Date: March 1983
Volume: 2
Issue: 1
Articles
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| A Watchful Look at the Timex 1000 | In the mid-60’s, four musical moplops, leading a legion of other musical moplops, descended on the U.S. mainland. They called ii the “British Invasion.” The ’80s has seen another British Invasion, and this time in the form of a little black plastic device with honest computing abilities and a price tag that can only be | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Spectrum launch in the States | Timex, the company that manufactures the TS1000 are soon to launch the American equivalent to the ZX Spectrum. Designated the TS2000, it is basically an upgrade of the British machine, i.e. with some of the bugs ironed out! | Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Timex/Sinclair 2000 |
| My kind of town | Tim Hartnell reports back from the Consumer Electronics Show. After some 18 months with the Timex version of the ZX81, Timex have managed to sell 600,000 of the machines in America. The Timex stand was enormous, about the area of a four-room flat, and it was dominated by giant pictures of the T/S 2000 and | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 1500, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Welcome to the Club | Having liberated the arcades, women are just starting to make their prescence felt in the mostly male game business. Not everyone agrees it’s tough to be a woman in the video game business. It can even be an advantage, says 32-year-old Sue Currier, co-partner with her husband in Softsync Inc. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Sinclair miss the bus | Sinclair and Timex, were most conspicuous by their absence at the giant West Coast Computer Faire held in San Francisco at the end of March. The booth listed in the catalogue as being the Sinclair one was unmanned throughout the show, the most important computer show in the world. Some 40,000 people crammed into a | Sinclair ZX81 |
| Timex buys it up | Sinclair Research have signed a deal with Timex in America to get the ZX81 sold through some 171,000 retail outlets in the States. Very shortly, lucky Americans will be able to buy ZX81s from the same shops which sell jewellery, perfume and Timex watches. Uncle Clive will get a royalty on all sales under the | Sinclair ZX81 |
| Reading Up On The Timex/Sinclair Computer | Reviews of Time Lost by Joseph Giratano, 30 Games for the Timex/Sinclair Computer by Bill Behrendt, and Timex/Sinclair Interfacing by James Downey and Don Rindsberg. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| The Timex Sinclair 2068: Was it too little, too late? | What can you say about a new computer that’s about a year and a half behind the times? The Timex/Sinclair 2000 was shown at last year’s Consumer Electronics Shows. The 2000 received a bad reaction from the press, largely as a result of its undersized keyboard, which, lacked a space bar. The 2000 was retooled, | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Supplier File | Updates on contact information for software, hardware and documentation. | |
| Pixel Print Plus (ver 4) released | Indiana Timex Sinclair User reports program was almost finished when Stan Lemke, the author, exited market. Steven Spalding of Sting Graphics completed program. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Mailing List Changes | Updates to contacts for groups in Ohio and Pennsylvania. | |
| Magazine News | SyncWare News lost approximately $5,000 before going out of circulation. | |
| Bugs, Fixes & What You Can and Can't Do (Maybe) | User group in Ohio working on project to interface Commodore 1541 disk drive to TS 2068. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Amateur Programmers' Line | Ruminations on amateur programming in light of advancing technology. | |
| Newsletter hardware articles | Trend is shifting to Z88 and QL modifications. | |
| Disk Library | TS 2068 disk utilities program available from RA Hilsman in Menomonee Falls, WI. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Computer Shopper discontinues articles | Had published articles about Commodore 64, Sinclair, TI, Atari 8-bits. | |
| Sincus runs list of TS2068 ROM routines | Source released for non-commercial use. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| TreeForth | Source code for TreeFORTH (a ROMable, TS1000, slightly non-standard FORTH) has been released for non-commercial use by author Bob Alsum. | |
| Using an audio transformer as cassette load aid | Article appeared in August-December 1989 issue of CRAGIST. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| TS1000's still available | Gary Young in Iowa has working and non-working units, RAM packs and software. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| MScript upgraded to 5.5 | ||
| Time Designs Magazine v5 n2 issued | ||
| Fix for Timemachine BASIC Compiler | Fix printed in August 1989 CATS and Dec 1989 Timelinez newsletters. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Maxcom TS2068 BBS system for LKDOS | BBS software available from RMG. Larry Kenny working on desktop publishing system and is PC-based marketing plotter, engraver, router/miller. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| American Micro Systems catalog | QL and Z88 hardware and software available. | Cambridge Z88, Sinclair QL |
| ZX-81/TS1000 Tips | Using the CODE function instead of numbers to save bytes; saving space with DIMensioned variables. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Published-Program Survey of Newsletters | List of programs appearing in user group newsletters in late 1989. | |
| News from SNUG | Due to illness and personal situations, work on newsletter is delayed. Seeking donations for public domain library. | |
| News for this year | Macintosh and NeXT emulators being readied. Author working on several self-published books about ZX81/TS 1000 computers. Local group developing simple compiler. | Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Mailing list updates | Dec 1989 issues was final newsletter and notice of dissolution of Harrisburgh Area TSUG. | |
| Amateur Programmer's Line | Amateur programming with home computers has become more of a niche activity. | |
| Mark Yost working on deal to buy out-of-business stock | Wide variety of TS 1000 and TS 2068 tapes may be available. | |
| Donald Lambert reports his ZX-81 LDOS disk system up | Fix for mating LDOS with Tandon disk drives. Also working on a custom ZX-81 for controller applications, developed with Mike LeDuc. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| BOSTUG, TSUG has mutated | Closing down as a special interest group; restarting as New England QL User Group. | Sinclair QL |
| Experiment with wordprocessing | Also working on implementing a machine language compression algorithm. | |
| Ottawa-Hull TSUG meeting | Exchange of experiences in Pascal programming; Dave Solly using HiSoft Pascal on TS 2068. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Useful Sinclair Programmer Notes (On Telephone Nos.) | Hints on how to store a telephone number in three bytes (encoded) versus seven bytes. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Suppliers | Updates on Larken Electronics, RMG, Update Magazine, EMSoft, John McMichael, Byte Power. | |
| Newsletters and Clubs | Update on Vancouver TSUG, where Wilf Rigter has contributed a number of technical articles. New addresses for other groups, notices of user groups disbanding or discontinuing newsletters. | |
| Congratulations to Toronto Timex-Sinclair club | Club continues to support TS 2068 and Larken DOS users. | |
| Larken Electronics | Original designers of ZX81/TS 1000 LDOS and TS 2068 LKDOS turning attention to computer-controlled shaper/router/plotter, driven by IBM PC compatible. Software originally written in Pascal on TS 2068. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| News of a Local Nature | Ottawa-Hull Timex-Sinclair User Group continued to meet. | |
| Fun With RND and RAND | Tutorial on random number | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Star Softrev: VU-CALC | Brief review of the program. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Editorial | Describes purpose of the newsletter, as compared to others. | |
| Gozzip | Sinclair announces ZX-83, Timex the 2000. Timex plans a 3000 for 1984. Mindware printer back ordered for six months. | |
| Applicationsz | Catalogs received from Z-Ware, Computer Continuum, Softsync, Data-Assette, Cleva Computerware. | |
| Mizzle Command | Short video game program. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| The Timex-Sinclair 1000 | One user’s opinions about his TS 1000. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Star Bookrev | Review of ZX-81 Horizon by Adrian Watney. An excellent introduction to advanced programming with a detective game, a graphics game, a file management system, and a machine code programmer/toolkit. Very clearly presented. Many hints and tips. The cassette includes all the program texts – so it saves a lot of time and protects you from | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Hardware Hintz: Preventing Crashes | How to prevent RAM pack wobble crashes and minimize static electricity. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Softrev: Graphics Kit | Reivew of the graphics kit tape from Softsync. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
