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1. kakaa Ce 0 Unofficial OSI Users Journal 1819 Bay Ridge Ave Suite 220 Annapolis MD 21403 Column One This column should probably be subtitled the evolution of OSI from the standpoint of a dealer user The changes which we have seen in the short two years we have dealt with Ohio Scientific first as users and then as dealers have been nothing short of dramatic In our position as a users journal we may seem to emphasize the negative in commenting on relations with and documentation from the factory so I think some history and acknowledgement of the progress we have seen is entirely in order Two years ago pre PEEK 65 and pre a lot of other stuff OSI had real problems with documentation hardware reliability customer relations and even dealer relations The excellent design and features of OSI hardware had resulted in fantastic growth far too fast for the factory to deal with Suddenly it wasn t just Mike and Charity and some friends making a few computers it was thousands of owners hundreds of dealers all screaming for whatever was hurting them most Something had to be done or OSI would follow some other small computer firms into bankruptcy the officers into nervous breakdowns To the credit of Charity Cheiky Paul Warren and the others involved in management things have been done and continue to be done though much more is still needed Some examples of achievements Contracting w2. 120 NEXT When memory is heavily loaded only the last 1 or 2 values of the second set of 4 may be inputted Apparently the computer must find the array A after getting the first 4 values and cannot recover in time to accept the second set completely To overcome this I use a mean and dirty procedure I SAVE as follows 190 DMS XXXXXXXXXKKXKXK 200 FORI 1 to 100 205 IF I 2 THEN PRINT DMS 210 PRINT A I 1 A I 2 A 1 3 A 1 4 220 NEXT When inputting this array I add 105 IF I 2 THEN INPUT DMS has the The computer will read whatever it time for of DMS then proceed to input remainder of the data properly 3 When inputting text from keyboard we must avoid the comma and the colon since they are terminators However if we PEEK the keyboard instead of passing it through the INPUT routine no termination will occur from the comma or colon 90 POKE 11 0 POKE 12 253 100 X USR X P PEEK 531 PS CHRS P 110 PRINT P IF P 13 THEN 120 115 Q Q P GOTO 100 120 PRINT Ian A Morton St Paul MN ED As delivered 0S 65U will do an carriage return line feed every 13 characters if it has not seen a This is an old leftover from the days o the teletype and has no place in a terminal based system automatic There is one situation in which you might need the auto CR LF Some of the older printers and maybe some of the new cheap ones would not handle a wraparound and would just die If you are in
3. Keeps track of your investments UTILITIES C1P CURSOR CONTROL 9 95 gives real backspace one key screen clear and midline editing RENUMBERER 5 95 SUPERUTILITY 12 95 Has Renumberer Variable table maker and Search BUSINESS SMALL BUSINESS ANALYSIS 15 95 Does profit and loss quick ratio 9 95 breakeven analysis and more 13 gt 6 95 ee cael Alien Invaders 6 95 2 Our 1 00 catalog has free game and utility listings programming hints and a lot of PEEKs and POKEs and other stuff that OS forgot to mention and a lot more programs for sale DISKS 5 COLOR SOUND 29 95 DISK 1 STARFIGHTER ROBO TANK SEA WOLFE BOMBER TEN TANK BLITZ DISK 2 BREAK THROUGH LUNAR LANDER ALIEN INVADER KILL ERROBOTS SLASHBALL AARDVARK 1690 Bolton Walled Lake Michigan 48088 e 313 624 6316 vl sry SES AN a S AA 8 Enclosed Send PEEK 65 for one year S issue H Ba ly Foreign Subscriptions Air Mail 20 4 Hoe bee eB 15 Enclosed Enroll me in OSIO 20 Enclosed Send PEEK 65 and enroll me in OSIO NAME Street City State Zip Please send the following back issues I enclose 1 50 ea The Unofficial OS Users Journal el 1819 Bay Ridge Ave Suite 220 0 0 o _ Annapolis MD 21403 DELIVER TO 16
4. the habit of printing forever without a carriage return then you may want to keep this feature although it would make more sense to change your habits The following basic statements will eliminate this feature If you wish to retain this condition for your normal processing you may put these changes only in OSBU and restore them after running We would suggest however that these lines be made a part of BEXEC and therefore totally eliminate this obnoxious feature REM kill auto CR LF on terminal FORI 2813T02815 POKEI 234 NEXTI REM for alpha print FORI 2658T02660 POKEI 234 NEXTI REM for numeric print POKE23 79 POKE24 71 REM for 80 col terminal set auto tabs Software Consultants Alloy Engineering Co 85 Speen St Framingham MA 01701 ED Note super tapedrive under OS 65U Alloy Engineering makes a for hard disk backup SOFTWARE FOR OHIO SCIENTIFIC Over 50 programs for C1 C2 C4 amp Superboard on tape and disk All come with listings and compete documentation GAMES 4K Tape CHESS FOR OSI specify system STARFIGHTER Real time space war SEAWOLFE Floating mines three target ships etc LUNAR LANDER With full graphics TEN TANK BLITZ A sophisticated real time tank game 8K GAMES BACKGAMMON BLACKJACK Plays all Vegas rules Add 1 00 each for Color Sound 19 95 5 95 5 95 5 95 9 95 Pages of documentation Ra STOCK PORTFOLIO ve
5. 44 98 will enable LF Finally John Leahy asks about intelligent games received a copy of Sotware called Dungeon I have just recently a game by Aurora It was quite well documented and a lot of fun to play It was the first game I could convince ny wife to play on a computer and now she uses it quite often The game is a simiplified simulation of the TRS Dungeons and Dragons It is well written and plenty complex to make it challenging to any adult Rod Schiffman Salt Lake City UT ED gt lt I m sure many readers have wondered how to create auto loading machine language cassette tapes for the CIP Here are two methods Use PRINT statements If the SAVE flag is on data that the program prints are sent to the cassette port as well as the screen The tape is created by printing the commands as if the user were entering them from the keyboard Program A shows this technique There is one major drawback to this method speed When writing to the cassette the SAVE routine automatically inserts 10 nulls after each carriage return This is done so the LOAD routine has time to process the statement before the next line starts Unfortunately this elongates the machine loading time by a factor of 3 2 nybbles a CR and 10 nulls The second method eliminates the nulls by not using SAVE the program directly accesses the cassette port using WAIT and POKE As long as the program doesn t spend a lot of time
6. 4C 4D 02 DATA 02890 41 55 54 4F 20 4C 4F 970 DATA 41 44 49 4E 47 32 45 58 44 980 DATA 4D 50 4 45 00 990 DATA 0240G ED In response to Column One of Vol 1 3 April 15 1980 holes in 65U a bunch of ce following location 23595 try there Qi The 65U backspace routine tch is just before this Is anyone out there adding or in the process of adding a PRINT USING to OS65U Please contact me if you are maybe we can work together h A general question to PEEK 65 readers For OSI BASIC or 65U what enhancements would you like to see and what is needed the most Once possible changes and modifications have been planned and ranked by their importance we could then ask readers with the expertise to write the changes or contract with someone to have it done Everyone could contribute etc and the money put in an Escrow account for safety until it was finished and reviewed etc I would be glad to help on this project For example It would be nice to modify create on 65U so that new files created would automatically use up previously deleted file space or if the last file created was deleted the next one would go on top of it Also how about having 65U utilities in machine language callable as commands and being able to use them without destroying the current program n RAM An Editor with global find and change capabilities ED Note RESEQ 5 2 has global change As a group let s compile a list
7. LE REPORTS CHECKS TO BE WRITTEN CHECK REGISTER ACCOUNTS PAYABLE INVOICES NOW DUE VENDOR LISTING ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE REPORTS CHECKS TO BE WRITTEN MONTHLY TRANSACTION LISTING ACCOUNTS ETAILED ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE RECEIVABLE PRINT STATEMENT LISTING OF PAST DUE ACCOUNTS IDEAL FOR ACCOUNTING FIRMS AS WELL AS SMALL BUSINESSES PROVEN THROUGH YEARS OF USE i THIS ACCOUNTING PACKAGE REQUIRES ONLY A HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL UNDERSTANDING OF BOOKKEEPING ONLY 395 DUAL EIGHT INCH FLOPPY DISK DRIVES REQUIRED MIMP amp BUS I OPERATE ON ALL OHIO SCIENTIFIC 8 INCH OR WINCHESTER DISK MICROCOMPUTERS W 48 K RAM USER ORIENTED SYSTEMS CREDIT CARD ORDERS CALL 813 923 2781 r i NO PROGRAMMING REQUIRED SEE YOUR OSI DEALER FOR DEMONSTRATION master charge ALL ORDERS SHIPPED PREPAID WITHIN CONTINENTAL U S PLEASE DO NOT SEND CASH OVERSEAS ORDERS PLEASE INCLUDE POSTAOE 5 LBS SORRY NO C O D 7650 S TAMIAMI TRAIL SARASOTA FLORIDA 33581 Two interesting tricks I have found are the following Transfer of programs and data via telephone long distance at that simply by holding the telephone to the speaker of the tape recorder or amplified output on the transmitting end and inputing on the receiving end by holding the receiver to the mike of the recorder an automatic volume control on a tape recorder seems to help here a lot Rate of success of this method depends a lot on the quality of the telep
8. PE HELP COMMANDS CAN BE USED CONDITIONALLY ON ANY RECORD OR ON ANY FIELD WITHIN A RECORD IN MEMORY SORT OR FOR BIG FILES DISK SORT ALL DATABASE FUNCTIONS ARE SUBROUTINES CUSTOM PROGRAMMING SIMPLIFIED OPTIONAL CASH REGISTER POLLING AND CONTROL PACK AGE AVAILABLE TO QUALIFIED BUYERS REQUIRES INSTAL LATION CONSULTATION OVER TWO YEARS IN FIELD TESTING MIMP WORKS FLAWLESSLY ONE YEAR SUBSCRIPTION TO APPLICATIONS NEWSLETTER FREE WITH PURCHASE TYPICAL APPLICATIONS INVENTORY CUSTOMER FILES CASH REGISTER CONTROL OPTIONAL EXTRA DOCTOR DENTIST LAWYER APPO R CLIENT PATIENT FILES SALES RECORDS MAILING LISTS INTRODUCTORY OFFER 395 THE KEY TO THIS SOPTWARE 1S ITS SIMPLICITY OF OPERATION FOR USE ON SMOE SIENTIEIC MICROCOMPUTERS BUS II BOOKKEEPING ACCOUNTING SYSTEM CPA APPROVED COMPLETE ACCOUNTING SYSTEM GENERAL LEDGER ACCOUNTS PAYABLE ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE BRANCH ACCOUNTING HANDLES UP TO FIVE DIVISIONS COMPLETELY INTERACTIVE SELF UPDATING BATCH ACCOUNTING INSISTS ON BEING IN BALANCE USER MENU OPERATOR PROMPTING FOR CORRECT ENTRIES HIGHLY FLEXIBLE FORMATTING OF FINANCIAL REPORTS NO KNOWLEDGE OF DEBITS AND CREDITS REQUIRED EXCEPT RECURRING JOURNAL ENTRIES ASK YOUR ACCOUNTANT EXAMPLES OF REPORTS FROM GENERAL LEDGER MODULE CASH RECEIPTS BALANCE SHEET STATEMENT OF INCOME DAILY TRANSACTION LISTING JOURNAL ENTRIES DETAILED GENERAL LEDGER ACCOUNTS PAYAB
9. S II USER MANUAL WITH SAMPLE REPORTS BUS II PAY USER MANUAL WITH SAMPLE REPORTS MIMP USER MANUAL WITH TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION ECR I P OPERATOR MANUAL WITH TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION ECR I C OPERATOR MANUAL WITH TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION SALES I OPERATOR MANUAL WITH TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION INV I OPERATOR MANUAL WITH TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION UPGRADES UPGRADE BUS II V 2 1 FROM V 2 UPGRADE BUS II INCLUDING PAYROLL V 2 1 FROM V 2 UPGRADE MIMP V 2 2 FROM V 2 1 CUSTOM TERMINAL DRIVER INSTALLATION SPECIAL BUS II PAY BOOKKEEPING amp ACCOUNTING PACKAGE W PAYROLL 395 75 195 395 295 395 995 395 495 995 29 20 20 28 20 20 V VV fF yf wn Ww DN 20 59 156 50 5 495 THE MOST POWERFUL MICROCOMPUTER SOFTWARE EVER DEVELOPED IS ALSO THE EASIEST TO USE MICROSYSTEMS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PACKAGE PUTS ANY OR ALL YOUR BUSINESS FILES INTO A POWERFUL DATABASE CREATE VIRTUALLY ANY RELATIONSHIP YOU CAN THINK OF ENGLISH SPEAKING REPORT GENERATOR POWERFUL USER COMMANDS NORMALLY FOUND ONLY IN LARGE COMPUTERS SELF EXPLANATORY EASY TO USE SUCH AS INPUT OUTPUT LIST PRINT ee H DELETE EXCLUDE INCLUDE AND PERHAPS IMPORTANT OF ALL HELP BERA GHTEORWARD INPUT AND EDITING ROUTINES IDIOT OPERATOR S MANUAL WITH FULL USER INSTRUCTIONS IS ON LINE WITH HELP COMMANDS PROBLEMS JUST TY
10. The booth that I really enjoyed was the Amateur Radio Associated Clubs of Paris There were several RITY terminals there and all ran super good Copied a lot of signals up around 21 MHz and they all came out on the computer type terminal in fine fashion Will have to get back to that type of transmission again yup you guessed it I m also W6ORS With that revealing secret its time to close and get this off to PEEK 65 73 Corky A NEW KIT THAT GETS YOU INTO OHIO SCIENTIFIC USERS SERIOUS MICROCOMPUTING FOR ONLY AT LAST FORM LETTER GENERATION USING OS DMS 2 and WP 2 1495 Kit 1695 Assembled 0S DMS DATA gt 6502 CPU amp DISK CONTROLLER CARD FILE gt 16K RAM CARD E DMS gt 90K MINIFLOPPY DISK DRIVE LE HENDIR gt DOS 8K BASIC ASSEMBLER EDITOR 0S 650 gt 8 SLOT MOTHERBOARD Ae gt CHASSIS POWER SUPPLY amp CABLES Aes gt MICRO TERM ACT I SERIAL TERMINAL 05 650 DOS 16 X 64 CHARACTER DISPLAY FILE HANDLER Upper Lower CASE ADDRESSABLE CURSOR m gt GOLDSTAR TV MONITOR N WP 2 HIGH QUALITY DISPLAY OS WORD TV TUNER INTACT PROCESSOR WP INT FORM LETTER Tek WP IN disk amp manual 80 00 Aids Master Charge manual alone 2 00 VISA ASK YOUR DEALER FOR A DEMONSTRATION Industries Inc C 0 D DC software products TO ORDER WP INT DIRECT BV P PEOPLE ORIENTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS CHECK MONEY ORDER C O D New Dimensions in Electronics Bes SOFTWARE PRODUCTS 44 Universi
11. a lot of links The first link is an analysis of the requirements to be met Judging by the goals given above the requirements for the court s computer system were set forth pretty well But somewhere a link broke what could it have been Specifications Were the broad requirements then analyzed in detail so as to permit a number of manufacturers to show how their equipment would do the job Design Was the system planned completely by a group of people fully qualified by education and experience and not beholden to any specific manufacturer Did the designers select appropriate system software language and operating system What about the hardware Were the devices for memory data entry data display and data transmission properly chosen installed and tested Were the plans for entry storage and retrieval of data clear Was all the software including the user programs fully tested by software engineers then tried out in practice by the ongoing staff before switchover Were the policies for selection training and continuing employment of personnel to use the system effective What about introduction plans Was there a determined and skillful effort to show all employees of the system how the computer would support their work or were they permitted to harbor mistaken and rebellious thoughts of a monster that would be taking their jobs What support was given by top management Were the people in
12. ay be read using PEEK and WAIT using a different wait value of course thereby removing some of the problems encountered when using an mO statement particularly commas In closing let me add this caution since there is no error detection or correction using this type of loading it s a good idea to limit program sizes to around 500 bytes If the load does bomb out there isn t so much to reload For larger programs the OSI object tape format and associated loader should be used Michael B Carroll Tulsa OK 19 REM 20 REM FROGRAM B 30 REM WALT AND FOKE 50 REM 69 REM CREATE A TAFE AUTO LOAD WITH WITH A SIMPLE 70 REM PROGRAM THAT DISFLAYS A MESSAGE 80 REM ON THE SCREEN AND THEN LOOFS 100 REM t 110 REM WAIT FOR THE USER 430 REM 160 PRINT START TAFE AND HIT ANY KEY 180 FOR I 41 TO 100 NEXT 200 FOKE 530 14 FOKE 57088 0 220 IF PEEK S7088 254 THEN 220 230 FOKE 530 0 240 PRINT HERE WE GO 260 REM 270 REM READ WAIT FOKE UNTIL END 290 REM K 300 REM DATA ON THE TAPE LOOKS LIKE 320 REM 330 REM DATA CR 340 REM 380 READ C IF C amp END THEN 430 399 FOR I 1 TO LEN CS WAIT 61440 2 499 FOKE 61441 ASC MIDS C 1 1 NEXT 410 WAIT 61440 2 FOKE 61441 13 420 GOTO 380 430 REM 440 REM ALL DONE 450 REM 460 PRINT TAPE COMPLETE END 900 REM 940 REM FOLLOWING IS THE DATA TO RE 920 REM WRITTEN TO TAFE REM 740 DATA 0240 A0 00 89 80 02 F0 06 950 DATA 20 2D BF C8 D0 F5
13. between pokes the tape will be created at full speed Program B is an example of this procedure In both routines the program to be written to tape does not have to reside in DATA staements it could be PEEKed from memory converted to characters and then written out 10 KEM 20 REM PROGRAM A AUTO LOAD WITH 40 REM PRINT STATEMENTS 50 REM 69 REM CREATE A TAPE WITH A SIMPLE 70 REM PROGRAM THAT DISFLAYS A MESSAGE 80 REM ON THE SCREEN AND THEN LOOPS i00 REM Si faas 110 REM WAIT FUR THE USER 30 REM fel i 160 FRINT START TAFE AND HIT ANY KEY 1 30 FOR 1 1 TO 100 NEXT oO 200 FOKE 530 14 POKE 57088 9 220 IF FEEK 57088 254 THEN 220 230 FOKE 530 0 3 240 PRINT HERE WE GO 260 REM 270 REM READ FRINT UNTIL END 290 REN 300 REM DATA ON THE TAFE LOOKS LIKE 320 REM 339 REM DATA SER lt LF gt 19 NULLS 340 REM 350 REM THE MONITOR WILL IGNORE THE 369 REM LINE FEED AND NULLS 370 REM 380 READ C IF C END THEN 430 400 PRINT C GOTO 390 430 REM 440 REM ALL DONE 450 REM 460 FRINT TAFE COMPLETE END 900 REM 940 REM FOLLOWING IS THE DATA TO BE 920 REM WRITTEN TO TAPE 930 REM 940 DATA 0240 89 00 89 80 02 F0 06 950 DATA 20 2D BF C8 D0 F5 4C 4D 02 940 DATA 0286 414 55 54 4F 2D 4C 4F 270 DATA 41 44 49 4E 47 32 45 58 41 980 DATA 4D 50 4f 45 00 990 DATA 9240G6 The astute reader may have noticed that since the cassette port is also an input port tapes m
14. bits RTS high or low and INT enabled or disabled Status available is Rx Dx data registers full data carrier detected clear to send framing error receiver overrun parity error and interrupt request Of course if the data to be read is not ASCII in strings of less than 72 characters a machine language routine must be written to handle the input A good way to handle t would be to read the port and put the input stream in memory Then an INPUT 4 read from memory could be done to get the data into basic Wallace Kendal The Washington Post on June 1 carried an AP story saying that district court officials in Grand Rapids Michigan are dismantling a computer system and replacing the equipment with humans The computer system was installed in 1975 at a cost of more than 400 000 to speed the arrest of scofflaws keep track of parking and traffic fines compile driver penalty points generate court date notices and avoid long jail waits for a trial date But and here I quote the story exactly as it is printed it is able to complete only one of those functions recording the penalty points You re probably way ahead of me already so I won t belabor the point I m about to make To hold a load you use a chain not a link a lot of links strength of an average link nor the combined strength of all its links It has only the strength of its weakest link A computer system like a chain is made up of
15. charge cooperative supporting and encouraging or were they sitting on their hands and waiting for the system to prove that the old ways were the best ways What support was sought from the public Was there any organized effort to explain to the people who would pay for the system and whose lives would be affected by it what the system would do for them How it would save money and time improve the quality of the local M A chain is made up of A chain does not have the justice avoid unnecessary time in jail by innocent people Was the public encouraged to demand and expect public enprovement in the service or was Qa directed primarily to the cost the computer system Was suggestion that this was unnecessary frill I certainly don t know the answers to these questions I hope someone does and I d like very much to know them One thing I d wager a small sum on whatever the weak link was it wasn t the there the after all an computer My guess is that the weak link was one or more of the others described above A people link not a hardware link Letters A couple of hardware developments that we have pioneered down here may interest your users particularly those with 230V 50HZ and PAL colour television standards 1 PAL Colour Modulator the new OSI C4P puts out great colour for NTSC colour standard but of course is totally incompatible with the PAL standard Our
16. hone connection Optical I O ports using the unused lines at the bottom of the screen simply place a cadmium sulfide cell in front of a point on the line where you poke on and off a block of light I think I used ASCII 161 With the cell in series with a power supply and a relay you can operate various devices from the computer quite a few devices using combinations of points and a decoding circuit Radio Shack sells a relay controlled triac device in a neat black box configuration which requires only approx 5 volts for control current and which will handle about 1 amp A C with 1500 volts isolation Of course the entire circuit is isolated from the computer optically Entire cost approx 4 50 I ve used this arrangement to turn lights off and on and control my tape recorder Bill Devinney Washington DC ED Congratulations on a fine publication This is the first OSI journal to be of some value Up until now most were rip offs Keep up the good work I have a Challenger III 48K with OS 65U dual dble diskettes NEC Spinwriter and an Intecolor 8001G color graphics terminal I am looking for the following software 1 To communicate with an IBM 370 and store data from it on my diskettes Graphics programs especially bar char gt g for the Intecolor 80016 t Graph plotting routines for the NEC Spinwriter Way to interface Removable cartridge hard disk IBM 9 track 800 or 1600 bp
17. i tape drive DMS file to CP M amp vice conversion programs Apple or TRS 80 emulator program versa I recently talked to a Vice President of OSI and tried to encourage him to keep you supplied with the latest information from the factory Perhaps PEEK 65 readers could send a deluge of similar type letters to the factory to encourage him further Terry V Pukula Chicago IL DATA COVERSION FROM IBM FORMAT FLOPPY DISKS 9 TRACK MAGNETIC TAPE PUNCHED CARDS OHIO SCIENTIFIC FLOPPY DISK Also DATA ENTRY 30 Key Disk Operators Write for a quote DBMS Inc 1819 Bay Ridge Ave Annapolis MD 21401 AND VICE VERSA Punched card reader Documation H aad ED We have a C3 with a recently acquired 23MB hard disk and CP M and have two problems o we would appreciate any help on irst our CP M will cause problems on the hard disk operation if the 527 board is left plugged into the bus If we unplug the board even though there is no power to it the hard disk does not do its bad intermittent things We assume there is some sort of duplicate coverage by common chips Can you shed any light on it Second our CPU now has the 550 board using only Level I and one post I am told also that the unit came with the necessary Level II ships for a Real Time Clock We would like to be able to utilize a Real Time Clock to print out the time on each program as well as the time to run the program We have been
18. ine video display and the 300 baud cassette limitations of the CIP and the Superboard II The Super Mod Kit provides a 48 character 26 line video display and software selection of 300 or 1200 baud for cassette and RS 232 operation The kit also provides an RS 232 Port start stop control of the cassette and doubling of system clock speed from 1 MHz to 2 MHz Instructions are included to add voice cueing and listening function during data transfer to and from your cassette The OSI Monitor PROM is replaced by an expanded Monitor PROM to include the above functions while still allowing the computer to be booted up in the normal manner k For further info contact A H Systems Inc 9710 Cozycroft Ave Chatsworth CA 91311 OSI 600 RAM EXPANSION BOARDS cost from 18 00 plus memory Add IK at a time Circuit layout instructions and buying dist 8 00 State 8K 16K 24K or 32K Simple interface to add available sound kit to OSI 600 Total cost 37 00 Circuit layout instructions buying list and software routines 8 50 J E Burnitt 1690 Agadir St Concord CA 94518 For Cl Superboard HARDWARE Low Cost Expansion Projects SOUND GENERATOR Create sounds like phasors musical organ explosions and race car motor Complete documentation on how to build and where to get the parts Plus a demo program 8 95 LIGHT PEN Step by step procedures on how to build and how to adjust the sensitivity Plus two demo program
19. ith Lifeboat Associates to handle distribution of non OSI software opening the CP M bus to us Contracting with Howard Sams to print the excellent Cl C3 and C4 technical manuals Printing and distribution of the Technical Newsletters If you are not receiving them contact your dealer they are really worthwhile Editor Al Peabody Tech Editor Dick McGuire Contributing Editor Corky Kirk OSIO Editor Wallace Kendall Volume 1 No 6 June 1980 Orders of magnitude improvement in the reliability of the hardware When we receive a box from the factory now we expect it to contain gear which works Introduction of the C3 letter series now includig the C3 D tabletop computer with 2 MHz operation and a 10 Mbyte hard disk The gradual rewriting of OS DMS and the manuals which come with it Formerly totally useless the manuals now can actually be of some help sometimes As Paul Warren says they are eating the elephant one bite at a time Given the history of the past few months I confidently predict A total rewrite of DMS compatible with all previous editions but with much neater code and integration of most of the major accounting modules Simultaneously a subcontracted professional rewrite of the DMS manuals at a level of quality equal to the Sams manuals A national service network with ready parts availability as close and handy as your local GE repairman _ Much greater communication betwee
20. iving same 3 Need to know if C2 4P or the 8P disk series can be set up to handle the Fortran and Cobol OS CP M or if someone has already conceived another way 4 Do you have any info on the 560Z multiprocessing expander with manual Z 80 and 1 6100 microprocessors see Q3 Alan Korn Harrisburg PA ED Among the answers I would like to see are to these questions Why only 72 character input strings Can they be increased to 255 A really frustrating problem How can I simulate the statement of particular use processing and menu selections How could I go about extending the line length of the superboard to 64 or 80 characters How can I vary the output speed for various devices other than the tape recorder GET in word 4 BUS II V 2 1 BOOKKEEPING amp ACCOUNTING PACKAGE BUS II V 2 1 DEMONSTRATION SET BUS II PAY V 1 STAND ALONE PAYROLL PACKAGE MIMP V 2 2 MICROSYSTEMS INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PACKAGE MIMP SOURCE UNCRUNCHED SOURCE CODE FOR MIMP MIMP P V 2 2 MIMP FOR C8 P POLLED KEYBOARD SYSTEM ECR I P V 2 0 ELECTRONIC CASH REGISTER POLLING PROGRAM MIMP REQUIRED INV I OPTIONAL ECR I C V 2 8 ELECTRONIC CASH REGISTER DIGITAL CASSETTE SALES I V 2 1 SALES ANALYSIS PACKAGE FOR ANY PRESET STYLE CASH REGISTER MIMP REQUIRED INV I OPTIONAL INV I V 2 8 RESTAURANT INVENTORY AND MENU EXPLOSION MIMP REQUIRED SALES I OPTIONAL BUT RECOMMENDED DOCUMENTATION BU
21. n the factory and dealers to the point that important customer questions can be answered in hours or days rather than weeks or never as has been the case When will all these miracles occur Some have happened Others are in the works I like to think that PEEK 65 OSIO the other independent newsletters and the coordinated efforts of dealers have had something to do with all this In any case it feels very good te be associated with OSI right now and I predict it will feel even better by the time the weather gets cold Al Tech Notes by Dick McGuire Have you got some serial device which uses other than ASCII 7 bits no parity and two stop bits Do you want to Well it s very easy to do with that marvel of marvels the CA 10 X board commonly called the 550 The CA 10 X has up to 16 ports each with four buffers It has a read write status and a control buffer The read and write buffers have the same address as do the control and status registers The read and write buffer for port 1 is at CF00 and the ontrol status register is at CF01 The addresses for port 2 are CF02 and CF03 A write POKE to the read write buffer outputs a character and a read PEEK inputs a character Likewise a write to the control status register changes the contents of the control register while a read inputs status Options available are a clock divider 1 16 64 master reset 7 or 8 bits odd or even parity 1 or 2 stop
22. of wants and wishes and rank them by importance If we know WHERE we want to go we might get there Tom Westhoff Willmar MN Tom Dynamite Idea Readers let us know what you want and what you have If there is enough interest PEEK 65 will coordinate Al CORKY S CORNER Hello again Have been experiencing some of the problems with OSI equipment that I ve heard about and now have had to come to grips with Mine is a C3A with a I don t wantta boot OS 65U problem Tried new software clear thru switching Siemens drives and still had the trouble Finally found THREE contacts on the connector that plugs into the 470 board broken Replaced the cable assembly the flat one and tried again to boot the system so far no dice Have just obtained another 470 board and will try to see if there might be a problem there Had a chance to do some booth duty at the recent NCC and put some time in on the new C2 D C3 D computer system This is the new 8 Winchester hard disk product that is in the same case as an OSI C3 OEM C2 OEM The one at the show was installed in one of the new desks and real neat looking Almost would like to have that rather than the C3A Europe was a blast Spent some time at the components show in Paris and had a look at a lot of computer systems on display Since the major products at the show were components there really weren t too many of the little guys there showing anything but hardware
23. research engineers have designed and produced a colour converter modulator which enables a C4P series system to be directly connected into the aerial socket of a standard unmodified PAL colour T V set The quality of the colour is superb and provision has also been made for sound to be transmitted through the RF signal N C1P Display you can generally tell a CIP user by his reddened eyes caused by eyestrain resulting from trying to decipher a full page of program text We have designed a modification which also gets rid of 50HZ jitter that generates three scan lines on the T V display between character rows which makes all the difference when it comes to readability A switch is included with the circuit so that the user can switch back to OSI standard display for graphics display Computer Consultants Ltd P O Box 2633 Auckland New Zealand ED RE where to peek amp poke in 65U for special info Ron Fial Fial Comp interfaced an AF IBM to our Challenger III He reduced memory size by 256 bytes and poked a routine in upper memory using BEXEC Since there was room left over I store today s date page counter device etc in that area and all my programs then have access to the data via PEEK s Bill Brown Cornelius OH ED l New to computer use 2 Having a hard time digging up software programs information If you have a list with descriptions as well as prices I would appreciate rece
24. s E Z to build and lots of fun 6 95 SOFTWARE Entertainment graphic games ASTROIDS 8K Similar to new arcade video game Navigate through space avoiding and destroying astroids and hostile alien spaceships 6 95 ENTRAPMENT Compete against the computer or another player in a fast reflex and strategy game where you attempt to trap your opponent 4 50 BATTLESTAR You are the commander of the battlestar Your mission is to destroy the invading Cylons before they wipe out uman civilization 4 50 CRUISE MISSILE Set the angle and velocity of the missile for the long range target and watch it graphically display its flight toward the target 4 50 DEPTH CHARGE You are the captain of the SS Challenger Your ship has to destroy the enemy subs before they surface asd destroy you 4 50 INBETWEEN The card game where you try to break the bank and win over 1000 4 50 KKKSPECIAL OFFER COMPLETE SOFTWARE SET 19 95 Send check or Money Order to DARE DESIGN amp DATA P O Box 8433 Baltimore MD 21234 14 My equipment C2 8P Basic in ROM 36K RAM cassette Some hints concerning inputting from cassette and keyboard l If you have large RAM and long programs keep inputs from cassette early in the program and ahead of any data statements which may change in extent from one use of the program to another 2 Consider the following 10 DIM A 100 4 100 For I 1 to 100 110 INPUT A I 1 A 1 2 A 1 3 A 1 4
25. s complete disk files produces aged accounts receivable analysis Takes inputs in any order prints statements always in date order of transactions Requires 65U 298 00 a mer SANDERS MACHINE LANGUAGE SORT MERGE FOR OS 65U Complete disk sort and merge OS DMS compatible handles multiple fields documentation shows you how to call from any BASIC program then return to it or any other BASIC program on any disk floppy or hard Most versa tile and fastest sort merge yet It should cost more but Sanders says sell it for just 89 00 TOTAL Maryland Residents add 5 Tax Cash enclosed TOTAL DUE J Bill my Master Charge Visa Account No Expiration date Signature Name Street State Zip DBMS ING VISA 1819 Bay Ridge Av Suite 220 k Annapolis MD 21403 PROGRAMS for OSI 65U V1 2 1 22 80 or later update including 1 OSI newsletter info incorporated into programs 2 enhancements for operators 3 useful utility and demos 4 rewrite of disk manual Send this adv copy and a original OSI 8 disk with 10 00 or b 15 00 for disk without system c 5 00 for manual alone Indiana residents add 4 sales tax TERMS The buyer agrees not to sell or give the info to others Name Address City State Zip C amp J Supply Box 806 Marion IN 46952 ADS C1P SUPERBOARD II MOD KIT ANNOUNCED The Super Mod Kit overcomes the 24 character 12 l
26. tics scope waveforms and board photos All you need to be a C1P or SII Wizard just 7 95 C4P Sams Photo Facts Manual Includes pinouts photos schematics for the 502 505 527 540 and 542 boards A bargain at 15 95 OSI s Small Systems Journals The complete set July 1977 through April 1978 bound and reproduced by PEEK 65 Full set only 10 00 ne RESEQ 5 2 BASIC program resequencer plus much more Global changes tables of bad references GOSUBs amp GOTOs variables by line number resequences parts of programs or entire programs handles line 50000 trap Best debug tool I ve seen MACHINE LANGUAGE VERY FAST Re quires 65U Manual amp samples only 5 Everything for 50 00 KYUTIL The ultimate OS DMS key f le utility package Creates loads and sorts multiple field conditionally loaded key files sorting at over 200 entries per second Never sort another master 100 00 SUPERMAIL The last word in mailing list packages Uses DMS and the Pa fastest label printing technique known to produce zip sorted labels He y complete ABC circulation reports Includes programs for input editing vj dupe checking automatic soundex generation label and report gener ation link regeneration renewal notices Requires 65U 798 00 The Credit System Accepts and verifies inputs charges and payments for a charge account system then prints monthly statements ages receivables maintain
27. ty Drive Arlington Heights Ill 60004 312 870 7400 Requires OS OMS and WP 2 2729 Lowery Ct a f OS OMS WP 2 0S 55i anc 05 650 ARE ALL PRODUCTS OF OHIO SCIENTIFIC Zion IL 60099 Pease 200 51 50 on ose sreers for smog SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE for Ohio Scientific C1P C2 C4 C8 SOFTWARE HARDWARE gt Games gt Bare Boards gt Terminal Routines gt Memory Kits gt FORTH for Ohio Scientific 2RS 232 Kits for CIP Educational Programs gt Polled Keyboards gt Stat stical Programs gt Scientific Programs INFORMATION PACKS Conversion from ROM BASIC to disk MANUALS OSI SAMS CIP 6 95 _ C4P MF 14 95 Send 1 00 for our NEW 1980 TECHNICAL PRODUCTS CO Full Line Catalog Box 12983 University Station Gainesville Florida 32604 10 BKM S NUMERIC KEYPAD 65 FOR OHIO SCIENTIFIC OR LEAR SIEGLER S ADM 3A FEATURES Digits 0 9 Decimal Point and Return Terminal Quality Keypad Ready to use with C4 s and C8 s Two Color Beige Brown Case Size 7 D x 5 W x 2 H Documentation OPTIONS Adapter cable kit for 10 minute INSTALLATION 4 95 SPECIFY Superboard C1 C2 4P C2 8P WE PAY SHIPPING TO CONTINENTAL U S TEXAS RESIDENTS ADD 5 V SYSTEMS ORDER DIRECT OR ASK YOUR OSI DEALER CORPORATION FOREIGN ORDERS ADD 30 AVAILABLE JUNE 1 3809 OLD COLLEGE ROAD 713 846 8268 BRYAN TEXAS 77801 713 846 3817 11 GOODIES for 05 Users C1P Sams Photo Facts Manual Complete schema
28. unable to find any 4 programmers who can be of assistance to us from the Panmu jon get conducting an answer and trying to the company is like conference We would be more than willing to software or consulting to solve minor problems pay for these Keep the practical stuff coming R J Murray Hayfork CA R J Your 23 MB CP M problems are caused by CP M s need for additional RAM at the same address used by the hard disk buffer CP M version 2 0 now available from Lifeboat Associates in New York is supposed to solve this problem Has anyone out there tried it Al ED I have enjoyed reading your mag and wish you success in the future I thought that it was about time for me to put in my two bits worth G R Laverick asks how to be able to print the special graphic characters on his C8PDF Ans the software always strips the 8th bit as a parity bit and checks to see if it is a valid ASCII character and the special graphics characters are not This is done to make the C8 compatible with standard CRT s I am typing this letter on a C8P with a standard CRT If you use 65D instead of 65U you can print graphic characters with CHR x by using the following pokes POKE 9634 255 POKE 9660 0 POKE 9664 0 POKE 9656 0 For people who would like to have input statements that don t scroll the screen here is a poke that will disable the LF function POKE 9644 42 will disable LF POKE 96
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