Answers to the letter № 30-33.

23/04/1999 Krasnoyarsk 660131

Hello!


   Please! Write how you have to
email to purchase a complete set of KEMPSTON
MOUSE for ZX-SPECTRUM-128:

   1. Complete payment

   2. Mouse

   3. Passport documentation for connecting

   4. Diskette with the programs under the mouse


   Thank you in advance!



   At the moment the device Kempston
Mouse (Section 1.3) discontinued.

   Will soon be launched in
production Multicard "Mouse + Keyboard XT / AT" by CPG COMPLEX. 
Approximate time of the sale - Summer / Fall 1999 Estimated 
price - 200-250 USD



C Nemo. 23.04.99
26.04.99 C Nemo Reason: translation
01/05/1999 in the amount of 207 p.

Dear N!


   Company C Creat Soft discontinue
Device Kempston Mouse, so to fulfill an order is literally 
impossible. With so decided to organize a new

firm that will specialize
in the production of more advanced devices
similar purposes under the bus Nemo-bus
(Compatible top-down with Scorpion). I
I can not guarantee a positive outcome
This meropiyatiya at least 100
%. However, in the market, these devices are needed and will 
make its best efforts to forge their release. Presumably, it 
will multicards RS-232 (standartnoy!) / AT / XT-keyboard / 
Kempston Mouse in the form of expansion cards. Your money went 
to finance project. Perhaps you are not satisfied.

Therefore I propose the following options:

   a) (by default - you can not meet) during the year, ie until 
05.01.2000 You will be supplied to the device company C

CPG COMPLEX, or get a refund on
factor at the time of refund. In
As compensation Pogue offer
to order any products from the main directory (or n / directory 
ISDOS) in the amount of 100 r. ($ 40) (50% per annum + your

risk);

   b) (response letter) you waive
order and get back the money, taking into account the 
coefficient: 

   For example, on 04/26/1999, k = 2.5, therefore:
115 x 2.5 = 287.5 p.
428037 11.04.99


   Hello!


   Of course, I forgot about the book
Z180-hard. I myself was going to write
You so that you redesigned my order
the remaining amount.

   I would prefer if you sent me running iS-DOS 98 
(distribution), but sending the small wait. Case that I'm gonna 
have you ordered something else. 

   And More, for lack of information I have, could you please 
send me the pinout for ICs 411,000, which is specified in You 
are in the directory. 

23.04.99


   IC 411000 rather scarce, and
the next version of the catalog will be designated as spare 
parts for KAY-1024. Ie will be sent only as a spare owners 
KAY-1024. You also can not recommend 44,256: The price is the 
same, there is documentation and layout (corporate) 
documentation will cost you $ 10 (Photocopy + reference) 

  NEMO 11.05.99

624350 27.04.99


   Dear NEMO!


   And not waiting for our blood denezhek, write you an angry 
letter. If you remember, you got the money in mid-December (we 
claim because that they were sent by telegraph, and therefore 
were a matter of days) and ordered was the price Scorpion ZS 
256 (!!!). After waiting for promises of a month, we began to 
gradually worry did you first call.

You have assured us that everything is in order and that
we will soon get the promised payment. After waiting another 
month, we are concerned more and make you another call and 
again heard the same thing as the first time. So we decided to 
wait for another and once again history repeated itself. Then 
we called you and asked us to send our honestly earned, what 
were your fervent agreement. And here was 3 weeks (although the 
transfer from you to us is 10 days) and money still no!? And 
now let me ask, what does happen? If you have, in St. 
Petersburg is not enough time out to go to the post and send

230 rubles, then a little unclear to us than
you're out there doing. Previously, we found your company 
reliable, we now have doubts. We krnechno understand that you, 
too difficult (the crisis because after all), but we did

Please bring back his own, though for our
same account. Ugly somehow. So the return, please our money.

14.04.99 18:24

(Original spelling retained)


   Dear N!


   Fully apologizing for giving
concern, however, will turn your
attention to the not so good luck
circumstances. At your request, have been bought three (!) 
Board Scorpa. None of They failed to bring to the required 
conditions "(referring to W). And the gap the time between your 
last call and receiving a registered letter (!) spent

in unsuccessful attempts to bring to mind
the third charge - a candidate for sending
You - would still fulfill the order ... Apparently the cause of 
failure is low skills and / or failure of coincidence. Whatever 
it was, price tag (see price) grew substantially, and

probably will continue to grow at an accelerated pace. 
Reputation is really worth more expensive than some stinking 
board, and not I would like to lose her, either now or in the

future. According to the old rates are already
impossible. Moreover, in my estimation, about a year - two 
would be cheaper to make a new KAY-1024 than to revive old 
Scorp. And not just for me. There are some technical issues,

which I would prefer not to aggravate
Your attention, so as not to disappoint. That
As regards trade Scorp'ami, the soup with
These "eggs" is practically zero. Done
as this is done so now in order to
control the rate of "garbage can"
Spectruma, which is a strange way to
90% of the boards Scorpa. To me he resembles a bunch of 
garbage, consisting of unpaid bills of the manufacturer. Now I 
have other tools price control and distribution of lost its 
meaning. 

   Now about the actual refund.
Your idea that the producer money sticking out from all pockets 
of Unfortunately, some do not correspond to

reality. If a firm does something produces, and is not engaged 
in speculation, piracy, or profanity,

free money there is little - they
connected in reverse. Moreover, these same
Capital money is constantly lacking
because of what has to arrange natural exchanges, climb on the 
garbage tanks IBM in the search for components and deal with

other not very pleasant things. Available funds, if there are 
(after prepay all vital for the production of items of 
expenditure), then the average does not more than once a month.


   Now as to what
ugly. Not nice to take a loan (and deposit - this is the same 
Credit) and return it is not full (ie without loss

on inflation and the renvoi, not to mention
already on the percentage).

P.S. 12/21/1998 has been received 250 rubles. on
Phone. order from 12.10.1998

   04/26/1999 was returned by telegraph
300 rub. (Taking into account the growth rate in
price list). Sending a cost of 45 rubles 12 kopecks.

P.P.S. Pay attention to the new paragraph
price list, typed in bold
"It's important." Many orders are not fulfilled
in time due to inability to meet them, and not on someone's 
negligence or evil selfish interests. In this case affected 
both you and the firm NEMO. My own fault lies in the fact that 
it is not able to calculate the situation in the next six 
months. 

  NEMO 27.04.99

301030 11.05.99


   Hello!


   Please send me a price list. AND
More! Heard that "skorpionovtsev" is
MIDI interface. Does he have you? If
there - give the information.


   Dear N!


   Nikakog MIDI in "skorpionovtsev" as you
deigned to speak, no. According to my information, some MIDI 
device under Zonov released, but since the money in their 
projects He never invested, And this does not wash

has taken root in the market. Ie no
software, advertising and information support. Agree, this 
anecdote - Zonov once did MIDI (or rather, it simply nastrogal 
"churochek", so yes, naked and sold), and you ask me now 
"information" via MIDI. 

   In addition, actual use on
"Scorpe" problematic extensions. And, over time, as the 
structure of the equipment, these problems are multiplying like 
rabbits fibonachievy. 

   As for firms Nemo, then the issue of MIDI interface is not 
planned, because it requires serious tools for promotion and 
advancement devaysa - especially when you consider that the 
logo "MIDI" Zonov already "Vparil", ie name sold. These

money can be consumed and more useful
platform method.

  Nemo 11.05.99

428023 11.05.99


   Hello.


   You wrote the owner a simple Spectrum-compatible PC "Delta C
128 +.

   I read your article in the P-le N 5 / 95 on
controller PC keyboard and would like to order his own mail, if 
possible, because I have no way of knowing Do you sell HARDWARE 
mail. 

   I give 100% guarantee for the purchase of this devaysa.

   Sincerely.


   Dear N!


   At this point controllers XT-KLAVA
removed from production, because obsolete. Demand for the 
controllers was not so active, so it made sense to modify 
(refine) design. However, in the near future, due to the 
deterioration of membrane keyboards, demand has rise. Firm CPG 
COMPEX now developed a new kontrollermultikarta under 
KEMPSTON-MOUSE and the XT / AT-keyboard. Approximate price p 
500-600. Presumably, will go on sale in autumn 1999 Can you 
prepay, the forward p 400. (Now). If something does not work, 
and maps will not be released, the money at a rate of return in 
deuabre 1999 - January 2000. Or, order the fall price list.


Nemo 11.05.99

622021 11.05.99


   Hello dear Nemo!


   Recently I wanted to write you a letter and
discuss-some issues of spektrumskoy life, but took just now.
I'm 15, I know assembler, but recently I
bought a Celeron-300 and I, instead, to actively change seats 
on it, it was still a fan of the Spectrum. I tried to learn asm 
PC, but it seemed to me before ugly or something, and I was 
somehow still a little worried about structured programming. 
Simply put, the PC is not that I do not ochenb Like, I really 
do not like. About Windows'y I did not mention. Vobschem, speccy

rulez. Yes, only sellers specc'ovskogo
software (pirates, of course) threw it all
business and now sit on Pentium'ah, and neither of
than not know and do not want to know. And the relationship with
the outside world disappeared for Tagil
spektrumistov. Because I am writing to you to
know what is happening in St. Petersburg and Moscow.
The last thing we saw was a ZF-7 and
"Black Crow".

   In addition, I grabbed the idea Transformer'a. Here are some 
considerations: 


   1. Compatibility still means more
for the players than opportunities. Therefore, apparently, it 
would be better to make two computer in one.



   2. Why not make the computer an "anti-PC", ie comfortable, 
beautiful, and most importantly, do not degrade people, and 
loyal each of his mind and senses.



   3. This global project requires
involve all interested people.
Therefore, you should put his or e-mail.
edition or take a permanent place in the already
existing (ZF, for example.).

   It is extremely important to me also to learn about
Your project, e-books, as I
would gladly bought something.

   Another idea about the Tr-r'a: if
allow the use of resources such as CD-ROM or even HDD
IDE, it would significantly increase among
users of the value of Tr-r'a (although the price too).

   And the main philosophy of the Tr-r'a need
not take RS'shnoe ripoffs more money, "but" more room for 
creativity. " After all, if a computer for users, it will only 
"use" [the author apparently has in mind "Use" because Old 
Russian word "Use" - a synonym for the word "cure."

Ca. "Typist"] as a PC or PS, but to create it would be 
unrealistic - example of this MS.


   To no longer take your time, I
finish. If you want me to answer -
porazmyshdyaem more, but because I do not even
I know for a fact at writing, then I will not
continue.

   Regards, N


   19.04.99



   Hello, N!


   Well for starters, you still are not 15 years.
Judging by the text of the letter and the method of 
presentation - all the same letters come sufficiently a large 
number - you should not be less than 18 and. Although perhaps I 
am somewhat behind the times, and acceleration is made

powerful new breakthrough. Or maybe it is
Network ... Well, God be with him - whatever the
letter was open, so I do not
fundamentally, with whom I meet, as well as
reasons for what you are misrepresenting some
information about yourself. Hereinafter.


   1. Celeron-300. Nice car. Something
sort of HF among the tanks. Very expensive -
not the machine itself, and computer time: (for
tank analogue - lifespan) is mad
money. I'm on such a machine divorced
board. Rent somewhere around 300 cars-hours per year. Rest of 
the time this "Train was standing on the siding," because

operation is very expensive. It's like heavy tanks - in areas 
breakthrough during major strategic transactions - other times 
are in hangars or on the upgrade. After Celeron his case will 
(and he does it well - podrazognali to 450 - no longer, in CPU 
clock cycles for the multiplication of a fixed five - So only 
at the expense of bus ...) Also addition, the tanker and that 
we should - under PCAD'om polvinta. After the heavy tank

their business do - a gap in the defense,
course are light tanks - 486 - is "sharpening" PCB-files for a 
specific industrial equipment, artwork documentation, price 
lists, advertising, etc. Ie cut rokadnye direction and tanks 
out on the operating room and do a little nix in the rear. Next 
on the occupied territories on the "lorry" is thrown infantry, 
ammunition supply being established, supply and infrastructure. 
And it is Spectrum'y. Typing [by the way, I type in Pentiume 
:-). Note "typists"], software support, etc. To me, as 
commander, put The regular weapons - a pistol, "TT", namely, 
the calculator "CEBAR": 25 keys, w / to display. The role of 
the holster carries the rear pants pocket. If I have to grasp 
at the machine [This, I believe, none other than the soldering 
iron?] or get behind the wheel "lorry" [Really

Sinclair? " But what about behind the wheel without a license
what ?!... :-)] - This means that I lopuhnulsya and somewhere 
that is not taken into account, ie bad commander. It sometimes 
happens, what to say ... 

   Military themes touched upon, as we
a national holiday - Victory Day - the so-
'm not obezsudte. [Do not believe him! It was he
Suvorov, having read ... :-)]. By the way, the military, ie, 
professional tankers, piss [original spelling preserved] by

laugh when they see some farmer
which tries to accommodate a tank for
plowing the infield. Because
He then began firing a cannon at sparrows and agricultural 
pests, the fence itself drift off course, the shack ... Eagle 
in a word ... Do not cut one, that the tank - part of army 
vehicles 


   2. Already out ZX-F N8 and on the approach ZX-F
N9. Soon to be "Black Raven - 2. By the way, about the sellers 
- why by not to do? It is always easier to find the extreme and

obtdetsya on them - on what was worth. Well
as well - we are programmers, - creators, - and
trade - the case plebeian ... Is that right? A
result - that sit themselves in the pelvis with
shit.


   3. You captured the idea of "TRANSFORMER'a.
This is very bad. Probably, you are prone to
the cult of performance and mashinopoklonnichestvu. Important 
than technical characteristics, and their actual content

consumer sense, ie demand, which occurs when the machine
(Architecture) conformable tasks and
and common sense. While I do not see the point
the release of such mashinyyu Incidentally, the text was
written in retaliation fetishists - firms
"Peters" and "Scorpion" and their clients
("Sprinter" and "GMX"). It was an example of synthesis of 
architecture, which, ever maybe you can liven up, get to work, 
ie to live [Thanks, explained :-)]. "Sprinter" and also "GMX" 
were stillborn at the moment of his conception [And I thought 
that the moment of birth from the moment of conception 
separates some period ... ;-)]. By the way, I suspect that

and zonal and the Sox are well aware
but they are interested in advertising. You should have seen
how much lamer there escaped! So
They have not lost.


   Now, actually about the concept.


   1. Compatibility can not be
100%. In architecture, there is always a rudiment, (biological, 
evolutionary terms). Even in a series KAY compatibility between 
the models are not 100%. Somewhere 99% from model to model. 
This option, incidentally, was reserved in a commercial 
environment sale. For the average user, such

almost imperceptible loss of compatibility. For companies 
developing and manufacturing - It is a strategic option - 
legalized (in sales) right to development. "TRANSFORMER" at the 
moment, if will be created - and technically, and even

financially it is quite possible for Nemo,
would have a 80% software compatibility is not
above. Even if I'm in the face of the firm Nemo get the trust 
of users by 95% compatibility, even in this case, 4 
intermediate models: 0.95 ^ 4 = 0.81. If we consider that the 
model needs to develop, "settle in" about 2 years, we have 
already eight years old! This is just the time constants of 
development of virtual worlds. And no there is not Celeron'ami 
proshibesh because that's not the technology, but the user's 
head. If I or anyone else now will produce "TRANSFORMER", - it 
will be just a bunch - the emission of gases with a 
characteristic sound, after atmosphere in which the platform is 
strongly deteriorate. 


   2. Two computers in one. This is a very
typical for an initial period of tank development - a lot of 
turrets, all of which rotate so even shooting! But it turned 
out that it is - dead-end solution. Tank with one tower and one 
gun is very fast dealt with the many-tower tank. Think, it's 
probably has some grounds that you have one tower and not

two? Mother Nature for some reason decided it was
so. If the calf is born with two heads, he will not live long. 
Head, tower, architecture, if the stuff in one "Bottle" are 
starting to interfere with each other, lost integrity, 
expediency. Have to duplicate the life support systems, 
non-rational to expend resources ... Because architecture is 
complementary to [More congenial if so ...;-)] mentality, the 
user's head starts to "bifurcate", "rastraivaytes and etc. 
Total architectures. Here we not dealing with a schizoid "split"

personality that is banal (as this case
described in psychiatry as schizophrenia), and
non-trivial cases "rastroeniya or
even "raschetvereniya" personality, as in
per head (cupola, architecture) to cram in a fraction of their 
brains, and not my uncle. At sufficiently aggressive

implementing this architecture on the market
mental hospital may not survive.

   If you set aside hihanki, then
actual events unfold differently. Each user is currently 
oblyubuet one "turret" and the rest will be dragged a dead 
weight, day and night, constantly interfering with work. 
Because different users, presumably, different turret then they 
can not communicate. Therefore, software will be two times 
worse due to double overlap, and thus weaken each of the 
architectures and will it in half, because each sister on 
earrings - that is, 50% re- emerging software on each "pinnacle"

(Architecture). Total: software support and worse and less than 
two times. 

   About "... a true friend of mind and
feelings ... "below.

   Information about the support you
're right - it is needed. That is why
appeared "Open Letters" (see price list)
- Hot line. Well, and strategic aviation - e-journals (and, in 
the first turn, ZX-F) zaduystvovana. How is it that

You've decided that I do not have permanent
place in the ZX-F? Need to be more observant.


   3. Electronic books. Intra [vnutrinemovoe ;-)] Project name
"Clay Gun." His project title
raped after guards weapon that was used back in the Civil 
Chapaev war. Virtual design is a package of the rotating shafts 
(for increase rate of fire), as in aircraft cannon. In each 
barrel immured pinky Aminataby Buddha, which is known, turns to 
nothing is what it is points. In essence this is a new, no one

not tested and do not apply
design. Therefore, a serious
Preparatory work. And technical
(Program), and administrative and organizational (necessary to 
create appropriate structures, and it is very slowly) and 
financial (all require a money). While clay gun is

at the stage of field trials. The first sample was rejected 
because of the low reliability rate and cost. Now it appears 
that it is nearing completion. According to calculations, the 
power of the gun will be such that it can carry any tower, 
including to Ostankino. Presumably, the trunks

unwind to the calculated values, the
two - three. Watch for advertisements and
prices.


   4. IDE HDD controller has been
three years. The first batch was released
about six months before Zonovskogo SMUC'a,
and served as his prototype. The first controller in early 1996 
in IskraSoft bought personally Zonov. I have already said that 
we should to be more careful. As for

CD-ROM'a ... I doubt that he is needed in
Spectrum'e. As for the connection, it is not
see a problem: the bus is IDE / ATA, ie IDE HDD devices 
suitable for CD-ROM, - would wish for programmers to write 
something. Can and will write ... 

   5. What you call philosophy -
in fact it is an ideology. In fact, there is no art in itself. 
Man, ending in a fist, or a writer, ending in the table - is 
not a man not a writer, and onanist and graphomaniac. Creative 
principle should be fruitful, it must descend, flow into the 
world, it ennobling. In the mystical theology

this synergy (meaning mystical
Theology of the Eastern Church). Creativity,
if it does not ennoble the world is sinful.
That's why I do not like Rukosuev,
mutilate components, building communism in one
single apartment. As programmers, not to create useful 
products, and demonstrating his toughness - the so-called DEMO. 
Therefore, the machine does not zhdya creativity as such, for 
himself - and machine synergy? co-creation in the world.

As for the money, it seems, already
fool, it is clear that they always smell. Money, on the 
ideology of Old Believers - a divine power, control over which 
rather cross, rather than a gift. If a person is weak, then it 
is no longer controls the energy of money, but on the contrary, 
the energy money controls it. He becomes a slave to money and 
his money are doing evil. Such in the next life are usually 
born earth worms. Measure of manpower - the talent of 
compassion. It's innate, basic human characteristic, like an 
ear for music. The development also goes through the education 
and upbringing. Talent compassion multiplied by the intellect 
(the product of upbringing and education) and money - and a 
creative principle. In the absence of any ingredient mixture 
nedeespopobna. As you see, between money and creativity are not

there is always a contradiction. On the contrary, the most 
interesting are those rare cases where they coincide. This is 
the "business" (Newspeak word, does not fit), more precisely 
"Enterprise" - is in Russian. Only compassion gives a person 
the divine sense of divine protection. Ie man

feels like an organic part - a part of the world body on the 
one hand, and the world body - part of yourself. It extends as 
a deity - in an infinitely time and space. Only through the 
depth of compassion received grace (supernormal on Newspeak) 
are encumbered commensurate with its responsibilities and does 
not become evil. 

   It's you I gave the example of ideology,
make you feel it differs from the philosophy that through the 
mental and the net Constructs [?] language (logos, in Greek). 
The ideology is an element of faith, so it can create worlds - 
including the computer. 

   As for the PC - then in my opinion, lacking some important 
characteristics, namely, adaptation to possible synergies, MS 
is doomed to narrow professional applications. He was so 
conceived. Trying to turn it into Russia a home computer would 
create a Big skotobazy. If a person is not controlled by the 
computer, it means that your computer will control it. Computer 
easily turn a man into his appendage. This is already happening.


   At last wish. Be more
specific. Annoying streamlined
formulations. What does "more room for creativity? What is the 
point you are invest it? No. Try

to formulate, articulate. Lay,
at least for myself, it's on the shelves. This
very important. It is more important than technical 
specifications. This is the place where they ie specifications 
are taken. It is an ideology. In the meantime, I see that the 
ideology Spectrum'a represents a empty space ... That's why 
people Durkee and does not know what to do. It is therefore 
required an escalation of technical characteristics. That is 
why the torture of happiness on the PC framework of ...


11.05.99 Nemo