Oakhurst, CA 93644, (209) 658-    8530, has released ADAM <-> DOded just like our other examples.Next time, lets make a macro of our own so something we do         repetitiously in our writing gets done with a single keystroke.    Macros are simply small programs stored away in your word          processor.  They can be real time-savers. for a friend, you will have taken away a portion of what is a small market to begin with.  I will have no  incentive   to both business and feel they have been financially  beneficial to you, Chris would appreciate a $10 registration fee.   He will    then keep you informed about updates and additions to  these        programs. The user assumes all risks of using this software.  Bonafide       Systems is not liable for lost data, trashed disks, or any other    computer mayhem.  The programs run on an IBM PC or compatible and   are NOT ADAM programs! Terry Fowler of ADAM's House, Route 2, Box 2756, Pearland, TX      77581-950‚DےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےقےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےTHINGS I THOUGHTYOU MIGHT LIKE TO KNOW NIAD tells us that The FIDONET ADAM ECHO has been picked up by     the The Chicago Syslink BBS which is operated by George Matyaszek   in Berwyn, IL.  Now any of our members that live near Chicago  will be ablence     writing, or to add a touch of elegance to a page.  For example,    if you're writing the Employee Policy Manual, the company name,    chapter title and page number could appear across the top of each  page with only a single use of the SPW Header command.  This is    Control-V H, and then, (without a space) the Header text.          Footers--across the bottom of the page--are entered with Control-  V F.Footnotes, for academic writing, are performed by the SPW          FootNoteA file, which is loaS 1.0 ((C) 1992 Bonafide Systems).    ADAM <-> DOS is a collection of freeware DOS programs for           transferring ADAM files to and from MS-DOS or PC-DOS. This is not Public Domain software, but Bonafide Systems           authorizes you to freely make copies and distribute them as long    as all the files in this distribution remain together, unaltered    in any way; and no fee is charged other than a reasonable fee to    cover copying and media.  If you use these programs in a            commercialer with another volume.   I am using myself as an example, but it is an across-the- board  situation.   NO ADAM SOFTWARE DEVELOPER MAKES A REAL PROFIT.  They are all hobbyists.  They do this because they LIKE to do it.  For  heaven's   sake let's not discourage them!And then, consider "copy protection".  Well, I can't copy-protect  my own     software because it's graphics, and it would be pretty useless if you couldn't call it up to use it.  And if you can call it up, obviously you can save it to a3, 1 (800) 999-5040, is offering to insure your ADAM       computer system.  Terms for the LIFETIME SERVICE POLICY are 2       years for $25, 5 years for $50 and Lifetime for only $75.  Your     system must be in proper working condition at the time you submit   his policy form that lists the component serial numbers, etc. If during the period of the contract you have a component          failure, call ADAM's House and he will help determine what should   be done or if it should be sent in for repairs.  at is nearly as easy or comfortable or economical to write a letter, essay or what have you.  Compare Smartwriter to a word-processing program on any other computer. Sure,  Wordperfect  or Wordstar or any of the other  $400 - $600 programs will do     things ADAM owners can't even think of. But these are things you don't use in  normal, household writing.      What Smartwriter offers as no other is comfort and ease. Yes, in some     situations ADAM's 36-column display can be confusing --- but there's al~Oam with the ADAM answer.   No, it won't fax and      network and do CAD/CAM or movie special effects. But I have no need for these  things anyway. I just plain have betterThis file represents an article from the December, 92 issue of the MOAUG/463   ADAM newsletter.  It consists of a letter from Rich Clee to PJ Herrington,     with preface and reply by PJ.  (The added comments may be deleted if desired;  the letter is a ed one person who claimed experience that        disagreed with mine.      But the main feature is ease of use. No dozens of dot commands and slash  commands to memorize. Six dedicated keys for the most commonly used functions. Six more variable function keys branching down their trees of changing uses,   every one clearly displayed on the screen as it's called for. You can sit down and use it for years without even ever having to open the manual. Yet like all word processing programs,  it gives you enoug't afford the time to make use of it.      PJ, where are we going wrong? I was really shocked. I personally find my  ADAM about as disposable as my right arm - for the time it saves me.  Do our   users not think about why they have an ADAM, what it does for them, and what   the options are?      Take ADAM's greatest  strength,  the reason  why so many of the present   users bought it --- Smartwriter.  That's why, unlike an MS-DOS machine, ADAM   really isn't obsolete. There still is not any other way thTerry estimates    that his ADAM inventory will keep him in business for the next 20   years, so he will be around when you need him.  -Faye B.  Deerepolicy in meetings, and published our policy in  the  newsletter.  Eventually, even though we never solicited them,  we   began to acquire members who did not live in the area and  could    not possibly attend meetings.  We did our best to solicit  their  ways    moving window format.  And that display ---  big clear print on a big clear    screen. I can even still write on the ADAM without my glasses, something I     couldn't do even with pen and ink. And if I don't like the default colours, I  have my choice of six different combinations. I like the colour cues and the   sound cues, though I know the latter aren't to everyone's taste. I've always   claimed that the ADAM has the most comfortable keyboard I've used in my life,  and I have only ever encountercomplete article in itself, and an excellent essay on ADAM.)==============================================This letter from Richard Clee appeared in the MOAUG mailbox recently, and is   reproduced here by permission of the author.                                                               November 24, 1992 Dear PJ:-      I got a letter earlier this week from a return address I recognized as a  long-term, though isolated, ADAM user. He wanted to sell me his ADAM complete  with extras. Why? He couldnh facility in error correction,   editing functions,  and revision paths that it's far faster than pen on paper  or any form of typewriter,   and considering the need for  constant  review    probably still faster than any voice-controlled computer program will ever be. I don't know, in learning time, reviewing time, and typing time how much ADAM  has saved me. I just know ADAM has given me back hours to spend on my own that would have been consumed using any other writing method.      No doubt the nay-sa's important; it's the added ability to provide the facts to avoid wrong   decisions and all  their  consequences that add so much more to the visible    saving.   Of course any form of accounting has more challenge than plain       straight writing, so ADAMcalc isn't quite as simple as Smartwriter, but if     there's a less demanding spreadsheet program around I've never heard a hint of it. And as usual, if you need more power and flexibility, there's Supercalc II to run under TDOS,  giving more  power andd lots of experience in keeping files,  and I know the time and    effort they demand. That's why, now that computers with adequate memory have   at last become available, libraries are computerizing as fast as they can. It  saves money ---  enormous amounts of money.  (The most expensive part of any   library is the catalogue, because of the input labour needed to create it). To the extent I need files, again the computer saves me endless amounts of time.  Once created, they're there, and can be drawn out    desktop publishing is more than enough for any informal need. Games? there's   arcade favourites on cartridges, even better ones on tape or disc, many unique to ADAM. No sweat or set-up, just pop it in, pull reset, and play, in full     living colour and action.      There's so many things ADAM does to save time and effort. Remember Bob    Jones explaining how he runs the cable bulletin system in that motel he        manages, taking advantage of ADAM's video output? Frances uses the geometric   graphicgoes by,  they have mortgage      decisions to make, investments to track, costs to estimate, and pretty well    everyone has income tax to file. Frances tells me that putting our financial   functioning into ADAMcalc has cut the time she has to spend on it by 75%,      despite the fact that she now can (and does) easily and routinely develop      information that just couldn't have been calculated without a computer. It     isn't just the time the ADAM saves in the routine necessary number-cruching    thatyers will dredge up all the things Smartwriter can't   do. Heaven knows there are enough of them.   But ADAM's a computer,   not a    dedicated word processor. So we can feed in Showoff or Speedywrite or VDE266   or Wordstar and accept the complications to get the special effects we want.   The flexibility is there when you can't get the results without a hassle - you just don't have to put up with it all the time.      Obviously with my little business I have to keep files. As a librarian I  certainly ha memory space in return for more     effort.      It's the story of ADAM all the way. Simple telecommunications? Even I can use ADAMlink II and the 300 baud modem - someday I'll go suffer like MS-DOS    users, take the 2400 baud external off the shelf, and join the MEX and IMP     users, but that takes time and effort. I have the option; they don't.  Graphics? We had Paintmaster to start with; now we have Powerpaint and all its allied tools and supports. As any of the better newsletters illustrate, ADAMfor whatever application I   have in mind, in any configuration I choose, as often as I need them. And once again I have the ADAM advantage; I can use the dead-simple but limited Smart-  Filer and its relatives like Address Book Filer, Recipe Filer and Letters and  Forms, or move to more powerful or specialized EOS or TDOS databases, right up to dBase II. But unlike the other computers, ADAM gives me the quick and easy  option when time and ease are paramount.      Prudent people keep a budget.   As time s of SmartLogo to design quilts and their component blocks. Should work fine for home video titling too. Or there are the musical management capabi-   lities of Videotunes, or the sophisticated music activities available with a   MIDI interface and keyboard. There's even the Autodialer to give you the speed dialing effect on your phone.      Of course any computer will save enormous amounts of time, and incredibly increase your capabilities. In the new market, the powers you can command for  a couple of t just affirm, for me, the validity of the ADAM answer. It costs me pennies and saves me hours. It's a tool scaled to the size of the job I want   to do. It's undemanding yet productive. That's why I'll support it as well as  I can as long as I can. If there is any better answer, it is yet to come, and  there are no harbingers. That's why, still, ADAM lives.                                                           Sincerely,                                                           Rich Clee  *******sles like this?      They were talking too about whether one should upgrade an older MS-DOS    computer. They told the horror story of how adding new RAM means you have to   throw out the old, how a new motherboard may overload the power supply, then   outrace your software. They recommended buying floppy drives assuming they'll  be obsolete and need replacement within two years. Meanwhile a local computer  columnist was lamenting how it seems every new software revision demands more  speed, more memory, w computer just as soon as I learn everything there is to know about the computer I already have.  (I expect that will take me at LEAST the rest of THIS lifetime!)  I am far from being bored   with my ADAM... in fact, my biggest problem is finding time to learn all those programs I don't know anything about... and even time to get back to learning  about programming ITSELF.  Why should I start from scratch on another system,  and shell out good money to do so?  Meanwhile, the knowledge I acquire with    ADAnced file cards, sweating out the in-   come tax form line by line with a pencil and pocket calculator, or doing any   of that tiresome manual donkey work that adds so much tedium to one's life for no return. It is my ADAM that liberates me from these demands.      Thus I feel great pity for those computerphobes labouring in their self-  imposed drudgery.  But equally I prefer to go for the cruise without going     overboard. As you can see, I've had my jolts of bitter truths from both sides  lately. Bothhousand bucks are so incredible they must represent the best      bargain in history. But frankly, they scare me. I was reading a local computer paper yesterday. There was an ad for hard discs claiming a 50,000 hours mean   time between failures (MTBF). They explained that was five years, or twice the industry average.   Another article said reclaiming data from 30 megs of a     crashed disc cost about $2500. This can be partially avoided by spending an    hour and a half a day making backups. Do I need has*********************************************************************  Rich, thanks for putting this so eloquently.  Almost from the minute I bought  my ADAM, I have been getting my arm twisted by people who think I ought to be  interested in "upgrading".  I am just not interested. Even my own husband asks me when I am going to move on to a "better" computer.  I tell him "when they   get all the bugs out".  I already have a buggy computer; at least I know what  the bugs ARE on my ADAM!  Or I will get a nemore processing power. I'm not a fan of treadmills -       especially expensive ones.      The more I see of both sides, the computer-literate and the computer-     illiterate, the happier I am with the ADAM answer.   No, it won't fax and      network and do CAD/CAM or movie special effects. But I have no need for these  things anyway. I just plain have better things to do with my time.      Those "better things" don't include hammering away at a "steam" type-     writer, typing out endless cross-refereM gives me all the confidence I need to work on other systems when I have   to, at work or elsewhere.  I hope anybody who decides to toss out his ADAM     gives the matter a good deal of thought, and if he still wants to do it, that  he will find it a good home first, even if he has to GIVE it away.  There are  lots of homes that would be HAPPY to have a computer system!  I can name you   six right in my neighborhood. Even my IBM-using sister Mary (the only sister I have who does NOT have an     ADAM) telmy ADAM in 1984 (long before the founding of MOAUG) I         searched everywhere for software.  I finally found another ADAM owner, and he  gave me a batch of stuff, some of it copyrighted.  I didn't think too much     about it. It bothered me a little, but not much.  I didn't even have a copy    program back then, so I didn't have to make a decision about doing this        myself.  By the time I got to know three or four ADAMites and bought a copy    program, I was converted.   The first piece of third-„O the Coleco stuff was very hard to find.  Sometimes MOAUG members found stuff only in disk version, which did them no good if they had only tape       drives.   We made thWARNING:  THIS IS A LONG FILE!  Article by Patricia Herrington relating to     copyright infringement, grey area, etc. first appeared in December, 1992 issue of MOAUG/463 ADAM newsletter; may be logically broken into 2 or more parts.-------------------ng new software, and always (unlike Coleco!) willing to help out with  any problems I might have.   I didn't want to jeopardize any of that! So I bought the stuff.  All of it. And when MOAUG was formed, the other founding members felt the same about it.  An anti-piracy stand was one of our cardinal principles from the beginning. We sometimes DID get a member who felt differently.  We didn't even have to    kick such people out.  They left of their own accord after they got bored with us.  We didn't conterlocking grounds: the practical, and  the sentimental.  Let's call this hybrid "enlightened self-interest".  Rationally, there is no way the ADAM community can survive piracy... and I do  mean ANY piracy.  We will be cutting our own throats if we allow this to       happen.  In a more sentimental vein, we have become a close-knit community of people    who take care of  each other.  How can we possibly justify betraying each      other?  I confess.  I wasn't always so adamant.   When I first got ls me that if it means I will visit her, she'll get one. <GRIN>  -PJH  computer I already have.  (I expect that will take me at LEAST the rest of THIS lifetime!)  I am far from being bored   with my ADAM... in fact, my biggest problem is finding time to learn all those programs I don't know anything about... and even time to get back to learning  about programming ITSELF.  Why should I start from scratch on another system,  and shell out good money to do so?  Meanwhile, the knowledge I acquire with    ADAparty software I ever ordered was from Jack Reedy.    When I had a problem with it, he took the time to walk me through it, and      wrote a very nice personal letter besides.  I knew immediately that I liked    this guy, and couldn't betray him.  That was my first lesson, but it has been  repeated over and over.  Hey, these folks are NEAT!  Besides, after finding nothing for ADAM for a year, I was so GLAD to have      found them.  I really appreciated the fact that they were out there,           developi----------------------------------------------------------Why do I take such a strong stand on respect for copyrights? I'm not going to  discuss sin, morals, ethics, or the law; I'll leave those up to your           clergyman, lawyer, or your own conscience.  I really don't think you'd lose    your mind, your civil rights or your entry to heaven based on a case of        copyright infringement.  We're going to have to come up with a better reason   than that!        I base my appeal on two separate but insider that much of a loss, because such folk had nothing to  contribute anyway.  They weren't interested in learning about ADAM... they     weren't really even interested in the software, other than accumulating as     much of it as they could.  I don't think they even booted it.  Funny, but people just DON'T appreciate what they get without putting anything into it, do they?  Such people never know the joy of anticipation ...selecting a purchase, saving up a few bucks, placing the order, and then, one b last volume took me three years to finish (granted that's an exceptional case.)  How many copies   do you suppose I will sell?  Hint: very few.   If you make even one copy for a friend, you will have taken away a portion of what is a small market to begin  with.  I will have no incentive to bother with another volume.   I am using myself as an example, but it is an across-the- board situation.  NO ADAM SOFTWARE DEVELOPER MAKES A REAL PROFIT.  They are all hobbyists.  They do this because they LIKE to do ity varies, but much of it is EXCEPTIONALLY well done, far surpassing      early commercial releases.  To cite the most obvious example, TDOS is free for the asking, and has many features unavailable on the expensive Coleco CP/M     package.  Its developers were so generous to put so much work into it and then GIVE it to us! But the same people also have commercial packages out... and it would be very discouraging to learn that anyone might copy THOSE.  Why would   they ever bother with us again? In fact,e doing is,  in effect, issuing a challenge to the user.  Once the user busts your copy     protect scheme, he is going to have to brag about it!  I have been having this argument for some time with a vendor who normally DOES copy-protect his soft   ware. I have been telling him that, even though there used to be a lot of      piracy, the "pirate" groups died off long ago, and those of us who are left    know better than to discourage our vendors.  Please back me up on this!   We all learned as children ty one person elected to send me  a few bucks to help offset the cost.  (I won't embarrass you by identifying    you, but thanks, Joe!)  Do you think that I can afford to do that on a regular basis?  Of course not.  Do you think that, if I found any of my commercial software being copied by    any of those people, that I would EVER again send them anything else?  Of      course not.  Do you think that if I develop software and only ten people buy   it, that I will bother to do it again?  OF COURSE NOT.  Myright     day, finding it in the mailbox!  It's just human nature, though.  When we lived in Hawaii, my family used to    raise kittens just for the fun of doing so. But we didn't GIVE them away; we   knew that free kittens are not appreciated.  So we charged $5.  Not much, but  it made a real difference in how the new owner viewed the kitten! We have SO MUCH free stuff for ADAM that we can't possibly keep up with it!    You could spend a lifetime just exploring what is already available, FREE.     Qualit.  For heaven's sake let's not discourage them!And then, consider "copy protection".  Well, I can't copy-protect my own       software because it's graphics, and it would be pretty useless if you couldn't call it up to use it.  And if you can call it up, obviously you can save it to another medium and pass it around.  But even if I COULD copy-protect it, I     wouldn't.  My own belief is that it is counter-productive.  You can't devise   any system of copy protection that can't be busted, so what you ar I myself recently donated a graphics volume to the community.  It was a flippy disk, with a workspace on each side of the disk.  I made it Shareware so that I could retain the copyright in case I ever wanted to use it in some   other arena; but I gave specific permission to everyone to copy it at will.    You might be surprised to learn that it cost me $65 in media and shipping to   GIVE the disk away, since I sent it to all known AUGs, most vendors, and other folks I knew were interested in graphics.  Onlo find ways of justifying what we really want to   do.  I could make a case for pirating software "just this once" because of     "special circumstances".  But where do you draw the line?  The only thing you  can do to make sure you NEVER cross the line is to NEVER make unauthorized     copies.  PERIOD!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------OK, I can see you nodding your heads.  Most of you are with me so far.         However, some of you are saying, "BUT, but..." L  sometimes will return; meanwhile, the vendor has paid for his copies and       deserves a fair return on them.  We can't afford to lose vendors. BUT WHAT IF I THINK THE PRODUCER IS A JERK?   If you have a personal distaste for somebody, and you simply MUST make a       statement, then don't buy his software.  But don't copy it, either.  You don't need it THAT badly.  You can't choose whose software you are willing to copy.  ANY piracy undermines the entire community.  (PS: You might get to know him    COPY COMMERCIAL COLECO STUFF?   NO.  No matter what you've heard, this simply isn't true. For example, R+R     Software recently bought 7 copies of FAMILY FEUD, still in the box, from me.   This is a significant investment.  If they were going to pirate it, they would have bought ONE copy, now wouldn't they?    BUT WHAT IF I CAN'T FIND A PROGRAM I WANT?   How hard have you REALLY TRIED?  It's out there somewhere. If you let people   know what you are looking for, somebody will find it for you... that for, but they will even teach us how to use it and     often CUSTOMIZE it for us.  They're special.  If I wanted an ATARI, I'd have   one; how about you? And don't believe that ALL IBM owners pirate software.  The ones I know        personally do NOT, even though they have less reason to be careful than we do. Bob Sebelist, for example, deals almost exclusively in Shareware, because      that's what he can afford.  And my sister Mary (remember my sister Mary?)      insists that she will use no piece of s WHAT IF IT'S REALLY OLD STUFF?       What if it IS?  That doesn't mean the market is tapped out. I am still buying  pieces of software that were released five years ago, and I am still selling   software that I myself released three years ago.  It takes a long time for     some of us to decide what we want and then find money for it.  The income is   just a trickle, but a steady trickle can make the difference between producing new software and giving up.  If the producer has ALREADY given up, he        et's address a few of those "buts". BUT WHAT IF IT'S A COLECO PROGRAM?   Okay, so Coleco is out of business.  You can't hurt Coleco. But you CAN hurt   your ADAM vendors, who bought up the remaining stock in good faith, so that    you could buy it even after Coleco went belly-up.  MOAUG bought a lot of       Coleco stuff, and so did I; and so did many vendors, who still offer it for    sale.  If you copy commercial Coleco programs, who do you think suffers? Hint: it ain't Coleco. BUT DOESN'T EVERYBODY better.  There really aren't any jerks here.) BUT OTHER COMPUTERS PIRATE ALL THE TIME!   So I hear.  But that's THEIR problem.  ADAM is like no other computer, and the ADAM community is thoroughly unique. Maybe IBM can afford piracy; on the other hand, maybe that's why their programs are so expensive.  Maybe Commodore users don't care about supporting their vendors; on the other hand, maybe that's why software is no longer produced for them.  Our vendors not only listen to us    and develop what we ask's one of  the advantages of a small, focused community.  Most newsletters & sysops will  publish your Wish List FREE, and most vendors will make a special effort to    find what you want.  If you are a serious collector, you don't want a pirated  copy, anyway... you want the original.  And a collector should be able to      appreciate that the program's very scarcity makes it more valuable when you DO find it.  In any case, do you want it badly enough to jeopardize the future    for it?  I hope not.  BUToftware she has not purchased AND       registered.  John Terry agrees.  I thought I'd throw that in because many IBM owners don't deserve their bad    rep, but it's beside the point.  ADAM is not IBM.  We really ARE unique... and proud OF it. BUT WHAT IF I PURCHASED STUFF & WANT IT MODIFIED?   Depends.  If the person who is doing the modification owns the software, I     don't see a problem.  But if he doesn't... Well, just how badly do you WANT    that modification, anyway? Badly enough to purchase puter (no matter   how many you own) and often don't even give you the right to sell the software you purchased.  I am not THAT rigid! First of all, let's talk about the Coleco programs that came to us "under the  table", so to speak.  Those programs were never released by Coleco; therefore, you can't hurt ANYbody by copying them, because nobody purchased them.  I am   talking about such programs as SmartBASIC 2.0, JEOPARDY, and so on.  As far as I'm concerned, it is NOT okay to copy a program which is a  right now and throw a rock through my neighbor's window, and he wouldn't sue.  I don't suppose he'd ever trust me again, but he wouldn't sue.  None of us has the resources to go around suing each other.  So what? BUT NOBODY WILL EVER KNOW!  OH?  Are you SURE?  Are you willing to stake your reputation on the assumption that the other guy will NEVER spill the beans?  Do you care so little about    your reputation that you are willing to take the chance?  This is a small      community; you might be surprRob Friedman (sysop of Club ADAM CP/M forum on CompuServe.) In fact, it was Rob who did much of my earlier research for me (and for ALL of us!)  Before Coleco failed, he phoned them quite a bit.  It was a woman named  Barbara who answered most of his questions, and made important concessions.  Barbara is the one who told Rob that Coleco wouldn't object if we distributed  the ADAMLINK II software that Coleco promised its modem users but failed to    deliver to most of us. ADAMLINK I was distributed witT ARE THERE EVER CIRCUMSTANCES WHEN COPYING IS OK?       YES.  Fooled you, didn't I?   ----------------------------------------------------------------------------Do I sound inflexible so far?  Well, don't judge me just YET.  I have made my  share of compromises.  According to copyright law, and the guidelines for      other computers, I am not so terribly tough. If you ever read the copyright notices for the really BIG software companies,  they allow you to use the purchased software on only ONE comhim a copy?  If not, then  it's not worth it.  Or maybe other people want the same modification; they     might be willing to pool their resources to buy the software for the person    who can modify it. Or maybe you could even ask special permission from the     owner of the copyright; if it's a valuable modification, he may agree. It's    worth asking around about.  But not worth pirating for! BUT THE PRODUCER WON'T SUE ME! No kidding.  Neither would I.  In fact, I could probably go across the street legitimate Coleco   release, whether or not it is hard to find; but it IS okay to copy a program   which was never released in the first place.  Unless you have spent as much    time researching this as I have, you may have a hard time knowing which is     which.  If you find it in the MOAUG Public Domain library, it is an unreleased program and okay to copy, as far as I'm concerned.  Or, just ask me.  Either I know its status, or I can find out.  I have a great team of researchers... not least of which is ised how word can travel.  You could be           embarrassed someday.  But that really isn't the point, is it?  If you want to  see the community continue, you have a better incentive for playing straight   than whether or not you'll get caught. BUT I DON'T HAVE VERY MUCH MONEY!  Welcome to the club!  Although I don't think there's a LAW preventing people   with money from owning an ADAM, there just aren't any ADAM owners I know of    who have much... and that includes your vendors and developers. BUh the 300 baud internal Coleco modem, also known as ADAMLINK.  If you own that modem, you are entitled to the upgraded soft     ware.  Note, however, that "ADAMLINK III" through "ADAMLINK V" were developed  by Tom Clary, and are NOT Public Domain volumes.  I wish he'd given them some  other name, to avoid confusion, but he didn't, so we just have to remember. It was also Barbara who gave us the okay on distributing copies of SmartBASIC. Even though BASIC is a copyrighted language, it came WITH the computeBut don't cheat and     sell one copy, while keeping another!  That just isn't fair. What if you want to share your software with family members?  That wouldn't be strictly legal (read your copyright law.)  However, I don't know of any ADAM   developer who would deny you a copy for your spouse or kid, who lives in the   same house.  I always let my children have copies, so long as they were living at home.  Once they went out on their own, I did not let them take copies of   software with them.  For exampt just for the record.) If it were all up to Coleco, they may have released other stuff to PD, too.    But it wasn't.  They wouldn't infringe on the rights of the people who worked  for them and developed the software.  If Coleco couldn't do it, we can't take  it upon ourselves to do it, either.  It's a picky point, but it's fair. Some of the Coleco stuff was very hard to find.  Sometimes MOAUG members found stuff only in disk version, which did them no good if they had only tape       drives.   We madedaughter in college.  Since she took   the time and trouble to ask, I gave her permission to make her daughter a copy ... BUT I was careful to point out that I spoke only for myself, and only for  that particular request.  Sometimes, if you ask, you might get permission for  this sort of thing; but the owner of the copyright is ALWAYS within his rights to stick to the letter of the law!  He put a lot of effort into his product.   And you MUST think he did a good job, or you wouldn't be interested in passinge?  Again, I think if you bought the software, you are entitled to a copy of it.  If I own the software in question, and I am positive you paid   for your copy, I will have NO compunctions about making you a new copy. What if you want to SELL your software?  Some computers don't grant you that   right.  But I don't see a problem with it, so long as you sell ALL copies and  don't retain backups.  A lot of people DO decide to sell their entire systems; software makes a big difference to the new purchaser.  r, and so nobody owns an ADAM who does not have a right to SmartBASIC.  We extrapolated  this to mean that everybody also has a right to the other tape that came with  ADAM, which was a game called BUCK ROGERS.  As far as I'm concerned, BASIC and BUCK ROGERS can be reproduced for ANY ADAM owner.  If you own a disk drive, you are entitled to the DOS (Disk Operating System)   software that originally came with the drive.  (That's a moot point, as there  are now several PD programs which are far superior, bule, when the twins entered college, I bought     each of them a disk drive for Christmas, and gave them lots of PD disks.  But  when they had a need for copyrighted software, I bought them their own copies; or, if we couldn't afford it, they did without.  I didn't think twice about    buying them their own hardware... why should I balk at purchasing them         software?   Fair is fair. Once I had a customer write and ask me whether or not she had to purchase a    separate volume of YULE TOOLS I for her  this concession for them:  if you can find it only on disk,  BUY it.  We will copy it onto tape for you. As long as we give you back the    original disk, there is no problem with transferring it to tape.  You bought   it; it's YOURS.  You can put it on any type medium you like.  However, this is acceptable ONLY if you keep BOTH copies! What if you bought a piece of software and, despite your better judgment, did  NOT keep a backup copy... and then you had some sort of accident and destroyed your softwar it along to your kids!  If it's worthwhile, he deserves his fair cut.  If it's not, why bother with it at all? And don't forget: if you want to ask special permission from the copyright     owner to make a copy, be sure to contact him DIRECTLY.  If you bought your     copy from a vendor (other than the producer) remember that the vendor CANNOT   give you legal permission, because he does NOT own the copyright.             *****************************************************************************   e ADAMCON committees to help offset the cost   of the annual ADAM conventions.  The reason we chose this course is that we    believe ALL ADAMites benefit from ADAMCON, whether or not they attend; ADAMCON serves as a focal point for everybody, encouraging developers to release new   products, and helping all of us to pool information... which always ends up    benefiting those who DON'T attend the convention. In August I was able to pass on a check for $165 to the ADAMCON committee,     based solely on thmay feel you don't owe Sol anything.  If you feel that way, you are no     doubt correct. (I feel indebted still, but that's ME.) But IT JUST DOESN'T MATTER.   Sol does not get ONE CENT of the profits from any of his software.  He long    ago renounced any such funds, and donated all future profits to the entire     ADAM community.  I have written proof that he charged me and Alan Neeley with  overseeing the fund which funnels those profits back into the community.  So   far, those funds have gone to th Not that I'm dumb. Like most folks, I studied different Base numbering systems when I was a kid. But that was about a hundred and ten years ago, when I was just a lass of C... excuse me, I mean twelve. In more recent years, I had read a number of good articles about it. I think the most entertaining was an article by Mel Ostler (included in one of his many books about computing with ADAM.) I was fairly confident that if there were any reason for me to learn the hexadecimal numbering system, I could do e sales of Phoenix 2000 software!  I do not have the figures for the Digital Express software, which Alan produces; but the money is a      significant contribution to the convention.  ADAMCON is always run on a shoe   string; the committee tries hard to cut attendees' fees to the bone.    So if you make unauthorized copies of any DEI or Phoenix 2000 software...      whose throat are you cutting?  Right the first time.  EVERYBODY'S. rofits back into the community.  So   far, those funds have gone to th SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES: SOL SWIFT'S STUFF (Say THAT Six Times Swiftly!) I thought I had made this perfectly clear in the past... but obviously I was   mistaken!  Sol Swift has been inactive for a long time.  (I hesitate to say he is gone for good... because as David Sands points out, the ADAM community is   like the Hotel California... you can check out any time you like, but you can  NEVER LEAVE!)  Apparently some people think that means his stuff should be     Public Domain.  Please listen to me! You From 463 ADAM newsletter - 3/93"WHAT The HEX??!! "(Hexadecimal for the Numerically Challenged)by Patricia HerringtonYou're not going to believe this... but yesterday I accidentally learned Hex.  Okay, okay. You programmers out there are excused. You can leave the room now (that is, if you can stop laughing long enough to pick yourselves up off the floor.) But there MUST be some other people out there like me... folks who not only never learned the hexadecimal system, but never saw why they SHOULD.e ADAMCON committees to help offset the cost   of the annual ADAM conventions.  The reason we chose this course is that we    believe ALL ADAMites benefit from ADAMCON, whether or not they attend; ADAMCON serves as a focal point for everybody, encouraging developers to release new   products, and helping all of us to pool information... which always ends up    benefiting those who DON'T attend the convention. In August I was able to pass on a check for $165 to the ADAMCON committee,     based solely on thit.  But I am certainly no hacker. My knowledge of programming progresses only when I HAVE to learn more about something for one of my own projects. None of my projects so far has required a REAL knowledge of Hex aside from what I could find out by simply asking one of our savvy programmer types. It's just too easy to leave a message on one of the BBSs, or write a letter, or even pick up the phone. The "brain trust" is always happy to answer questions, and they don't even jeer at me. But yesterday, I wan came the onscreen instruction, "ENTER START BLOCK IN HEX". EXCUSE ME? Well, zero is zero. So I entered zero. (Which it translated to 00.) But then it asked for the END block. In Hex? HOW THE HEX DO I KNOW? Time to do some research. In this house, there are probably at least a dozen hex conversion charts. But since I've never used them, I really didn't know where to lay hands on any of them quickly. The first book I grabbed off the bookshelf was a Z80 language manual I'd bought six years ago and neves the program is "slow", but worth the time if you really care about making perfect copies. I don't worry too much about copying disks. Over the years, I have used probably 7000 disks, and have only found about four bad ones... three of which I managed to destroy myself. But tapes are a different story; I have actually bought quite a few tapes over the years that were not up to par. I've said this before, but I'm not REALLY put off by "slow" programs, if they do what I want them to do. I can well remembhe ADAM Resource Directory". It had a Hex-to-Dec conversion table that was really pretty good, except that it was (a) fuzzy, (b) printed in MUCH too tiny print for my poor eyes and (c) completely devoid of any instructions as to its use. Fortunately, I was able to cross-reference with the FIRST chart and, with the aid of a magnifying glass, verify that 9F really was the hex equivalent for 159.  (Just for the newer folks, the reason I wanted to end at Block 159 is that it is the LAST block on a normal disk block, to make sure the copied blocks are exactly the same as the original. The verification process takes the same amount of time as read or write. The program seems to have been intended for use on a cartridge. It asks you to select the source drive and the target drive, and gives you the option to either "duplicate" or "verify". (When you choose "duplicate", it automatically checks; but you can use "verify" to compare blocks without first copying them.)  So far, so good. Real simple stuff. But thes in a big fat hurry. I had promised to deliver some datapacks, and I had no confidence in any of the ones that were lying around in any of the various piles around here. So I decided to use a combination copy and check program that Jim Walters had passed on to me, which Jim says will absolutely, positively, make perfect copies every time. The reason, says Jim, is that it checks every byte of data, not just the "check sums". I'm not too clear on check sums, but Jim is, and I trust his judgment.  Jim sayr cracked. It had charts in it, okay. I found the number I wanted... which was Block 159... listed as "9F". That's the number I entered into the program.  The program went straight to work, merrily readin' & writin' & doin' its 'rithmetic. But when I looked again at the chart, I saw some anomolies... some numbers occurred more than once, with different equivalents. HELP! How could I be sure if the number I entered was, in fact, the correct number? The next book I grabbed was an old, OLD book called "Ter having no drives other than tapes, and I learned early on to put the time to good advantage while I wait for a slow program to do its stuff. I can write a post card, change out light bulbs, brush the cat, or any of a dozen small tasks I save up for just such an occasion. No problem. The program, an unreleased Coleco Copy Program, IS slow. It's about fifty per cent slower than most copy programs. That's because it reads 16 blocks at a time, then copies them... and THEN stops and checks each byte of each. There are 160 blocks on a disk, but computer people always seem to start with the number ZERO instead of one... so the 160th block is considered 159. I was copying from disk to tape, so I wanted to end with the last block on the disk. Of course, that would NOT be enough blocks to cover all the blocks on a tape. The last block on a tape is 255, which is actually the 256th block, due to the first block being called Block Zero. That can be confusing at first, but it's not at all complicated.) That's all I he numbers I see in those bytes. Someday I may even learn what some of them stand for, who knows? At least I can translate the "BLOCKS LEFT" entry. <GRIN> Well, anyway, as I mentioned earlier, I did not find a REALLY good conversion chart, so I made my own table. (It only goes up to 255, but that's exactly what's needed.) I have also added instructions to the bottom of the chart so that if I only use it once in two years, I won't have to waste time wondering which comes first, row or column. I'm passing.1C... ...1D...1E...1F" and then it would repeat those numbers as it went through the other operations. I was copying a LOT of tapes. After awhile it all made sense to me, despite myself.  Since "hexadecimal" is Base 16, the digit on the left stands for how many sixteens you have. The right-hand digit stands for ones, just the same as with the usual Base 10 "decimal" system, except that there can be up to 15 ones. There aren't enough digits to represent ten through fifteen, so whoever thought this up ashe numbers I see in those bytes. Someday I may even learn what some of them stand for, who knows? At least I can translate the "BLOCKS LEFT" entry. <GRIN> Well, anyway, as I mentioned earlier, I did not find a REALLY good conversion chart, so I made my own table. (It only goes up to 255, but that's exactly what's needed.) I have also added instructions to the bottom of the chart so that if I only use it once in two years, I won't have to waste time wondering which comes first, row or column. I'm passingat digit by sixteen, and adding the number of ones. Or I can convert a number TO hex if I divide it by sixteen. I guess I already knew this in some vague sort of way, but by the end of the day, I UNDERSTOOD it. And I will never need a chart again, except to double check my numbers! Chances are I'll use the chart anyway, but I won't NEED it. I still won't be using hex very often, but I won't be snowed about it. When I goof around with a block editor, peeking to see what's there, I will at least recognize tneeded to know, and I had no intention of learning anything else. But I just couldn't help it. As the program runs, it counts each block on the screen... THREE times! First it counts the sixteen blocks off as it reads each one, then again as it writes them, and then once more as it checks them. I wasn't standing there watching all this, but I went into the room from time to time to see how it was going. I would see something like: "Reading block 10...11...12...13...14... 15...16...17...18...19...1A...1B.. on the chart to you, just in case you might need it one day. I'm also passing on the program, on the off chance that some rainy day, you might feel like learning to count in Hex by accident.  Somebody yell out the door, will you, and tell the programmers they can come back in now. Hey, you guys, I have a question for you. What's the difference between E5 and FF in a "blank" formatted block? And what the heck does "C3 E7 FC" mean in the boot block? See... I'm back to my old self now.at least recognize tsigned them the first six letters of the alphabet. I always supposed I'd have to memorize what A,B,C, D, E, and F stood for. But that's not necessary. All I really need to know is that A stands for ten; the other letters are in order after that, ending with F, which is fifteen. So the "ones" place is easy. It's any digit from one to fifteen. And the sixteens place is easy, too; it uses the same digits, but each digit stands for a multiple of sixteen. I can translate any hex number just by multiplying thFrom 463 ADAM newsletter - 3/93THE UTILITY SHED by PJ HerringtonThe "Coleco Copy Program" I received from Jim Walters is considered PD. I will be passing it on to ADAM NEWS NETWORK for wider distribution. It's a nice little program, and the price is right, but it is NOT a full-featured utility, and it has one serious bug. You will recognize it if you see it, because the program locks up and the screen goes haywire. The bug occurs at the end of the checking process if you have entered a Hex number forthan straight EOS. It did not have the capability of using any larger RAM drive that 64k, and it couldn't deal with formatting for the larger-sized disk drives. However, I still liked it for one reason: it would print out, to your screen or your ADAM printer, a nice little table which identified each block as <E>mpty, <U>sed or <B>ad. (Jim Walters says it just checked the "check sums", but it did help me figure out if my tape was bad without destroying any of the data thereon.)  The problem is, I couldn'tny range of blocks to INCLUDE the block you want to check. (In the above instance, starting at 39 and ending at 45 or so would ensure that block 40 was verified.) I am also not sure whether or not this program will work with a single drive. I tried it only once, just out of curiosity, and it appeared to work fine until the end. Then it went into its spastic mode. That was just a test, though, and I used a range of blocks, so I'm not sure whether it would work otherwise. I don't think I'd try it on anythiners, I mentioned that I wished I had a program that would check out the blocks and tell me if any were bad, without destroying the data, but which could also read larger media like my 320k disks. Not only did Bruce write such a program, but he added it to his formatting utility, FORMAX, as a free bonus. (FORMAX only costs $10 to begin with, including s/h.)  Note that this is NOT the same thing as comparing blocks to see if they are just like the blocks on another disk. If you want to do that, you can usfind out. The most popular utility program for this sort of thing is probably FILEMANAGER, but there are lots of good utilities around. Every ADAM owner should own at LEAST one of the better utility packages, and probably, eventually, all of them. Each has its special features. BACKUP+3.0 was my earliest utility program, and I used it a whole LOT. However, as the years passed, it became obsolete. It did not have the capability to read multiple- block directories or, for that matter, any directory other  the end block that is an even multiple of sixteen. That is, you can't use 10, 20, 30, 40 and so on (which is Hex for 16, 32, 48, 64, etc.) or it freaks out. This is true whether you use the "duplicate" option or the "verify" option. I was particularly interested in checking Block 64 (which is 40 in hex, because it's four sixteens) so I DID encounter the bug a couple of times before it sank in. Each time, I had to reboot the program. This is not a problem, so long as you know about it. You can specify a use it on any of my 320k disks. I once ran into a problem where some of my 320s were somehow getting scrambled. I didn't know if it was the drive, the disk, or the graphics program I was using. Now, there are LOTS of copy programs out there that check to see if a block is bad during the copy process. But that assumes you want to copy over the block. In this case, I DIDN'T want to get rid of the data in the block; I just wanted to know if the block was damaged. In a conversation with Hexace's Bruce Waltg valuable... and even if it DOES work, changing the medium after every 16 blocks could quickly get tiresome. Again, this is a specific program for a specific purpose. What it does, it does well. It will copy and/or compare data in the blocks you choose. However, it will copy ONLY to the exact same blocks on the second medium; you can't put those blocks elsewhere. Furthermore, it doesn't give you any clues about what is actually IN the blocks. If you don't know, you will have to use some other utility to e the PD Coleco Copy Program, so long as the blocks are in the same PLACE on each disk. Or you can go through the blocks with a block editor such as that contained on FILEMANAGER, and compare them byte by byte yourself. (This is tedious, but you don't have to have any programming knowledge. You don't need to understand what you're looking at to tell whether or not it's the same stuff found in some other block.)  OR!!! You can buy a copy of Gary Hoosier's newest utility package, MEDIA HELPER. This is a comrence and want to know what it is, you can go from there. If you don't care that much but don't want to take any chances, you can just choose to keep all the variants, but delete all the files that match up exactly. Want to know if your BASICPGM has been altered? Easy to find out, now. And that must be the one MOST altered program of all time (other than HELLO)! In fact, the Coleco Copy Program I have been telling you about is actually listed in the directory as BASICPGM. You'd never know, just by readingittle extra features Gary himself wanted. It includes utilities I will personally not use in the forseeable future, such as those which build, view or print directories for MultiCart media. (But then, who knows WHEN such things may suddenly become important to me?) It includes miscellaneous programs to sort an EOS directory alphabetically (or to reverse the process), to search any medium for any string of text or other data located anywhere on the medium (even if it's in HEX!!), and even to create a list ofre comparing them, including all the file attributes (locked, user file, and all that) and, if you like, print out that information, using either an ADAM or a dot matrix printer. One other MEDIA HELPER program seems to be particularly relevant here, and that's the utility called OVERWRITE. This program will overwrite ANY range of blocks, erasing any existing data. When you DELETE a file, you have not actually deleted any of the data in the file; you have simply changed its attribute in the directory. Somedozen applications for this, even for us non-hacker types. Like, suppose you have sixteen different PD disks with programs on them that all have the same name. Are they all REALLY the same program? Can you afford to delete five or six of them and regain some disk space? Or might there be significant differences, in which case you need to make choices among them? This will let you know where the differences, if any, lie. Granted, it's going to give you the answer in Hex. But if you find a couple bytes' diffemercial package, distributed by ADAM'S HOUSE, which contains a lot of nifty utilities that Gary designed because HE wanted them himself. And quite a package it is, too. John Harris wrote a comprehensive review of MEDIA HELPER in the December, 1991 segment of "The Harris File". (See December, 1991 MOAUG newsletter. This was also on the A.N.N. disk distributed in March, 1992.)  MEDIA HELPER includes Gary's versions of "standard" utilities such as making backups and viewing directories and such, with the l the directory, that it is anything other than regular BASIC.  (Someday, I'd like to make it a nice boot screen that indicates it's PD, warns of the bugs, and maybe renames it COLECOPY. I don't suppose I'll ever do it, but maybe somebody else will feel like playing around someday and do it for everybody.) Anyway, I really do think that the COMPARE program on MEDIA HELPER could be a godsend. Since there are directory utilities on the same package, it's easy to find out what files are in which blocks befo all the variables within a program, complete with their line numbers, that can be viewed or printed in SmartWriter. What's more relevant to this discussion, however, is the program called COMPARE, which allows you to check ANY range of blocks on two separate media, or even on the same medium. Not only will the program tell you if the blocks are the same, but... and there's the kicker... if they're NOT, it doesn't stop there. It actually tells you what the differences ARE! (And WHERE.) I can think of a times you want that data to be completely cleaned up, and that's what OVERWRITE will do for you. (I have been in the habit of copying empty blocks to anything I wanted erased, but this is easier.) PLUS, as the program runs, it confirms that you CAN write to each block, so you know if they're okay. I want to end with a quote from the John Harris review:  "Media Helper is a very useful, stream- lined and user-friendly set of utilities... "If I could have only two utilities for my ADAM, my first choice wo.COM, and PRINT.COM. When you want a directory, DIRR.COM gives you this information    in four columns, instead of a single column DOWN the screen.  If   you have many files listed on a volume, DIRR.COM makes it easy to  find what you want without losing half the files at the top of     the list.  DELIB.COM enables you to separate files in .LBR         (Library) files. NSWP.COM will perform a variety of tasks, but the one that I use  the most is the NSWP.COM ability to make a mass transfer (copy)    o‚CےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےقےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےCP/M AND T-DOS WORKSHOP If you are planning to work in the CP/M and/or T-DOS              environment, there are a couple of things to consider that will    make the experience more enjoyable.  It is almost a necessity to   have two drives to work witall PRINT.COM as soon as I load CP/M.  This way, it is         already installed whenever I need to use my dot-matrix printer.    All I have to do is press CONTROL P, and the printer is activated  for use. -Faye B.  Deerestant review probably  still     faster than any voice-controlled computer program will ever be.  I don't know, in learning time, reviewing time, and typing  time how    much ADAM has saved me.  I just know ADAM has given me back hours to spend on my ownasy.  Working with a DISK drive is much faster, and     the notch on the disk can be covered, to make it impossible to     erase files, or write to the disk by mistake. Another thing to consider before starting to work with CP/M or    T-DOS, is ordering the #C.75 Utilities disk from our Public        Domain Library.  This volume contains most, if not all, of the     utilities you will need to work with CP/M files.  Some I wouldn't  be without are DIRR.COM, DELIB.COM, NSWP.COM, UNERA.COM,           TRUE30uld be File Manager 2.0 and my second would be Media Helper. With the two, you have just about every utility you need to handle... data."either an ADAM or a dot matrix printer. One other MEDIA HELPER program seems to be particularly relevant here, and that's the utility called OVERWRITE. This program will overwrite ANY range of blocks, erasing any existing data. When you DELETE a file, you have not actually deleted any of the data in the file; you have simply changed its attribute in the directory. Somef files from one media to another, with very little help from     you.  UNERA.COM is self explanatory.  It retrieves, when I mess    up.  TRUE30.COM allows you to toggle between a 30 column screen    and an 80 column screen.  This makes it a whole lot easier to      read files, and then switch back to an 80 column screen when it    is not possible to use the 30 columns. PRINT.COM is a printer patch that allows you to use a dot-matrix  printer with your ADAM in the CP/M and T-DOS environment.  I       insth CP/M or T-DOS.  It is possible to     work with only one drive, but it is difficult, at best. If you have two Data Drives, this is better than trying to work   with only one Data Drive.  However, not much better from MY point  of view for a couple of reasons.  Working with data paks is very   slow, and the datapaks tend to deteriorate with time.  Also, they  can be erased very easily, if you happen to hit the wrong key or   give the wrong command.  Doing this in the CP/M environment is     extremely e„Oas editor.  I have reluctantly resigned from MOAUG.  I no longer feel that my writing accurately represents the group as a whole.   It has been suggested that I am the "This letter, which was sent to MOAUG members in December, 1992, explains the   reason for my decision to resign from that organization.  It is offered as an  aid to clarifying the situation for the curious.  I don't think it should be   reprinted as is.  to figure out in those days, and it got even harder after Michael left,        because I bought all his software and could not tell what fell into which      category.) This is one of the reasons we pressed for contact with the other    ADAM groups.  For example, most of my early messages on CompuServe were        requests for clarification on precisely what software was Public Domain.  As time passed, events such as the demise of several early ADAM groups and the impending bankruptcy of Coleco forced uhe "heart and soul" of this group.  Well, I   deny that.  (If this is true, then I am wasting my energy writing for myself!) I believe that YOU are the heart and soul of MOAUG... each and every one of    you, including the long-distance members.  I have tried to be the VOICE of     MOAUG... reflecting your needs and concerns above all else.  However, I can be your voice only if (a) I can determine what your position is and (b) your      position does not strongly conflict with my own creed.  It is closer toreal, true, bonafide, LEGAL nonprofit       organization.  To that end, we adopted a set of bylaws.  We based our bylaws   loosely on those of the now-defunct Greater Houston Area ADAM Users' Group,    modifying them to better suit our particular needs.  Every once in awhile, we  tried to publish those bylaws and get input from all our members, so that we   could vote on any amendments that might be called for.   I don't have a copy in front of me right now, but I don't think we even        bothered to aduthorized copies of  copyrighted software.  I always thought that all MOAUG members were unanimous  in their agreement that we just DON'T infringe on copyrights, EVER.  Period.  I was mistaken. I was one of the co-founders of MOAUG, having been there when the group was    nothing but a gleam in  Michael Graham's eye.  Our first several meetings were devoted to hashing this all out.  As time passed, we devoted much time to      determining what exactly WAS copyrighted and what was not. (This was not easy  However, portions of the letter may be quoted if this can be done in a tactful and judicious manner.   --- Pat Herrington                   ============================================================================December 1, 1992Dear Fellow ADAMite:This is the sixth Christmas issue of the MOAUG newsletter.  It is also my last issue as editor.  I have reluctantly resigned from MOAUG.  I no longer feel that my writing accurately represents the group as a whole.   It has been suggested that I am ts to constantly review our opinions and update our official policy.  We had to come to grips with all kinds of "ifs,   ands, and buts".  We agreed on our policy in meetings, and published our       policy in the newsletter.  Eventually, even though we never solicited them, we began to acquire members who did not live in the area and could not possibly   attend meetings.  We did our best to solicit their opinions and took those     opinions into account during meetings.  It took us a long time to become a  the    truth to say I've put my "heart and soul" into this newsletter; it has been my top priority for over six years.  But I don't have the "heart" to do this when my "soul" is troubled; and I am deeply troubled. Last month's meeting took me by surprise.  (I think "shock" would be a better  word.)  I did not expect to attend a meeting at which I had to defend the      issue of copyright infringement.  It was seriously suggested at the November   meeting that there are times when it's okay to pass on unadress the issue of copyright infringement in the bylaws.  It     hardly seemed necessary, since it was one of only two principles on which the  group was founded (the other being the vigorous pursuit and exchange of        information and cooperation with all other ADAM owners) and we were all in     agreement.  We thought this was a "given"!   Perhaps we goofed. And perhaps I goofed personally, too. I know that most people do NOT like to read editorials, and I frankly do not   like to write them.  I an  ever, with a firm common purpose.  I don't know whether or not there will be a new editor; I hope so, but I just don't know.  (If there IS no newsletter, I   would think that dues could be lowered drastically.)  In any case, I hope you  do not follow me out the door.  I hope you will remain  and rebuild. Understand, please, that I am not leaving angry.  Disappointed, yes... angry,  no.  I will continue to maintain contact with the ADAM community, and I will   be perfectly willing to forward all mail apportunity to read those previous essays, and it is unfair to expect them to figure out all on their own just WHY        copyright infringement has suںں	ں	پںںàںà$ںƒں	ںںآوè@عتتèزـخX@قـت@قج@قêن@ـتîتن@ب 2 >0µ”„@N|p|B~~~|LN||p|~dp)›K#+™q£C،“)àHّàDّàہà$ّ8àّˆHہ€œّ„ّüüüüّک€ہ ک„ّ8àù$ù@ّà„ّنّکHàà ؤّàœّہxH @ „ّ@àœüüے@ّ ّ ّˆ œّ ّ8 Dّ @@„ّ8„ّ€€@ّ€ک H àù$ّ8à„ّ€€LّH €ّنّہx à ّŒّ@€€Hàّ€àH پan  ever, with a firm common purpose.  I don't know whether or not there will be a new editor; I hope so, but I just don't know.  (If there IS no newsletter, I   would think that dues could be lowered drastically.)  In any case, I hope you  do not follow me out the door.  I hope you will remain  and rebu$پàںà	ƒںƒںں$ںںںں	پںں3ƒںپپپں	ƒںںپںں$ںںںںںںںں<3< ںƒںں$ںںںںں	ںںں		ںںںthe fact is, you CANNOT refuse to take sides in this case. As wiser folks than I have pointed out, "IF YOU CHOOSE NOT TO DECIDE, YOU STILL HAVE    MADE A CHOICE."  Keeping silent means allowing other people to make your       choices by default.  That in itself is a decision. So, I have resigned.  It is time for me to step back and let MOAUG choose its  own direction.  Where does the club go from here?  I don't know.  It is my     fondest hope that MOAUG will wrestle with the issues and emerge stronger thdon't like to come off sounding pedantic at best, and   at worst, preachy.  All the same, I have addressed the issue of copyright      infringement several times in the past.  That seemed to be an even GREATER     argument against further editorials... after all, I have no wish to be         REDUNDANT, either.    But perhaps, by neglecting such editorials, I have done a great disservice to  the ADAM community in general, and to our newer members in particular.  After  all, our "newbies" did not have the oddressed to MOAUG.  And who knows... maybe one day, after MOAUG has chosen its direction... maybe I will reapply    for membership.         Until then, it's been a great six years.  Thanks for everything.-- Pat                                                   sion. So, I have resigned.  It is time for me to step back and let MOAUG choose its  own direction.  Where does the club go from here?  I don't know.  It is my     fondest hope that MOAUG will wrestle with the issues and emerge stronger thr writings, and some points discussed only at     meetings.  This is what I THOUGHT was the MOAUG creed.  In any event, it is MY PERSONAL creed, and I will not deviate from it one whit. Those who know me well know that I am usually VERY flexible in regard to       people's rights and opinions.  However, I do not feel that we ADAMites can     afford flexibility on this fundamental issue.  (I know for sure I can't.) I know life would be easier if we didn't have to make tough choices.  I'm      sorry, but ‚GےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےقےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےےADAM NEWS NETWORK, APRIL 1993Hello folks, welcome to Springtime!!!  Once AGAIN we have a fine public domain EOS program for you, in        addition to many good text files.  Patricia Herrington has             contributed The Coleco Copy Program, contributed this very interesting letter     from Richard Clee of ADAM Services:24)  ADAM_LIVES H25)  AND, README#1 H   This file.   #$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=CDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]cdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}ƒ„…†‡ˆ‰ٹ‹Œچژڈگ‘’“”•–—ک™ڑ›œ‌£¤¥¦§¨©ھ«¬­®¯°±²³´µ¶·¸¹؛»¼½أؤإئابةتثجحخدذرزسشصض×طظعغـ from the April, 1993     issue. 1)         Con.DataDrives.     By Norman Deere 2)         WdPro 5 SW          "     "    " 3)         PriceIsRight.       "     "    " 4)         A BAUD.             "     "    " 5)         A.S.C.I.I.          "     "    " 6)         KILOBYTES.          "     "    " 7)         T-DOS.              "     "    " 8)         DiskProblems.       "     "    " 9)         PRES-APR93 H        By Faye Deere10)         Things 4/93.        "    "   " 11)         SB Work.4/9ههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههed us with the following      text which appeared in the MOAUG/463 newsletter last      November.  16)   SOAPBOX_PJ H    A case for respecting Copyright laws and                      privleges.IV.   Norman Castro of the OAUC contributed the fine, newsy      articles from his most rece!ں	ƒںںàںںںںںںںںکتوtbnR@@@‍‚ھ†h^rfFb@گbpR@@@‍‚ھ†h^rfFd@گbrR@@@‍‚ھ†h^rfFf@گd`R@@@‍‚ھ†h^rfFh@گdbR@@@‍‚ھ†h^rfFj@گddR@@@‍‚ھ†h^rfFl@گdfR@@@‍‚ھ†h^rfFn@گ¬\@@@ آè@گتننزـخèقـ@آطوقAwhich is contained on this  disk  in self-booting format.  Just insert this disk and press  reset.  Note that Coleco named the program BASICPGM in the directory to make use of the boot block from SmartBasic (I  guess).    To retain it's self-booting feature, make sure you copy block 0 from this disk onto the disk you use for the copy program.This months "FRONT SIDE" , in addition to the above, contains:I.  Items from the AUGER newsletter; from ECAUG, the Emerald    Coast ADAM User GROUP.  These areهههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههه3.       "    "   "12)         CP/M-4/93.          "    "   "II.   463 ADAM USER GROUP Contributions to ANN13)   HEXTABLEPJ H   Pat Herrington - Hex table to convert base                      10 numbers to hex and back.  (Note: Margins                      must be set to accomodate 74 columns.)14)   WHATtheHEX A   Pat Herrington - "How I learned HEX                       by accident."15)   UTILTYshed A   Pat Herrington - Using the "Coleco Copy Program" III.  Patricia Herrington has providهههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههنب'گO////////////////// ‍^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^A<‚yٍ	نثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثثˆههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههنب'————————————————————————————————————————————گ@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@هههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههههنب'—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————هههن