---
title: "Newsletter Exchange"
type: "article"
slug: "newsletter-exchange-4"
url: "http://localhost/article/newsletter-exchange-4/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/article/newsletter-exchange-4.md"
published_at: "2026-03-14T13:57:33+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-03-14T13:57:33+00:00"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "Compilation of reprinted items: news about Sir Clive Sinclair vs. Acorn's Chris Curry brawl in Cambridge; Spectrum/TS2068 software incompatibility due to pull-up resistors; method for adapting an Atari-compatible trackball for the 2068; notice about the QL Technical Guide available from Sinclair Research."
category:
  - name: "Timelinez"
    slug: "timelinez"
    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/periodicals/timelinez/"
post_tag:
  - name: "QL"
    slug: "ql"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/ql/"
  - name: "TS 2068"
    slug: "ts2068"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/ts2068/"
model:
  - name: "Sinclair QL"
    slug: "sinclair-ql"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/sinclair-ql/"
  - name: "Sinclair ZX Spectrum"
    slug: "zxspectrum"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/zxspectrum/"
  - name: "Timex/Sinclair 2068"
    slug: "ts-2068"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/ts-2068/"
publication_r:
  id: 21571
  title: "Timelinez"
  type: "periodical"
  url: "http://localhost/periodical/timelinez/"
volume: "3"
issue: "7"
issues_articles:
  - id: 38823
    title: "Timelinez v3 n7"
    type: "issue"
    url: "http://localhost/issue/timelinez-v3-n7/"
pages: "2"
pubdate: "July 1985"
archive_link: false
---

# Newsletter Exchange

Compilation of reprinted items: news about Sir Clive Sinclair vs. Acorn’s Chris Curry brawl in Cambridge; Spectrum/TS2068 software incompatibility due to pull-up resistors; method for adapting an Atari-compatible trackball for the 2068; notice about the QL Technical Guide available from Sinclair Research.