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# Two Decades of Timex/Sinclair Wisdom

If you’ve ever had a ZX81/TS1000, TS1500, or TS2068 question and thought *“I’m sure somebody on the list solved this years ago…”*, you were probably right. The trouble was finding it. Mailing-list archives are a haystack: thousands of messages, no real structure, and in the case of the old Yahoo Group, a haystack that effectively disappeared when Yahoo Groups shut down.

That’s now fixed. The **Timex/Sinclair 2068 List Archive** brings the community’s entire written history into a single, searchable, well-organized site, including the **pre-groups.io Yahoo Group era**.

### What’s in it

The archive spans **both chapters of the list**:

- **The Yahoo Group (2001–2019)** — the community’s original home, ~4,093 messages that were lost when Yahoo Groups went dark. They had been saved on survived on the Internet Archive, and they’re back into a readable form. Because there’s no live Yahoo anymore, these messages are reproduced right on the page, with a link back to the Internet Archive copy.
- **The groups.io list (2020–present)** — the current list, kept up to date automatically.

Altogether that’s **13,549 messages in 2,381 threads**, from the very first 2001 post through the present.

### It’s organized

The whole point is to make all of it *usable*:

- **Topic pages.** Every thread is sorted into subjects — joysticks, disk systems, cartridges, repair, machine code, CP/M, video upgrades, and two dozen more. Each topic page opens with a short synthesis of what the group actually figured out over the years, drawing on **both eras** — so the joystick page, for example, traces the “the 2068’s ports aren’t Kempston” explanation all the way back to 2010.
- **Highlights.** The threads with real long-term reference value — the solutions, how-tos, and definitive answers worth finding again — are flagged so you can jump straight to the good stuff.
- **Browse by year and era**, or just use the **search box** in the top-right to see, in seconds, whether a topic has come up before.

### A note on privacy

Old mailing-list messages are full of email addresses. Every address is **masked** before anything is published, so the archive preserves the conversations without exposing anyone’s contact details to spam harvesters.

### Have a look

Whether you’re chasing a specific fix, curious how a project turned out, or just want to wander through twenty-plus years of Timex/Sinclair tinkering, it’s all there and it’s all searchable.

**[Explore the TS2068 List Archive →](https://timex-sinclair-projects.github.io/ts2068-list-archive/)**