Richard Cravy

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TitleAuthor(s)PublicationDate
“TRANS-EXPRESS” Tape to Wafadrive Utility
The Rotronics Wafadrive system provides a very viable alternative to cassette tape or even disk drives for many Spectrum users...
Richard CravySUMOctober 1985
Add a Full Size Printer to Your System
Today, dot matrix printers are available from many sources at very reasonable prices. Many TS1000/1500 users are still using the...
SUMMay 1986
Adding a Full Size Printer to Your System
Information about printers and interfaces. Reprinted from SUM, May 1986.
ZX-AppealJuly/August 1986
Additional Notes on the Spectrum Plus
The Spectrum Plus comes with an excellent manual printed in full color. Only 80 pages counting the index, the User...
SUM
Additional Notes on the Spectrum Plus
While Joe was busy checking out the “mechanics” of the Spectrum Plus, I was looking it over in other ways....
SUMJune 1985
An Update on Using the Portuguese Disk Drive
As I write this, I have had the Portuguese disk drive system for about 6 weeks. My experience with the...
SUMJuly 1985
Beginning With Quill Word Processing
For a newcomer to word processing, Quill may seem rather complicated and confusing. However, with practice, it will be as...
SUMJanuary 1986
Bugaboo
BUGABOO is an arcade quality game for the TS2068 which has been converted from the Spectrum. It is, or was,...
SUMOctober 1984
Computer Shopper Magazine
One of my favorite magazines, next to SUM Magazine, is the COMPUTER SHOPPER from Titusville, Florida. With an annual subscription...
SUMJuly 1985
Disks & Memory for the QL
The Sinclair QL computer is a great small business and home productivity computer. However it lacks a few iteis that...
SUMFebruary 1986
Editorial & Apology
A number of you noted how late your September issue arrived. The fact is…we muffed it! We were late getting...
SUMOctober 1985
Editorial on the Sinclair/Amstrad Deal
What a shock! Only days after coming out from under rigorous bank supervision, Clive Sinclair sells his computer company to...
SUMApril 1986
English Micro Connection Announces Microdrive Interface
Bob Dyl of the English Micro Connection is helping lead the way in bringing the full range of Spectrum products...
SUMApril 1985
Horace … At Last!
A common complaint in the microcomputer field is that those who make the hardware don’t know how to write the...
Richard CravySUMSeptember 1984
How (Not) to Sell Computers: An Editorial
Hard times have fallen upon many in the computer industry. As a result, companies are having to be a lot...
SUMSeptember 1985
Kempston QL Disk Drive: Making a Good Thing Better
The Sinclair QL comes equipped with two Microdrives. They offer much faster access and reliability ‘as well as convenience) than...
SUMDecember 1985
Key Modifications for 2068 Users
Recently SUM ran an article on English keyboards available for Spectrum and 2068 users. At that time detailed instructions were...
SUMJanuary 1986
Letter from the Editors
Well, this is it! With this issue of SUM we complete two full years of publishing this magazine in its...
SUMJuly 1986
Letter from Your Editor and Publisher
We at SUM Magazine would like to thank all of you for the support you have shown over the past...
Joseph Williamson
Richard Cravy
SUMJune 1986
M-Script review
MSCRIPT is the word processor that was supposedly going to be offered by Timex themselves, possibly even on a cartridge....
SUM
Magnavox RGB Monitor: Inexpensive Color
Any Spectrum or TS-2068 owner who has seen their model of computer running on an RGB monitor is never really...
SUMDecember 1985
More on Spectrum ROMs
As far as I know I was one of the first 2068 users to put Spectrum ROM in my machine....
SUMJanuary 1985
Newsletter Changes
Richard Cravy and Joseph Williamson decided to change the newsletter into a magazine type of format with a regular subscription.
SUM
Pokes for Aerco-Tasword
To run Tasword with the Aerco, first load the Aerco software, then the Tasword Two program.
SUM
Portuguese Timex T-2068 Computer & Timex Disk Drive System: A Hands-On Evaluation
Timex is still in the home computer market—in Europe! When Timex bowed out here in early 1984, their computer manufacturing...
SUMMay 1985
Preview: Sinclair 128
SUM MAGAZINE has recently been able to obtain a Spanish version of the new Spectrum 128 Sinclair computer for evaluation....
SUMDecember 1985
Publisher’s Statement: For New Readers and Old
For a number of our readers, this is your first issue of SUM Magazine. Others have been with us since...
SUMMay 1985
Ramblings from the Publisher
Welcome to another issue of SUM MAGAZINE. Great things are happening both with SUM and in the Timex computer world....
SUMFebruary 1985
Ramblings from the Publisher
These are the best of times for those of us who have Sinclair and Timex computers. There is so much...
Richard CravySUMMarch 1985
Reviving the 2068 Keyboard
One of the complaints most often heard about the Timex 2068 and its keyboard is the “dead” keys and/or spacebar...
Richard CravySUMJuly 1985
Sinclair QL – A Review and Evaluation
The Sinclair QL was first announced in Great Britain in January 1984. Sinclair was not able to begin delivery for...
Richard CravySUMDecember 1985
Software Review: Voice Chess
One of the software packages recently introduced for the TS2068 is “Voice Chess” by SoftSync. Available on cassette, the program...
SUMApril 1984
Software Reviews: Frogger, Mothership
For those who have played the arcade version of FROGGER, there are differences. Besides the things we are used to...
SUM
SUM Begins a New Year
This year we plan to serve the Sinclair-Timex community to the best of our ability covering hardware, programs, related news,...
SUMJanuary 1985
Tasprint
TASPRINT is a utility produced by Tasman Software, the same firm in England which sells Tasword II and the Tasman...
SUM
Tasprint: Five Typefaces for Dot Matrix Printers
Description and sample output of Tasprint (Tasman Software), which adds five typefaces to dot-matrix printers with graphics capability: Lectura Light,...
Richard CravyTimelinezFebruary/March 1985
Tasword II with Aerco Interface: Spectrum ROM Pokes
Provides four POKE addresses discovered by Joe Williamson to run the Spectrum version of Tasword II with the Aerco interface...
Richard CravyTimelinezJanuary 1985
Tax Time … and Some Help
For those with TS 2068s there is help available in the form of SPECTAX85 from Poretsky and Poretsky.
SUM
Tax Time … and Some Help
Here it is just one month before income tax filing time and, if you are like me, you could use...
Richard CravySUMMarch 1985
The Computer Shopper Magazine
One of my favorite magazines, next to SUM Magazine, is the COMPUTER SHOPPER from Titusville, Florida. With an annual subscription...
Richard CravySUMJuly 1985
The Consumer Electronics Show: A First-Hand Report
Twice each year the American consumer electronics industry has a giant show in which manufacturers from here and abroad show...
Richard CravySUMJune 1985
The Rotronics Wafadrive: An inexpensive alternative to cassettes
Those of us with ZX81s and TS1000s remember well the long and doubtful loading times of our original machines. To...
SUMMay 1985
The Textwriter Series
Of all the word processing software S.U.M. has reviewed, the Textwriter series by Robert Fingerle offers the most versatility for...
SUM
Timex Portugal Coming to American Market!
New “Timex 2068” and Disc Drive to Lead the Way In an exclusive interview with the Managing Director of Timex...
SUMApril 1985
TS-2068 Gets Rave Reviews
Since Timex finally introduced its new Timex-Sinclair 2068 color computer this past October/November, it has received very favorable reviews in...
SUM
Using a Modem with the QL
One of the most exciting things that a computer can be used for is telecommunications. The QL is not behind...
Richard CravySUMDecember 1985
Using Parallel Interface Printers With the QLZX-AppealJune 1987
Using Parallel Interface Printers With the QL
Technology Research and other QL hardware manufacturers have introduced centronics parallel interfaces to allow the QL to drive parallel printers,...
SUMMarch 1986
VIEWord
VIEWord is the first in a series of software packages for the TS2068 being produced by Jim Clatfelter. It is...
SUMOctober 1984
WMJ Data Systems SoftwareSUM

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The Best of SUM: The Sinclair/Timex Users Magazine
A compilation of the best articles, reviews, programs and hardware projects up through December, 1985.
1986

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