Volume: 5
Issue: 10
Articles
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| A Practical Guide to Machine Language Programming on the Timex/Sinclair | Using only 16 chapters and 8 appendices, the author takes you on a guided tour of the Z80 in Sinclair country, distinguishing the CPU properties from the system behavior with clarity and flair. Your tour guide is an expert whose practical experience includes writing the word processor “WORD*” on which this book is written. Appendix | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Comparative ROM Atlas: From ZX Spectrum to 2068 | To convert SPECTRUM software to the 2068, you need the location and function of ROM routines in each. You can buy the annotated ROM disassembly from Melbourne House or Zebra Systems. Timex sells the 2068 technical manual. Our cross-index links the two ROMs. | Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Key-finder Card | Some things turn out more useful than you would at first think – this card is one of them. When I first got it, I stuck it on the 2068 test setup—what harm could it do? But I shift computers all day using the entire Sinclair family plus Osbornes and TRS-80’s. I save a few | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| New Products and Services (Syntax v5 n10) | Cryptic Gold; fifth generation computing; ZX-Calc accounting system; budget robotics; graphics tablet from Zebra; programmer’s market; monitor tuners; Oddball Software Magazine. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Sinclair Considers Selling Spectrum+ in US | Sinclair informs SYNTAX that they are considering selling Spectrum+ in the US. | Sinclair ZX Spectrum |
| Sinclair Develops 1-mbyte Memory Wafer | According to reports in EE Times, Sinclair Radionics has developed wafer-scale, serial-access memory with battery backup using a 12-year-old technique to connect low-power NMOS dynamic RAM cells in a redundant logic structure. | |
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| Towers of Hanoi | This program demonstrates the use and manipulation of a 3-dimensional string array, N$(R,C,9), by tracking occupancy with a numeric array, P(R,C). The program runs in slow mode; you can see blocks move. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
