Many moons ago I had to prioritize the many ideas I had for my computing projects that were filling my spare time.
I also had a LOT of Timex/Sinclair publications with tons of neat articles that I was interested in doing with my Timex/Sinclair machines.
Since I had a cartridge version of Pro/File for the Timex 2068, (room for up to 37,000 bytes of database records) I indexed all the software listings and hardware articles contained in this 4 foot pile of paper. This allowed me to quickly find things to do and to answer questions (if answers were printed) for my Timex projects. The results ended up occupying 2 files totaling more than 39,000 bytes and filling about 317 record entries.
File Record Explanation:
I only listed articles that had program listings or real hardware work that I could do. Reviews and simular articles were left out because there was nothing there that would directly benefit my computing at the time of need.
I chose to index 7 publications because they contained the most information, and I had an average of 90% of the total issues they printed.
So here you are, if you can use this information then this has done its job.
Key to the listings
The listings were done with the Title or at least the reason for inclusion in the index first, followed by a 1 or 2 word clue that told me if the article was a program that was type-in-able (software) or about a (hardware) modification/fix or improvement. I then used a 3 letter key identifing the publication containing the article, followed by the issue or volume and lastly some clue as to why I listed it if the title was not informative enough.
The Key used for the Publications:
SUM = Vols 2-6 to 4-7
SWN = SYNCWARE NEWS 1-1 to 5-4
SYN = SYNC Vols 1-1 to 4-2
TD = TIME DESIGNS 1-3 to 4-4
TMZ = TIMELINEZ pages 1-8, 17-358, 364-415, 443-458
TSH = T-S HORIZONS #1 to #21
TSU = TIMEX SINCLAIR USER Vols 1-1 to 1-7
USA version
