412302 6.03.02.
Dear Vyacheslav Georgievich.
Your parcel was received on 02/18/2002,
postcard delivered 02/26/2002
(arrival stamp on card
02/21/2002). I am grateful to you for your prompt
good work with my order. I know with which
Sometimes things like this are stressful.
I hope my last registered letter from
You received the floppy disks without any problems. I think
I made a mistake when I sent it to your
PO Box, breaking the stubborn resistance of postal
workers. Later I realized that they were
are right, but I'm wrong. I'll try in the future
don't expose yourself like that.
When paying for an IDE controller order I had
in mind try to start it with "Speed"
peony" from a friend. According to our estimates, in
In this case, there is a greater chance of success, because
all signals coincide with KAY's. Himself
within the next few months I plan
find funds to order boards from you
"KAY-1024" v1.5. According to my preliminary
According to our data, two more Sinclairists wanted
would like to purchase "KAY" boards, approximately
- within a year.
A little about the HDD controller itself, in particular
not constructive criticism:
1. On a newly unpacked board
the signal light immediately began to fall off
diode ("cold" soldering, apparently). So
with all due respect to you, the soldering iron is still
I had to turn it on...
2. The HDD cable was docked to the connector
in such a way that the first(colored) wire
was on the right edge of connector X1, if you look
to dig into the board from the parts side, Ne-
mo-bus down. The conclusion is that
either something happened or one of two things:
a) the controller has not been tested for real
equipment;
b) the controller was tested with another
train.
Maybe in the future it’s worth betting on
board connectors with a key that cannot be used with
mix up the terminal block of the cable (there is
after all, they are like that).
Now a few comments to your
letter dated January 12, 2002:
About the ruin of high-class
printers at home You are right. I personally know pa-
ru people who showed off for six months
with color cartridges and were happy to change
your cool equipment for something simpler
and "cheaper".
On the paradoxical behavior of computers
when scanning.
Some time ago I also
I encountered a similar phenomenon and tried
find out its reasons, taking the time and
nerves, - this question calls me -
xia, "touched". Without going into details, I can
to say that I came to the following conclusion:
such failures are, firstly, inevitable, and
secondly, they are unpredictable. Reliability
this technology is based on reliability
its components, each of which is far
not one hundred percent. It should be clear to you
what does this mean? Algorithm errors
character recognition plus suboptimal
text-specific modesscanning
plus the human factor (large number of
quality of manual operations) plus something else
little things - all this leads to the general
practically guaranteed, unreliability
method.
At the same time, I admit that there are
areas of application (types of texts), where
errors of this technology may be
quite excusable (to e-addresses and text
Naturally, this does not apply to programs there -
Xia).
About distortion of information during transmission
over all kinds of networks - here, apparently,
about the same. The components themselves
the technologies are already different, but the principle arose
The level of distortion remains the same.
About the electronic form of the editorial article
ty. I wanted to ask for a belt first
thread, who are you kidding here? But after half-
After reading the card, the question disappeared by itself.
Let me clarify, however, that I am not involved in distribution
spreading something on the Internet. Speech in
in this case it was about introducing
with your article those people whom I consider
necessary. Naturally, perform several
printouts of typed and edited
file is technically more rational than doing
handwritten copies. The same can be said
Let's talk about the questionnaire.
And in the magazine version of your article
the results of editorial changes are also noticeable,
- several lines changed or missing
and paragraphs (here’s a copyright for you, grandma).
The corrected version is attached. She doesn't
identical to the manuscript:several places op-
tens are erroneous (quotes, cases). View
Try it yourself, it might be suitable for the same
"O.P."
About "Radio Amateur". One of our sync-
lerists subscribed to the magazine for 2002, so
that we will be aware of Spectrum materials-rub-
Ricky. That's just the problem with the first number
- I didn’t manage to complete it on time. Anything
we'll figure it out. Maybe we'll write it out at the editorial office.
I will cooperate no less willingly
with you, as the section editor, support
living the Sinclair theme. Other
the point is that the materials provided in the re-
edition "R/L. V.K." were agreed upon in advance
and quite a long time ago, back in 2000. "Before-"
sayings must be respected" is a postulate
also Roman law.
I provide you with the promised article about pe-
chat graphics. There are three to choose from
option:
1) "graf_pr1" - with software support
coy, i.e. Converter machine code dump
graphics (with assembler source), fox-
ting interface in BASIC for it;
2) "graf_pr2" - as- is excluded from the text
sample source, due to this volume
material is significantly reduced;
3) "graf_prЗ" - all listings are excluded,
Only the technology itself is described. This is the most
short version.
You can choose the one that suits your needs.
movement, depending on the required volume
volume of text. All options have been edited
based on 64 characters per line, for convenience
the final layout.
List of affected peoplequestions in the article
wider than discussed at first. On my
view, presentation of technology for high-quality production
chat of Sinclair screens in context
interactions Sinclair-printer and Sincla-
ir-IBM will be more clear. And he understands-
xia, this reflects my point of view on this
about.
To the letter dated 02/06/2002:
Thanks for the films. Although the severity of the problem
we slept (I can share the technology
resuscitation, may be useful for "Bles-
ka"), still having a backup option, feeling
you feel much more confident.
"Shells" interested me because
this class of problem on Sinclair is related
really easy to solve: work on them
easy to organize, parallelize and
control. By now
"shell" technology works quite well
worked. For example, those materials that
were provided to you are the results
volume of labor (to varying degrees, of course)
three people. And what happened is close to
the maximum that could be squeezed out of
systems without deviating from standards.
We discussed it here and I decided that the nuclei
iS-DOS 98 for text shells
quite enough (illustrative example -
"Open Letters"). Their performance
this will in no way violate, but the distribution
distribution of iS-DOS'99 is still better
for IskraSoft. In this regard, it is very
rare shake-up of "iS-Review" and Parshev. On-
I hope it's the last onefinal.
But with hypertext it’s still difficult. Discussed
concept. The “pissy” approach cannot be copied
I want - there is a lot that is irrational. With Vi-
It’s unlikely that it will work out any other way, -
there are a lot of links and footnotes there.
I consider the article about the organization of the club
premature. Although our circle exists
quite a long time ago, some specific ones
shifts in joining forces on the platform
Sinclair became noticeable only during
last year. But the topic is really
important, I’ll think about it.
Regarding questionnaires, there is a suggestion: make
such a survey is carried out annually. In the questionnaire itself there is no
point 15 is clear, namely the dimension
time in columns, i.e. "once in"
how much?
Warning that the e-book is
bot-capable only in 128 mode, I don't
in no way did I mean Kondratievskaya
remake of iS-DOS ("DOSX", it seems). Case
only that the program
"isunzjr", unpacking IBM's
"zip" archives require up to
additional RAM pages, outside the OS
new, 48th memory. And the version of iS-DOS from
MK, as far as I know, is “sharpened”
specifically for the package of mail programs,
written by him.
About the iS-DOS collection. Pilot file
project "and_else.inf" is not intended for
publications in "Radioamatele" or somewhere
more. The version of the file that was transferred to you
reslana - for "Open Letters".Imply-
It is stated that those who are invited to contact
users who read "O.P.", i.e.
by definition they deal with iS-DOS.
And thanks for the idea about “Paragraph”. When-
Yes, I’ll get number 10, I’ll try to get in touch
with the editor-in-chief.
I agree with you that there is a lot in the project
weak points. I hope that over time I will be able to
gu adjust them. But the support of ha-
lyava at my own expense, I wouldn’t risk calling it
vat. It is assumed that the information
delivered by users, on its own
will serve as a contribution to the common cause and give the right
to receive collected and systematized
information from other users. Here
For example, you considered it possible to quite
borrow to evaluate some of our work - pro-
product of intellectual labor. Similar to
situation I would like to hope in my own
tee. Whether it will work out - time will tell, here you are
are right.
Best regards,
N. N...., 6.03.2002.
P.S.: How are things going with the “Prog-
rammator" and RTS "Jackals"?
P.P.S.: In the "Operation Manual"
KAY-1024" something incomprehensible was encountered
place. In Fig. 3.2. (connector-slot shi-
us) signal M1 is shown as not having
connection with the same name (N27)
home CPU Z80. Is this a typo or something
more?
There, in the list of references, -
point 4. Maybe there is a visual
du article "TV-video monitor",
authors: D. Voitsekhovsky, A.Peskin,
"Radio" N4/1992, p.20...25? If
so, then correct it in the next edit-
tions of the Guide.
412302 03/19/02
Dear N.N....!
1. You can try starting the controller
fight with Scorpion. If you succeed,
then this could be material for an article.
2. By order of KAY-1024 boards. Now I'm not
I can guarantee delivery times. Orien-
tentatively (in fact) instead of 4 months, available
6-8 months (and this is on average!) is too
They don't order much... So see for yourself.
Your article on printing on Spectrum
went to Minsk - will be published in N4.
I don’t know the volume yet, but based on 26 USD.
per page - it can be thrown out (sleep-
sat) from the order price.
3.1. As for the LED - it happens -
The diodes are used.
3.2. The controller was tested on real
no equipment and precisely with this hose.
The hose can be connected between the controller and
HDD in four ways, two of them work
Whoa. Contacts go contact to contact, -
so it makes no difference whether the signal goes through N1
or according to N40 - it is logically equivalent.
In general, problems of this kind arise
ut due to VANISHINGLY SMALL VOLUME. No luck
It is possible to debug technological chains.
4. Scanning problem is somewhat shi-
re. Under "unreliability of the method" we can refer to
say ANYTHING," - for example, censorship -
ru. Suppose there is a list of e-net ad-
res,which for some reason are “unreliable”.
To the next version of the scanning program
We enter these addresses - AND THEY ARE NO LONGER SU-
THEY ARE. Distinguish a random failure from a non-
random is almost impossible. Who will-
children to answer? The manufacturer will refer to
FUNDAMENTAL unreliability of the method - and
YOU CAN'T PROVE ANYTHING ANYMORE. About the existence
niya types of texts where it is not critical -
the question is controversial. GUARANTEED required
REDUNDANCY OF CODE - in a real language
it exists, - But there are no guarantees that
ALL ERRORS ARE EITHER IMPORTANT OR CORRECTABLE
BY CONTEXT. Immediately the “electron-
document flow." For any chain
machine operations errors will accumulate
(to be summed up), - unlike a chain
people. People, of course, make their mistakes,
but they ALSO ELIMINATE ALIENS - it’s not a machine
maybe.
5. The question of transferring to electronic format
copying the text is a matter of publicity (dos-
stupidity). Transferred to email. form, never
it is impossible to be sure that the information is preserved
protects privacy and will be accessible
only to the circle of people you are referring to
you are reading. Some documents, for example, I
measures, I FUNDAMENTALLY do not translate into email. view,
- there is no need, because possibly UNCONTROLLED
distribution. And I'll get hurt in the process
not even me, but those people who
melt (i.e., what is not intended for them -
but). First of all, this concerns networks,
- they have the same principles(slogan, charter) "Own
free access to information." And what
there is information that can
just destroy them without even suspecting
yut, - these sheep consider themselves very smart -
mi. Let me explain at the level of metaphor. Presumably
press, you know where the radioactive
ny source. Will you transmit the
what kind of information? And if she turns out to be
on networks? It is useful to note that
that although you personally were not harmed in this case,
give - but RESPONSIBILITY will lie
on you. And one fact for general development
(The public does not pay for "Open Letters", po-
therefore he is deprived of some very important information
deniya). There is a FAPSI order on
"galvanic isolation". This means that
local networks of ministries and departments "from
separated" from the Internet GALVANICALLY, - i.e.
there is no direct channel. To translate in-
formations from departments. networks on the Internet
There is ALWAYS a NEED for someone in this department.
Manual operation in the physical sense -
i.e. insert a floppy disk, for example. How
Why do you think?
6.1. What you call censorship -
These are little things that don't deserve attention. Know-
would you, like me, get ROCKED in “Your
computer" TWICE!!! In N5 I detail
I’ll stop here, because... sheep think
that we have freedom of information. Would you know
WHAT is being cut! Moreover, they ATTRIBUTE to me -
VYUTH words that were not in the original
text, and distort itselftext. Therefore these
goats (and these are goats, not rams)
I'll get it. I'll piss them off. For the rams
truly complete freedom of expression, -
because thoughts of a sheep - who will value them?
zur?
6.2. I agree, contracts must be respected
give it a try - next time you will be smarter and
you will not “sign up” to participate in the
beam "on live bait". Stupidity is very
horny thing. Now about cooperation with
"Radio amateur." I offered you the composition
develop a publication plan. So where?
7. For "Shine" technology "restoration"
leniya" will not work. With commercial
During the course of such tricks, such tricks do not work - they diminish
accurate. The point is this. When repairing
about 400% overhead costs. (What is this
this was partly found out on our own
the skin of those owners of color cartridges, - oh
which you are writing). If there is a chance
complaints (and when resuscitating films it
VERY GREAT) - repairs are unprofitable. At each
house return you lose (from your own
pocket) those same 400%. In St. Petersburg, repair of pi-
syuka, for example, costs $50 (approximately), you-
specialist ride - $20. For smaller amounts
REGULAR PROCESS, - i.e. professional
activity is impossible - it is unprofitable
on. Spectrum repair, by the way, costs
much cheaper - that's why no one does it
is engaged - and not because there is no specialist
sheets.
8. Shell problems are not technical
aspects.
Begin [censored];The project "Opening Letters" IS PLANNED AT A LOSS.
There is NO rental mechanism, it is necessary
be more attentive - there is a solution
decision on distribution in networks, - when
NO ONE WILL PAY FOR THIS PERMISSION,
because understand perfectly well that by paying,
contain net rams. This is a tool
management and influence. Cost - approx.
1000-3000 rubles per edition. Now funds
no, and the project was stopped. This is the price
introduced for the purpose of creating a "ray-
ting" - naming the price. The rams, how do they reason?
give: someone pays, it means it’s worth it
money, it means it’s interesting, it means it’s necessary
read. They don’t pay the money themselves, and
they don’t know what is significant and what is not. This me-
This method is widely used in the IBM platform.
Nobody knows the real volumes (demand).
I'm explaining this to you because I don't want
You're in for the money. Copyright valid
strictly observed by 10-15%, but only
by users. And networkers are users
are not - they are consumers, manipulating
which can influence many things. Ba-
the wounds deserve it. 99% percent
those who call themselves Spectrumists -
actually IBM PC users - and on
Spectrum don't give a damn about them. They call it
they themselves are "Spectrum users" for
convenience of theft (free consumption)
nia). I use them as diapers
sanitary pads. Rams for what?
they tried and ran into it.But in action.
End [censored].
9. Hypertext is the most interesting thing.
Some texts equipped with such a “balance”
dashnik" can represent a powerful
the greatest means of influence. Moreover,
some texts are IMPOSSIBLE to imagine
no hypertext. Otherwise - spells, sue-
faith and ignorance. I will also mention that this
can be a very desirable material for
publications. As for Wiener, I
I specifically sent you this book so that
You yourself understood this - the importance of the task.
Moreover, Wiener is by no means the most difficult
text, - usual ACADEMIC presentation of ma-
terial - with the SAME ACADEMIC STAFF.
It is clear that this text is new to you, -
this is not a network...
10. As for the questionnaires - God forbid you can type at least
would get a hundred responses, - and you say every year -
but... At whose expense? This is a job that makes money
worth it. These are not sheep “polls” in the
yah...
11. Regarding the "Open Letters" I expressed my opinion -
she. How will events develop?
we live, we'll see.
12. In “Abz@ts” I wrote that you were going there
come on, - the letter to "A" was sent today -
Nya.
13. "It is assumed that the information
provided by users, itself
serves as a contribution to the common cause and gives
the right to receive systematic and
collected information from other users
lei".
This is a long and tedious topic - I’ll have to
be verbose. Essentially, you are suggesting
project perpetummobile. Let's start with the word
reading "information provided by the user"
callers." Users, precisely because
of their status (by definition) CONSUME
INFORMATION, WHILE HIGHLIGHTING CHIMERAS. Ana-
logical to the human digestive tract.
So this is the cost of information
it turns out that she is going to REPRODUCTION,
ELIMINATE these chimeras. If users
do not pay, then the second law of thermo-
dynamics - "heat death", - growth of ent-
ropia (chaos). This is exactly what is happening
in networks.
Example. Most gold is contained
in the world's oceans - but the very fact of SYSTEMATICAL
CZECH COMMERCIAL MINING is impossible,
because The process costs more than the result. No
there's no point in making candy out of shit, even though it's
and possible.
Another example. "Abz@ts" N10. (hopefully already
received) Volodin's article "ZX-Spectrum in
XXI century". This is nonsense. Product of mass distribution
conscious. They are in nets like little pebbles,
test their verbiage, - RECEIVING
THIS IS THE PLEASURE (CONSUMING TRUTH).
The article can be refuted ENTIRELY, but...
Time spent - one in five. with
That is the layout is as follows: ram five mi-
chickpea enjoys doing sleep-
began with mental delirium, and then translating “this”
into verbiage. I'm then TWENTY-FIVE
I have to clean up his shit for a few minutes? For
free of charge, because this is a "contribution to a common cause"
and “gives the right to receive” (wipes of gov-
onme)/"systematization". What for
the ram is a pleasure, - for me it’s work, -
and not a pleasant one. Do you think
it's nice to wipe shit after down, which
Have you already reached the point where you are doing it for yourself? A
why not pay him money, after all
HIS PLEASURE IS SOMEONE'S JOB. Ina-
che - degradation and debilitation - thermal
death is chaos. Or if he doesn’t have any
neg, it wouldn’t be fairer to at least shut up-
Xia? And do not use your mouth in calo- mode
spewer? But that's what a ram is for -
he does not understand that he is delusional - that he
completely lost the line between intelligence and insanity
fiction, reality and reality, reality and virtuality
totality.
Returning to your remark in the previous
next letter that, by analogy with boron-
durom, it is necessary to “close” a few more
topics on networks. At whose expense? My money time
stands, - unlike the time of the ram. Yes and
the task itself is meaningless. Impossible
scoop out an ocean of shit (nets) - the more
you scoop out, the more they crap - and with
PLEASURE. In mythology, this task is due to
known as the "Augean stables" - that's just...
the trouble is where to find the river... It’s easier and
It’s more useful to JUST DISCOVER THE NETWORKS. The point is
principle. "The right to free access to information
formations" - the foundation of networks (theft) -
excludes any constructive actions
twiya in them. If you refuse this
principle, the networks will instantly fall apart.
Article onthe curb had no purpose
"close the topic" in networks - THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE.
On one “closed” topic the sheep are happy to
three new ones will be “opened” - so what?.. Any use-
the source of information was immediately destroyed by the sheep
complains - because they block/parasitize
on rental mechanisms. That's why they are Americans
and fattened up. In muddy water and fish
catch more.
Now about the "user experience. Even in
if THEY SINCERELY WANT SOMETHING
DO (WORK) - they are not able to,
because guidelines/settings for
dachas - and this is impossible without monetary support
rota/weight function. That is most de-
barks completely meaningless things, -ORI-
ENTERED BY PRICE LISTS, - as a “weighting function”
tion" - or based on the technical characteristics
teristic, - i.e. be stupid. Activity of hao-
is typical and averaged over the platform, gives re-
the result is ZERO.
14. "...evaluate some of our work
..." - according to my T.Z. What would you do without
T.Z./problem statement? Please note
that I have this ability
precisely due to the presence of cash flow, -
albeit microscopic now. There won't be
turnover - I will be blinded - and nothing
better than those sheep in the nets.
15. About the programmer more than once
written in "Rev. letters". For those who
doesn't read Rev. letters" explanation about
periphery (in general) in N10 "Paragraph".
There are no new things about the RTS project "Jackals"
tey. Find out for yourselfI can't -
because communication is one-way.
16. If it’s not difficult, then do everything
copy of "Radio" N4/92 with Scart article. U
for us in St. Petersburg, all these magazines have long been in disarray
Latur was handed over, including the libraries.
Besides, I'm not sure that this is what is needed.
(c) Nemo.
P.S. Thanks for the copy of the article.
I'm waiting for the questionnaire - let me remind you once again that I am
only interested in REAL users
Sp-machines.
I am attaching N2 "RL" for 2002 - at least
You must have one number on hand.
"O.P." Not yet. (see above.)
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