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Volume 5 Number 1 of The Einstein User, published by B & H Computers of Bank Top Works, Southowram, Halifax, "The Einstein Specialists", in 1990, with the cover line The Knuts and Bolts of Einstein. B & H's own page offers the Einstein 256 to subscribers for £200 plus delivery, a book of Spectrum Emulator game hacks, a trade in pack for owners moving to an IBM compatible and a new hardware and software catalogue. The Editorial talks about producing the magazine on a desk top publisher, and the issue carries Readers Transactions small ads, John Atkinson's Golden Oldies, remembering DEUCE, the ICL System 4 and the PDP 8 against the Einstein, the Editor's Triangle Power fractal program with a £10 software voucher competition, Learning C Part 3 by The Man in the Mountains of Merlin Software, Letters to the Editor on business software, Turbo Pascal, a blinking cursor, the analogue ports, WP80 and Wordstar and the Einstein's RS232, John Dunne's review of the B & H Mouseart package, and Programs Submitted by Readers: Philip Lord's character designer DEF11.XBS, a sprite listing and John Sewell's TEAMQUIZ. An Interesting Thought? sets a challenge to write a savings interest program, the back cover runs a caption competition, and readers are asked to renew their subscription at £6 a year.
The listings from this issue, Philip Lord's DEF11 definer and Triangle Power, are on a ready to run disc: Einstein User Vol 5 No 1 Listings Disc.
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Sent to us by Paul Botley, with thanks. The same scans are also in Mike's Archive. The PDF has a searchable text layer.
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Copyright (C) 1990 B & H Computers and the original authors. Hosted for preservation; the file will be taken down on request from any rights holder.
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