Open Letters #05 30 ноября 2000

Nemo open letters № 5.9

           Hello, Nemo!

Payment received. Thank you for repairs.

Translations sent.

A few questions:

1. During repairs procured new drive 5.25 ES5323.01 (Made in 
Bulgaria). Plugged in, put a floppy disk - has earned the 
engine. Then he calmed down, and I have already turned knob, 
lowered head. And so with each floppy disk. Terribly 
inconvenient! (And may well the drive and running - I do not 
know). A in "Real Commander v. 1,6" motor works

constantly. Can we somehow using
jumpers or get rid of it?

2. Speaking of Commander'ah. Does not pick up any worthwhile. 
Almost all of the 256 kb, well it's okay. "Real Commander" - 
does not support electr. disc. From "Queek Commander" - there 
are no doctors, no format, no Copy (Files only ten, no more), 
etc. 

How, for example, enjoyed yourself?

3. I have the drive SANYO S "25 nearly new
only he in my opinion not at 720 kb. (From IBM).
is it possible to exchange it for you on the other in
720 kb or power supply with some
surcharge?

Of course, if you are doing this ..

Thanks again for the repair fee.


                             Sincerely.

P.S. Mark sending in the same envelope.


429800

                               03.11.2000


              Dear N!

1. Your translation of 100 rubles. received.

2. These drives are not used already years
five, respectively, and Know-how (praxis)
how and what to do with them has been forgotten as useless. If 
the drive is a such as refusing to work, it simply

replaced by a serviceable, why: see below.

3. I take OS'yu, and even then, only View'erom. And what you 
wish for. If at least one of the commanders bought you for money

under copyright, you should
refer to the author. Otherwise
sort it out for yourself, a gift horse in the mouth
do not look. Generally inoperable
freeware - System Software - is it
normal state. Authors software has versions that are updated as 
time with in order for this to work on new

machines. Of course, this costs money.

4. Drives of the type described by you are in the
Depending on the situation of 5 rubles. 20
rub. In addition, it is serviceable diskody with
align their heads and they wear a small, 1.2 MB (instead of 360 
K - there are those on the eye to distinguish them almost 
impossible), calibrated rotation spindle. the remaining 200 
rubles. in price - it's Shipping Costs (which includes

By the way, and correspondence with users, now partly because 
part is paid stamps, but not all pay, some, such as putting 
stamps on 3 rubles. 50 kopecks. (Instead of 7 rub.)), The cost 
of testing, / reject / repair / change / flush. As you can see, 
the very piece of iron money is not worth shipping will cost you

expensive (even considering only the payment of postal 
services, ie, without packing, time packing, time reference). 
Except Furthermore, if the drive would be 360 ​​K, you

More and surcharges of about 15 rubles. - Has
Does it make sense?


                                 (C) Nemo

       Hello, Captain Nemo!

First, thank you for the good execution of my orders this 
summer (I redesigned ZF N 9 on ZF N 6, and you sent yet recent 
"Open Letter"). Were you pleased deal! I swear!


And now to business. In July - August
year, I broke your computer (ATM Turbo
1) - disk interface is not recognized
drive. Master of IBM-schik here with oxbow lakes.
Make failed. Symptoms: (the computer itself
works well). When you turn - the drive runs himself out in 
TR-DOS - drive stops and lights

LED starts floppy - floppy
off.

Do you want him to do? And how much will it cost? As it is 
better to send? All or the motherboard? Entirely he's pretty 
big and heavy: 32 / 37 x 9 cm, 7 kg, Claudia altered MS 70 04

(Reed). I think better than just cost.

I enclose a circuit board spot. It only copies, so that they 
can keep it, if they are very useful. I do not know whether we 
should pay for it, in the sense of this question.


If you still have to - tell how many, I
paid.

My address on the envelope.

Are you going to sell software from
Archives Logrosa?

How are things going with e-books?


              Goodbye!


                               06/11/2000.

P.S. Stamps from 15 rub. invested with "open
letters. "


171360

                               13.11.2000


              Dear N!

PP (Previous letter - it is for "Op.
Let "- for the NN 136, 191).

1. With the company (c) Nemo pleasure to deal with
because you're dealing with a firm, but not
a private person. Ie with vocational
organized the work, rather than hack-work.

2. IBM firms engaged in repair,
Indeed versed in computers is no better than their users. In
IBM-firms completely lost Know-how on
hardware. Repair of blocks produced by the diagnostic / chunked
repair, ie they cost the same screwdriver that our domestic 
"producers" of MS-ers. Soldering iron, they do not used because 
an engineering work (Not to be confused with LAMERSKOY, ie 
kulibinstvom), and they are machinery, ie, low-skilled staff. 
Non-business units / nodes are thrown in the trash. I'm about

I know this firsthand, ie this is one of
channels of supply components. So
You've come to the wrong address - they are too
roundnose too. In the PC platform has neither knowledge nor 
understanding nor sense. no understanding or awareness - what 
is the computer. It's just USRR'y, but lamer they turn when 
they try to talk about things they are not available. 

3. Make something possible, but necessary? Why
treat the tonsils through your ass? Repairs will cost somewhere 
in the fifteen hundred rubles. You is it necessary? Meanwhile, 
it REALLY MANY PLACES. (On sending the entire system unit with 
the keyboard (just with keyboard, since otherwise have to 
unsolder an adapter for standard KAY-connector DB-15P 
keyboard), voice and does not go, You simply will not accept a 
package in the mail: where up to 8 kg, and the computer with a 
keyboard and packaging will draw more explicitly. And the fact 
of sending a parcel worth 500 rubles).. Now explain how a 
price. 

3.1. We calculate first how much time
need for repairs.

Firstly, it is necessary to unsolder butt
keyboard, disk drive, food, and some
other lines from the edge connector on your motherboard. Time 
it will take about five hours strained and stupid (because 
meaningless, use this adapter again is unlikely to succeed, 
since it fitted fly into the trash after the repair / labor. 
Remember - 5 hours. 

Furthermore, diagnostics and troubleshooting - about 4 hours. 
Why so long? Explain. Last renovated ATM was made five years 
ago (through "Shine"), ie have to deal in

it all over again. Well would it be
Spectrum, by the way, it interferes with and understand how it 
all works together well. 

Further, testing, approximately, 1 hour
(Only Spectrum'e - everything else can not be tested).

Further, additional packaging - 1 hour,
fee is healthy, therefore, requires soundly
packaging, or gouging in transit.

Total we have - 11 hours working time
ie almost one and a half working days.

The average salary per month in St. Petersburg - on
Fall 2000 - 3200 rubles. Divide the average pay (the standards 
for Peter) to the norm hours, obtain a value of 1 hour work

Time BASIC WORKING '- a term Sov Accounting: 3200 rub. / 170 
per hour. = 18.8 rubles. / Hour.


Now multiply by the number of hours: 18.8
rub. / Hour. (11 hr. = 206.8 USD.

Roughly speaking, two hundred rubles salary. But
it's not all. Level (as normal) overhead costs for repair of 
about 400 %. This is not fiction. Tool wear. Electricity, spare 
parts require time and money for their production,

appliances break down and need repair / replacement is required 
advertising and accounting calculations - all the time and 
money. Overheads, it is like a light bulb Ilyich - hangs a 
pear, you can not eat. Or see eye, a tooth is itching to do so. 
The money they come and go, they are not a salary. Multiplied 
by 5. 

100% + 400%

-------------, Total: 200 rub. (5 ~
1000 rub.


      100

But that's not all. Requires sending a fact - it is 100 rubles.

Spare parts - a penny, let 50 rubles. - Is
Rules, ie may require 5 rub.
(One IC TTL), as may be necessary and
100 rub. NORM - the average for
reporting period, for example, for the year. Little
And now I must consider the risks and wind the intended rule 
profits in the scoop it was 28%. And does not the fact that

I get it, it's just a risk assessment on
single transaction. I did not get anything
get on the circumstances of my hands
control. For example, the board kulibinstvo
- Is uniquely Non-Repair. Or
burned in 1556 HL1 - this piece of shit a lot of blood spoiled. 
This is the worst ambush than 556 RT XXX. About her usually 
toss angry philippics (speaking in Russian, matyugi fly the 
planes, the whole squadron). After all, if burned in 1556 HL1, 
I'll be in the red rubles per thousand. And if kulibinstvo, the 
minus 100 rub. Because to detect it (as opposed to a dead 1556 
HL1) is not need to solder the adapter. AVERAGE RATE OF SAME

PROFIT - as a result of all transactions for
year - about five percent.

Thus, it is risky venture, the factor
to 1.28 (28%).

(1000 + 100 + 50) (1.28 = 1472 rubles.

This, finally, is the Amount Due
!

By the way, about the risks. I understand that you someone has 
already tried to repair it, then charges may be pokaschenaya, 
ie gamy. And about 1,556 HL1 - yet it is taken and the 
termotrenirovat that hardly been done ATM'schikami 
manufacturers. And if you do not termotrenirovka (it is 
provided by TU (technical specifications)), then sooner or 
later it failure. And it will really end. 1556 HL1 you no 
zashet - This technology is irretrievably lost.


Well, you need this? We can say that I
take vengeance, but it is not. It's REALLY worth so much. What 
do you think For example, how much repair, printer

for example? $ 50 - not weak, huh? Is the average price on the 
market, ie NORM. Look, for example, the file "Michael" in the 
directory "Advertising" - repair fee there is

350-450. And it's not an ATM Turbo. And this is the price
in the summer of 2000 - and now, so winter is coming. A
inflation, no one has canceled. In "Shine," the price of 
repairs, approximately 500 (600 rub. (But not ATM-Turbo !!!). 
Since the norm hours to repair 2 (3 hrs. But for example,

standard time for repair fees KAY'ya - is
Half an hour, so a hundred rubles.

4. Scheme you have sent in vain - I refer back to me they are. 
Because otherwise substructure (c) Nemo - "Shine" was unable to

to work without documentation.

5. Using the technology of shells work is progressing, but the 
rate of funding per month - about 100 rubles. If customers are 
paying more could be funded quickly. And as has been already 
invested somewhere 3-4 thousand rubles and about as many more 
required same. This is the question of the rate of profit, ie

Ever 5% - of them and financed. In
normal economic profit refinances, because embedded in it. Pay
More and more often - it will go faster.

6. Probably something to trade software
will be done, but probably not through
Logrosa base. While it is embedded in all
150 rub. and say anything definite
too early.

R.S. Think, do not confuse you
Spectrum with his clone, namely the ATM? Maybe easier to buy a 
new card, for example, KAY?



                                 (C) Nemo

    Hello, dear Mr. Nemo!

Thank you for the parcel. It accounted for 14
September, just as my birthday.
Thank you also for the ZF # 8, MT-2000, "Op.
Let ", which I received on September 26. But
I'm glad the new acquisition was not long.
From the first inclusion board I began to notice little 
oddities. The image on screen ("Eletronika 1932 WTC 202")

has been shifted by one line vertically
the right and climbed to the left of the screen.
But I thought it was just not sync with the monitor. Initially, 
I applied to the monitor signal "video" and "R, G, B". Then 
Zamesto "video" - "sinhrosmes, but the picture has not changed 
then began to notice gradual loss of color: first, gradations 
of brightness, and then some more (Check the table settings). 
And now Yesterday, when I debug a program in

STS'e (effects of the attributes) and occurred
that now exists, ie as if
to the image stretched horizontally
and occupy the area ........ . In this case, it
went right and got out on the left. Disappeared
most of the colors. Cursor to the beginning
menu turns green instead of blue and fell out the colors in the 
menu. I am about all this today (ie yesterday), KAY 
unnecessarily a few times hanging in the ZX # 8. With his own 
hand, I have no manipulations with a soldering iron did not 
hold (except podpaivaniya power wires). And what do I do now? 
How do I forward it to you for repair, because we have the post 
office is not possible to qualitatively pack

parcel?

Should I invest in a parcel concept computer - and the drive 
controller board? And what else to do besides this? Describe to 
me all that will need to do.



                         Thanks in advance.


                               04/11/2000.

613340

                               14.11.2000


              Dear N!

1. The cause of your troubles at fault or incorrectly connected
display. In his letter to you to thank for
"Op. Let". I'd like on this occasion
You ask: Have you read "Op. Let "?!!!
Understand, this is not sent on a whim, and
of necessity, because users tend to
face the same problems. In particular, "Op. Let" five times
(If not ten) stating that NOT
SHOULD use the display. Probably
it is written not just so, and that is
Good reason. This is the first. But how
the wall peas.

Secondly, open the "User's Guide", as follows: 3.2.1. Connection
TV. Well, probably not for nothing that the item
so named. Moreover, for those to whom
difficult to reach, it is written: "Architecture
Spectrum-based computers at TELESTANDARTAH is their derivative.
Therefore, as a typical device
TV is supposed to display.
Clearer because you will not tell, you still do not get it. 
Understand, in the pamphlet NO extra words, per bukvochku MONEY 
paid. Printing costs money, and more. Figuratively words, if 
the statute guard service written in blood, the user guide - 
Tears of users who mourned his foolishness. Read at least the 
selected frightening signs footnotes. 

Now, in fact. Virtually all
displays of domestic production released in the late 80's - 
early 90-ies and TOTALLY exhausted their resources. Their prices

at flea markets eloquently about this
evidence. Have you ever thought about why they are so cheap?
Your screen is probably either:

- Sat kinescope (~ 700 USD. In the prices of St. Petersburg +
300 rub. - Replacement).

- Due to aging of circuit components display out of the 
established modes (in This primarily concerns electrolytes)

(~ 500 USD. Repairs).

Therefore (I quote "User's Guide" - again !!!). You should 
contact teleatele, and that's where you have to withdraw chips 
for your foolishness associated with the attempt to use the 
display. "Attention! RGB-VIDEO-connections and made

ONLY through teleatele (TV technician for help). "
Video technician, unlike you, CAN
understand what it is, good, "Electronics 32
WTC 202 "- it's just a TV without a radio channel. But this 
does not mean that you're in luck. See: price tags REPAIR 
above. In the case of with imported display popadalovo would

even steeper - $ 50 for repairs.

For the simple reason that the current
infrastructure (about where teleatele) is unable to repair the 
imported machinery for the population - the price is too high. 
That As public enterprises, there is not money to be considered 
accepted. Detained for a fortnight Salary - this is for you and 
repair the display. A then all this will be offset from

treasury, but without inflation. And You
and do not understand who you are robbed. If
Import your own display, then the problem your personal, $ 50. 
We should not adopt the crap MS-Schnick: the greater the slope, 
the greater its acquisition, the more frequent contact with 
money and those more payment (rent) during the operation.

Why hang yourself an extra clip on the neck?
Understand, Spectrum Designed for TV
and this is his advantage rather than disadvantage.

In principle, you can try to use the faulty display, with a 
significant deterioration in image quality. You must reduce the 
current ray kinescope, gathering scheme, similar

Scart-connector. (Figure 8.2 in the user guide). You must 
include Dividers signal to the resistors. But in this

If you can get problems with
vision, work on a faulty technique
fraught.

2. If so you purchase fee, and not a computer
in the collection, it is assumed that you are
state it, and connect. Otherwise
case, you must buy a computer in
assembly. If you do not have money, you have to sit down
for the office accounts or a programmable calculator.

Again, read the User Guide: 3.1. Connecting the motherboard. 
"Quote: 

"After a connection is recommended to check on Board value
supply voltage. It must be
within 4,85 (5,15 v ". (Sami boards are efficient in the range 
of 4.85 (5.15, but precision measuring instruments according to 
GOST is in the best case 1.5%. If

devices for ten years did not pass
metrology and calibration, the
and 2 (3%). Considering you have written, do it no harm was 
used. At the same time, and BP check, there should be no 
"sagging" power when you turn on the drive. Then,

maybe ZX-F will not fail.


                                (C) Nemo

P.S. I send again "Op. Let".

         Dear leaders

        and employees of the firm Nemo!

If possible, could you
send price list for its products
firm. I am interested in buying a computer KAY-256 ... 1024, or 
another that is compatible with the "ZX-Spectrum". 

Is it possible to purchase by mail. Also, do you spread by 
e-mail Software for "ZX-Spectrum" diskettes 5,25 ", 3,5".



                             Sincerely.

241012

                               22.11.2000


              Dear N!

Answers to your questions you
will find in this price list and diskette /
shell "Op. Let".


                                 (C) Nemo


                               30.11.2000
Dear Vyacheslav G. if you have
a price list for games and the Programme for
ZX-Spectrum, please send it to
with prices at the moment.


                               28.11.2000

160034

                               01.12.2000


              Dear N!

A separate sheet of games there. On other
program see the subdirectory "ISDOS". General
same software, see the price list code the third paragraph. 
Already actually completed the work on the first

shell-book, it takes only a few hundred rubles for its 
completion. Probably in the near future will be a subdirectory 
of electronic books. Already received the consent of the author 
and publisher of one publication.


As for the game software, for
adjustment mechanism / structure for its
distribution is required from thousands to
several thousand. And there
ambiguities on three items: invest
money and they do not return, his stained
reputation for piracy to a misunderstanding, and
disappoint the public a bad egg.
So far in this direction has mastered all
One hundred and fifty rubles, and I'd like to
thought, is it worth doing?

I recommend to ask about a few months. All this of course would
done, and faster, but their actions I am limited funds coming 
from the customers. Money invested in more than enough to be 
the return if the public decided that the money will be 
invested indefinitely, but they can exist as a parasite, they 
are mistaken. New Projects will not open until

pay off old ones.

By the way, prices. If it is established
sale of software through a company (c) Nemo, then
value wild without leaving the author is 12 USD, and in view of 
royalties - 15 $