| Editor Ramblings | TS-1500 news: Timex plans to manufacture a limited number to test market. Timex drops 16K model of TS 2000. Memotech announces MTX-512 computer. Radio Shack MC-10. Micro price war aftermath: Atari and Intellivision have experience mult-million dollar losses. Timex and Radio Shack have show disappointing sales figures. | Timex/Sinclair 1500, Timex/Sinclair 2000 |
| Letters to the Editor | Readers respond to whether 2K programs on the cassette should be discontinued. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Mini Database | Simple database program, capable of storing about 12K on a 16K machine. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Review of Boss Package 114: Biorhythm, Rorschacht and Reaction | Review of programs from S & S Company, who also published the magazine. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Simulating the STRING$ Function | One feature not included in Sinclair BASIC that has been sorely missed by me is the STRING$ function. To give you an idea what can be done with this command, let us say that we wanted a line to appear on the screen or in print that had 32 asterisks in a row. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| The Computer Tutor: Floating Screen Memory Map, Part 2 | Greetings Class! I’m surprised to see so many of you here. Isn’t this heat something? We’ll try to keep today’s lesson short. Perhaps you experimented with the effects demonstrated in the last session. To review that lesson, we can recall that the versions of the ZX/TS computers with at least 16K of RAM memory have | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| The Forth Corner | In last month’s session, we made reference to the book STARTING FORTH by Leo Brodie. On page 60 is a routine that creates a large letter “F” out of asterisks. A similiar program to create a large letter “E” from dollar signs reads as follows: You will notice that there are line numbers, similar to a basic program. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
