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As we go to "press" with this issue, the first press release concerning ADAMCON 02 is out. The party is to be co-hosted by the Metro Toronto ADAM Group, MTAG and The Loyal ADAM User's of the Golden Horseshoe, LAUGH. Names of contacts and fee structures are contained in the press release. I plan to attend, and I hope some more of our members can find the time to join me there. It should be a good show, especially since it is timed for those days in August when the Canadian National Exhibition is underway.\\ 
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In addition to the press release concerning ADAMCON 02, you will find two articles by Richard Clee, President of MTAG, in connection with getting to Toronto, and the things to do, once you are there. No doubt the LAUGH group will be producing something similar extolling the virtues of the Niagara Peninsular. If they do - we will reproduce those too.\\ 
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In an effort to accumulate a reasonable supply of back-up materials for my own, and other member's ADAM'S, I recently ordered, ex-Princess Auto, a complete ADAM, minus the outer casings and without a printer, but with a power supply.  Princess were selling these, from their Edmonton store, for $99.00. At the same time, while ordering this from one of the store personnel, who happened to be a member of the Edmonton ADAM User's Group, he told me that they were "stripping" down Expansion Module #3 CPU's and selling the logic boards they enclosed for $10 each. I told him to send me six at that price, and to save himself the bother of "stripping them down", to leave the cases on. Which he did!. So now I have an additional ADAM minus printer, in it's underwear, so to speak, and six Expansion Module #3 CPU's minus datadrives. All are Revision 80 units, and all work fine.\\ 
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In some other group's newsletter I read that Jameco Electronics, in Belmont, California, were advertising Coleco game boards, that's the Colecovision and ADAM gameboard, which includes the Z80 microprocessor, for $3.95 each. So I checked their catalogue and indeed, that was correct. As well as the game boards, they were advertising a "small Coleco circuit board" of unknown description, for 2 for $1.99. I ordered five of the game boards, and five packages of the other boards. When the shipment arrived, I found that the game board price had been further reduced to $1.95 each, and the smaller boards, which turned out to be SmartWRITER Printer Logic Boards, were reduced to 2 for $0.95. Of the game boards, two are fully operational, one has a video fault, and the other two I can't tell because there is no video or audio. I haven't had a chance to check the printer logic boards as yet, but I suspect that several of them have problems. But, they are all "loaded" with components which we may be able to use when the parts for our ADAM'S are in short supply.\\ 
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I have received my package from Practical Programs, which, as you will read, I ordered as a result of the catalogue reproduced in this issue. Haven't had a chance to try those out yet, but I am hopeful I can bring them to the next meeting on April 7th.\\ 
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As you will read, further on, I have finally been successful in obtaining copies of an extensive series of instructional articles on CP/M, written by Tom Keene, of the Inland Empire ADAM User's Group, IEAUG, of Orange CA, USA. I had previously received some issues of the IEAUG newsletter, but they were too recent to give me the opportunity to start the series at it's beginning. IEAUG is noted for it's use of CP/M, and although Tom Keene earnestly upholds that he works in Basic and other languages, as well as CP/M, which is certainly true, it is the opinion of those ADAMites with whom I have discussed the matter that Tom is one of the ADAM fraternity's leading lights when it comes to CP/M. \\ 
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I have also contacted MOAUG to try to obtain a copy of their CP/M wizard, Jerome Hess's, Starter Kit, which is necessary to properly utilize his series on CP/M called "BIOS CALL". I want to publish these as a alternative to Tom Keene's articles, because I think Jerome's articles will provide a different approach to learning about CP/M and one which may be more suitable for those of us that are less knowledgeable in data processing matters.\\ 
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Had a pleasant phone conversation with Ron Collins, President of The Northern Ohio ADAM Hackers, NOAH. I was trying to elicit Ron's help in my continuing struggle to convert my disc drives to double sided. The ADAM News Network had recently released copies of the instructions issued by Orphanware on how to use their kit to accomplish the change, so I phoned Ron to obtain a copy of his "formatting" software and some advice. He told me that John Lingrel had returned from Japan, where he was presumably working, and had closed down his BBS and instructed the phone company to disconnect the line. Ron didn't know why,  although he mentioned that Big John had said he was "through" with ADAM. If that is so, the ADAM world has lost one of it's "greats". BJ was responsible for many "first's" in ADAMdom, and he has generously donated most of his efforts to the public domain. Let's hope it is really all a misunderstanding.\\ 
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Ron told me had received his "release" copy of GODOS and was busy trying it out. He seemed impressed. I had heard that the Softworks Factory were intending to ship an interim release of GODOS to keep things going until Solomon Swift was satisfied with a final version. If you have one on order, look for it in the mail soon.\\ 
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As you will read later in this issue, the statement I made about the RF Modulator from Radio Shack, not being available in Canada, was entirely a figment of my local affiliate store owner's, imagination. See John Forsythe's article in this issue.\\
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