ZX-News #48 09 июня 1999

Фидо

Letter - On creating a gate Fido <=> TashZxNet.

                 Letters



  We receive several letters, mostly
from authors and readers who do not know where
read the latest numbers ZX-News. ;-) But
one spring day, it's something unusual - the news from Tashkent 
on Spectrum Network TashZXNet! We decided to publish an excerpt 
from this letter, with permission. So, today our guest 
TashZXNet. __________________________________________



  Wrote Artur Ishmurzin from Tashkent (Uzbekistan):


  ... In Fido, we then have spektrumisty Tashkent, hit 
recently. And soon the future will make a gate Fido <-> 
TashZXnet. 


  Happy Birthday to our network (if it can be
call it that) is January 22, 1998. Currently employs two (2)
BBS. Is based on Vikomm XTR and modems. Download - MMD 2.20 and 
BBS 3.156. If There is something in newer (rumors of a 
programmable MMD) - pronformiruy, pls. 

ZXN: Yes, MAS wrote terminalku second
generation - MMD 4.00, having a very
many functions. By the way, they count depends on the user, 
using it - because this terminalku can itself be programmed

with a special BBS-language for all
anything (of course, within a reasonable
;-)).

AI: Once I tried to analyze the approximate state of the market 
in the Spectrum Tashkent. And come to such results

(Note that we have practically virtuals
No, that is, they can not ignore the conversation
will only realschikah, in addition,
figures are approximately plus or minus 5%):

 1) Models: Pentagon - 45%

              Tashkent - 30%

              Leningrad - 20%

              Miscellaneous (Profi, ATM, etc.) - 5%

 2) Memory: 48K - 10%

              128K - 40%

              256K - 01.02%

              512K - 40%

              1024K - 10%

 3) Hardware: Kempston Mouse, GS, Vicomm,

               XTR Modem and even SMUC. :)


  "Tashkent" - our local model of the Spectrum, is a hybrid 
Pentagon'a and Leningrad, ie something unimaginable. 

ZXN: It is very interesting: 128-512-x and x is complete, and 
256-x is almost there. Why would it? .. :) 

AI: Soft. If you subscribed to echo ZX.SPECTRUM, then I think, 
has noticed that the main Tashkent trader Musa (Star Vision) 
began little by little ;-) fill it with our software. The first 
swallows were the issue of the newspaper Wallpaper, editor in 
chief of which is also the author of this letter. <...> He, 
Musa, promised to throw in echoes the description of our 
Firmware, Kulnev moment in which the presence of a resident, 
requires no hardware modifications computer (see Wallpaper # 
3). I'm more than a year to take this firmware and now, 
frankly, no longer can without a resident. Oh, and forgot to 
say that I have a PC and what it eats: 


  Pentagon 512 Kb, 2 FDD 5'25, LPT Covox, XTR Modem, AY Chip,

        turbo CPU 7 MHz, printer MS6313, color monitor.


  In my opinion, is the most common konfguratsiya in Tashkent, 
except that with the exception of "XTR Modem" and "color 
monitor". 


  Software we have written, but slowly. It stops us abruptly, 
than you are. What was just said this fact: in 1998 came just 6 
rooms WP?! Sure, there were objective reasons, but still. <...>


ZXN: In our opinion, primarily
should strive not to frequent the exit, but to
periodicity, ie, to an iron schedule
exit numbers. Otherwise, the reader
impression that the issue of the newspaper,
which he reads, may be the last - hence the low activity of the 
correspondents and, respectively, for the publisher more 
difficult to issue new numbers for lack of materials. 


  In this letter ends. We recommend that as soon as possible to 
join the international ZXNet, the whole world spektrumistov, 
Speccy where he lives and thrives. You'll get access to such 
eham as CODE.ZX, HARDWARE.ZX and SPBZXNET.GAMES (fully

on the real Spectrum and were signed by many famous 
spektrumisty) will receive all the new items through ZXNET.UUE, 
etc. - In general, there will be a real full-blooded life! 


             Welcome to ZXNet!


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