Update July 1994

Date: July 1994
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TitleDescriptionComputers
Cable ColumnFormEd - a form editor and printer for Archive databases.Sinclair QL, Type-in program
Dayton ComputerfestBoth Mechanical Affinity and UPDATE! Magazine will be at the largest computer club show in the Midwest. We, along with other Sinclair dealers and user groups will be there for both days of the show. We will be showing and selling both new and used software and hardware for the TS1000, TS2068, QL and Z88.
Dot-Matrix Printer Review: Panasonic KX-P2023If you are planning on buying a printer consider this one. I purchased it about 9 months ago and I am very satisfied with it. I have been using it for the ZXir QLive Alive! Newsletter. 24-pin, the quietest of its kind and an excellent value for less than $200 at discount stores.Timex/Sinclair 2068
How to Modify a Radio Shack Color Monitor CM-8 from CGA to RGB for the QLIC 481 is an Exclusive OR logic chip. WORKS GREAT! THANKS FOR THE TIP ON INVERTING THE HORIZONTAL SYNC INPUT. Chuck SpannSinclair QL
Open Letter from A. F. RodriguezI thank you for the opportunity to address and inform you about who I am and what my company does and represents. My company’s name is A.F.R. Software, my name is Albert F. Rodriguez, and I am the “Proprietor” of this company; which, is located in Miami Beach, Fl.Timex/Sinclair 1000
Optimizing BASIC on the 2068Systems-Oriented Languages, CORP 2590 N. Jordan DR Tucson AZ 85745-1132 602 884 7667 (voice) 602 882 0388 (data ) 5 7 94 Frank Davis Editor, UPDATE Magazine 513 E. Main Peru IN 46970 Dear Frank : In the April, 1994, issue of UPDATE Magazine, there is an interesting article by Albert F. Rodriguez, entitled “ZX-81Timex/Sinclair 2068
Report on Newport 2Once again some of us loyal, die hard, QL users made the long trek from the Midwest to the East Coast and found the fair city of Newport, Rhode Island, in the month of May.Sinclair QL
ROM Bypass Board PCB layoutsThe latches must be already reset and ready before the CPU comes on line. CMOS chips usually automatically reset on power-up, so it wasn’t certain that applying the RESET signal was even necessary. The thing to try was to cut the RESET trace and jumper pins 3 and 4 on U4.Timex/Sinclair 2068
The Release of XCHANGERecently I received a whole stack of disks from Ron Blizzard, and on one of the disks was a treatise on Xchange, the recently released Psion program. The article deals with how Xchange was released, and gives a lot of information on the use of this program.Sinclair QL
The Reliable QL(I had seen this file on the BBSs several times over the last year, and had thought it might be of assistance to those few of you who may still be having any problems with your QL mechanically.Sinclair QL
The Update EditorialWell, here we are once again, taking thought to paper, via my old trusty QL and TS2068 (both are used in the creation of UPDATE! Magazine, as well as the infrequent use of the Z88).
The Versions of QPAC2, Thru December 1993(A Pointer Environment Front End Program For The QL, from CARE Electronics, available from Mechanical Affinity and Dilwyn Jones Computing) If you find that you have an older version that displays one or more of the errors listed, then see one of these companies about upgrading (notes by Eliad P. Wannum) This program was createdSinclair QL
TS-2068 Talks to a PC by ModemDirect connection via modem.Timex/Sinclair 2068
World MapGeography lesson for the ZX81, TS1000 or TS1500.Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 1500, Type-in program
Z88 News and InformationWhat is new for the Z88 over on this side of the big pond (Atlantic Ocean) in 1994? Not as much as I would like to report on, and yet a few very good things.Cambridge Z88
ZX81 Tic-Tac-ToeDocumentation, part 2.Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000

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