| A personal computer with many office applications |
Chicago's James P. Biers has discovered that his T/S1000 is a slide rule, calculator, desk-top planner, and more; and looks at business software. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Aliens Attack Again |
Description: In Invasion Force, you control a laser base and must shoot through a moving force field and destroy an alien ship. If you hit a black blob in the moving force field, all your damage to the ship is repaired. Smaller ships fly by and drop bombs on vou. The game ends when you |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Back-up system for data |
This unit, called the ZX99 RS 232C & Tape Control System is designed for the person needing large data-base capabilities. It provides control for four tape recorders (they must have a “remote” plug). It will allow you to save up to 200K bytes on one C-90 cassette tape. Further, it gives you a visual indication |
Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Clive runs up $200 million |
Clive Sinclair is now officially worth more than $200 million. |
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| Flying Your T/S1000 |
Description: In Night Gunner, you are the pilot of an airplane in combat with four enemy planes. At the center of the screen is your firing sight, a cross used for aiming. Using the cursor keys, you maneuver your airplane to get the enemy aircraft within your sights, and then you fire. The object is |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Follow our golden rules for better SAVEs and LOADs |
Programming on the T/S1000/ZX81 can be frustrating. These 10 tips should help you get over some of the problems! For our first issue of Timex Sinclair User, we went to dealers, publishers and users for the most often asked questions about the T/S1000,ZX81. These questions and our answers are the contents of this column this |
Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Fun In The Carrotpatch |
Description: In the game called Packrabbit, you are a rabbit being chased by four hunters. You must eat all the carrots in a large, complicated maze before you are captured by the hunters. You score one point for each carrot you eat. Scattered around the maze are magical carrots. When the rabbit eats a magical |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Happy Simulated Landings |
Description: With the Flight Simulation program you must land your airplane successfully on the runway without crashing. Sitting in the cockpit, your control panel shows your speed, altitude, fuel and power. The top of your screen is your viewing window for the landing. The player is given the option of flying just the final approach. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Here comes the 1500! |
First they brought you the T/S 1000! Next they promised the T/S 2000! But from what we have been able to learn, the American public was not as accepting of the redone ZX81 (which is what the machine was originally called in the U.K.) and quite willing to wait for the more sophisticated machine. There |
Timex/Sinclair 1500, Timex/Sinclair 2000 |
| How I started a user group |
A lot of people have asked me, “What is a user group and how does one get started?” A user group is a group of people who meet on a regular basis to share and discuss ideas and problems regarding the computer. There are many different types of user groups. Some are formed by owners |
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| Input/Output Board lets you add on peripherals |
This I/O (input/output) board is a must for any hardware oriented T/Sl000/ZX8i owner. It lets you add on such peripherals as digital to analog and analog to digital converters. All address and data lines are buffered in order to provide extended drive capabilities. All address lines are decoded for ease of operation and all internal |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Inside the T/S1000, ZX81 |
If you get the chance, look inside an IBM PC. You’ll see acres of board covered with countless chips, resistors, capacitors and the like. It all looks very mysterious and impressive. Instead of staring open-mouthed in awe and dreaming wistfully of the day you own one, comfort yourself with the knowledge that your seemingly lowly |
Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Let the structure flow and you are well on the way |
Part one of our step by step guide to help turn every one of you users out there into expert programmers. Any programs written by beginners to computing show a lack of what professionals call structure. The structure of a program is the way in which it is put together and the order in which |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Lifetime's obsession can easily be acquired |
Buying a T/S1000/ZX81 can be the start of a lifetime obsession with home computing. It is easy, however, to become discouraged if everything does not work according to the manual. For those with only a little knowledge of computers a riti their capabilities, the best way to approach the T/S10QUZX81 is to abandon any ideas |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Link to the real world |
Down East Computers of Greenville, N.C., has produced an allpurpose voltage and temperature measuring system designed to interface with the T/S1000, ZX81 computer or any Z80 based system. |
Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Machine language simplified |
The lack of an author’s name on Machine Language Programming Made Simple For Your Sinclair ZX-80 and ZX-81 indicates it may have been prepared by a committee. We decided the author was probably a comic art character used throughout the book to enliven the text. Dressed in a court jester’s outfit, wearing a CPU chip |
Sinclair ZX80, Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Meet the man who clogged up Connecticut's phone system |
In our premier issue, Timex Sinclair User features an exclusive interview with Dan Ross, the man who heads up the Timex computer division. His decisions will hopefully make T/S computing ever more fascinating in the future. Managing Editor Joe Gladstone reports. Probably the man most difficult to reach in the computer business is Dan Ross, |
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| Now your computer talks back |
“Good morning! This is your friendly computer talking.” Your T/Sl000/ZX81 can now say words like that thanks to DCP‘s speech pack. It fits well onto the back of your computer and adds the excitement of sound to your programs. It can “say” all the letters of the alphabet, the numbers 0 to over one million, |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Points Lost for Program Flaw |
Description: By skillfully piloting your ship through space and firing at enemy craft, you must protect your convoy from destruction in Cosmos, You must direct your ship near an alien and fire your laser before it gets away. Points are scored by destroying alien ships. The player is presented with a black screen. The player’s |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Program Printout: Beethoven |
Beethoven is a remarkable program which allows you to produce music from your T/S1000/ZX81. Stephane Crainic of Paris has linked hex values to the tones available from the speaker of your television set and has produced a table allowing you to convert the notes of the musical scale into those values. When you have typed |
Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Program Printout: Lemonade |
The children are screaming, the sun is roasting, it is a perfect day for the beach. You are the budding entrepreneur on the lemonade stand, trying to outsell your rivals and lay the foundations of a fast food empire. You start with capital of $50 and have to decide how much to spend on advertising, |
Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Program Printout: London Bridge |
Most computer games require nothing except a quick finger on the cursor key. Most of the rest, those which require a bit of brain power, are adaptations of games when the word computer meant a person with an abacus. London Bridge is one of the few routines we have seen which is original, was written |
Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Program Printout: Phasor |
Remarkable graphics effects are the striking feature of Phasor for the 16K TS1000, ZX81. You are an infamous space pirate travelling home through hyperspace after a hard day’s murder and mayhem. Suddenly you find yourself wrenched back into real space/time by a squadron of Federation star-ships. You are hopelessly surrounded. Can you fight your last |
Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Program Printout: Probability |
Poisson’s formula is a method of calculating the possibilities of recurrence of an event, based on a number of occurrences in the past. For this listing, the time should be adjusted so that the number of occurrences is in the range 3 to 12. The range could be extended upwards if required, but 2 has |
Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Program Printout: Rear Gunner |
Rear Gunner is a program included specifically for the computer novice, to demonstrate the use of graphics mode and the maneuvering of a display under cursor control. The screen shows a graphic G, representing your target, and a plus sign which is your gunsight. Align the two with the cursor keys and blast your target |
Timex/Sinclair 1000, Downloadable |
| Roll up for the ZX circus |
Exhibitions have long provided the many suppliers in the British Sinclair market with a popular outlet for their products. |
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| Sinclair's searching for super software |
With much media ado last April, Sinclair Research Ltd. licensed the Timex Corporation to sell its line of personal computers and peripherals in North America. Their first joint product, the Timex Sinclair 1000, hit the stores in August of last year and has been anteing upmarket share in thousands of outlets nationwide ever since. |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| The invasion of the U.K. softwarecrats |
When Timex and Sinclair introduced the affordable home computer, it was based on technology developed by Clive Sinclair and Sinclair Research. |
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| This book is clear, witty, useful |
Professor Ian Stewart is with the University of Warwick, England, while co-author Robin Jones is with the computer unit at the South Kent College of Technology, England. What kind of a book can we expect from two obviously intelligent gentlemen with a great knowledge of computers? Your first thought is a dry, dull, routine book |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Timexpectations: What Can You Expect? |
Welcome to the first issue … the collector's issue … of T1MEX SINCLAIR USER, the independent magazine which aims to help you make the most of your machine. |
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| Word processing potential |
THIS handsomely designed unit, put out by Memotech, allows the user to connect the T/S1000,ZX81 to a “normal” parallel printer. It contains all the software for code conversion to printers such as Epson, Centronics, SCM, and others* All Timex Sinclair printer commands such as COPY, LPRINT, LLIST are supported. All control codes for the printer |
Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
