Specifications

(The 4040 price is based on the fact we can't get language disks in 4040, and so
must convert the 8050s shipped to 4040 and supply the added disks). Order V1.1
now or forever hold your peace. Make checks to ISPUG. Send order to the Editor,
SuperPET Gazette, P0 Box 411, Hatteras, N.C. 27943. State format.
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ONCE OVER LIGHTLY We haven't used every brand of disk on the market, but
Miscellaneous Notes have found two that are extremely good: Maxell and 3M;
In two years, we haven't lost the first disk in either
brand, employing two computers week in, week out. A box of Elephants died within
a year. Want disks? Our Secretary can get some brands for members at very low
prices, and supplies other stuff, hardware and software (some for the 64) at
equally low rates. Write him at 4782 Boston Post Road, Pelham, N.Y. 10803 for a
price list. Sample: Maxells (DD,SS) go for $27.00 per box of 10. Beat that. Add
N.Y. sales tax if you live in N.Y. He also can get PAPERCLIP for you (SPET ver
sion) for $150. He has SPET manuals. Add 3% shipping and handling, all orders.
MODEM The Anchor Mark I RS-232 modem, which runs at 300 baud and sells for a
modest $99.95, does a nice job with SuperPET. No fancy autodial, but after 1984
begins, dialing long distance on Ma Bell will be an exercise in patience.
SORRY! Gary Ratliff commented that Waterloo's mainframe BASIC doesn't let you
pass parameters when CHAINing (letter supplment to issue nine), Waterloo sends a
note: "Full-blown Waterloo BASIC for IBM 360s and 370s does allow the passing of
single values of matrices to a CHAINed program. These parameters are referenced
in the CHAINed program with a USE statement." We stand corrected.
NO WORDPRO 6 There will not be a WordPro 6 for SuperPET, according to Ron Pat
rick of Professional Software. He called and spoke for Harold Dickerman, Product
Manager. The rumor is dead. Oh, well. See PAPERCLIP review, this issue.
UD11 DOES WORK Loren Felten dropped a note and said he has a WordPro ROM in
stalled in UD11 on a two-board, two-switch SuperPET, and WordPro works fine. He
checked and said POKE 61438,0 does not turn it off (that POKE turns off any chip
in U45, the $9000 socket). We prefer U46, on the top board, for $A000 ROMS, as
you don't have to remove the top board to get to U46. U46 works well. We have a
PAPERCLIP chip there; others report that WordPro is okay in that socket.
IMPORTANT: Apparently a lot of new readers (and some old hands) never noticed
the patch for microBASIC V1.1 we published in Vol. 1, p. 38. Without the patch,
mBASIC 1.1 will print a carriage return after the 79th character on a line. The
patch was published (V.1, No. 6), and is on ISPUG disk one as 'patch 2'. Use it!
SORRY ABOUT THAT DEPT. Last issue we published TAB, an ML program to set tabs
from menu, and it works fine, but you probably noticed it makes the menu flicker
twice after it runs. We found out why: library routine GETCHAR_ thirsts for CR's
and won't give up until it gets one. All manner of mad things happen in ML pro
grams if you do not feed the damned beast its CR. So, stuff the loop at left in
to TAB.ASM, the assembler file, right after jsr tabset_. It
loop not only gets the CR but also gobbles up any excess charac-
jsr getchar_ ters you may have entered. Beware of GETCHAR_ in any pro-
cmpb #$0d program if you leave the CR 'ungot',
until eq
There's a better way to get a single character: use KYPUTB_
from the library, at $DD82. This 'gets' a character from the keyboard without
SuperPET Gazette, Vol.I No. 11
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December 1983/January 1984