A few points have cropped up as usual.
Let's try and get them all into one
place for a change.
1. Several people seemed confused about
how to actually join 8BS. Not exactly
good for 8BS. On reading the
documentation on TBI-00 I realised why.
Anyone wishing to join 8BS should
mention this in words of one syllable
to me or I will not understand.
2. I have made a number of mistokes in
copying TBI pool discs for people
recently. This has been due to major
catalogue upheavals. Everyone has been
most patient and understanding. Thanks
for that. Things should improve soon.
Please note that a number of discs from
the TBI JJF and GLM sections have been
removed due to the fact that they were
duplicated in the BBC PD catalogue. I
reckon that the odds are that they
started there in the first place
anyway.
The 8BS collection of the BBC PD
library is almost complete now. Thanks
again to everyone sending in missing
discs. Alan Blundell sent 8BS most of
the DFS versions of his library. This
is quite handy as DFS is of course
compatible with all machines. This does
however mean that some of the BBC PD
items that were ADFS only are not in
the 8BS library (YET).
8BS is still after:
BBC PD discs:
21 26 30 35 42 43 44 48 51 52 65 76 85
98 99 103 114 115 122 131 138 139 149
150 151 152 158 159 171
Rewards awaiting any help given!
In the recent melee' of catalogue
upheaval I had managed to get several
rogue discs into the collection of TAU
discs.
This has now been painstakingly
rectified (almost). I don't think that
anyone has received any of the
unsatisfactory discs. If you have,
please send yours back for update. I
have November 90 missing. Can anyone
help?
Thanks are due here to Mick Needham who
has sent me skiploads of discs over the
past months in attempts to sort the TAU
section out.
New addition to the TBI pool is TBI-58,
Wordpower. A powerful word processing
package including full on screen help
and a SWR image for those of you with
sideyways ram.
I have started the Master 512
collection off with these BBC PD 512
discs. They are all Acorn DOS 800k
discs:
512 UT2 MI2 PR3 WP1 UT1.
See TBI-00 or your old copy of the BBC
PD catalogue for more info.
3. Congratulations K2O and now
increased family. A 7lb baby girl on
4.6.94.
4. My user ID is 2J3. I shall publish a
list of names [] User IDs in this
issue if memory permits.
5. As things get more busy here at 8BS
HQ there is one thing that I am
regretting. I do not have the time to
give individual replies to people any
more. I hope that you all understand,
PLEASE don't stop writing. I do enjoy
reading your letters to me, it's just
that I cannot spend the time replying
in the same manner. I am afraid that my
replies are short and to the point
nowadays.
6. An error in Issue 35 has appeared:
Magic3d line 10 says *ROMOFF in
earlier copies. This should say
*RAMOFF. My fault I think.
7. Telephone bill. I knew it was going
to be large. The summary ran to 7
sheets and £117. This is mainly due to
organisational activities associated
with the Acorn User show. However, in
future I intend to keep outgoing calls
to the absolute minimum.
8. Speaking of telephones, along with
the bill came a reminder that next
year all the STD codes are to
change. Anyone having or wishing to
purchase a copy of CJR-3 the STD
code database need not worry about
this as I have already prepared
version 2 of the STD database that
contains all the changes. Come the
day, you may all update to the new
codes. How organised! I must
remember to put this in the
catalogue. Don't let me forget.
9. Thanks to a dedicated member, K3E
(Pete Fitzgerald). He must be one of
our most dedicated members, although
you don't hear much from him he does
his bit for the club by trying to buy
the whole library. Keep it up Pete!
Thanks for the big box of goodies too.
They are all in the advert section
now.
Thanks to K6F. Some handy stuff
donated. The modem is going to stay
in the cupboard though until
someone rings ME! See item 7.
Thanks to K1H (John Fullbrook) for the
Eproms.
10. 8BS is now the proud owner of Eprom
programmer, eraser and excellent
supporting software. Thanks to
donations from a dedicated member.
8BS now has a reasonable supply of
Eproms. See the advert section and
catalogue.
11. Well, the suppliers index has
fallen flat on its face. Obviously
everyone out there thinks that their
own particular supplier is useless.
For those of you unaware of what I am
on about, a couple of issues ago it was
mooted that we should have a list of
favourite suppliers.
Here's mine:
CLP Computer Supplies,
Unit 7/8 Holland Way
Blandford
Dorset
DT11 7TA
0258 459544
I buy labels and re-inking kits from
them. They accept switch over the phone
and deliver the next day. Amazing speed
and reasonable prices especially if you
buy by the skip.
316 Supplies
7 and 8 Sully View
Ty-Verlon Industrial Estate
Barry
South Wales
CF6 3BE
0446 421316
8BS gets its 5.25" discs from here. I
changed from another disc supplier
earlier in the year as they would not
replace faulty discs. This supplier,
once I got the initial bugs ironed out
(no labels, bits in the discs) is first
class. They are open for a haggle on
huge quantities, this I always like in
a supplier. Not only this, but they
donated 8BS a disc box which has won
them my undying loyalty (well, almost).
That's it as far as 8BS goes, unless
you count Becketts the local newsagent
where the odd pen comes from. Oh yes!
If you don't get the Micro Mart, do so.
It only costs 60p a week and is
massive. It is full of all sorts of
interesting stuff. The best part is
that you can advertise in it for FREE.
People to avoid:
Mr Greedy down the road. He asks double
for his cottopins. Try Richardsons (no
relation) at Marfleet.
12. Not too many comments on the
languages article by K2O in the
last issue. That's a bit of a
shame, I was hoping for a deluge
which would spur Stephan on to
extending the series.
Come on you lot!
13. Frank Jones put me on to the fact
that the snowmen in the Christmas 93
issue (31) was actually written by a
Melvyn Wright. Responsibility for the
program had been changed to Psycho
Pirate by some pea brain before it came
to 8BS. This has now been corrected on
the 8BS master copies. Why do people do
this? Who is this Psycho? What else has
he done? Where am I? What day is this?
How many fingers can you see? Where
exactly is the pain? How would you
describe it? Does movement make it
worse? Had I better put this thing to
rest now?
Right, I have quite obviously had it.
That's it for this time, have fun and
keep up the good work you lot.