| A Forum on Hardware Suppliers? | How ’bout some comments on Timex hardware suppliers? There are lots of ads in SYNC and elsewhere, but who is reliable and who is not. Richard E. Koehler Indianapolis, IN Finding reliable hardware (and software) is frustrating for all of us. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Autosearch Won't Work | Several readers have written of problems when trying to make an ordered search. In order to utilize this function in PRO/FILE you must enter your data carefully or the computer will not be able to find the number you type in. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Byte-Back P-2 Printer Software Mods | Add or alter these lines of ZX PRO/FILE to make it work with Byte-Back’s P-2 serial print< er driver. P-2 can be located in any convenient memory location. Once you decide where you want it to be, determine the address of both the LPRINT and the LCOPY routines. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Debugging Aid | When D$ is longer than 704 characters, report 5 errors prevent you from displaying the array when you PRINT D$. This short routine appended to PRO/FILE lets you read all the contents of D$ without a lot of fuss. Begin numbering the lines at 9000 or some other place where there’s room. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Line Input Improvement | I was using PRO/FILE to handle a file and print-out of one line sales transactions, but entering the data of varying length and still keeping all segments of lines properly aligned caused me grief as well as a lot of “Data Too Long” errors. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Machine Code in Pro/File: Where to Stick It | Enhancements to PRO/FILE that are written in machine code can present a problem in deciding where in memory you should keep it. A long addition like Q-SAVE or FASTLOAD will usually be placed either above RAMTOP or somewhere in the 8-16K area of RAM if you have it to use. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Pro/File Replaces the Card Catalog | Got a library? Or a Sunday school library? PRO/FILE with the NOT Search and file count is an excellent library program. I use it with 48K. Smaller memories may be a little restrictive. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Q-Save with Pro/File | John Willi, Louisville, KY, and Phil Williams, Wilmington, DE, sent these instructions to make PRO/FILE work with Q-SAVE. Willi comments, “I Dimmed D$ to 9700 characters to allow 100 bytes for the NOT search and 500 for the file count. One could otherwise probably increase D$’s length. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| The Amazing "Line Insert" Command | I found that I required an INSERT facility for a filing job I was working on. This one works very well. After these changes are made to ZX PRO/FILE you can create an open line between two existing ones in order to insert a new line of text. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| The Pro/File–AERCO Connection | Linking Pro/File’s data management capabilities with the rapid access and large capacity of a disk system is probably the single greatest improvement you can make to ZX PRO/FILE. If you obtain a disk system manufactured by AERCO you can make these modifications to PRO/FILE to pack your data base with enormous whollop. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Timex Computer Corp. Fades | If you haven’t heard already, Timex followed in the footsteps of Texas Instruments not long ago, leaving computer owners and third party supporters alike holding the bag. Rumors are flying fast and furious. Only one thing is certain and that is that we are all in for some uncertain times. | |
