--- title: "Certificate" type: "article" slug: "certificate-3" url: "http://localhost/article/certificate-3/" markdown_url: "http://localhost/article/certificate-3.md" published_at: "2026-03-13T17:33:00+00:00" modified_at: "2026-03-13T17:33:00+00:00" featured_image: url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg" excerpt: "Enhanced and simplified version of the Certificate program originally on SINCUS library disk #102. Allows users to enter text and select one of 14 UDG border styles; prints to the Timex 2040 printer or via Oliger COPY/ for screen dumps. Armstrong rewrote the logic using Boolean expressions and condensed the UDG routine. Full program listing…" category: - name: "The Plotter" slug: "the-plotter" taxonomy: "category" url: "http://localhost/category/periodicals/the-plotter/" post_tag: - name: "BASIC (programming language)" slug: "basic-programming-language" taxonomy: "post_tag" url: "http://localhost/tag/basic-programming-language/" - name: "TS 2068" slug: "ts2068" taxonomy: "post_tag" url: "http://localhost/tag/ts2068/" - name: "Type-in program" slug: "type-in-program" taxonomy: "post_tag" url: "http://localhost/tag/type-in-program/" model: - name: "Timex/Sinclair 2068" slug: "ts-2068" taxonomy: "model" url: "http://localhost/model/ts-2068/" indiv: - name: "Jack Armstrong" slug: "armstrong-jack" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/armstrong-jack/" publication_r: id: 21216 title: "The Plotter" type: "periodical" url: "http://localhost/periodical/the-plotter/" authors_r: - name: "Jack Armstrong" slug: "armstrong-jack" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/armstrong-jack/" volume: "8" issue: "2" issues_articles: - id: 39479 title: "The Plotter v8 n2" type: "issue" url: "http://localhost/issue/the-plotter-v8-n2/" pages: "3" archive_link: false --- Enhanced and simplified version of the Certificate program originally on SINCUS library disk #102. Allows users to enter text and select one of 14 UDG border styles; prints to the Timex 2040 printer or via Oliger COPY/ for screen dumps. Armstrong rewrote the logic using Boolean expressions and condensed the UDG routine. Full program listing with DATA lines for 14 UDG border graphics included.