Staff Printout

For new owners of Music 4000 keyboard there is an addition to the supplied software of a printout facility, within the STAFF module. As far as I am concerned this fills a long felt want; I never found a straightforward screen dump satisfactory. To use this new facility you must have an Epson compatible printer (in particular, one that supports bit-image graphic mode).

One STAFF screenful equals half the width of the paper, so entering a single PRINT command, prints two screenfuls. To print more, enter TAB, CTRL right arrow twice, TAB, PRINT <return>. This will do two more screenfuls. Continue in this manner until all is printed. Nothing could be simpler. Extremely easy to use and very fast to print out.

Existing owners of the Music 4000 can get an upgrade by sending their Studio 5000-4 Issue disc, in packaging suitable for its return, together with a self-addressed and a stamped label and a cheque for £5 to Hybrid Technology.

Their address is:

Hybrid Technology Ltd

Unit 3

Robert Davies Court

Nuffield Road

Cambridge CB4 1TP

Note for BBC Model B owners

The Studio 5000-4 system supplied with the Music 4000 keyboard reduces user memory by 1500 bytes compared with the Studio 5000 system. Therefore, use of the Staff Editor with the Studio 5000-4 system may leave insufficient memory to load many programs and make the Staff Printing utility (part of the Staff Editor module) unusable except with small programs. Printing of larger programs could only be achieved by splitting such programs into small parts.

Hybrid Technology have no plans to integrate the Staff printing utility into the Studio 5000 system.