The Authoritative Website for Timex/Sinclair Computers
Alger Salt formed Down East Computers to market the VOTEM.
Alger presented a seminar about the VOTEM (“The VOTEM Analog to Digital Converter”) at the 1983 celebration organized by the Sinclair/Timex User’s Group of the Boston Computer Society.
Alger went on to work for Burroughs Wellcome and GlaxoSmithKline as a scientist.
| Title | Author(s) | Publication | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Parallel Interface for the ZX-80/MicroAce Computer Construct a simple parallel interface for the ZX80/MicroAce computers with the Z-80 PIO. | SYNC | July/August 1981 | |
| A ZX/TS Celebration in Boston On October 22, 1983, the Boston Computer Society’s Sinclair-Timex User Group celebrated their Second Anniversary at the Boston Park Plaza... | SYNC | January/February 1984 | |
| Build Additional RAM How to upgrade the ZX80 to 8K RAM. | Syntax | March 1981 | |
| Dear Editor Question about noise during save; keyboard replacement; COBOL for ZX/TS; saving; internal RAM; overheating; loose connector problems. | Syntax | December 1982 | |
| Least Squares Data Analysis with the ZX80/81 One of the most common tasks of a computer is to perform statistical analysis and data manipulative type computations. Many... | SYNC | May/June 1982 | |
| Operating VOTEM on the Timex 2068 Computer Instructions and program. | Triangle Sinclair Users Group | September & October 1984 | |
| Program Name Reader Prints name and loading time of ZX81 files. | ZX-Appeal | May 1989 | |
| Sync Notes ZX81 —The Family Increases; PERCEPTIONS; SYNCSUM; Spaces in PRINT Statements; MicroAce II????; SYNC Subscribers Pass the 6000 Mark; A P.S.... | SYNC | July/August 1981 | |
| Why a Computer Show? Personally, I was tired of hearing “What can you do with a personal computer?” not to mention, “What can you... | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | October 1983 |
| Title | Location |
|---|---|
| Down East Computers Founded by Alger Salt, Down East produced the VOTEM, one of the earliest analog to digital devices for Sinclair computers. | Greenville, NC 27834 |
| Title | Author | Publisher | Date | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Down East Sales Receipt and Product Flyers Sales receipts for manual and VOTEM along with flyers about the VOTEM and other products Down East sold. | Down East Computers | 1983 | 5 | |
| Votem advert Fifteen-page operation manual from CAI Instruments, Inc. covering the use of their Exatron Stringy Floppy mass storage device with the... | Down East Computers | 198x | 1 | |
| VOTEM User’s Manual Congratulations! Welcome your computer to the real world. No longer does your computer have to rely on information that was... | Alger Salt | Down East Computers | 1982 | 35 |
| Title | Location | Founded |
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| Timex Sinclair Online User Group This informal group has twice a month meetings online (via Zoom). Like in-person user group meetings, we have guests, talk... | Alabama | 2020 |
| Title | Date | Location | Sponsor |
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| 1983 Boston Computer Society’s Sinclair/Timex User Group Second Anniversary Celebration Held on October 22, 1983, by the Boston Computer Society’s Sinclair-Timex User Group to celebrate their second anniversary. | October 22, 1983 | Boston, Massachusetts | Sinclair/Timex User Group of the Boston Computer Society |
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| Timex/Sinclair Online User Group Meeting October 6, 2025 Alger Salt joined and took us back to the early 1980s, when he and a colleague built an analog interface... | October 6, 2025 |
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| VOTEM: The $40 Computer Peripheral That Went to Space In the early 1980s, when home computers were just beginning to find their way into households across America, two engineers... | October 10, 2025 |