Mark Fendrick

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Across the Pond
Inaugural column about the American side of the Sinclair world. Gives a brief overview of Sinclair history in America, discusses...
ZX ComputingOctober/November 1984
Across the Pond
Comparison of market in UK to that in US, especially after the departure of Timex Computer Corp. Despite official support,...
ZX ComputingJune/July 1985
Across the Pond
Updated version of MSCRIPT; now returns to BASIC for file save/load. Feature added by Zebra. Greeting Card Designer from Zebra....
ZX ComputingApril 1986
Across the Pond
Overview of telecomputing and bulletin board options, including Zebra’s bulletin board. Modem options for QL covered. Softsync’s shift to IBM...
ZX ComputingJune 1986
Across the Pond
QL issues and support. War in the East game, written by Mark Stueber, ported to QL. Robert Fingerle, of Tesseract...
ZX ComputingAugust 1986
Across the Pond
Updates on the 2068 scene. Knighted Computers has been licensing Spectrum titles for conversion to the 2068. Quicksilva, Virgin, Digital...
ZX ComputingSeptember 1986
Across the Pond
Report on the Second Annual Midwest Timex Sinclair Computer Fest.
ZX ComputingMarch 1987
Across the Pond
Launch of the QL in the US. Describes the QL hardware and software, compares it to other current options, including...
ZX ComputingMay 1986
Across the Pond
Spectrum ROM options and Z-link, a twister board, are discussed. DAMCO Enterprises’ Rainbow Plus Interface, which is both twister and...
ZX ComputingFebruary/March 1986
Across the Pond
Look back on 1986. Introduction of QL. Second Midwest computer Fest. QL Talker, a speech synthesizer that connects to the...
ZX ComputingFebruary 1987
Across the Pond
Describes Spectrum emulator ROM options from Doug Dewey (EMU-1 and EMU-2), Bill Russell (Romswitch), need for a twister board (like...
ZX ComputingAugust/September 1985
Across the Pond
Mark compares the differences between the ZX Spectrum and the TS 2068, describing the features that are new in the...
ZX ComputingFebruary/March 1985
Across the Pond
Describes how news of Amstrad’s buyout of Sinclair has impacted the American scene. Carol and George Whitham, who founded A+...
ZX ComputingJuly 1986
Across the Pond
Fendrick looks at AERCO’s FD-68 floppy disk system for the TS 2068.
ZX ComputingOctober 1986
Across the Pond: Telecomputing across the U.S.
T/S 2050 modem; bulletin boards. Zebra Systems ran a BBS in 1985; customers could place orders through the BBS. Online...
ZX ComputingApril/May 1985
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Excitement for First Annual Timex/Sinclair Computer Fest. Speakers include Mark Fendrick, Jerry Chamkis, Jack Roberts, Thomas Woods.
T-S HorizonsApril 1986
Guide to T/S Telecommunications Update for Version 2.0
Time Warp, based in Boston, MA, runs on Casboard on a TS 2068. VSYS, in New Jersey, also runs on...
LISTing NewsletterAugust 1987
LenslokSincus NewsMay - June 1986
Mid-West TS ComputerfestTime Designs MagazineMay/June 1986
Modems and CompuserveCATS NewsletterAugust 1984
New Timex/Sinclair BBS Notices
This month we have three new BBS to announce that support the efforts of the Timex/Sinclair community. The SINCLAIR AT...
Gary LessenberryNite-Times NewsJuly 1987
Sinclair Flat Screen TelevisionSincus NewsJanuary - February 1986
Sinclair Survival Column
Believe it or not, this month’s column marks the start of the third year here in Computer Shopper. Yet, unlike...
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperJune 1986
Sinclair Survival Column
Hard to believe, but this month marks the beginning of our fourth year together here in Computer Shopper. Back in...
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperJune 1987
Sinclair Survival Column
As we end our third year of this column, we go back to our roots and have a look at...
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperMay 1987
Sinclair Survival Column
Continuing on our recent theme of telecommunications for the Sinclair computers (necessary for you to join us in C*SIX, the...
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperJanuary 1988
Sinclair Survival Column
Last month we had a look at a few programs from Novelsoft of Toronto, Canada. As promised, this month we...
Computer ShopperOctober 1987
Sinclair Survival Column
This month we will look at a series of programs for the T/S 2068 and Spectrum computers published by Novelsoft...
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperSeptember 1987
Sinclair Survival Column
When the QL first appeared, Sinclair Research promised to support it with some sophisticated software in keeping with its intended...
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperFebruary 1988
Sinclair Survival Column
Well, here we go again. This is our fourth annual year end wrap up. Although there is no major company...
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperFebruary 1987
Sinclair Survival Column
Before you get the idea that we have abandoned the T/S 1000/1500 and T/S 2068 computers in favor of the...
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperOctober 1986
Sinclair Survival Column
When the QL first appeared, a few books were written in England on its use. These books, available in this...
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperJune 1988
Sinclair Survival Column
Well, here we are again at the end of another year and we still haven’t given up on our computers....
Computer ShopperDecember 1986
The Sinclair Information Network (S.I.N.)
The Sinclair Information Network is designed to be a marketplace for ideas and information concerning all of the Sinclair and...
Mark FendrickT-S HorizonsJuly/August 1984
The Sinclair QL Returns
At the beginning of 1980 Clive Sinclair started selling his first computer, the ZX80. The initial purpose was to take...
Computer ShopperFebruary 1986
The State of the Eight: 8-Bits Alive and Running
In a classic scene from a popular Star Trek episode, Dr. “Bones” McCoy looks down at a crumpled mass of...
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperJune 1988
Timex Sinclair Survival Column
Happy Birthday to us… Happy Birthday to us! This column marks the first anniversary of the Survival Column here in...
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperJune 1985
Timex Sinclair Survival Column
At long last I have a new Sinclair QL (for Quantum Leap) in front of me. In fact, this column...
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperApril 1986
Timex Sinclair Survival Column
As Sinclair owners, we start 1985 in quite a different position than we were in at the beginning of 1984....
Computer ShopperJanuary 1985
Timex Sinclair Survival Column
As we know, the Sinclair community in this country never obtained the status of a Commodore, for instance, and the...
Computer ShopperJanuary 1986
Timex-Sinclair Survival Column
This month marks the second anniversary of the Timex decision to exit the home computer market. Many of us thought...
Computer ShopperFebruary 1986
Timex-Sinclair Survival Column
In the past year we have mentioned SuperBASIC which is the language which comes built-in on the Sinclair QL. Starting...
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperJanuary 1987
Timex-Sinclair Survival Column
A while ago I received a call from a fellow who is known on-line as Phoenix Pete. He explained that...
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperFebruary 1987
Timex-Sinclair Survival Column
The scene shows a small room filled with computer equipment. An. unattended computer is shown dialing all telephone numbers in...
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperSeptember 1984
Timex-Sinclair Survival Column
The SOUND command on the T/S 2068 is probably the most neglected of the new commands because of the complexity...
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperMarch 1986
Timex-Sinclair Survival Column
One of the features included on the T/S 2068 which is very rarely, if ever, fully utilized is the ability...
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperNovember 1985
Timex-Sinclair Survival Column
In the last few articles we started looking at some of the features of the QL’s built-in programming language, SuperBASIC....
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperNovember 1988
Timex-Sinclair Survival Column
It has been a while since we looked at games for the Timex/Sinclair computers. Since games are almost a universal...
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperApril 1985
Timex-Sinclair Survival Column
As readers of this column are aware, Computer Shopper has long been one of the biggest supporters of the Sinclair...
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperNovember 1987
Timex-Sinclair Survival Column
What is it about computers in general, and Sinclair computers in particular, that draws many of us so strongly to...
Mark FendrickComputer ShopperOctober 1985
Timex/Sinclair Users Column
A new computer owner sitting down at the keyboard, and trying to write a program for the first time may...
Computer ShopperJuly 1984

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