About
Einstein Magazine & All Micro News was the house magazine of the UK Einstein user group. By 1996 it was being published from New Romney in Kent by the Steam Computer Society, under its chief editor A E Adams, six issues a year.
This is issue 79, twenty four A5 pages, typewritten and photocopied. The first page announces reduced subscriptions and explains the group's position in its own words:
We took over from those awfully nice people at Ipswich just as the final vestiges of Einstein support were about to be abandoned, and it was a hard struggle to get back up onto the financial knife-edge that we love so much.
The Ipswich people are the UK Einstein User Group, whose magazine of the time, Alternative Micro News, can be read on Einstein Reborn. The same editorial calls this the group's tenth birthday year, which puts its beginnings at about 1986.
What Is In It
| Pages | What |
|---|---|
| 1 | Masthead and "Einstein User Group Subscriptions Reduced!!!" |
| 2 to 3 | "Not Another Crisis, Surely!", contents, and the editorial in which both Einstein editors stand down |
| 4 to 5 | "Talking to Your Printer" by A Dunipace: printer control codes from BASIC. Competition |
| 6 to 8 | "Graphic Dumps Revisited" by Ted Cawkwell: the GDUMP screen dump machine code, how to relocate it, and a seven byte routine that tests whether the printer is online |
| 9 to 13 | "The National Lottery", with the LOTWIN BASIC listing |
| 14 to 16 | A review of TTY.COM, a terminal program by Peter Amey |
| 17 to 18 | "Basic Programs to Type In": FUEL by David Williams, and "On Function Keys and Things" |
| 19 to 24 | Show news for the Stafford show of 9 November 1996, back numbers, and letters, including one from a sixteen year old new member in Coventry |
Two loose newsletters that came with it, Latenews of August 1996 and Evenlaternews of September 1997, are included at the end of the PDF. The same mailing also carried three companion titles, scanned separately: All Micro News No. 079, Messydos Journal No. 079 and Old Copier No. 079.
Type-Ins Disc
The two BASIC programs printed in this issue, Ted Cawkwell's LOTWIN and David Williams's FUEL, are typed in, tested and ready to run on the Einstein Magazine No. 79 Listings Disc.
About This Scan
Scanned from an original on 4 October 2026, with a searchable text layer. The magazine is reproduced in full, with one exception: private home addresses and telephone numbers have been blacked out, in the page images and in the text layer alike. That covers the member's address label on the mailing folder, the editor's own address in the mastheads, and two members' addresses and phone numbers printed in the loose newsletters. Names are left as printed. Nothing else has been altered.
The Rest of the Run
The magazine ran from Einstein Monthly in 1987 to No. 111 in 2003. We have scanned Nos 76 to 80 and their companions ourselves; the other issues can be read on Einstein Reborn. If you have All Micro News Vol 1 Nos 1 to 6, or anything after No. 111, we would love to hear from you.
Copyright
Copyright (C) 1996 Steam Computer Society and the original authors. The publisher could not be traced as of 4 October 2026 (no public contact for the society, its editor or its predecessor). Hosted for preservation with private details removed, by TatungBytes' decision of 10 October 2026: the publisher and authors could not be reached, the same issues have been online elsewhere for many years, and the file will be taken down on request from any rights holder.
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