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   Here are three newsletters for the ADAM that you may find interesting; Gleanings Feb 90--
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        By Dave Sands
   Gleanings is a collection of items from the newsletter exchanges and ADAM News Network received by the club.  
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   Here are three newsletters for the ADAM that you may find interesting; two have introductory offers.
   Norman R. Castro, 809 W. 33rd Avenue, Bellevue, NE. USA 68005 publishes the Omaha Adam Users Club newsletter, and will send you a free copy for only two First Class postage stamps. ( He would probably like two US quarters from Canadians.) Subscriptions are $8 U.S. 
   Thanks to Norm (via ANN) for several of Gleanings' items this month. Norm also says:
   METRO is the newsletter of the Metro Orlando ADAM Users Group, editor Patricia Herrington, 1003 Oak Lane, Apoka, FL. USA 32703.  Send 45 cents US for a sample copy.
   And, THE newsletter for ADAM CP/M users is from the Inland Empire ADAM Users Group, 3141E Palmyra Ave. Orange, CA. USA 92669. Editor is Thomas Keene and it's $18 U.S. per year.
   A source of public domain ADAM CP/M format software is Sound Potentials, Box 46, Brackney, PA.  USA 18812. Their catalog is $2 U.S.
   Two ADAM supply sources are: The ADAM Connection, Box 562, Champlain, NY, USA 12919, Phone (518) 298-8193, and EVE Electronics, at E.E.S. Companies, 2 Vernon Street, Suite 404, Framingham, MA. USA 01701. Phone is (508) 650-1872. Their catalog is free.
   And finally, here's a tip from Norm for Speedywrite V.2 program users: you can do underlining, Bold, and automatic centering in Speedywrite on your ADAM printer by hitting Control-v and typing in the codes.
   Moving along, here's a strange new contest for you: The ADAM News Network is asking you to guess weight, in whole numbers, of a mixed group of ADAM activists, and win either a $20 coupon for software from the Softworks Factory or a PIA2 board (the parallel interface that lets you hook up a dot matrix printer) from the Akron BBS. You enter by phoning in a guess to an ADAM BBS system. Enter by February 28.
   Guess: the total combined weight of: Al Fitzgerald, St. Louis AUG BBS sysop, plus, the shipping weight of a complete ADAM system, plus, Bob Blair, AWAUG sysop, plus, Barry Wilson, who runs the ADAM News Network, plus, Barry's Cat, plus, Big John Lingrel, Akron BBS sysop, plus, Larry Overman, SOCA BBS sysop, plus, Tony Patterson, Softworks Factory, plus, Rob Friedman, Compuserve sysop, plus Ricki Gerlach, Gerlach Family Software, Eagle BBS sysop, plus Sol Swift, Softworks Factory, plus, Allan Neeley, Editor and sysop, Adam Link of Utah, and Warren Foster, SOCA and his three grandchildren (one unborn). 
   Got that? Any guess will obviously do, since no-one has any better information than anyone else in this contest, unless you happen to know Barry's Cat personally, for example.
   The ADAM International Media newsletter this month has pictures and write-up on Powermate, the hard disk drive setup for the ADAM. This thing is real! From the instructions, using a hard disk on an ADAM will be practically identical to one on any other computer. Both the standard ADAM system (EOS) and a new system, TDOS, run on the hard disk. Sizes from 10 to 30 Megabytes are available, at prices from $399 to $699 U.S, complete with serial and parallel ports, cables and software and interface. 
   One of the most exciting things about hard disks is the speed at which they work -- large programs just appear, with no waiting while the disk spins or the cassette runs. And runs. SmartBASIC from the hard disk is up in 2 seconds, AIM says.
   The supply of Coleco disk drives has dried up again, AIM says, and at the price of two disk drives --$400 to $450, for 160K each, the hard disk is a far better deal.  Their catalog is available for a SASE and 52 cents U.S. for postage. Adam's House, Route 2, Box 2756, Pearland, Texas, USA 77501.
   The ADAM User-Friendly Group of Ottawa reports that GO-DOS 1.1 "is actually being shipped." Sol Swift decided to release it subject to upgrades in view of the long time people have been waiting.  If you're one of them, here you go again.
   The AUFG newsletter contains two articles on programming, both written by members. Guy LaForest tells how to change the INIT commands in SmartBASIC, and Guy Cousineau discusses DIM, DEF,LIST and DEL. 
   And here is more ADAM Software Support, and that's their name.  They are at 8125 W. Catherine, Chicago, IL. USA 60656. They supply Gerlach Family Software, A & S Software, Graftex Software, Wizards Lair, and PD, and are looking for software to distribute. One program caught my eye: "Learning Turkish with ADAM."
   Hard to top that one, but maybe you can do it.  ### 
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