Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter

Editorial about change of editors.

A good source within Timex reports that “The Timex Computer Corp. is no longer.” The source explains that the TCC has essentially been dissolved and all its functions absorbed into the Timex parent corp. With the departure of VP Ross, the hierarchy seems to be Timex VP Kirk Pond, in charge of three more-or-less equal…

More than 1000 people read the newsletter every month.

Editorial on Timex and its role in the computer community.

Recorders compared by recording their output to a frequency spectrum analyzer.

Magaret Bruzelius and Dan Ross will attend the first anniversary meeting of the user group.

Sue Mahoney has accepted the position of Technical Support Manager with the Timex Computer Corporation.

Roy Glaser described series of programs he’s developing to print sideways.

Errors in previous issue corrected.

Overview of Compuserve and what it offers Timex/Sinclair users.

Resolve interference by covering antenna selector switch with aluminum foil.

Mr. Daniel Ross, Vice President of Operations, Timex Computer Corporation, was the second speaker at our Anniversary meeting. He described the Timex company — its relationship with Sinclair Research, its announced computer products, and its plans for a national user group. Timex is the company largely responsible for popularizing the wrist watch. According to Dan,…

Sue Mahoney presided over a discussion of the state of the Timex computer commuty and Timex Corp’s marketing strategy. Two vendors demonstrated their programs.

The first two characters appearing together in the ZX81 ROM are Z and X.

Timex Sinclair User is a 4-color, monthly, people-oriented magazine and will hit the North American market with 100,000 issues in May.

Editor calls for participation.

The TEC News is a quarterly newsletter to be published by the Timex-Sinclair Educator’s User Group at Texas Wesleyan College in cooperation with the Timex Computer Corporation.

Henry April demonstrated Upload 2000.

Reprint of article about the Ferranti ULA that appeared in Electronic Design News.

Bob Masters talked about using VU-Calc to verify Blue Cross claims forecasts. J. Michael Coughlin described the Hunter board.

Maggie Bruzelius and Dan Ross talked about Sinclair Research and Timex Computer Corporation, respectively. More than 200 people attended the meeting.

Sue Mahoney demonstrated “Ator the ABC Gator”. Program synchronizes display of letters with song recorded on cassette tape. Al Spencer reviewed The Parrot by R.I.S.T. Mahoney distributed the first issue of Ramblings.

Brint Jefferis gave a review of ToolKit, available from Gladstone. Burt Fisher reviewed VOTEM. Sue Mahoney demonstrated preproduction models of the TS 1500 and TS 2068.

Sue Mahoney distributed second issue of Ramblings and catalog of software. Irv Frankel and Arman Toorian of Intercomputer demonstrated the Intercontroller. The spring issue of TEC News was distributed.

Frank Kaplan from Compusa Corporation demonstrated a prototype of the FDC-101 floppy disk system. Jeff Parker demonstrated the Byte-Back MD1 and MD2 modems.

This month will mark the beginning of our third year as the Sinclair-Timex User Group. The user group is a group of individuals who get together to share information about their Sinclair and Timex computers. During the past two years, we have grown from 18 members to 800 members. This fantastic growth is indicative of…

Machine Code Group will host Mitch Russo, a local Zilog representative.

Surprise snowstorm let to abbreviated meeting. Discussion of status of Timex Computer Corp.

Dave Wood described the CAI Widget interface. Henry April gave an update on the large keyboard he developed.

Don Weiss exhibited his word processing system, which consists of a TS 1500, Compusa disk drive, Memotech Centronics interface and Seikoska printer. Marty Warner demonstrated MSCRIPT and Tasword II.

South Bay Computer Club TS Meeting Notes:

Major presentation was a demonstration of Hot Z.

Dave Miller talked abou this experiences working with EPROMs. He’s also corrected the bugs in the 1500 ROM and put it in his 1000.

Summary of her presentation at the user group meeting.

March 12th edition of Electronic News reported that Sinclair signed license agreement with Samsung to assemble and market ZX81 and Spectrum computers in South Korea.

Hints for storage of computer programs and data.

Call for articles for upcoming issue.

At the general meeting in December, Mike Levy was voted to the Board of Directors of the Boston Computer Society. Mike is president of Mindware Inc., a company marketing hardware and software for the Sinclair and Timex computers.

Where are the TS2068 manuals? Timex originally produced 200 copies of the manual on a photocopier. As orders outstripped production, the manual was sent to a printer. During the week of July 30, 1000 copies were mailed at bulk rate.

Dick Govatski of Memotech spoke of their line of peripherals and their commitment to “continue to support our TS customers. Over 35,000 of them,” even though they have “no plans to add onto the TS line.”

Group celebrated its second anniversary; an estimated 800 people atttended.

The octopus was sketched for the newsletter by Joe Hamel as a favor to member Bob Dyl.

Overview of contemporary computer magazines supporting Sinclair computers.

List of groups.

Table of the various models.

Short description and information about QZX.

Two remaining contacts at Timex.

Two publications for TS users.

Sinclair Research established a presence on The Source.

I was one of the first people to learn that Timex was getting out of the personal computer retail market. A friend of mine, who was working there, called me to tell me the news just minutes after she received the word herself. My first reaction was that it was hard to believe, although Timex…

Describes starting the user group as a means to bring Sinclair owners together and progress over first year.

Reston Publishing donated several books to the library.

At the May meeting, Dan Roy will unveil the add-on color capability for the T/S-1000. The product he developed is called Colorsin81.

Dated December 5, 1983. Ross, a longtime veteran of the computer industry, was said to be surprised and shaken by the sudden action.

The canary in the coal mine of Timex’s exit from the marketplace. Price wars and poor retailer experience resulted in less-than-full market penetration.

Personally, I was tired of hearing “What can you do with a personal computer?” not to mention, “What can you do with a Timex Sinclair?” I knew that through my work with the user group and my contacts across the country that there were a lot of exciting applications. To me it was obvious that…

Recommendations about what to look for in a computer monitor.