| Can We Talk? On Communicating Computers | While there have been reams of information published on various types of interface for the TS2068, the lowly RS-232 port has been almost ignored. This is in spite of the fact that many hardware products contain an RS-232 interface as an “extra”, like the Sinclair Interface One, and the Timex Portugal disk drive. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Modem News | From the ‘Main Board Commands’ use the stacked commands ‘F;9;11’to access the Timex files(#9) and recent uploads(#11). ================================================================ [Ctrl-K] to Abort. [Ctrl-S] to Suspend. FILE EXTENSIONS – .BTS=ASCII .BAS=XMODEM .LST or .DOC=text =============================================================== =============================================================== 3DWORDS.BTS 15360 04-21-86 Prints 3D Words with ZX Printer BUFFUTL.LST 4096 08-07-85 BASIC LISTING FOR BUFFUTL.BAS PROGRAM LIFEINSUR.BAS 3456 07-18-86 Life | |
| Modem News | Column headings as printed (slanted): Access by PC Pursuit, Accepts ‘Stacked’ Commands, 300 BPS, 1200 BPS, 2400 BPS, No. of Message Bases, E-Mail, 2068 Downloads, 1000 Downloads, Total System Capacity, Total T/S Downloads, Total CP/M Downloads. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| New, News, Views and Reviews | NEW:SPECTERM-64 Telecommunciation software and the Z-SI/O Interface card have been released. Info via “Time<x>Press” on the “Average Remote RBBS” at (213) 325-0213. Ed Gray of the Grey & Clifford Computer Products Co. describes the Specterm 64 as a terminal program which runs on a Spectrum emulated TS2068. As yet the TS2068 version is NOT available. | Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| ROM Disassembly | Here’s a nice example of why we’d want to allow two computers to communicate via their RS-232 ports.( See “Can We Talk?”, page 20 in this issue. By configuring stream #3, as an RS-232 port, a disassembler (Devpak 3, in this case) was used to “PRINT” a disassembly of the entire Home ROM to a nonexistent printer. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Wrap Up | Notice how many NEW items on the first couple pages? Not bad for a computer that has not been produced in two years! I read a most interesting view point in SMUG Bytes, Milwaukee TS Users Group, PO Box 101, Butler, WI 53007-Dave Franson writes “well” of TIMEX, this has to be one of the first NICE articles for that manufactor. | |
| X-Modem | When considering using XMODEM over standard ASCII file transfer for modem communication it may appear that all of those checksum characters and handshaking signals would slow down your file transfer and add to the transfer time (a real concern with toll calls and connect time charges). | |
