Letters to the Editor

Bulletin Board

Sorry to see the end of Scorpio News, but I can understand the reasons. I still fantasise about an 80-BUS system with lots of RAM using paging, etc, to switch between word-processing, database, etc, instantly… I wonder where we would be if IBM had continued to ignore the micro??

For all those out there in reading land who have learnt a lot and been entertained by Scorpio’s (and other contributors’) efforts, you may be interested to know that I run a bulletin board called K-WOOD BBS on Great Tew (______) ___. It runs 24 hours and accepts calls at V21, V22, V22bis and V23. I have a (not very active) area for 80-BUS and more CP/M files than most boards these days. so any reader with a modem is more than welcome to call in and leave messages, ask for help, give advice etc. There is also an area for Feline Fanciers as my wife and I breed Siamese cats. [Ed’s wife – I’m very interested in this info as I’m an FF too!]

Just looked at INMC Issue 2 – we know what Dave Hunt is up to, what happened to the others on the original committee I wonder?? (What would MS-DOS have been by now if Richard Beal had worked for MicroSoft?)

Clive Waller, Banbury.

Disk Drives?

Does anyone know where I can get a working, (cheap) 5 1/2″ DSQD half-height disk drive? Thanks.

David Saul, Chesham.

Retiring To My Nascom

I’m shortly retiring from full-time work and will have more time to spend on my dearly beloved Nascom 2. I would be interested to hear from any others in a similar situation.

(Am also active with IBM, but don’t talk about that!).

Stan Gent, Portsmouth