News From Nascom

In future we intend to divide the news from Nascom into three main sections – new products, news of existing products and technical tips.

This month’s newsletter includes a brief description of the Lucas Nascom LX and the SPEX word processing package. A few notes on the use of some existing software packages follow, and we finish with an article on using various printers with the Nascom a subject on which we regularly receive requests for information.

We did promise in the last issue an article on the AVC, but we are now holding this over for the next issue, due to shortage of space.

We have recently changed our arrangements for dealing with customer enquiries. As before your first contact should be with your dealer, but if you do need to contact us direct ask for the Sales Department for price/​availability/​literature, or the Customer Service Desk for technical or maintenance information. Please make sure that you know the serial number of any purchase on which you have a query. I must emphasise the importance of returning registration forms – an amazing number of people do not bother, and they are of course the ones who don’t receive automatic product information updates or, in the case of some software products, revised releases when these are issued. Since software is easily pirated (not of course by the people who read this magazine) we insist on serial numbers being quoted in the case of software queries.

In the next issue we will have the article on the AVC and its support software. We will also give a description of how to provide a buffered keyboard, giving the ability to type in while the computer is calculating, at a cost of about 2p!

1. New Products

THE LUCAS Nascom Lx MODEL

Those of you who went to the ‘Which Computer?’ exhibition will have seen the new Lucas Nascom LX model. This is a new style of packaging intended to make the appearance of the machine more attractive to the business user. It is an additional model rather than a replacement for any existing product. The internal electronics are similar to that used in Nascom 2/3. We will be giving more information on this in the next issue.

The Spex Word Processor

SPEX is a word processing program developed specifically for