TS Bulletin

Amateur programming with home computers has become more of a niche activity.

Ruminations on amateur programming in light of advancing technology.

QL and Z88 hardware and software available.

Closing down as a special interest group; restarting as New England QL User Group.

User group in Ohio working on project to interface Commodore 1541 disk drive to TS 2068.

Had published articles about Commodore 64, Sinclair, TI, Atari 8-bits.

Club continues to support TS 2068 and Larken DOS users.

TS 2068 disk utilities program available from RA Hilsman in Menomonee Falls, WI.

Fix for mating LDOS with Tandon disk drives. Also working on a custom ZX-81 for controller applications, developed with Mike LeDuc.

Also working on implementing a machine language compression algorithm.

Fix printed in August 1989 CATS and Dec 1989 Timelinez newsletters.

Original designers of ZX81/TS 1000 LDOS and TS 2068 LKDOS turning attention to computer-controlled shaper/router/plotter, driven by IBM PC compatible. Software originally written in Pascal on TS 2068.

SyncWare News lost approximately $5,000 before going out of circulation.

Updates to contacts for groups in Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Dec 1989 issues was final newsletter and notice of dissolution of Harrisburgh Area TSUG.

Wide variety of TS 1000 and TS 2068 tapes may be available.

BBS software available from RMG. Larry Kenny working on desktop publishing system and is PC-based marketing plotter, engraver, router/miller.

Macintosh and NeXT emulators being readied. Author working on several self-published books about ZX81/TS 1000 computers. Local group developing simple compiler.

Due to illness and personal situations, work on newsletter is delayed. Seeking donations for public domain library.

Ottawa-Hull Timex-Sinclair User Group continued to meet.

Trend is shifting to Z88 and QL modifications.

Update on Vancouver TSUG, where Wilf Rigter has contributed a number of technical articles. New addresses for other groups, notices of user groups disbanding or discontinuing newsletters.

Exchange of experiences in Pascal programming; Dave Solly using HiSoft Pascal on TS 2068.

Indiana Timex Sinclair User reports program was almost finished when Stan Lemke, the author, exited market. Steven Spalding of Sting Graphics completed program.

List of programs appearing in user group newsletters in late 1989.

Source released for non-commercial use.

Updates on contact information for software, hardware and documentation.

Updates on Larken Electronics, RMG, Update Magazine, EMSoft, John McMichael, Byte Power.

Source code for TreeFORTH (a ROMable, TS1000, slightly non-standard FORTH) has been released for non-commercial use by author Bob Alsum.

Gary Young in Iowa has working and non-working units, RAM packs and software.

Hints on how to store a telephone number in three bytes (encoded) versus seven bytes.

Article appeared in August-December 1989 issue of CRAGIST.

Using the CODE function instead of numbers to save bytes; saving space with DIMensioned variables.