From:    K8G (Jonathan Harston)        
  Subject: Serial Terminals              
                                         
  I've enclosed a Beta-test version of   
  XTerm C0.35 - most of it is written    
  and functional. I've been using it     
  daily since January. It features the   
  following:                             
                                         
  XYModem: automatically switches        
  between XModem, XModem-CRC, XModem-1k, 
  YModem(batch) and YModem-G.            
                                         
  On-the-fly text file conversion.       
                                         
  Modest monochrome ANSI implementation: 
  none of those strange [1;2;38m codes   
  all over the screen.                   
                                         
  PC-8 font included (ie, characters     
  look correct).                         
                                         
  Serial input buffered up to all        
  available memory, and NUL-NUL bug      
  fixed on MOS 5.00.                     
                                         
  NB: Currently file upload is very      
  simplified and only supports XModem.   
  Download is fully implemented.         
                                         
  I've tested XTerm on a Compact, and    
  Master, and a BBC B with PAGE at       
  &1A00. Full documentation is in        
  XtermIn.                               
                                         
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  To:      999 (all members)             
  From:    K6N (Brian Raw)               
  Subject:  Word Power                   
            word Power                   
                                         
  This is a game after the fashion of    
  Mastermind except using letters        
  instead of colours, moreover the       
  hidden letters must make up a valid    
  five letter word. Your task is to find 
  this word, mind you, you only have     
  four cracks at it if you want to       
  score any points that is! After that   
  if you get it on the fifth attempt, no 
  points are scored. On the sixth        
  attempt the computer scores three      
  points. Failing to get the word on the 
  sixth attempt the word is revealed     
  and the computer scores five points.   
                                         
  TIP                                    
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  If you play this game like Mastermind  
  i.e. just stabbing at the letters as   
  in trying AEIOU on the first go, you   
  are bound to fall behind due to the    
  number of letters in the alphabet.     
  However considering that the computer  
  uses only real words, you would do a   
  lot better sticking to these also.     
  ( its a rule of the game actually, I   
  am just pointing out that it is better 
  not to cheat).                         
                                         
  So for instance you might start with   
                                         
  ROUTE      Then regardless of the      
             result follow with          
                                         
  PAINS      Now you have all the vowels 
             and a few common letters    
             out.                        
                                         
  Scoring                                
  *******                                
         You will notice that unlike     
  Mastermind which tells you how many    
  are correct and how many are in the    
  wrong place but not which ones!        
  WordPower tells you which letters are  
  right *, Wrong X, and which are in the 
  wrong position @. Much easier yes, but 
  that is why you have so few goes at    
  it.                                    
                                         
                                         
  Here are a couple of examples which    
  caught me out:-                        
                                         
  EX1.                                   
                                         
  ROUTE  XXXXX  0  8                     
  PAINS  XX@XX  0  7                     
  FIZZY  X@XX@  0  6                     
                                         
                                         
                                         
  EX2.                                   
                                         
  ROUTE  XXXXX  0  8                     
  PAINS  XXXX@  0  7                     
  FUSSY  XX@X@  0  6                     
                                         
                                         
                These numbers are the    
                scores you will get if   
                your current guess is    
                correct.                 
  These numbers are the                  
  scores the computer                    
  will get if your current               
  guess is correct.                      
                                         
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  To:      999 (all members)             
  From:    3WU (Fred Price)              
  Subject: Sand-Dancer                   
                                         
     Well thats easter over for this     
  year and we spent our weekend at       
  Torquay and in our party was some      
  people from South Shields who we       
  always called them Sand Dancers not    
  knowing the story behind it and in our 
  conversation one lady told me she had  
  the poem and in a few days I had my    
  copy of it so now you will know where  
  the name came from of the canny folks  
  of Shields,                            
                                         
    So here it is with slight mods to it 
  meaning I have made the first letter   
  in each line slightly enlarged so as   
  usual put your paper in your printer   
  ready to read about the.               
                                         
          **** DANCER ****               
                                         
                                         
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