Synchro-Sette

Announcement of the T/S 1000. Will be available in computer stores, department stores, jewelry stores and drug stores, more than 100,000 outlets in all. 16K RAM, printer and modem promised for fall.

Program listing for an ELIZA-like that simulates a doctor psychoanalyzing a patient.

More suggestions on resolving LOAD issues.

Report from the Consumer Electronic Show in Chicago. Sinclair dropped price of ZX81 to $99; showed ZX Spectrum. Timex displayed the TS 1000.

Review of chess programs and tutorial.

Two Happy Holidays programs.

Review of Boss Package #121 from S & S Company.

Announcement for the ZX Spectrum. Lists features.

Colors off when displayed on monitor.

List of companies.

Report and proposal to use Sinclair computers in Blackstone Community School, prepared by Urban Schools Collaborative at Northeastern University, Boston.

Why Sinclair computers should be considered for teaching programming.

Word game similar to hangman.

Three programs were left out of the last two issues. Two are presented; third was on tape.

The DRAW command can draw circles or parts of circles.

We intend to bring to you ready to run programs of interest for both the beginner and advanced computerist. Robert Swan of CAI promises several accessories, including a printer, RS-232 interface, 48K RAM, modem and stringy floppy.

Description of a potential time-sharing service for Sinclair users.

Gladstone selling Sinclair thermal printer. Gladstone replacement keyboard also mentioned. Memotech GP-100 printer. CAI/40 printer from CAI. Timex demo booths at K-Mart. Winky board. Mistakes in Sept 1982 issue. Run-It Software Club.

Magazine printed with daisy wheel printer. Spectrum micro drives not disk. Sinclair and Timex sales figures. Amateur radio users. Educational software from 2-Bit Software. Program of the month club. Winky Board 2.

Cassettes now come with a loader program. ZX-99 tape control system. T/S-1000 now being sold in U.S. Outside software support to be sold through stores. Kopak Touch-a-Matic, upcoming hardware.

Corrections to programs. Timex T/S-1000 computer sweeping the country. Keyboards from data-assette. Memotech RAM packs. Microdrive from SyncWare. Mindware printer delay. Computer judge assigments made by computer in Chicago. What is VU-CALC?

Growth of the magazine. Amateur radio and the Sinclair Computer; QZX. Computers in schools. Watchmaker’s Guidebook. Users group in Hammond, IN.

Mistakes in November 1982 issue. Sinclair pocket TV. US Spectrum sales. Printer news. RAM pack ribbon connector. Floppy disk for the TS/ZX. TRS-80 to ZX/TS. Supporting vendors swamped. Super Talker speech synthesizer. ZON X-81 synthesizer. Computer control devices from Thurnall Electronics.

Mistakes in the January 1983 issue. Sidewinder, a new printer from Mindware. Synchro-Sette tapes bulk produced. CFASTDATA, CFASTDUET from Cosmonics. Printer interface from CRC Software. Timex Computer Club; Ramblings newsletter. New user group newsletters.

Tax programs. Basicare modules from Gladstone. New products from Memotech. TS 2040 printer available. TS 1500 printer announcement. TS 2000 delays; Sinclair’s ZX-83 and Timex’s TS 3000 under wraps. TS-2000 & TS-3000 NEWS Don’t expect to see the TS 2000 hit the streets until the final quarter of this year. Apparently, the 2000 will be…

Digitalizer from Eulyn Electronics, Super Winky from G. Russell Electronics. TS 1000 down to $39.95 with rebate. Virtuoso music synthesis program from W. D. Maples. The People’s Computer Supply company.

Forth for the ZX/TS. Modem in the works. Update on TS 1500 and TS 2000 pricing.

TS 1500s available but without advertising support. Plans to port Syntext to the 2068. What to do with 1000? Emphasis on 2068 in coming issues. Tax return helper from K-Soft.

K Mart selling 1000 for 29.97. Price drop for Winky 2. TS 2000 as a business machine. Computech offers educational programs. New 64K RAM packs from Barlog and Gladstone.

TS-1500 news: Timex plans to manufacture a limited number to test market. Timex drops 16K model of TS 2000. Memotech announces MTX-512 computer. Radio Shack MC-10. Micro price war aftermath: Atari and Intellivision have experience mult-million dollar losses. Timex and Radio Shack have show disappointing sales figures.

TS 1500 expected to launch September 15, 1983 and TS 2000 around October 15. TS 1000 market almost non-existent. Program to convert TS 1000 BASIC and machine programs to run on Spectrum.

Phase-out of Synchro-Sette: October 1984 will be last issue. 2068 available. Customers can order direct from Timex.

Timex Computer marketing policy: discontinue TV ads; advertise in publications where reader is more likely to purchase a computer in next 3 months. TS 1000 fade out. TS 2068 hints.

TS sales below expectations: one source says fewer than 30,000 TS 2068s sold since introduction. TS 1500 cassette signal seems better than 1000. TS 1000 selling for as low as $9.95. Timex tight lipped about peripherals.

2068 peripherals available from 21st Century Electronics. Partial Pascal available for TS 1000. Tax prep software from K-Soft. EPROM burner system available from RAM.

Timestar Computers trying to acquire license to 2068. Problems converting 1000 programs to run on 2068. High resolution graphics, word processor on the 1000 from N. Elmaleh.

TS 2068 books. Syntax to continue. New TS purchasers in bind.

Timex Sinclair Shopper and Timex Sinclair News will be published. As of December 1983, Sinclair had sold more than 1 million Spectrum computers. Timex sold approx 100,000.

List of companies still actively supporting Timex/Sinclair computers.

Short program to create graphics for easy recall.

Description of growing pains.

Lady Augusta Ada Byron Lovelace.

Checkbook Machine and Billpayer Machine by Synchro-Sette.

Review of Boss Package 117 from S & S Company.

Suggestions for better LOAD/SAVE.

Routine invert the screen and suggestions on protection as an author.

Implementation of a sort routine.

Readers pleased with 2068. Corrections to programs in earlier issues.

Questions from readers.

Program from a reader; UK Spectrum owner please with computer.

Errors in floating point numbers; reader pleased with new cassettes; fixes to earlier programs.

Letters about loading issues. Errors in programs. Mindware printer.

Problems loading tapes; program patches. Questions about cassette tapes.

Question about calculating odds; how to translate BASIC programs with READ, DATA, RESTORE; 8K ROM for ZX80 doesn’t give SLOW mode.

Commentary on VU-Calc; Sinclair and Mindware printers; sharing data across programs.

Comments on sort routines; ZX Printer paper issues; errors in programs.

Questions about programming practices, ASCII; converting READ/DATA/RESTORE to Sinclair BASIC; golf handicapping program.

Improvements to date program. Program to print series of numbers and running average.

Comments about new printer.

Question about Syntext and Memotech keyboard. Machine code and RAMTOP. Patch to program in April 83 Letters to the Editor.

Readers respond to whether 2K programs on the cassette should be discontinued.

Questions about vendors taking orders for TS 2000. Corrections to earlier programs.

Questions about 2000. Compatibility of Memotech RAM pack and 2040 printer. Question about space in Syntext.

Modifications to Syntext to drive CAI P40 printer. Working around issues with Seikosha GP-100a printer.

Sinclair Users’ Network no longer published. Mindware printer not compatible with 2068.

Letters regarding discontinuation of Synchro-Sette.

User reports problems specific to early Byte-Back 16K RAM pack; confirmed by Byte-Back. User purchased 2068 for $99.

Reader seeks editor/assembler; Hot Z recommended. Problems converting from 1000 to 2068. Question about RAMTOP and NEW on 2068.

User writes to thank publisher. Another user expresses surprise at how simple programs seem to be.

Question about software to convert 1000 programs to 2068. User has lost money to vendors who went out of business. Formula to figure out winning major league baseball teams.

Subroutine to renumber program lines.

Tutorial on multi-dimension variables.

Simple database program, capable of storing about 12K on a 16K machine.

Publisher switched to printing on a C. ITOH Pro-Writer. New printer from CAI. Sinclair working on battery for its flat screen TV.

Sound/graphics program in the spirit of the Los Angeles Olympics.

Programs to examine memory.

Review of Boss Package T2203-C, a user defined graphics and drawing program.

Sinclair ZX Printer, Mindware MW-100.

Attempt to cure program loss due to wobble by repairing insulating pieces inside ram pack.

The Sinclair QL at the CES show.

Short fiction.

Short fiction.

Short fiction.

Review of programs from S & S Company, who also published the magazine.

Review of programs from S & S Company, who also published the magazine.

Routine to center a title; checkbook program.

Inflation, Pyramid.

Sinclair announces QL, intended for availability in the fall. Formerly referred to as ZX-83. Editor predicts exit of Timex in light of advertising and product delays.

Arcade game where user tries to shoot the skulls that pass over in the least amount of shots.

A sound/color graphics demonstration program for the TS 2068.

Program to demonstrate STICK.

Color printer from Okidata, Okimate 10. New Commodore computers. Coleco Adam. Sinclair QL.

TIMEX had a fantastic booth. A number of Muppet-type puppets appeared on a CRT and interacted with a running dialogue with the passers by. Needless to say, large crowds sporadically gathered. When questions were asked about TIMEX products, other CRTs would light up and commercial-type explanations were given. About 10 each of the new TS-1500s…

Speculation on how to program the 2068.

PLOT and UNPLOT.

Short subroutine to report size of a program.

Memory-mapping the screen display file.

Tutorial on directly programming the TS 1000 screen memory.

Subroutines to renumber program lines.

Tutorial on sorting.

Simulating READ/DATA/RESTORE on the ZX-81.

Alternative method of simulating READ, DATA, RESTORE by storing data in a REM.

More techniques for string manipulation.

Printing to lines 23 and 24.

Short program to enter text.

Introduction to Forth and review of Pluri-Forth from Tree Systems.

Review of Word Tree, a word processor for the TS 1000, for use with Tree-Forth.

Documentation for program to create and decode messages by substituting two numbers for every character in the message.

Two programs to display messages.

Description of the program functions.

Program to convert phone number to a word.

Review of the Winky Board II.

Incompatibilities between the ZX-80 8K ROM and the ZX-81.

Spider-Dan, Minefield-1, Minefield-2, Rally, TwoDates, Rorschach, Instring, Namesort, Bouncing-Bombs, Biorhythm, Basecon.

1K: Alien-Base, Clock, Mortgage-1, Marquee-1. 16K: Marquee-2, Cipher, Scrambled Words, Mortgage-2

1K: Loader-1K, Message, Artist, Labyrinth, Multiply, Char-Code. 16K: Loader-16K, Bulletin, Bar-Gen, Name/Add, Star Lander

1K/2K: Birthday, Micro-Pro, Rip-Off, Syncro-Smash. 16K: Reaction, Mini-Pro, File, Bulletin

1K/2: Season’s Greetings, Mileage, Chainsaw, Frenzy. 16K: Inventory, Space Docking, Quote, Bulletin

2K: Addition, Subtraction, White-Hole, Tapestry. 16K: Payroll, Superscroll, Inverscroll, Bulletin

2K: Loader, Logarithms, Grafit, Guess It, Paint Brush. 16K: Measurement Conversion, Torpedo, Baby Syntext, Bulletin

2K: Bank Shot, Deposit Multiplier, Math-Helper, Number Master. 16K: Gran Marquee, Tape File, Sub-Niner, Bulletin.

2K: Big Char/Exam, Labyrinth. 16K: Tollbooth, Stock Projector, TTD, Thwart, Bulletin.

Windchill, Census, Sides, Droptest, Cardtrick, Stumper, Acorec, Bulletin.

Respell, Bumper, Burts Game, Elecform, Fifteen, Infofile, Bulletin

Bomb-catcher, Land-mine, Slot-machine, Bowling, Minicalc, Arvolform, Bulletin.

Binary Teacher, Hexer, Photon, Short-Route, Enigma, Quick-Pay, Bulletin.

Timex announced they were abandoning their computer product line as of February 22, 1984.

Entering line numbers greater than 9999.

Review and tutorial.

Brief overview of 2068 features.

Peripherals planned but not launched.