If you’ve ever had a ZX81/TS1000, TS1500, or TS2068 question and thought “I’m sure somebody on the list solved this years ago…”, you were probably right. The trouble was finding it. Mailing-list archives are a haystack: thousands of messages, no real structure, and in the case of the old Yahoo Group, a haystack that effectively disappeared when Yahoo Groups shut down.
That’s now fixed. The Timex/Sinclair 2068 List Archive brings the community’s entire written history into a single, searchable, well-organized site, including the pre-groups.io Yahoo Group era.
What’s in it
The archive spans both chapters of the list:
- The Yahoo Group (2001–2019) — the community’s original home, ~4,093 messages that were lost when Yahoo Groups went dark. They had been saved on survived on the Internet Archive, and they’re back into a readable form. Because there’s no live Yahoo anymore, these messages are reproduced right on the page, with a link back to the Internet Archive copy.
- The groups.io list (2020–present) — the current list, kept up to date automatically.
Altogether that’s 13,549 messages in 2,381 threads, from the very first 2001 post through the present.
It’s organized
The whole point is to make all of it usable:
- Topic pages. Every thread is sorted into subjects — joysticks, disk systems, cartridges, repair, machine code, CP/M, video upgrades, and two dozen more. Each topic page opens with a short synthesis of what the group actually figured out over the years, drawing on both eras — so the joystick page, for example, traces the “the 2068’s ports aren’t Kempston” explanation all the way back to 2010.
- Highlights. The threads with real long-term reference value — the solutions, how-tos, and definitive answers worth finding again — are flagged so you can jump straight to the good stuff.
- Browse by year and era, or just use the search box in the top-right to see, in seconds, whether a topic has come up before.
A note on privacy
Old mailing-list messages are full of email addresses. Every address is masked before anything is published, so the archive preserves the conversations without exposing anyone’s contact details to spam harvesters.
Have a look
Whether you’re chasing a specific fix, curious how a project turned out, or just want to wander through twenty-plus years of Timex/Sinclair tinkering, it’s all there and it’s all searchable.