Publisher(s): Capital Area Timex Sinclair Users Group
Thank you to Tim Swenson for preserving and providing many issues.
| Title | Description | Computers |
|---|---|---|
| “Devouring Fungus” | I saw a posting on Usenet about a new oddly Devouring book, Fungus” called “The Karla Jennings. The poster described the book as containing interesting and amusing stories about computers. Always looking out for a new computer book, I rushed out to buy the book. After few calls I found out that the book was […] | |
| (Life in the IBM World) Do You Want to Make a Deal or Pay Full Price? | ON the left of the Egghead Software shelf sits a box of software priced at $209.93. ON the right is a virtually identical box at $439.83. The $229.90 difference? The left-hand box is prominently labeled “Upgrade.” The other one might as well be labeled: “Ridiculously overpriced! For suckers only!” | |
| <Connect 300> | More Things to Do with Your Modem Last month, I explained some of the unexpected problems you may experience with the CATS BBS and other telecomputing services. Many of you have now logged onto the BBS. Now that you’ve taken this first step, what clse can you do with your modem? | |
| 1000 Library List | Programs in the CATS TS1000 library. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| 1000 News | Just as this newsletter was going to press, received a small newsletter in the mail. The newsletter is called “ZX-91” in honor of the ZX-81’s 10th anniversary. What I recieved is basically a flyer (1 8,5″ X 11”, printed on both sides) announcing a new newsletter. | Sinclair ZX81 |
| 1040 on the 1000 | VU-Calc program to complete the 1040 tax form. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| 12 Volt Modification | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| 1987 Federal Income Tax | Updated from original version by R. A. Schrack, written in 1985. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| 1989 Federal Income Tax | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| 1989-1990 Membership List | This is CATS’ current membership list. The numbers to the right of the name indicate the date the current membership expires. If you find there is a mistake, please notify the Treasurer. Special thanks go to Barry Washington for putting the list together and Mark Fisher for working with the file to get it into […] | |
| 2 QL Jewels | Sound Experimentor and Easel Print. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| 2068 – Logical | Review of Bob Swoger’s Logicall. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| 2068 AOS Logicall, Part 2 | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| 2068 Circuit Diagram | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| 2068 Disk Utility: Superboot | Super Boot gives the FD68 user utilities not found on the original Aerco DOS. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| 2068 Disk Utility: SuperBoot Part II | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| 2068 Fonts | Programs to give the 2068 “Data” and “Square” fonts. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| 2068 Library Errata | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable | |
| 2068 Library to Grow | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable | |
| 2068 News | I just received the LAST issue of the HACKER’S Newsletter. The HACKER was the Timex/Sinclair user group out of Las Vegas. The lack of renewals and input from member were major factors in the newsletter demise. Other factors included postage and printing cost. The newsletter stated that only one member out of six owned a […] | |
| 2068 Power Supply Project | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| 2068 Printing Calculator | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| 2068 Program: Analyzer | Provides the status of Z80 registers at any point. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| 2068 Random Numbers | Describes the random number generation scheme in the 2068. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| 2068 Renumbering | TS 1000 renumbering program adjusted to work with the 2068. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| 2068 Report | CATS tape library converted to disk. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| 2068 ROM Bug | Documents bug described in tech manual. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| 2068 ROM Disassembly | Spectrum ROM entry points indexed by address. | Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| 2068 Software Library Update | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| 2068 Telecommunications | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| 2068 to Real World Communications | The “telecommunications revolution” has been roaring across America. For many Timex’ers in our little backwater, it seems to have roared right on by. This doesn’t have to happen, however. You won’t be overwhelmed by the swirl: in fact, many of the pleasures that keep us tapping away with our 2068’s can be expanded, and many […] | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| 2068 to Spectrum Cross-Reference | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| 2068 VU-Calc as Inventory Control | This is the last of this series on applications for Vu-Calc, unless of course Akin submits some more! But why should he do all the work? Let’s hear from some of the rest of you out there on some ideas for new uses of this or other database and spreadsheet programs. Thanks, Akin, for a […] | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| 24K Internal Non-Volatile Memory | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| 2K Calculator | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| 2K Data Base | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| 2K Graph | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| 3-D Wire Frame Graphics | The program listed below allows a person to define a 3-D object, draw it on the screen, and rotate it in three different planes. The heart of the program lies in how the object is represented. Two arrays hold the information for the object. An vertex array (list) holds all of the vertices. An edge […] | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| 3-D Wire Frame Graphics | 100 DiM vertex (100, 3) 110 DIM edge (200,2) 190 RESTORE 200 READ xcenter, ycenter 210 READ d1, d2, rot 220 READ xx, yy, zz 230 READ vertexcount 240 FOR loop = 1 TO vertexcount 250 FOR loop2 = 1 TO 3 260 READ vertex (loop, loop2) 270 NEXT 1oop2 280 NEXT loop 290 READ […] | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| 4-Way Scroll | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| 446 Year Calendar | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| 80 Column VU-CALC | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| A 2068 Program | Prints a condensed catalog listing in a three column format on 8 1/2 x 11 paper. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| A CATS First | ||
| A Checkbook Program Using Abacus | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| A Christmas Wish-List of 2068 Disk Utilities for All Disk Systems | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| A Computing Philippic | Timex promised us many things in 1983. They came out finally with the TS2068 in October. They also started delivering the TS2020 Tape Recorder. They have promised the Modem for sometime in December. And before I forget, the TS1500. Many people don’t know yet where the 1500 fits in the scheme of things. But if […] | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| A Die-Hard T/S User Enters the World of MS-DOS | This is an odd column to write. Indeed, 1 am not even sure that our editor will want to publish it! But the fact must be faced that the “mainstream” of personal computing has flowed onward in the last six years, and certain applications are either beyond the reach of Sinclair machines, or there is […] | |
| A Faster Way to Evaluate (-1)^N | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| A Financial Program | Program to compare net earnings taxable and non-taxable investments. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| A Message From the President | ||
| A New House for the QL | After years of tolerating various components of my “QL system” and all of the interconnecting cables associated therewith, occupying most of the space on my desk, I decided it was time to take action. | Sinclair QL |
| A New House for the QL | Sinclair QL | |
| A Novelty Program | This listing provides a novel title display, which can be incorporated into another program. It was supplied to the club by David Solly; though it’s original source is not apparent. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| A Peek at Chaos | I’ve “done” fractals since the T/S 1000. With almost any machine, you may wander for yourself through places only the most esoteric of mathematicians wandered a few years ago. As I read lan Stewart’s book, Does God Play Dice? my enthusiasm was rekindled, and you see the result below. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| A Private Library | OK bunky, so you’ve fought your way through the BBS and gotten to the QL program area – WHAT do all those files do? | Sinclair QL |
| A QL/MS-DOS Emulator — Finally! | A hardy breed, Sinclair QL owners long ago learned to weather the pitying stares of friends, colleagues, computer sales clerks and other assorted ignorami. | Sinclair QL |
| A Second SOURCE | ||
| A Short History of Mechanized Logic: A Memoir | ||
| A Short History of the CATS User Group | (As the result of a personal request from AUDREY CURNUTT, CapitalFest Chairman, the following description of the history of CATS is submitted:) The Lanham Sinclair Users Group (L.SUG) was a direct antecedent of today’s Capital Area Timex/Sinclair users group (CATS). LSUG was the product of some enterprising work on the part of two Prince George’s […] | |
| A Streamlined Boot | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| A Text Application for Abacus | One normally expects to use a spreadsheet program to manipulate lines and columns of numbers. I work in the anesthesia department of a fairly large hospital and have been using ABACUS for designing work schedules for the past year. Having first planned to do scheduling using QUILL, I soon found out that ABACUS offered advantages […] | Sinclair QL |
| A Visit to QBox | Sinclair QL | |
| A Visit to QBox! | Sinclair QL | |
| A Visit to the Stipple | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| A Word from the Editor | ||
| Adapting Your Programs for the A&J Microdrive | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Add an On/Off Switch to Your QL | Sinclair QL | |
| Add an ON/OFF Switch to Your QL | I’ll never understand what it is that Sir Clive has against the simple and convenient on/off switch. Neither the ZX81, the Spectrum, nor the QL were provided with them. Having to always be plugging and unplugging the power supply is not only bothersome, it quickly wears out the plug components! | Sinclair QL |
| Adding Ports to Your QL | Sinclair QL | |
| Adding Ports to your QL | Sinclair QL | |
| Additions to CATS QL Library | Sinclair QL | |
| Additions to the QL Library | Over the years I have written a number of useful programs for the QL. Some of them I have used in articles for numerous newsletters. I have donated them to the club’s QL library. I thought I would let users know about the more interesting and useful. | Sinclair QL |
| Adventures on Compuserve | ||
| AERCO Disk Drive Kit | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Aerco RP/M CP/M on the 2068 | CP/M has been available for Aerco FD-68 disk interface owners for quite some time now. it is simply a floppy disk that that you buy for $25.00. This in all that is needed because the computer has a Z80 processor in it. Computers with other CPUS such as the 6502 must buy an extra board […] | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Aerco to Larken | It was there, I just didn’t see it. Ever say that to yourself? Well, I put a disk in the old drive, hit a few keys and right there on the screen near the bottom of the list, the words – AERCO TO LARKEN – . | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Akin Brings ABACUS to Life for Followers of CATS | Once again–this time at the February meeting–one of our CATS members provided an excellent presentation on a subject dear to all the troops in Clive’s army. AKINBOLE OLOWOFOYEKU (A’keen for short) provided an exceptionally illuminating discussion about the program called EXCHANGE, and how it works with ABACUS. | Sinclair QL |
| Alert, Alert, Alert | Bug alert in Caloriburn. Corrected here. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| All About Modems | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Alphabeter | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Alternate Character Set for the Spectrum or 2068 | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Amateur Radio News | ||
| Amortize 1000 | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| An Editor’s Word | ||
| An Improved LIST | Short machine language program to give an improved LIST function. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| An Interesting Membership Profile | At the April meeting, brief autobiographies were submitted by 36 of the 40 plus attendees, which had been requested to help plan meeting agendas and the thrust of the News Letter. The results were interesting and helpful to the editor and the officers of your club. Twenty five had strong technical backgrounds from PhD in […] | |
| Anagrams for the 1000 | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Anatomy of a Program | Describes how programs are stored in memory. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| And Editor’s Grumblings | ||
| And Editor’s Raps | ||
| Annual Income Tax Program | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| April Meeting | Spreadsheets on Sinclairs presented by Akin Olowofoyeku. | |
| Archive Character Codes | Few who use Psion’s Archive realize that it redefines many of the codes in the character set. The following Archive control codes differ from those used in SuperBASIC. Some do unexpected things; some do ordinary things in different ways. | Sinclair QL |
| Artificial Intelligence on the QL | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| As I See It | ||
| Ask Mannie | ||
| Ask Mannie — Version 2 | NOTE: The following is a continuation of the Q A A session originated in July by CATS member MANNIE QUINTERO, the coverage of which began in the August, 1988 CATS Newsletter. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Astro-Sinclair Fans Sought | ||
| Autodial/Autoanswer | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Automating the Data Line | BASIC program that moves machine language program to DATA statements. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Autopsy of a Program | Subroutine to scan a program, find and count the numbers used with the aim of coding them in a way to save memory. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| B-17 Reunion | Roberts used his TS 1000 and The Organizer software to coordinate and plan a 10 man veterans crew for a B-17 event. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Back-ups for VU-FILE | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Baltimore Beckoning CATS | DUANE PARKER, leader of CATS’ hardware special interest group, has implemented a series of alternate-site, off-date meetings for the greater Baltimore area. | |
| BASIC Puzzle | ||
| BASICODE | ||
| BBS News | ||
| BBS Report by Mark Fisher, SYSOP | We’ve got a Kaypro! It’s been a long road, but it looks like we’ll be able to drive the BBS through our newly acquired K-10. It will offer 300 or 1200 BAUD service (what the heck how about 9600 BAUD?), and allow up to ten Megabytes of data storage. In today’s terms, that ain’t much, […] | |
| BBS Report: Into the Depths of CP/M | ||
| BBS Update | ||
| BBU for T/S Machines | ||
| Bedford: Baffled, Booted and Benefitted | Sinclair QL | |
| Beginner’s Corner | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Beginner’s Corner: D File | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Behind the Mask: The Logic of Archive | Sinclair QL | |
| Big Print | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Binary Character Builder | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Binary Manipulation | ||
| Block Moves in BASIC Programs | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Bold Face Type | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Bold Print | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Book Review … Almost | Tantalizing Game for the Timex/Sinclair 2000 Series. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Book Review: Chaos, Making a New Science by James Glick | ||
| Book Review: QL Archive-Bluprint | Well! This one is different! If you want to find out about ARCHIVE, this is the book to get. lan Murray has combined a lot of good information with a generous dollop of humor , and come up with a winner. Like other books of this nature, this handbook makes no assumptions about your familiarity […] | Sinclair QL |
| Brewery | Type-in program | |
| Build a Spectrum ROM Switching Circuit for Your TS2068 | I recently purchased some Spectrum ROMs from Zebra Systems with the hope that I might be able to make my own Spectrum rom switching circuit without paying the high price of those circuits that are commercially available. When I examined the TS-2068’s ROM circuitry, I realized that this was an easier task than I had […] | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Build a Spectrum Romswitching Circuit for your TS-2608 | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Build Your Own Surge Suppressor | One of the most overlooked accessories for the low priced home computer is a voltage surge suppressor. Maybe you ve been lucky enough to escape damage at home. But how many times have power outages/surges destroyed data on a fixed disk at work? | |
| C’mon – Support Those | ||
| C’mon … Support Those Who Support Sinclair Users | ||
| Calculating Bond Yield | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Calendar Program Needed | Several Christmas’s ago, a young nephew of mine gave each of his aunts and uncles a large, computer-generated 12-page 8-1/2″ X 11″ calendar on which all the birthdays, anniversaries, and other important dates of the family were printed in the appropriate calendar blocks for the year. It was perfect, because that year, I didn’t need […] | |
| Capitalfest Program Guide | Hello and welcome to the 1989 CATS Capital Area Timex/Sinclair Fest. This is our first computer fest. It’s also the first computer fest for Timex and Sinclair computers in the Northeast Corridor. We’re looking forward to it, and with your help it will be a success. TS users have always been good for a party, […] | |
| Carolyn Was Great! | Report on Carolyn Robbin’s tutorial on Archive. | Sinclair QL |
| Cassette Reminders | ||
| Catalog Listing | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| CATS 2068 Program Catalog | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| CATS BBS is UP! | Mark Fisher has just informed the newsletter staff that the CATS Bulletin Board system is now up and running. | |
| CATS BBS News | I’m not “the great telecommunicator”. I enjoy the Sysop-ing I’ve been doing, mainly because I DON’T have to do any phoning – I just yell at you guys to do that. However: I’ve been forced into the MODEM game in order to find out more about how this Kaypro works. In the process, I’ve got […] | |
| CATS Community Contribution Continues with Computer Class | ||
| CATS Computer Class a Hit With Takoma Park Children | ||
| CATS Constitution | ||
| CATS Drive Membership Increases | ||
| CATS Have Picnic Caper | ||
| CATS Meeting in Sub. Baltimore | The afternoon of Saturday, January 19th found a dedicated group from CATS happily set up in the meeting room of Baltimore County’s Linthicum library. Whereas no formal program was presented, the usual sharing kept everyone busy and seemingly satisfied with the opportunity for extra coaching from the various gurus present. Tom Robbins demonstrated TURBO QUILI […] | |
| CATS Meeting Minutes: October Meeting | ||
| CATS Meeting Site Moves | ||
| CATS Newest Members | \ | |
| CATS Roster as of 3/15/92 | ||
| CATS Sees PASCAL and QL Network | A lesson on PASCAL programing-using networked QL computers-was the special treat provided attendees at the June CATS meeting. DUANE PARKER brought together a tremendous presentation on the intricacies of networking software, coupled with a view of the inherent beauty of the PASCAL language. | Sinclair QL |
| CATS to Get on Internet: Real Soon Now | ||
| CATS User Group Workshop | ||
| CATS Views Packet Radio on the TS1000 | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| CATS Workshop | ||
| CATS Workshop | ||
| Celestial Mechanics on the 2068 | ||
| Chair Chatter | ||
| Chair Chatter | ||
| Chair Rumblings | ||
| Chairman’s Chat | ||
| Chaos | Continued from last month. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Chaos Game | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Chimes | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Choo Choo | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Christmas Card | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Cincinnati Midwest Computerfest a Sinclair Smash | Tiny Sharonville, OH, a suburb clinging to the northern fringe of bustling Cincinnati, was—for the first weekend in May—the site of an incredible national gathering of Sinclair home computing enthusiasts. It was the first to be staged since Boston’s legendary ZX/TS Celebration in late October, 1983. For this two-day MIDWEST COMPUTERFEST, attendance (including family groups, […] | |
| Circle Games | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Circuit Quest 2000 | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Closest Approach Problem | ||
| Come and Get It! | CATS 3rd annual Picnic in the Park. | |
| Compound Interest | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Compuserve as Expert System | ||
| CompuServe Kits, SCLD’s Highlight November Meeting | The November CATS meeting featured a large and talkative gathering of small computer (a.k.a. Sinclair) enthusiasts. In the warm-up meeting beginning at noon, John Riley put on a comprehensive demonstration on how to take programs stored on tape cassettes and transfer them to a Sinclair-compatible floppy disk drive. For a working sample he used the […] | |
| Computer Fest and Hamboree | The Greater Baltimore Hamboree and ComputerFest is coming to the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Md, on 6th ard 7th of March. | |
| Computer Milestones | ||
| Computer Rooter | Article about Tim Swenson, reprinted from The Washington Post Magazine. | |
| Computer Speed, Here’s More | Back in June of 1989 I wrote some programs for the QL in three different languages (Forth, Pascal, and SUPERBASIC) to illustrate differing speed obtained by a threaded/interpreted language, a complied language, and our standard QL interpreted language (see 9/89 and 1/90 CATS NL). The program was a 17-line program (Superbasic version) that would determine […] | |
| Computer Stories | These are a number of humerous computer stories that I came across a few months ago. You might find them interesting. I have typed them exactly as I recieved them. A friend was having a problem with a sticky keyboard for his Mac. He was talking to another friend, who off-handedly suggested putting it into […] | |
| Computerfest Videotape List | ||
| Computers and Biophysics | Did you know that there’s a working computer which is based on protein molecules? Neither did I until I read about it in “DISCOVER” magazine of November 1991. | |
| Computers and Me | My name is John Riley, and for a year now it has been my privilege to be a part of CATS. For most of that. time I have been the 2068 software librarian, and for the last four issues I have been editor of this newsletter. I only wish that I had discovered CATS when […] | |
| Computers and Me | ||
| Computers at GSFC | CATS was fortunate indeed to have Mr. Carroll G. Dudley–from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt–agree to be guest speaker at our November meeting. His theme was: “Big and small Computers at Goddard”. Before the meeting, Carroll confided that sometime ago he acquired a TS-1000 system at a yard sale, attracted as he was […] | |
| Concept-3D Bug Alert | I’ve toyed with Concept-3D over the years, but had been put off by its unfortunate habit of committing hara-kiri when I tried to SAVE a file. | Sinclair QL |
| Conversion of Data in BASIC on the Z88 | Cambridge Z88, Type-in program | |
| Conversion Tips | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Core War | In May 1984 issue of Scientific American, A. K. Dewdney in his Computer Recreations column describes a game called Core War. The game is run by a monitor program called MARS (Memory Array Redcode Simulator). Essentially what the program does is to control two other programs written in an assembly-like language called REDCODE. The two […] | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Corewar | In May 1984 issue of Scientific American, A. K. Dewdney in his Computer Recreations column describes a game called Core War. The game is run by a monitor program called MARS (Memory Array Redcode Simulator). Essentially what the program does is to control two other programs written in an assembly-like language called REDCODE. The two […] | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Crackle, Crash, QL Bashed! | Some of us, who have visited Tom Bent at home, are greeted by him in bare feet. He explains, “I am working on QL’s and I keep my feet bare to prevent static electricity.” I always thought, “Yeah, sure, don’t admit you’re hillbilly!” Well Tom, you’re right, we do need to take precautions to prevent […] | Sinclair QL |
| Critical Path Method | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Cryptopad | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| Current Sinclair Dealers | ||
| Customising Your QL | Here’s a very interesting, little known fact about JS and MG ROM QLs (and all Thors too). Included in JS/MG the ROM of a machine is a new keyword called TRA. Now, some people originally thought that this was a long sort after Trace facility. Not so! It’s even more fun than a boring old […] | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Customizing Mscript | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Customizing Z-Text | Adding features to the Z-Text word processor. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| CYA Workshop | Coming sessions will be hands-on workouts on inputting, manipulating, transferring, and copying each others data files. | Sinclair QL |
| CYA Workshop | We have a new name, now CYA stands for Cover Your Assets (not Anatomy), with a QL(eaf), of course. Stock market data will be made available by Bob Diggs–for show or copy. Also, inflation indicators (GNP Deflator and Producer Price Index and their uses will be discussed along with money (M2V) growth and GNP’s (Real […] | |
| Cyber-Satellites and Web DXing | Nowadays you can use the Net to watch live video from the space shuttle, listen to radio stations around the world live, view WEFAX images from weather satellites, or find the latest news about new TV satellites and programs. George Wood, who’s been putting “Sweden Calling DXers” and “MediaScan” online for the past ten years, […] | |
| D.O.S. for the 2068 | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Data Transfer on the Serial Port | Many users now own or have access to more than one computer and find one may have certain advantages over another for creating and editing data files. At times it is easier to create a file on one system but another may offer more flexibility for printing or storing these files. Sometime we may just […] | |
| Database Group | ||
| Database Management on the Sinclair QL | Sinclair QL | |
| Databases and Maps | Sinclair QL | |
| Day of the Week Program | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Dayton Computer Festival | The Dayton Computerfest was held on August 27th and 28th. This event serves as a yearly gathering place for the North American Timex Sinclair community. It is held at The Hara Arena in the adjacent Convention Center. This event is similar to the Computer Shows at Timonium and Gaithersburg, MD. There are a few differences. […] | |
| Dayton Computerfest | Well, two things happened. First a flyer from the Dayton user group came and because of this, I called Gary Ganger in Dayton. Gary is the Sinclair Guru in Dayton. The flyer gave the date, prices and location of the fest. It will be held August 24 & 25, 1991 at the Hara Arena and […] | |
| Dayton Computerfest | For me, there’s always something very special about meeting face to face with the Sinclair faithfuls. So for the 6th time I sat at the CATS’ table to share computer successes and frustrations with other Sinclair devotees. Each gathering becomes smaller, but no less enthusiastic. | |
| Dayton ComputerFest | ||
| Dealing With Exchange: Folders | Sinclair QL | |
| Dealing With The BBS | This will take your computer, a terminal program, and a MODEM. For the 2068, the most common setup is the 2050 (Anchor) MODEM, along with SmartTerm II. For the QL, the horizon is wider – any “external” MODEM will work at 1200 BAUD. For terminal programs, again, the choice is wider, with QL Term, QLink, […] | |
| Descriptive Directories | Sinclair QL | |
| Desktop Publishing | Desktop publishing is one of the hot personal computer areas these days. Computer magazines are filled with dtp ads. We look at them, with the slick looking page layouts, and say to ourselves, “Hey, | can do that. No sweat!” So we go out and buy the program, load it up, and find that it […] | Sinclair QL |
| Did ‘Ja Know? | This Column is the direct result of some comments that my earlier tidbits in Ramblings have indeed been useful – not merely the “look at me” tactics of the newly initiated QL user. | Sinclair QL |
| Did’Ja Know | Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Digital Imaging Hardware Project, Part I | Reprint of Eric Michaud’s Digital Imagizing, Part I from Sinc-Link v5 n1. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Do It Yourself Emulator | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Doing Without Exchange – the Unix Connection | ||
| DOMSDOS for 1000 & 2068 | April Fool’s joke program. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Double Disk Drive Shown | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Double Precision | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Doubler Review | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Dress Up Your Game Programs With A Splash of Color | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Driving a Monitor From the T/S 1000 | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| Driving a monitor from the TS 1000 | Reprint of an article from an earlier issue. Transistor-based circuit. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Driving a Monitor From the TS 1000 | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| Dual-Screen Mode | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Duel | A single or two player space game, inspired by Race Track, as described in a Martin Gardner column. Uses a number of the specialized abilities of the TS 2068, and a few tricks that speed up some of the BASIC. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable, Type-in program |
| Easel Formulas | Sinclair QL | |
| Easel Portraits | Sinclair QL | |
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| Easter Dates | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
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| Editor’s Corner | This issue is being “rushed” a bit this month due to part of our staff having to depart for vacation! But hopefully we will still be living up to your high expectations of us. By the way, we are sorry that some of you got the last issue a bit late. We try to get […] | |
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| Electronics Plus Expands Facility | Computer hardware buffs will be pleased to hear that BILL ALLEN, longtime friend of CATS, has expanded the clectrical offerings his old location at 9600 Baltimore Boulevard, College Park, MD. Part of the building adjacent to the old ELECTRONICS PLUS has been taken over to form a NEW SURPLUS OUTLET | |
| EMSoft Keeps QL Software Afloat | The twice-yearly catalog from EMSoft (Estate Management Services) recently arrived. EMSoft continues to do heroic work in keeping proprietary software for the QL prominent in our consciousness. | Sinclair QL |
| End of (the) Line | Sinclair QL | |
| Ephemeris V | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| Equal Loan Payments Calculator | This program is based on one written by Ward Seguin in the March “85 CATS for the 2068. It had an accuracy problem which I finally blamed on the combination of many iterations in the exponential calculation and the short word length used to store real numbers. This problem was shared in all programs for […] | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Estate Planning | Don’t snicker at the title, it may be later that you think. I’ve had a will in effect for over 30 years and I know it needs updating. However, I thought it would be a good idea, this time, to know exactly what it says, means, and the implications of it all, rather than take […] | |
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| Eudaemonic Pie | One of the attractions of microcomputers is that anything seems possible. From the blue-sky, frivilous ideas such as my plan to counterattack the computer-sales calls by taping a battery powered TS1000 and MODEM to a telephone pole, programmed to call THEM continuously, to the blue boxes that used public information to open the doors of […] | |
| Even More Games With Random Numbers | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Executive Board Minutes | ||
| Executive Rumblings | ||
| Executive Rumblings | Meeting notes from the executive board meetings. | |
| Expanded Multiplication | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Eyes2 | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Fake Out Your Data Statements | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Fast Graph | Machine language graphing subroutine. Reprinted from Z-West, September 1983. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Fastload Review | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| Fastload Revisited | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| Fat Characters | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| February Meeting: Presidents, BBSes, and Compilers | The February meeting covered a lot of ground. Those of you that read last month’s Newsletter may remember that we were looking for an interim president. Well, we got one! Ruth Fegley volunteered for the post, and she was unanimously voted in by the members present. | |
| Fermat’s Solution | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| FIDO – If it won’t sit up and beg, what can it do? | There’s a wide-flung network of Independent computer users stretching across the country. I’m talking about the confederation known as FIDO net. Im not an expert on FIDO net – far from it! In fact, I knew that it offered a way to get messages across the country overnight for 25 cents, but I still haven’t […] | |
| FIND Routine for Programs | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Fixing the MTERM Keyboard | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Fractions | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Free Data Basing Update | What do the Auraria Library, the Colorado School of Mines, and Montgomery County Public Libraries have in common? A single local call to access them, that’s what. There are a number of large data bases offered to us consumers. They offer almost any kind of information, available at the touch of a button, (well, several […] | |
| Free Internet, the Super Maze | ||
| Frequency Counter | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
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| From the Editor | Notice about upcoming picnic, review of newsletter contents. | |
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| From the Editor | Last month you may have noticed—at least I hope you did—that we didn’t publish a newsletter. This is only the second time in six years that we have missed an issue and like the first, there is a very good reason. Our newsletter is published by the folks at Montgomery County Mental Health. I imagine […] | |
| From the Editor | By now I guess you’re getting fed up with the myriad “fest articles” but you won’t get any sympathy from me. You could, heaven forbid, write an article for the next issue. That is certainly one way of insuring that the newsletter contains something of interest for you. | |
| From the Editor | What a blast! I don’t know about you, but I thoroughly enjoyed myself at the Fest. It was a tribute to the organizing committee that everything went off without a hitch—at least that was the outward appearance. I know that Audrey Cumutt was probably a bundle of knots internally, till the Fest closed its doors […] | |
| From the Editor | CAPITALFEST. From our coverage in this issue, you’d have to have the IQ of a turnip not to realize that it is THE event for CATS this yeas. If all goes well, it should rank right up there with the Fall 1983 Boston Computing Society Timex/Sinclair bash to introduce the TS2068. | |
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| From the Editor | Do you get the feeling that we are into Pascal? I do, and I think it is appropriate that we are. For the last few years (in fact since the QL came on the scene), our group has been hardware oriented. For good reason because the machine was just plain unreliable. Almost all of us […] | |
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| From the Editor | Who said that the 2068 is dead? Not from the looks of this issue! Last year the newsletter was accused of being to “QLish”. Well, we print what is submitted and this issue is proof that we haven’t forgotten the 2068 (or the 1000). Send it in and I’ll print it. | |
| From the Editor | Well, here it is, time to get another issue of the newsletter out the door. Not to be overly pessimistic but I’m not sure how many more issues we will make. Perhaps I should change the “we” in the last sentence to “I”. Maybe you haven’t been following the newsletter closely, so let me refresh […] | |
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| From the Editor | Before we focus in on the year ahead, a look back seems in order. I don’t think that there will be much of an argument that the 1980’s were quite a decade, with the recent events being the frosting on the cake to an incredible 10 years. | |
| From the Editor | If you will look at the back page you will see that I have changed my telephone number. I finally decided to get a dedicated line for my computer, so I will use this for newsletter business as well. Next month the CATS post office box will switch from Virginia to Maryland. This will put […] | |
| From the Editor | I don’t know if it is the weather-2” of snow in Virginia on the 8th of April is a bit strange-but I can’t seem to get into the swing of things, as I usually do. | |
| From the Editor | Well, it looks like Vernon has decided to pass the torch on the another newsletter editor. I know that he has put a lot of effort into the newsletter making it the visually striking publication that it is. I know we would all like to thank Verson for a great looking newsletter, issue after issue. […] | |
| From The Editor | As Ruth mentioned in her column, Iam getting this issue completed before I leave for California and before the June meeting. I would much rather have the newsletter done éarly than have it be late. After this issue I have a few articles for the next issue, but I can always use more. The more […] | |
| From The Editor | Welcome to another issue of the newsletter. It was nice to get some positive feedback -about the last two issues at the July meeting. Thanks. I am still on the look out for articles. Most of articles for this newsletter come from a core of users in the group. I’d like to see more articles […] | |
| From The Editor | Well, another month, another issue. Just as I finish one issue and have time to work on a few projects, another deadline comes along. At least this month I had a week to work on my projects. Yes, I had the luxury of taking a week off from work and spend time at home hacking […] | |
| From The Editor | Welcome to another issue of the Newsletter, as small as it may be. The reason for the last couple of newsletters being a bit on the thin side, is a lack of articles. Over the last couple of months I have seen the number of articles submitted for publication slowly dwindle. Usually I have to […] | |
| From The Editor | From last month’s issue, you can see that the meeting dates are a bit erratic. This means that the newsletter deadlines will be erratic. Some of the article deadlines will be just days after the meeting. I can’t change this, because it takes so many days for the newsletter to get from my door to […] | |
| From The Editor | This as last month’s issue is not as big month’s. I don’t think we’ll have any more that big. I was not aware that we had a limit on the number of pages. The last issue put the newsletter into another postal weight category, SO we had to pay some more postage. The way we […] | |
| From The Editor | This month’s newsletter is being done differently this month. It seems that my QL has come up with a bad keyboard. In fact, even the spare keyboard came up bad after a few weeks. So hear I sit typing in my column on an old CP/M computer. | |
| From The Editor | First of all, thanks go out to Mannie Quintero and Joe Miller for lending me their spare QL’s. Just after I picked up a QL from Mannie, my new keyboard matrix arrived. A day later Joe brought another QL for my use. It’s the thought that counts. | |
| From The Editor | Here is one of those wacky months where I am doing the newsletter just days after the last meeting. This is because this past meeting was on the second Saturday of the month, while the next meeting will be on the first Saturday of the month. This does not leave me much time to get […] | |
| From The Editor | The first thing you will probably notice about this issue of the Newsletter is its size; it’s small. After two months of an excess of articles, we are now into a small drought. So it’s time for you all to hit the keyboards and bang out some more articles. | |
| From The Editor | This is another month of drought for our Newsletter. I have not recieved a single new article since last month. I know the summer months are slow, but not this slow. Where is everybody? For this newsletter to really function, we need articles. | |
| From The Editor | This month’s issue is smaller than most. Last month I got too many articles to fit in one newsletter. This month I recieved no new articles, all I have is the article “left-over” from last month (long as it may be). | |
| From The Editor | This issue is a bit bigger than the last couple of issues. The trickle of articles is picking up. Actually, the articles by Herb Schaaf were given to me a few months ago (along with two others) and I forgot about them until Herb mentioned them to me at the last meeting. | |
| From The Editor | This month we have a bunch of short but interesting articles. Most come fram three persons. My thanks to them for providing them. | |
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| From The Editor | Here we are with another small issue. We really have not been recieving any new articles. We need to have more than one or two articles submitted per month. | |
| From the Editor | Another month, another small issue. If it were not for announcing the next meeting time and topic, it would almost be pointless to put out our newsletter. There has been a serious drought of articles coming from our Group. | |
| From the Editor | It’s nice to know that more than a few people were concerned about the lack of article submissions. It was a topic of much the last discussion at meeting (Yesterday as write this). At the meeting a few people have promised to submit articles. | |
| From the Editor | I just found out thee civilian life is very much like it was in the military. When I got the packet of materials for the newsletter from Bill Barnhart, I found out that I was “in charge” of the group buy for the keyboard controller chips. Sort of reminds me of the “old days”, when […] | |
| From the Editor | Well, it’s that time again, when you can tell the Editor by looking for the person with one eye glued on the computer screen and the other on the calendar with the deadlines marked in red. For our members and readers “outside the Beltway”. I would suggest that they not call their Washington, DC friends […] | |
| From the Newsletters | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| From the President | ||
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| From the SOURCE | News story about Clive Sinclair slapping Chris Curry. | |
| From Where I Sit | Several months ago, | suggested that we start a series on how we used our computers. At the time I thought that it would be interesting to see the QL in a wide variety of settings. Who knows, it might have contained the spark that caused another person to say, “Hey, I need to do […] | Sinclair QL |
| From Where I Sit | Several issues ago promised that I would have some additional comments about Digital Precision’s rebuttal to my critique of their desktop publishing program, Professional Publisher. After several months of saying that it would be in the next issue, here it is. | Sinclair QL |
| From Where I Sit | I have received a long letter from David Hartman, who I took to task in last month’s column, over his efforts to get his money’s worth from TDM/Tim Woods. David makes several points which are well taken. | |
| Game Playing on the T/S 2068: Chess Review | Review of Chess from Timex. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Gemini 10X/Memotext Review | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| General Interest Computer Books | Since computers are my main hobby, I enjoy reading books on computers. But after a while too many reference and programming books can turn the brain to mush. I am always on the look out for books that talk about computers in non-technical terms. I have found a number of good books that discuss numerous […] | |
| GEnie Information Service | Those of you using modems may or may not be aware of the large Information Services available to you. Most likely you can access them with a local phone call if you live near a city with a population of 50,000 or greater. The most famous is probably CompuServe. This is a very good service. […] | |
| George Rey’s Case | ||
| Getting It In(to) The NEC | So, you might say,”this guy can’t spell for beans,so why should I read anything he says?” Well, if you were one of the lucky ones who got a NEC Spinwriter Model 3515, through the good offices of Tom Robbins, these words, ahead, might save you some cogitation and frustration. | Sinclair QL |
| GIF on the QL | Sinclair QL | |
| God’s Dice | Oh boy, ANOTHER chaos book. The Chaos book industry has a problem. The first books in the field were of such a quality that their successors just don’t have much of anywhere to go. Mandelbrot’s The Beauty of Fractals collected examples of all the current graphic incarnations of the field, while Glick’s Chaos, The Making […] | |
| GRABOS | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| Graph Paper | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Graphics and the Z88 | The Z88 has no facilities to show graphics on its screen. But in combination with a QL it is possible to get graphic output from a Basic program, run on the Z88! What you need is a cable from the Z88 to the SER port on the Qi and the TURBO compiler to compile a […] | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Graphics Programs | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Guide to Bulletin Boards Coming | ||
| Hack Them Games! Spectrum Edition Volume II | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Hacking in BASIC: Renumbering Including GOTO and GOSUB | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Hacking Tips For Gamesters: Spectrum Edition | Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Hacking With MSCRIPT | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Halley’s Comet Redux | Short program that plots the orbit of Halley’s Comet, starting in 1986. Typed in by Tim Swenson. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| HamFests & Computer Shows | ||
| Hangman and Boggler | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Hardware Group Has Plans | ||
| Hardware Library | ||
| Hardware Mods Review | ||
| Hardware Mods Review | Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Hardware Savvy: Modifications and maintenance tips for the Sinclair family of computers | Tom Bent begins documenting projects that take place at the CATS hardware sessions. This column describes how to re-insert a membrane connector without cracking it. | Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Hardware Savvy: Modifications and Maintenance Tips for the Sinclair Family of Computers | Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Hello, World | Sinclair QL | |
| Helpful Hints: Autostarting+ | Saving a program to make it autostart on load. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Hi-Res Mandelbrot Plotting | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Hi-Res Mandelbrot Plotting – On the 1000 | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Higgenbottom Rumor #7832 … Straight Poop from Timex | The Christmas issue of T-S HORIZONS claimed a big scoop from none other then David Higgenbottom Claiming that he had confirmed a new and substantial investment and that he will be able to meet TIMEX’s requirement for acquisition of TIMEX computer technology. You’ll recall that this is the person who has allegedly been on the […] | |
| Holiday Party | Believe it or not, the time is rapidly approaching for the sixth CATS Holiday Sinclair Celebration. And it’s something YOU can bea part of while at the same time making history, if you’re so inclined. | |
| Hoover Sues Sir Clive for 1.5m | ||
| Hot Rumor: Spectrum/AERCO Disks | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| How I Spent My Summer Vacation… A Summer Camp Guide for Kids | ||
| How I Use My Computer | Several months ago it was suggested that we (CATS members) contribute to a series on how we used our computers. Herewith is my story. | |
| How to Alter a File/Disk | Sinclair QL | |
| How to Alter a File/Disk | I have tried to modify various files at different times with minimum success. I have tried using an editor program but it truncated long lines or did funny things. I have monitor program which allows files to be loaded to memory and modified but I have not had great success using it. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| How to Download RLE Graphics from Compuserve | So, you like the looks of these RLE graphics and would like to download some of the hundreds that are available on Compuserve? No problem! Here is a step by step method for accomplishing your goal: Step 1 – Load MTERM. Go to the data buffer menu, erase the buffer so that “buffused” equals O […] | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| How to Get Stuff from Big Blue, or MS-DOS to QL File Conversions | Sinclair QL | |
| How to Make Archival Copies on the 2068 | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Hubble Space Telescope | The HST, launched in April, showed by June that its largest mirrors were out of focus and in need of a fix. But it is nevertheless providing some great astronomical research. | |
| IBM to QL | Sinclair QL | |
| ICE Your QL | Sinclair QL | |
| Icehouse | Two years ago this December, CATS members were entertained by a demo of a locally developed game called ICEHOUSE. The originators of the game –generally University of Maryland graduates working at Goddard Space Flight Center — showed how their boardless board game goes when played by experts. | |
| Images from the Mandelbrot Set | ||
| Improving the Home Database | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| Indexer – A Brief Review | Sinclair QL | |
| Indianapolis: The Place to Be In May | ||
| Info-G.U.T.S Newsletter Review | ||
| Inside the Machine | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Installing the SCLD | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Instruction on using MSCRIPT files with MTERM | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Interesting QUANTA Articles | Sinclair QL | |
| Interface 3 Review | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Interface Problems and Solutions | ||
| Internet address book: Timex version | ||
| Internet Goodies | TS1000 emulator for MS-DOS. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Introducing Volumes Six and Seven in the 2068 Software Library | After several months of collecting new software from contributors across the country, here are the latest additions to the 2068 library! The sixth volume is a “mixed bag” for the 2068, containing something for everyone. The seventh volume is a Spectrum-only collection, requiring a Romswitch or other Spectrum emulation to work. But enough of this […] | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| IRS 1040 Revisited | Program to complete 1985 1040 form. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| IRS1040 1984 | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| IRSCALC: Form 1040 and Sched. A on VU-CALC | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Is This My Rationale for not Learning How to Use My Modem | ||
| It’s Group Buy Time Again | If you are like me, whenever I get around a computer I forget all about the correct way I learned to type “way back” in high school. Now I just use a “one finger” method. Not pretty but effective. Well, sort of…! still “fat finger” a lot of keys and, with the QL, it is […] | Sinclair QL |
| Jack Dohaney: Software/Hardware | Jack’s specialty is producing for the 2068. He has been at computer programming for some years and has developed many upgrade issues of programs like the word processor, MSCRIPT. Readers who attended the North West Computer Fair in Portland will remember that Jack was verbal in his ideas, and was probably the only software programmer […] | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Join Them Files | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| July Meeting | ||
| Just the FAX, Please | Sinclair QL | |
| Keeping Time in the Home Office | Since the Sinclair computers have an internal timing feature, they can be used to make a clock display which will give you the time. Two basic programs are given below to do just that. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Keeping Track of Your Savings Bonds | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Kempston Joystick Emulator | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| LABELS_BAS Revie | Sinclair QL | |
| Larken Disk System | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Larken Electronics’ LKDOS | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Last Meeting Notes | ||
| Learning SuperBasic, Or How I Got out of the WHEN ERRor Loop | After nearly a year of only using the Psion® sofware on my QL, I finally tried to do a little basic programming. I would like to share what I learned, and I hope others will do likewise. Would one of our members like to give a course in programming? | Sinclair QL |
| Lessons Learned on the use of Joystick Ports for I/O | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Let’s Work the Net | We have set up QL networks at the June and August meetings and from these we have learned a few things. | Sinclair QL |
| Letter from Don Lambert | ||
| Letter re Ramex Bankruptcy | ||
| Letters | ||
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| Letters Page | ||
| Letters to the Editor | Sinclair QL | |
| Letters to the Editor | Sinclair QL | |
| Line Renumbering | Discusses program structure and how to use that to write a renumbering routine. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Lissajous Redux | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Little Goodies for the TS 2068, Edition 3 | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Little Languages | In his book “More Programming Pearls”, Jon Bently discusses the idea of little languages. The world of computers is filled with languages of various sorts, some large, some small. Most of us think of the large languages like Basic, C, and Pascal, when we hear the word language. But there are a number of little […] | |
| Little Languages | The first part of the exercise is to define what part of the LOGO language we will implement. I looked for commands that should translate fairly easily into SuperBasic, but I also wanted some control structures so that I would not handicap Little LOGO. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Little Languages | The first part of any translator or compiler, is the lexical analyser. A lexical analyser takes the “words” of a program and breaks them up into parts that understands. It separates the operators ( +, =, *, etc) , the reserved words (FORWARD, RIGHT, LEFT, etc) , and variables. It does not check to make […] | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Little Languages | The parser is part of a compiler (or translator) that decides if the incoming code is syntactically correct. It makes sure that what you are saying in a particular language is valid. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Little Languages | The last part of the project is the code generator. This procedure takes the output from the lexical analyser and turns the tokens into SuperBasic code. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Loan Amortization | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Loan Amortization on the QL | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| Local BBS Numbers | ||
| Logical ‘Auxiliary Operating System’ For the Larken Equipped Multi-Drive 2068 | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Look Skyward, Stranger | ||
| Looping the 2068 | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Lotto | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| M-Script Printer Commands | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| M/C Bits | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| M/C GOTO Basic | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Machine Code Classes Plan Fall Startup | ||
| Machine Code Lecture Notes, Part Two: Eight Bit Manipulation | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Machine Code Notes | ||
| MacroLife | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Make Money With a QL? | At the CATS meetings, members often ask “How do you use your computer?” I use mine a lot for word processing, I set-up spreadsheets to help me reconcile my checking account, and I try to learn programming on it, but one project actually was paid work. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Making Backup Copies for 2068 Autorun Machine Code Programs | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Making Slides With Your Computer | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Mandelbot Maps | To my knowledge, no one has ever tried to map the perimeter of the Mandelbrot set before. What follows is my small attempt to enlarge and display a tiny section of the set. Little did I realise when I started this project that it would take over one month to complete, use more than one […] | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Mandelbrot Returns! | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| Mandelbrot Set | This is version Mandelbrot Set of the program sent in by Stuart Walton. It was converted to the 2068 by Stuart’s nephew, Neal. Neal converted the program from memory and had never used the 2068 before. Not a bad feat. – Ed | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Manimation | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Manny’s Q and A Session | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Manny’s Q and A Session | Transcription of question-and-answer session with Manny Quintero at a CATS user group meeting. | |
| Mass Storage | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Masterfile Review | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| May CATS Meeting | ||
| Media Owner to Buy Sinclair Research | Reprinted from the Washington Post. | |
| Meeting Minutes: July 1994 | ||
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| Membership Roster | ||
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| Messing With Headers | With ToolKit 2 and some other utilities it is possible to read from and write to selected parts of a floppy disk. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Micro-Torque Wrench | I’d been having troubles with a 3.5” disk drive. I had eliminated some obvious faults, such as the rubbing of the spinning parts against the table top, and whether the connectors were in upside down. | |
| Microdrive Cartridge Storage | A handy storage box for MDV cartridges is the little 3 1/8″ x 2 3/8″ x 3/4″ metal box which dispenses “Sucrets” cough drops. Each box holds four MDV cartridges. I use one box to hold the four QL PSION programs and additional boxes for data related to the four programs, SuperBasic programs and thier […] | Sinclair QL |
| Microdrive Review | Sinclair ZX Spectrum | |
| MicroEMACS | MicroEMACS is a popular text editor written to run an a wide variety of computers and operating systems (Unix, VMS, MS-DOS, Atari ST, Amiga, etc) including the QL and QDOS. MicroEMACS was ported over to the QL by Ken Norrie and is available from the Quanta Library. It includes the editor, documentation, and the C […] | Sinclair QL |
| Milwaukee “Family Reunion” | We enjoyed this Fest more than any of the others, since we hosted the event last year. You can’t imagine how many hours go into preparing for such an occasion. Many strange thoughts enter your mind, like — maybe no one will show up, the weather will be terrible, or not enough people will stay […] | |
| Mini XMOD Review | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Minix on the QL | MINIX is a Unix-like operating system written by Andy Tanenbaum for teaching operating system classes. Minix has been ported to a number of computer systems, the QL being the the most recent on the list. Since Minix is like Unix, users can learn about Unix from various levels. Users can become familiar with the operating […] | Sinclair QL |
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| Miracle Systems Centronics Interface | Sinclair QL | |
| Modaptor Plus problems | In looking through the manual of Q-code, I discovered a section on controlling the Modaptor Plus. It says that the modaptor can be controlled by sending a series of signals to pin 2 of the SER 2 port (TX line). | Sinclair QL |
| Modem Fever | At the excellent presentation given last October by STEVE GREEN on “Communicating with Sinclairs”, some interesting sidelights were brought out vis-a-vis our growing “modem mania”. | |
| Modem Musings | ||
| Modem Review | I recently bought a new 2400 Baud pocket modem to use with my Z88. A pocket modem is just a smaller version of a full size modem. They are approximately one quarter the size of a standard modem. | |
| Modems and Compuserve | ||
| Modulo! | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Moire Patterns | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| More 2068 Freeware | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| More Adventures with the Larken Disk System | In a couple of hours he breadboarded it for me, while I watched and learned and held the tools. It was around midnight when we applied some test power to it – it didn’t work. So I put it in a bag and took it home. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
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| More Game Info Jet Set Will Edition | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| More Good-Bad-Uh QLs | Sinclair QL | |
| More Good, Bad, & Uh, QLs | I hesitate to make out a ‘form’ with ‘fill-in-the-blanks’ sort of questionnaire, since it might suggest that we know what to look for in advance. I prefer a more free and open examination of the situations various owners can provide about their good and bad QL’s. Archive likes multiple choice; I hope essay answers may […] | Sinclair QL |
| More on Amstrad | ||
| More on Benchmarks | Duane Parker had the time down to 23 seconds using Forth in his January classic on benchmarking with Pascal, QL-SuperBasic, etc. The Small-C QL combo does it in 16 seconds (14 with Lightning installed). An IBM PS/2-30 and the same (well, nearly the same) source code using Turbo-C took 6 Seconds. Mix-C & IBM did […] | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| More on Telecommunicating | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| More on the Improved Scroll Function | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| More POKEs | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| More PSU Stuff | Barry Washington reports a burnout of a diode in a modified QL Power Supply Unit (PSU). See “Tweak & Tinker” in the October 1990 CATS newsletter describing the use of “spare” extra diodes from a modified QL PSU for dropping the voltage delivered to the QL. | Sinclair QL |
| Mortgage Amortization | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Moving Marquee Display | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| MSCRIPT Review | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| MSCRIPT Tape Log | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| MSCRIPT Tips | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| MSCRIPT: Deleting Backwards and Forward | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| MTERM Stuff | Now that there is a sizable group of MODEM owners, perhaps a little advice concerning the use of these marvels will promote a sharpening of interest in their use and an increase in the exchange of useful information between all of us. Following are some hints regarding data transmission via MODEM. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| MTERM to MSCRIPT and Back! | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| MTOS, A 2068 Utility | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Multi-Way Branching | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Music with MIDI | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Musica y tu T/S 2068 | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| My Thoughts on the “Information Highway: Mental Pollution” | ||
| Navigating Through the Display File Jungle | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Navy Honors CATS Alumna | ||
| New 2068 Library Volumes! | Catalog of contents of CATS library tapes. Volume 8 Volume 9 | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable |
| New 2068 Magazine | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| New Computers | Sinclair QL | |
| New Generation of Printers: Star SG 15 Review | ||
| New High Tech Center Now Open | A bright, promising center for high tech adventure has exploded onto the Washington horizon. It is something which deserves the attention of CATS members, their friends, and their families. Dubbed “TECH 2000”, it is located at 800 K St. NW, adjacent to the D.C. convention center, in the new “TechWorld” building. | |
| New Investment Workshop | ||
| New Product Announcement | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| New Product Announcements | Reprinted from the Washington Post. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| New Products | ||
| New Products | Compcooler and Speech Recognition System from G. Russell Electronics. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| New Products & Rumors | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| New Sinclair looks like a sawn-off QL, performs like a Spectrum | Sinclair ZX Spectrum | |
| New Use for an Old Silicon Friend | Sinclair QL | |
| New Workshop | In December we again plan a workshop session (sorry, but November’s Workshop Notice got lost). Bring in your ideas and hardware and software at 11:15 AM. We plan to work on the following projects. | |
| Newport 93 | Sinclair QL | |
| Newport Miracle | Even in Newport, Herb and I carpooled and thus had a chance to talk about what to think about, look for, or wonder about. Herb, as one might expect, had about twenty items on a written list and I, as usual, had a few vague ideas on my mind. So, we were well prepared for […] | Sinclair QL |
| News | Sinclair QL | |
| News from All Over | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| News from Don Lambert | ||
| News from Mausnet | Sinclair QL | |
| News From Our Atlanta Correspondent | ||
| News From the Boston Blow-Out | Hi! from Beantown. Yours truly along with Linda Moran and Mattie Durholz attended the GALA BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION of the Sinclair Users’ Group of the Boston Computer Society last week. I really wish you all could have been there to pick up the contagious excitement of Timex/Sinclair Machines, peripherals, software, Historical exhibits and Home-Brewed additions to […] | Timex/Sinclair 1500, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| News from the Internet | QL FAQ Table of Contents. | Sinclair QL |
| News from Tony | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| News, News, News | Duane PARKER is cooking up something special for the next CATS meeting! The topic is: “Programing with PASCAL”, He intends to connect about six QL’s on-site in a small network which will permit the attendees to carry out—in real time—the PASCAL lesson he will conduct. | Sinclair QL |
| News, News, News | Duane Parker’s Network/Pascal demo was FANTASTIC. Five QL’s extended to seven on the fly as latecomers arrived – interchanged listings, accessed programs on three different machines, and generally amazed the populace. | Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
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| News, News, News | DUANE PARKER, resident CATS expert on PASCAL for the QL, has an all-day workshop planned fot members on Saturday, September 9. | |
| News, News, News | An even dozen determined souls ventured out close behind the wake of Hurricane Hugo in order to celebrate the Third Annual CATS Family Picnic on Saturday, September 23. | |
| Newsletter Committee Report | ||
| Newsletter Exchange | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Newsletter X Change | ||
| Next Workshop | In the December workshop we continued our work on the disk cataloging program. Herb Schaaf brought in the 13th modification of his version (he claims to have Babagge’s disease – he will have to tell you what that is!), and Lee Gayman contributed some better screen displays. No other projects were accomplished – I guess […] | |
| Next Workshop | Let’s get together and get it together! Barry Washington, Cliff Watson, myself and others expect to be there with soldering irons and conflicting advice on the best of many ways to connect the QL and monitor. | Sinclair QL |
| Next Workshop | Those at the June meeting will recall how I accepted the post as the 11am workshop leader. They may also recall the offer from Tom Robbins about some excellent industrial strength printers (and modems?) which he hopes to make available to CATS members. That will be a fine topic for some future hardware session. | |
| Nine Lives of Clive | Edited from The Sunday Times (London). | |
| Nodes | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Notes from an Editor | ||
| Notes from the Newsletter Exchange Committee | Updates on articles published in other user group newsletters. | |
| Notes on Programing in C | ||
| Notes on the CATS BBS | This is the first attempt at a BBS by the CATS Users Group. It is using the Casboard BBS software: 300 BAUD only at this time, using an 8-1-N protocol leight bit word, one stop bit, No pairity check). | |
| Numerical Integration | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| October Meeting | ||
| October Meeting Subject | Featured at the October general meeting was a presentation by longtime CATS member HERB SCHAAF about the group’s ongoing software project involving the QL and its database package, ARCHIVE. | |
| Office Use of the ZX81 | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| Oh Banna … Give Me a Letter | Remember when (not meaning to sound like Andy Rooney…but) you had to buy a board game to play your favorite T.V. quiz program? Well, if “Wheel of Fortune” is your favorite gameshow, it is now available for the 2068 computer. Herb Bowers and ABBA Software offer a ‘Wheel of Fortune’ clone called ‘Money Machine Il’ […] | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Oldie but Goodies | Using the T/S1000 as a Drawing Board by Chris Seguin, Age 13. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| On Board Computer | While for many years the upper echelon of the aviation community has enjoyed the benefits of high-tech devices, general aviation has been slow to adopt the now ubiquitous computer into their cockpits. With the advent of the personal computer, cockpit implementation of the small computer is now both economically feasible and practical. This article examines […] | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
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| Orbit Simulator | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Organized Program Development | Tutorial on developing new programs, including flow charting. | |
| Pascal Notes | Since I expect that the CATS membership may be interested in the network setup for the Pascal workshop that we had in June and continued in August, I will mention a few pertinent items here. At a later date. I may be able to write an article on the ins and outs of QL networking […] | Sinclair QL |
| Pascal Programs | Examples of Pascal programs. | Sinclair QL |
| PDQ: Public Domain QL Software | Sinclair QL | |
| PEEKing EXROM | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Piano | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Piano Fun | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Picture Popper | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Planets thro’ Telescope | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Planning a Trust | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Playing With Electricity: QL Digitizer | Sinclair QL | |
| Playing With Electricity: QL RS-232? | Sinclair QL | |
| Playing With Internet! | ||
| Playing With PCL | ||
| Point of View: It’s a Bad Idea, Now or Anytime | ||
| Pole Position Review | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Poor Man’s MODEM | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
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| Potpourri | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
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| Potpourri | HOW TO MAKE A BBS I’m glad to report that the Kaypro 10 (K10) is in good health. It didn’t seem that way when I first took delivery, as mentioned in last month’s installment. Since then, I’ve heard of other recently-bought K10’s with BDOS errors #92 – | think that the green crud that grows […] | |
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| Potpourri | With the advent of Spring, we are not at all surprised to hear another Sinclair Computer Fest is brewing! This one is to blossom the first week in June in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It will be sponsored by the strong user group located there, SMUG (Sinclair Milwaukee User Group). President RUTH FEGLEY will present details about […] | |
| Potpourri: News Around the Beltway | Things ate moving along real well for the CAPITAL. FEST! We would like to invite all Vendors and User Groups to participate in the affair. | |
| Potpourri: News Around the Beltway | ||
| Pre-School Math | Program to teach pre-school to first grade math concepts. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Predicting Lunar Eclipses | Throughout mankind’s history, its societies have placed great importance on the motions of the moon around our earth. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Presentation: The Modem’s The Thing | ||
| President’s Column | ||
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| President’s Corner | ||
| President’s Farewell | ||
| President’s Message | ||
| Presidental Ramblings | ||
| Presidential Ramblings | The front page of this issue is being typed on a QL running at 8 Mega Hertz (MHz). The normal QL runs at 7.5 MHz. All that was necessary to do was install a 16 MHz crystal in location X1. Speeding up the TS1000 and 2068 can be done in a similar manner, but those […] | |
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| Presidential Ramblings | Things are really shaping up for our Capital Feast next May. The work is beginning in earnest especially with regards to notifying vendors about it and to gathering literature on what to do and see in Washington that can be given to the computer widows or widowers. Audrey Curnutt will give us an update on […] | |
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| Presidential Ramblings | CATS is planning to host a fest May 6-7, 1989, in New Carrollton. Other news includes a membership survey, committee opportunities and constitution revisions. | |
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| Presidential Ramblings | The Sinclair computers still work – we saw Herb put 3-D images on the screen last month – as long as you had binocular vision. He wrote the program to do it himself. | |
| Presidential Ramblings | Not much time to ramble this month. My present work situation is taking many hours of my time. Then we are buying a house also – selling one too – so we are moving. Since our move will be on the CATS meeting weekend, Hank Dickson will take over for me – I am sure […] | |
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| Presidential Ramblings | We had a big turnout – over 200! I am pleased to note that we had attendees, vendors and presenters from all over the country and also many from our neighbor to the north, Canada! We were pleased that they were able to come. IT WAS SUPERI | |
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| Presidential Ramblings | This is my last Ramblings. I have decided to resign my presidency effective immediately. The reason is quite simple – I do not have enough time to give CATS the attention it expects of its president. Among other things, I have been promoted at work and it is taking up much more of my time […] | |
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| Presidential Ramblings | Elsewhere you will read that I, Ruth Fegley, was elected to serve the unexpired term of the Presidency of CATS. When drafted by the Executive board just prior to February’s General Meeting I had not yet received my Newsletter. Had I read Hank’s poignant description of the type of person he believed is needed to […] | |
| Presidential Ramblings | Regretfully, I must announce Vernon Smith’s resignation as Newsletter Editor. He details his reasons elsewhere in this issue and is also offering future help with the actual publishing of this organ. His years of producing an outstanding publication have brought accolades not only from our members, but from Editors of other UG Newsletters as well. […] | |
| Presidential Ramblings | Tim’s enthusiasm for his new role is close to amazing. Knowing of his June marriage in California I certainly expected him to have second thoughts about producing a NL before the July meeting. Instead, he’s putting one together before the big event so he can meet his own deadline. Tim, you’re the next best thing […] | |
| Presidential Ramblings | Finally, I am your legally elected President! The February meeting lacked a quorum when the vote was taken for me to fill Bill’s unexpired term and we lacked one at the June Annual Meeting when, at Hank’s suggestion, we went through the motions (no pun intended) pending later ratification. Fortunately, 20 persons were present at […] | |
| Presidential Ramblings | Believe it or not I’m finally learning how to use a QL, and am even a tiny bit comfortable using Quill. In fact, I’ve gotten so carried away with my various experiments I almost didn’t remember to write this article for Tim. If there are other timid souls among our membership, let me state unequivocally […] | |
| Presidential Ramblings | November’s meeting provided. a change of pace from our normal Sinclair related program. If the weather caused you to stay at home, you missed an interesting presentation from Mr. Dudley of the Goddard Space Center; but Hank will be writing about the program elsewhere in this issue, so I’ll say no more. | |
| Presidential Ramblings | SEASONS GREETINGS EVERYONE! Although I’m writing this before the start of any of the Holidays, you’ll no doubt read it after they’ve all been celebrated except New Year’s Day. I trust they were special for each and every one. | |
| Presidential Ramblings | Despite a smaller crowd, the usual comradarie and sharing took place at the January meeting. (I have a feeling that the change in meeting date to one so near the holidays was less responsible for absenteeism than the competing loyalty of Redskin fans!) | |
| Presidential Ramblings | I goofed! Tim’s deadline completely escaped me, so I’m simply jotting down a few lines during Akin’s demonstration in the hopes that Tim will type them up for me. Akin is giving us a ‘”twofer” He’s incorporated a demonstration of XCHANGE along with his usual complete demo of his Abacus knowledge. And now that I’ve […] | |
| Presidential Ramblings | Twenty two of us gathered for the March meeting, so the change of date apparently did not adversely affect attendance. The General Meeting itself was brief. I reported that Ted Osheroff has agreed to work on the needed changes in the Constitution (reduce the number needed for a Quorum and change both the effective date […] | |
| Presidential Ramblings | Not only did it pour rain March 23rd, but morning thunderstorms deterred everyone but Cliff and myself from making an early show at the Linthicum Library for our second ‘extracurricular’ workshop. Since it was too risky to plug in computers, Cliff very kindly spent the morning getting a head start on putting together a cable […] | |
| Presidential Ramblings | When I was drafted as President of CATS a little aver a year ago (contrary to an earlier NL article stating that I had volunteered!), I really did not attempt to define a set of goals; but I was determined to involve many new faces in the leadership lineup. Success in that endeavor gave me […] | |
| Presidential Ramblings | Meet your new rambler. This spot in the CATS Users Group was filled by election in June as expected, but we did not elect a Recording Secretary or a Program Chairman (2nd Vice President). Tom Robbins is just unable to serve in the latter position at this time. We plan to select, by random, a […] | |
| Presidential Ramblings | Qur August meeting attendees gave George Rey a rousing welcome for his presentation on Wills and Trusts. Everyone was happy that he could quickly take over for our scheduled speaker, Tom Robbins, who was unable to attend because of his work requirements. | |
| Presidential Ramblings | Our October meeting was excellent, primarily because Herb Schaaf went first on the demo of the disk cataloging program. I didn’t have time to get my part of it in. He had visuals, on screen, actual demonstration of the program, and finally a show of how the Archive database that was developed from it would […] | |
| Presidential Ramblings | Wishing you the best for the Seasons anda Happy Holidays. Come to the December meeting for fun, food, and merriment. See you all there. | |
| Press F1 for Help | Sinclair QL | |
| Preview of Newsletters | CATS exchanges newsletters with several groups in the U.S. and Canada. Every month these newsletters are available during the meeting. Take the time to look over the newsletters. All have good articles about the family of Timex-Sinclive computers. One is free to remove articles from the newsletters and make copies, but please return the newsletters […] | |
| Prime Numbers | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Printer Wringer Outer | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| Printing on QL with SG10 | Sinclair QL | |
| Printing VU-CALC On An 80 Column Printer | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Pro/File2068 Utility and the Inelegant Slug | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Product Rumors | ||
| Products and Supplies | Use a poker chip to pad out space when using Radio Shack printer paper. | |
| Professional Publisher | Desktop publishing covers a lot of ground. Everything from small display ads, one page fliers, and multi-page newsletters can be produced using specialized programs which mold text and graphics. Two other dtp programs have been developed for the QL, Front Page and Page Designer, but the most extensive and feature laden, as well as the […] | Sinclair QL |
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| Program Layout | Template for writing BASIC programs. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Program Merging for Free | Merge programs on the TS 1000 with a machine language routine. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Program Schedule | Happily some of our CATS members are not body-builders or iron-pumpers, hence their arms are not exaggeratedly muscular and thus have been fairly easy to twist. Whence the arm-twisting?? Why, from the need to arrange presentations for the information and edification (does that word mean building buildings?) of our members at our monthly meetings. We […] | |
| Program Writing from Top Down | Review of Micro Computer Software Design: How to Develop Complex Application Programs by Sally Campbell. | |
| Programming Tips for the 2068 | In honor of the “October is TS 2068 Month” movement, CATS is happy to present the following collection of tips, aids, and utilities which should prove helpful with any TS 2068 programing. These gems come to us from the archives of TIMBLINEZ and SINC TIMES. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Programming, Pascal and Other Comments | Participation in the Pascal workshops have been good from time-to-time, but we have not been able to get the whole group past all the simple exercises that I made up to introduce the subject. I will continue to lead this effort for those interested, but I expect that we will have to change our modus […] | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Prowriter Review | Review of the C. Itoh Prowriter with comments on using it with the TS 1000. | |
| Psion Xchange 3.90 | Sinclair QL | |
| Q! Boot That Disk! | Menu-driven program loader for AERCO disk drives. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Q(L) Tip | Sinclair QL | |
| QL ‘n Packet | Sinclair QL | |
| QL ‘n Packet | Alex in July, “Friends of Qzx”, told the readers I was trying to put my QL on Packet. I am proud to say that I have done it and since there seems to be so little written about it I’ll tell what I know and hope the ball will start to roll and more knowledgeable […] | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| QL ‘n Packet | Here again, back in Florıda after a month of travel to California, Arizona and Mexico. Being exposed to the PC world in San Diego, made think about solving some problems with QLTerm, especially reading and printing files from QLterm. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| QL (Quantum Leap) Computers Put Together, Dissected at CATS Meeting | Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| QL Backup Utility | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| QL Banner | This is a little neatsy-keen program that I originaly wrote years ago, on the ZX81. The user types up to 10 strings of up to 80 characters each. The strings are then slowly “marched” across the screen, very much like the signs on Bart. The letters start on the right and scroll off to the […] | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| QL Banner | Continued from last issue. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| QL Banners | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| QL Bridge Player II Revisited | This interesting, informative and entertaining game by HI-TECH SOFTWARE is recommended by this reviewer to those who play bridge or are learning bridge and want to sharpen their skills against a untiring and relentless opponent, (THE COMPUTER). | Sinclair QL |
| QL Hacker’s Journal #14 | Sinclair QL | |
| QL Hacker’s Journal #15 | Sinclair QL | |
| QL Hacker’s Journal #26 | Sinclair QL | |
| QL in the Office: Archive | Describes use of QL in engineering production. | Sinclair QL |
| QL News | Lot’s of QL news has come in from a variety of sources. I’ll do a quick summary of the various news items. | Sinclair QL |
| QL on the QT | Sinclair QL | |
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| QL on the QT | Instead of looking at QRAM and QKICK–more on them next month–let’s explore some hardware buys of which you may wish to take advantage. The first is 3 1/2″ disk drives. The lowest price I’ve seen is $129.95 each, from Advanced Computer Products, 1310 E, Edinger, Santa Ana, CA 92705, (800) 854-8230. They take plastic and […] | Sinclair QL |
| QL on the QT | WRITETURN Last month | promised an in depth look at Writeturn, Sector Software’s answer to the problem of “the too big spreadsheet” and how you can print it. This is a problem on printers with 8 1/2″ carriages, if you want to label rows and include all 12 months plus a yearly total. f you […] | Sinclair QL |
| QL on the QT | Strong Computing the Welsh software/hardware vendor is selling an emulator for the Atari ST that will allow the user to run QL programs. It was reviewed favorably in the latest issue of QUANTA and the October issue of QL World. From the sound it. I would say that it is the best of both worlds. […] | Sinclair QL |
| QL on the QT | Editorial on the value and idea of the Sinclair Northamerica Users Group (SNUG). | |
| QL One-Chip Mod | Sinclair QL | |
| QL Pascal | What is Pascal? It is the name of a French mathematician and philosopher (Blaise, P., 1623-1662}, but it is also the name of a high-level computer language. This lenguage was developed in 1968 for the main purpose of teaching computer programming. Since that time it has become quite popular as an all-purpose language for use […] | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| QL Printouts | Sinclair QL | |
| QL Program: QL Crypt File Encoder | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| QL RAMDisk | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| QL Resources & Accessories, Cheap! | Sinclair QL | |
| QL Small-C Comparison | I have been using the Small-c compiler on the QL for some time now. I have found the documentation severely lacking. Knowing that other users are probably having the same problem, I decided to document the solutions to some of the problems I ran across. I also looked into other versions of Small-C for other […] | Sinclair QL |
| QL Software Review | Review of program collection Nucleon by Pyramide for the QL. So far I’ve been mostly confused by the documentation, which seems to have been loosely translated from the French with emphasis on the feeling and mood more than literal and technical meaning. Something more is also lost in translation, because there are demonstrations listed in […] | Sinclair QL |
| QL Tip: 1200 Baud Modem | Sinclair QL | |
| QL to Monitor… Come In! Buffering the QL | Sinclair QL | |
| QL Utilities | Some utilities are used time and again in one’s computer operations. Each of us has our favorite utilities. This program presents a menu program which will allow easy selection from a group of these utility programs residing at the bottom of memory. It is a defined procedure which calls a number of other procedures. These […] | Sinclair QL |
| QL Utilities | Program listing. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| QL Utilities: A Menu Driven Selection Program | Some utilities are used time and again in one’s computer operations. Each of us has our favorite utilities. This program presents a menu program which will allow easy selection from a group of these utility programs residing at the bottom of memory. It is a defined procedure which calls a number of other procedures. These […] | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| QL-Keyboard-90 | Sinclair QL | |
| QLIPS | We have all had that “crashing” experience with the QL. and wonder now often the crash is our own fault? My own little beast burden had a problem at one time, but after some operation on its innards, the crashing was not quite so frequent, until recently that when I installed plastic carpet saver under […] | |
| QLIPS | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| QSL Card | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Quanta Program Reviews | Sinclair QL | |
| Quelling Crazy Quill | Sinclair QL | |
| Quick Guide to Using the CATS BBS | ||
| Qwiksort | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Qwiksort | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| RAMDISK for the QL | RAMdisking capabilities саn increase the versatility of a computer by providing temporary file storage. RAMdisk reserves a portion of memory for f1les. Thereafter you access the file the same way you access it on disk or on microcartridge. There are two differences: The device is called ram as in ‘ram1_fred’. The other difference is that […] | Sinclair QL |
| RAMDISK for the QL | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| Ramsey Electronics: A Review | ||
| Random Dot Stereograms | Sinclair QL | |
| Random Numbers, Etc. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| READ/DATA & DEF FN for the 1000 | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| READ/DATA Part Two | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| READ/DATA Reprise | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Read/Write? | ||
| Reading and Writing Other Disk Formats | Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Reading the Joysticks | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Recent Happenings | ||
| Recent Library Listings for the QL on Compuserve | Sinclair QL | |
| Reflections in a Hollidome … or, Back Home Again in sIN-clair-DIANA | ||
| Reply to Stew | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Reponse to Bernie | ||
| Reset Switch for ZX81 and 2068 | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Resources for T/S Owners | Computer Trader Magazine, SyncWare News, TS Horizons, Triangle Sinclair user’s Group, SINCUS. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Resources for the QL | Sinclair QL | |
| Resources for the QL | Sinclair QL | |
| Retrace Lines: 2068 and RGB Monitor | Like several others, I wanted to use the nifty thrifty Skip Fisher RGB monitor with both my fascinating and formidable QL and also with my trusty old friendly TS-2068. The hookup to the QL or the 2068 both gave the crisp colors known to most, but the 2068 made retrace lines across the top half […] | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Review: The Guide to T/S Telecommunications | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| RGB Monitor Cable | There has been renewed interest in the “Skip Fisher” adapter/buffer cable for the QL RGB monitor output. As many know, the OL is vulnerable to damaging external voltages thru its RGB circuits which are not internally buffered. | Sinclair QL |
| Rhode Island Show | This past May I made the trek to Rhode Island. Paul Holmgren was good enough to give me a ride. We left Friday night and drove straight through to Rhode Island (NoDoz – don’t drive 12 hrs without it). Paul has this nice little black box that sets off radar detectors. I did a little […] | Sinclair QL |
| Rights to Sinclair CPUs Purchased by Amstrad Firm | ||
| RLE Decoder | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| ROM Character Representation | Tutorial about how character patterns are stored in the BASIC ROM. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| ROMSwitch News | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| ROMSwitch News | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| ROMSwitch News | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Rotating Characters | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Rotating Globes | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Sample Fonts | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Sarah Fisher on the Internet | ||
| Saving Variables | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Science Fair Exhibitors Find Sinclair Computers A Big Help In Furthering Robots and Controls | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| Science Fair Students Spark Fancy of CATS | ||
| SCLD Status | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Scrabble Review | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Screen Merge | Here is a program which I downloaded from CompuServe. It merges two screens. The original used tape. I modified it for the Aerco FD-68. You will have to change it back to tape. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Screen$ Dump Software for the Tandy 105 Printer | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Scrolling 2068 | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Second Time Around for VU-File | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Security 1000 | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Sending Hi-Res to an 80 Column Printer | ||
| Sept Meeting Items | ||
| Shifting Squares | Program to solve 8-square scrambled numbers. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Short Takes | Sinclair QL | |
| Silicon Grease Pit | Let’s see now, I changed the oil last March, didn’t I? Or was it May? And didn’t the manual say that I should be checking the Flammitz every 2245 miles or the Potowski will self-destruct at a cost of $500.00? | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Simple Interest | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Simple Modem Upgrade | ||
| Simple Text-To-Speech in Software? | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Sinclair Computerfest-II Coming Next May | ||
| Sinclair Hints and Tips | Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Sinclair QL | Reprinted from Creative Computing, v10 n12. | Sinclair QL |
| Sinclair Quantum Leap | Sinclair QL | |
| Sinclair Rides Internet | ||
| Sinclair User’s Group Celebration | Invitation to the Boston Computer Society event. | |
| Sinclair: the crucial week | Reprinted from Sunday Times of London, August 11, 1985. | |
| Sinclair’s First Computer? | Article about the MK14, Clive Sinclair’s first computer. | |
| Sinclairs in Russia | Sinclair ZX Spectrum | |
| Snowflakes | Here is a code for the 2068 that will produce snowflake-like patterns. Each run will produce a different pattern. The dendrites are produced on lines 80 to 160. The pattern is then developed from line 170 on, with the subroutine starting at line 300 making the copies of the different angles. The code will keep […] | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| SNUG (oops) T/SNUG Update | ||
| SNUG Update | A few months ago I was asked to be the SNUG Liaison by our new President, Ruth Fegley. I agreed to this. SNUG has made tremendous strides since the last SNUG meeting at the Capitol Fest. SNUG has started publishing a newsletter. So far there have been two newsletters released. Frank Davis, Paul Holmgren, and […] | |
| SNUG Update | If you are a SNUG member no doubt you have noticed that things have been rather quiet lately. I have not heard anything from SNUG since the June 2nd meeting at the Milwaukee Sinclair Fest. The last Newsletter (SNUG Roundup) was received about a month before the June Fest. | |
| Soft-Aid Review | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Soft-Aid Review | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Software Impressions | Cyclepath (Deathchase), Penetrators, Quack!, TS Demo EPROM. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Software Impressions | Ator the ABC Gator. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Software Review: The New Tax Law & You | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Some Archive Utilities | Archive is, arguably, the most powerful of the Psion programs. It is an extremely flexible data base system. One feature lacking is a reasonable directory system. With 720 k disk space, one can have a lot of data bases and programs on one floppy–and not all Archive files. The directory command in Archive lists all […] | Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Some Notes on the QL “Fixes” | We have all gotten QL computers at salvage prices, entirely due to the rush into production 5 years ago. The majority of users seem to be able to adapt to the “system lockup” syndrome, but it has alienated thousands. As far as I know, we at the CATS user group are blessed with the only […] | Sinclair QL |
| Some QL Procedures | I have listed four procedures I have found useful. The first (NAME) is a label printer which allows you to select the number of copies you want. Lines 25121 to 25126 are input error traps. Lines 25125 and 25126 may be changed if you want more than 10 copies. Line 25130 the backslashes after Print […] | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Special Get Together | Hey, CATS members, make like BATS in January and come to Baltimore (actually, Linthicum). Because of our rearranged schedule, the Executive Committee has decided to have an extra “Special Get Together” on January 19th, 1991 at the Linthicum library on Hammonds Ferry Road, at Shipley. We have the room from 1- 5 PM. Tom Robbins […] | |
| Special Interest Subgroups | Soliciting members for special interest groups. | |
| Spectator – A Review | Sinclair QL, Sinclair ZX Spectrum | |
| Spectramonitor Revisited | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Spectrum Feedback | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Spectrum Program RUN-test | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Spectrum Software Review: Word-Master and Typeliner | Sinclair ZX Spectrum | |
| Spectrum Spectacular Presented at August Meeting | ||
| Spectrum to 2068? | Sinclair ZX Spectrum, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Speed! How Fast Is QL Software? | Sometimes the QL is fast: the “EDITOR” does many things that we want in word processing done fast. Sometimes the QL is slow: just import something into a QUILL document – coffee break time! The software is different. | Sinclair QL |
| Spiral | Here is a program that generates nice spiral on the screen. To get a good symetrical screen dump use the Stan Lemke’s PRINTER program in the Jan. 1989 issue of UP DATE magazine (our library has a copy if you don’t subscribe). It won’t be exactly symmetrical because the formulas do not produce an exactly […] | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| SPLASH | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Spreading the Word… | ||
| Stacking the Calculator | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Star Trek | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| Stargaze With Your Timex Sinclair | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Statistical Functions for Archive | Archive, like Superbasic, is an extendable language through user defined procedures. While Archive does not have any built-in statistical functions, these can easily be added. The following procedures let you calculate the mean, standard deviation and coefficient of variation for any numerical field in your data base. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Status Report on CATS QL Library | Well over a year ago I agreed with Tom Robbins to work on a library of QL programs from the members. Tom produced Disk #1 with a selection of programs and utilities from the QUANTA collection. He also did Disks #2 and #3; #2 being games and #3 a set of tutorials on the Pascal […] | Sinclair QL |
| Stepping Rate Fix | The May 1989 issue of Capital District T/S Computer Club’s newsletter told of two members using TS2068’s with Larken having trouble DOS reading each other’s disks. It seemed that Fred Lewis could read John Warren’s disks but John could not read Fred’s disks. This sounded familiar to me as I once had trouble reading disks […] | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Streaming Along | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Structured SuperBASIC | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| Student Science Project Pushes Floppies to the very Max | ||
| Subroutine for Menu Selection | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Sue Mahoney | Today she was in New York City, talking to vendors, lecturers and media representatives at a computer convention, recruiting people to participate and attend a computer show(the Timex Sinclair Celebration) she is organizing this Saturday at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Tomorrow, somewhere around seven o’clock, the pace will start again – the phone calls, […] | |
| Summer Will Be Festive Time in Sinclair Land | ||
| SuperBASIC BASIC for the QL | Sinclair QL | |
| SuperBASIC Recursion | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| Supplier Summary | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Swat Team Descents Upon Tacoma Institute | CATS members teach students some basics about computers. | |
| T/S 1000 as an Intelligent Lab Station Terminal | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| T/S 1000 Hardware Test | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| T/S 1000 Reference | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| T/S 1000 To The Rescue In The Lab | Researchers use the TS 1000 in a self-administered drug test. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| T/S 2000 Tips | There have been a number of tips for the 2000 that have shown up at news letter meetings and in outside newsletters. The authors or sources of the tips are given credit where it is known. Tip 1: The Missing Legends If you look at the space above the number keys, you may notice that […] | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| T/S 2068 Keyboard Scanning | Most programs require user interaction through the keyboard, and use the INPUT or INKEY$ functions to do this job. This article will discuss some alternative ways to input through the keyboard. Method #1 Hardware generated interrupts are used in the 2068 to update the TV frames counter and to scan the keyboard for pressed keys. […] | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| T/S 2068 Serial Cable | Fellow TS 2068 users. I have found over the last few months that. some of the information needed to complete some projects is not always clear with the instructions you may receive with the project. During the last couple of months I have started two such projects, namely the conversion of the 2050 modem to […] | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| T/S 2068/Spectrum Down Under | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| T/S Tinyboard BBS | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| T/S1000/ZX81 32-Column Printers: T/S 2040 and Alphacom 32 Compared | ||
| T/V Conversion Warning | ||
| Tales From the Chip | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Tape Dubbing | ||
| Tape Dubbing | ||
| Tape Dubbing | ||
| Tape Dubbing | ||
| Tape Dubbing | ||
| Tape Dubbing | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Tape Loading: First, Last, and Always | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| Tape to AERCO Disk | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Task Force | Taskforce was published in QL WORLD’ s Do It Yourself Toolkit Column in April 1989. The more or less monthly column is edited by Simon Goodwin and contains useful extensions to SuperBasic. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Taswide Review | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Tasword II, Tasman Serial Interface, Brother EP-44 Printer | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Tasword Review | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Tax Code for 1985 | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Technical Comments Relating to the Sinclair ZX-81 and the TS 1000 Computers and External 16K RAMs | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| Telecommunicating in Far Off Places | ||
| Telecommunicating With Your Timex | Describes accessing various online services with a TS1000 and Byte-Back MD-2 modem. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| Telecommunication News | Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Telecomputing With Timex Sinclair Computers | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Telescope or Camera Astro-Performance | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Text87 Review | Sinclair QL | |
| TEXTYPE | Simple typewriter-style text editor that prints to the TS 2040. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| That’s 30: Newsletter Editor Resigns | In the media “That’s 30,” says that the task at hand is finished. And so it is 30 for me as Editor of the newsletter. It has been very interesting for me and I’ve learned a lot in the preparation of the last 32 issues. I do however think that the membership deserves an explanation […] | |
| The 2068 Library, Volumes 10 and 11 | I’ll bet you thought John Riley had disappeared into a black hole in Sinclairland. Not so. He’s been fiddling with his Larken system and putting the finishing touches on Volumes 10 and 11 of the CATS library. Listed below are the programs in those volumes and John’s short summary of each. VOLUME 10 Education And […] | |
| The 2068 Library: Compiled and Annotated | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable | |
| The 2068: A System Overview | JOE W. MILLER, longtime CATS member, Corresponding Secretary, and curator of the CATS tape library, was the main speaker at the October meeting. His topic revolved around the capabilities of the ever-surprising Times/Sinclair 2068 color computer. Joe’s presentation was well-organized, informative. and conveyed a keen historical insight into the saga behind this little machine. Following […] | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| The Art Gallery | These drawings were omitted from the article “Retrace Lines: 2068 and RGB Monitor” by Herb Schaaf, published in the January 1989 issue. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| The Backplane Map: Spectrum vs 2068 | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| The C Column | Now that Duane Parker has broadened our horizons with the Pascal Page, I thought I would try my luck with the C language. | |
| The C Column | Hopefully last month’s column perked your interest in C. This month we’ll take our first look at the language. C isa structured language similar to Pascal. Many of the same ideas and contructs are used. In C, all variables must be declared before used. The idea of functions encompasses SuperBasic’s ideas of procedures and functions. […] | |
| The C Column | Last month we looked at a simple program. This month we will look at how to do input and output in C. C has no built in input or output commands. Functions are called that perform input and output. Last month we used the function printf. This month we wiil use the function getchar. Getchar […] | |
| The C Column | As promised talk about how C last month, I’ll accesses files. The simplest way to discuss how C handles files is to take a look at a C program that uses it. Look at program number 5. This program asks the user for a file name. It then opens the file, reads in a character […] | |
| The C Column | This month’s program is a simple version of the UNIX utility we (word count). This program reads in a text file and counts all of the lines, words, and characters. The structure of this program is similar to last month’s program. The section that gets the file is the same. The while statement is the […] | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| The CATS 2068 Library | Volume One Volume 2 — Educational & Utilities | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable |
| The CATS Picnic | ||
| The Computer Market in England | ||
| The D.A.’s Case | ||
| The Fourth North American QL Show | Saturday, May 18th, 9 AM until 5PM The show will be located in Bedford, Massachusetts, just 15 miles NW of Boston. Bedford, and the two bordering of towns of Lexington and Concord, contain many historical sites and museums, including the sites of the first battles of the American Revolution, Minuteman National Park, Louisa May Alcott […] | Sinclair QL |
| The Future Lies Behind | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| The Future Lies Behind | ||
| The Future of Sinclair | ||
| The Game of Chaos | NOVA is a science program that runs on PBS. On a past show they discussed the idea of chaos. At the begining of the show they showed a game called THE GAME OF CHAOS. Here is how the game works. On a board are three points in a triangular formation, numbered 1, 2 and 3. […] | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| The Good, the Bad, and the, uh, QL? | A couple of months ago at the CATS meeting we were sharing about QL’s etc. and to my surprise, it seemed that we had about an equal number of CATS members who: | Sinclair QL |
| The Hanoi Tower | This version of the old game of moving a tower of disks from one peg to another, with one intermediate peg, has two interesting features. First, it shows the application of recursive programming which provides an elegant keel of code for the movement of the disks. Second, it gives an example of the use of […] | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| The Mandelbrot Set | The August issue of the Scientific American has on its cover a computer-generated display. I tried the scheme on my 2068. The resolution is much poorer, but the results are quite fascinating. The program shows how I set up the algorithm. Not having a color monitor, I plotted shades of gray that are obtained by […] | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Downloadable, Type-in program |
| The Mysterious Moving Cursor | Short code for impementing a menu item cursor. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| The NEC 3515 Printer | I could not get a long document to print out at 9600 baud, nor at 1200 baud, but it did just fine at 300 baud. | Sinclair QL |
| The Pascal Page | In the first Pascal demonstrations and workshops we used a compiler called “QL Pascal” from Metacomco. This system provides a screen editor, a compiler, and a linker, each as a separate file. It takes two microdrive cartridges and an EPROM to run the system. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| The Plotter | This program prints fancy patterns to the screen or to the EPSON HI-80 plotter. The patterns are based on CYCLOIDS, or the movements of a point on a spoke of a wheel turning within another wheel. Ап unlimited number of different patterns can be drawn by changing one or more parameters of the procedure PATTERN. | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| The Plotter: Tips and Programs for the Plotter User | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| The Plotter: Tips and Programs for the Plotter User | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| The Plotter: Tips and Programs for the Plotter User | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| The Plotter: Tips and Programs for the Plotter User | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| The Plotter: Tips and Programs for the Plotter User | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| The Plotter: Tips and Programs for the Plotter User | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| The Portable Timex | Reprinted from Computers & Electronics, August 1983. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| The Printer Port | I want to tell you about what has to be the best printer value for Sinclair users on the market today – the PANASONIC KX-P 1124. It’s a 24 pin printer and what a great toy! The Epson compatible, QL printer that I got in 1984 when i bought my QL had begun to show […] | |
| The QL In North America | Sinclair QL | |
| The Sears 13″ Monitor/TV | ||
| The Sinclair Story | ||
| The Spectrum Plus | Sinclair ZX Spectrum | |
| The T/S 1000 Library | Ted Osheroff, our T/S 1000 Tape Librarian, gave me a copy of a listing of T/S 1000 programs in the library. It’s been a while since there was a listing in the Newsletter of what’s available in the Library. I though I’d list a few of the more interesting programs. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| The Third North American QL Show | Sinclair QL | |
| The Timex Sinclair Amateur Radio Users Group | ||
| The TS1000-to-TS2068 Leap | Description of tutorial for turning TS1000 programs into TS2068 programs. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| The Visible Sort | Tutorial and demonstration program for sorting data. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| The Way I See It | I’ve decided to try to get back into the swing of writing a monthly column, a la “QL on the QT”, rather than combine the administrative chores of the Editorial Page with my own feelings and observations. | |
| The World of CP/M | ||
| The Z88 and Telecommunications | The Z88 is particularly well suited for communicating to modems and other computers. A serial port which communicates up to 38,400 baud, a VT52 terminal program and a dedicated file transfer utility are included with the stock Z88. The Z88 also weighs only 2 pounds and is easily transported right next to the device you […] | Cambridge Z88 |
| The Z88 Computer: Experience of a user | User’s review and experiences with the Cambridge Z88. | Cambridge Z88 |
| The Z88: Experience of a User | Cambridge Z88 | |
| Things to Come | Jack Ewald, eastern regional manager for Timex, visted the club and spoke of plans for 1984, including delivery of the TS 2050 modem. | |
| Thoughts We’ve All Had and Never Expressed | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| Three Dimensions! | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Tid Bits from the CATS BBS | Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Tidbits from T/S Newsletters | ||
| Timex Hits at Sinclair | Reprinted from the Sunday Times of London. | |
| Timex of Portugal | ||
| Timex Technical Manual | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Timex-PC Communications | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| To Boston, To Boston | ||
| Tom Robbins on Quanta | Sinclair QL | |
| Tongues | Implementing non-English diacritics and characters on a Panasonic KX-P1092i. | |
| ToolKit II Demo | Sinclair QL | |
| ToolKit II Tips | Sinclair QL | |
| Toward a New (QL) World Order | I write many documents with text in columns and Quill isn’t much help in automatically rearranging text. have found that Abacus is a handy program with some word processing functions unavailable in Quill. | Sinclair QL |
| Towers of Hanoi | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Transferring Files: 2068 to QL Volume 1 | Sinclair QL, Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Translating BASIC Porgrams | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| Treasurer’s Report | ||
| Trick of the Day: Flashing Prompts | Subrouting to create a flashing prompt. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| Trump Card on the QL | Well, here we go again! Al Feng said, “Ask Butch about the TRUMP Card”. Now you may not have to! The TRUMP Card that I use is a combination 768K memory board and disk interface. As with all QL disk interfaces, it plugs into the 64-way connector which is located behind a “trap door” on […] | Sinclair QL |
| TS 1000 Hardware Mod | Small, single capacitor mod to potentially improve video signal on TVs. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| TS 1000 Library Listing | ||
| TS 2040 Printer Switch | ||
| TS 2040 Printer Switch | ||
| TS 2068 Colour Printouts | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| TS1000 Monitor Project | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| TS2068 Ins and Outs | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| TS2068 ROM Disassembly | TS2068 ROM entry points indexed by address. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| TS2068/TC2068 SCLD Pinout | ||
| TV Testing | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| TV to Monitor | ||
| Tweak & Tinker: QL Power Supply Unit | Sinclair QL | |
| Tweak and Tinker | It ain’t broke, why fix it? In a previous article (January and Apr 1989), I described the way to get of retrace lines when using the with a Skip Fisher RGB monitor. That earlier design had to compromise the TV/monochrome monitor output to get the best RGB. After a little messing around, I now believe […] | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad | Just a quick note about my hardware duels over the past month. | |
| Two-Fer One: A Double Duty Oliger Board | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| U. Md. Greets H.S. Programmers | ||
| Un Zippy Thoughts | Sinclair QL | |
| Uncle Clive’s Holiday Party Here | Believe it or not, the time is rapidly approaching for the Fourth Annual CATS Sinclair Holiday Celebration. And it’s something YOU can be a part of while at the same time making history, if you get the drift! | |
| Upcoming HamFests | ||
| Update on FIND | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Upper and Lower Case Printing | Uses a copy of the PRINT routine from ROM and lower case character set from the TS 2068 to print in mixed case. | Sinclair ZX80, Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| User Definable Graphics Made Very Easy | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| User Group Pow-Wow | ||
| Using Archive: A Home Database “Tel” | Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| Using Data Statements | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Using Eyes and Fingers | Program by an optometrist to develop tracking skills. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| Using Eyes and Fingers | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Using Smartterm II for data uploads | Problem: I had promised Vernon I’d upload the membership list to the BBS. OK so far, except that I had only loaded CODE files into the buffer before, and the mem-list copy I got was stored in a character array file on tape. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Using the Tasman I/F | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Using VU-CALC | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Variables in Input Prompts | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| Vector Characters | There are basically two ways of drawing characters on a computer, pixel-based and vector-based. Pixel-based is what most computers use. The characters are stored in a binary bit pattern corresponding to On and Off pixels. The left character in the diagram is a pixel-based character. A pixel-based system is the easiest system to use with […] | Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Visit with Gary Ganger | ||
| Voice Synthesis | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| VU-Calc 2068 Room For More Formula | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Vu-Calc as Expense Account | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Vu-Calc as Invoice | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| Vu-Calc as Petty Cash | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| VU-CALC Check Register | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program | |
| VU-Calc Class and Handbook | Review of class and handbook presented/prepared by John Conger. | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| War Games (Feb Mtg) | More than 4,000 copies of “The War in the East” by Mark Steuber have sold. | Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| We’re in The Chips! | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| We’re On Our Own Now! | List of user groups, magazines and newsletters. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| Weasel Words | ||
| Weather Sidetracks CATS | ||
| Welcome to Mickey’s Micro-Sketch | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| What a Weird Program | Program generates stereo optical illusion images. | Timex/Sinclair 2068, Type-in program |
| What Forth? | FORTH, a computer language, has been described as many things. For example, L. Brodie, in his book, Starting FORTH, says “Forth is many things: a high level language, an assembly language, an operating system, a set of development tools, and a software design philosophy.” This might be true (I didn’t understand of word of it […] | |
| What Precision? | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Where Do We Go From Here? | Sinclair QL | |
| Who was Who at the Festival | Sinclair QL | |
| Why I Belong to CATS | ||
| Why Machine Code? | ||
| Why Sinclair? | ||
| Winter Winds Make CATS Hot | ||
| Written Resources | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| WRx16 Revisited! | Concluded from the July and August 1988 issues and delete the demo portion everything between and including lines 7 through 540). | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| WRx16 Revisited! | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| WRx16, Part 2 | Source code for the WRx16 high resolution routine and example programs. Reprinted from ZX-Appeal, April and May 1988. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
| WRx16, Part 2 | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program | |
| Xchange Goes PD! | Sinclair QL | |
| XPresidential Scramblings | ||
| XTender – A Review | Timex/Sinclair 1000 | |
| Yet Another Power Supply | After reading Herb article on QL power supply modifications, I thought I would write up my alternate approach. I am currently powering a QL, Trump Card, Internal Mouse Interface and disk drive using the setup described below. The heat sinks and voltage regulators have been removed from both the QL and Trump Card since there […] | Sinclair QL |
| Z80 Chip Organization and 64K Memory Diagram | ||
| Z88 Programs, Tips, and Other Useful Info | This program can be used to send files to the Z88 from the QL, using the Import menu. I tried to use several methods of sending strings directly, but with my QL received too many bad characters in the Z88 file. Therefore this program sends the file character by character and even a small pause […] | Cambridge Z88, Sinclair QL, Type-in program |
| Z88 to QL Transfer Program | Cambridge Z88, Sinclair QL, Type-in program | |
| ZIP BASIC Review | Timex/Sinclair 2068 | |
| ZVoice | Reprint of ZVOICE. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Timex/Sinclair 2068 |
| ZVOICE Part 2 | Listing 4 shows how a text to speech program can be implemented. A text string is scanned one word at a time, with “spaces” as separators. If the word is in the vocabulary, then the word is spoken; if not found, phonetic pronunciation of the word, or the phrase “WORD UNKNOWN” is spoken. New words […] | Timex/Sinclair 1000 |
| ZX-81 10th Anniversary | Last month at the Federal Computer Conference, they had key-note address on the 10th anniversary of the IBM PC. On a big screen monitor they played those old IBM Charlie Chaplin advertisements. This started me thinking and it dawned on me that this year was the 10th anniversary of the Sinclair ZX-81. The ZX-81 was […] | Sinclair ZX81 |
| ZX/81 Schematic | Sinclair ZX81 | |
| ZX81 Screen Clear | Here’s a nice touch for a program. It allows erasing “bottom lines” rather than all as in CLS. | Timex/Sinclair 1000, Type-in program |
Last updated: December 20, 2022