The introduction to T-S Horizons #1 (November 1983) stated that “[in the future] you will find that T-S Horizons will benefit you more than any other magazine for the Sinclair computer”. Little did we know that in 1984 that “prophecy” would come true “by default.” So far we’ve seen the demise of Sync, TS User, and Timex/Sinclair User. Z-West was also cancelled, but fortunately Gordon Young is still actively supporting Timex users with articles in T-S Horizons and Computer Trader. Syntax still has a loyal following despite its low page count and recent price like (now $48 per year).
From the response we have received from issue #7 it appears we are on the right track, I have to agree with those who have called it our best issue to date, and I have to give the credit to the talented writers who have been such a great resource for T-S Horizons.
TS Computing – Bad News
A lot of people would like to get their hands on Mr, Mike Wilson.
To those who subscribed to his “TS Computing” or sent products for review, we offer our sympathy. He published one issue of his newsletter (May) and mailed it to user groups and mail lists he had obtained, offering subscription for $10 per year.
When no subsequent issues appeared and after we had received phone calls from certain parties who had been taken in by Mr. Wilson, we decided to call him. The operator informed me that his number (listed in several Places in TS Computing) had been changed to an unlisted number.
I then wrote him a letter and asked him to call me with some explanations. A week later he did call end started telling me how he tried his hardest but that the Timex market was dead, Timex computers were junk, the QL is junk, and a long string of other equal blasphemies. When I told him TSH has 1000 subscribers and is growing daily, he launched into a totally uncalled-for attack on a certain software vendor who had tried to help get “TS Computing” off the ground, believing it to be a legitimate enterprise.
I got no answer when I asked if his subscribers had been refunded their money, He also claimed that someone at the phone company had his phone number changed without hie knowledge or request, and that someone was ordering T-S-related merchandise and having it shipped to his address and intercepting it from U.P.S. before it got to his house. If any reader has a bone to pick with Wilson his new phone number is 1-212-513-7559 unless its been mysteriously changed again. And tell him T-S Horizons sent you.