| News of a Local Nature and Larken Electronics Update |
Reports on a September 1990 Ottawa-Hull TSUG meeting (5 members), noting continued use of Timex/Sinclair computers alongside IBM compatibles, and active BBS usage (613-745-5538, 300/1200 baud) including out-of-town callers. Dave Solly is club librarian and is active in TS2068 Pascal and IBM PC Turbo Pascal programming; a public domain Pascal compiler for TS2068 is on |
Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Newsletters and Clubs |
Comprehensive update on the Timex/Sinclair user group and newsletter landscape: Vancouver TSUG seeking material and a new editor; Larken Electronics calling for orders to determine whether to manufacture another run of at least 35 LKDOS controller boards; Real Gagnon’s French QL newsletter QLJDOC suspended due to employer bankruptcy; SINCUS (Johnson City NY) discontinuing its newsletter; |
Cambridge Z88, Sinclair QL, Sinclair ZX81, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Useful Sinclair Programmer Notes: Telephone Number Compression Program |
Continuation of the Amateur Programmers’ Line column exploring a technique for packing 7-digit telephone numbers into 3 bytes of ZX-81/TS1000 RAM. Discusses the encoding strategy, edge cases (leading zeros, digit groups exceeding 255, null/empty numbers requiring reserved codes), and variable-length field design for memory-constrained database applications on orphan computers. Includes a short BASIC type-in program |
Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
