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Bill Dunlop · Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:31:
Hi Adam and all
To answer your questions.
My wife and I owned a small craft shop specializing in plastercraft and soft-fired
ceramics. We carried all of the tools and finishing supplies for these as well as other
art supplies. I used my '68 to keep inventories, using a great(wish I could get it now!)
flexi-form database from Tom Woods (I think that was his name, I will look this up
later), Tasword (64 char-wide word-processor) running a dot-matrix printer and the Larken
interface with 4 floppy drives and a Larken RAM-Disk, and a spreadsheet for some simple
bookkeeping.
We also ran an entertainment booking service for clowns, magicians etc. and for this I
used the "Tim-X" for keeping billing and calendars straight.
The main limitations were the result of my hanging interfaces and such off the backplane
and suffering the famous "wobble-crashes" of the old "1000 Ram-pack" days. A solid piece
of plywood for a foundation and some wire-ties fixed most of these.
The CCATS was our local Timex-Sinclair user group Clackamas County Area Timex Sinclair.
Our news letter was "The Plotter". We had as a charter member the largest after market
Timex-Sinclair dealer in the US (at that time), Rod Gowen of RMG Enterprises. We also had
as a member Tim Woods, publisher of "Time Designs" magazine. Our little group was quite
active for some time. Our "parting shot" was to publish a book "The Best of the Plotter"
using material from our past news-letters and progs. from members.
At the time of the groups dissolution I was the librarian and I still have these
materials in storage. I fear "bit-rot" for the stored cassette tapes but will try to
salvage what I can .
OhnO the Clown