ITEM: The December issue of DISCOVER, and presumably other magazines, has an 8-page booklet from TIMEX with the comic strip character B.C. introducing the TS2068 and the following peripherals: TS 2040 32-column thermal printer ($99.95, nothing new), TS 2050 Modem ($119.95, no mention whether it is TS1000-compatible), TS 2020 Program Recorder ($49.95, cassette recorder), TS 2090 Command Stick ($14.95 each, game controller). Some of the software touted in the booklet are an auto mechanic program, foreign language teaching, IRA interest, flight simulation, drag race, spelling, astronomy, solar heating, and spelling. The hardware is available from Timex Computer Corp., P.O.Box 3138, Wallingford, CT 06492. (Add $5.00 handling; TS2068 price is $199.95.)
Timex Sinclair Amateur Radio Users Group and QZX newsletter. Product and catalog announcements from Hawg Wild Software, E. Arthur Brown. Hotline and newsletter from Timex. Sinclair Research announces ZX Microdrive.