CRAGIST Newsletter Jan-Feb 1990
Date: Jan-Feb 1990
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Articles
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| Disk Mess | When I ordered my Larken T/S 2068 disk controller boards I started to stock up on disks when on sale, I ended up with 10 boxes (50 disks) and later I ordered from MEI Micro two orders of 100 bulk disks and then a little while back I realised that I had only 50 unformated | |
| 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 several times and what we are working on is a step up avoiding some problems and also some improvements but we are maintaining the manually controlled bank switching concept. I plan to build one to | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| 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 the most action I got was the drive light would come on at anytime that LDOS went to the drive but the drive motors never came on. After double checking and making sure I had | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| LKDOS User | This is a little program that I finally got working from hints that George Chambers gave me when I was complaining about the way that the directory printed out when you had the CAT go to the printer. Load this program into the computer and set the computer for the disk drive you want to | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Manual? | I have three things I got from Zebra last year at the CATS Fest which I have not been successfull in finding documentation or software (if needed) for. | |
| Notes | CRAGIST: Cedar Rapids And Greater Iowa Sinclair Timex. First meeting January 19th 1986. Meetings have been sparsely attended, overtime and company trips have interferred. I have had a number of inquiries both by phone and by letter about various T/S questions. All prompted by CRAGIST being listed in Computer Shopper in the User’s Groups. I | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| The Trials and Tribulations of Reading a MSDOS Text File Disk | Before I begin I would like to thank Bill Miller of SINCLINK for getting me involved with this project in the first place. I would also like to thank Mark Wahl also of SINCLINK for writing the initial program that I used to get started in the right direction. All I really did was debug | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| 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 that may be too slow for the standard speed ZX81 or the TS 2068. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |