Answers to the letter № 79-85.

           Hello NEMO!


    You wrote ...................... of
Voronezh. Recently, the ZX-club came from
you letter. I am honored Price and would like to
order you have several programs for
Is-DOS; as well as the printer driver (This
in the file "To_Leo.W"). Nemogli you would also
send scheme IDE-controller of your company
(In "Open_Letters" were comments about
that ZF'8 there were errors.)

    Now a little about yourself. I am 17 years old.
Speccy appeared in the 94th and is in my
table to this day. This PENTAGON 128 (71680
tackts) with COVOX'om, printer ROBOTRON CM
6329.02 (RS-232) (prints only from TLW and
SCREENya PRINTER'a;) Some kodyu on ASM'e.
But in general I have more interest
zhelezyachnye questions. Going to expand
Memory up to 512K (scheme already has ...); and
connect Kempston Mouse.



    Well, time to stop.


    Song for saying good!

    I await your reply.

P.S. You a big hello from Cusick from
Spectum-club.

P.P.S. Brand in the envelope from a floppy disk.



394062 13.09.99


              Dear N!


   1. Sending circuit controller IDE.

   Allow myself to some general observations.

   You did the right thing, which formalized
sending in two letters. It's easier.
Can simultaneously handle both queries
(In (c) Nemo and ISDOS), it reduces the
time. The only thing that I would like to
draw your attention to is the standard
submission of letters - our ISDOS'e convenient because it is 
our corporate system, our standard. In particular, for all the 
merits and the steepness of your shell lyrics to your letters 
had to "break out" from there. Moreover, the time spent on it 
was higher than would spend on an electronic version

Your letters (I mean: in ISDOS diskette with your Commander) - 
that is, HAND on the set with the same hard copy (Eg, 
handwritten letters). 

   Now on iron. Memory expansion
impractical. Of course, the pleasure
derived from the work of a soldering iron and odor
rosin difficult than ever to replace, but
If you connect a hard drive, then the memory you do not need. 
But reliability, maintainability and liquidity companies may 
suffer very seriously. Then same goes for the controller 
MOUS'a, - in ISDOS'e not support it. Have

repeat every day the same thing - if
You do not want to buy a new computer, then at least not 
kurochte old! After sawing the branch on which sit.



                                 (C) Nemo

P.S. Back hi Cusick of Spectrum-club. We have, unfortunately, 
such no. At one time, many users in St. Petersburg decided that 
if there is a network, then the club is not necessary, but now 
sit at the left with nothing. It would be interesting if

you could write (or Cusick), as arranged
Your club, what are the rules for whose account is contained, 
what they do. This could be published in the "Open Letters" to 
exchange experiences. (And for good reason, as is the incoming 
mail). 

   If not difficult, give one Cusick
from floppy disks.
432027 20.09.99


   I ask you to send me a COD system diskettes (5,25) N 04, 17,
18, 29, 50, 60 (Katalog LOGROS) + fresh
Price-list + directory software.



              Dear N!


   COD not sell. Explain why. Yield of government securities 
are now 73% per annum. In addition to its literal meaning, this 
figure has more common sense. This is a risk in the market.

When you make a prepayment, then my
the risk is zero. Therefore, we can keep the LOWEST PRICES. In 
addition, given the delay items, you and I still kredituete,

This is doubly LOW PRICES. In addition, there
ADDITIONAL RISKS that you refuse
printed matter - you can find lots of reasons
(This is if prepaid). When trading
COD Prices should be around 50% higher. What is 73% per annum
government securities? This is approximately 20% of these same
50% of cheating for cash on delivery. By
You prepay and get me kredituete
parcel post within 2-3 months after transfer
money. In the case of cash on me
have to invest money back in 2-3 months after the attachment.
(And to return the money or parcel with failure - still do not 
know). Total difference of 4-6 months. And what 4-6 months? It 
very much. The ruble in Russia drops every two to three years. 
And after such "times" the audience forgets about Spectrum'e 
for 2-4 months (based in turn for pasta). There is another 
consideration. While publicly standing, choir performed the 
song: "A-la-la, three rubles, expensive, expensive trade ...", 
COD is virtually impossible. I can imagine how rabid will be 
executed this verse (perhaps with anguish), if these

50% to drive the price (an additional factor of 1.5). Of 
course, if so, this song is sung, all efforts are applied to 
Moreover, to reduce the actual price tag itself. (Of course, in 
the process rassovav price CONDITIONS OF PURCHASE - the 
audience is usually them pays any attention). In addition,

it is also the compound interest. Mail takes
for the payment of 10%. Multiply 1.5 by 1.1 (the percentage of 
a percentage), and compare the results if you put 50% and 10%. 
Will you buy? Very doubtful. 

   We can even do the following experiment. You send me a 
letter with the willingness to pay half as much, I give the 
disc CASH, waiting for an answer. (Once you can do so on a 
trial basis). If this happens, the choir Pyatnitsky with its 
corona number - verse "A-la-la, three rubles ... "will be 
humiliated. Actually actually there are ways to reduce prices. 
This is a wholesale order. Of course, wholesaler must represent 
the interests of multiple users. (The public still then finds 
that buy from the manufacturer " cheaper - which is wrong). I 
can say that people who work in such a way at least, railway 
tickets pay off. (However, it is rather a

hard'u). With soft'om difficult because it is elementary 
voruetsya. 

   As for the actual composition of the order, it is better to 
turn right into Logros. Maybe he sells shipping payments 
(Soft'e it easier - less time, less risk, ie cheat there may be 
a percent of 30). Because Firm (s) Nemo software is not 
engaged, and have Outbid drives have Logros'a (that long,

difficult and tedious - given the amount of order)
then let me it will be the same 50%.


                                (C) Nemo.

626400 22.09.99


    Hello, my dear captain.


   Please send us me a catalog
(Price list) for your products (computers, hardware, software).

   I would also like to know about the operating system 
"Discovery" of "Opus" (I apologize if I write the names of

incorrectly). Once I read about it in
one of Spectrum magazine, which she
is most popular for
abroad because of its reliability. Could not
Would you tell me more about it?

   I have pieces 10 Spectrum-compatible computers and 3 
computer "Search." Some of them are in working condition, and

some do not work. Can they be considered as part payment for 
the purchase Computer KAY-1024


   Sorry to bother you with respect
N.



              Dear N!


   1. Operating system "Discovery"
firm "Opus" no information at my disposal. Totally agree with 
you that reliability - are important, high priority

property of the OS. But this is a technical parameter.
For OS'i no less important are the quality of software support 
(the presence of structures that are engaged in), informational 
support (the availability of literature: the descriptions, etc. 
- on the market), the conventional system (you can tell, the 
degree of its standard). Nor in any way denying the importance 
of technical parameters, Yet let me say that this is necessary 
but not sufficient conditions for the mass, which is widely 
used systems. In other words, the quality of the code is not 
decisive. In this case, better ugly, but consistently. Unlike

technical parameters, the above options require regular 
professional work (ie money), but not "Fun" in assembler 
(schlock, lyubitelschiny). It is also easy to see that these 
"non-technical data" easily converted into money, and gain a 
great amount. At the moment I do not I see no people, no 
businesses that would be it doing. And without this operating 
system, not even if there are code. Moreover, I do not see 
people who understand the very formulation of the problem (in 
the sense of more broader than the technical parameters). Was

would be nice, and might even be good if
the market was 2-3 different ADVANCED
OS'i - but then again, where the structure, where
support, where their money? I did not
I see. I therefore only possible, the natural action in this 
situation, namely, support ISDOS. There has already invested 
enormous funds. There are already carried out work on the "zero 
cycle" and created at the very least, but at least kakayato

structure. Therefore, recommend all the same
ISDOS.

   2. We look at a
price list (edited 21/06/1999). Perhaps you can find any 
sufficient convenient way to calculate these with me

Spectrum'ami and "search". Computers
collecting pay is hardly possible, because
forward to "eat" all their residual value. If we start from 
very general considerations, the best would be to sell 
Spectrum'y working on site (at least through private ads in 
newspapers) - is it would be better, because there would be new

users. It is difficult, but possible.


                                (C) Nemo.

P.S. If not mistaken, you called
19/05/1998 at the E-97.
450077 27.09.99


             HISTORY


   Worked fine, the board 2, then
time was to hang and crash, and in
May all stopped working. On the screen
monitor when you turn began to appear
then band, then dice, but after reset
worked. True, the press had to reset several times. And after 3 
days even stopped going to the start menu. 



               AUTHORITY:


   1. Translated from 08/09/1999 in the amount of 300 rubles.
(Without any comment, for which he sent, the request by letter 
dated 09.09.1999 "What to send?") 

   2. Valuable packet (obtained
23.09.99)

   Ingredients:

    1) charge "Scorpion ZS256"

    2) Brochure User Guide

      (Date of sale fees 04/09/1994)

    3) a letter (published above)



              Dear N!


   Get your parcel 09.23.1999. ZIP (300 p.). Translate ahead 
packet 2 weeks, so you'll be sent a

letter, which you probably already have.

   About your payment.

   External Inspection:

   1) ROM without legs - kultyshki "hammered" in the
panel "pegs" of procrastination.

   2) changes the processor in the car (trying to repair).

   3) All fees cover up blocking
capacitors.

   4) AY8910 stands in the panel AY8912, - not
fit into the panel legs, but needed to work, sealed MGTF'om.


   Inclusion:

   1) Test passes, the message "Commands
RAM / BANK loops.

   2) On the 10-20-m run test diagnosed a bug in the upper 
memory banks. 


   D.S. The aging of the components (physical
wear).

        Non-Repair.


   Description: attempts to
(Unsuccessfully)

   1) Put more speed
Processor 2) Adjust the RC-circuit -
Option Commands RAM / BANK beginning to pass, but the "RAM 
0000" - an option loops, the same "rare" failures in the upper 
memory banks. 

   Perhaps, in principle, to determine the specific cause 
(where that departed), but You asked for repairs, but not in

Research Institute, and for
above amount to deal with such
delicate matters is inappropriate. Therefore, send you payment 
in return. Let's hope that it will run longer ... Warranty as 
to any repairs - 4 months (from date of receipt of packets). 

   In general, you came to the wrong address.
(C) Nemo is now practically engaged
repair (if available price component is
unprofitable). You are lucky that there was a spare board, and 
would get back in Less shipping. Would refer to the Scorpion, 
it promised (in 1994), "eternal" warranty. Or have been 
accessed? 


                                 (C) Nemo.
659701 9.09.99


              Hello!


   I am a longtime fan of the Spectrum-compatible machines. Now 
I have PROFI and SCORPION. SCORPIO is on GS. But here's the 
music under It is not very much, there are also a few toys for 
her - T. RENEGAT, XECUTOR, POWER BOAT, ROTW, mus. Editor RIFF 
TRAKER V 2.9, although I'm not a musician, but I would like to 
have a better editor, I heard that there are already 3 or 4 
version of the editor. 

   Please send me the conditions you purchase software, 
hardware. As well as price, I am interested in music, prog 
under GENERAL SOUND, SOUND DRIVE, COVOX - editors, music 
instruments. As well as toys under GS, bend to PROFI (CP / M 
and everything under it) SCORPION'a, especially for use with a 
screw (OS, Commander, etc.). General Sound in

I V1.03, edited 003, ROM 32Kb, RAM
128 Kb. I would like to buy extra memory for it.

   Regards N.

   PROFI + 512 Kb

   5,25 'FFD

   PROFI COVOX

   SOUND DRIVE

   MONO MONITOR 'SC-428V'

   El. printing. machine 'CONSUL'


   SCORPION ZS-256 TURBO +, TRAC ROM 256Kb

   5,25 'FFD + 3,5' FFD

   80 Mb HDD

   XT IBM KEYBOARD + MAUS

   GENERAL SOUND 128 Kb

   TV PORT

   VICOMM MODEM 2

   COLOR MONITOR 'Electronics 1932 WTC 101'

   MINI TOWER


                                 28.09.99


              Dear N!


   1. By SOFT'u to GS. Please contact the company selling 
SOFT'om. For example, LOGROS. Perhaps if we can arrange 
production by GS CPG Compex, then soft and can be ordered from 
her. Relative version of the editor is simply not up to date. 
This information is not tracked. Company (C) Nemo hard'om 
engaged, and not soft'om - but more accurately - the production 
of motherboards Spectrum'a some boards and peripherals. These 
positions PRICE marked: "Producer (s)

Nemo ". For these positions you can get detailed information. 
Maintain awareness products companies - the satellites, I 
simply can not - contact them. For these items, my knowledge 
can be simply no more Yours. According to them the firm (s) Nemo

acts as the operator sudoriparous - NO MORE
and no less.

   2. Firm (s) Nemo does not support OS
Wed / M, but also markets a OC ISDOS. By
There you can also get detailed information (price list is the 
address). With regard to work with a screw, then PROFI 
generally have no information as to Scorpion'u - prevents 
shadow businesses. Ie if you want to put OS' as it should be,

ie resident (and the OS 'as a USER - this is absurd), then the 
shadow businesses will have to forget about (he claims to be 
the resident, without for the ambitions of the necessary 
ammunition). 

   3. Additional memory to the GS can deliver. It already 
produces (see price list).



                                 (C) Nemo.
424007


   Hello, dear Firm
"Nemo"!

   Write to you from the Republic of M. fans
Computer ZX-Spectrum. We read about you in
Journal of the radio amateurs, as well as in the electronic 
journal ZXFormat number to 7, inclusive. Read your price list 
(page ads). You could not send us a list of all products with

prices? Would also like to know if they send you printed 
circuit boards for self-assembly without the elements or in 
part with the elements.


                                       N.



                                 28.09.99


              Dear N!


   1. Already out ZX-F N 8, and must soon leave ZX-F N 9.

   2. Fees for self-assembly is not
sent. Explain why. Firstly,
it will not be cheaper. Actually the cost of fees in the price 
of the finished product is not too high. Therefore, if the fold

the cost of minor components,
installation, commissioning and warranty, the price will drop 
slightly. Secondly, manufactured boards have non-obvious 
subtleties in production (that the West accepted

called "Know how"). Not that this information was classified - 
it's not this. Just to explain, it is necessary

do not write the letter and book. I find it easier
Sell you a working board, than to teach
You how to do it. The second - much more expensive. In 
addition, the chances are that you are not all will understand. 
Outcome - buggy comp. 

   3. However, perhaps try to
produce the card in place. But it is also
difficult. The major problem - selling. (In this case it is not 
about building one fees for themselves, but on a regular basis 
- more or less - release). Then it may be

teach you how to make payment and it makes sense.
(See the ZX-F N 8 "Exports of technology"). It is now some time 
has passed, and we can draw some conclusions about "export

technology. First, regular work to produce circuit boards in 
place almost impossible. Due to: lack of structures

marketing, supply structures components.
However, may be a promising issue of any process units 
(according to available standards) to Spectrum'u. C

subsequent use in co-operation
barter between producers. Maybe
you should try it. As they say, is not
hook or by crook. Then there
joint interest in the sale,
as their products, and products of satellites.

                                (C) Nemo.

428027


   Send me, please, your
price-lists of iron, IS-DOS'e, and catalog
gaming, system, and demonstration
programs, if you have them. Can
also send their advertisements, which I
put on your BBS, as well as some information about the "Black 
Maria - 2" if you have, its dollar price

and the address where you can buy it.

   Thanks in advance.



                                 28.09.99

              Dear N!


   1. Sending directory Logros, - he, however, outdated, but at 
least something. New inserts from Logros'a yet, - behind them

we must go.

   2. Sending the disc "Open Letters / IS". Can do with it as 
you see fit. It is freeware, ie You can distribute it for free 
and put on a BBS without any reservations. More

allowed to withdraw, add or comment on the files without 
changing the inside files. This is a slightly expanded 
understanding of freeware. 

   3. As recently as Saturday, 25/09/1999,
spoke with Slava Mednonogovym. He
threatening to CV-2 will be released next month. You
can order the CV-2 and I (by subscription in advance), see 
price list. 


                                (C) Nemo.