Volume: 4
Issue: 10
Articles
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| 1500s On Their Way, 2068s Close Behind | Our Timex source says a few TS1500s began their way to your local stores the first week of September. The FCC approved the TS2068 recently; expect it in stores by October. | Timex/Sinclair 1500, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Addressing: A Brief Tutorial | If you find ROM, RAM & PORT addressing and decoding confusing, here’s some explanation of what’s what. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| An Introduction to VU-CALC Spreadsheeting for the Timex/Sinclair 1000 and the Sinclair ZX81 | Review of the book. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Buying By Mail: Know Your Rights | Federal Trade Commission rules give you some rights when you order by mail. | |
| D-B-H Conversion | Convert decimal, binary and hexadecimal numbers easily with this well prompted utility. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Dear Editor | Problems with computers, printers, software; replacement keyboard. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Faster Pseudorandom Numbers | Sequentially PEEK from the 8K ROM’s machine language operating system (essentially a pseudorandom number table) from a randomly selected starting point to provide “random” numbers. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| How to Buy a Timex Computer | “We do not have a primary plan to sell computers by mail. The 800-24-TIMEX number provides referrals to stores,” said Timex VP Dan Ross. | Timex/Sinclair 1500, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Inventory | Program helps you keep track of household or business items. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Late News | Laserscan wants to liquidate their limited 16K RAM kit. | |
| Machine Code Graphics Demo | Program provides an unusual display of machine code (MC) graphics. It alters the I register, which contains the high order address of the graphics table. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| New Products and Services (Syntax v4 n10) | New products from UAS, John Carson, A. Rodriguez, Williamware, ROMPAK, Intercomputer, Micro-Load, Soft Magic Corp., Larimar Inc., Robotec, Simulsion. | |
| Program Improvements | Improvement to Spelling word Game; simplify Set Ramtop Automatically. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Retrace Your Steps | This program lets you draw on your screen using arrow keys and stores your drawing in an array. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Stop Auto-Run | Stop an auto-RUN program (a program that automatically RUNS when LOADed) before it RUNS. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Syntax Error | To get correct Puerto Rican and Washington, DC, zip codes in ZIP-TO-STATE… (Sept. 83), delete lines 5140 and 5150 and add the following lines. Also, delete line 5110 (a repetition). | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Timex at the Heart of the Kidney | Medi Products of Salt Lake City built a system to reclean and resterilize artificial kidneys around a TS1000 with a Votem, Persona, Periconb and a special keyboard from Sinclair Place. The computer completely controls all processes under EPROM software direction. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Timex Sinclair Celebration in Boston | To commemorate their 2nd year, the Boston Computer Society’s 800-member Sinclair Timex User Group will bring together TS owners, user group reps from all over and hardware, software, publication and service vendors for a day-long show and workshops. | |
| Vendor Report and Notes | Updates from John Oliger, Timex. | |
| We-They Scorepad | Keeps score for two-person or two-team games. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| What Does This Program Do | Flash screen by switching between FAST and SLOW. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Zebra Light Pen | Zebra’s pen consists of a wand about 6″ long with photocell assembly. It plugs into a board containing input jacks for the pen and ZX/TS 9V power supply, output plugs to power your computer and send the pen’s signal to the EAR port, and hardware to condition the pen’s output. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| ZX PRO/FILE | ZX PRO/FILE uses one of the most sophisticated and efficient data storage and retrieval systems I ever expect to see for the ZX/TS. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| ZX/TS Users Groups | ||
| ZXMAN | Review of the program from Atto-Soft. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
