Update July 1993
Date: July 1993
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Articles
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 Dayton Computerfest | The last weekend of August on the 28th and the 29th, many Sinclair users will once again be making the trek from their respective homes to Dayton, Ohio, and will be meeting at Hara Arena. This is one, if not the largest computer show put on by a large user group, The Dayton Microcomputer Association. | |
| A Personal Time Management Program | Description of the program available from the author. | Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Cable Column | Entering procedures using the Archive program editor. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Editorial | The time has come once more to call the end of a subscription year. This is the last issue of this years subscription (each year begins with October and ends with the July issue of the next year). | |
| How to Fit a New QL Keyboard Membrane | HOW TO FIT A NEW QL KEYBOARD MEMBRANE. Disconnect everything from the QL. Turn the QL upside down with the the Microdrives on the left. Unscrew the four short screws along the front edge, and the four long screws along the back. Turn the QL over into the normal position. and carefully. | Sinclair QL |
| In Memoriam: Ernest J Wider | Ernie died on May 31, 1993, Memorial Day in the United States, the day we honor those who died in defense of our liberty. He died of cancer after a long, hard struggle to beat the odds. | Sinclair QL |
| Inexpensive Z88 Parallel to Serial Converter | I HAVE MENTIONED BEFORE OF MY RESISTANCE TO PAYING MORE FOR AN ITEM THAN I THINK IT’S WORTH. I FEEL THIS WAY ABOUT THE PRICE OF CURRENTLY OFFERED PARALLEL TO SERIAL CONVERTORS ESPECIALLY, THOSE OFFERED FOR THE Z-88. | Cambridge Z88 |
| Miracle in Newport Show Report | Those who have not yet heard of the super time that was had by a group of North American QL users … prepare thyself! On the 5th of June was held the first ever all-QL show in North America, at the Salvation Army Headquarters in Newport, Rhode Island. | Sinclair QL |
| More INPUT on AUTOSTART and other Larken Thoughts | In the January 1993 Update! Magazine page 20, Peter Hyman gave a good clue to writing a better AUTOSTART program for the LarKen disk system. Like Peter, I have seen AUTOSTARTs that use two tracks. They are usually made from another program on the disk, sometimes called Menu.B1. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| QL Corner | I would like to discuss an additional operation for printing documentation from within Quill. I have recently received requests from some of our corresponding LIST members: “How print large documents, say 10 pages or more, back-to-back”. | Sinclair QL |
| QZX Index | Description of the index. | |
| ROM/EXROM Bypass Board for External Eproms | Sorry to be so long in getting this off to you but things have been rather hectic around here. You have Bill Pedersen‘s schematics, etc. He, of course, could not physically try them out so I tried out his ideas on my own bypass board until we got it working. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| The Future of the TS2068 | In this issue we have a few pages sent to us by Larry Crawford, one of our Canadian programmers and friends concerning a project that he and the late Bill Pedersen of WIDJUP were working loosely on. I too was working on this in another effort with Bill. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Timex/Sinclair 1000 Emulator for MSDOS | Review of the emulator by Jeff Vavsour. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Why Buy a QL (or in the end, keep one) | Back in 1984 I was the last person in North America to pay full retail list to Sinclair for a QL – $499.95 + $10.00 s+h. I bought it because I had a ZX-81 and trusted Sir Clive. | Sinclair QL |
| Z88 Prime Number Benchmark | A couple of years ago in the Captial Area Timex/Sinclair (CATS) Newsletter, Duane Parker ran a Prime Number benchmark on the QL using different languages. Later, Herb Schaaf converted the benchmark to C and ran it on a number of different computers. | Cambridge Z88, Type-in program |