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mses THE HARVEST amt MEETING DATE JULY 14, 1984 10:00 am-1:00 pm Building A, Harper College IN THIS ISSUE Club Officers,- - Members Aide, wee eee ee He - = = 3 Editorial -------- eee ed HARVEST, June 1979- - -------------- ee ee ee ee mee 5 HARVEST, June 1980 HARVEST June 1981 E HARVEST June 1982: HARVEST June 1983: Pres Says, Rob Stewart: NIAUG Renewal Questions, Joe Zeinz Career Planning???? Terry Tufts - - - - Vectors & Pointers, David Burroughs Exploring Apple DOS, David Burroughs | The 16 Bit 6502 is finally Here Interesting Bits, Chris Tufts Application Form : SIG BITS & BYTES, Ken Falter | DOS Commands, Shelly Horwitz - MACTEP, Macintosh Términal Emulator Program, Dennis Brothers: Sig Bits & Bits, Ken Falter : Club News: PAGE 2 THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 CLUB OFFICERS President— Rob Stewart * Vice- President— Jim Glore 312-843-3215 Treasurer— § Jim Murphy 312-449-3139 Secretary— Ken Rentfleish * Librarian— Joe Zeinz 312-526-0575 Newsletter Editor— Terry Tufts 312-392-7735 Program - Chairman— Jim Glore 312-843-3215 - Meetings Co-ordinator— George McClarity 312-359-0283 * Beginners SIG ; Co-ordinator— Guy Lyle 312-359-1458 *24 hr GENERAL. INFORMATION NUMBER 312-844-7555 CORRECTIONS/ CHANGES OF ADDRESS Corrections/changes of. address MUST be sent to the club secretary. Mailings are by bulk presorted third class mail. Any incorreect addresses will usually result in missed issues. Membership is open to all. Dues are $24.00 nnually with a one time initiation fee of $5.00 at the time of admission. Membershi: applications are ayailable from the clul Secretary at the meetings or by mail. NIAUG NEWSLETTER is published by the Northern Illinois Apple Users Group and edited by Terry Tufts. Contents may be reproduced by other Apple Clubs for their newsletters or bulletins except where specifically reserved by the author. Permission to copy these articles may be obtained by writ: the author through our editorial offices. ease indicate Northern Tllinois Apple Users Group, HARVEST, is the source of any material reproduced. Newsletter exchange is welcomed. The HARVEST recognizes that and APPLE manufactured products are trademarks of the APPLE Computer Company. -~ HARVEST. STAFF, Ned EDITOR: Terry Tufts ‘ Jay Toutenhoofd ‘ Layout Helen Tufts CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Hardware: Chris Otis Software———~---—--—-Rich McNeil f a Begimers—--—-—-——-Al Guthrie Education/Book Reviews—-Sheldra Horwitz SIG News————----——Ken Falter Graphics——-------Pat_ Richter Interesting. Bits—~—--—-Chris Tufts Labels——-———— - GENERAL STAFF Leo Rogers, Bruce Baier. ‘Loren Avenson CLUB ADDRESSES o~ MEMBERSHIP, ETC.----. NIAUG 1271 Dundee Rd, ‘Buffalo Grove, I1, 60090 NEWSLETTER---------— Terry Tufts 1015°s Ridge Ave Arlington. Hts, tl, 312-392-7735 LIBRARIAN-~~-------—— Joe Zeinz . 305 Honeysuckle, Island Lake, I1, 60042 312-526-0575 BULLETIN BOARD------ 312-295-6926 24 hrs . SYSOP-Dave ‘ & Joel Alpert { SUBMITTING ARTICLES Handwritten articles are acceptable but articles on disk are preferred. Articles on a disk should use one of the following, word rocessors: Easywriter, Applewriter, PIE or gic Window. Use a 0 left margin and a line length of 47 characters for Easywriter and 41 for all others. Fill and right justify al text. Also supply a hard copy of the articli — for proof reading purposes. If your articlé_— includes _a program listing please submit it on disk unless you have a printer that uses carbon film ribbon. All disks will be returned at the meeting unless requested to do otherwise. ae: PAGE 3 THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 “MEMBERS AIDE The members listed below have volunteered to answer questions from club members who need a "HOTLINE" type answer that can be handled over the telephone. Please try to be brief as a courtesy to then. PLEASE NO CALLS at dinner time or after 10 m. ADDITIONAL VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED TO FILL OUT THIS MEMBER SERVICE. IF YOU FEEL QUALIFIED IN ONE OF THE SUBJECIS BELOW PLEASE CALL THE EDITOR TO HAVE YOUR NAME ADDED TO THE LIST. GENERAL Paul Stadfeld 312-359-0378 qieve Drucker’ 312-341-2124 A,I i i ae ? i MA,I Paul Stadfeld 312-359-2378 BULLETIN BOARDS Joel Alpert © 312-295-6078 Mabel Gy Iyle aioe ee WAI Esrl Allen 12-837 CORRAINLCATION PACKAGES & YOUENS/ TELECOM eis Een Nestle. 319-620-7748 Hayes Micromoden Joel Alpert 312-295-6078 AL, EE cel je oe ony Antonucci Siz sie 8686,’280 Assenbler Tony Antonucci 312-280-8436 Pec eS ee Joel Alpert 312-295-6078 é ns ie ac taoden - ‘Anboruced 312-282-8436 A,C,Cobol Toren Avenson 312-259-9433 zr, iy ftomect 3124 eee Fortran Join Kelley 4ld-S 7636 Visiterm 2 ? Pu ? : ee u 2 SPREADSHEETS HARD DISKS . Jan 2 2 Cane ‘Pave Drucker 312-541-219 Hota aosge *Pave Drucker 312-541-2124 *daytimes , Saytine tumber Walt Hopkins 815-459-1769 ogicate ter Clarke 312-545-0974 Corona “ a Tears a icht/Magi-calcish Stesnberg 312-677-878) Ceres ‘nereiibie Jak 312-398-188 Eesaiter Rich McNeil 312-986-0418 VisiCalc Joe Sobel 312-398-1836 : . ‘ VisiCalc Jay Toutenhoofd 312-359-1460 DATA BASES ‘dBase IT 2 2 OPERATING SYSTEMS DB Master Nox Rubin 312-674-709 Apple Dos Fim ore ci MoE BME Natalie Alberts 312-381-1530 py toy Atcmect 310-2 Data Factory Ken Falter, = 12g Bes = UCSD P-System *ave Drucker 312-541-2124 intngster ? a 2 586-0 ‘*daytime number ist Hander PRINTERS Veiie i Sor etx Ry HSER PES Dehinten 312-998-8742 o Dot Fatrus Bch eked = 312-685-0048 Diablo Peter Clarke 312-540-0974 EDUCATION SOFIWARE Jim Bradshaw 312-881-7000 HSB Tony dnt tonuce’, 313-289-8496 anes 9 nex 823 Bob Steiberg 312-617-8787 GRAPHICS Paul Stadfeld 312-359-7378 patter Rich Landen 3a bao BAUME jim Murphy 33? Okidata Peter Clarke 312-545-0974 8" disk Drives Tony Anbobuced 312-282-8436 ‘Dave Drucker 312-541-2124 ACCOUNTING ‘daytime number ee ee om Gris} 4 “y Time is Bob St 312-677-8787 ‘Rasy Writer Terry Tufts 313-577-781 pe is Yoney eb Steinbers, a oriais, © Apple Writer 1 Ken Falter raraths daytime Format a Bob Steinberg Heo 8187 ame Thaphestt BOS Aeeonbler Teteer Berfect Visicalc Magic Window age haa 09 TNWESIENT Jolm Hoffmam 312-998-0164 --«‘Seveesliriter IT Rich McNeil 333-986-0346 INVESTMENT Sim Bradshaw 312-881-7000 gy rtext TL Yom Grisko 3227-0927 Apple Pie/PIE Writerfalt Hopkins 815-450-1769 Sates g (neeger Beaks @ascal, Voritar "Peter Clarke © S12-545-0974 312-882-7938 £31e AI "Rosana 312-882-7938 Tony Antonucci. 312-282-8436 GENERAL BUSINESS Schulz 312-968-6927 Stats Plus Ken Falter 312-259-6474 PAGE 4 THE HARVEST EDITORIAL by Terry Tufts Well it been a very busy month. Weve produced a 44 page LIBRARY INDEX (1200 copies), 8 page NIAUG INFORMATION PACK (4000 copies), May Harvest, 40 pages (800 copies), and postcards (800 copies). Its getting so the printer rubs his hands together every time he sees me. As part of NIAUG’s public relations program we made a mailing to all the surounding public libraries offering to supply Harvests to them if they agreed to make them available for their borrowers. So far we have received positive responses from over half of the 48 libraries contacted. HARVEST CELEBRATES FIFTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION This is the fifth year of Harvest’s publication. Many people have come and gone since the Northern Illinois Apple Users group was founded but many of the original shakers and movers are still active. We thought it would be very interesting for you to see the original issue and some along the way. We are proud of the growth of The Harvest and perhaps you might recognize some of the contributors that have helped to make it what it is today. USERFEST . We had a very good response at the Userfest to the booth. We gave out about 1800 copies of our Information Pack. I spent some time in the NIAUG booth and was impressed by the number of people who dropped by. A very strong thanks to all the people who manned the booth. I hardly recognized most of them as I didn*t expect them to be all in incognito. I’m use to seeing them in their go to NIAUG formal bum look and was very impressed to see them in their best "Sunday-go-to-meeting" duds. A special thanks to Chris Otis for all his efforts. The booth looked very professional and the organization to make sure the booth was always manned was superb. The booth was a major attempt to increase our membership size and the corresponding benefits to all the members. We have kicked around a number of new ideas that we think you may like. You will see some of these in the Pres Says column. We need your comments so lets hear them. JUNE, 1984 SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS As some of you may have noted our SIGS have been losing a bit of momentum due to some of the SIG Chairpeople having other activities competing for their time. I’m pleased to tell you that we have had several new people want to get some SIGS started. We have announced the MAC SIG, and hope to announce a Hardware SIG shortly. There must be enough people out there for a Lisa SIG. How about it? We have a large number of teenagers in the group and can’t believe that they can’t form a group. If any one has a subject that they would like to pursue with a group of like minded individuals speak up and form a group. These groups don’t have to be permanent and can exist to explore a program, a language, an operating system, a piece of hardware or whatever. If you have an interest , form a group and leverage your time by sharing your knowledge, ignorance etc. with other like minded individuals. ERRORS AND OMMISSIONS We ran an Article entitled "Open Comments on Peter Mc Williams in the Tribune" in last months Harvest. The writer did not get any credit. We apologize to George Mc Clarity for omitting his name. AN APPEAL FOR INFORMATION The Harvest is always looking for interest ing information and articles. It strikes me that those of you on the HOT LINE answer questions that are of general interest. We would appreciate it if you would tell us about the questions you are asked and the answers you give. Also we would like your comments and suggestions on topics that you would like to see in the Harvest as we are a little too close to have true objectivity. Either send me a note or give me a call. cig: PAGE 5 THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 Northwest Suburban Apple Users Growp VOL. 1, NO. 1 JUNE, 1979 - NSAUG NEWSLETTER SR ER KIER II RII AIA III SISAIR RII ISAT INIT AISA. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT RANDY PETERSON of APPLE'S applica- tions department will be guest speaker at our June 2nd meeting. He is in town in conjunction with the CES and has graciously accepted our invitation to appear at our meeting. Bring questions. + et ee ee Oe +e ee Oe ERR KI IKRE III IRI RI III IIIA IAI IAI AAI SA IIA IRI. An editorial on this, our first newsletter. First, let me introduce myself as an APPLE II user. I purchased my computer because my TI-59 got me interested in the power of programming and computing. I needed something with unlimited memory (don't we a}1), custom programability and temporary (T. V.) or permanent copy. Welt. 32K and a tape recorder were an excellent start; however, quickly discovering that string storage on tape and the fleeting display on a T. V. screen were not exactly what I had in mind, I bought a disc drive and printer. GOOD GRIEF! What possibilities this opened up. Then some late night Programming and a mass of data and “Look at this:". Alright, now I knew what my utility payments for the house Icuked like for the past eight years. What's the current upkeep on the auto? Well, let me drop in this other disc and push and....... After a year of debugging and data punching I'm just getting to the. finess of programming, but believe you me, from some of the club meetings, I realize that I am only a "hacker" (duffer, or whatever). So here I (we) am to the initial club newsletter. editorial continues on page two PAGE 6 ‘THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 EDITORIAL (cont' ) El Presidente, Ken Rose, opened the May meeting with a question to the membership about having a newsletter at all. Well, yours truly has been Saying to himself- "You're not going to get to all the meetings. Why join 1f you don't know what's going on?" So naturally, as soon as the subject came up, up went my hand and here we are. A-newsletter can not (nor should) contain every word said at a meet- ing. My intentions are to outline the Programs so you may get in touch with the speaker for a more indepth discussion of the Subject. Nothing. Let me repeat that, NOTHING, will ever take the place of your actual attendance. At every meeting I have seen someones eyes light up at an obscure statement and on more bit (or byte) falls into place. If you are like me, everytime I come home from a meeting, out comes the APPLE from the bin and "Now, what did he say? Peek or Poke...... ae Let's look to the future for a moment. In the following issues we hope to update basic information about the club, new members, new Programs, good-bad or indifferent hardware and software. We will make the public- ation fit a three ring binder so you may keep up to date files on NSAUG and be an activeparticipant in all phases. Your officers and Program chair- men realize that everyones’ interest differs (I'm not a ganestar} and they need your input to keep our meetings meaningful to everyone. I am sure you are aware that the NSAUG will be only as good as the support of the membership allows through the coming centuries. Now I want to make an appeal to you. Not the person next to you or any other person. YOU: I cannot attend every meeting. I need an assistant. This is the first time I have ever attempted to put together a newsletter so believe me, I need all the help I can get. Someone said, "Experience is the best teacher." I'm certainly going to learn a lot doing this news- letter. Why don't you join me and we'll learn together. From now on I won't be so verbose and I thank you for bearing with me. Now, how does that go-"Hold your nose and jump feet first,” er, "Hold your feet and fall face down"? Don Fuller, Editor PAGE 7 CLUB NEWS Copies of the proposed club cons- titution will be handed out at the June 2nd. meeting. The constitution will be voted on at the July meeting Elections for vacant offices will be held at the July meeting. Nominations will be accepted at that time. MINUTES The May meeting was called to order at 12:92 noon by President Ken Rose. Attendence was 36. John Russ gave an excellent discussion of how to make a joystick. Handouts were made available to attendees. Some are still available. Ask John. They may be in Chinese by the time you get this. Earl Allen, alias Peeking Earl, gave an interesting talk on Peeks, Pokes and Calls. Handouts will be forthcoming. Goodie Corner reported that DOS 3.2 is out. Current cost is $599. That includes a ‘drive as well. Discs and manuals will be out s@on at about $2@ per set. Also reviewed and recommended were SCREEN MACHINE($9.95), a HIRES Character builder and DAN'S DISC UTILITY package ($39.95) which does some nice things like single disc copy and expurge bos. Mike Robins held a Question and Answer per- iod in which questions were asked and answers were given. Skip Neiburger gave a treasurers report. The club treasury has $375.44. The next meeting was set for noon Saturday June 2, at the Palatine Park District club- house THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 July Agenda 11:39-12:09 Greeting new members 12:9P-12:3— Discussion of Const- itution 12:3f- 1:98 Voting on Constitution 1:PP- 1:30 Nomination and Election of vacant offices 1:3P- 2:69 Goodie Corner 2:PP- 2:30 Question and Answers: Mike Robbins (may also include discussion of DOS 3.2 manual and ins- tructions 2:39- 3:99 Closing remarks Current Club Officers President: Ken Rose Vice President: Vacant Librarian/Secretary: Skip Neiburger Treasurer: Vacant(Skip temporarily) Newsletter Editor: Don Fuller Newsletter Publisher: Dave Alpert Club mailing address: 65 Pompano Lane Palatine, 11. 69956 Phone: 312-359-6723 You will notice that there is no logo on the front page of our Newsletter. Also, we have titled this "Newsletter". Both of these problems need your help. Therefore, we are conducting the Great Logo Hunt and The Great Newsletter Title Hunt. Due to the limited budget of the club the prizes we will be awarding will be modest(see problem cor- ner). First prize for each of these two con- tests will be free membership in NSAUG from January 1979 til June 1979 not retroactive. Second prize will be halve of the above. This newsletter is edited by Don Fuller and published by Dave Alpert. The aforementioned are not liable for accuracy of contents in- asmuchas neither types well or spels rite. PAGE 8 THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 PUZZLE PALACE: *48:8 Ist prize: One old DOS manual . 2nd prize: Two old DOS manuals When do you use? This column will appear as often as there is-material to print. Your contrib- utations are solicitated. SOFTWARE COMMENTS If you have just purchased an inter- esting program or seen one printed ina Magazine or newsletter, we would appreciate hearing your comments. Please submit your articles to Don Fuller,Editor. We were going to talk about an Apple- soft append and renumber program that appeared in MICRO 12, but the new DOS 3.2 *as a beautiful version making the MICRO se obsolete. HARDWARE COMMENTS Same as above. We need your experiences with different types of hardware. Does any- one have an Apple Clock (Mountain Hardware) that they would write about? WANT ADS Buy, Sell.or Swap your unneeded goods. This column will be available to members to use provided their ad pertains to computer rel- ated merchandise or services.-No charge of course. Send ads to Dave Alpert. 4 LISTING DOS ERRORS by Mike Rose Each DOS error messages’ character has been stored as its ASCII number between -22322(A$8CE) and -22144(A$98P). To retrieve this information using APPLESOFT, it is necessary to first convert each byte into a character. The program below lists each error and separates them with a comma. ] ® TEXT: CALL-936 1M CLEAR:REM RETURNS ALL VARIABLES TO 9 2P FOR A = 19349 TO 19623:REM STARTS LOOP 3) B = A - 32767:REM B = EACH CHARACTERS STARTING AND ENDING LOCATION 4) X = PEEK (B):REM X = LOCATIONS ASCII VALUE 5@ IF X > 95 THEN PRINT CHR$(X); ",": NEXT A:END:REM PRINTS A COMMA AFTER DATA 6@ PRINT CHR$(X);REM PRINTS ASCII CHARACTER FOR EACH LOCATION 7 NEXT:REM LOOP BACK 8p END REM when you write a program for the news- letter, please include as many REM's as possibie. This will help everyone under- stand what you already know. Fill In Article Or, my editorial. After I had the whole newsletter pasted together, I found this space empty. I decided to fill it with this. Short programs and subroutines that make life easier for us will be greatly appreciated. Besides helping the membership they will also help me in organizing a good looking newsletter. Cartoons and drawings will also be appreciated. Please -send all material to me at 889 Mellody, Lake Forest, 11. 69945. Thanks, Dave Alpert PAGE 9 THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 northwest suburben apple users group. JUNE 1980 THE HARVEST BSES est ses rest So SY BS % % FEATURE ARTICLE & s z SOSERETEATSTT LATS National Computer Conference Anaheim California 1980 by Michael L. Robins The N.C.C. was neld May 19-22 with a Personal Computer Festival occuring.on May 20-22. This article describes ay experiences at the N.C.C. I misht 25 well start with the Apple /// rroducts (yes this /// is correct)» as that is probably what most reorle want to hear about. As you wight have Knowny the Apple /// computer made its’ debut to dealers the week of May 12th. This dealer demo was designed to show the dealers a new product as well as inform the dealers of new marketing and business stratesies. APPLE was pushing the concerts of business machines and the concerts of selling @ packaged rroduct, sat is an Apple /// ? Some reople have told me it was a diskette used on the lansuase susten. (thats by the way was probably the most accurate descriptions considering the rumors that were running ramrant). The Arple /// is APPLE COMPUTERS new business computer. The brains of this new machine is 3 6502A wicrorrocessor (oreratins at 2 MHZ), This new processor will achieve a 1.7 times increase in orerating speed over the Arrie II. It will incorporate 94K of KAK (using 16K chirs)y and will be expandable to 128K (using 32K chips). Note? When 64K RAM chirs become avaiable at @ reasonable costs the Arrle /// can expand to 512K. Ils larse memory confisuration is achieved through the use of 3 new enory manadenent system develored by APPLE. The sustenm comes with 3 built-in 5S 1/4" disk drive (143K -storase /16 sector formatted) and ur to 3 additional drives way be daisy chained tosether using the built-in disk controller. Other hardware that comes built in includes 3 battery rowered clock/calenders a é-bil D to A converter for senerating high quality audio (also an external output Jack)» RS 232C port (for general purpose serial corgunication and full handshaking - it’s about tine)s SILENTYPE Printer port (used to interface wilh APPLEs new SILENTYPE Printer): 4 A to D inputs to sllow ansiod devices to be interfaced (Jousticks, etc.). Also included with the Apple /// is @ full upper/lower case keyboard including 2 13 key numeric rad. The Keyboard also includes en alrha-lock ley in addition to 3 shift key, futo-rereat is 3 feature on all keys. There is also four cursor control keys for easy curser movements as well as two “soft keys” that can be inderendently Programmed. For the people who find that they need to add additional features» the Apple /// has 4 expansion slots. Although the connectors have virtually the same rinouts as the Arrle IIy due to F.C.C. resulations concerning R.F.I (radio frequency interference) the Arle II cards will not be sold as Apple /// peripherals. There is 4k of ROM in the Apple /// . This is enough to do @ self diagnosis uron rower uF» Surrly the code for a boot fron the disks and enoush of a character set to erint any error essage needed. The rest of the operating sytem is all software including all keys on the seuboard. Althoush all new diskettes will be formatted with 16 sectory there will actually be 3 different patterns used with DOS »PASCAL: and SOS, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 PAGE 10 THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 HARVEST VOL. 1-NO. D-----1 FAGE 2 Fras; fAGl 2 fow for the best parts the srarhics and text disrlay, Included in the Arrle /// Fachsse are an 80 column X 24 line black and white text rage. You gay also have 40 column color on color text (16 foreground colors on 16 different background colors), In HIRES you can have ultrs HIKES black and white (540 dots X 192 dots) for srarhs and charts. In HIRES color (280 X 192) you nas have 16 colors or 16 shades of gray. Color can chanse on 40 dot boundaries. The video ouiFuis of the Arrle /// include black and white NTSC» color NTSC and color RGB (Redy Greens Elue) for hish resolution color. All video signals. along with all voltases are rrovided on 3 [li-15 connector on the rear on the unit. A separate R.F. modulstor 15 required for s stancerc Teievision Set. The Apple /// also has a new orerating sustem called "SOS" (rronounced sauce, which stands for Sorhisticaled Orerating Sustem.(S0S is suprosed to be similar to UNIX}, StS takes care of such things as interrurt control (all devices can be interrurt controiied, including the Keyboard), file manasement» CPU scheduling: device manasements and rencrs Banagenent. The features and benifits are as follows: ~ Controis system resource utilization and allocation. : - Provides a standard system interface for language and arrlicationy thus asking softwere Geveiorment easier and reducing program size. - Fiexibie file system provides efficient dats storase end sccess. - Powerful utilities provide compact arrlication access to all of Arrle ///’s advanced carabalities. - Allows custom configuration, - Desisned for easy expansion, - Isolates user from the sustem functions. - Provides comson software interface. -_ If you think that all of these features described above will make the Arrle /// inconratanle with the Aprle II softwares don’t worrs, APPLE wasn’t that sills to isnore all the software development that hes gone into Arrle II. Thes have also designed a software Fachase which is an @rrle II emulator, The software? when running: will make on Apple /// computer looh like a 45h Apple II to the user, The emulator is carsble of running Inteser or Arrlesoft Frosrans, tore feature of the Arrle /// include a new business BASIC. This (interrretive) BASIC includes things such asi - Powerful formatting capabilities (PRINT USING) - Longer nawes for variables - Long Inteser (19-disit) Arithmetic - Suprorts advanced program structure ( IF-THEN-ELSE ) - Utilizes the full rower of SOS for filesr peripherals» and srarhics. ther languages that will be availble include PASCAL? and FORTRAN These languages can be sioved trom the Apple II to the Arrle /// and all you'll have to do is to recomrile them to get the full carablities of SOS, What wisht you ask is this whole thins soins to cost? It should be noted that AFPLE is now trying to sell their computers as a rackaded configuration for business user so shown below is one of their packaging schenes. Aprile /// 12" Monitor a VISICALC /// , Hail Manasnent Packase 1 disk drive (built-in) 80S CONTINUEL ON PAGE 3 PAGE 11 THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 . a a ee, FROM PAGE 2 HARVEST VOL. 1-NO. D-----PAGE 3 This will cost about $4340.00. APPLE will also be releasing 3 word processing Package for the ferie /// during the 4th quarter of this year. This cost may seem a little high but considering that this is a business system utilizing new technology: and enhanceentss and not a hobbyist aschine it’s probably priced right. At this prices I think that the Arrle /// is a surer aschine for business use. APPLE will be shirrins a demo unit to its dealers next month. When all dealers have their demose then they will start shirring in quantities for sales. It will probably take 3 few sonths before we see real production quantities» and enough to meet the expected demand, By the way -- APPLE will not be letting us Apple II owners down. Thes plan to keer supporting the Arple II for at least 5S more years so we don’t have to go out and buy an Arrle /// risht away, APPLE will be releasing sone new products for the Apple II. BOS 3.3 is 3 new product that APPLE will be releasing in June or July. The basic diffenence between 3.2.1 and 3.3 will be that DOS 3.3 will be @ 16 sector DOS that will increase the disk capacity to 143K (like Pascel)» instead of the current 116K. As well as increasins the disk capacity they will also be fixing many of the buss that existed in the previous versions of DOS, Included in this new package will be 3 new DOS manuals the diskette itself, and new PS and Fé chips that enable the disk drive to handle the new format. These chirs are inserted on the disk controller board and allow it to boot the new 16 sector format as well as be downward conratiole to the 13 sector format. Also included in the rackase vill be 3 new single disk copy rrosran as well 3s 3 program to allow the transfer of any file from one disk to another (text files included), There will also be a conversion prodram that will allow utilization of old 13 sector formatted diskettes. The cost of this packade will be $60.00. APPLE talked about 2 new release of PASCAL for the Arple II as well as a release of 3 subset of v™\the new business basic for the Apple II. If you have the extended warranty from the Apples you will get the new release free. If you don’t then the new release will cost you. OTHER PRODUCTS SHOWN AT THE NCC WERE: INTEGRAL DATA SYSTEMS I.D.S, showed their new member to the Paper Tiger familys The Paper Tiger 460. Features include? - Proportional Spacing - Horizontal and Vertical Tabbing -~ Staggered 9 wire head Bi-directional printing Selectable justification of text Approaches letter auality Six or 8 lines/inch spacing Prints multipart foras (ur to 6) Serial or Parallel interface ” Coapatable with 4406 control codes Lons life catridge ribbon $1295.00 + $99.00 graphics option which also includes a 2K buffer. Qn the outside it locks like 440 with @ couple of extra buttons. On the inside it has a ‘different print head and @ different ribbon. It should be available late summer or early fall. CONTINUED OK PAGE 4 PAGE 12 THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 a rete BP I LP FROM PAGE 3 HARVEST VOL. 1-NO. D-----PAGE 4 OKIDATA oo GKIBATA printer 8300 - Approaches letter auality Utilizies 3 24 wire print head - Pica or Elite fonts - Uses block hires - Is in the $1000.00 range This printer should be released early next year. Okidata also showed the u8ly u82s and u83 printers. Features of the u82 are? - 80 column printing - 7 wire print head - Bi-directional printing - 80crs ~ Block graphics carability - 9X7 characters 5910916.5 cri Expanded print Features of the u83 are? - 136 coluan printer ~ Block graphics capability - 7 wire print head (9 X 7 characters) ~ Bi-directional printing - 120 crs - 5910 characters rer inch ~ Expanded character set Ghidats released 2 new product that allows HIRES duars from the Aprle II and utilizes the u80 printer. You can duap the entire HIRES screens duar a rortion of the screeny choose from inverse cr normals and choose from six ricture sizes. They are also selling the Oki-Adapter which by the insertion of a@ single Jumper will allow software control over text and graphics. The corbined package will sell for $74.95 complete with installation and orerating instructions. ANADEX fnadex was showing their DP-9500 & 9501 Alrhanumeric/Grarhic printers. Features include? SerialParallelrvor Current Loor Centronics Flug compatible connector 9 wire print head 150 to 250 crs Expanded print Tor of form control True underline capability 11%999X9r7x9 character fonts with true descenders CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 Parer entry through bottom or rear ae PAGE 13 THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 FROM PAGE 4 HARVEST VOL. 1-ND. D-----PAGE 5 /P"SNTRONICS fodel 737 Features include? - 10 and 16.7 characters per’ inch - Proportional spacing - Condensed and elongated print WALIBU Malibu was adain showing their model 165 printer Features include: - 165 crs dot satrix sreed - 90 ces letter quality sreed Full graphics Bi-directional printing Expanded rrintrtrue lower case descenderss and underlining Graphics printing with 60X72 dots/inch Programmable character sets Apple Interface with! 3 fonts supplied on the card Multiple pitches Proportional spacing HIRES sraphics duap Expanded print Compatible with al] languages (Integers Arrlesoft, and Pascal) LoBO Lobo showed the new ST 500 (3.2 M Bytes of storage on an 5 1/4" hard disk) $4295.00. It should be available in the fall. The Lobo Drive utilizing the SA 1000 Hard Disk drive (5 M Bute) should be available in July. COMPUCOLOR Compucolor showed @ word processing system in color. The colors are used for underlining and text aoves. wEC HEC comruter PC 8001 Souls sell for about $995.00 (32K) and probably will compete directly with the Arele II and . pefeatures include? 4 color srpahics 160 X 100 resolutions - RGB aonitor for $1200.00 CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 Green phosphor Sabout $250.00 PAGE 14 THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 FROM PACE 5 HARVEST VOL. 1-NO. D~----PAGE 6 - Runs CP/M - Z-80 (4-HHZ) wicroproccesor . - Composite video monitor $450.- $500. - 407807 or 72 X 24 or 22 lines - CORVUS inteface available for hard drive - Two 5 1/4" drives with their own Z-80 controller COMPRINT COMPRINT showed @ new graphicsa option for their printer. MOUNTAIN HARDWARE MUSIC SYSTEM Features include - 16 voice Digital Synthesizer Stereo Outrut Computer Siaulation of real instrument sounds Polyphonic - chords and seauences Fully programmable waveformsenvelopesaaplitude for all 16 voices Graphics input of sheet susic using standard ausic notation On board interrupts - Print-out of sheet music with a graphics printer - Lishtren capability - Uses its own operating system SOFTWARE WILL INCLUDE Graphical music editor Entry will be bs lishtrens paddless or keyboard HIRES representation of actual sheet ausic Instrument definitions - preprogrammed waveforms and timbres sinulating real instruments HIRES animated music on screen while pusic Plays Synchronization pulses to control other prosrans which say operate in foreground while ausic plays in background The Music System will come with presets for trumpet, pisnos harpsichords elcr as well as with pre-entered songs for ismediate Play. The Music Systea was sodeled after a real music susnthesizer. The sustem contains 2 boards. One of these boards is the controller for the light pen and for interruptsy and the other is the actual pusic generation board. When the board supplies the interrupts it uses DHA to shorten processor time thereby making the board aore efficient. The price for the Music System is $545.00 and should be ready for delivery at the end of May. WOUNTAIN HARDWARE EXPANSION BOX - Duplicates Apple mother board ~ Has its own heavy duty power supply - Access is,through 2 simple poke command - Supports slot 0 ~ Approx $650.00 available in July Bill Inglish from Mountain Hardware said that he would be willing to come out to our meeting and talk to the sroup about the new products in the next couple of months, Wountain Hardware has also sade many iaprovenents to the Super-Talker to make it easier to use and have redesigned their software to compress data further to allow more disk storage. CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 t THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 PAGE 15 HARVEST VOL. 1-NO, D-----PAGE 7 paefRChi PAGE & Tf you have a version of the software from Mountain Hardware and you are interested in getting any of their new software vou may send in the criginal diskette and get the disk urdated for free, This article describes only @ small part of this countries largest coaruter conference, Over 90k people attended the show and 6 exhibit halls were needed to display all of the rroducts. Included vendor. Next year attends a5 it is worth the cost of admission. in this conference were exhibits from the lardest computer manufactures to the smallest This definately is the most iapressive of 211 the coaputer shows. . the NCC show will be held in Chicagor the week of May 4s and I sussest that all Bidder itecesiscs tise sis tts te cy : ¥ * x ‘ z bf * * % o- : s Got your attention!! The Club’s first contest is underway. In order to get your programs into the club library: we are giving vou the golden opportunity to WINs WIN» WIN! The rules are siaple? THREE CATAGORIES- 1) Games 2) Utilities 3) Everything and anything else PRIZES- $100 srand prize for best Program overall $ 50 prizes for best prosram in each category PLUS the next tor fivg winners in each category will receive 3 ‘BEST OF THE CONTEST’ diskette : z x % s CLUB CONTEST s * * % t ¥ x PRIZES! PRIZES! PRIZES! COMMENCES SERERSISASLL ATTEN TTR TTT: ADDITIONAL Prizes to be awarded as donated by local dealers ONLY one prize per contestant per categors although aultiple entries accerted Progrars will be Judged on originality, cleverness» usefulness and function. Progrars will becone part of the club librarussssseswith commercial rights reserved tc the author. Judsing will be done by the Program Chairman and two associates to be named. Any member in good standing (including the Program Chairaan) is elidible to participate. This contest Committee will present the prizes at the annual dinner scheduled for February 1981. Programs may be submitted at club meetingsy at ay house (650 Porpanos Palatine) or by mail (on disk or tape only) with media returned to the author--or by sodem. . DEADLINE is December 31» 1980 Ken Rose PAGE 16 THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 HARVEST VOL. 1-NO. D-----PACE 8 CLUB OFFICERS President! Don Full2r-------991-6868 Vice Presi Mike Rcbins------593-2709 Sect/Tres? Bil! Woelbeling--934-8631 Librarian! Mike Rose~------- 359-4306 Asst. Lib} ‘ulian Vassay Prog. Crat “en Rose NL State? Jim Nowak Club Addresses’ MEMBEPSHIPs etc--1136 E. Patten Palatines Il. 60067 HEMSLETTER- ------! Dave Alpert 880 Mellody Lake Forests Il. 60045 312-295-6078 SOURCES-TCA 540 HOBEHN 312-295-6926 BULLETIN BOARD---312-991-6245 daily « 38 available and sfter 10°30pm local tise NSAUG NEWSLETTER is published by the Northwest Suburban APPLE Users Group and edited by Dave Alpert. Contents may be reproduced by other APPLE clubs for their newsletters or bulletines except where specifically reserved by the author, Permission to copy these articles aay be obtained by writing the author through our editorial offices. Please indicate THE HARVEST 33 the source of any eaterial reproduced, Newsletter exchande is welcore. WEETING SCHEDULE Resular Meeting Sat. June 7 Sat. July 12 Sat. August 2% ttentative Officers meetings are held at the President’s hone on the Tuesday evening following the resularly scheduled aeeting starting at 7pm. Regular meetings -e held at the Schauabers Library: 100 Library Lanes Schaumberss Il. CLUB NEWS JUNE AGENDA 10300-10330 Opening Remarks Ken Rose 10330-11315 Denonstration of Data Factory-Stan Goldbers 11315-12300 The APPLE /// Slide Show 12300-12355 Report from the NCC Guestions and Answers Mike Robins Har lan-Felt 12355- 1200 President’s Report Bon Fuller THE PREZ SEZ Hats off and a bis round of applause to Pfeiffer and to Tom and Mary Roseman for ti offerings at the May meeting. Talent??? ‘NSAUG’ has sit!!! If you weren’t there and didn’t receive the handoutss see if someone will let you eke 2 copy ar see the Librarian to borrow a copy. This information should be in everyone's library. Jim’s discussion about pointers and his handout will come to be a classic. Ted and Wary’s updates to FILE CABINET are a sust for everyone who uses this versatile program. fn outstanding seeting...Thanks again The Schaumbers Library has been aquired for aeetings for the second half of the year. SOURCE users: After an exorbitant bill and 2 couple of letters to the Sourcer I have found cut---1. You may be building files unawares. ..2s If the system crashes while you are on or vou terminate abnoraaliys you will be charged for block storage. Solutions dragged out of Source versonnel are? 1, Check to see if you have file before signing off and scrub it if you don’t intend to pay storade., 2. Keer track | your time and billing charges (conrlain if y“™* bill is out of line). 3. If you termin abnormally or the system crashes get back as soon as possible and correct any goofs that say have been sade. (Use their toll-free number if necessary! ) Bon oo PAGE 17 SOFTWARE REVIEW THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 HARVEST VOL. 1-NO. D-----PAGE 9 BLACK AND WHITE OTHELLO P.T.T.S. by Don Fuller. Using 3 landuage card (read PASCAL) and have a BD. C. Hayes Micronodea? Want to use the soden without going into BASIC? Check out P.I.T.S (Pascal Interactive Terminal Software) by Perirherals Unlimitedy Inc. Features: RWransnit disk files to other sustens %Cors received data into merory then to disk aSimultaneous printing while connected (with printer attached) aVariable screen width Switchable 110 or 300 baud tleave and return program while connected Function Menu W-turas cory on F-turns copy off S-saves cory buffer to disk C-clears buffers does not change cory status P-togdles printer status on/off Q-ends programs Keep phone connection D-curlex togdle between half and full B-baud rate toggle between 110 and 300 ESC-sends escare character (for function senu User comments? Excellent program except...at this tines the user has to sanually input the nusber for dialing and there is no auto answer feature for the program to pick up the phone (if you are talking to someone and want to turn on the acoder). The ‘COPY’ feature is excellent! There is automatic warning if the buffer is about to overflow so that you can stop and save to disk pamithout losing dats. See the documentation for Imments on this. . Recommended. Since PASCAL is so easy to read and sodifys this program can be personslized for the end users desired features, , Price $34.95 bs J. F. Wilson Othello» as copyrighted in 1978 bs APPLE COMPUTER, is 23 fun game with stratesies at several levels of play. The program looks awful on a black and white TV set or sonitor. Te isprove the appearance aake these modifications: 80 COLOR= 7-PL87; (rest of line sase as before) 200 GR? COLOR=8: FOR N=4 TO 35: VLIN O» 39 AT Ni NEXT Ni COLOR = Si(rest of line sane as before) 530 (change) AS="WHITE BLACK " (the single spaces after each word are important) 580 the end of this line should reads IF N=O THEN A=AtiS IF N=7 THEN B=Bti’ NEXT VrH APPLE ORCHARD’S SHAPE DESIGNER THE " APPLE ORCHARD Voluae is No. 1 contains i Share Designer program on pases 40 through 45 To make it run a little better make thes: sodifications to the Asseabler: 630 NORMAL: TEXT 710 PRINT D$§ “BSAVE "§ SHAPESS"» AN SSTARTS" L" SSH-START The program as published used @ length o (SH-1)-START. That length omits the zero turnof for the last share in the table. It can fil your screen if you load it ur around $8000. WANT ADS APPLE II appointment book program frow clu seaber Guy Lule. Call 438-7941 evenings for aor -inforsation. Heuristics Speech Lab 20a-1. Almost neve used-$125-Dave Alpert 295-6078 fountain Hardware Romty Rom writer and two chir to progras-retail value $435-will sell for $350 Dave Alpert 295-6078 : Advertisers wanted. No charge to club members Send copy to editor for inclusion in next issue, PAGE 18 THE HARVEST JUNE, 1983 HARVEST VOL 1 Dear Daves : . ; Here’s* a short prosras vou aay want to include Es eee 470851 =~ in the next newsletter. It allows vou to modify ss one track on @ disk to continue the catalos. 470 CALL 768 = Wormally you are restricted to 84 filenames in 2 180 NEXT TS REM catalog butry after running this programs wou can 185 TOPE SofO1O8 POKE 3840250: POKE have 23S many as 181 files on the disk. I ran S33 REM LEAVE Last into this problem while trying to save sone reese SECTOR WITH NO LINK: spelling lists for a schools the disk was only 190) cay LINKS (090) half full but the directors track (track 17) was ie on 768 ‘tull so we Kept getting 2 disk full error. 900 REM MACHINE LANG. SUBROUTINE One aust use caution to specify a track that 905 FOR K = 768 TO 788% READ At POKE KrAS NEXT $ RETURN currently is not in use on the disk, Probably it would be best to Just INITilalize @ new disks Mle alee wept oeaercia eee tun this programy then save your files. Of 1aFloa ee oe ee eee course there are some good Disk Map prosrans co 25329181 18399 available that would do the trick as well. . Dear Tiny Keer up the good work on the Newsletter. ; I would like to thank you for your continued Sincerelys INPUT to The Harvest even thoush you have soved Tis 2 to Wichigan. If you Keep up the dood work in = submitting articles for the newsletters I will IST be able to Keer up the sood work setting it tosether each aonth. 1 REM ROUTINE TO SET UP CATALOG TO HOLD 181 FILENAMES. I understand that you and your missus have lant DISK MUST HAVE ONE TRACK opened Hartley Software to develore all soris of THAT IS ENTIRELY EHPTY. prograas. I also understand -that you have ~ 2 REM BY T. HARTLEY witten all sorts of educational programs that 3268 COACH LANE #20 work with your APPLE-SPELLER black box. Combined KENTWOOD, NI 49508 with your Skilldrills Srelling Testy Letter (616) 942-8987 Recognition and Word Family rrograss students 3. REM FEEL FREE TO DISTRIBUTE are able to advance quickly from one module to THIS PROGRAM the next. I think your concert of auditory inrut 100 INPUT "WHICH TRACK BO YOU WA and visual stiaulation is beneficial to keering NT TO USE? "STR . Student attention. These Programs should prove 110 GOSUB 9003 REM beneficial to students with access to an APPLE. S8S3REK SETS UP SHORT MACHINE LANGUAGE PROGRAM 120 CALL 450473 3333 REM READS VTOC 122 POKE 46067 + 4 & TReO% POKE 46068 + 4 & TRrO08 REM RESERVES SPECIFIED TRACK IN VTOc 125 CALL 45051% 3833 REM RESAVES vToc 150 POKE 47092913 POKE 470849173 POKE 47085912 $333 REM GET SET TO READ TRK 17» SECT 1 160 FOR T = 12 70.1 STEP - 18 $$ REA DO SAME FOR ALL SECT ORS IN EXTRA CATALOG TRACK Unfortunately: Harvest policy does not allow for advertising at this tiee. I will be glad to pass along this inforaation to any nember contacting se. I will also print your address in the newsletter in case anyone wants to set in touch with you. You address is! HARTLEY SOFTWARE 3268 Coach Lane . Kentwood Michigan 49508 isn’t it? I duess they could call -942- tuleet Uo you at 616-942-8987» Well Tam sorry about not being able to run an a, ad (I know you didn’t request to)s but I’11 do ev best to set the word around. Keer those programs comings Sincerelys Bave ‘THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 PAGE 19 INE, VOL. 2-HO. 10 THE HARVEST June 1981 IN THIS ISSUE Club Officers, Members Aide, Treasurer’s Report- - ------------ 2 Secretary’s Report, Joel Kurasch- - -- ------------------ 3 Pfutz Prints, Bill Pfutrenreuter- ~ ------------------- 4 WIAUG Library Notes, George Makas - - - ----------------- ~4 Prez Sez, Dave Alpert- -------------------------- 5 EssyWriter review, Marilyn & Joe Oven - - - ~ - Apple Throttle , J Schaffer, Santa Cruz Apple Users Group - - - - - - - - - 7 Using the Apple "Game" 1/0 Connector, John Russ- - - - - merce eee 8 ‘RIAUG SEC Report, Rob Stewart- = ---------------------! 10 Béitorial, Terry Tufts - - are Seen rete eee --------- 10 Unclassified Ads~ - --------- ee ee ee eee eee ee ee Ty Book Review rsecret Guide to Cowpurers™ VolI-- Max J. Nareff, Sante Cruz Apple Users Group - -------=--------------- A Stop-List, Jay Shaeffer, Santa Cruz Apple Users” Group- - - - ------ ll Serial ‘Commmicat ion Interface With the Apple, Conrad Sittler- - -"- - = -12 ‘Saart Terminal Programs, Barry Bayer = = ------=------+---14 so 158 THE HARVEST COMING MEETING DATES, June 19 July 17 August 14 IN THIS ISSUE Club Officers, Members Aide, Editorial, Terry Tufts Winners of 1982 NIAUG Program Contest: Phone List Improvements, Bill Osmer 1. “Pay Attention to Details, Rich Holt - Perusing the Periodicals, Marlys Newcome Program Listing: One-Time Pad Cipher System, Peter B. . Wizardry, Richard Hutton Unclassified Ads Serious Musical Applications of the Apple, George M. Weinert V- - - - - ~ 14 Poor Mans "Pacman", Peter B. Clarke: Hi-Fi Adapter & Game Port Adapter, Kenneth Kay Pumps Patches, a Best of Harvest Reprint, Mark Pump: A Text-Screen-to-Printer Dump Utility, Ed Evenson: Club News, Calendar: PAGE 21 THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 $2.50 VOL4-NO. 9 THE HARVEST JUNE/JULY 1983 A Review of Softerm, Larry Fox - --------- eee eee ee eee 3 A Review of SuperText Professional, Larry Fox- Perusing the Periodicals, Marylys Newcome APPLEsurance II, Terry Tufte- New Product Press Releases, Jay Toutenhoofd- Beagle Bros. Software, Guy Mc Neill It Seems to Me.., Barry D. Modem Commmication Programs, Rob Stewart- ---------------- 21 Software Reviews Jim glore-------------- eee ee 23 Program Contest, Jim Glore- ~ -------------- ee eee eee 24 Don’t Write Thet 1/0 Routine, Wayne Mitchell Screen Printers in One line , Bob Sander-Cederlof ------------ = 28 For Begimers Only, George McClarity PAGE 22 Pres Says... . The show went very well. It was not anywhere near as large as we were led to believe, but the number of people which attended was exceptional. The NIAUC booth staff handed out about 1°00 of the new NIAUG INFO PACKFTs. We are waiting for the results now All in all, the show was certainly worth the $10 price of .a 1 day ticket. I just feel sorry for the people who purchased 4 day passes. Our booth was very well done. and showed to all the attendees just what. a quality users group was like. Thanks to Chris Otis for his efforts with the booth, as well as coordinating the entire booth staff. Without Chris. we couldn’t have done it. Well, now that the SHW is behind us. on to new and exciting happenings. We are in the planning stages of the FTRST ANNUAL NTAUG PICNIC. We are looking at a Sunday in late Julv or early August for the outing. Details will be forthcomming in an interest/reservation letter. All member families are invited. You must show your membership card to obtain NIAUG supplied hot dogs or hamburgers. There may be a 1 or 2 dollar charge per person, we are looking into the costs and details. More later. The ANNUAL PROGRAM managed by the LIBRARY SIG. Thank you Joe Zeinz, and all of your people. I know you will enjoy the fun. Anyone interested in assisting with the APC, please contact Joe Zeinz. The officers are reviewing the proposed BY-LAWS for the UG. A final proposed set will be published in the JULY Harvest. Time will be set aside to ratify the BY-LAWS during the JULY 14, 1984 meeting. BE SURE TO ATTEND. some last minute Last month, due to shuffling in the Harvest paste up, 4 paragraph of my monthly column lost something, and I think it bears repeating. *#* START OF REPRINT *** THE HARVEST a a CONTEST will be JUNE, 1984 A number of members have suggested that NIAUG establish sub-groups to hold general meetings in other locations. IE:North Shore; Indiana; Southwest Suburban. All the officers, myself included, are interested in this prospect. I think that this concept should be looked at very closely. The UG has the necessary funds and cash flow to pay for additional major meeting facilities. Initially I see only 1 major and possibly insurmountable problem with this proposal. Who among you would be willing to coordinate the Sub-Group? The current volunteers have all we can do to manage 1 general meeting per month. We will continue to perform all the other duties but we must have a SUB-~GROUP COORDINATOR to arrange and plan the other general ‘meetings. One coordinator for each separate meeting location. Please step forward and volunteer. We can give you everything you will have to do, even supply you with the speakers for the meetings; only you will have to be the one to do the work. Figure about 4 hours per month outside of the monthly Planning Meeting, plus the time at the remote meeting. **k END OF REPRINT *** Over the next several months, we will be experimenting with new meeting formats. Let us know what you think. We will also be setting up a BIG BROTHER function for new members. You will be contacted to determine your willingness to be a BIG BROTHER. Give it a try. You probably would have wished for a big brother when you first joined. We want NIAUG to be a USERS GROUP, not a GROUP OF USERS. “USER” is a 4 letter word. Be a user, not a USER. Volunteer. Help make NIAUG something YOU can be proud of. Rob Stewart, CDP President PAGE 23 NIAUG RENEWAL QUESTIONS, by Joe Zeinz, CDP Club Librarian With the annual membership renewals, there were several requests and questions. Below are only a few of these in which I will try to answer. Q. Request more programs in the “Harvest''? A. This club is a volunteer organization and volunteers are the ones that supply the "Harvest" with programs and articles. So, if you have a favorite program share it with us. Also join the Library SIG and have a say in what goes into the NIAUG Disk Library. Q. Can documentation be improved on the NIAUG programs? A. These programs are from NIAUG members, the TAC and other user clubs. This is public domain software, which runs as is. I hope you as NIAUG members, will spend the extra time to document your programs so others can benefit from your efforts. This also reflects on the Club, so lets be proud of your work. Programs will have a more favorable response when it is sophisticated program which no one knows the capabilities, because of the lack of documentation. Q. Can disks from the library be made available for $3.50 or trade a blank disk plus $1.007 : A.The Library disks have always been available for $3.50 each. The club does not accept trades for blank disks because we will not be alble to control the quality of these disks. The club is currently using Verbatim double sided double density diskettes. These disks are guaranteed against recording media defects, so if a bad disk is encountered it can be replaced. Q. Can the contents of the IAC Disk of the month be published in the "Harvest"? A. The club tries to publish the Catalog lising of each new disk that is added the NIAUG Library. This does include the IAC disks, but only if the Librarian/Library SIG THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 deems it worthy of it. Q. Where is an index to the Paper Library and how does one gain access to it? A.The only Index currently available is Disk #37. You can scan the disk for the articles you wish to review. There is a NIAUG Reference Number for each article. then at the monthly meetings you give this number to the Paper Librarian. He/She will then loan the article to you until the next monthly meeting. The Paper Librarian along with the Library SIG is trying to update the index and also trying to come up with a better way to make this information accessible. Any suggestions? If you have any questions or comments about the club let us know. Search out the officers at the meetings, call the information number, or write us a letter. Program Contest by Joe Zeinz, CDP The 4th Annual NIAUG Program Contest is off and running. This year the contest will be sponsored by the Library SIG. Entries will be accepted at the meetings or by mail (NIAUG Program 60090). All entries will become part of the NIAUG Disk Library. Also all submissions to the library since the last contest are also eligible-only a submission form need be submitted. The Program Contest deadline for entries will be the October meeting. Prizes will be awared at the December meeting. Last year prices ranged from a Hayes Micromodem II to four disks from out very own Disk Library (a total of 21 prizes + 4 cash awards). There was also cash awards for the best program of each category. The contest entries will be judged by categories, depending on the submissions. We are planning for the following categories: Games, Business, Education, Utility and Graphics. Submissions should be on diskette or tape and include a written description of the program(s) and necessary instructions for their execution. If there is any required PAGE 24 hardware, this must be noted on the entry form. Programs will not be docked points for lack of instructions, but programs which bomb may incur the wrath of the judges, whose decisions will be final. Show us your latest efforts by submitting those programs, which could be a winner. You can’t win if you don’t enter. CAREER PLANNING???72? by Terry Tufts Have you decided on a new career path, have you decided to go back to work after raising a family or perhaps you wish to change your career? How can you get experience in these new endeavors or even better how can you make contacts in the various fields that interest you. Well read on and I will reveal the secret. Many people realize that they have to have to . have prior experience in a particular field to. have an edge when competing for a job, especially if they are changing fields. They also know that knowing someone in a decision making position or having a contact is also very important. Well the task is to find out how to get this all important experience and to make these contacts. Well it is quite easy. Lets look one method. Suppose you have chosen to get into public relations. You think you have an outgoing personality and are a good communicator and would like a non threatening way to prove that you can handle such a job. You have no previous experience but you are sure that you could handle such a task. Who would you go to for such a chance if you have no contacts and “mo rich uncle to take a chance on you? THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 Well the answer is right before your eyes. Talk to your NIAUG officers. The pay is very small but the experience is as good as you can get anywhere. You will have a chance fo try out your own ideas, exercise your own judgement with as little risk as it is possible to have. After all if you get fired you don“t have to put it on your resume (besides who has ever heard of getting fired from a volunteer job). You will have the club officers behind you and some of the clubs resources to experiment with. With this kind of arrangement you will have a hard time failing and you will get a good chance to see if your talents match your interests. Along the line you will make contacts with real live money making businesses and be able to realize oportunities that you didn’t know exist. You can do this all on your own time without compromising your present position. Who could ask for a more fool proof plan? Matter of fact, look at any of the more advanced books in career planning and job hunting and you will see this is exactly what they recommend. Well I have revealed the secret, its up to you to develop your plan and put it into action. If you are interested in a career in education, computers, writing, advertising, public relations, sales, public speaking and many others give your executive a call and tell us about your goals and we will give you activities that will develop your talents and give you concrete experience. We are an equal opportunity group and will give anyone a valuable chance to develop their career goals no matter if you are a student, someone in a dead end job or a housewife planning to go back to the job market. Think about it. The method is proven, all it takes is a little of your initiative. oN o~ PAGE 25 THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 Reprinted from the “SCARLET LETTER" February 1984 newsletter of the Big Red Apple Club, Norfolk, Nebraska. VECTORS & POINTERS by David Burroughs $cooo For the hearty souls who wish to "“POKE" around in the old Apple to really unleash some new power, save some programing time, or just amaze less experienced Apple owners with some sneaky new program, here are a few handy location I have found in the Apple. **NOTE** The labels are compiled from several sources including my own program usage so may differ from other more established sources. LOCATION LABEL EXAMPLE OF USE HEX DECIMAL 20 32 WNDLFT Sets left column of text window. Try putting labels on left, then set WNDLFT to the right of longest label. They will stay in place until WNDLFT is reset to 0. 21 33 WNDWOTH Width of text window. 1 to 40 from Applesoft. Poke 33,33 makes editing Applesoft much easier. Poke 33,79 gives you 80 column listings in Integer Basic. Warning- over 40 will destroy an Applesoft program in its natural location. 22 34 WNOTOP Top line of text window. Use one or more lines of headers then change WNDTOP down. The headers will stay up there undisturbed. 25 37 cv Cursor Vertical position. Poke then Call to VTAB in Applesoft interpretter. 30 48 COLOR POKE 48,(COLOR NUMBER)*17 4A,4B 74,75 LOMEM LOMEM for Integer Basic only 4c,40 76,77 ~HIMEM HIMEM for Integer Basic only 4£,4F 78,79 RNDL,RNDH A 16 bit random number field available for PEEKING 67,68 103 PRGML These are Applesoft program start locations. 104 PRGMH POKE before loading to relocate an program. If your program tends to run into Hires Page 1 use a short loader program to put the main one above Hires! POKE 104, 96 makes next program load starting at $6000. Lots of room up there. 73,74 115,116 HIMEM Applesoft HIMEM PAGE 26 THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 75,76 117,118 LINE# Current line number of Applesoft on AF BO 175 PENOL End of Applesoft program. Poke with larger 176 PENDH number to let shape tables, graphics page, or - machine language program just tag along behind a Applesoft program during SAVE and LOAD. CA,CB* 202 PGMIL Integer Basic program start pointer 203 PGMIH CC,cD 204 PENDIL Integer Basic program end pointer 205 PENDIH 08 216 ERRFLG Once an ONERR GOTO has be executed this flag is set to a high value. Poke with less than 128 to turn it off, over 128 turns back on. DA,DB 218 ERRLNL If error occurs during Basic program run the line 219 ERRLNH causing the error is stored here. (PEEK (219)*256)+(PEEK (218)) yields line number DE 222 ERRCODE Code for type of error that occurred stored here PEEK (222) yields code below: O NEXT without FOR 1 LANGUAGE NOT AVAILABLE 2 OR 3 RANGE ERROR o 4 WRITE PROTECTED DISK 5 END OF DATA 6 FILE NOT FOUND 7 VOLUME MISMATCH 8 1/0 ERROR 9 DISK FULL 10 FILE LOCKED 11 SYNTAX ERROR(DOS COMMAND) 12 NO BUFFERS AVAILABLE 14 PROGRAM TO LARGE 13 FILE TYPE MISMATCH 15 NOT DIRECT COMMAND 16 SYNTAX ERROR (APPLESOFT) 22 RETURN WITHOUT GOSUB 42 OUT OF DATA 53 ILLEGAL QUANTITY 69 OVERFLOW 77 OUT OF MEMORY 90 UNDEFINED STATEMENT (BAD BRANCH ERR) 107 BAD SUBSCRIPT 120 REDIMENSIONED ARRAY 133 DIVISION BY ZERO ERROR 163 TYPE MISMATCH 176 STRING TOO LONG 191 FORMULA TO COMPLEX =~ 224 UNDEFINED FUNCTION 254 BAD RESPONSE TO AN INPUT 255 BREAK (CONTROL -C HAS BEEN STRUCK) PAGE 27 THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 LOCATION LABEL EXAMPLE OF USE HEX DECIMAL 300 976 DOSENTRY Contains a JMP to DOS warmstart. Does not dis- card the Basic program or any DOS variables 303 979 DOSCOLD UMP to DOS coldstart. Clears and resets every- thing. 306 982 FMNGLOC UMP to DOS file manager subroutine 309 985 RWTSLOC UMP to DOS RWTS subroutine 30C 988 IPFMGRLOC Subroutine that locates Input Parameter List to allow user to set up before call to file manager. 3E3 990 IPRWTSLOC Subroutine to locate and set up Input Parameter list for a RWTS call. 3EA 1002 INCPTSCON JMP to reconnect DOS intercepts to keyboard and screen data streams 3EF 1007 BRKVLOC JMP to location that handles BRK instruction. 3F2 1010 RSTVL LO/HI byte pair to handle reset vector. This is 1011 RSTVH the locations to change to get programs like Magic Window that you can't reset out of or many other possibilities such as reset to reboot. 3F4 1012 PWRUPV Flag for power up. Contains a exclusive or com- ‘ pliment of reset address with $A5. This is to check on reset for power up. If you change the reset vectors then take the value you placed in $3F3 (1011) and Exclusive or with $A5 then store the result in $3F4. 3F5 1013 &HNDLR JMP to ampersand handler routine. 3F8 1016 CTRL-YHNDLR UMP to the monitor's Control-Y handler. 3FB 1019 NMIHNDLR JMP to non-maskable interrupt handler. 3FE 1022 NMIVL LO/HI byte vector pair for JMP when NMI occurs. 1023. NMIVH o- C055 -16299 PAGE2 Selects page 2 (text or graphics) - c054 -16300 PAGE1 Selects page 1 (text or graphics) : PAGE 28 ‘THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 a a a TE, C053 -16301 GP/TXT Selects text and graphics mix ( 4 lines text at bottom of graphics page.) co52 -16302 GPFS Selects full screen graphics C051 -16303 TXT Selects text mode. Either page ‘ C050 -16304 GR Selects graphics mode (HIRES or LORES) C056 -16298 LORES Selects LORES (still needs GR also) C057 -16297 HIRES Selects HIRES (still needs GR also) C058 -16296 ANO-0 Turns Annunciator 0 off C059 -16295 ANO-1 Turns Annunciator 0 on CO5A -16294 AN1-0 Turns Annunciator 1 off C05B -16293 AN1-1 Turns Annunciator 1 on cose -16292 AN2-0 Turns Annunciator 2 off cosb -16291 AN2-1 Turns Annunciator 2 on COSE -16290 AN3-0 Turns Annunciator 3 off COSF -16289 AN3-1 Turns Annunciator 3 on C061 -16287 PBO Peek reads pushbutton - if pressed contains C062 -16286 PB1 over 127. If less than 127 pushbutton is not C063 -16285 PB2 being pressed c040 -16320 STROBE Strobe at pin 5 of Game control jack. A peek gives one one-half microsecond pulse. A poke will trigger the strobe twice. co00 -16384 KEYIN If over 128 a key has been pressed. (PEEK (-16384))-128=Key pressed. C010 -16368 KEYFLAG POKE (-16368),0 to reset keyboard flag. Must follow a peek to -16384 c020 -16352 CASSND Peek or Poke causes click at cassette jack. C030 -16336 SNDOUT Peek or Poke causes click at speaker jack. C060 -16288 CASIN Cassette data input C064 -16284 6CO Game control analog inputs (use a peek to these C065 -16283 GC1 locations similar to PDL (X) C066 -16282 GC2 C067 -16282 GC3 c070 -16272 CLEAR ANALOG CLEAR Resets all four Game Control input timers. PAGE 29 THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 Reprinted from the "SCARLET LETTER" March 1984 newsletter of the Big Red Apple Club, Norfolk, Nebraska. EXPLORING APPLE DOS PART IV - A TOUR OF DOS SUBROUTINES by David Burroughs In this final part we will take a tour through some of the main and useful subroutines in DOS 3.3. There are many opportunities for us to do some very helpful PEEKs, POKEs, and CALLs to DOS from our BASIC programs. Machine language programmers already use a lot of the resident DOS routines for efficient disk I/0. Before we get into DOS itself I am going to bring up one handy location just below OOS. That is the DOS buffer area. For machine language subroutines over 200 bytes in length (too large for the old standby location of $300), there is another "safe" place to tuck it out of the way. We can put it between DOS and its buffers. Load the routine in low memory and then move it up where the top of the routine is below start of DOS at $9000. Next change the buffer pointer at $9D00 to point below your routine, adding 38 extra bytes for the file name and link fields. Now do a DOS coldstart by way of page 3 vectors (3D3G, Return from monitor). DOS will not do its buffer work below your routine and since it is in DOS it is safe from your normal program. By the way, this seems to be a great opportunity to use a EXEC file to do all that housekeeping. **kNote*** I'1] mark places with asterisks that I find especially useful. C600-C65B First disk I/0,code executed during boot Sets everything up to read Trk 0 Sec 0 C65C-C6FA Reads Sector Headers C683-C6AS Handles Address Headers (locates correct sector). C6A6-C5FF Handles Sector Data and stores Boot 1 at $801 801-81E Set up to read Boot 2 and RWTS into its proper location. 81F-838 Set up to read correct sector and call ROM read sector routine (C65C). 839-8FF Set uo for and go to Boot 2 when Boot 1 is done. DOS 3.3 MAIN ROUTINES 9D00-9D0F Address Constants Table LOC. CONTENTS USE **** 9)00 9E81 .Address of first DOS buffer file name field 9D02 9EBD Address of DOS keyboard intercept 9004 AA75 Address of DOS video intercept 9006 AA93 Address of primary file name buffer 9008 9F51 Address of secondary file name buffer 9D0A AASO Address of LOAD range length parameter 9D0C 9D00 Address of DOS LOAD address - 9000 normally 9D0E BSBB: Address of file manager parameter list PAGE 30 THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 9D1E-9D54 COMMAND ADDRESS TABLE Loc. ADDR. COMMAND * LOC. ADDR. COMMAND 9D1E AS4F INIT 9D3A A298 APPEND 9020 A413 LOAD 9D3C A281 RENAME 9D22 A397 SAVE 9D3E AS6E CATALOG 9024 A4D1 RUN 9D40 A233 MON 9026 A4FO CHAIN 9042 A23D NOMON 9028 A263 DELETE 9044 A229 PR# 902A A271 ~~ LOCK 9046 A22E IN# 9p2c A275 UNLOCK 9048 A251 MAXFILES 9D2E A2EA CLOSE 9D4A AS7TA FP 9D30 A51B READ 9D4C AS9E INT 9D32 ASC6 EXEC 9D4E A331 BSAVE 9034 A410 WRITE 9D50 A35D BLOAD 9036 ASDD POSITION 9D52 A38E BRUN 9D38 A2A3 OPEN 9054 A27D VERIFY 9D56-9D61 Address vector table to entry points of Active BASIC. Each time the active BASIC version changes (i.e. you do an FP or INT) the appropriate vector address image is copied to here from below. : Loc. ENTRY VECTOR TO: 9D56 CHAIN entry 9058 RUN entry 9D5A Error handler 9D5C BASIC coldstart entry 9DSE BASIC warmstart entry 9060 ~— BASIC relocate LOCATION IMAGE CONTAINED 9D62-9D6B INTEGER BASIC VECTOR IMAGE 9D6C-9D77 ROM (and Language card) APPLESOFT IMAGE 9078-9083 RAM APPLESOFT IMAGE Likd 9D84-9DBE DOS coldstart entry routine +*% 9DBF-9DE9 DOS warmstart entry routine aE 9DEA-9E50 First entry point after boot. Does a number of chores including set MAXFILES, Set up DOS vectors in page ($3D0-$3FF) and run the HELLO program 9E42 Type of HELLO file- change to 34 to BRUN or 14 to EXEC if your HELLO file is not Applesoft or Integer. 9DE51-9E7F Page 3 vector image that above routine copies from. Do per- manent patches here and then INIT new disk. 9FCD-A179 DOS command parse routines. This a large collection of small routines to break down a command line, check its validity and CALL to A180 to process it. It's to big to go into and tricky to POKE around in. You're on your own with this one. A6C4-A6D4 Error message text. You can change them if you wish. A884-A908 DOS command table. Contains ASCII name for look-up of commands. weKK These can be customized by just changing. Notice the last character of each command is marked by offsetting it by $80. This is done by turning the MSB on. Adding 128 (decimal) is the same thing PAGE 31 THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 a ~~ A909-A940 Command keywords table. Holds a two byte ENTRY for each of the valid commands in the same order as command table. Change these around and you'll confuse everybody. This ENTRY indicates which of the keywords are legal with each command and if any thing else such as file names are expected. Each bit is a mask and if true means the following: Bit Meaning Bit Meaning 0 File name optional 8 C,I, & 0 legal 1 No operand required 9 V for Volume is legal 2 File name required 10 D for Drive is legal 3 File name #2 required 11 S for Slot is legal 4 S for Slot is required 12 L for length is legal 5 MAXFILES extender value reqd. 13 R for Record is legal 6 Non-Direct Command 14 B for Byte # legal 7 If file not found-create new 15 A for Address legal A941-A94A Keywords name table. List of keywords V,0,S,L,R,B,A,C,I,0 A94B-A954 Keyword flag bit position table for keywords above. A955-A970 Keyword value range table. Valid range in four bytes, 2 for minimum, 2 for maximum. In same order as table. C,I, and 0 ee have no range so aren't listed. Change A964 from 7F to FF (increase from 32767 to 65535) to get rid of the RANGE ERROR when trying to BSAVE long files. A971-AA3E Error message text table for all 15 DOS error codes. You can change them to your hearts content but if you make any one o-~ aininias longer then see offset table below. Don't over run the end of the original table in any case. AA3F-AA4F Error message offset table. Each message, listed in order, has a one byte offset from start of table to beginning of its text. If you change overall location in table above by making a command longer then realign offset index of all subsequent messages. AA4F-AA65 First DOS main variables table AA4F Current file buffer addr. AA63 = Scratch pad variable AAS1 Status Flags AA64 ~— Index of current Keyword AAS2 CSWL state number AA65 Keywords on command line AA53 Addr. of BASIC CSWL AA66 ~=Volume number AASS Addr. of Monitor KSWL AA68 = Drive number AAS7 MAXFILES value AA6A Slot number AAS9 Register save area AA6C Length of File AASD Command offset index AAGE Record AASE MON Flags AA70—s Byte AASF Index of last command AA72 Address of File AA60 Range length for LOAD/BLOAD AA74~—- MON value AA62 Pending command index kkk AA75-AA92 Primary file name buffer AA93-AABO Secondary file name buffer(used for rename) AAB1-AACO Second DOS Constants/Variable Table ~~ AABL MAXFILES default value (3) AAB6 Active BASIC Flag AAB2 CONTROL-D ($84) $00= Integer $40=ROM APSFT AAB3 + EXEC Active flag (00=no) $80= RAM APSFT (FLAGYO EXEC in progress) AAB7 RUN intercepted flag AAB4 EXEC file buffer addr. AAB8 = “APPLESOFT" ASCII PAGE 32 THE HARVEST JUNE, 1984 AAC1-AAC8. File Manager Constants table va AACI RWTS parameter list addr. (B7E8) AAC3 VTOC sector buffer address AACS Catalog sector buffer address AAC7 DOS last byte(+1) address AAC9-AAE4 File Manager function entry point table. There are 14 entry point addresses in OPCODE order. There are actually only 12 functions and each end of the table is marked with an exit point (B37F). (-1 offset) OPCODE ~ FUNC. ADDRESS OPCODE FUNC. ADDRESS 0 EXIT BE7F 7 LOCK ACEF 1 OPEN AB22 8 UNLOCK ACF6 2 CLOSE ACD6 9 RENAME AC40 3 READ AC58 A POSITION AD12 4 WRITE AC70 B INIT AE8SE 5 DELETE AD2B c VERIFY AD18 6 CATALOG AD98 D EXIT BE7F AAFD File Manager entry from page 3 ($3D6) ABO6 File Manager main entry point *ekx ADIB Start of catalog functions. You can alter several places here. : Some approximate location and purposes: ADA4 Number of lines per catalog page, then pause. Normally 22 ($16) lam AE17 Number of characters in catalog entry. Normally 30 ($1D) . AE22 dmp to carriage return subroutine. Jump to external counter subroutine and get more than one column of catalog entries. Two columns look nice on an 80 column screen or printer. When doing this consider that the other places you see JSR $2E2F are generally a skip a line (print C/R). You may wish to NOP some of them. AE34 Patch by changing to $60. This removes the pause between pages of a long catalog. B3EF Number of tracks on a disk. | 0 ke B600-BFFF TRACK 0 SECTOR 0 IMAGE FOR WRITE DURING INIT B8A2-B8B7 WRITE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY BUFFERS TO DISK B8DC-B99F READ A SECTOR ROUTINE B944-B99F READ ADDRESS FIELD Look for opening and closing address marks and change to access : some non-standard DOS disks. BC56-BCC3 WRITE ADDRESS FIELD DURING INIT. Roll you own custom DOS. BEAF-BFOC INIT ROUTINE-Close to end is a check on how many tracks to init. BFD3 ZERO LANGUAGE CARD DURING BOOT. Patch by entering from monitor BFD3:EA EA EA then INIT new disk. Now warm doots won't reload language card. This is a limited list. If you desire a more detailed DOS map, send me a dollar for reproduction costs and an SASE. In researching and writing this article it was hard to reduce it to even this size. I still have a copy of the larger one with less often jam used (but important routines) for the daring Peekers and Pokers. Dave Burroughs, PSC2 Box 15361, APO San Francisco, 96367 PAGE 33 ___THE HARVEST JUNE 1984 a The 16 bit 6502 is FINALLY here !! = = — ~ submitted by George Wilkin The Western Design Center Inc of Mesa, Arizona has introduced a 16 bit 6502 compatiable microprocessor. There are two versions of this microprocessor. The W65SC816 is the full version of the chip which can address 16Meg. The W65SC802 is pin-for-pin compatible with the old 6502 and can only access 64K but is FULLY software compatible with the bigger version. The following information is directly out of the WDC W65SC816 data sheet. FEATURS: Advanced CMOS design for low Power consumption and increased noise immunity. Single +5 volt supply Emulation mode allows complete hardware and software compatibility with NMOS 6502 fon 24-bit address bus allows access to i6Mbytes of memory space Full 16-bit ALU, Accumulator, Stacp Pointer and Index Registers. Valid Data Address (VDA) and Valid Program Address (VPA) output allows dual cache and cycle steal DMA implementaion Vector Pull (VP\) output indicates when interrupt vectors are being addressed. - May be used to implement vectored interrupt design. Separate program and data bank registers allow program segmentaion. New Direct Register allows "zero Page" addressing anywhere in the first 64K. 24 addressing modes.- 13 original 6502 modes, plus 11 new addressing modes New Wait for Interrupt (WAI) and Stop the Clock (STP) insturcions further reduce power consumption, decrease interrupt latency and allows synchronizaiton with external events. New Co-Processor instrucetion (COP) with associated vector supports co-processor configurations, i.e., floating point processors. New block move ability. PAGE 34 THE HARVEST JUNE 1984 W65SC816 Processor Programming Model tee ee eee +--: — eee eee ee poet eee ee fp et | Data Bank Reg | X Register hi | X Register lo | eee ee nt terre eee feeee-—— | 00 | Stack Ptr hi | Stack Ptr lo | ee weer eee a ++ - + a+ | Accumulator A | Accumulator B | peewee nnn enn pe + --— ——+ een + | Pom Bank Reg | Program Ctr Hi| Program Ctr Lo| ———=. a --+ tee ee eee 4------------ - $+ - et | 00 | Direct Reg Hi | Direct Reg Lo | + Emulation 1 = 6502 Carry 1 = true Zero 1 = result zero IRQ Disable 1 = disable Decimal Mode i = true Index reg sel 1 = 8 bit, 0O = 16 bit Memory Select 1 = 8 bit, 0 = 16 bit Overflow 1 = true Negative 1 = negative The new instructions are: (These were also on the CMOS version of the 6502) BRA Branch always PLX Pull X PLY Pull Y PHX Push X PHY Push Y STZ Store Zero TRB Test and reset bit TSB Test and set bit PAGE 35 THE HARVEST JUNE 1984 New Addressing modes: BIT immediate DEC accumulator direct indirect (No indexing) i.e. LDA (label) all 8 Group I instructions, LDA STA ADC SBC AND ORA EOR CMP Inc accumulator JMP Absolute Inexed Indirect UMP (lable,X) New to the W65SC816/w65SC802 Group I instuctions with new addressin modes. Direct indirect long indext with y (all 8 instuctions) Direct Indirect Long (all 8 insturctions) Absoulute Long and Absolute long indexed with X (all 8 instructions) Stack relative (all 8 instructions) Stack relative Indirect indexed Y (all 8 instructions) New push/pull instructions PEA Push effective absoulute address or immediate data word on stack oo PEI Push effective indirect address or direct daa word on stack PER Push effective Pgm Counter Relative Indirect address or pgm counter relative data word on stack 2LB Pull data bank register from stack PLD Pull direct register from stack PHB Push data bank register on stack PHD Push direct register on stack HK Push program bank register on stack Status register instructions REP Reset status bits defined by immediate byte i= reset bit O= do not change SEP Set status bits defined byt immediate byte 1= set bit O= do not change New register transger instructions TCD Transfer C accumultor to direct register D TDC Transfer Direct Register D to C Accumulator Tcs Transfer C accumulator to stack register TSC Transfer Stack register to Accumulator C TXY Transfer X to Y TYX Transfer Y to X XBA exchange B and A SCE Exchange carry bit with emulation bit E New branch jump and return instructions BRL Branch Relative Long Always (-32768 -> +32767) IML Jump indirect Long oMP Jump Absolute Long JSL Jump to subroutine Long (Requires RTL for return) RIL Return from subroutine Long PAGE 36 THE HARVEST JUNE 1984 New block move instructions MVN Move block from source (X reg) to destination (y reg) o~ block length of C X & Y are incremented MVP Move block from source (X reg) to destination (y reg) block length of C X & Y are decremented New Co-Processor instuction COP Co-Processor instruction with associated COP vector and Abort Input. New System Control Instructions STP Stop the clock instruction WAI Wait for Interrupt WDM reserved for future systems A NOP at present. You can get samples of this chip from WDC for $95.00 for a imhz version They expect to have 4mhz very soon and will eventually go up to 8mhz. The 8mhz version is benchmarked against most of the other popular 16-bit micros, and does very farvorably in a lot of the things they compared. o But I thing these comparisons were ‘picked’. They included Reg => mem moves, both 8/16 bits and 32 bits. { have one of these beauties orderd and will give more details after I have used it. If anyone has any specfic questions, feel free to ask, but I dont gurantee I know the answers since I dont have a chip yet... Keith Sproul Ksproul@Rutgers.Arpa PAGE 37 Interesting Bits \ by Chris Tufts Bantam Books will publish THE APPLE IIc BOOK, a paperback by Bill O’Brien, in conjunction with Apple Computer’s recent unveiling of the Apple IIc portable personal computer. Bantam will publish the book the week of June 18. THE APPLE IIc BOOK is written for new Apple IIc computer buyers and experienced apple users. The book will provide inside tips and information unavailable from any source, including the owner’s manual. It will answer users” questions about compatibility, will help them configure their new system, and will include information on DOS 3.3 and the newly-developed ProDOS. Special features of the book will include information on adding ~ peripherals such as mice, touchpads, graphic tablets and the new "flat screen," appraisals of leading and lesser-known recreational, business, educational and utility software packages, accessing bulletin boards and locating user support groups. The cost of the book is $12.95. Peripheral Visions Inc. has introduced Drum-Key, an electronic music interface board © and software package for use with stereos, electric instrument amplifiers, and the user’s Apple II series computers, that creates 28 real percussion sounds. Drum-Key uses digital recordings of 28 actual drum and percussion instruments including kick bass, snare, four different tom-toms, a variety of cymbals, cowbell, tambourine and six sounds made by conventional drum synthesizers. With Drum-Key, the user can compose, play, and record on disk all the percussions and riffs he or she can think of, plus play along with the 100 rhythm patterns and 26 songs built into Drum-Key. Some of the features of the program include multi-track recording, programmable audio and video metronome and real-time recording. Drum-Key has a suggested list price of $139, including postage and handling. To order directly by mail from PVI call toll free 1-800-441-1003 or write Peripherals Visions Inc., Great Valley Parkway, Malvern, PA 19355. _ Addison-Wesley Publishing Company has published an updated version of its software reference book, THE ADDISON-WESLEY BOOK OF APPLE SOFTWARE 1984 by Jeffrey Stanton, Robert Wells, Ph.D., Sandra Rochowansky and Michael Mellin, Ph.D. The book both lists and evaluates more than 600 of the most popular THE HARVEST JUNE 1984 software packages designed for the Apple Computers. A panel of experts assembled by the book’s editors has divided software into categories for business, education, entertainment, and utilities. The book also reviews hardware peripherals for Apple computers. Latest prices and performance features are given. Reviews of each software package include a description and letter grade (A-F) of the package’s features. The paperback book costs $19.95. Davka Corporation has released a computer cookbook: JEWISH COMPU-CHEF. The program features over 150 kosher recipes. Supplementary recipe disks give hundreds more recipes, covering specialties like Passover fare, international recipes (all kosher), traditional Sabbath and holiday cooking, and party food. COMPU-CHEF will search for recipes by ingredients, will print off recipes and will store recipes on disk. The user can add, change, or delete any recipe. Besides recipes, JEWISH COMPU-CHEF features a glossary, calorie and nutrition guide, table of measurements, and suggestions for ingredient substitutions, and automatically calculates ingredient amounts for different serving sizes. It requires no programming knowledge to operate and is available for . Apple II+/Ile/IIc computers ($39.95 for the two-sided master diskette of recipes; $12.00 each for supplements). Available from directly from DAVKA, 845 N. Michigan Ave.,Suite 843, Chicago IL 60611, (1-800-621-8227; In Illinois, 312-944-4070), or directly from Jewish bookstores, synagouge giftshops, and computer stores. Strategic Software Systems, Inc. has introduced Bottomline-V, a corporate financial system for business planning, raising venture capital, increasing lines of credit, or obtaining an SBA loan. The system begins with a 12-month detailed budget and cash flow | analysis. The user then inputs basic data variables, and Bottomline-V performs over 9,000 calculations to produce five-year pro formas of P&L, Balance Sheet, Changes in Financial Position, and Financial Ratio Analysis. The documemtation is easy to follow with examples and step-by-step prodecures. Bottomline-V runs on Apple Computers with compatible spreadsheet programs such as Lotus 1-2-3, Multiplan, SuperCalc, and VisiCalc. It is an “off-the-shelf" package with a suggested retail price of $295. For information contact: Product Information Dept., Strategic Software Systems, Inc., 1300 Dove St., Suite 200, Newport Beach, CA 92660 or call (714) 476-2842. PAGE 38 THE HARVEST JUNE 1984 northern illinois apple users group 1271 West Dundee Road, Buffalo Grove, IL. IEMBERSHIP_APPLICAT NOTE: Information obtained from this application is solely for the 4 use of the NORTHERN ILLINOIS APPLE USERS GROUP (NIAUG). Membership lists will not be distributed to members or non-members. PLEASE PRINT [1 Full Membership ($29.99) Includes $24.99 Annual dues + $5.99 initiation fee. Covers entire family; 1 Votes all priviedges. This rate applies to the following counties: ILLINOIS - Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Lake, LaSalle, Lee, McHenry, Ogle, Will, Winnebago} INDIANA- Lake, Porter; WISCONSIN - Jefferson, Milwaukee, Racine, Rock, Walworth, and Waukesha. ct] Associate “Membership (923.99) Includes $18.98 Annual dues + $5.96 initiation fee. 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This information will help us to get a better picture of what the needs of our Users really are. : Please check the type of computer(s) you have or are using. { J APPLE II € 1 APPLE II+ (J APPLE IIe [ 3 APPLE /// [ 1 LISA € 1 MACINTOSH C J APPLE COMPATIBLE [ J] OTHER Benefits the group can provide tor you Benefits you would like to provide to the group Comments Pd tet tks t ph ckikibcdibckskikckid-ckadicbskadckdobcdest cheekckisk-ekistak h-hh hu isi achicha hihi TREASURER’S USE GNLY Do not write below this line! Cash [ 1) Amount $ . Check [3 # Date = = Refund of overpayment: Check # Amount $ . Initials PAGE 39 THE HARVEST JUNE 1984 ce KEY EDITING COMMANDS (2) Backspaces the cursor. Deletes each character it passes over. IMPORTANT,the erased character is still visible on the screen; however, it has been erased from memory. —---> KEY CURSOR MOVES FORWARD.EACH CHARACTER IT PASSES OVER IS RETYPED IN MEMORY. CONTROL "C" Fress CONTROL KEY and type the letter "C" at the same time. This will stop the running of your program. If you wish to . continue the "run", type CONT. CONTROL "S" Press CONTROL KEY and type the letter "S" at the same time. This will stop the running of your listing. If you wish to resume the listing, press SFACE BAR.You may continue to alternate this sequence. CONTROL "X" Press CONTROL KEY and type the letter "X". This will delete the line you are currently typing. (Frovided you have not pressed the RETURN KEY.) ESC KEY SEQUENCES. PRESS ESC KEY,RELEASE IT.FRESS SECOND KEY. ESC-A:Moves the cursor one position to the right. ESC-B:Moves the cursor one position to the left. _ ESC--C:Moves the cursor down one space. ESC-D:Moves the cursor up one space. EDITING COMMANDS (3) CLEAR: Resets all variables in memory to zero and all string variables to null. EXAMPLE: 10 Let A= 5 20 Let A$ = “Mother” 30 PRINT A, A$ 40 CLEAR 50 PRINT A, A$ RUN 5 Mother 0 EDIT MODE Press ESC KEY, release key. Press second key. You are now in edit mode until you press any key except I, J, K and M. Notice their position on the keyboard ani their relative cursor movements. IMPORTANT When editing I a_line you must retype "number line". Press RIGHT ARROW se tiyx KEY until cursor is in the desired position for editing. L EXAMPLE: 10 PRINT "Fatherr"” M Press ESC (release) (you are in edit mode) Press “I" (continue pressing until your oa cursor is at beginning of line 10) Type "10" Press——» (move cursor to edit position,edit Press——3 (retype remainder of line) Press RETURN KEY PAGE 40 THE HARVEST JUNE 1984 Cn submitted by george Wilkin 1000 REM MacTEP - Macintosh Terminal Emulator Program 1010 REM — 102G REM Version 1.81 - 6-Apr-84 1020 REK Dennis F. Brothers - Compuserve 70065,172 - MCI Mail 10420 REM 105C REM Copyright (c) 1984 - Brothers Associates, Wayland Mz 1060 REM Permission is hereby granted for personai, non-commercial 1070 REM reproduction and use of this program, provided that this 1080 REM novice is included in any copy. 1090 REK i200 REM Modem connections: 111¢ REM Mac Mcdem 21206 REM 1230 REM i14C REX 1150 REF i166 REM 117¢ REM 118 11990 1209 1216 i22c DEFINT 4-Z: REM Defat 12390 REM 1240 REM 2000 REM Define constants 2010 REM 2020 BUFFERSIZE=2048 2030 UFFERSIZE\4 2040 REM 2050 FALSE=0: TRUE=-1 2060 REN 2070 2086 2030 2100 2110 2120 DBROTHERS £ (Frame Grouné) (Signal Ground) (Transmit Data) (+22V -> DTR) (CTS <= BCD) (Receive Data) <1 Orn o 0 Ora nN abe oO Allocate extra menory = te integers for speed : CMDBS$=CHRS$( cea) 2230 CMDES=CHR$ (CH 2140 2) 2150 CMDTS=CHR$ (CHDT) 216 2170 : AOUT=-7 : 2180 H4000: SBi5=&H8000: SB2=&HCC0O 2190 PARNONE=&HO: PAROD! H1000: PAREVEN=&H3000 2200 D 3 DBS=&H800: DB7=&H<00: DBS=&HCOO 2210 REM 2220 REM 3000 REM Pre-ailocate ail variables sc arrays don’t move 3010 REM 3020 GOSUB 20000 3030 DIM XTABLEARRAY (127) 3040 DIM BUFFERARRAY (BUFFERSIZE/2) 3050 DIM PARAMLIST(39) 3060 I=0: A=0 307C 3080 3090 3100 3110 = 3120 XFLAG=FALSE 3130 CRFLAG=FALSE: FLUSH=FALSE 3140 C=0 : ELg=" PACE 41 THE HARVEST JUNE 1984 3156 QUIT=0 3160 REN 3170 CONTROL!=0 3180 TRANSLATE!=0 3190 BPROC!=0 3200 GETFILEINFO!=0 ‘0 3210 SETFILEINFO! 3220 XTABLE!=0 BUFFERT!=0: BUFFER RPTR(LS$): FP!=VARPTR(FS$) 270 CRFLAGP!=0: FLUSHP!=0 3280 REM ARPTR (CONTRCLCCDE (0) ) ARPTR(TRANSLATECODE (0) ) R(BPROCCOBE(0)) WARE TE ( GETFIL INFOCS Ee ARP A UETASLERREAY (0)) ARP TR (BUFFERARRAY (C) ) ND(BUFFER! : BUFFERT! =BUFFER!-(BUFFERH*65536! ) =BUFFERT! ELSE BUFFERL=BUFFERT!-6553€! RPTR(LS): FP!SVARPTR(FS) ARPTR(TL} ARPTR(CRFLAG) RPTR (FLUSH) Initialize the character translation table POKE FOR POKE NEAT I REM REM REX Initialize and display startup information REM CALL TEXTSIZE(9): CALL TEXTFONT(4):WIDTE 255 CALL PENNORMAL: CALL SHOWPEN: CALL PENMODE(1C) CLS: PRINT: PRINT: PRINT PRINT "MacTEP - Vi.81 - Copyright (c) 1984, Brothers Associates" PRIN’ PRIN’ PRINT PI " OMD-E exits to the Macintosh desktop." " CND-T starts and stops ASCII transmit (uploac)." PRINT " CND-R starts and stops ASCII receive (download)." PRINT " CND-B starts and stops ASCII Basic receive" PRINT " (lines not Beginning with a digit are ignored)." PRINT: PRINT REM REM REM Set up and OPEN the COM1 port REM OPEN "COM1:" AS #1 LEN=BUFFERSIZE WIDTH #1,255 REM INPUT "Baud rate: ", BR TC=(115200!/BR)-2 REM ‘FOR I=O0 TO 49\2: PARANLIST(I)=0: NEXT I PARAMLIST(24\2)=AIN PAGE 42 THE HARVEST JUNE 1984 510C PARAMLIST(25\2 511C PARAMLIST(28\2)=SB1+PARNONE+DB@+TC 5120 CALL CONTROL! (PARAM! ) 5130 REM ) TO 49\2: PARAMLIST(Z)=0: NEYT = >BUFLIN AND NCT 7000 REM Receive (downlcad) BASIC progran. 7010 REN Cc L PENSIZE( SE: & INPUT "BASIC " THEN GOTO 6009 7060 OPEN F$ FOR OUTPUT AS #2 7070 CALL LINE(0,-2) 7080 QUIT=FALSE 7090 WHILE NOT QUIT : 7100 IF LCC(1)=0 THEN GOTO 7210 7110 iF LOC(i)>BUFLIM AND NCT ZPLAG THEN PRINT #1,XOFF$;: XFLAG=TRUE PAGE 43 THE HARVEST JUNE 1984 L$=INPUTS(LOC(1), #1) CALL TRANSLATE! (XTABLE! ,LP! ,TLP! ) IF TL=0 THEN GOTO 7200 CALL LINE(O,2): PRINT LEFT$(L$,TL);: CALL LINE(0,-2) CALL BPROC!(LP!,TLP!,CRFLAGP! , FLUSHP! ) IF TL=0 THEN GOTC 7200 IF LOC(1)>BUFLIM AND NOT XFLAG THEN PRINT #1,XOFF$;: XFLAG=TRUE PRINT #2,LEFT$(L$,TL); iF KFLAG THEN XFLAG=FALSE: PRINT #1,XONS; NKEYS IF CS="" THEN GOTO 7250 CS=CKDB$) OR (C$=CMDR$) THEN QUIT=TRUE: GOTO 725C NT #1,C$; 7250 WEND 7260 CALL LINE(6,2) 7270 CLOSE #2 7280 IF RIGHT$(F$,2)<>":" THEN TYPEAPPL$="MSBANSB? GCSUEB 10000 7290 PRINT: PRINT "BASIC Receive Ended": PRINT 7300 GOTS 6000 7310 REX ' 732C REM 8000 REY Receive (downioad) ASCIi file 8010 REM 8CZ6 CALL PENSIZE(6,2) APLA ALS ‘PUT “Receive File Name: ",FS Hi OTC 60CO OPEN F$ FOR OUTPUT AS #2 8570 CALL LINE(0,-2) 8080 QUIT=FALSE O80 WHILE NOT ¢ 8200 iF © THEN GOTO 8190 8210 IF LOC(i)>BUFLIE AND NOT XFLAG THEN PRINT #2,XOFF$;: XFLAG=TRUE 8220 $(LOO(2),#2) 8130 -TE! (TABLE! ,LP!,TLP! ) 8240 9 THEN GOTO 8186 8150 CALL LINE(O,2): PRINT LEPT$(L$,Tu);: CALL LINE(C,-2) 8160 IF LOC(i)>BUFLIM AND NOT XFLAG THEN PRINT #2,XOFF$;: XFLAG=TRUE 8170 #2,LEFTS$(L$,TL); 9180 LAG THEN XFLAG=FALSE: PRINT #1,XON$; 8190 CS$=INKEYS 8200 IF C$="" THEN GOTO 8230 8216 IF (C$=CMDB$) OR (C$=CNMDR$) THEN QUIT=TRUE: GOTO 8230 8220 PRINT €2,C$; 8230 WEND 6240 CALL LINE(0,2) 8250 CLOSE #2 8260 IF RIGHTS(FS$,1)<> THEN TYPEAPPL: 8270 PRINT: PRINT "Receive Ended": PRINT 8285 GCTOC 6000 "TEXTMACA": GOSUB 10000 8300 REN 9000 REM Transmit (upload) ASCII file 9010 REN $020 CALL PENSIZ=(2Z,1) $030 XFLAG=FALSE LINE INPUT "Transmit File Name: ",FS " THEN GOTO 6000 9060 OPEN F$ FOR INPUT AS #2 9070 CALL LINE(C,-6) 2080 QUIT=FALSE 9090 WHILE NOT (EOF(2) OR QUIT) 9100 IF LOC(1)<>0 THEN GOTO 9150 9110 LINE INPUT -#2,XL$ 9120 IF XL$<>"" THEN FOR I=1 TO LEN(XL$): PRINT #1,MID$(XL$,1,1);: NEXT I 9130 PRINT #1,CR$; > FOR PAGE 44 IF LOC(i)=0 THEN GOTO 9200 IF LOC(i)>BUFLIM AND NOT XFLAG THEN PRINT #1,XOFF$;: XFLAG=TRUE LS=INPUTS(LOC(1) #1) THE HARVEST JUNE 1984 CALL TRANSLATE! (XTABLE!,LP!,TLP!) IF TL<>0 THEN CALL LINE(0,6): PRINT LEFT$(L$,7L);: CALL LINE(C,-6) IF XFLAG THEN XFLAG=FALSE: PRINT #1,XONS; CS$=INKEY$ THEN GOTC MDT$ THEN QU PRINT #1,C$; IF LOC(1)<>0 THEN GOTO 9256 WEND CALL LINE(0,6) CLOSE .#2 PRINT: PRINT "Transmit GOTO 6000 REX > REM REY FLSLEN (FS) FS=CER$ (FL)-FS TO 79: POKE P, POXE PARAM!+19,25EK(F' POXE PARAK!+20 PORE PARAM!+21,PSEK(F CALL GETFILEINFO! (PAR For I=1 TO 8 NEXT I . CALL SETFILEINFS! (PAR RETURN REM REM REM Set up Control RO) REK DIM CONTROLCODE(25) RESTORE 20100 I .D A:CONTROLCODE(I) =I+1 IF A<>-1 THEN GOTO 20) REM REM REM Nachine language REM DATA &H4E56, &HFFFS, DATA &H4CEE, &HO101, > DATA -1 REE REN REN Set up Translate REN DIM TRANSLATECODE(50) RESTORE 21100 I=0 READ A: TRANSLATECODE( I=I+1 IF A<>-1 THEN GOTO 21 REM REM REM Machine language REM DATA &H4E56, &HFFE8, DATA &H1219, &HE181, DATA &H1419, &H2042, 9240 TSTRUE: Ended": ARAK:-I, Pi+4) AMY) AM! ) M call =k 050 code to &H4B8EE, &HFFFE, GOTO 9250 PRINT Subroutine to set ctype ang application of a file Q: NEZT I POKE PARAM!+3i+1,ASC(MID$(TYPEAPP:$,2,2)) invoke Control RON function &HO101, &HFFF8, &H206=, &HOOO8, &H4E5E, &H4E75 ML routine T)=A O50 code to &H48EE, &H1219, &H2248, translate strings &HO707, &HFFE8, &H226E, &HOOOC, &H4282, &H1419, &HE182, &H1419, &H246E, &HOO10, &H4282, &H4A41, &HAOO4 &H4281 &HE182 &H6712 om PAGE 45 THE HARVEST JUNE 1984 ee a 3 DATA &H4280, &H#101€, &Hi2B2, &HOOCS, &HE7G4 % &HOSFO, &H2C5E, &HOOOS, &H3062, &H4CE 1 &H5269, &H5242, SH 1 &HO7C?, &HFFES, &H4! 4 ES DIM BPROCCODE (200) RESTORE £2106 rAOMO NO w& Te a ot AHO aM OM GetFileinfo ROM function &H206E, &HOCOS, &HASOT Lior ia OR up SetFileinfc ROM cai OOVODAGOHBBDRDROO00 IAG WWE OU WD language code to invoke SetrileInfo ROM function &H4E56, G&HFFFG, &H48EE, &HO101, &HFFF&, &H206E, &HOO08, &HACOD &H4CEE, &HOi01, &HFFF8, &H4E5E, &H4E75 24140 DATA -1 24150 REN 24160 REM 25000 RETURN 25010 REN PAGE 46 THE HARVEST JUNE 1984 25020 REM 2503¢ END BeRReeeEEE SIG BITS & BYTES by Ken Falter BUSINESS SIG Meets on the fourth Saturday of every month at 10:00 am at: Mount Prospect Public Library 10 South Emerson Street Mount Prospect, Illinois (One block east of the intersection of Elmhurst Road (rte. 83) and Central Road). The June 23 meeting will feature a presentation on Homeword. As always, there will also be a VISICALC CORNER. Next month’s meeting is on July 28. BEGINNERS SIG The SIG continues to have two beginners” groups meeting. It is oriented towards helping "new" or "rusty" Apple users deal with the many questions, frustrations, confusions and "mistakes" that we all have made “in the beginning". Attendees provide the direction for the meetings by the questions they ask and the topics they bring up. Experienced NIAUG members are the answerers and explainers. NIAUG members wishing to join the SIG should call Guy Lyle at 312/359-1458. **kNOTE: NIAUG membership is required.*** LIBRARY SIG The Library SIG met on June 7. Their next meeting is scheduled for July 12. The SIG will run this year’s NIAUG new program contest (see other article elsewhere in this issue for further details). For additional information on this SIG, call Joe Zeinz at 312/526-0575. PELAAEBAL BREE BL ERB ER EERE RELL BI om DISCOUNTS OFFERED TO NIAUG MEMBERS Robert Burkhead of "Computer Outpost", 520 Wise Road, Schaumburg, I11 has offered a standard 10% discount on all computer products to NIAUG members. On the weekend of the NIAUG General meeting he will give a 15% discount. Special orders of goods not in stock, made on that weekend, will also be made at a 15% percent discount if a downpayment is made. To receive discounts you must show your NIAUG Membership Cards. HELP WANTED College student seeks summer work. Experienced in using the Apple II+, especially wordprocessing and data base management programs. Contact Chris at 392-7735. (oN PAGE 47 77 PLANNING MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT 7: PH = 10 PH COMPUTERVISION 125 S. WILKE ROAD [ARLINGTON HTS, IL 870-3076 meatore — alk koan NIAUG PLANNING MEETING COMING MONTHS MEETING DATES JULY 14-DOS: Symposium, AUG 4-Sig Meetings, Dates are firm, topics being arranged. THE. HARVEST JUNE 1984 CLUB NE NIAUG APRIL AGENDA. 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