Editorial.

Christmas comes but once a year but it looks as though I’ve managed to miss it with this bumper Christmas issue. Most of the magazine was put together before Christmas but, unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond my control, (ie. the Christmas rush), I didn’t get chance to get it finished and sent out for Christmas as I had intended. I hope you all had a happy Christmas and a very merry New Year.

The results of the survey that I did a couple of issues back are coming in now and they are giving me some idea of what you want to see in the magazine. In general they seem very encouraging but I think I had better clear up a few points:–

1. We are totally seperate from Nascom. Nascom (or rather Lucas Logic) have given us there full support and backing but Micro Power Ltd still maintain full editorial control. The section of the magazine under ‘Nascom News’ is supplied by Lucas and goes into the magazine unedited in content but the rest of the magazine is made up of a representative selection of the articles that I receive from readers.
2. Quite a large percentage of the replies to the survey commented on the unprofessional finish to the magazine. This is because the magazine is unprofessional. I would much rather use a daisy wheel printer for printing and have the circuit diagrams done professionally but this would involve expenditure which the magazine could not pay for. The magazine is produced very much on a voluntary/​amateur basis so if any reader has circuit drawing experience I would be very happy to make contact with him/​her and possibly come up with some working agreement.

I will give you more results of the survey, hopefully, in the next issue.

Subscriptions.

This is the last issue of Volume 2 of the Nascom Newsletter/​Micropower magazine. This year (1983) I intend to produce 6 issues on a regular basis (I am getting properly organised) with a more consistant balance of news, reviews, hints and letters. I am hoping to set up a section for queries about problems on the the Nascom and related products which I can forward on to the party concerned for a detailed answer which I will be able to print in a subsequent issue. I don’t know if this will work but I won’t know until I have tried.

I am afraid that the cost of the magazine will have to go up for Volume 3 and the cost now will be £1.25 per issue or £7.50 for a subscription (4 issues) (Europe and Overseas rates are also increased; see the enclosed subscription form for details). The magazine NEEDS subscriptions. We are offering a £2 discount (that works out at £5.50 for 6 issues of the magazine sent anywhere in Great Britain) an the subscription if you also order some Micro Power software/​hardware at the same time, before the 21st of Feb.