Alex Burr (K5XY)

Location: New Mexico

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1995 Calendar
One-page text calendar.
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXJanuary 1994
Back Issues
The table at the top of this page lists all the back issues of QZX. The figure in the box...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXJuly 1993
Back Issues & Tapes
Back issues of the original QZX are available from K2MI. See info in the unclassified ads (Jan 83 issue). When...
Ambrose Barry (W4GHV)
Alex Burr (K5XY)
QZXMarch 1983
Bits & Bytes
This column will and try to track document the quirks, fixes, and unique modifications done to the Sinclair computers. We...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXApril 1983
Bits and Bytes
203 On a TS2068 the following subroutine will return the elapsed time in seconds that a program has been running...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXJuly 1993
Circuit Symbols
The next page has a collection of circuit symbols. You might ask why put such a page in here. The...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXFebruary 1994
Code Table
Here is a table which will be useful for those who are doing their own RTTY programing. As you know...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXNovember 1983
Corrections
There are two corrections to the article entitled Correction in the December 1988 issue of QZX. The first month mentioned...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXJanuary 1993
Editor’s Doings
Well, was the June issue worth waiting for? I ventured over to a professional print shop, had 500 copies made...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXJuly & August 1983
Editor’s Doings
Well, we made it both ways without a hitch. Even the weather cooperated, keeping the humidity & mosquitos to a...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXJune 1983
Editor’s Doings
Here’s a mish-mash (is that spelled rite?) of what I have been doing in between the sessions spent оп my...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXApril 1983
Editor’s Notes
There is a special reason that I made a big effort to get this issue in the mail in the...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXApril 1993
Editor’s Notes
The QZX history in the last issue ran a little longer than I had planned so there was only that...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXJanuary 1993
Editor’s Notes
Well, I did get a new printer. However it had a completely differ at set of operating codes so I...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXAugust 1991
Editor’s Notes
It is just possible that I may get this issue put together in time for it to be mailed in...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXJuly 1993
Editor’s Notes
I would particularly like comments about the article in this issue on the various Sinclair computers. Most of you already...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXJune 1993
Editor’s NotesAlex Burr (K5XY)QZXApril 1990
Editor’s Notes
Well I made it. Last month I actually mailed QZX in the month listed on the cover. Unfortunately I slipped...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXMay 1993
Editor’s Notes
Well, the printer did it again. I got yet another price for doing the May issue. (That sentance sure looks...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXJune 1990
Editor’s Notes
Well, the printer did it again. I got yet another price for doing the June issue. (That sentence sure looks...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXJuly 1990
Editor’s Notes
A second printing of the index has been completed and the copies sent off to those who ordered them. A...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXSeptember 1993
Editor’s Notes
It is hard to get QZX caught up. I am now traveling around a bit, which makes it even harder....
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXOctober 1993
Editor’s Notes
User group membership is an interesting statistic. A recent issue of the NESQLUG (or New England Sinclair QL Users Group)...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXApril 1992
Editor’s Notes
One of our advertisers is missing. Indeed another of the Sinclair family of product sellers has gone. Some will have...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXAugust 1992
Editor’s Notes
The big news for this issue is still that the complete QZX index is ready to be printed. For details,...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXMarch 1993
Editor’s Notes
The big news this issue is that the complete QZX index is almost ready to be printed. For details, see...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXFebruary 1993
Editor’s Notes
Ås promised, here is the next issue of QZX about two weeks after the first issue of the year (1994)....
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXFebruary 1994
Editor’s Notes
Proof reading is never done. Ten seconds after I glanced at the last issue after sending it out, I spotted...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXDecember 1993
Editor’s Notes
In the unclassifieds there has been offered a FREE 16 K RAM for some time. Anybody want it? I am...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXOctober 1992
Editor’s Notes
The RAM for a long time offered in the unclassifieds is gone. It was claimed by Ralph Vasko, a longtime...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXNovember 1992
Editor’s Notes
Here is the January issue of QZX. Unfortunately it is the January 1993 issue, not the January 1994 issue. There...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXJanuary 1994
Editor’s Notes
Well I got back to Las Cruces as planned, after driving more than three thousand miles. Because most of my...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXAugust 1993
Electronics Workbench
Electronics Workbench is billed as the electronics lab in a computer by its creators, Interactive Image Technologies, LTD, 700 King...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXDecember 1993
Forum
Letters from Alex Burr about the Timex Sinclair Amateur Radio User Group, Bob Howard re battery powered daisy wheel printers...
SyncWare NewsJan-Feb 1986
Hawg Wild Software
HAWG WILD Software, Box 7668, Little Rock, AR 72217, has a number of programs for the Timex/Sinclair computers of particular...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXDecember 1983
Miscellaneous Comments
Following are some some ‘camera ready’ comments from John, KB4XH, with underlining emphasis supplied by your editor. The good words...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXJune 1983
Numbering Corrections
In the course of creating the index there were several changes or corrections noted that needed to be made in...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXJuly 1993
Our Computers in Portugal
Report on Timex and Sinclair computers available in Portugal. Notes that a number of products, including disk drive system, are...
Sinc-LinkJanuary/February 1988
Products in Review
First, here is a long overdue review of Fred Nachbaur’s SyncWare News. (See his previous contributions to QZX.) Since he...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXOctober 1983
Products in Review
Here are a few comments from Larry, AF8J to update last month’s review of the AF8J RTTY interface/program: Both the...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXDecember 1983
Products in Review
This column will provide reviews of hardware ‘add-ons’ software, and books that are available for the Sinclair computers. Again, we...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXApril 1983
Products in Review
Sent to us from 2-Bit Software, P.O. Box 2036, Del Mar, Calif., 92014 was their Turning the Truth Tables software....
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXJanuary 1984
Publisher’s Notes
We have taken yet another step in the direction of computerization. Bo has started up a QZX bulletin board. QZX...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXApril 1984
Publisher’s Notes
I will start off these notes with a few comments generated by the many suggestions sent in with the renewal...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXFebruary 1984
Publisher’s Notes
Quantum Computing going out of business; American QLs being sold in England.
QZXApril 1988
Publisher’s Notes
It was a relief to get the special RTTY issue out to you. A lot of effort went into that...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXDecember 1983
Publisher’s NotesQZXMarch 1988
Publisher’s Notes
Well, Bo put out some issues while I spent most of good the summer in Bangladesh. It was an interesting...
QZXSeptember 1983
Publisher’s Notes
The renewals continue to come in although the renewal rate (about 50%) is not fantastic as people change computers. We...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXMarch 1984
QL in Europe
WA6DLI, Bob, sent me some interesting information about QL hardware and software available in Europe. It seems that there is...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXApril 1993
QZX Friends
Here’s your chance to let your ambitions and accomplishments be known. Feel free to let us know what you are...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXApril 1983
QZX Friends
Here’s your chance to let your ambitions and accomplishments be known. Feel free to let us know what you are...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXMarch 1983
QZX History
This issue represents the start of a second decade of publication for this version of QZX, so it is not...
Martin Irons (K2MI)
Alex Burr (K5XY)
QZXDecember 1992
QZX Index
Description of the index.
Update MagazineJuly 1993
QZX Index
The database for the definitive QZX index is done! The index itself will be ready for distribution in less than...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXFebruary 1993
QZX Index
The database for the definitive QZX index is done! The index itself will be ready for distribution in less than...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXMarch 1993
QZX Index Completed
The ten plus year QZX index is completed and copies mailed off to all those who sent in advanced orders....
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXMay 1993
QZX Net Info
Tired of issues looking thru back for net times and frequencies? Maybe this new format will help. Watch out for...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXApril 1983
QZX Newsletter
QZX newsletter was a Sinclair newsletter for folks that like HAM or amateur radios. The idea was to combine radios...
Tim SwensonZXzineJanuary 2025
QZX Readers
Because the subscription list for QZX is in a computer data base it is relatively easy to do a little...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXJanuary 1993
ROM Differences in the TS1500
Some people are a bit unsure about the way in which the TS1500 differs from its predecessors, besides the improved...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXJanuary 1993
RTTY Frequencies
It is sometimes hard to keep all the frequencies used in RTTY work straight. There are four main types of...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXNovember 1983
RTTY Literature
Most hams, unless they are already active in RTTY, will need to read up on this operating mode before they...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXNovember 1983
Savings and LoadLISTing NewsletterJune 1992
Sinclair Computers
The Sinclair family of computers were conceived and developed by Clive Sinclair who was well known in Great Britain as...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXJune 1993
Sinclair Puzzle
Sinclair and Timex based crossword puzzle.
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXSeptember 1993
Sinclair Puzzle Solution
Solution to the crossword puzzle that appeared in QZX v11 n10.
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXOctober 1993
SuperBASIC BASIC for the QLCATS NewsletterJune 1985
T/S 2068 Color Monitor Difficulties
Some hams have difficulty using some color monitors with the T/S 2068. There are very good reasons for these difficulties....
LISTing NewsletterSeptember 1994
Technical Tidbits
Review of “ZX-81 and TS1000 Technical Tidbits” from the Long Island Sinclair-Timex Group.
LISTing NewsletterFebruary 1991
The Basic RTTY Station
A block diagram for a basic RTTY computer controlled station would look like the following diagram.
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXNovember 1983
The Future of QZX
The letter from KQ2F, printed on the previous page, sums up the feelings and actions of many QZX readers. As...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXApril 1990
The Future of QZX
Postal rates going up, subscribers decreasing.
QZXApril 1988
The History of QZX
History of the ham radio focused computing magazine founded by Martin Irons.
Alex Burr (K5XY)Update MagazineApril 1993
The Timex Sinclair Amateur Radio Users GroupCATS NewsletterJanuary 1987
The Timex Sinclair Amateur Radio Users Group
The Timex Sinclair Amateur Radio Users Group is made up of computer users who are interested in putting their Timex...
Alex Burr (K5XY)Computer ShopperApril 1986
Timex Out of Market
Timex Computer Corporation announced February 22 that they were withdrawing from the home computer market. The announcement was a big...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXMarch 1984
Timex Story
A few days ago (July 1993) WAILOU, Stan Horzepa, the QST columnist, sent me two articles from his local newspaper...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXJune 1993
TS2068 ROM to EPROM
One of the ways in which a TS2068 can be put to use in an unconventional manner is to replace...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXAugust 1993
TS2068 Tape Formats
Tape I/O is done via Port OFEH. An I/O read of Port OFEH pulls in the cassette input on Bit...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXMarch 1993
Vendors
Here is a list of vendors who are more or less active in selling Sinclair equipment, software or services. The...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXJuly 1993
Vendors
Here is a list of vendors who are more or less active in selling Sinclair equipment, software or services. The...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXSeptember 1992
Vendors
Here is a list of vendors who are more or less active in selling Sinclair equipment, software or services. The...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXApril 1992
ZX81 Calculator
Use the Sinclair’s expression evaluator to make a calculator.
SyntaxDecember 1982
ZX81 Graphics TemplateLISTing NewsletterOctober 1993
ZX81 Graphics Template
The next page is a handy graphics template for the ZX81, TS1000, and TS1500. It will be useful when you...
Alex Burr (K5XY)QZXOctober 1992

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