Down East Computers
Greenville, NC 27834
Owner(s):
Alger Salt
Founded by Alger Salt, Down East produced the VOTEM, one of the earliest analog to digital devices for Sinclair computers.
Products
Votem Data Acquisition – Hi-Res. Written VOTEM, a simple voltage-to-frequency converter, designed for single-channel analog data acquisition. Allows multi-screen acquisition, variable scale and timebase. Without the VOTEM, it was useful for frequency measurement, via the tape input jack. 16K.
Downloadable TS 1000
The VOTEM was a hardware/software package that could measure, display and record real world analog signals via the cassette input. Any physical phenomenon (pressure, light temperature, etc.) that could be represented by a DC voltage could be measured. The name of the product came from the fact that it could measure VOltage and TEMperature. The
ZX80 ZX81 TS 1000 TS 2068
Articles
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Link to the real worldZX81 TS 1000 Hardware review Review of Down East Computing’s VOTEM, an all-purpose voltage and temperature measuring system designed to interface with the TS1000, ZX81 computer or any Z80 based system.
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Operating VOTEM on the Timex 2068 ComputerTS 2068 Type-in program Instructions and program.
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Resources (Sync v2 n3)TS 1000 Listing of new user groups, books and other resources.
- Review of VOTEMTS 1000 Hardware review
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The VotemTS 1000 Hardware review The Votem, to play on James J. Carr’s book Digital Interfacing to an Analog World (Tab Books, Summit, PA. 1978), is an analog interface to Sinclair’s digital world. Analog/Digital Conversion Analog (related to analogous) refers to relationships by ratios. The analog device relates numbers to a turn on a wheel such as our rapidly disappearing…
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Timex Add-OnsTS 1000 Product annoucement for VOTEM interface board from Down East Computers.
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Timex at the Heart of the KidneyTS 1000 Medi Products of Salt Lake City built a system to reclean and resterilize artificial kidneys around a TS1000 with a Votem, Persona, Periconb and a special keyboard from Sinclair Place. The computer completely controls all processes under EPROM software direction.
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VOTEM interface boardTS 1000 Hardware review VOTEM stands for voltage and temperature, and that’s what this new interface from Down East Computers is all about.