The Capital Area Timex/Sinclair Users Group

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March 1994

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Impossible Dream ? by George Rey

We are in a depression ("The Contained Depression of the 1990's by Levy). Make no mistake about it. It started in 82 when interest rates peaked, became painful in 90 and may run to the year 2000. I have not seen so much crime and so many lost homeless since the 305.

The good news is that a depression is not the end of the world, besides we are four times richer (fatter) now than in the 30's. For me a depression is a massive restructuring of a Nation's economic affairs. It is caused by the unbridled greed of enterprises handling money irresponsibly. This leads to speculative bubbles which must be deflated.

The hopeful news is that Greenspan (GS) is at the helm of the Fed now carrying out a fiscal plan he helped produce when Chairman of the Social Security (SS) Commission overhaul in 1983-84. The plan like any plan is a target for the future and is not an absolute

The Table below is a capsule condensation of that plan.

Yr Nom GNPInc Fed Int Fed SS 19 GNP %In %GNP Defi Rate Debt Assets

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05 13326 6.1 14.1 -74 6.0 6182 2463 0714973 6.0 14.1 -21 6.0 6253 3064 1017833 6.0 14.1 +92 6.0 6100 4092 1523417 3.6 14.1 +385 6.0 4830 6082 2030519 5.4 14.1 +879 6.0 1520 7976

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certainty. It combines the SS trust and Federal budgets to finance our way back to heaith. That is why he got to be Chairman of the Fed later.

The Fed is handling the situation as well as can be expected - by using the combined resources of the Government and SS as the "Bank of Last Resort" to balance our economic accounts to maintain economic (Money) stability. Thats a "High-Wire Act" and my concern is that all that Megabyte Money, outside of USA control, may cut the wire.

The table shows a 35 year Federal financial plan, 1985- 2020, in column 1 (C 1). In billions of dollars. C 2 assumes nominal projected GNP's over the years, while C 3 assumes the nominal growth % per year of the GNP. C4isthe % GNP expected as Federal income - and is

Continued on page 2 SE EE EEE SCHO. Re EE RS DA DD CDS UEM CNN IEE MEN MEUM A Word from the Editor:

Well, it looks like CATS joins the rest of the Wash- ington area in Suffering from winters onslaughts. Let uS hope that by the time you read this it is all history.

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March Presentation:

| Duane Parker on MODEMS |

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THE FUTURE LCS BEHIND! Using a computer co create a I7ch. Century oachscaff.

Addendum: The Computer part òy Mark Fisher.

I sent my backstaff article to another newsletter, and its editor, George Steele, has informed me that I left something out - namely exactly what I did on my computer to decide how to calibrate the ares of the backstaff. To remedy the oversight (considering that this IS a computer group, I submit the following:

First of all, the standard way to calibrate and engrave instruments is to use a machine, based on a screw thread, to correctly space the desired marks onto the instrument. I couldn't do this, but I had a computer!

I needed to know the straight line distance acroes an arc, the size of the arc determined by the angle at its base. I had three constraints in writing the program:

1.) The other problem was introduced by the helpful designer of the computer. Angles within the computer are denoted in radians, an alternate method of describing angles (a circle is divided into 3.1416 radians rather than 360 degrees). To convert the massive decimal fractions to a number I could

use required line 50 in the program. Full angle radius * "ang" SIN@?) , is "ang déges or desired arc length "d" mdians

2.) Trigonometry gives a value for the size of the side of a right triangle with the sine, and what I wanted was the size of the base of an isosceles triangle. However, one can think of the isosceles triangle as two right triangles back to back, each with 1/2 the included angle. The result appears where I multiply ("*" in computerese) the sine of 1/2 the original angle by 2 in line 60.

3.) The sine value only tells us the size of the angle 1f the radius is one unit. However, a triangle with a radius of two units would have twice the distance, etc., so I also multiply the sine in line 60 by the radius of the arc I want to calibrate.

On running this program, I generated a table of dimensions, each representing a distance that "included" the angle I wanted to mark. In order to avoid cumulative errors, I didn't just find out how far to measure for one degree, for example, and move my ruler along the arc marking degrees. Rather measured successive increments from the base line,

cross checking graduations.

my measurements between

BASIC Calibration program

10 REM graduating scale program

20 INPUT "ENTER radius of are in decimal inches ";radius

30 INPUT “ENTER step value in decimal degrees ";Stp

40 Por ang=0 to 65 step Stp

50 d=ang/57.29578: REM converts values in degrees to radians for the computer

60 PRINT ang, USING "####.####"'; radius*SIN(d/2)*2 REM (This is the guts of the program, generating the distance along the chord between the starting point and the current value of

tang") 70 PAUSE 80 NEXT ang 90 END continued from page

targeted at 14.1 % max. In C 5 the Federal deficit in billions is projected. C 6 is the expected long term interest rates of US bonds. The next to last column, C 7, is the accumulating total Federal debt which is planned to peak in 2007. Lastly, the accumulating SS trust fund is where the source of funds are that help fuel such horrendous debt. I hope GS meets the targets he set forth.

For the astute, monitor the planned targets. If negative deviations occur, hide. But I don't know where. As for all the political rhetoric from Reagan to whomever to the year 2007 or thereabouts, forget it, their hands are tied to the plan. Why? Because its not what puppets we vote into kingship that matters but who controls the money supply.

Is the plan an Impossible Dream? I am not an economist, thank God, but I can add and think. I have Ped to read Mr. Levy's book, but if GS's plan does not contain the depression we are in say your prayers. But TIME will tell if the plan works. In any event I am not about to let anyone,

] including my country, to enslave me.

Next time, Freedom, what it is and isn't.

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Memorial Service for Irma Quintero

Members George Rey and Charles (Hank) Dickson attended a memorial service for Alejandrina Irma Quintero at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Silver Spring Saturday, January 29, 1994.

Irma was--since the early 1950's--the wife of Mannie Quintero, former CATS president.

A memorial Mass was conducted in the large Silver Spring church, filled to capacity. Eulogies were given by Irma's daughters--Lisa Martin and Pat Collins and family friend Mirt Bender.

Her four brothers and four sisters, among others, came to the service from many places:

Rio de Janiero California Cohabama, Bolivia Arizona

Colorado

Texas

Virginia

Florida

New York

After memorial services in Pound Ridge, NY and Washington, DC, there will be one more ceremony for Irma this spring at Santa Cruz--in her native Bolivia--where her remains will come to rest in the family mausoleum.

Irma and Mannie traveled all around the world while Mannie was engaged in doing coast and geodetic survey work for the US government. Both left countless friends everywhere they went.

As one of the speakers commented, "We shall forever lament the loss of Irmita, her shining smile...her endearing and caring acts of love...and most of all her “joie de vivre’."

Our sincerest condolences to Mannie Quintero during this time of extreme loss.

Weather Sidetracks CATS

For the second time in twelve months, bitter winter weather caused the scheduled (and pre- paid) CATS meeting to go up in smoke at the New Carrollton public library.

The 100-year storm of March 12-14, 1993 was bad enough, when all CATS-related activity ceased because not enough hardy souls were willing to venture out. According to the conventional wisdom, one such soul did actually trek through that storm to remind library personnel that there was indeed business to be done!

The thirteenth or fifteenth ice/rain/snow assault this season on Metropolitan Washington that occurred February 9-11 caused general disruption of the parking areas around the New Carrollton library. Nobody could go up or down or up or about. Adding to the general joy of the environment was the construction work going on to lay a natural gas pipeline across the parking lot to the library building. Although the library was closed during storm central, one CATS stalwart alledgedly banged on the back door/employees entrance long enough get a rise from the employees huddled within. The response was, "Go away!!"

As a result, the discussion of "Intermediate

Modems" by Duane Parker has been rescheduled for the March 12 meeting. Unless a hurricane

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