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1. Serving SuperBrain Owners and Users Around the World WERLETTE Dec Jan 1981 82 Vol 1 No 6 It s been a good year New software packages BIOS enhance ment products hardware add ons technical improvements and more infor mation than ever before has been made available to users and owners of Super Brain and CompuStar computers We re happy to have played a small part in getting much of that information and many of the new products introduced to you And we hope to be able to continue doing so in the months ahead Looking back some specific things come to mind that I feel deserve special men tion First quality control at Intertec has improved greatly over the last six months I m not sure but I believe there have been definite improvements made in shipping container protection and with better pre shipping testing and burn in monitoring of the products Second some software products have demonstrated themselves to be of a superior nature when considering price features and ease of use Spellbinder I believe is one of the best of fice management word processing values on the market today Our guest article this month will relay the facts behind this opinion but our dealings with the creators of the software have always been excellent They have gone out of their way to conform their products to the specific needs of SuperBrain users And they truly provide more in a single package than is currently2. Mode 1 ae aaa gt Port C upper 0 Output 1 Input i aan a tetertententeterteatartetententertaniatan gt Port A 0 Output 1 Input l penne eee en ee gt Port A 00 Mo e 0 select l Huw tn dt uk wt nota 0l Mode 1 select 10 Mode 2 select 11 Mode 2 select PER T R ae N ne A pak gt Command 0 Set port C bit 1 Program PPI modes If you write a control word to the PPI to set or reset individual bits of port C the com mand has the following format bit 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 tenn penn fon gen tenn te teen pent lf ad x tx lx t I X Don t care ignored 4 Ht gt 0 Reset selected bit to zero 1 Set selected bit to one 000 Select PCO NS 001 Select PCl 010 Select PC2 eee gt O11 Select PC3 100 Select PC4 101 Select PC5 110 Select PC6 1l11 Select PC7 The PPI is responsible for controlling and monitoring everything that is happening with the SuperBrain with the exception of the Floppy Disk Coritroller which is handled by CPU 2 Ports A B and C control operation of the disk control system the display con trolers the keyboard input and status the bell and the main port ring indicator Ports A and C are output ports which control Port B is a monitor port getting status from the various subsystems 23 Editor s note The Hardware Information on the SuperBrain may be purchased in its entirety from Jonathan Platt for 50 He a
3. therefore be given first When referring to one of the two CPU s within the SuperBrain CPU 1 is the main Z80 CPU attached to the 64K RAM and CPU 2 is the disk system processor The ports attached to CPU 1 are listed first then those of CPU 2 CPU 1 PORTS All ports of CPU 1 are between 40H and 7FH They are selected through the 1 of 8 Decoder 74LS138 The external bus S 100 should only be utilized for 1 O devices using addresses 80H to FFH There are two exceptions however If the special ROM which is used for parallel ex ternal communication is not on the pro cessor board the chip select for that ROM Continued on Page 3 Superletter is published bi monthly by Abrams Creative Services Mailing address P O Box 3121 Beverly Hills CA 90212 Phone 213 277 2410 Copyright 1981 by Abrams Creative Services All Rights Reserved No part of this newsletter can be copied by any means without prior written permission from the publisher Editor Albert Abrams Advertising amp Subscrip tion Linda Patchell SuperBrain is a registered trademark of Intertec Data Systems Inc CP M is a registered trademark of Digital Research Inc CW COMPUDIAL INC the Sink Between Rehnaligy p Rope k f Cherry Hill Industrial Center 2 Keystone Avenue Cherry Hill N J 08003 TELEPHONE 609 424 4700 215 629 1289 The Leading Intertec Dealer In The Northeast Dealer and OEM Inquires Invited Special Discoun
4. available anywhere Another recent find is ZED This unique word processing software package was designed specifically for the SuperBrain and all of its internal features It is the friendliest package we ve ever used Very simple to run and operate And again the personal back up and technical con sultation available to users is superior Its special Video Calculator which can be used during word processing is not available anywhere else To top it all off you edit if you like on a white screen with black letters and actual paper margins But the key product for 1981 has been the SB E Prom from Information Engineer ing It makes the SuperBrain a superior machine in its features and operations You know that s true when you see soft ware packages being advertised as com patible with the IE Prom And again per sonal service and technical advice from the company is always there to back up the product The last package we think is special enough to mention is SuperCalc It works and does everything it advertises itself to be And it s easy to use Quite a remarkable piece of software However at this point in time it does not conform to the BIOS of the IE Prom Next year is going to bring low cost graphics packages new advanced BIOS s small and compact hard disk devices and even more easy to use software designed with you the SuperBrain user in mind This issue begins a special 4 part serializa t
5. makes your SuperBrain a full function word processor with exceptional ease of use and these special features COLOR CODED CUE CARDS eliminate control character commands and menus Just point with the cursor and type fast on screen word wrap always shows how your text will look Full disk scrolling Complete User s Guide TELECOMMUNICATIONS Send receive and edit files at the touch of a key ZED S VIDEO CALCULATOR Let Zed do the arithmetic in your documents PROGRAMMABLE KEYS Save time by storing commands and phrases for playback All for only 195 Turn your SuperBrain into a really SUPER workstation with ZED from Roytek P O Box 92 Arlington MA 02174 617 646 4137 Book Review DON T Or How To Care For Your Computer by Rodney Zaks 11 95 SYBEX 2344 Sixth Street Berkeley CA 94710 800 227 2346 It s amazing that people will spend thousands of dollars on expensive com puter and peripheral equipment and then smoke cigarettes or spill hot liquids on them often causing severe damage to both machine and stored data In DON T Rodney Zaks the king of con sumer computer books details the most common human mistakes that can lead to costly computer breakdowns and the best ways to maintain a proper computer room environment shows how smoke affects hard disk devices and floppy diskette surfaces and reveals how to create the optimum conditions for using computers and their accessory devi
6. program is put into a macro buffer and then the commands are executed automatically by Spellbinder A Load and Go macro is a macro which is loaded from disk directly into the macro buffer and then ex ecuted with one command Spellbinder provides nine load and go macros They may be loaded into the macro buffer with the command AD The macro file name will then be requested and loaded after the user responds The load and go macros are briefly described below SPELLBINDER LOAD AND GO MACROS File Name Description ALPHA Creates a list in which sorting may be done alphabetically or numerically BATCH Automatically prints a list of the files unattended BOILER Provides cut and paste boiler plating capability This allows the user to pull words clauses so called boilerplate from a master boiler plate file and locate them at specified points in a current document CUESORT Sorts a customer list or other file on the basis of categories which the user assigns FORMS Provides forms generating and fill in capability LINENB Numbers each line of a file to correspond with the lines displayed on the screen MMERGE Prints a personalized form letter to everyone on a mailing list ZIPSORT Sorts a mailing list into ascending order of ZIP codes 2CPRNT Prints text in two columns The Spellbinder manual was printed using this macro Similar macro programs can be designed by someone with very limited programming ex perience using the programs list
7. rubout characters from the text Note that the text from lines below will align automatically The BACKSPACE key operates exactly as the cursor left arrow key The HERE IS key operates exactly as the INSERT key The LINE FEED key operates exactly as the cursor down arrow key USING THE EDIT MODE The EDIT mode functions always operate at the location of the cursor The screen will always display EDIT in the upper left corner when in the EDIT mode To create text type on the keyboard as though you were using a typewriter Words that you type will appear on the screen The cursor _ always indicates the position on the screen where any text you type will ap pear The numbers on the message line display the current position of the cursor by line and space number respectively There are 80 spaces across the screen and the working space may be expanded up to 160 spaces as desired The number of lines is limited only by the working size of the computer s memory typically over a thousand depending on line width Text may be modified by typing over deleting or inserting or by a combination of these means The cursor is moved to the character to be modified and the appropriate action taken The screen will be rewritten in steps of one half screen This will occur as the cur sor reaches the bottom line or if the cur sor is moved up from the top line Note that the white cursor movement keys may be held down
8. to provide scrolling in 10 line increments COMMAND MODE These commands are used to make major changes in text for disk operations and for printing They are performed using the main keyboard characters The com mand letter is typed in either upper or lower case letters followed by a carriage return Some of these commands necessitate that the user specify a number of lines usual ly on which the command is to act This will be denoted by the letter n signifying that the user should insert the number desired in place of n DYNAMIC PRINT COMMANDS In addition to the commands used in the command mode there are two types of DYNAMIC PRINT COMMANDS Both types are embedded in the text and thus will be activated during printing For this reason they are termed DYNAMIC PRINT COMMANDS They are DOT commands and IN LINE commands Dot commands are always placed at the begin ning of a line and start with a period In line commands may be placed anywhere in the text USER PROGRAMMABLE KEYS Thanks to SBE DOS The top row of keys on the main keyboard are user programmable with up to five commands or characters each To use one of these keys in this alternate mode the user designated ALT MODE key on the function keypad must be typed first Dif ferent programming may be used and saved with different applications One use of these keys with Spellbinder that may be popular is a two key sequence for writing a file from memor
9. Glenn Stok SOFTWARE Stok Pilot is a new powerful language tool that allows the creation of a fully menu driven environment for any CP M application Its dual purpose allows it to be used to write system control pro grams as well as CAI courses or any com bination of the two It also allows you to do things at the CP M level without having to know CP M commands Available in SuperBrain format 109 00 with dealer discounts available DO COM is another product that allows you to type a string of CP M commands that will execute one at a time Price 29 00 WARREN INSTROTECH Ltd P O Box Station F Ottawa Ont K2C 3M1 HARDWARE Produces the W DLT Date Line Tester that identifies the seven most commonly used RS 232 data lines and shows the most likely cause of a connecting problem to a modem or printer It permits any standard device to communicate with other devices without having to know which cables work where Price 59 95 with dealer dis counts available COMPUDIAL INC 2 Keystone Avenue Cherry Hill NJ 08003 609 424 4700 or 215 629 1289 Contact Dan Brown HARDWARE All Intertec products SuperBrain and CompuStar specialists with communication and technical ex perts on staff to assist dealers and customers Carries full line of printers and modems compatible with the Super Brain An East Coast service center SOFTWARE Has a Lease Tracking soft ware package that helps keep track of le
10. Marks can be used with the COMMAND mode functions which affect a specified number of lines The SOFT HYPHEN key provides one of the three types of hyphens that may be used with Spellbinder soft firm and hard The INSERT key is used when you wish to insert new characters in the middle of text without typing over the old text When the INSERT key is first struck the existing text _ is moved out of the way so that new characters may be added The INSERT mode is indicated by the word INSERT at the top of the screen The second keystroke of the INSERT key will close the old text back adjacent to the new The ALT MODE key is user program mable and will be discussed later This key we borrowed from an old keyboard The EDIT COMMAND key allows the user to switch back and forth between the two modes of operation The current mode is always indicated in the upper left corner of the screen MAIN KEYBOARD SPECIAL FUNCTION KEYS There are several keys on the main keyboard which have particular functions in the EDIT mode They are described below The DELETE key will delete the character on which the cursor is positioned each time it is struck The deleted character will be replaced with a block which is called a rubout character As with the other keys if it is held down the DELETE key will continue to operate delete characters in this case until released The BREAK key is used after the DELETE key to clear the
11. May June July August Sept Oct Nov 1981 Write To SUPERLETTER Circulation Dept P O Box 3121 Beverly Hills California 90212 SuperClassified rates are 4 00 per line 3 line minimum 5 words per line Please note Publication of all Super Classifieds are dependent on dates of receipt of copy and payment and space availability Mail to SuperClassifieds P O Box 3121 Beverly Hills CA 90212 CUSTOMIZE your keyboards Technical Corner Continued from Page 1 port 78H may be used as the select line to an external device which could be using the data lines off the S 100 edge connector or the data lines of the ROM socket Port 78H is connected to the third pin up on the right side of the ROM socket Port 70H is not attached to anything on the processor board It could be used by soldering a jumper to it if desired There is one port which needs to be singled out because it is not clearly marked on the schematics if at all It was found through disassembling Intertec s FORMAT 1 3 pro gram It seems that bit three of port 44 if set will select side one of the selected disk drive Conversely if reset it will select side two of the selected drive This is not definite however it may be a leftover from a pre revision 1 board FORMAT 3 1 does not use port 44 Chip Hex Location 8251 Aux port USART Data port 40 Status port 41 Exact definition unknown 44 8251 Main port USART Data
12. ase values additions subtractions replacements and repairs Continued on Page 8 7 z Lev ON Hwad V9 SIIIH Ayanog alvd a9VLSOd sn alvy 1nd 21206 VO SIH Alzoaeg TETE XOH O d da Lid TaAcNs New Products Continued from Page 7 TELECOMPUTE INTEGRATED SYSTEMS INC 251 Spadina Avenue Toronto Ont Canada MST 2E2 416 363 9295 Contact Suren Mehta Director of Marketing SOFTWARE Markets TIS APL for the SuperBrain Three versions in kit form in clude APL interpreter on disk APL keycaps and APL character generator Also comes with installation procedures tutorial and reference manual TIS APL now provides SuperBrain users with all the power of APL Version 1 is the Educational Version 295 Version 2 the Software Development Version 495 Version 3 the Full Support Software Development Version 1 195 BORDER COMPUTING AND PROGRAMMING Dog Kennel Lane Bucknell Shropshire England SY7 OAX 05474 368 Contact Dominic G Hibbs HARDWARE Offers a low resolution graphics package providing reverse video underline and blinking for the Super Brain The package comes with a video board that plugs in in less than five minutes All the functions are under program control easily implemented in MBASIC Package also includes sample routines sample graphics and X Y plot graph for mathematical equation Price 150 175 with dealer discounts available aS ZED IS HERE ZED
13. ble to Superletter readers at a subscriber discount price of 345 List price is regularly 495 Call 213 277 2410 or write to Spelibinder Offer P O Box 3121 Beverly Hills California 90212 Spellbinder Continued from page 4 a T move to top of text d RETURN or b RETURN or e WD close write file c W write f RETURN Note that a total of seven keystrokes must be entered Also note that the user must remember to move the cursor to the top of the text I have been known to forget The sequence shown above is programmed into two of the programmable keys 1 and 2 This provides the following advantages a The number of keystrokes is reduced to four b The saving procedure is easier to remember as simple as 1 2 c The user is not likely to forget to move the cursor to the top of the text The procedure for programming the keys is contained within the SBE DOS manual It is fairly simple and there are many potential uses outside of Spellbinder MACRO PROGRAMS A FANTASTIC SPELLBINDER PLUS A macro program is a series of commands which are performed sequentially and automatically Individually these commands are essentially the same simple commands used in Spellbinder When many such commands are performed in sequence automatically they can perform complex jobs such as merging a mailing list into a form letter thus producing many individual letters The list of commands contained in a specific macro
14. ces The book also provides an important hand holding service when things sud denly go wrong The reader acquires a clear easy to follow checklist that will help identify mysterious problems and suggest solutions to get you up and run ning again a
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16. g is set to word when Spellbinder is entered Additional means of cursor movement is provided by certain red keys the CUR SOR SCAN key will scan the cursor to the end of the line on the first keystroke then to the beginning of the line on the second stroke Subsequent keystrokes will alter nately move the cursor to the end and beginning of the line The REWRITE key moves the text and cursor to the top of the screen The MODE ENHANCE key will enhance the word sentence paragraph or character mode unit depending on the setting of the CURSOR MODE If a word or sentence etc is already enhanced then this key will turn off the enhance ment of the word or mode unit The ENTER ENHANCE key is a switch which is used to turn on or off the enhancement feature while entering text For example I depress the key once and everything being entered is enhanced un til I stroke the key a second time The INDENT key provides an indent to the right of the left margin Although the indented line may look the same as a line which is created with a TAB there are dif ferences A tab fills a line with spaces while the indent actually moves the left margin If a paragraph is indented using the TAB key and then edited in the first line there will be blocks of spaces scat tered through the text Text of course will be scattered into the margin The MARK key provides a non printing mark The mark appears on the screen as a character
17. ion of the first wire by wire chip by chip internal breakdown of the Intertec Super Brain computer This outstanding docu ment was brought to our attention by Dr Jacques Vidal of UCLA Jonathan Platt the author has granted us permission to publish it and it is presented to you in our continuous goal of helping you better understand and use your SuperBrain computer As always our door is open to your com ments suggestions and articles Let us hear from you and we hope you have a successful prosperous 1982 Abbot Kh EDITOR Tam S Technical Corner HARDWARE INFORMATION ON THE SUPERBRAIN by Jonathan W Platt Special thanks to Paul L Kelley Ph D Copyright Jonathan Platt 1981 This is a technical report describing each subsystem of the SuperBrain and how it functions Specific descriptions of the IC s are not generally given Programmable chips however are described in more detail Obtaining data sheets on all IC s of the SuperBrain is advised A TTL Data Book a Microprocesser Component Data Catalog and the Osbourne three volume set will cover most or all of them The Input Output ports are essential to the operation of the SuperBrain And the knowledge of them and their functions are equally important to the comprehen sion of the system as a whole They allow the CPU to control and interact with the display keyboard disk control system and the communications ports The port descriptions will
18. l which contains almost 115 000 words covers the capabilities in reasonable depth Included in the manual is an excellent tutorial which can be used to self teach Spellbinder quickly and eas ily The EDIT and COMMAND functions will be discussed first then the MACRO capabilities will be briefly described As SuperBrain owners know the Super Brain QD includes two floppy disk drives and the operating system is the industry standard CP M We have added an enhanced version of the operating system called SBE DOS The SBE DOS descrip tion would be an article by itself but few of the word processing related benefits in clude the following a User programmable keys Both the function keypad and the top row of the main keyboard are easily program mable Different programs can be stored for different applications b The drive spindle motors are turned off after being inactive for 10 seconds This prolongs the motor life and makes for mostly silent operation This can be particularly appreciated when using the word processor c A type ahead buffer is provided which can speed up a number of operations And much more SBE DOS was designed and is marketed by I E Systems Inc Newmarket NH and is available from them and many local SuperBrain dealers To bring Spellbinder into operation type in the name of the Spellbinder version desired The versions I use are named RMxxx where xxx describes the print wheel that the
19. lso has SOS a new BIOS for the SuperBrain Write to Jonathan Platt Pine Villa Apt 114 200 East University Blvd Melbourne FL 32901 305 724 6148 Spellbinder Continued from page 2 Right justify Right justification means that all lines of the printed text are equal in length assuming a normal aligned left margin The space is spacing may be set by the user in increments of 1 120th of an inch This text is right justified and the minimum spacing is 5 120th maximum is 25 120th of an inch EDIT MODE The function keyboard located to the right of the main keyboard provides the primary editing functions We use labeled function keys for Spellbinder which are available from Digital Marketing Walnut Creek CA These function keys include the cursor movement keys white the cursor mode movement keys blue and others The white cursor movement keys move the cursor in the direction indicated by the arrow one character for each keystroke Note that if a key is held in the down position the key will repeat until released The blue cursor mode movement keys move the cursor backward forward or will delete characters one mode unit for each keystroke The cursor mode unit may be changed using the blue CURSOR MODE key from word to sentence to paragraph to character and back to word These keys are useful for moving the cur sor in units larger than one character and for deleting in larger units The mode us in
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21. port 58 Status port 59 RS Flip Flop Interrupt Latch 48 KR3600 PRD KB Encoder 50 BR1941L Baud rate generator 60 8255 Programmable Peripheral Interface PPI Port A PPIA 68 Port B PPIB 69 Port C PPIC 6A Control Word port PPICW i 6B Custom engraved to your specifications FAST We stock blank keytops for Cherry Electrical Products Keytronics Corp and other keyboard manufacturers Also For your word processor Don t ever forget a Command Again Keytop kits available for Spellbinder Magic Wand and other word processing packages For your Exidy Any questions Call or write Arkay Engravers Inc 2073 Newbridge Road PO Box 916 Bellmore N Y 11710 516 781 9859 Pictured MAGIC WAND KEYTOP KIT FOR SUPERBRAIN The 8255 PPI has three data ports and one bidirectional data bus PPICW Port A is capable of being bidirectional but the SuperBrain does not use it in this mode The PPI is programmed by sending the following configuration to the PPICW Bit set reset com mands for port C are also sent to the PPICW For more information on the different modes look up this chip s data sheet bit 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 penn teen tenn tenn tenn teen tenant ri 1oroilol lototitec tl This is the SuperBrain s configuration ee HM HMMM I i _ l gt Port C lower 0 Output 1 Input 1 l gt Port B 0 Output 1 Input i e gt Port B 0 Mode 0 1
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23. ts on SUPERBRAINS SUPERBRAIN Intelligent Video Terminal Systems 350K or 700K of Disk Storage w 64K Double Density List 3495 w 64K Quad Density List 3995 CompuStar MAINFRAME PERFORMANCE AT MICROCOMPUTER PRICES MULTI TASKING MULTI USER No networking degradation experienced as with single CPU systems A business system priced comparable to the TRS 80 Government and International Inquiries Invited PRINTERS Nec Spinwriter Data South Microline MODEMS Racal Vadic SOFTWARE FOR SUPERBRAIN AND COMPUSTAR Accounts Payable l Payroll Accounts Receivable Word Processing Many Others FAST RELIABLE Hardware Service On Our Premises Or In Our Area For Information Or To order call 609 424 4700 go r A Pk a a UU aa a E i a E SPELLBINDER WORD PROCESSING on the SUPERBRAIN by Ralph Manildi The Nicolet Zeta Corp The combined capabilities of Spellbinder and the SuperBrain are greater than any other Word Processing System WPS that we have compared Over a dozen WPS s were originally considered at the start of 1981 and several more recently introduc ed WPS s have been compared The Spellbinder software package is com prised of three parts the EDIT functions the COMMAND functions and the MACRO functions The MACRO func tions are pre programmed command sequences which are executed automati cally This article does not touch on all of Spellbinder s capabilities The Spellbinder user manua
24. version is configured to print in the proportional mode Any ver sion can be used to create or edit text Note that keys will repeat if held down for more than about one half second This is adjustable as is the rate of repeating thanks to SBE DOS To enter Spellbinder type in RMDUAL for letter gothic print wheel SuperBrain will load Spellbinder and ask OLD FILE Y N Type N for no and you will be in the EDIT mode ready to type Before jumping into the Spellbinder EDIT mode let s describe some frequently used WPS terms Word wrap or wraparound The user can enter text at full speed without attending to carriage returns or an approaching end of line A word which does not fit at the end of a line will automatically be moved to the following line Enhancement Used when printing to em phasize certain characters or words There are several types of enhancement available with Spelibinder including the following underlining shadow print boldface slash overstrike and dash overstrike The dif ferent types may be mixed as desired Proportional spacing This is when the space allotted to each character is propor tional to that character s width For exam ple the letter i does not take as much space as the letter m Continued on page 4 SUBSCRIPTION RATES U S 1 yr bi monthly 17 00 Canada amp Mexico 20 00 All other Foreign 30 00 Airmail Only Back Issues 3 00 Feb March April
25. y to disk The sequence of operations is as follows Continued on Page 6 4 SET FIRE TO YOUR PAPERWORK ry If your office is piled up with paperwork you K K need the Spellbinder Word Processing System Spellbinder puts the heat on almost any paperwork task saving you time and increasing your output SPELLBINDER IS WORD PROCESSING You won t find a more sophisticated word processing package And you won t find a system that s easier to use The result You get the impressive benefits of top quality word processing quickly The effect on output is significant SPELLBINDER FOR OFFICE amp DATA MANAGEMENT With Spellbinder you can create files for frequently used office forms allowing you to fill in information blanks at your convenience You can merge selected mailing list information into a form letter for personalized mass mailings And Spelibinder will sort information from a customer list in up to 19 different categories plus order by zip code or alphabetically CUSTOM FEATURES AUTOMATE SPECIAL JOBS Spellbinder s macro programming features lets you shape your text into any format required by your business You can number the lines on legal documents print in two columns or in patterned shapes or create custom page headings for running pagination LEXISOFT INC p Linder 6 A lot hotter than plain word processing SPECIAL OFFER SuperBrain formatted SB E Prom compatible Spellbinder software is now availa
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