Down East Computers
Owner(s):
Alger Salt
Greenville, NC 27834
Founded by Alger Salt, Down East produced the VOTEM, one of the earliest analog to digital devices for Sinclair computers.
Products
| Name | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| VDAQ1 | Votem Data Acquisition – Hi-Res. Written VOTEM, a simple voltage-to-frequency converter, designed for single-channel analog data acquisition. Allows multi-screen acquisition, variable scale and timebase. Without the VOTEM, it was useful for frequency measurement, via the tape input jack. 16K. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| VOTEM | The VOTEM was a hardware/software package that could measure, display and record real world analog signals via the cassette input. Any physical phenomenon (pressure, light temperature, etc.) that could be represented by a DC voltage could be measured. The name of the product came from the fact that it could measure VOltage and TEMperature. The | Sinclair ZX80, Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
Books
Periodicals
Documents
Downloads
Articles
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| Link to the real world | Review of Down East Computing’s VOTEM, an all-purpose voltage and temperature measuring system designed to interface with the TS1000, ZX81 computer or any Z80 based system. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Operating VOTEM on the Timex 2068 Computer | Instructions and program. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Resources (Sync v2 n3) | Listing of new user groups, books and other resources. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Review of VOTEM | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| The Votem | The Votem, to play on James J. Carr’s book Digital Interfacing to an Analog World (Tab Books, Summit, PA. 1978), is an analog interface to Sinclair’s digital world. Analog/Digital Conversion Analog (related to analogous) refers to relationships by ratios. The analog device relates numbers to a turn on a wheel such as our rapidly disappearing | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Timex Add-Ons | Product annoucement for VOTEM interface board from Down East Computers. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Timex at the Heart of the Kidney | Medi Products of Salt Lake City built a system to reclean and resterilize artificial kidneys around a TS1000 with a Votem, Persona, Periconb and a special keyboard from Sinclair Place. The computer completely controls all processes under EPROM software direction. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| VOTEM interface board | VOTEM stands for voltage and temperature, and that’s what this new interface from Down East Computers is all about. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |