THIS ISSUE... b ona NERO

Not much in the way of submissions this month so we'll just have a "skinny" issue. We do have a few things for you: ever reliable, for the moment, Harvey is back with thoughts on some of his recent readings as well as a note to all

concerning Meta Media QL wares; Gerd

dropped off a couple of things for this issue, and Marcio handed in a little item of interest. I also have a couple of other ilems you might find interesting as well as a program listing for the 2068 that will be of great help if you're not sure weather to take your umbrella with you.

If you guys want and expect to receive an interesting and enjoyable newsletter then you'll just have to start doing a little more to support it. Quite a few members have contributed items but many of you have done nothing to support the N/L nor the group other than pay your dues. Sorry chaps, a little more is expected if the group is to keep on keeping on. You out-of- -lowners can certainly contribute as well.

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SEPTEHBER HINUTES

-Sept 9/88 -by your HUMBLE scribe

Hith prompting Gerd asked for order at 19:25. There were 17 intrepid souls present; a couple more straggled in later.

Gerd started off by talking about the considerable amount of work which goes into producing a newsletter. Kudos mere handed out to Rod with general applause.

Glenn Read was not aound to do a VP report, so Rod jumped in mith his treasurer's report. He nom have CAN$ 942.93 in ye olde credit union with credits during the meeting of approx. $75.00 bringing the total over 1K. Rod also mentioned he is going ‘domn under’ next month & it mill be up to somebody else to do the newsletter that month. Volunteers?

Rod mentioned modestly that ZXAPPEAL had tied for second in the TDM contest. Hore kudos/

There was a question from the floor about whether or not we are exchanging newsletters with any Mexican user groups? It seems we did in the past, but a chnage of address card seems to have gone astray. By the may, Rod will now be sending a copy of ZXAPPEAL to Nigel Searle every month. [Perhaps me should send a formal open invitation to Sinclair/Searle & co., if they happen to be in Vancouver the second friday of the month?J

Rod then mentioned that a company in Texas is advertising a Sinclair MSDOS machine. He was so intrigued, he phoned them. It turns out this is an AHSTRAD 512 mith classical Sinclair brand logo. Aaarghh/ A pox on Alan Sugar & his marketing minions/

Rod then passed the SNUG – SINCLAIR NORTHAMERICAN USER'S GROUP propaganda sheet around. There was some talk of the proposed SHUG-BBS newsletter idea.

Fred Nachbaur has given Jim Horne all of his software library & there is a catalog disk. [The golden goose is gone honever/]

Rod then piped up to say that he had received a letter from Walter Komlosy who has offered to collaborate with the hardware group. He has already designed a 366K НУМ board. Takers?

Harry Slot stood to say that the hardware group had not been doing much

over the summer & would not be active for another month or so because he was ripping his house apart. There were Jokes about whether another pipe organ mas entering the Slot household. HilfRigter mentioned that he sam Sea 43X8 LCD's at RPE.

Harvey mentioned that he had HD—-48'ed his old printer ribbon collection to good effect. Chung Chon mentioned that you have to be careful not to use the silicon based HD—49 produced by Quaker; it gums up the print heads.

Bill Rutter mas the only librarian present. He did not have anything to report, but he mas worried about some library loans which had been out for too long. Check your goodies folks.

A protracted hardware discussion about boosting the frequency of the ZX81/2X80 slide into the room, in the depths of which Rod H mas found fantasizing about the 289 which Sinclair ought to produce —-- with a 50 MHz 64186/

There mas a gentle request from our valiant leader for some demos...please.

Ken Grant regaled us with the further adventures of his 110—220 volt power conversions. He has now got a BC BC Rail transformer to do the trick. Hhich is nice, except that it weighs 1/2 a ton.

Hilf Rigter mentioned that Ikea has a type of high efficiency fluorescent lamp now. Mario Vereiera is going to xerox the ComputerFacts articles. Mention was made of the upcoming PCCFA swap meet which will be over by the time you read this. s-)

{The Caribbean band next door got real loud about here.J

It mas brought up that Karl Brown Mas once again giving the Build your Own Robot course at VVI this fall. | There mas some discussion of various robotics business matters which Bob did not want to be specific about.

There mas a query on the floor about the tpes from the Portland Sinclair Fest. Rod H told the story of the microphone on the video camera at the back of the room to general sighs of exasperation.

It seems G.Hinterburn is still having difficulty getting the hi-res routines to work mith his НУМ. There was some on the spot trouble shooting attempted.

The meeting dissolved to general” J-

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PLAYING WITH ELECTRICITY

-Sept 29/88 -Harvey Taylor

Maybe if I am quick & short about it, I can slip another wee note past Rod this month. He tells me he is going to print the .asm listing from last month, but maybe there will be room for something completely different -- book reviews!

Ø) FROM ONE TO ZERO by Georges Ifrah ISBN Ø 14 00.9919 0

1) THE MEDIA LAB by Stewart Brand ISBN 9 14 00.9701 5

2) MINDTOOLS by Rudy Rucker ISBN Ø 395 46810 8

3) WETWARE by Rudy Rucker ISBN @ 380 79178 2

FROM ONE TO ZERO by Georges Ifrah

I was in the middle of a protracted discussion about numbers, having started with the Mandelbrot Set and drifted into the history of mathematics - specifically just when and where the concept of ZERO was discovered/invented, when I remembered having noticed this book in the bookstore. A happy chain of coincidence! This book is great.

The subtitle of the book is A UNIVERSAL HISTORY OF NUMBERS and that is accurate. Starting from the earliest methods, finger counting, cuneiform, hieroglyphics this fascinating text leads you through various cultures unravelling the development of

"mathematical thought & notation around the

world. Recommended.

THE MEDIA LAB by Stewart Brand

Imagine Marshall McLuhan for engineers, living under a regime of “demo or die", trying to invent the future media of the world in “the rag and boneshop of the heart" where new technologies overlap.

A Quote: "All communication technologies are suffering a joint metamorphosis, which can only be understood if treated as a single subject, and only advanced properly if treated as a single craft. The way to figure out what needs to be done is through exploring the human sensory and cognitive system and the ways humans most naturally interact."

MINDTOOLS by Rudy Rucker

Rucker makes mathematics fun! This book is a spirited romp through number, space, logic, infinity and information as applied to almost everything. On one level the book is Rucker's attempt to make the reader comfortable with the computer generated paradigm that "everything is information", while on another it is a vehicle to explain oneself as a multi-dimensional fractal.

WETWARE by Rudy Rucker

This is a science fiction book which deserves а special place of honour in the CyberPunk section of your library. It is the near future. On the moon the robots have rebelled. There is an uneasy peace. Now the bops are going to try running human software [WETWARE] on a petaflop - a meatbop. [1 petaflop = 10^15.] To do this they need to use the illegal drug merge. It turns you into a puddle of protoplasm for a spell.

The neatest bops look like iridescent capes. Put one on & it taps into your CNS. So does the book.

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META MEDIA GOKS SHAREWARE

-Sept 7/88

Recently a couple of things have happened which have made me reconsider how I wish to conduct my business in the Sinclair community. The first of these is learnind that my software is being pirated around the United States. Even though it ought not to have been, because I pointedly eschewed the use of any sort of copy protection, this was a bit of a shock to me. It would seem that the only sensible stratedy is to use the pirating energy by going shareware.

The second consideration is the fact that I have bought an Amiga 2000. I now have divided loyalties. Those of you who know me are aware that I have always been interested in the wide spectrum of computing —- I have been a member of three different computer clubs for some time now; So this is not that surprising. However it will mean that my time will be further subdivided. Going shareware is one way to reduce the demands on my time.

Consequently, Meta Media Productions is releasing Q LINK 1.556 as shareware. If you find this software of value, you may redister with Meta Media for 1)a copy of the manual, 2)telephone support, 3) news about updates, 4)further support wares, such as Unarc, Uncrunch, Filters etc. as

they become available.

` What this means is copy to your hearts delight, give a copy to all your friends, spread the wares. If you wish to redister, you may send

05$15.00 to:

META MEDIA PRODUCTIONS

726 West 17th Vancouver, BC. Canada V5Z 1T9

of funds due.

For the interim period, while orders still come in from people expecting to buy Q LINK, I will treat these as requests to register k return the balance

cordially, Harvey Taylor

MESSAGE FROM YOUR PRESIDENT

Your V.S.Uu.G. Pacific Coast Computer Fair Meet held on October 1;.1988 at the McPherson Cenntre in Burnaby. We had a table adjacent to that of the Vancouver Robot Club (started and run By former and present members of V.S.U.G. Karl Broun is still giving courses on Building Your Oun Robot. Harry Slot put up an impressive display of customized TS 1000 hardware: & dedicated word Processor complete with full size Keyboard: printer and monitor (static) well as а unitized system with integral S" monitor írunnina a 555 timer design). We had several enquiries about our club. Опе person has a TS 1000 and a 2959 and he is looking forward - to attending our next club meeting. Gur stack of literature ¿brought back from the Portland: Oregon Fair by Rod Humphreys? Was | gone before the show ended. Karl Brown: Ken Abramson; Bob Denison and myself: all V.S.U.G.

the Suap

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members: brought a robot each. Bob Patiently tought interested visitors hou to -program a robot using his full size terminal. Karl programmed his using a Radio Shack lap top and I programmed mine using a ZX 81 with the robot loader program residing in an ӨК built-in non- volatile memory and running from а 16K rampack: RS232 board and 5" monitor. Ше also had quite a feu club members drop in helping attend the table and visiting.

Save Our Heusletter-YOU CAN DO IT! We haven't had a Membership Profile for ages and could really do with articles contributed by YOU. Again: this is an excellent Platform for all members €including vou folks out-of-town? to make YOUR VIEWS Known and contribute te. YOUR club. Looking very much forward to seeing and/or hearing from you soon.

Gerd Breunung

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ODDS AND ENDS ON TS 18880 ADD-ONS By Gerd Breununa

*RANDOS DIRECTORY HARD COPY

Do vou wish to make а print of your RANDOS directory? -Here is how vou can do it: (presuming vou have RAMDOS in a RUN location of 7684: i.e. Hot Key installed? instead of "E" center> press “RAND USR 786@"<enter>. Your directory will appear with error code 5/0. Switch back to the Sinclair rom and "“COPY"Center> the listing on your 2040 Printer. Then press the HOTKEY "E" to use the directory.

MY RAMNDOS DIRECTORY

CLRDISK;B ЗБ REHLIMBR;E т UNMERGE; 6 42 RTPLORD;E jm REMSRUE;B 64 16KTEST; Е i SK TEST;B 165 STOFPER;EBE = CHEKSUM;EB 65 FSTLORD;E 3 FSTSRUE;B 177 HTERM/T;B 3756 Z SPEAK;B 58021 Е SPEAK; 2552 MAZOGS ;BllSs2i HMHZOGS ;U 174 B.ARRGU;Y 351 B.FROGG;U 351 B.HRZüG;U 35i 5 BOOT;B 264 B.ZORLR;U 381 ; e

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*POWER CONSUMPTION I am presently running the following set up:

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For the illustrated set up the current - draw with program in RAM is 580 mA and with modem running as vell is 600 mA. "For а TS 18000 with 16k TS 1016 Rampack the current draw is 600 mA and the power

is 6 watts. эф”

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After loading a program, we that still labor with ZX-21 machines and not so reliable tapes always wonder if it loaded GK. You and I know that a program may still run and not have loaded perfectly. Hell, mu solution is in fact very simple. Just replace the save lines with the following:

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How replace lines xxxi to xxx9-

xxxi POKE 16417, USR Z

xxx4 SAVE "program name"

xxxS IF USR Z=PEEK 16417 THEN GOTO 1

xxxG PRINT "SORRY, EAD LORE. MARCIO SAYS 50 =

xxx9 STOP

How save the program. Bo not modify lines xxx@ to xxx3. Line xxx4 may be changed to agree with your fast loading program. CXXX4 RANE USR zz£zz) Line xxx5 may be changed to read ххх5 IF USR

xxxi LET Z=PEEK 16425 + 256 ` ¥ PEEK 16426 + 5

xxxe REM 1262455789818 24567

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Z=PEEK 16417 THEN RUH, Сог БОТО X£Xxrx J). Line xxx6, MUST НОТ, I do repeat, MUST HOT be changed or the worst things will happen to your beloved machine, the least being that your ULA will start smoking and be useless forever... the aad you cannot get those

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Computing Canada January 21, 1988

` Rise of neurocomputers predicted

Neurocomputers are a new breed of computers that emulate the human brain, and a New Jer- sey firm, in a comprehensive re-

port, projects that the neurocom- `

puter market will grow from last year's $7 million (U.S.) to $570 million by the end ofthe century.

According to the report, Neurocomputing: The Technol- ogy, The Players, The Potential, from Technical Insights Inc. of Englewood, early markets will be in defence and aerospace, pat- tern recognition and expert sys- tems.

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Later markets will develop in speech recognition, surveillance and machine vision.

Neurocomputing, in its analy-

sis of the machine vision market, ·

says, in part, that General Motors has indicated that the company could use 44,000 robots with vi- sion.

Because machine vision based on conventional, serial com- puters is expensive and unreli-

able, few such systems аге in изе _

(probably less than 1/10th of one per cent). The development of the neural

machine is still in its early stages,

so production units won't be available in the U.S. until the 1990s. The estimated production. price is $30,000, which is ex- pected to drop to half that by 1999. a T

More than 175 research groups involved with neurocomputers are detailed in the 240-page re- port, plus profiles of eight that are actively selling hardware or software.

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SUPREME COURT RULES STEALING DATA ISNOT THEFT

JTTAWA — After a recent Supreme Court of Canada ruling which decided that taking confidential information is not theft, many companies with computers are worrying aboutthe safety of electronically stored data.

The ruling was handed down in a case in which a Toronto consultant, Vayne John

Stewart, offered Jan William Hart, a security guard at the Constellation Hotel in Toronto,

money to obtain the names, addresses and shone numbers of its 600 employees in an

-fort to unionize them.

Hart informed his employer and the police of the bribe and Stewart was charged with counselling to commit theft and fraud. Although first acquitted, Stewart was later convicted by the Ontario Court of Appeal. Supreme Court Justice Antonio Lamer re- stored the acquittal late last month.

The court ruled that confidential informa- tion is not property, and so its unauthorized taking cannot be theft. He explained that property must be capable of being taken or “converted” in a manner that results in the deprivation of the alleged owner of the use or possession of that property.

Furthermore, since confidential informa- tion is a “pure intangible" and has no phys- ical existence, said Justice Lamer, it cannot be the subject of a taking. He added that if protection is warranted for such informa-

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tion it should be granted through legislative enactment.

On the charge of fraud, Justice Lamer de- cided the taking of the information would not have resulted in a risk of economic loss. Since the hotel had no intention of dealing

іп a commercial way with the confidential’.

information, it would not have been de- frauded of money or of any economic advan- tage.

So if someone were to obtain access to in- formation such as a mailing list, whether

electronic or hardcopy, to use it in a way that

would not deprive the owner of access or subsequent revenues he cannot be charged with either theft or fraud.

However, under the Copyright Act, com- piled information such as a mailing list qual- ifies as a “literary work” and may therefore be protected. Computer programs, both source and object code, are similarly pro-

tected under the act. Any unauthorized re-

production, while not theft or fraud, is re-

garded as a copyright infringement.

Any unauthorized copy made onto a mag- netic storage medium such as a disk or tape, or a duplicate made into computer memory

. would be regarded as illegal. If access to a computer were gained by a «i non-employee using a dumb terminal and :

modem, where the information was merely displayed and no tangible or fixed medium copy were made, the Copyright Act might

not apply. The person might be charged `

with theft of telecommunications service

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under the Criminal code, although a deci- sion of the Supreme Court of Canada has made it unlikely a conviction could be ob- tained in that situation, says Barry Sookman, a lawyer specializing in computer law with

‚ Rosenberg Smith Paton Hyman in Toronto.

In the Stewart case, Justice Lamer ad- dressed the concern many companies have regarding the release of corporate secrets by former employees. He explained the possi- ble consequences if the courts were to re- gard confidential information as property and the mere unauthorized possession of it as theft. Any ex-employee unable to erase corporate information from his memory (brain) could then theoretically be charged

` under the Criminal Code for each day that

he is unable to forget it, said Justice Lamer.

However, a company is protected even without implementing a non-disclosure agreement which would prevent any em- ployee from revealing corporate secrets. Sookman points out employees and com- ; pany officers are obligated to operate in trust and confidence. Any breach of this is a civil offence.

According to Sookman, while confidential information isn’t any less secure under the civil law following the decision in the Stewart case, the precedent set may well weaken the power of the courts to prosecute ` clear infringers in criminal cases.

; by Anita Castaldi : OFFICE MANAGEMENT & AUTOMATION/JULY 1988

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