Update October 1987
Date: October 1987
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Articles
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| A last minute Addendum | Notes about bugs in the versions of JLO Safe DOS. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| A Print Using Routine and Demonstration | This interesting batch of string slicing and concatenations does a nice job of aligning decimal places and simulating the print using functions. There are shorter ways of doing it but this one is included for a study of its tricks. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| About Disk Drives | There are many types of disk drives available. Commodore introduced a 3 1/2 inch drive with their Amiga computer. Now IBM has a new 3 inch drive. We Safe Disk users have a system that will work with almost anything that can be hooked up to a Shugart Standard Parallel I/O Disk Drive. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| About TS-2068 Safe Disk Up-Date | TS-2068 SAFE DISK UP-DATE is a general publication to support TS-2068 Users. SDU is orientated to those serious users who have already, or intend to upgrade to Disk Drive system. SDU is written for all levels of user programming. The expert programmer will likely think that the content is too basic and the novice will | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| About your Editor, plus Nostalgia | Short autobiography of Bill Jones. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Allegro | A experimental musical composition by a tin eared Welshman. There are three GO SUB routines. GO SUB 100 produces an indefinite musical chord which is interrupted by any key. GO SUB 102 gets a 10 second musical pause. GO SUB 122 brings prompts to adjust the chord time duration of a musical interlude. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Corrupted Disks??? | Occasionally you might come across a disk that has become corrupted in its file storage pointer area (track zero) that will simply refuse to load any file at all. What will usually cause this is a glitch on power up of either the drive or computer, with the disk installed. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Editorial | This issue has several useful utilities plus two major programs. The second program “SDOS MAIL MERGE” is outstanding in its usefulness, SDOS MAIL MERGE will work right now as a printing mail list, using the Safe Disk printer driver routine. It will print labels and envelopes, or just listings of whatever nature you store in | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Enthusiastic 2068ers | I wish that I could print the dozens of enthusiastic and supportive letters that I have received from dedicated 2068ers. There is a real solid desire for a publication dedicated to TS-2068 support. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| How Goes It? | SDU intends to cover ALL TS-2068 Disk Drive Systems. These are: The Oliger Safe Disk, The Aerco FD-68, The Larkin, and The TOS (Zebra). Eric Johnson has agreed to provide writer support for the LARKIN DISK system. By the January issue of SDU we should have a writer lined up to provide coverage of the | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| J-Util Listing | Disassembler, poke a decimal table, poke a hex table, convert Hex-Dec-BIN, Mixed Math, Binary Table. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| More About SDOS MAIL MERGE | Next issue two more functions will be added to SDOS MAIL MERGE, One will quickly let you flip through the listing to find a name or stock list. Presented will be the “Field Number and first line of the field”. These lines will scroll until you find the one you are looking for, then the | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Plans and Organization | As of this writing there are 45 subscribers to Update. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Programming with SDOS BASIC Commands | Tips for using SDOS commands in BASIC. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Quick and Easy Routines | Yes – No INKEY$, SDOS Printer Drier, Software check of printer status, Pseudo Hex Vars Table with Letterhead Data | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| SAFE Questions and Answers | This column will answer questions of general interest about the Oliger 2068 Disk I/F and JLO SAFE DOS. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| SDOS Mail Merge | Database/mail merge program that will work with any Centronics printer. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| The J-Utilities | How can one name a program that has six diverse functions? J-Util combines most “number functions” needed in computing. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| The Key-In Projects | The two programs in this issue are long and complex but worth the effort to key in. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| The Lonesome Dock | To date little information has been published about how dock cartridge programs, home bank memory and disk drives can be “cross utilized.” | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| The Programs for This Issue | SDOS Mail Merge and Outline, a database. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| TS 2068 Standard Memory Configuration | Memory map diagrams from the technical manual. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |