Donald Lambert – Timex/Sinclair Computers

Articles (133)

Title	Author(s)	Publication	Date
50 Tips This is all from a little booklet that I acquired for the SPECTRUM. There was no copyright notice on the...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Winter 1992
A Challenge to Programmers Challenge to create disk utilities for ZX81/TS1000 that exist for TS2068 users.		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 1993
A Challenge to Programmers		Sinc-Link	May/June 1992
Alpha Strings Label maker modification; little goodies revisited; user groups.		T-S Horizons	April 1986
An Updated ZX81 Description of a 1000 with internal 64K, a “serial data port” and other mods.		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 1992
Audio Transformer Load Aid		LISTing Newsletter	November 1989
Batteries for the Z88 Richard Jelen mentioned this topic and I finally saw the displays in a store. The batteries are RAYOVAC RENEWAL REUSABLE...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Fall 1994
Battery Backup		CRAGIST Newsletter	January 8, 1989
CAI/ESF Stringy Floppy It comes with 1 or 2 drives an is menu driven with easy keyboard commands. You can SAVE and LOAD...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 1995
Cassette LOAD/SAVE Routine and Problems for the ZX81 While I have no statistics to back my thinking I believe that there are far more working with cassette than...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 1991
Cassette LOAD/SAVE Routine and Problems for the ZX81, Part 2 SYNCHRO-SETTE VOL. 1 # 4 JULY 1982 CASSETTE LOADING PROBLEMS. THE CASSETTE RECORDER. As you know, many types of cassette...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Fall 1991
Cassette LOAD/SAVE Routine and Problems for the ZX81, Part 4 For those of you who are not familiar with what the Winky can do, you can make duplicates of a...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 1992
Cassette LOAD/SAVE Routine and Problems for the ZX81, Part 5 SOURCE: ZX COMPUTING FEB/MARCH 1983 TIM HARTNELL AND IAN BEARDSMORE SUMMARISE ADVICE FROM MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ZX USERS’ CLUB....		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 1992
Cassette Save/Load Routine and Problems for the ZX81, Part 3 One of the most common is that an individual orders a tape from an outside source, whether it be from...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Winter 1991
Compound Interest & Investing Not being a financial guru I can not vouch for the accuracy of this information but you can use it...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 1993
D.U.S. Disk Utility Software Comments about one of the programs that I have used. If you have a virgin copy of D.U. S. do...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Winter 1993
Dayton Computer Festival The Dayton Computerfest was held on August 27th and 28th. This event serves as a yearly gathering place for the...		CATS Newsletter	November - December 1994
Disk Drive Repairs		Sinc-Link	November/December 1989
Disk Life So, you’ve just spent big bucks for a super piece of software, made your back-up and are working away with...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 1993
Disk Mess When I ordered my Larken T/S 2068 disk controller boards I started to stock up on disks when on sale,...	Donald Lambert	CRAGIST Newsletter	Jan-Feb 1990
Don’s Activities		CRAGIST Newsletter	May-June 1989
End of a Year and Looking Back: The Chairman reminiscences! [sic] I look at the world of ZX computers as a training field/hobby. Some use it to begin to learn about...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 1992
FD-ZX Floppy Disk Interface Notes for users of the Aerco FD-ZX disk interface.		Update Magazine	January 1992
From Chairman’s Disk In trying to get Spectral Writer converted from the Oliger interface to LarKen I ran into a problem.. Or should...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 1994
From the Chairman’s Desk The summer blahs have got me. And the frustration in waiting for Congress to act plus the problems of the...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Fall 1993
From the Chairman’s Desk It was a wonderful adventure to enter the world of Timex Sinclair computing. I entered it in early 1980’s –...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 2003
From the Chairman’s Disk Sometimes I am like a computer – I sit here with a blank mind and I have a column to...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Winter 1993
From the Chairman’s Disk Where? Where does the time go to? Seems that I just sent in the last issues material and here it...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 1994
From the Chairman’s Disk Seems this is the time of a lot of breakdown of equipment. I still have not gotten a replacement monitor...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Fall 1994
From the Chairman’s Disk ARGH! Winter type weather is here, I have just lost the file, got up to check something and the static...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Winter 1994
From the Chairman’s Disk Saw this in an electronic magazine an page 13 of Electronics Now, February 1995 “but can a non-professional really wade...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 1995
From the Chairman’s Disk It took time, a lot of time, but finally SNUG has been put to bed with the money distributed. I...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 1995
From the Chairman’s Disk This has been a less productive interval between newsletters than any I ever had. I cannot blame it onto one...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Autumn 1995
From the Chairman’s Disk Those using our beloved computers are slowly dwindling away. There are a few that have gotten into the fold but...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Winter 1995
From the Chairman’s Disk Since I wrote the last column I was asked about articles on the subject of STREAMS & CHANNELS so I...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 1996
From the Chairman’s Disk End of UPDATE magazine (Oct 87 – July 96).		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 1996
From the Chairman’s Disk Dayton ComputerFest 1996 is now history. As far as the TS’ers go there were fewer of us there than last...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Autumn 1996
From the Chairman’s Disk Here it is time for me to express myself yet another time. What could possibly be of interest to the...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Winter 1996
From the Chairman’s Disk After all the lousy weather maybe we are headed for spring. BUT! it did snow this morning and it has...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 1997
From the Chairman’s Disk At least I got this started before the last minute like the last two or so issues. I finally got...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 1997
From the Chairman’s Disk The older you get the faster time flies by; this has been an unusual summer. The month of July had...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Autumn 1997
From the Chairman’s Disk Here it is November and for some of us it is the winter months that are beginning. Not to scare...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Winter 1997
From the Chairman’s Disk Since this is income tax time my mind is on money. And that means thoughts about handling money. Of course...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 1998
From the Chairman’s Disk When I had my annual physical in December Dr. Paine suggested get my appendix scar operated on since it was...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 1998
From the Chairman’s Disk What a summer! Hot or hotter than usual and then a dry spell for a while and then too much...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Autumn 1998
From the Chairman’s Disk I wrote to Tim Swenson to ask about the 2050 serial port to Z88 and he gave me what he...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Winter 1998
From the Chairman’s Disk Had a letter from Don Oviatt that wanted a copy of D.U.S. so that he could use it again. Somehow...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 1999
From the Chairman’s Disk Under the column Article Contributions on page 2 there is a box in which it states that “Send in your...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 1999
From the Chairman’s Disk Don ships the last of his TS-2068 equipment to Jack Boatwright; moves.		ZXir QLive Alive!	Autumn 1999
From the Chairman’s Disk I finally learned enough about my new PC bought in September. I bought a Compaq Presario 5715 which has a...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Winter 1999
From the Chairman’s Disk I have started a project that I will describe. I am going to try to marry a Weirdo to a...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 2000
From the Chairman’s Disk My plans to get things done T/S computer wise got sidetracked by honey do projects one of which was a...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 2000
From the Chairman’s Disk Looking back and thinking about the years of enjoyment with the T/S 2068 I fondly remember the first T/S Fest...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Autumn 2000
From the Chairmans Desk Happy 1991! The turn of the decade certainly has heralded many changes. 1991 sure started out with a bang, Desert...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 1991
From the Chairmans Desk Here I am starting Vol. 3 #2 and I have seen only the advance copies of Vol. 2 #4 and...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 1993
From the Chairmans Desk Printer issues, thoughts on MSCRIPT, Larken and Oliger disk systems.		ZXir QLive Alive!	Winter 1991
From the Chairmans Disk Things are happening, and with joy I report that it looks good for T/SNUG. There are two items to report:...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 1991
From the Chairmans Disk In the last issue, I did make a statement that caused some consternation and I apologize for it. I did...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Fall 1991
From the Chairmans Disk I stated to Bob Swoger that I would start this on April 1st. April Fool Bob! here it is April...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 1992
From the Chairmans Disk These thoughts were developed out of attempts to download files from Bob Swoger by modem to me which often resulted...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Fall 1992
From the Chairmans Disk I wish to thank Abed Kahale for building up my LarKen RAMDISK board. It works just fine although I have...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Winter 1992
From the Chairmans Disk I am blessed with a wife that is not extremely jealous. Or else I would be really in trouble. Amongst...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 1993
From the Editor [ZXir QLive Alive!] An editorial from Don Lambert, editor of ZXir QLive Alive!, reprinted in the final issue of Sinc-Link. Lambert pays tribute...	Donald Lambert	Sinc-Link	July/August 1994
From the Newsletters		CATS Newsletter	September 1992
I Can’t Believe What I Saw! Unusual code listing for Manager program.		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 1995
Input & Output		SWYM	January - February 1992
Input/Output Letters from Robert Hartung, Paul Robinson, Alvin Albrecht, William Harmer, Donald Lambert, M. H. Binstock, Fred Henn, Leo Moll.		ZXir QLive Alive!	Autumn 1995
Input/Output Letters from David Lassov, Keith Watson, Jon Kaczor, Bob Swoger, Frank Davis, John Pegram, Al Feng, Joan Kealy, Jose Moreno,...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Autumn 1996
Input/Output Letters from Rod Gowen, Ata Tursucu, Hugh Howie, Les Cottrell, Tim Swenson, David Lassov, Jon Kaczor, Steve Johnson, Donald Lambert,...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Winter 1996
Input/Output Letters from David Lassov, Jose Moreno, Gil Parrish, Seymour Miller, Don Lambert, Bob Swoger, Jon Shepard, Ken Harbit, Steve Johnson,...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 1997
Input/Output Letters from Donald Lambert, David Lassov, Gil Parrish, Al Feng, Wally Swentko, Robert Gallagher, Rod Gowen, Seymour Miller, Frank Davis,...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 1997
Input/Output Letters from Seymour Miller, Hugh Scriven, Ed Kingsley, David Lassov, Bob Swoger, Robert Hartung, Tim Swenson, Donald Lambert.		ZXir QLive Alive!	Autumn 1997
Input/Output Letters from Joe Rampolla, Antonio Castro, Jack Boatwright, Jim Mach, William Girnius, Larry Kenny, Rod Gowen, Al Feng, Mike Kandrac,...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Winter 1999
Input/Output Letters from Paul Anderson, Dane Stegman, Jack Boatwright, Joan Kealy, Paul Anderson, Andy Barber, Peter Liebert-Adelt, Luke Perry, Don Lambert,...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 2000
Input/Output Letters from Joe Rampolla, John Pegram, Al Feng, David Leech, Jeff Burrell, Rod Gowen, Dane Stegman, Robert Webster, Tom Parks,...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 2000
Input/Output Letters from Don Lambert, Peter Liebert-Adelt, Robert Gilbert, Jeff Burrell, Joe Rampolla, Al Feng, Robert Swoger, Louis Florit, David Solly,...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Winter 2000
Input/Output Letters from David Solly, Tim Swenson, Jay Shepard, Don Lambert, Dean Mikolajczyk, Jack Boatwright, Louis Florit, Peter Leibert-Adelt, Paul Harris.		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 2001
Input/Output Letters from will Knight, Joan Kealy, Tim Swenson, John Donaldson, Leon Howell, Don Lambert, Jay Shepard, Jose Moreno, Paul Harris,...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Autumn 2001
Input/Output Letters from Ruth Fegley, Jack Boatwright, Ed Kinglsey, Donald Lambert, Bob Hartung, Al Feng, Louis Florit, Robert Swoger, Tony Firshman.		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 2002
Input/Output Letters from Hector Picone, Don Lambert, James Coles, William McBrine, Scott Rossell, Tony Firshman, Ruth Fegley, David Solly, Don Dindang.		ZXir QLive Alive!	Autumn 2002
Input/Output Letters from Jack Boatwright, Loic Daneels, David Solly, Louis Florit, Luke Perry, William McBrine, Les Cottrell, Bob Hartung, Jim Ditton,...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Winter 2002
Insomnia Over the Z88 CAUTION! This an attempt to document the start of learning about the Z88 by a person that just might be...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 1997
Kite-Computer-Camerakite Projects There is progress on Mike LeDuc’s development board for the ZX81. What has happened was that the prototype was changed...	Donald Lambert	CRAGIST Newsletter	Jan-Feb 1990
LDOSFI.CX ZX81 Larken Fix When my Larken ZX81 disk controller arrived I got the 5V DC power wired to the ZX81 controller board. But...	Donald Lambert	CRAGIST Newsletter	Jan-Feb 1990
Letter from Don Lambert Don is editor of the SNUG Newsletter.		Sinc-Link	May/June 1991
Letter from Don Lambert		CATS Newsletter	December 1993
Letter from Don Lambert		The Plotter	April 1991
Letter from Don Lambert		LISTing Newsletter	April 1992
Letter from Don Lambert		LISTing Newsletter	February 1993
Letter from Don Lambert		LISTing Newsletter	November 1989
Letters		LISTing Newsletter	August 1987
Letters		LISTing Newsletter	December 1986
Letters Inclludes responses to the LIST survey of member’s computers.		LISTing Newsletter	May 1990
Letters From/For U		SMUG Bytes	August 1989
Letters to LIST		LISTing Newsletter	March 1986
Letters to LIST		LISTing Newsletter	October 1985
LKDOS User This is a little program that I finally got working from hints that George Chambers gave me when I was...	Donald Lambert	CRAGIST Newsletter	Jan-Feb 1990
Loading/Saving For those of you having problems with LOADing and SAVEing tape programs on your 2068 here’s some thoughts from Don...		Sincus News	January - February 1990
Locked Out? How to Recover! How to recover when saving to a non-existent disk with Larken and Oliger systems.		Update Magazine	April 1992
Locked Out? How to Recover!		Sinc-Link	May/June 1992
Making Program Length Cassette Tapes The idea started out with a cassette of programs on a mailing list of a User’s Group. You were sent...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Winter 2001
Making Program Length Cassette Tapes		CRAGIST Newsletter	February 12, 1989
Making Program Length Cassette Tapes		ISTUG Newsletter	January - February 1990
Manual? I have three things I got from Zebra last year at the CATS Fest which I have not been successfull...	Donald Lambert	CRAGIST Newsletter	Jan-Feb 1990
Mike LeDuc’s Development System Block diagram and memory map.	Donald Lambert	CRAGIST Newsletter	Mar-Jun 1990
News from Don Lambert		CATS Newsletter	November 1992
Notes CRAGIST: Cedar Rapids And Greater Iowa Sinclair Timex. First meeting January 19th 1986. Meetings have been sparsely attended, overtime and...	Donald Lambert	CRAGIST Newsletter	Jan-Feb 1990
Notes I have had a number of inquiries both by phone and by letter about various T/S questions. All prompted by...	Donald Lambert	CRAGIST Newsletter	Mar-Jun 1990
Oliger proposes Detente with Larken Bob Swoger’s LogiCall description and discussion of features. Oliger for LKDOS, allowing compatibility of Oliger/LarKen systems.		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 1991
Oliger Utilities – Software I thought that I would give a sort of review and step through manual for DISK FILE MANAGER which is...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 1994
Random Bits		SWYM	May - June 1992
Resetting Track 0 and Other Tweaking I wrote this originally a couple years ago and a recent conversation with Bob Swoger discussing resetting track 0 on...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Fall 1992
Resurrecting a Crashed Directory on the ZX81 Larken Technique for manually recovering a crashed directory.		Update Magazine	April 1993
SMUG 1990 Computerfest Report Report on the SMUG 1990 Computerfest held in Waukesha, Wisconsin, with approximately 120-130 attendees. Covers Zebra hardware sales, disk drive...	Donald Lambert	SWYM	July - August 1990
SNUG Computerfest 1990 Thoughts I had to go to the Fest in Waukesha by way of Decatur, IL since I had to drop my...	Donald Lambert	CRAGIST Newsletter	Mar-Jun 1990
Software Review: MSCRIPT v5.5		SWYM	March 1990
SPDOS or yet another T/S 2068 disk DOS Way back when there was a disk interface for the T/S 2068 called Ramex Millenia K. See UPDATE for January...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 1993
SPDOS or Yet Another TS2068 Disk DOS		LISTing Newsletter	November 1993
Special Notice to QL-ers! I have a great problem! I do not have a QL so I can not even try to write material...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Fall 1993
Static Electricity! My computer room is carpeted and walking across the floor will generate quite a build up of a static charge....		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 1993
The Dayton Computerfest “The DMA T/S representatives Gary Ganger and Tim Swenson manned a booth …”		ZXir QLive Alive!	Fall 1993
The PC8300: A Clone of the T/S1000, Part 2 I had opted to remove the MH9013 transistor and I had purchased a solder sucker at Radio Shack and I...		Sincus News	July - August 1987
Timex/Sinclair Public Domain Library Available Now T/SNUG public domain library available. Librarians include Bob Swoger, Jay Shepard, D. G. Smith, Ed Snow, Al Feng and Don...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Winter 1991
TS-2068 Cassette LOAD AID Meter Reprinted from CRAGIST newsletter March/April 1989.		ZXir QLive Alive!	Winter 2002
TS1000 Monitor Project		CATS Newsletter	December 1988
Using a 16K Memotech Memopak That Has Switches This was in a letter that I wrote to Gilliam Parrish in regards to using a 16K MEMOTECH MEMOPAK. At...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Winter 1993
Using Slow Memory Chips? Has It Been Done? I have a question that is prompted by my being in possession of some EPROMs and also some RAM chips...	Donald Lambert	CRAGIST Newsletter	Jan-Feb 1990
Waging in the TSRoom April 8th, 1995. WAG is Wild A__ Guess. TSRoom is the room in which I have all my computer equipment...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Summer 1995
Z88 Revisited Once again my Z88 with the internal RAM installed came up with BAT LOW. But the other one still had...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Autumn 1997
Zebra FDD The actual dimensions of a 3″ disk are thickness 3/16; width 3 1/8; length 3 29/32 and they come in...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 1995
ZX-81/TS1000 Clone: The PC8300		LISTing Newsletter	May - June 1987
ZX81-T/S1000-T/S1500 Clone: The PC8300 The ad stated: Advanced version of the T/S1000. Will run all prerecorded tapes for Sinclair/Timex 1000-ZX81. I ordered Feb 22...		Sincus News	May - June 1987
ZXir QLive Alive! Kick-off Announcement If you feel as I do, READ ON! If a doctor saw no life in a body for six months...		ZXir QLive Alive!	Spring 2003

Periodicals (1)

Title	Publisher
CRAGIST Newsletter Newsletter of the Cedar Rapids And Greater Iowa Sinclair Timex.	CRAGIST (Cedar Rapids And Greater Iowa Sinclair Timex)

Downloadable Files (1)

Title	Type	Company	Download
CRAGIST User Group Articles	Cassette		Download

Documents (2)

Title	Author	Publisher	Date	Pages
FD-ZX Floppy Disk Interface Unofficial Technical Manual THIS IS A PUBLIC DOMAIN PUBLICATION. FEEL FREE TO COPY AND OR PASS ON REALIZING THAT NO ONE ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY...	Don Lambert		1991
Letter to Don Lambert Discusses features of 32K RAM cartridge, Pixel Print printer support and Checkbook Budget Master.	Stan Lemke	Lemke Software Development	1988	1

User Groups (5)

Title	Location	Founded
Chicago Area Timex Users Group (CATUG) The user group had a BBS, using software written and maintained by Bob Swoger and hosted by his employer, Motorola....	1885A Yorktown Ave., Great Lakes, Illinois 60088	1986
CRAGIST (Cedar Rapids And Greater Iowa Sinclair Timex) Contact: Donald S. Lambert Founded: 1986	3310 Clover Drive S.W., Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52404
Sinclair Computer Users Society (SINCUS) The Sinclair Computer Users Society was a non-profit organization operated by volunteers dedicated to the Sinclair and Timex Sinclair computer...	1229 Rhodes Road, Johnson City, New York 13790	1982
Sinclair Northamerica Users Group (SNUG) Proposed by Mel Nathanson and others as a result of the 1988 Sunstate Timex/Sinclair Winterfest, SNUG was suggested to be...	7515 Arbordale Drive, Port Richey, Florida 34668
Timex/Sinclair NorthAmerican User Groups In 1988, at the Sunstate Timex/Sinclair Winterfest, a group of enthusiasts proposed a nation-wide user’s group. The name of the...	613 Parkwood Cir, Streamwood. IL 60107	1991

Events (2)

Title	Date	Location	Sponsor
1991 Dayton Computerfest User Groups Vendors	May 4, 1991	Dayton, OH	Dayton Area Timex/Sinclair Users Group of DMA, Inc.
1993 Dayton Computerfest Fourth annual event. Held at the Hara Arena in Dayton, Ohio on August 28th and 29th. Tim Swenson hosted the...	August 28, 1992	Dayton, OH