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From Feb. 90 MOAUG News: some items are specific to MOAUG and will need editing.  Feel free to take what you want and chop out the rest.  Also there are printer codes in this file which you may want to delete.  --Pat Herrington 2/2/90 
 
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Several of you have asked for information on where to buy modem cables for the original ADAMLINK modem.  The most recent AIM (newsletter of Terry Fowler's ADAM'S HOUSE) advertises them for $7.95 (plus shipping.) Contact: 
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ADAM'S HOUSE 
1829-1 Co. Rd. 130 
Route 2, Box 2756 
Pearland, TX 77581-9503 
(713) 482-5040 
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Faye Deere reports that Computer Buyers' Guide has begun running ADAM articles.  Your support may well determine whether they will continue.  The January issue includes Faye's ADAMCON article, on page 71.  CBG is new to the market and may be difficult to find at first.  Your newsstand dealer can get it for you, or you can subscribe at significant savings ($12 for 12 issues.) The address for subscriptions is: 
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COMPUTER BUYERS GUIDE 
PO BOX 55886 
Birmingham, AL 35255 
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The January IEAUG includes an enthusiastic report of a new source for ADAM hardware and peripherals.  Ribbons are a particularly good buy, at $30 a dozen.  This source carries both multistrike and nylon (the nylon is even available in purple.) A new ribbon source is encouraging news!  
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ALLIED BUSINESS MACHINES Inc. 
9281 Earl Street 
La Mesa, CA, 92042-1445 
(619) 461-6361 
FAX: (619) 461-4882 
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Jay Forman of M.W. Ruth took us by surprise, by sending a printout of all the Floridians in his database.  This is a very generous gesture.  The printout is MANY pages thick. Of course, as Jay pointed out at the convention, the database is far from perfect, and includes many names of people who no longer have ADAMs.  Still, it is a valuable tool.  Shall we form a committee to investigate how to use it?  Suggestions?  Volunteers????
 
NOTE THAT M. W. RUTH HAS A NEW ADDRESS: 
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M. W. Ruth 
510 Rhode Island Ave. 
Cherry Hill, NJ 08002 
(609) 667-2526 
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Charlie Eddlemon, a former ADAM owner who still likes to keep in touch with the ADAM community, sent me a package just before Christmas containing two books I'd heard of but never seen: "The First Book of ADAM The Computer", by Arthur Dent, and "The Basic ADAM: A Self-Teaching Guide." The former is VERY basic, and would be of particular interest to new ADAM owners.  The latter book also starts from scratch, but goes into a lot of detail on a number of different topics overlooked in the BASIC manual (high resolution graphics, for example.) This book would be particularly useful for intermediate users who want to go beyond the original manual; but it is clearly written and not intimidating even for the beginner.  I will be happy to share the books with anyone who promises not to get jelly on the pages.  MANY THANKS, CHARLIE! 
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The NEXUS Bulletin Board, operated jointly by Tony Patterson and Sol Swift, is in operation.  I checked it out this morning (February 2.) There aren't many messages yet; I don't think many people are aware of it.  
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NEXUS BBS 
(The Softworks Factory) 
(601) 875-7146 
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We are now exchanging newsletters with the ADAM User Friendly Group of Canada, Metro Toronto AUG, and The 463 AUG of Indiana.  (The latter is a monthly publication; the others are bimonthly.) 
 
It just keeps getting harder to select only a few items from the treasure trove of information available.  Besides all these wonderful newsletters (all are good, some startlingly so!) and the message areas on Compuserve and the various bulletin board systems, as well as the catalogs, flyers, and one-on-one correspondence, there are the disks distributed monthly by Barry Wilson.  Named A.N.N. (for ADAM News Network), the disks are jam-packed with items contributed by sysops and newsletter editors.  This project has really grown in a short time.  After the first month or two, Barry has had to send two and even THREE disks.  Most of the files are text files, and are distributed chain-letter style by sysops and editors.  Now, for the first time, Barry is making this "clip service" available to the general public by subscription.  We will be printing more information on this later, but meanwhile, if you would like to subscribe, contact Barry.  Subscription rates are $35 per year.  (If this sounds high, remember that it includes about 24 disks ... maybe as many as 30 or more...per year, all packed with ready-to-print reviews, articles, workshops, programs, vendor information, and even Barry's hysterical humor columns.  I hate to admit it, but it may be a better buy than your friendly neighborhood newsletter.) 
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Barry Wilson 
12967 Weatherfield Drive 
St. Louis, MO 63146 
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If you have been trying to reach The Midas Touch BBS, you may have noticed it has been down for the past couple of weeks.  Sysop Dale Malone hopes it will be back up soon.  I hope so; I miss the ADAM ECHO!  One good thing came of it, though... Bart Lynch (sysop Zonker, of the Up An ADAM BBS) sometimes leaves me messages on Midas Touch.  When he couldn't get through, he decided to call me voice.  Sorry about your phone bill, Zonk, but I sure did enjoy hearing from you! 
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Ron Collins has developed a large doc file for the disk known as the "Coleco Graphics Processor".  The file has been uploaded to Compuserve and the Akron BBS.  Thanks to Rich Lefko, we now have a copy of the doc file.  It will make a good series when we have space for it.  If you can't wait, though, we do have it on disk.                        
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Jerome's column last month talked about ways to undelete a deleted file in CP/M.  That's available in BASIC, too.  Many PD utilities will serve the purpose.  There's a good one on NIAD Basic Utilities #2.  But even handier is the PD file copy program by Digital Express called "EZfileXFER2".  It will copy all the files on your medium, INCLUDING deleted files, to a new medium.  In the process, it undeletes the files and even LOCKS them with no further prompting from the user.  (You designate which files you want to copy, one at a time.  So if you don't want those deleted files, just don't copy them.) You do need at least two drives to use the program, but they can both be tape drives.  Check with John Prescott, PD librarian, if you don't have this program. 
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We've mentioned that the fastest way to scroll to the end of a document in SmartWriter is to use the Search function to search for something that's not there.  This is QUICK.  But there's no quick way to scroll back to the beginning.  However, IF you have a disk drive, and you create long files, you may find it faster to CLEAR the workspace and then retrieve it with the Store/Get key.  (This assumes your workspace has been saved, of course!) This wouldn't save time with a data drive, but depending on how long the document is, it can be a timesaver from disk. 
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Most of you don't need one more tip on getting around the line-and-a-half space bug, but here it is anyway:  If you have a dot matrix printer, you can type any control code on the blank line before hitting <RETURN>.  (That is, a carat and any capital letter your printer recognizes.) Of course it won't print, but the spacing will be correct.  
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