| 2K Express | NEW-here is hoping that this is the first of new breed of SINCUS publications. As you must have noticed this isn’t a mimeograph newsletter!! It is being done by photocopy. We’ve been offered a chance to have the newsletter produced for a slightly higher cost per copy than we have been paying. | |
| Don't Sell Your ZX81 Down the River | Have you noticed a distinct change in attitudes about the ZX81? Now, suddenly, from,”wow, I can’t believe how much we can do with so little!”, it’s “ZX81 w/rampack, for sale, cheap.” It seems the time has come–my little computer is, shudder, obsolete. | |
| MATHTEST | This program is an extension of a program some of us got with the early TIMEX-Sinclair 1000. It is a math drill that has 3 levels of difficulty. If you type carefully, using the KEY words and not spelling things like “INPUT”, this should RUN in 2K. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| POKE by Paul | The news today was unexpected TIMEX QUITS the computer market, not ENOUGH profit. You can also read,therefore,that there must be plenty of profit in the watch market! Texas Instruments got out last fall. Atari is on the ropes. Commodore is a question, Coleco has an armful of problems and on and on. | |
| Schoenwetter's Signals | Here are some tips for machine code programming on the TIMEX-Sinclair machines which I have found to be very useful especially when working with the 2K system. All tips will work in 16K systems too. (1) I have accidentallly deleted my 1 REM statement when editting the BASIC part of my program on many occasions. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| The Brick Wall In Your Computer | I really hate this damn machine I really wish they’d sell it. It never does just what I want but only what I tell it!! — graffiti written on university computer Actually, that poem is a bit optimistic. Even when you tell your computer to do something, it may instead do something else. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Timexly Tips | I was astounded when I read you had decided to get out of the home computer market. I am writing to ask you to reconsider before it is too late. I have worn TIMEX watches as long as I can remember. They were purchased for their value! | |
