Month: August 1978

Library Pak 1B $ 5. 00 Library Pak 2 $ 5.00 Programmers Workshop II $ 6.00 Disk Workshop $ 6.00 Integer Basic Tutorial $ 15.00 Danny’s Text Editor $ 45.00 Apple Box {mini-modem} $ 18.50 Apple Box II (with speaker) $ 23.50 Applesoft Workshop {watch for notice} Programs submitted to our library and accepted will receive a free library Pak.

We are fairly current on filling orders at this time. All orders received prior to July 15th should have been filled. If you do not receive your tape within 30 days, please check with us. However, we have every hope of being able to handle a 10 day turnaround time.

Currently, only the July issue is available. We plan to reprint April, May and June as time and money permit. If you have not received the back issue you want, please send a self-addressed envelope and 41 ¢ postage, along with the issues you desire. We will fill the orders, but it may take quite some time.

By Mike Thyng In the previous articles, we’ve discussed types of files – sequential and random – and general facts and figures about the PERSCI floppy disk drive. This issue I’d like to explore some of the actual commands necessary to get data to and from the diskettes. Before you can write a file, you have to do something called “opening” it.  This defines to your program that some related data – let’s say names and addresses – is going…

18 July 1978 Meeting began promptly at 7:16. We again introduced ourselves in Lynnwood OMEGA’s meeting room and found 41 members attending. Tom Geer, who is recovering from a broken leg, sent word that he orders his APPLE hardware directly from APPLE in California and dispelled any contrary rumors that had been circulating. We’ve got about 800 dollars in the treasury and most of it is committed to prior obligations. Ron and Darrell Aldrich have been busy working on a…

A pencil, scratch pad and you – that’s all you need to convert HEX TO DECIMAL, or DECIMAL TO HEX. Based on the fact that unit, ten, hundred, and thousand columns have a unique set of values for hexadecimal, the above table will assist you convert either way. This remainder equals 8 in the LSB column, and. HEX(8). So, the HEX number for 14632 is,3928. This might seem cumbersome, but it is surprising how rapid this conversion can become with…