Bob Orrfelt

Bob published software, made hardware and wrote books for the Timex/Sinclair computers through his company, Gesso Products.

Articles (16)

TitleAuthor(s)PublicationDate
2068 ROM Disassembly
Brief news item that Bob Orrfelt of the Peninsula group has disassembled the TS2068 ROM, producing a listing with comments...
TimelinezJanuary 1985
32K RAM
32K RAM in the cartridge port for Timex Portugal Disk Drives.
TimelinezSeptember - October 1991
A Mystery ProgramTimelinez
DEF FN: Spectrum-Style User-Defined Functions
Reprint of the DEF FN section from the Sinclair Spectrum User’s Guide, supplied by Bob Orrfelt who noted the 2068...
Bob OrrfeltTimelinezFebruary 1987
Double Size Letters for Bob Orrfelt’s WP-32
Short programming tip adding double-height letter capability to Bob Orrfelt’s WP-32 word processor for the TS2068. A supplementary BASIC routine...
Walt GabyTimelinezNovember 1984
Editor’s Corner
Describes trip to California, where he met with John Warburton (Sunset Electronics), Jim Howell (A & J Micro), Bob Orrfelt...
Time Designs MagazineMay/June 1985
EPROMS Are Alive and Well … And Living in Redwood CityNite-Times NewsNovember 1988
EPROMS Are Alive and Well…TimelinezSeptember - October 1988
FDD Express: More Letters
Letters from Bob Orrfelt about the FDD technical manual he was writing; Jack Dohany about Zebra FDD system; Dennis Bryant...
Update MagazineJuly 1988
Forum
Letters to the editor, corrections. Letters from Thomas Griffin, Bob Orrfelt, Dennis Silvestri and Pete Kelly.
SyncWare NewsNov-Dec 1985
Letters
Answers to question from Vince Stimmel in previous issue from Branson Wilcox and William Andrews. Richard Hurd on machine language...
Time Designs MagazineMarch/April 1987
Suggested 2068 ROM ChangesTriangle Sinclair Users Group
T/S 1000 Digital clock
Excerpt from Highfalutin’ Computin’.
Time Designs MagazineJuly/August 1986
T/S Beats IBM!
Short article reproducing a floating-point precision benchmark from Fred Gruenberger in Scientific American (April 1984): enter 1.0000001 and square it...
Bob OrrfeltTimelinezJuly 1984
TS ChaosTimelinezMarch 1989
TS1000 Clone Hardware Analysis
Detailed chip-level and hardware analysis of a TS1000-compatible clone, described in the issue’s table of contents as Bob Orrfelt digging...
Bob OrrfeltTimelinezMay 1987

Companies (1)

Products (2)

TitleCompany
Cartridge Board
Printed circuit board that holds a ROM, RAM or EPROM chip. Use of the cartridge board is documented in the...
Gesso Products
Dock It
Software and hardware for programming EPROMs suitable for making dock cartridges.
Gesso Products

Books (2)

TitleAuthor(s)Date
Highfalutin’ Computin’ with Bob Orrfelt on Your Timex Sinclair 1000Bob Orrfelt1982
Timex Sinclair 2068 Memory Map and ROM disassembly
Appendix to the manual for GESSO EPROM Programmer and EPROM ZAPPER software.
Bob Orrfelt1985

Downloadable Files (1)

TitleTypeCompanyDownload
rWP32ROMGesso ProductsDownload

Documents (4)

Events (1)

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