Use electronic filing to store your lists. VU-File lets you design your own record layout on the screen, typing the field titles in typewriter mode, marking where each data field starts and choosing paper and ink colours for each field. You then enter records, page forward and back, alter and delete them, sort them on any field, search with a selecting string, list them, and print them through a separate printer layout. The main menu also saves and loads data files on tape and erases the current file, and a status screen shows the fields, bytes used and remaining, number of records and the order field.
The program text includes the name “PSION”. Timex Computer Corporation released VU-File for the TS2068 in 1983.
This is the cartridge version. The related product post says it was never released. The cassette version, which also has a sample gazetteer file, is #51813.
Program Analysis
Structure
The download is a 16K DCK image: two ROM chunks in the dock bank at 0–16383. It holds the same machine code as the cassette version together with its BASIC service lines (save, verify, load and print), including the advice to type GO TO USR a to get back into VU-File after a tape error.
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