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title: "How to Make Your Timex Sinclair Computer Compatible with Other Computers"
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excerpt: "SincLink Shareware Article (file ss88915a) outlining a project to enable Timex Sinclair computers to communicate with Amiga, Apple II, Atari, Commodore, CP/M, IBM, and Macintosh systems via RS-232 serial ports. Describes the required hardware (serial port interface for each machine type) and outlines the minimum software requirements: format a disk, get a directory, view a…"
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  - name: "TS 1000"
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  - name: "TS 2068"
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model:
  - name: "Sinclair QL"
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  - name: "Sinclair ZX Spectrum"
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  - name: "Timex/Sinclair 1000"
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    url: "http://localhost/model/ts-1000/"
  - name: "Timex/Sinclair 2068"
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    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/ts-2068/"
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  - name: "Mark Wahl"
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  - name: "Mark Wahl"
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volume: "6"
issue: "12"
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  - id: 38863
    title: "Timelinez v6 n12"
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pages: "10"
pubdate: "December 1988"
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SincLink Shareware Article (file ss88915a) outlining a project to enable Timex Sinclair computers to communicate with Amiga, Apple II, Atari, Commodore, CP/M, IBM, and Macintosh systems via RS-232 serial ports. Describes the required hardware (serial port interface for each machine type) and outlines the minimum software requirements: format a disk, get a directory, view a file, and save/load TS BASIC and byte files. Notes Mark Wahl’s investigation of MINIX/GNU C source code for the project and Mike Furman’s RS-232 interface design for the TS1000.