To : 999 (All)
From : YJ2 (Andrew Snodgrass)
Subject: SOLINET
(I am member 069 if you want to contact
me via the NET)
Some of you BEEB devotees may have seen
the news items in the Acorn User and
Micro User about SOLINET which is a
self help BBC Micro user group like 8BS
(not a P.D. software house).
SOLINET is based around a bi-monthly
disc magazine which supports the BBC A,
BBC B, B+ and Master (128 and compact)
and is edited by Ron Marshall. Useful
utilities and programs also appear
regularly on the disc. This along with
the user group's extensive library
(called SOLILIB) of software makes sure
that the members are not short of
useful programs, games and utilities.
Some of the software present in SOLINET
and many SOLINET issues, is with
permission from Solidisk technology.
So if you have any Solidisk add-ons
there is an even better reason to join
in with the fun.
So far there have been 37 (80T DFS)
issues spanning over the many years
since it was founded in 1986. If you
join these back issues are available at
30p per issue as long as you provide
your own formatted discs.
Unfortunately SOLINET has a large
shortage of members, and it has been
said that the group (or NET as they
prefer to call it) may have to end due
to the fact that they only have thirty
odd members!.
Now being a member I have found that
this is indeed a very good user group
and would highly recommend joining the
NET considering the lack of support for
BBC users from commercial publications.
It costs 4 a year to join and the
membership year begins in January.
4 isn't really a lot considering
it is 50p a month for an 8- bit issue.
If you send Ron an identifiable
blank formatted disk in any of the
following formats, and if you ask
nicely, I am sure he will provide you
with a back issue (and information
sheet) before you decide whether to
join or not.
Ron Marshall can take 5.25" discs in
the following forms:
Single density 80T DFS (or 40T) and
640k ADFS
He can also cope with 3.5" discs in
DFS OR ADFS, but prefers 5.25" if
possible.
You also need to send RETURN POSTAGE
and an ADDRESS LABEL IN AN EASILY
RE-USED PACKAGE.
If only on 40T remember, ONE 80T
side=TWO 40T sides.
The ADDRESS to send your disc to is:
SOLINET
The BBC Micro User Group
41 Westbrook Drive
Rainworth
Mansfield
Notts. NG21 0FB
So what's your excuse?!?
Join now or you will surely regret it.
I am wondering if SOLINET would be
interested in hearing about 8-Bit
Software and what they do.
Do 8-Bit members mind if I show off
some of their software to SOLINET?!
(After all most of it is PD). I would
especially like to hear the editor's
comment on this. (YJ2)
.......Editor...... Yes Andrew, by all
means send whatever you want. ALL of
the software in 8BS is PD. We want to
gain as wide a circulation as possible.
In fact I shall be sending a copy of
this issue to SOLINET.
We also have a membership crisis by the
way. But as long as there at least a
couple of other members we will not
fold. We will hold on steadfastly to
the end!