Dick Wagner – Timex/Sinclair Computers

Articles (366)

Title	Author(s)	Publication	Date
2068 Plotting John McMichael has a program and hardware that interfaces a 2068 computer and a Commodore 1520 plotter.	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	May 1994
2068 POKEs Note re address 23561 (repeat delay setting).		The Plotter
2068 Screen Dump		The Plotter	March 1993
2068 Word Processing Short description of improvements to MSCRIPT in version 5.3		The Plotter
2068 Word Processing More about Mscript V5.3.		The Plotter
3-D Tic Tac Toe		The Plotter	November 1990
8k ROM Upgrade A recently released ROM upgrade in the form of an EPROM and special adapter, provides needed improvements in manufacturers original...		Time Designs Magazine	July/August 1985
A & J Microdrive 2000 Review		The Plotter
A 2040 Hint		The Plotter
A 2068 Bug Bug common only to EPROM conversions by Jack Dohany: unable to get underline in programming.		The Plotter
A 2068 Problem Much has been written about 2068 problems and solutions. I have had an on-going problem with the Oliger equipment. At...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	October 1990
A Graphics Problem for the T/S 2068 A "serious" graphics display for the 2068 and 2040 printer.		Time Designs Magazine	May/June 1985
A Hot QL Fix		The Plotter	April 1990
A Hot QL Fix	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	June 1990
A Ladder Rung Problem Program to calculate solution to a math problem.		The Plotter
A Ladder Rung Problem This little problem about the number of rungs in a ladder was presented in our local newspaper in an article...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	August 1994
A Long Cable For 2040 Printers		The Plotter	May 1985
A Machine Code Loader Program for the T/S 1000		The Plotter
A Monitor Adapter for the T/S 1500 For several years, publications have carried articles on connecting T/S 1000 and ZX81 computers to monitors, to improve the quality...		Time Designs Magazine	September/October 1985
A Neat Trick: A Trick for Saving With T/S 1000		The Plotter
A New QL Magazine		The Plotter	September 1986
A Novel Card This short program will print out a novel card you can distribute to your friends, print it out parties, etc....	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	September 1994
A Quicky Programming techniques to implement UNLESS and UNTIL in Sinclair BASIC.		Timex Sinclair User Group Newsletter: Ottawa Chapter	July/August 1988
A Quicky		The Plotter	September 1987
A Quicky		Timelinez	December 1987
A Spreadsheet Application While my comments pertain to the spreadsheet, AS-EASY-AS V5.5, a MSDOS type shareware program, I am sure there are other...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	November 1994
A Study of Plot on the 1000		The Plotter
A Study of Plot on the 1000, Part 2		The Plotter
A Universal Data Base Manager		The Plotter	November 1990
Advice TS1000 Same program as the 2068 version, adapted for the 1000.		The Plotter
Advice TS1000		LISTing Newsletter	June 1993
Advice, 2068 Short program with advice from Charles F. Kettering.		The Plotter
Advice, 2068		LISTing Newsletter	June 1993
Alert!		The Plotter	June 1991
Another Solution to Copy Tapes		The Plotter
Answer to the Cockroach Story: QBASIC QBASIC solution to the cockroach story.	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	May 1994
Apple Problem Short story demonstrates math problem.		The Plotter
April Meeting More notes about producing the “Best of”.		The Plotter
Art Work		The Plotter	December 1989
Artillery Practice		The Plotter	January 1985
Audioscan		The Plotter	November 1986
August Meeting Club business planning production of Best Of…		The Plotter
Autorun Programs		The Plotter
Bank Switching and Operating System – BSOS Review of extension to ZX81/TS 1000 that adds bank switching RAM features to the computer.		Time Designs Magazine	July/August 1985
Bold Print on Your 2040 Printer		The Plotter	January 1987
Book Review: Epson, Epson, Read All About It! Review of Julie Knott and Dave Prochnow's book about Epson printers.		Update Magazine	April 1988
Book(s) Review GOSUB 100 Programs-Building Subroutines in Timex/Sinclair Basic and The Most Popular Subroutines in BASIC.		The Plotter	April 1993
Bookworm Program based on a Marilyn Vos Savant column.		The Plotter
Borders on the 1000 & 2068		The Plotter
Boss Control Stick for 2068		The Plotter
Box the Title Note on drawing boxes around titles with Mscript.		The Plotter
Busy Spots		The Plotter	December 1989
Byte Power Magazine		The Plotter	December 1986
Calculate any Easter Date		The Plotter	November 1987
Calculating a Sinking Fund		LISTing Newsletter	March 1989
Calculating Sinking Fund		The Plotter	March 1989
Calculator		The Plotter	November 1989
Calendar		The Plotter	January 1988
Catalog Your A&J Wafers		The Plotter	May 1986
CCAT/S Library Updates		The Plotter	November 1989
Certificates Creating gift certificates on the computer.		The Plotter
Changing Tasword II Help Page		Sinc-Link	January/February 1991
Changing Tasword II Help Page		The Plotter	October 1989
Check Disk Drive Speed		The Plotter	April 1993
Chinese Fortune Calendar		The Plotter	September 1991
Circuit Board Designer		The Plotter	October 1987
Commodore 1520 Plotter Some time ago I suggested some possible updating of Page 1 of this newsletter. Having had a Commodore 1520 plotter...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	June 1994
Computer Character Format: T/S 1000 & 2068		The Plotter
Computer Fair		The Plotter	October 1987
Control Things With Your Timex Sinclair Computer		The Plotter	March 1984
Converting from GW BASIC Notes on adjusting programs to work on 2068.		The Plotter
Correcting Graphics on Printers Those members who have recently purchased a printed may be dismayed to learn that circles may print egg shaped. There...		The Plotter
Correction Correction to the correction printed in the July 1992 issue.		The Plotter
Day of the Week		The Plotter	August 1991
Dead Key Row		Sinc-Link	March/April 1992
Dead Key Row		The Plotter	October 1989
Dear Editor HP 82954A thermal paper works with 2040; explain Syntactic Sum; transistor cross-reference; relocatable HOT Z from Sinware; DIY resolutions to...		Syntax	June 1983
Dear Editor: Character Generator Add-On and Thoughts on Technology Churn Letter from Dick Wagner: describes demonstrating an EPROM-based character generator add-on (Spyder Electronics) for his ZX81, prompting questions about high-resolution...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter
Design a Zener Diode Circuit The companion program for the 2068 computer was in the last edition. It was developed from the GWBASIC circuit given...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter
Double Sided Box		The Plotter	May 1993
Duplicating the TS 1000 Graphic Symbols Reproducing the 6 missing 1000 graphics symbols on the 2068.		The Plotter
Easy Keyboard Fix Fixing the TS 2068 space bar. Reprint from Clackamas County Area T/S User Group		Sinc-Link	March/April 1989
Easy Keyboard Fix The 2068 computer has a poorly designed space bar as usually the right hand end does not produce a space...		The Plotter	September 1988
Editorial		The Plotter	November 1988
Editorial		The Plotter	January 1989
Editorial		The Plotter	October 1989
Editorial		The Plotter	November 1989
Editorial		The Plotter	December 1989
Editorial		The Plotter	March 1989
Editorial		The Plotter	January 1990
Editorial		The Plotter	October 1990
Editorial		The Plotter	November 1990
Editorial		The Plotter	December 1990
Editorial		The Plotter	February 1990
Editorial		The Plotter	April 1990
Editorial		The Plotter	May 1990
Editorial		The Plotter	June 1990
Editorial		The Plotter	July - August 1990
Editorial		The Plotter	January 1991
Editorial		The Plotter	March 1991
Editorial		The Plotter	July 1991
Editorial February 1990 editorial covering the unexpected decision by Quantum Levels magazine to refund unexpired subscriptions in cash. Wagner reflects on...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter
Electronic Catalog		The Plotter	November 1989
Epicycliods Program to plot epicycloids, a type of curve that is formed when a smaller circle rolls around the outside of...		The Plotter
Esc Key		The Plotter	February 1986
Escape Key Boo Boo		The Plotter	January 1985
Extended BASIC for the TS 1000 Review of Thomas Woods’ Extended Basic. Reprinted from The Plotter, vol 2, no. 7 & 8.		ZX-Appeal	July/August 1986
Extended Basic for Your TS 1000		The Plotter	July - August 1986
Extended Mode Revisited		The Plotter	December 1986
Extended Problem		The Plotter	October 1985
February Minutes Publishing project took up much of the meeting.		The Plotter
Financial Program		The Plotter	November 1991
Flower Basket		The Plotter	August 1988
Flower Basket		The Plotter	September 1988
Foolproof Load Kill?		The Plotter	January 1987
For Your Information Notes about printing the newsletter.		The Plotter
Forum SYNCWARE NEWS welcomes correspondence from its readers. Some editing of letters may be necessary for brevity or to enhance clarity....	Robert Fischer Sergio Frost Mel R. Richardson Dallas Swindal Gary Robinson Kenton Garrett Tom McHargue Roy Brann Joan Kealy Stan Nagrod Jack Dohany Dick Wagner Byron DeFries John Sumpolec Ed DeBoer Robert Gray Arthur Cant Larry Chavarie	SyncWare News	November/December 1987
From the Chairman’s Computer		The Plotter	October 1985
From the Chairman’s Computer		The Plotter	December 1985
From the Chairman’s Computer		The Plotter
From the Chairman’s Computer		The Plotter	May 1985
From the Chairman’s Computer		The Plotter	June - July 1985
From the Chairman’s Computer		The Plotter	September 1985
From the Chairman’s Computer		The Plotter	January 1985
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter
From the Editor’s Desk September meeting lightly attended.		The Plotter
From the Editor’s Desk Laying out the Best Of and newsletter.		The Plotter
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter
From the Editor’s Desk The Hacker newsletter (Las Vegas) may be back in publication.		The Plotter
From the Editor’s Desk Notes about the issue.		The Plotter
From the Editor’s Desk Notes on progress of Best Of.		The Plotter
From the Editor’s Desk Notes re Rod Gowen’s failing eyesight.		The Plotter
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	March 1993
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	April 1993
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	May 1993
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	April 1994
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	November 1986
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	December 1986
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	March 1986
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	April 1986
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	May 1986
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	June 1986
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	July - August 1986
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	September 1986
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	January 1987
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	October 1987
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	November 1987
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	December 1987
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	February 1987
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	March 1987
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	April 1987
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	May 1987
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	June - July 1987
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	August 1987
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	September 1987
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	August 1988
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	January 1988
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	October 1988
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	November 1988
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	December 1988
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	February 1988
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	March 1988
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	April 1988
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	May 1988
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	June 1988
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	July 1988
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	September 1988
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	January 1989
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	October 1989
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	February 1989
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	March 1989
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	April 1989
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	May 1989
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	June 1989
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	July - August 1989
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	September 1989
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	January 1990
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	October 1990
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	March 1990
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	July - August 1990
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	January 1991
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	December 1991
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	February 1991
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	June 1991
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	August 1991
From the Editor’s Desk		The Plotter	September 1991
From the Editor’s Desk	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	December 1994
From the Editor’s Desk	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	November 1994
From the Editor’s Desk This month we provide an article on basic BASIC programming that hopefully will interest some of our readers. The author’s...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	May 1994
From the Editor’s Desk This month’s newsletter contents includes a nice review of a Jack Dohany series of utilities for working with Larken disk...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter
From the Editor’s Desk I am sorry to note that this issue is quite devoid of 2068 programs and articles. The nearest we come...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter
From the Editor’s Desk There is an interesting article in PCNOVICE magazine, November 1994 issue concerning the possible demise of MSDOS operating system in...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter
From the Editor’s Desk It is becoming quite evident that Mackintosh and IBM clone types are advancing so rapidly in new technology that our...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	September 1994
From the Editor’s Desk This month we continue the use of simple math puzzles as BASIC programs. I find them interesting to put in...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	August 1994
From the Editor’s Desk This issue devotes a fair amount of space to the word processor, MSCRIPT. Being fairly conversant with Jack Dohany’s revisions...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	July 1994
From the Editor’s Desk This month we continue with the dissertation on BASIC programming by Jim Wagner. Worthwile suggestions are offered to the programmer.		The Plotter	June 1994
From the Editors Desk		The Plotter
From the Editors Desk Notes about the current issue.		The Plotter
From the Vice-Chairman Dick dicusses a letter from Ken Jackson about commecting an Olivetti printer to his TS 2068 with an AERCO interface....		The Plotter	March 1986
From the Vice-Chairman		The Plotter	April 1986
Gesso EPROM Programmer		The Plotter	June - July 1985
Graphics		The Plotter	February 1991
Graphics Printer Trick Readers who have tried any extensive printer graphics programming (not a screen dump) probably got discouraged with the amount of...		Update Magazine	October 1988
Great Circle		The Plotter	December 1991
Hardware Review: Reverse Video Review of the Reverse Video board from Cottage Technology (Houston, TX; $28.95 + S&H), with installation walkthrough: 4 wires soldered,...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter
Hardware Review: Winky Board II Review of the Winky II passive filter device from G. Russell Electronics (Center Hall, PA; $19.95 assembled / $14.95 kit)....	Dick Wagner	The Plotter
Hardware: Disk Drives		The Plotter	July - August 1986
Health Danger Program to plot potentially dangerous weather conditions for exercise.		The Plotter
Health Danger! A recent article in our local newspaper answered some questions concerning intense exercise (also strenuous labor?) under high heat-humidity conditions.	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	August 1994
How Tall?		The Plotter	February 1987
How to Change RAMTOP, Part 1		The Plotter	March 1984
How to Change RAMTOP, Part 2		The Plotter	April 1984
Inflation This short program seems appropriate at this time as there is continued talk of the status of INFLATION. In fact,...		The Plotter	June 1989
Inflation		The Hacker	July 1989
Input Investigation in to ways to accept data from INPUT.		The Plotter
Input Text With Strings		The Plotter	January 1985
International Character Set There are “special characters” used by some printers to produce so-called European/Japanese characters. The characters provided are probably more likely...		The Plotter	August 1988
Jack Dohaney: Software/Hardware Jack’s specialty is producing for the 2068. He has been at computer programming for some years and has developed many...	Dick Wagner	CATS Newsletter	January 1991
Jack Dohany, Software/Hardware		The Plotter	May 1990
January Meeting Minutes Minutes of the January 1990 CCAT/S meeting. Key items: a coin toss resolved a tied chairman election in favor of...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter
January Minutes Discussion of producing “Best Of”, other business.		The Plotter
July Meeting		The Plotter
June Meeting Progress on club projects. Update on the status of Tim Woods.		The Plotter
Knots or Snakes		The Plotter	December 1986
Label Making with MScript MSCRIPT, the word processor, available for the 2068 computer for some years thru Zebra until they discontinued selling it, and...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	August 1994
Large Printers		The Plotter	May 1987
Large Screen Dump The original of this program was presented by Syd Wyncoop in the February issue of THE PLOTTER. As no one...		The Plotter	May 1989
Letter from Dick Wagner Letter about two programs from the editor of The Plotter, the newsletter of the CCATS User Group.		Update Magazine	October 1988
Letter from Dick Wagner		The Plotter	December 1983
Letter from Dick Wagner		The Plotter	February 1984
Letters Update to Gazer's Guide form Nov/Dec 85 issue; more about Astronomer reviewed by Bingham in v2n2; Radio Shack thermal paper...		Time Designs Magazine	March/April 1986
Library Notes		The Plotter	June - July 1985
LLIST Graphic Characters Techniques for printing the special Sinclair graphics characters to conventional dot matrix printers. Jack Dohany’s GYPSY and SD9 programs are...		The Plotter
Loan Status		The Plotter	May 1987
LPRINT CHR$ With Oliger Printer Driver Readers who have programmed in BASIC with the OLIGER printer driver use LET/P=0 command to send data to their large...		Update Magazine	October 1988
Magic Numbers		The Plotter	October 1986
Magic Squares		The Plotter	October 1991
Make a Logo		The Plotter	May 1989
Make a Wampum Crate		The Plotter	March 1991
Making Labels	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	December 1994
March Meeting Notes about production related to “Best of” book.		The Plotter
Marketing Innovations		The Plotter	October 1986
Math Game Guessing game.		The Plotter
May Meeting Notes about progress on club activities.		The Plotter
Maze Program		The Plotter	January 1991
Mill Circular Pockets Numerical control (NC) of milling machines is an interesting study, mainly because these big machine shop tools are computer ,...		The Plotter
Modem Resistors		The Plotter	June 1986
More 2068 Graphics The first program draws a “snail” by processing a program for a spiral of 360 degrees. It also draws straight...		The Plotter	March 1991
More Big Printer		The Plotter	April 1987
More on Attributes After The Editor read thru Syd Wyncoop’s excellent dissertation on using direct ink/paper/flash commands embedded within program lines and trying...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	February 1987
More on Bookworm Followup to prior article, adapted for 2068.		The Plotter
More on GETPUT Please refer to the June issue of THE PLOTTER for details of this program. A handy program format follows for...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	July - August 1990
More on Tasword 2		The Plotter	June 1991
More on the Oliger Disc Interface My article on the Oliger 2068 Floppy Disc Interface in the March/April 86 issue, had an error that should be...		Time Designs Magazine	May/June 1986
More Tasword II		Sinc-Link	July/August 1991
More Tasword II		The Plotter	March 1990
MScript + Profile The Jan-Feb 88 issue of SyncWare News has a letter from Paul Holmgren about loading a ProFile file into the...		The Plotter	April 1988
Mscript Label Printing		The Plotter
Mscript with MSDOS Many of us made a choice years ago of using either TASWORD II or MSCRIPT for word processing on our...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	July 1994
MScript’s Revised Printer Codes The current revision of MSCRIPT is 5.3, a major improvement from version 5.0 I have been using for several years....		The Plotter	July 1988
Music with Beep		The Plotter	April 1987
My Favorite Triangle Thanks to CCATS and the PLOTTER		Sincus News	September - October 1985
My Favorite Triangle A short TS2068 BASIC program using PLOT and DRAW statements to render an intricate ornamental triangle shape using angular calculations....	Dick Wagner	Timelinez	April 1986
My Favourite Triangle		ZX-Appeal	January 1987
Newsletter Review		The Plotter	October 1986
Nicomachus		The Plotter	December 1989
November Meeting Discussion of club business.		The Plotter
November Meeting Notes		The Plotter	December 1990
Numbers Corrections to a program printed in April 1987 issue. Select an integer between 1-100, computer will figure it out.		The Plotter
Obscure Ages The puzzle this month is best solved by using linear equations in which variables are multiplied by constants and added...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	May 1994
Oliger 2.1 Disk System Update Review of the 2.1 SAFE DOS ROM.		Time Designs Magazine	January/February 1987
Oliger SAFE Disk System v2.2 Updates and tips.		Time Designs Magazine	September/October 1987
Oliger SAFE V2.5 Disk Operating System The following summary of commands will be printed in THE PLOTTER newsletter as space permits. The Editor plans a similar...		The Plotter	November 1988
Oliger SAFE V2.5 Disk Operating System SAVE/”name” CODE m,n is the same as for cassette. SAVE/”name” SCREEN$ is same as for cassette. LOAD/”name” SCREEN$ is same...		The Plotter	December 1988
Oliger SAFE V2.5 Disk Operating System NMI (non maskable interupt) SAVE is accomplished by pressing the NMI button and any numbered key from 1-0. Loaded as...		LISTing Newsletter	March 1989
Oliger SAFE V2.5 DOS NMI (non maskable interupt) SAVE is accomplished by pressing the NMI button and any numbered key from 1-0. Loaded as...		The Plotter	March 1989
Oops		The Plotter	November 1983
OPEN #, “p”	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	November 1994
Penetrator on Disk		The Plotter	February 1990
Penetrator on Disk Instructions for converting the Beam Software/Timex Sinclair tape game Penetrator to disk format using a tape header reader to identify...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter
Personal Portfolio Manager		The Plotter	April 1987
Phone Names		The Plotter	September 1991
PIX-FX, A Review		The Plotter	March 1990
Plot With Tab?		The Plotter	February 1986
POKEs, Etc for 2068 The January 1993 issue of UPDATe magazine has a page of pokes by Frank Davis. I believe the lists that...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	March 1993
POKEs, Etc for 2068 An error in the March page of POKES needs a correction. The last one was RANDOMIZE 0, it should have...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	April 1993
POKEs, etc for the 2068 PEEKs, POKEs and programming techniques.		The Plotter
Print Using The TS 1000, 1500, and 2068 computers do not support this function but many forms of BASIC do. I have...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	August 1987
Printer Codes Notes on using the Epson LQ-570 with the Oliger printer interface.		The Plotter
Printer Drivers		The Plotter	October 1990
Printer Graphic Characters This article pertains to Epson 24 pin printers, mainly the LQ-570 model & its counterpart Epson Action 5000.	Dick Wagner	The Plotter
Printer Graphics Correction		The Plotter	April 1990
Printer Ink Cleaner Those who have re-inked larger printer ribbons know that it is almost impossible to use re-inking equipment without getting ink...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	May 1994
Printer Ink Cleaner Those who have re-inked larger printer ribbons know that it is almost impossible to use re-inking equipment without getting ink...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	July 1994
Printer Ready? There are times that a good screen warning of the Busy/Ready status of a printer is very helpful, particularly if...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	September 1994
Printer Zero Some large printers do not provide a “Ø” for zero but it is handy to have at times. The regular...		The Plotter	April 1988
Printers and Mscript Adjustment to Mscript to make it work with Epson LQ-570.		The Plotter
Printing From Arrays The Epson printer manual for the JX-80 printer has some good programs that are adaptable to Sinclair BASIC. One of...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	July - August 1989
Probability Probability theory enters into coin tossing: ie “heads or tails” out of so many tosses. The counting rules for the...		The Plotter	May 1988
Product Review: Spectrum Emulator for 2068		The Plotter	July - August 1990
Profile Again! Printer codes are easy to install in PROFILE 2068 as per the manual pages 115 & 116. The easiest place...		The Plotter	July - August 1989
Programming: Did You Know?		ZX-Appeal	November 1986
Programming: Did You Know?		The Plotter	October 1986
Puzzle		The Plotter	February 1988
QL + MSDOS The ability to access the many MSDOS programs is enticing. A look thru catalogs of 3 West Coast dealers in...		Update Magazine	October 1989
QL Dump		The Plotter	June 1989
QL/MS-DOS		The Plotter	June 1989
Random Access From Our Readers One of our readers (whom I won’t identify) wrote to point out that I had omitted the letter “u” from...		SyncWare News
Random Numbers on the 2068 Most computers using some form of BASIC language provide the ability to generate random numbers. Readers who have used random...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	May 1991
Reaction On Your Computer		The Plotter	December 1986
Read TS 1000 on a 2068 Notes on adjusting 1000 program to display the proper characters on a 2068.		The Plotter
Read TS 1000 on a 2068		LISTing Newsletter	June 1993
Reverse Video		The Plotter
Rounding Numbers		The Plotter
Salary Raise Program to calculate the best raise strategy based on a Marilyn Vos Savant column.		The Plotter
Screen Display Program		The Plotter	February 1991
SCREEN$ Calibration		The Plotter	February 1990
SCREEN$ Calibration Tutorial on calculating the ratio between on-screen pixel dimensions and printed image dimensions for accurate screen-dump scaling on large dot-matrix...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter
SCREEN$ Loader Program Short program to load screens via menu.		The Plotter
Scrolling Bulletin Boards		The Plotter	November 1985
Signal Reducer Review of signal reducer from Radio Shack.		The Plotter
Sinclair Basic to GW-Basic Notes about migrating Sinclair Basic programs to GW-Basic.		The Plotter
Software Review: MSCRIPT v5.3		The Plotter	August 1988
Solving a Machine Code Loading Problem		The Plotter
Special November Meeting		The Plotter	November 1986
Spectrum Emulator for 2068		ZX-Appeal	Summer 1990
Spiral		The Plotter	September 1989
Spiral Here is a program that generates nice spiral on the screen. To get a good symetrical screen dump use the...	Dick Wagner	CATS Newsletter	December 1990
Square Roots Program that arrives at square roots by division.		The Plotter
Summary of October Meeting		The Plotter	November 1988
Summary of September Meeting		The Plotter	October 1988
Taming My Olivetti Printer		The Plotter	April 1986
The Bookshelf Review of Minute Manual for the Dot Matrix Printer.		Time Designs Magazine	September/October 1985
The Broken Clock Face Program to solve a problem posed by Marilyn vos Savant.		The Plotter
The Broken Clock Face Here is another math puzzle from Marilyn Vos Savant. The puzzle description is hers, the program is mine. The program...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	August 1994
The Oliger 2068 Floppy Disk Interface Review of the disk drive system.		Time Designs Magazine	March/April 1986
The Timex/Sinclair User’s Encyclopedia		The Plotter
The Treasure Chest of NIM		The Plotter
Tiles Game where player has to rearrange 15 letters.		The Plotter
Trace: Find Strings So you have tried to sort out variables in a long program to determine what the author is doing and...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	February 1988
Transparent Ink Please refer to Syd Wyncoop’s article on Color Codes in the January issue and my article in the December issue...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	March 1987
Transparent Ink Short program to demonstrate color attributes.		The Data Expansion	October 1987
TS Communique: Your Hardware Problems Explored Mindware MW-100 printer with TS2068; composite/RGB monitor blanking when used with 1000; interfacing to TTL monitors; Hacksel interface with Radio...		Time Designs Magazine	September/October 1988
TS Computer Repairs		The Plotter	October 1985
Twelve Coins Last month we had a puzzle about identifying one of 12 coins that might be conterfeit, all of the coins...		The Plotter
User Defined Characters on the 1000, Part I and II		The Plotter
Using DRAW with PLOT An interesting display of PLOT with DRAW can be made with the following program. As noted in the REM statements,...		The Plotter
Using Oliger SAFE DOS Version 2.52 What's new and updated in the Oliger DOS.		Time Designs Magazine	July/August 1988
Using Point! What is POINT? Our 2068 manual simply states that POINT tells you whether a PLOT point specified by coordinates is...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter	January 1991
Using the A & J Model 2000 Stringy Floppy		The Plotter
VU-Calc Revisited Not much has been said of VU-CALC for a few years. After all, what can you do with a spread...		The Plotter	November 1988
What MPH? Program to calculate optimal speed to drive to work.		The Plotter
Widget Cost Program		The Plotter	May 1993
Wind Chill Chart		The Plotter	August 1987
Winky Board II		The Plotter	November 1983
Word Processing		The Plotter	September 1986
WordMaster		The Plotter	September 1990
X-10 Controllers Overview of X-10 controllers from Radio Shack.		The Plotter
Your Social Security Benefits		The Plotter	November 1989
Zebra Joystick Adapter		The Plotter
Zener Voltage Regulation Program to calculate values for a circuit using a Zener for voltage regulation.		The Plotter
ZX Color? Chroma-Soft Review of Russell Electronics' "experimental software color graphics" that used software tricks to create the illusion of color.		Time Designs Magazine	January/February 1986
ZX/TS P and R: PLOT/UNPLOT Tip and Action Attention Getter Program Monthly programming tip: using RUN line_number to test a specific routine in isolation without executing the full program. Followed by...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter
ZX/TS P and R: Rounding Formula and Snowcat Graphic Program Monthly tip: one-line formula for rounding numbers to 2 decimal places. Followed by a BASIC graphics program featuring a moving...	Dick Wagner	The Plotter
ZX/TS P and R: Testing Tip, Attention		The Plotter	December 1983
ZX/TS P and R: Tips and Short Programs		The Plotter	March 1984

Books (1)

Title	Author(s)	Date
The Sinclair Survivalist Handbook The Sinclair Survivalist Handbook is filled with previously un-published program listings and articles, written by regular contributors to TIME DESIGNS,...		1988

Downloadable Files (1)

Title	Type	Company	Download
Financial Calculations	Program		Download

User Groups (5)

Title	Location	Founded
Chicago Area Timex Users Group (CATUG) The user group had a BBS, using software written and maintained by Bob Swoger and hosted by his employer, Motorola....	1885A Yorktown Ave., Great Lakes, Illinois 60088	1986
Clackamas County Area Timex Sinclair Users Group President: Michael E. Carver Vice-President: Bill Dunlop Secretary: Jack Armstrong Treasurer: Rod Gowen Librarian: Gaylen Bench	1419 1/2 7th Street, Oregon City, Oregon 97045	1981
Larken system owners People who bought a Larken disk system for the Timex/Sinclair 2068 or an AERCO FD-68 disk system serviced by Larken,...
Timex/Sinclair NorthAmerican User Groups In 1988, at the Sunstate Timex/Sinclair Winterfest, a group of enthusiasts proposed a nation-wide user’s group. The name of the...	613 Parkwood Cir, Streamwood. IL 60107	1991
UPDATE subscribers Subscribers to UPDATE Magazine, Bill Jones’s newsletter, from his mail-merge subscriber list (the same names are on his Daisy/Hybiscus customer...

Events (2)

Title	Date	Location	Sponsor
1987 Northwest/International Timex Sinclair Mini-Fair Held September 26 in Portland, Oregon, this event was organized by Rod Gowen, of RMG Enterprises.	September 26, 1987	Seattle, Washington (Masonic Temple)	RMG Enterprises Time Designs Magazine Company
1988 Third Annual Northwest/International Timex Sinclair Mini-Fair Held August 6 and 7 in Portland, Oregon, this event was organized by Rod Gowen, of RMG Enterprises.	August 6, 1988	Portland, Oregon	RMG Enterprises