I am self taught from the normal manuals which come with the equipment and enjoy discovering what can be achieved with this very simple machine. I use the word processing and spreadsheet facilities extensively.

A short while back I approached a widely advertised Acorn dealer in this area and, in simple terms, asked what I should graduate to and why, if I were to upgrade from the Electron. They totally failed to convince me to change at all. The Electron may be the baby of the Acorn range, but it is a remarkably useful machine, and for me does an excellent job.

It seems to me that your magazine may well provide a good forum for exchanging information, asking questions and prompting the user to seek further usage from his or her Electron.

The sort of things I personally would find of interest would be:

1. Guidance on how to produce graphics such as those in the "Taster"
2. How printing may be speeded up. My efforts seem to take hours
3. VIEW Printer Drivers - how to obtain highlights/underlining. The disks and ROM advertised by Watford Electronics they say are unsuitable
4. Advice regarding the usefulness of some of the various add-ons for the Electron which are currently on the market

G. S. German