The Authoritative Website for Timex/Sinclair Computers
The Authoritative Website for Timex/Sinclair Computers
Welcome to TimexSinclair.com, your definitive resource for everything related to the Sinclair and Timex/Sinclair computers in the United States. From the groundbreaking Sinclair ZX81 that brought affordable computing to American homes in 1982, to the Timex/Sinclair 2068, we celebrate these remarkable machines that introduced a generation to the world of programming and digital innovation.
We have a YouTube channel, active email list and more! We meet via Zoom on the first Monday and third Sunday of each month to chat about our favorite computers, projects and more. Each meeting is recorded and posted to YouTube. You can watch some of our most recent meetings below.
We have just learned that Don Lambert from Indiana and Bob Swoger from Chicago have taken the bit in the teeth and begun publishing what SNUG hasn’t. We have seen the first issue of, (sit back now!) ZXir QLive Alive, an expected quarterly, supporting all of Clive Sinclair’s computers, with news and programs.article, orig pub: 02.20.26, updated: 02.20.26
Al Boehm demonstrated a world map graphics database from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) adapted for the QL. The Program uses run length encoded data to draw a map of the world or any specified range of latitude or longitude. The data permits resolution to 10 nautical miles.article, orig pub: 02.20.26, updated: 02.20.26
February, as this is written, may not be the cruelest month but it sure gives the blaghs. The holidays are over, and the days get longer but not much warmer and spring still seems years off.article, orig pub: 02.19.26, updated: 02.20.26
Al notified us that Dick Taylor had resigned for personal reasons and since Sherm Waterman hadn’t been able to make the meeting, he was elected Treasurer and Membership Secretary. Welcome Sherm!article, orig pub: 02.19.26, updated: 02.20.26
A Newsletter or two ago, the matter of exchanging software Libraries with other User Groups was discussed. Hugh Howie, NESQLUG member and QL librarian of the TORONTO TIMEX-SINCLAIR USERS CLUB, has sent us theirs for ours and it becomes the first of what I hope will become a number of such exchanges with other QL…article, orig pub: 02.19.26, updated: 02.20.26