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| “Hello, Z80 Calling…” Looks at ‘ROM calls’ the machine code subroutines stored in the ROM of your computer. They can help keep your... | SYNC | November/December 1983 | |
| “How to Make Money with Your Microcomputer” – A Book Review The title of this book caught my eye as I was browsing one day in a local bookstore. I am... | SUM | September 1985 | |
| “Santa-C” Holiday Program This program contains two novel approaches to BASIC programming of the 2068 computer that I developed in teaching the subject... | SUM | November 1985 | |
| “TRANS-EXPRESS” Tape to Wafadrive Utility The Rotronics Wafadrive system provides a very viable alternative to cassette tape or even disk drives for many Spectrum users... | Richard Cravy | SUM | October 1985 |
| $99! Computer What can you get for S99 these days? Dinner for two at a fancy New York restaurant. A few pairs... | Electronic Fun with Computers & Games | November 1982 | |
| $99.95 Timex Sinclair 1000 microcomputer debuts Calling it a “milestone in the 125-year history of the Timex Corporation,” Timex introduced a $99.95 personal computer with 2K... | Infoworld | May 10, 1982 | |
| 118 User Defined Graphics Characters According to Chapter 18, page 163 of the TS 2068 User Manual, you can create and use 21 user defined... | Dennis Jurries | The Plotter | |
| 16 Pin Bowling SIXTEEN PINS appear at the top of the screen for Bowling and the ball at the bottom. Use keys 5... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| 1983 Winter Consumer Electronics Show With the more-or-less permanent $15 rebate, the Timex Sinclair 1000 is still the low priced leader (suggested list $100 less... | Creative Computing | April 1983 | |
| 1984 Winter Consumer Electronics Show Timex was again showing the 2068 and 1500 computers, but were emphasizing a new TS 2050 modem (S119.95), TS 2080... | Creative Computing | April 1984 | |
| 2068 Back-Ups On The A & J Mikrodrive Using Thomas Woods 2068 Profile has proven to be the most convenient data base for our supplier and media contacts.... | E. (Eben) Arthur Brown | Computer Shopper | January 1986 |
| 2068 BBS Program This program creates a limited capacity message BBS using a 2068 & 2050 modem. Thanks to Randy and Lucy Gordon... | Randy Gordon Lucy Gordon Phillip Basford | ZX-Appeal | July/August 1986 |
| 2068 Buggy Software It isn’t considered normal when a magazine like SyncWare gives you a program that’s riddled with bugs. But then, we... | SyncWare News | Mar-Apr 1986 | |
| 2068 Display Block Moves In the Z80 microprocessor used in the 2068 is a command called LDIR that may be used to quickly move... | Robert Hartung | Update Magazine | October 1993 |
| 2068 Expanding Array If you create an array for the storage of data, the chances are that you will dimension the array to... | Larry Crawford | Sinc-Link | May/June 1987 |
| 2068 Full Screen Input Here is a subroutine for the 2068 to simulate the full screen input feature of most other computers. It was... | Jim Turner | Timex Sinclair User Group Newsletter: Ottawa Chapter | April - June 1984 |
| 2068 Graphics for the Beginner Having purchased a 2068 computer, I soon found that I would have to Know at least a basic knowledge of... | SUM | June 1985 | |
| 2068 Peculiarities I discovered something very peculiar about the 2068 when I tried to put some machine code into the area of... | Cameron Hayne | Sinc-Link | May/June 1985 |
| 2068 Power Supply – Make It Cooler & Quieter I have discovered that programs SAVED to cassette tapes from the TS-2068 can have a very high Noise/Scratch background level... | SUM | January 1986 | |
| 2068 Print Command Compiler Program that compiles PRINT statements into machine language equivalent that uses the ROM's PRINT routine. | William Powers | SyncWare News | May-Jun 1985 |
| 2068 Printer Interface and ROM Card This month I finish up my series on the printer interface with the circuit board layout and simple print driver... | Joseph Williamson | SUM | March 1985 |
| 2068 Printer Interface and ROM Card This month I finish up my series on the printer interface with the circuit board layout and simple print driver... | Joseph Williamson | SUM | |
| 2068 Program: Analyzer Provides the status of Z80 registers at any point. | H. Edward Weppler | CATS Newsletter | August 1987 |
| 2068 Review: Hi*Res There was once a time when I had a small touch of envy when I read an ad for a... | Carol Davis Frank Davis | SyncWare News | March/April 1988 |
| 2068 Reviews by Tex Book reviews are quite common. I like to be a bit different, now and then, so I decided to review... | T-S Horizons | Apri 1985 | |
| 2068 Screen Copy When I first got an Aerco interface and a C. Itoh 8510AP printer for my TS2068, my immediate interest was... | SyncWare News | January/February 1986 | |
| 2068 SOFTWARE REVIEW I had hopes of getting more done on the 2068 machine code routines I was working on but having taken... | Gordon Young | T-S Horizons | Oct/Nov 1984 |
| 2068 Software Reviews First, a word or two concerning joysticks for the budget-minded. One of the following reviews is of a product which... | T-S Horizons | November 1984 | |
| 2068 Tape Labels Here is a short program for the 2068 that will create a label for your cassettes. It’s really nice to... | ZX-Appeal | October - November 1987 | |
| 2068 Windows Windowing 1s a display technique for dividing a computer screen into separate, independently controlled areas for text, graphics or other... | Jim Rodlin | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | May/June 1988 |
| 2068 Word Wrap Utility When printing a text to the screen by using the PRINT statement, words at the end of the screen often... | Charles Stelding | SyncWare News | November/December 1986 |
| 2068/Spectrum Wares First of all, some user correspondence: Bob Welburn of Lake Worth, FL writes, “I purchased an emulator from Jack Keene,... | Time Designs Magazine | September/October 1985 | |
| 24 Usable Lines Have you ever wondered why the TS 1000 won’t print to the last two lines in the display? The reason... | SUM | ||
| 2D Arrays in Small-C In a recent article in The C Users Journal, Don Lang discusses how to implement 2D arrays on C. His... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | August 1991 |
| 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... | Tim Swenson | CATS Newsletter | November 1987 |
| 3-D Wire Frame Graphics | Tim Swenson | CATS Newsletter | December 1987 |
| 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... | Tim Swenson | SLUG Newsletter | November 1987 |
| 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... | Tim Swenson | Timelinez | September 1987 |
| 30 Programs for the Sinclair ZX-80 – a Review 30 Programs for the Sinclair ZX-80, by Melbourne House, Glebe Cottage, Glebe House, Station Road, Cheddington, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England,... | SYNC | January/February 1981 | |
| 32K Non-Volatile Memory Updates Here is a simple modification you can make to the NVM which enables you to remove an old battery and... | Thomas B. Woods | Computer Updates | Summer 1986 |
| 32K RAM Expansion Cartridge What is this 32K RAM Expansion Cartridge? What can it be used for? These are obviously the type of questions... | Stan Lemke | The Data Expansion | July 1988 |
| 3D Fractals A new graphics technique called FRACTALS is being used in modelling applications to simulate crystal growth, clouds, and three-dimensional landscapes.... | T-S Horizons | February/March 1986 | |
| 3×3 Character This program will allow you to create 3×3 graphics fairly easily. The working space is on the left side of... | Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | November 1986 |
| 50 Tips This is all from a little booklet that I acquired for the SPECTRUM. There was no copyright notice on the... | ZXir QLive Alive! | Winter 1992 | |
| 511 My wife was given a free IBM (that’s the right price). Not much later a young man, Mark, asked me... | Bob Swoger (K9WVY) | Nite-Times News | January/February 1995 |
| 64 Column BASIC The 64 column utilities in the 2068 technical manual do work, but they are not easy to use from Basic.... | Wes Brzozowski | SyncWare News | September/October 1985 |
| 64 Column Print Utility This is a program utility, it is used to print up to 64 characters per line in normal video mode.... | Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | December 1986/January 1987 |
| 80 Column Software Driver Well, every time I go out that way, I also visit with Nazir Pashtoon, now the head of CATUG (Chicago... | Jay Siegel | FDD Newsletter | October - December 1991 |
| 8K ROM Upgrade By now you should have a pretty good idea of what I’ve been doing; so what’s ol’ Tom been up... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| A ‘CAVEMAN’ Wordprocessor So, now that we can do screen dumps and engage the various printer control functions, how about a word processor?... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| A Beginner on the QL I took the Quantum Leap! I liked the computer so much I bought the company! No, I didn’t have the... | SUM | March 1986 | |
| A Commitment – What It Takes We all know of busy people who get a lot of things done and accomplish a lot of things. They... | Lloyd Dreger | The Data Expansion | July 1988 |
| A Computing Philippic Timex promised us many things in 1983. They came out finally with the TS2068 in October. They also started delivering... | CATS Newsletter | December 1983 | |
| A Different Kind of Show There are computer shows and then there are computer shows. What is that supposed to mean? Well, let’s begin with... | John Donaldson | Nite-Times News | May/June 1995 |
| A Forum on Hardware Suppliers? How ’bout some comments on Timex hardware suppliers? There are lots of ads in SYNC and elsewhere, but who is... | Pro/File Updates | April 1984 | |
| A Hands-On Review: Timex 2068 The new Timex Sinclair 2068 Color Computer weighs in at less than three-and-a-half pounds, but it’s no lightweight when it... | Family Computing | February 1984 | |
| A Keyboard Interface for Any Timex Computer For those who do not wish to go into their computer to connect a new keyboard, here is an interface... | Joseph Williamson | SUM | September 1985 |
| A Letter and Program from Charlie Day in Gastonia RAMEX has a $99.00 modem for the T/S 1000 and T/S 2068. I’m trying to find out more about it.... | Charlie Day | Triangle Sinclair Users Group | April 1984 |
| A Letter from Cameron Hayne Several years ago Cameron Hayne was a member of our club. Recently, I wrote to ask him what he was... | Cameron Hayne | Sinc-Link | May/June 1990 |
| A Message from Thomas B. Woods The bad news that Timex has dropped out of the personal computer market comes to me as a tremendous disappointment.... | T-S Horizons | April/May 1984 | |
| A Monitor Adapter for the T/S 1500 For several years, publications have carried articles on connecting T/S 1000 and ZX81 computers to monitors, to improve the quality... | Time Designs Magazine | September/October 1985 | |
| A New Face for Quantum_Levels The Timex/Sinclair computing world has reached another crossroad. This issue incorporates Quantum_levels and its sister publication SyncWare News into one... | Quantum Levels | June 1989 | |
| A New Sinclair BBS Bob Newell of Bismark, North Dakota, has started a BBS called “GlobberNet” that specializes in computer games, including Spectrum Games.... | Tim Swenson | Update Magazine | April 1995 |
| A NIM Game for 2K An important consideration in programming personal computers is memory economy. Unlike the big main-frames that offer virtually unlimited storage, you... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| A personal computer with many office applications Chicago's James P. Biers has discovered that his T/S1000 is a slide rule, calculator, desk-top planner, and more; and looks... | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| A Personal Note From GORDON YOUNG If its OK with you, I would like you to print this comment in the next issue. I want to... | Gordon Young | T-S Horizons | Sept 1984 |
| A piece of cake in Dundee Lynd Church goes to Scotland to discover just how the ZX-81 is manufactured. In keeping with its philosophy of sub-contracting... | Lynd Church | Sinclair User | April 1988 |
| A Practical Study of System Variables: Put Them to Use with BASIC. Appendix D of the user manual lists the memory addresses of RAM where most of the TS-2068 system variables are... | Bill Jones | Update Magazine | April 1988 |
| A Review of Sinware’s “STEP” STEP is a program from Sinware. The ad says STEP is the ultimate debugging tool for programs in BASIC. I... | Triangle Sinclair Users Group | March 1984 | |
| A Review of the Sinclair Spectrum Plus The latest home computer from Sinclair is the ZX Spectrum+. What sets this computer ahead of the other Spectrums is... | SUM | June 1985 | |
| 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... | Vernon Smith | CATS Newsletter | May 1989 |
| A Short History of the Z88 Most of this article is compiled from news events appearing in Z88 FAX News and Z88 EPROM. Z88 FAX News... | ZXir QLive Alive! | Winter 1991 | |
| A Splendid Idea! Our old friend Irving Helbling wrote, “although I spent my entire adult life writing lengthy reports, I find that words... | Pro/File Updates | January 1985 | |
| A Video Reverse Board The easiest way to connect your computer to a monitor is to simply take the composite video signal from pin... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| A Video Upgrade? Why? Is the predominant first question. If you find that your computer does its job, but you would like to... | SyncWare News | Sept-Oct 1984 | |
| A Weekend With the ZX-80 I have always been intimidated by computers, and mathematics in general. One look at the Sinclair ZX-80, and I was... | SYNC | January/February 1981 | |
| A Year to Remember “MAN SNATCHED BY UFO!” was the headline on page two of the local paper. Just before the man disappeared, his... | Family Computing | August 1984 | |
| A ZX/TS Celebration in Boston On October 22, 1983, the Boston Computer Society’s Sinclair-Timex User Group celebrated their Second Anniversary at the Boston Park Plaza... | SYNC | January/February 1984 | |
| A-maze-ing 3-D overview Description: Labyrinth is a game sold by Mindware that creates a maze which the player must go through. At the... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| Acey Ducey This simulation of the Acey Ducey card game. In the game, the dealer (the computer), deals two cards face up.... | David Lubar | SYNC | January/February 1981 |
| Add a Full Size Printer to Your System Today, dot matrix printers are available from many sources at very reasonable prices. Many TS1000/1500 users are still using the... | SUM | May 1986 | |
| Add Space Between Files When Printing ALL When you set up the print format, you can just enter ALL to print out the whole file. Unfortunately, no... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| Adding a “Real” Keyboard to Your 2068 Probably the most common complaint I hear about the 2068 is about the keyboard. Although it does work well, it... | SUM | September 1985 | |
| Adding a Joystick For the Spectrum/2068 Having converted your 2068 to Spectrum mode of operation, you will find that most British software can be operated successfully... | Jack Keene | Time Designs Magazine | May/June 1986 |
| Adding Config Blocks To Qlib Programs BasConfig is a utility, written by Oliver Fink, that creates config blocks for Qliberator compiled programs. For those that don’t... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1998 |
| Adding Dimension in 2068 Computing … Using a Plotter The versatile TS 2068 computer never ceases to amaze me on its capabilities. Each of us has a pet application... | SUM | March 1986 | |
| Adding Microdrives and Interface III to a Timex 2068 As a subscriber to SUM, I thought I would sit down and take the time to. share with others my... | Ken Duda | SUM | October 1985 |
| Adding RGB to Your 2068 RGB on the 2068 is probably one of the most gratifying additions you can get. The problem is that there... | Joseph Williamson | SUM | February 1986 |
| Additional Notes on the Hardware of the T-2068 & Disk Drive Disassembling the T-2068 reveals a circuit board smaller than found in the American computer. It is a very professionally designed... | SUM | May 1985 | |
| Additional Notes on the Spectrum Plus While Joe was busy checking out the “mechanics” of the Spectrum Plus, I was looking it over in other ways.... | SUM | June 1985 | |
| Adventures in the RAM Jungle and Other Mysteries In my article “Automatically Set RAMTOP Without Destroying The Program” published in the July-August issue, the GOSUB stack was very... | Time Designs Magazine | September/October 1985 | |
| After the Fall… Bill Jones of Panama City, FL sent an interesting note. He says, “UPDATES has the potential of being a National... | Pro/File Updates | July 1984 | |
| Agenda This meeting marks the first anniversary of the Sinclair/Timex User Group. We are planning a big celebration, and have executives... | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | October 1982 | |
| Algebra Here’s a neat program that Bill has allowed us to print, hoping that some of you will avail yourselves of... | Bill Yotter | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Alien Lure A GAME which links the bug-baiting type of program with a battle against alien invaders has been produced by Sanath... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| Aliens Attack In Galactic Invaders, seven alien crafts fly randomly around the screen, and fire at your laser base. The base can... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| Aliens Attack Again Description: In Invasion Force, you control a laser base and must shoot through a moving force field and destroy an... | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| All about ROMs In Understanding Your ZX-81 ROM, by Ian Logan, the reader doesn’t have to contend with an update from the Sinclair... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| Alternative Computer Languages for the ZX81: LOGO For a programmer who cut his teeth on FORTRAN, learned BASIC so he could program microcomputers, and gets a kick... | The Sinc Times (2) | March-April 1988 | |
| Alternative Computer Languages for the ZX81: Partial Pascal PASCAL was inverted by Nicklaus Winth in the 1960s to be used as a programming teaching lanquage. PASCAL (named for... | The Sinc Times (2) | January 1988 | |
| Amazi-Music This program allows you to play any music (MUSIcomp compatible data) during any program, even while programming! The music data... | Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | December 1986/January 1987 |
| American Express To Market Sinclair Research Computers Sinclair Research Ltd., the British personal computer maker said American Axpress will test market Sinclair’s $149.95 ZX-81 personal computer by... | The Wall Street Journal | ||
| American Football I obtained this program because it sounded like a good “warm-up” for a certain interest (or “habit” as some may... | Time Designs Magazine | September/October 1985 | |
| Amstrad Demonstration from Danny Reed of EDU-TRON First off, Fred Andreucci introduced us to his other two partners and passed out some hand-outs concerning the Amstrad PC... | The Data Expansion | August 1987 | |
| An Assortment of Sorts When you must order and retrieve information, you can recall data in minimal time if the data has an orderly... | William Tracy | SYNC | March/April 1984 |
| An Improved Joystick It was interesting to see in page 10 of the 1:1a issue of SyncWare News, a joystick circuit that is... | Cedric Bastiaans | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| An Interesting Membership Profile At the April meeting, brief autobiographies were submitted by 36 of the 40 plus attendees, which had been requested to... | John Conger | CATS Newsletter | June 1985 |
| An Interview with Jerry and Til Chamkis of AERCO I took a short vacation to Austin. A morning to drive down in. The rest of the day, that night,... | The Data Expansion | September 1986 | |
| An RGB Monitor for the TS2068 I purchased a Model No. 4084 TV/ monitor from Sears ($364.00 including tax) together with RGB Cable Model 6529 ($18.00).... | Phil McConaghey | SUM | January 1985 |
| An Update on Using the Portuguese Disk Drive As I write this, I have had the Portuguese disk drive system for about 6 weeks. My experience with the... | SUM | July 1985 | |
| Another Look at 2068 Graphics: More or Less Listings #1 and #2 are shown to illustrate but one point. Both are graphically interesting, though this was not my... | Paul Bingham | Time Designs Magazine | July/August 1985 |
| Another Look At Mazes In QHJ #12 there was an article on Cellular Automata that discussed how CA could be used to quickly and... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1993 |
| Another Way To Save Data In Pro/File 2068 When you’re running Pro/File 2068 and you type “SAVE” from the main menu, program line 107 is executed which performs... | Thomas B. Woods | Computer Updates | Winter 1986 |
| Ansi C To K&R C Guiseppe Zanetti mailed me a copy of an Ansi C to K&R C convert program that came from the GNU... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | March 1992 |
| Approximate String Matching In past issues, string matching has been a reaccuring theme. In the April 1994 issue of “C Users Journal” there... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | August 1994 |
| Archive Indent I have always thought that Archive has always been one of the underrated programming languages for the QL. When I... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1996 |
| Ascii Dump In writing strip_c and converting the file to an ascii file, I needed to know what ascii characters were in... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | March 1992 |
| Assembler offers aid Description: Machine language programming is very slow and tedious without using an assembler program. International Publishing and Software sells ZX... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| Astronomy Program Pack – A Review ASTRONOMY PROGRAM PACK, I. Auersbacher, 41 King Street A2, Belleville, NJ 07109; for the TS-2068; $14.95. When you are showing... | SUM | October 1985 | |
| At Our Last Meeting There was some qood discussion on our classes and what classes will be held. There will not be a basic... | SMUG Bytes | April 1987 | |
| Audioscan Visualize live audio signals in three graph styles using a tiny machine code sampler that reads the EAR port directly... | ZX-Appeal | July/August 1986 | |
| AUDISY 65 byte machine code routine that allows you to digitize and store the data for any sound phrase on your... | Ron LeMon | SYNC | November/December 1983 |
| August MHTSUG Meeting Last month’s meeting started at 2 PM as scheduled. The monthly newsletters received were read and reviewed. A great package... | Timex Sinclair Users Group Mile High Chapter Newsletter | September 1991 | |
| Auto Fade for the TS-2068 The April 1986 issue of Your Sinclair had an article and a program listing for a feature which provides for... | Andy Pennell George Chambers | Sinc-Link | July/August 1993 |
| Autosearch Won’t Work Several readers have written of problems when trying to make an ordered search. In order to utilize this function in... | Pro/File Updates | April 1984 | |
| Avoid Printing “Search Is Complete” Or Directory Files On Auto Searches Being a band director, I often made printouts of my students by instrument. First I would print all the flute... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| AWK AWK has been ported to the QL by Peter Tillier and is a Unix language that is used for all... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | December 1998 |
| B-17 Reunion: The “Little Computer That Could” And A Data-Base Program Bring WWII Vets Together With New Ties The Boeing B-17 heavy bomber, designed in 1934 and accepted by the Army Air Corps in 1940, was the worlds... | James Roberts | Family Computing | January 1984 |
| Back Issues & Tapes Back issues of the original QZX are available from K2MI. See info in the unclassified ads (Jan 83 issue). When... | Ambrose Barry (W4GHV) Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | March 1983 |
| Backgammon Reviewed John Burn’s BACKGAMMON is a 100% machine code program put out by Biocal Software, Inc. The program takes about 6... | SUM | May 1986 | |
| Bank Switching for the TS 1000, Part 4 After constructing the two 16K banks described last month, and experimenting with them, I felt the need for at least... | Paul Hunter | T-S Horizons | July/August 1984 |
| Bank Switching the 2068 The 2068 was introduced to us as a memory manager, capable of handling up to 256 banks of 64K memories,... | SyncWare News | Jan-Feb 1985 | |
| Banner Programs This is a short program to print long banners featuring large characters on the 2040 printer. Unlike some other banner... | LISTing Newsletter | April 1994 | |
| Base Conversion In some postings in on Usenet, there have been some conversations about converting from different bases. I found this task... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1993 |
| Basic Can Be Faster: A dozen easy ways! Last time we discussed four ways of speeding up BASIC. In this article we will discuss eight more ways! Why... | Bill Johnson | QuarTerS | Summer 1986 |
| Basic Graphics on the 2068 When writing my first article for SUM, I made an assumption that there were many others like myself that did... | Andy Centek (WB8AHX) | SUM | December 1985 |
| Basic Topics The following routine contains a trap to insure that you enter a number. This is useful in math drill programs,... | SyncWare News | Sept-Oct 1984 | |
| Basil’s Compendium: Basic Machine Code for the ZX-81/TS1000 As the title implies, this series is designed to introduce the beginner to the basics of machine coding. The beginner... | SyncWare News | Sept-Oct 1984 | |
| Battery Back-up The EI Cheapo BBU The circuit shown is the simplest scheme possible to provide power-down protection for your ZX/TS. You just need a battery... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Battery-Backup and Entrycheck Here is a simple sketch on how you can provide battery backup for your computer. Cost of parts is small,... | QZX | March 1983 | |
| Befunge I recently found a new language that has an implementation that will run on the QL – Befunge. Befunge is... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 2000 |
| Beginner’s Basic Programming This Is a beginner’s program that capabilities of the Timex-Sinclair computers and will run on the ZX 80 (8K), ZX... | SUM | January 1985 | |
| Beginner’s Programming (Part II) Last month we started programming with x+y=z. Our meager beginning has revealed the complexity of a simple program. By incrementing... | SUM | February 1985 | |
| Beginner’s Programming (Part IV) This month we will start tying a lot of loose ends together. Since the TS-1000 and the 2068 use different... | SUM | April 1985 | |
| Beginner’s Programming, III This month, let us first personalize our program. Clear the screen and ask your student to type his name. The... | Bill Woodward | SUM | March 1985 |
| Beginner’s Programming, Part III This month, let us first personalize our program. Clear the screen and ask your student to type his name. The... | SUM | ||
| Beginning Programs — For-Next Loops This column is dedicated to you novice programmers to whom BASIC is not so basic. (BASIC is one of the... | Syntax | November 1980 | |
| Beginning With Quill Word Processing For a newcomer to word processing, Quill may seem rather complicated and confusing. However, with practice, it will be as... | SUM | January 1986 | |
| Better Programming This month we will talk about the envelope generator. To enable the generator you must put the value 16 to... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | September 1986 |
| Better Programming! Last month we thought we were finished with the SOUND EFFECTS but we found a method of creating a simulated... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Spring 1987 |
| Better Programming! First this month we are going to talk about how to get the SOUND when using the SPECTRUM rom on... | Kristian Boisvert Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1987 |
| Better Programming! This month I will talk about the ‘REAL ECHO’. This one is a little more complicated than the ‘FALSE ECHO’... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | December 1986/January 1987 |
| Better Programming! This month I will show you how to make an echo while playing a music. I call this echo ‘THE... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | November 1986 |
| Better Programming! As promised in Chapter 2 of SOUND EFFECTS, I will talk about the Noise channels for this month. The Noise... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | October 1986 |
| BETTER PROGRAMMING! Let’s talk about sound effects in programs. It is very important in a game to have good sound effects as... | Eric Boisvert Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | August 1986 |
| Better RGB Circuit The circuit described in the February 1986 issue of SUM was designed around the Sears RGB/TV/Monitor (same as the Sanyo... | SUM | July 1986 | |
| BetterBasic And CrossRef BetterBasic and CrossRef are two SuperBasic programming utilities written by Chas Dillon (of THE EDITOR fame). Chas has released these... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | December 2001 |
| Big ad campaign spurs sales of world’s cheapest computer Spurred by a big national advertising campaign, sales of the Time Sinclair 1000 personal computer have taken off. Although Timex... | Infoworld | November 1, 1982 | |
| Big Advance In Programming The 32K NVM Here’s some good news for 32K Non-Volatile Memory owners. Now there is a way to store your Basic programs in... | Thomas B. Woods | Computer Updates | Spring 1986 |
| Big Bytes For Little Bucks The Timex unit is easy to program, thanks to both its built-in graphic commands and, to a lesser extent, its... | Popular Mechanics | February 1984 | |
| Big Numbers Jon Bently writes a column called “Software Explorations” for the magazine Unix Review. In the November 1994 issue, Jon discusses... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1994 |
| Bill Miller Reports The videotape of the Tech-Draw program from Zebra Systems was shown. EBZUG Meeting, attendance: 10 The video tape of the... | Timelinez | August 1985 | |
| Bits & Bytes Talk This new features lets you the reader express yourself about the Timex world. If you have something you’d like to... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Spring 1987 |
| Bits & Bytes Talk This new features lets you the reader express yourself about the Timex world. If you have something you’d like to... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1987 |
| Bits and Bytes 25. VE1BRA says that since he put his ZX81 in a Hammond cabinet, there was no more use for the... | QZX | October 1983 | |
| Bits and Bytes 178 – Many magazines carry ads for clear plastic covers for IBM type keyboards to protect them from spills and... | QZX | August 1992 | |
| Bits and Bytes 185 A little mineral oil spread on the fingers only of the ZX81 RAM pack will reduce the number of... | QZX | February 1993 | |
| Bits and Bytes 194 To adjust the delay between repeats on the TS2068 enter POKE 23562,X where X will be on the order... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | April 1993 |
| Bits and Pieces In a surprising turn of events, the Robert Maxwell plan to buy-out Sinclair Research has back-fired. The earlier offer that... | Time Designs Magazine | September/October 1985 | |
| Bob’s Notebook: Digital Clock for the TS 2068 This bit of code will provide a digital 24-hour clock which can be used in various applications. It uses the... | Bob Mitchell | Sinc-Link | September/October 1991 |
| Bob’s Notebook: Peeking and Poking About One of the fun things about using the T52068 is the ability to PEEK and POKE about in amongst the... | Sinc-Link | November/December 1987 | |
| Bob’s Notebook: TS2068 Interrupts The Z80 has three Interrupt modes (IM) two of which are of special interest to the programmer. An “interrupt” is... | Bob Mitchell | Sinc-Link | September/October 1985 |
| Book Review: The Working Timex Sinclair 2068 THE WORKING TIMEX SINCLAIR 2068 by David Lawrence Copyright 1984 by David Lawrence Creative Computing Press, 39 East Hanover Avenue,... | T-S Horizons | July/August 1984 | |
| Boot Up Reminder Productivity tools for the QL are far and few between. On the PC, there is a dearth of these tools;... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1996 |
| Boy, This Z is HOT! You may have heard of HOT Z and its decendent, HOT Z-II, and wondered why you haven’t seen any reviews... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Breaking and Saving 2068 Programs Most programs that you can purchase for the 2068 when loaded start running and if you try breaking into them... | The Plotter | ||
| British company announces inexpensive computer: The Sinclair ZX81 will sell for $149.95 BOSTON, MA – Sinclair Research, Ltd., a British company that makes the low-cost ZX80 personal computer, has announced its latest... | Infoworld | November 2, 1981 | |
| Bubbles The weekly meeting of our Central PA Timex/Sinclair Users Group was coming up quickly, and I had promised a demonstration... | SYNC | January/February 1984 | |
| Bugaboo BUGABOO is an arcade quality game for the TS2068 which has been converted from the Spectrum. It is, or was,... | SUM | October 1984 | |
| Bugs, News, and Miscellanea Pro/File 2068 owners take note! A few frustrated folks who added the new Machine Code Sort capability from the BREAKTHROUGH... | Thomas B. Woods | Computer Updates | Winter 1986 |
| Build A Computerized Anemometer Using The Experimenter’s I/O Port This project is the first in a series of articles which will chronicle my ongoing experiments in the development of... | Thomas B. Woods | Computer Updates | Winter 1986 |
| Build your own EPROM blower without blowing a fortune BECAUSE most users of the T/S1000,ZX81 are software-orientated, the hardware has been made simple in this design. The software needed... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| Built In BBU Yes, folks, there’s plenty of room left in even your tiny “stock” case to include re-chargeable BBU INSIDE THE COMPUTER.... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Bulletins: Software satirizes suburbanites Got some information you’d like to share regarding a new product or service or idea? Organizing an event you’d like... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| Bus Stop The first CATUG meeting I attended was in November of 1988 at the invitation of Butch Weinberg. At that time... | Bob Swoger (K9WVY) | Nite-Times News | November/December 1995 |
| Byte Back at the Real World Finally! A product that is easy and Straightforward to review. I’m speaking of the BB-1 control module from Byte-Back, Rt.... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Byte Back MD-2 Modem Kit What you see on the left is a series of “screens” which I dumped to my printer while signed on... | LISTing Newsletter | May 1984 | |
| Byte Power (review) With support for our 2068’s getting fewer and fewer, one bright spot is BYTE POWER. Each issue comes on a... | Nite-Times News | July 1987 | |
| Byte-Back MD-2B Modem Order from: Byte Back Co. Rt. 3, Box 147, Brodie Road Leesville, S.C. 29070 $149.95 (A&T) $119.95 (KIT) add $4.95... | T-S Horizons | July/August 1984 | |
| Byte-Back P-2 Printer Software Mods Add or alter these lines of ZX PRO/FILE to make it work with Byte-Back’s P-2 serial print< er driver. P-2... | Pro/File Updates | April 1984 | |
| Byte-Mapped Scroll Most printing to the screen involves just 22-lines and 32-columns. One line scrolling is quickly done with RANDOMIZE USR 2361... | C. Vernon Tidwell | T-S Horizons | July/August 1985 |
| C Beautifier The C User’s Group has disk full of C programs that have been written for portability. One of these programs... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | February 1991 |
| C Compiler Comparison A while back I was thinking about the two C compilers available for the QL. The Small C compiler is... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1991 |
| C Portability This article is dedicated to show some rather randomly chosen aspects of portable programming with C68 on the QL. A... | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1994 | |
| C68 Compiler Benchmarks In QHJ #3, I reported on some benchmarks that I ran on Lattice C and Small-C. Now that I had... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1991 |
| C68 Version 3.03 I have received version 3.03 of C68. Just before this I picked up a copy of 3.01 and had problems... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1992 |
| Calorie Counter review Of the many people trying to lose weight, a few eventually discover that calorie intake must not exceed calorie expenditure.... | SUM | ||
| Can Timex maintain its image of clocklike efficiency? OVER THE YEARS, Timex came to be viewed as a company that knew how to develop and market modern technology... | Timex Sinclair User | October 1983 | |
| Case Statement Implementation When I recently was working on SSB 2.6, I was using a SuperBasic implementation of a CASE structure for the... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1998 |
| Celestial Basic (Eric Burgess’s CELESTIAL BASIC is a collection of astronomy programs originally written for the Exidy Sorcerer computer. These programs were... | SUM | March 1986 | |
| Cellular Automata Back in college, I was short 1/2 a unit from graduating. To make up the unit, I enrolled in a... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1991 |
| Change RAMTOP Without NEW You may have wanted to change RAMTOP without wiping out what you have in memory. It is not enough to... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Change the way data is saved I kind of hate to say this, but I’m going to change the way we save data only. There are... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| Changing RAMTOP Without “NEW” Editor’s note: Although this pearl of programming poetry is not a direct Pro/File enhancement, it is never the less, a... | Richard Erwin | Pro/File Updates | January 1985 |
| Character Recognition for the TS2068? Don Lambert, Chairman of the Timex Sinclair NorthAmerican User Groups, wrote recently to say that he wanted to make word... | John Donaldson | Nite-Times News | May/June 1995 |
| Character Set Definer This program will help you redesign your own character set. After loading your will be asked to enter the address... | Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | September 1986 |
| Check Bits for Ascii Files I’ve been scanning throught some old issues of Dr Dobb’s Journal trying to set the spark to a new programming... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | March 1992 |
| Check our handy chess guide In a stalemate over which chess program to buy? Check here before you make your move and you won’t get... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| Checkbook Balancer: Old Standby Reviewed CHECKBOOK BALANCER will help you keep your account in order in a simple way. You can take your checkbook and... | SUM | May 1986 | |
| Christmas Specials Here are two programs that give a moving graphics representation of the holiday spirit. The first version is for the... | Synchro-Sette | December 1983 | |
| Christmas Tree As the snow falls outside, your family can gather round the computer with glasses of eggnog and fall under the... | Joey Latimer | Family Computing | December 1983 |
| 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... | CATS Newsletter | June 1986 | |
| Circuit Symbols The next page has a collection of circuit symbols. You might ask why put such a page in here. The... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | February 1994 |
| Classy Front End, Part I Program demonstrates printing with variable-width fonts using PLOT/DRAW. | Paul Bingham | Time Designs Magazine | March/April 1987 |
| Clive runs up $200 million Clive Sinclair is now officially worth more than $200 million. | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| Clive sells 1.6 million computers… Sinclair Research has claimed to be the first company to sell more than one million home computers. Since it began... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| Clive Sinclair of Sinclair Research Trying Again in Consumer Electronics The British, it is said, are great at designing a product but awful at exploiting it. In earlier eras, for... | The New York Times | ||
| Clock This program is quite simply a clock, it might be useful in many ways. Example in a game where you... | Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | December 1986/January 1987 |
| Closet Computers Got an old computer stashed away somewhere? It may not be as fast or as powerful as your new machine,... | Compute! | October 1988 | |
| Club News The last meeting was well attended and Fred Lewis gave a demonstration. Fred is working on a program which shows... | Capital District Timex-Sinclair Computer Club newsletter | July 1990 | |
| Club Notes The coming meeting was postponed to accommodate members who would otherwise not have been able to attend. It will be... | Fred Lewis | Capital District Timex-Sinclair Computer Club newsletter | April 1992 |
| Color Blind to Colorful I have had four color blind TS 2068’s. The first one I sent to Timex Little Rock Repair Center and... | SUM | January 1986 | |
| Color TS2000, 16K TS1500, Modem This Summer Timex reports it will begin sales this August of TS2000s with 16K or 48K RAM, color/sound capabilities and bank-switching. The... | Syntax | June 1983 | |
| Columbus Day One of my first opportunities as your Editor was to attend a mass meeting of Users’ Groups in Columbus, Ohio,... | John (Basil) Wentworth | SyncWare News | January/February 1988 |
| Columnifying Quill The trouble with having been a working programmer in one’s youth is that you spend the rest of your life... | Peter Hale | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | September/October 1988 |
| Combining Files Combining files is another of those routines which can change the way you approach PRO/FILE. In my case, I have... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| Comments on Dr. Watson’s Bankswitching Article In the previous issues of LIST you have seen the contributions of Bill Pedersen concerning Bankswitching on the TS2068. I... | Nazir A. Pashtoon | LISTing Newsletter | January -February 1987 |
| Compact Menus And More Savings The display menu and edit menu each consist of several sections. | prefer to see as many options at one... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| Compass Compiler Assembler Package After trying to use the COMPASS Compiler for three days, and becoming very frustrated, I decided to give up. This... | Time Designs Magazine | January/February 1985 | |
| Complex ASCII Rotation While reading one of the many computer magazines that I read in a month (got to have something to do... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | August 1994 |
| Compu-Calendar This three-part program returns correct day name, changes Gregorian dates to corresponding Julian day numbers, and computes total days between... | Otis Imboden | Syntax | December 1980 |
| Compusa Disk Fix I, too, have a Compusa Disk system for my TS 1500. I use a different method to save to disk... | Pro/File Updates | January 1985 | |
| 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... | CATS Newsletter | October 1986 | |
| Computer Combat! THE FIRST question often asked about a new machine is “Does it play Space Invaders?” Though a 1K machine has... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| Computer Language Humor Here are a couple of related postings that I found on USENET. Each one gives a slightly different view of... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1993 |
| Computer Shopper Magazine One of my favorite magazines, next to SUM Magazine, is the COMPUTER SHOPPER from Titusville, Florida. With an annual subscription... | SUM | July 1985 | |
| Computer Stories These are a number of humerous computer stories that I came across a few months ago. You might find them... | Tim Swenson | CATS Newsletter | December 1990 |
| Computer Weather Station: Part 2 Tell Which Way The Wind Blows In the last issue’s “anemometer” article, I showed how to build a simple but effective (and cheap) device to tell... | Thomas B. Woods | Computer Updates | Spring 1986 |
| Computer Workout: TS 2068 While many computer companies play “Waiting For Peanut” before upgrading their current machines, Timex Sinclair has forged ahead with the... | Jules Gilder | Electronic Fun with Computers & Games | January 1984 |
| Computerized Dee-Jay My roommate Mark collects “Top 40” singles. He owns over 3,500 45 rpm records. Some were hits as long ago... | Timex Sinclair User | November 1983 | |
| Computerized Filing Cabinet ZX-DATA FINDER is a storage and retrieval program with some very advanced title and word search features. It is unique... | David Ketchum | Timex Sinclair User | August 1983 |
| Computers and Confusion TWO NEW COMPUTERS FROM TIMEX! That’s good news. The 2000 series is described on page 12. We looked at the... | Timex Sinclair User | September 1983 | |
| Computers and Me My name is John Riley, and for a year now it has been my privilege to be a part of... | John Riley | CATS Newsletter | July 1987 |
| Computers and Society Among the several new computers introduced at the June CES, one of the most interesting entries was the Sinclair ZX-80.... | David Thornburg Betty Burr | Compute! | September/October 1980 |
| Computers as teachers: do they work? Computers are in our schools now, and students are using them every day. Are they dehumanizing? Do they teach anything?... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| Computers Dropped by Timex The Timex Corporation, after watching sales of its inexpensive home computers dwindle to virtually nothing over the last year, officially... | The New York Times | February 22, 1984 | |
| Computers follow consumers home Drawing considerable retail traffic during the [1982 Summer Consumer Electronics Show] was Timex, which starts national deliveries late this month... | Mart | July 1982 | |
| Computus Interruptus, Part 1 “All right”, comes the chorus, “what’s an interrupt, and why should I care?” I’ll admit, it’s possible to lead a... | Wes Brzozowski | Sincus News | January 1985 |
| Computus Interruptus, Part 2 Response to Part One of this series has been quite gratifying so far. However, from what I’ve heard, it seems... | Wes Brzozowski | Sincus News | February 1985 |
| Computus Interruptus, Part 3 If you thought that this column’s absence last month meant [illegible]at it was over, you can think again! A brief... | Wes Brzozowski | Sincus News | April 1985 |
| Computus Interruptus, Part 4 As mentioned last time, the interrupt driven print-screen program we’ve been playing with is just about “all used up”, as... | Wes Brzozowski | Sincus News | May - August 1985 |
| Computus Interruptus, Part 5 Thanks for the ooh’s and ahh’s over last month’s interrupt driven sprite program. Even though he doesn’t do all that... | Wes Brzozowski | Sincus News | November - December 1985 |
| Computus Interruptus, Part 6 Hello again! It’s time to take another look at the wonderful world of interrupts. This installment will be of most... | Wes Brzozowski | Sincus News | March - April 1986 |
| Computus Interruptus, Part 7 It’s hard to believe that this series has been going on as long as it has, but it’s even harder... | Wes Brzozowski | Sincus News | July - August 1986 |
| Computus Interruptus, Part 8 All good things must end. This series has to end too, and with a small quiver of nostalgia (and a... | Wes Brzozowski | Sincus News | September - October 1986 |
| Constructing a Spell Checker A spell checker is usually comprised of two parts: 1) word lookup (to see if a word is spelled correctly)... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | December 1996 |
| Construx Can you help a family get to their home? See, they’re trapped on the side of a mountain and some... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | September 1986 |
| Consumer Electronics Show This is where the big stores make their commitments for the Fall and Christmas buying season, so Timex was present... | Sinclair Users Network | June 1983 | |
| Controlling Your Printer In this series of articles, I’ll try to give you some information to help you use your printer system “to... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Conversation – Mail Bag I read the “new” ASK CHUCK column for this month. I was curious about the DEL.EXE or ERA.EXE which is... | The Data Expansion | March 1988 | |
| Converting Textwriter Files to Tasword II Files I wished to upgrade a three page essay that I had written several montns ago on the Textwriter word processor.... | SUM | April 1985 | |
| Core Wars A while back I took a week off from work to spend time at home finishing some programming projects (hey,... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1992 |
| CQV1 Real Time Digitizer – A Review The CQVI video digitizer package consists of the CQV1 hardware, a 3.5″ disk and an 8 page manual. The CQV1... | Bob Gilder | International QL Report | March/April 1993 |
| Crackle, Crash, QL Bashed! Some of us, who have visited Tom Bent at home, are greeted by him in bare feet. He explains, “I... | Duane Parker | CATS Newsletter | August 1990 |
| Crazybugs and Cyberzone Crazybugs is a Pac-Man type game, but with enough differences to make to make another enjoyable game. You are in... | David Grosjean James Grosjean | SYNC | March/April 1984 |
| Creating Additional Colors on the 2068 If you have ever felt limited on the 2068 with only eight colors, here is a way to create up... | Joseph Williamson | SUM | March 1986 |
| Creating Loadable Extensions Using Qlib One of the things that has always amazed me about the QL was the ability to load a binary file... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1998 |
| Creating Your Own TS-2068 Character Set One of the features that made me get my 2068 was the possibility of changing the character set. But, it... | SUM | July 1985 | |
| Cyborgwars Cyborgwars is a strategic game in which four warring cybernetic empires each call upon a human leader to take control... | Peter Hoffman Eric Hoffman | SYNC | November/December 1983 |
| Dan Ross – Timex Mr. Daniel Ross, Vice President of Operations, Timex Computer Corporation, was the second speaker at our Anniversary meeting. He described... | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | November 1982 | |
| DATA MAKER This program will allow you to transform codes into DATA statements in a BASIC program. This is particularly useful for... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1988 |
| Databases And Bitmaps I read an interesting article that introduced the idea of using bitmaps in implementing a database. I don’t know if... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1996 |
| Dayton Computer Festival The Dayton Computerfest was held on August 27th and 28th. This event serves as a yearly gathering place for the... | CATS Newsletter | November - December 1994 | |
| Dayton Computer Show Report Five members of our group, Gene Wilson, Greg Dupuy, Neal Elias, Jon Kaczor and myself travelled to Dayton for the... | The RAMTOP | Fall 1994 | |
| DBAS For most database programming, the QL programmer has been pretty much stuck with Archive. Archive is a fine language and... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1996 |
| Dealing with a bug in the sort routing First lets deal with a bug I found in the machine code sort routine. There is one situation when this... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| Dear Editor Everyone knows that Sinclair Timex computers are dead now that Timex quit, right? Well, I’m always the last to get... | Syntax | May 1984 | |
| Decision Maker This program can be used for a wide variety of decisions… It will help you choose the best stereo, help... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Spring 1987 |
| Defend your planet Description: You are in charge of a missile launcher and must save Earth from invading spaceships. With 15 rockets, you... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| Defining Characters Among the extended capabilities of the TS2068 are its high resolution graphics and user defined graphics characters (UDG). Since the... | SYNC | March/April 1984 | |
| DEFMAG 29 byte machine code routine that allows you to store audio frequency data and to synthesize the facsimile sound at... | Ron LeMon | SYNC | November/December 1983 |
| Delphic 2K Toolkit, Tape Version Had it been possible for SWN to adhere to its originally intended publication schedule, you would have seen a review... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Demand for ZX81 Outstrips Supply When the history of the microcomputer is written, the ZX81 is going to deserve a prominent mention: it could well... | Electronics Today International | February 1982 | |
| Deskjet Print Filter Once I got my DeskJet printer, I wanted to be able to produce nice looking text output. Quill and other... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1996 |
| Dice Percentages I’m still distracted by my other hobby, wargaming. In tying the two together, I thought about dice, percentages, and To-Hit... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1994 |
| Digital Imagitizing, Part 1 Have you ever wanted to have some REAL pictures for your 2068? 1 don’t mean your usual pictures from your... | Sinc-Link | January/February 1987 | |
| Digital Imagizing, Part 2 Hopefully by now you have assembled the hardware involved in this project and have obtained the necessary driver software from... | Sinc-Link | March/April 1987 | |
| Dilwyn Jones Computing A POTTED HISTORY OF MY COMPANY AND I! My involvement with Sinclair computers goes back to the very early days... | Dilwyn Jones | International QL Report | September/October 1992 |
| Directions from the Director We meet every other month, but there’s been a lot of talk about more frequent meetings. Some of the proposals:... | Al Boehm | NESQLUG News | November/December 1990 |
| Directory Track Reader The following program was written on an old model Zebra Disk Drive. Owners of the-newer FDD 3000 may wish to... | Mike Finn | The Data Expansion | March 1988 |
| Disk Eraser In one of my program idea brainstorming sessions, I came up with the idea of writing a program to completely... | Tim Swenson Herb Schaaf | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1992 |
| Disk Text Search Utility Over the years, to keep various e-mails and newsgroup postings, I’ve printed them out and kept them at home. I’ve... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | December 2001 |
| Diskinfo This program started out as an attempt to examine a disk with corrupted files. The problem may have been with... | Herb Schaaf | QL Hacker’s Journal | February 1991 |
| Disks & Memory for the QL The Sinclair QL computer is a great small business and home productivity computer. However it lacks a few iteis that... | SUM | February 1986 | |
| Displaying QL Screens In MS-DOS [It’s not normally the policy of the QHJ to publish programs that are written for other platforms than the QL.... | Jeffrey Kuhlmann | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1994 |
| Displaying TI Graphics Files [Jeff Kuhlmann has written an interesting program to display a TI-Artist instance file on the QL. I don’t know how... | Jeffrey Kuhlmann | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1994 |
| DK’Tronics Three Channel Sound Synthesizer The DK’TRONICS Sound Synthesiser is a hardware and software combination using the AY-3-8912 programmable sound generator integrated chip — the... | SUM | October 1985 | |
| Duel A single or two player space game, inspired by Race Track, as described in a Martin Gardner column. Uses a... | Mark Fisher | CATS Newsletter | Jul 1986 |
| Dump that Screen! If you took the trouble to enter an alternate conversion table as described in the last issue, you already have... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Dungeon of Ymir Dungeon of Yair is a multi-level maze adventure game written completely in machine code. Ymir requires 24K of RAM, and... | ZX-Appeal | Summer 1987 | |
| Dunnington Flowcharter (Editor’s NOTE: This article would be worthwhile reading if it didn’t contain anything but the material on programming above line... | Earl Dunnington | SyncWare News | |
| Durhamfest, Cmoputer Paper, Forth, and Computer Camps, The 2068 and 2-Bit Software The Durham Hamfest called the DURHAMFEST will take place Saturday, May 19th, 1984, in South Square Mall under the large... | Triangle Sinclair Users Group | April 1984 | |
| Dutch Connection 2 Last issue Mark Martin reported on a Dutch BBS that was being run on a QL. I forgot to mention... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1991 |
| Dynamic Windows – Another Approach In a back issue of the QHJ I wrote a SuperBasic program that saves a section of the screen to... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1994 |
| E-Z Load Modification Based on the information on the recorder to computer interface for the ZX81 which appeared in the Jan 8 3... | Edwin Solov (K2SE) | QZX | June 1983 |
| EASYprint This program is a word-processor for full-size printers only… It features Center, Justify, Word count and up to 132 columns!!!... | Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Spring 1987 |
| EASYsprite This graphic utility will allow you to print any sprite created with the help of EASYsprite MAKER. Up to 255... | Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1987 |
| EASYsprite MAKER This program is to make SPRITES to use with sprite printer. A maximum of 255 sprites can be in memory... | Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1987 |
| EASYtype This program is a word-processor, not as complex as expensive ones, but it does have a lot of features worth... | Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | August 1986 |
| Edit To Add or Add To Add When adding or editing a file you can close it using the token ” TO ” and you will go... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| Edit To Next Improvement The original version of this routine does not really go to the next matching file although in most cases it... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| Editor Ramblings It’s that time of year again! The following companies or individuals are offering programs to help prepare your tax forms:... | Synchro-Sette | March 1983 | |
| Editor’s Corner This issue I want to take a minute, and examine…just who are the people that use Timex/Sinclair computers? For my... | Time Designs Magazine | September/October 1985 | |
| Editor’s Doings Here’s a mish-mash (is that spelled rite?) of what I have been doing in between the sessions spent оп my... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | April 1983 |
| Editor’s Doings What a relief! After putting the July/Aug QZX together I was able to take a week off, as far as... | Ambrose Barry (W4GHV) | QZX | September 1983 |
| Editor’s Doings First, I want to apologize for the late issue. I do have several legitimate ‘excuses’, but the predominant one being... | Ambrose Barry (W4GHV) | QZX | October 1983 |
| Editor’s Doings First, IF THERE ARE ANY ERRORS IN YOUR QZX EXPIRATION DATES, LET ME KNOW. We are going thru a transition... | Ambrose Barry (W4GHV) | QZX | December 1983 |
| Editor’s Doings While getting on RTTY remains on ‘the front burner’, I have been fiddling a bit with a few machine language... | Ambrose Barry (W4GHV) | QZX | January 1984 |
| Editor’s Forum Welcome to the first issue of the QL Hacker’s Journal. This publication is meant to fill the gap in publications... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1991 |
| Editor’s Forum I’m a bit surprized to have this issue out so soon after the last issue. But, the source code from... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | February 1991 |
| Editor’s Forum After putting out two issues rather quickly, your all probably wondering what happened to this issue. There is one simple... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1991 |
| Editor’s Forum This issue is another one that took some time to come together. I have spent part of the last two... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1991 |
| Editor’s Forum With this issue the QHJ is now 1 year old. It’s been fun publishing the QHJ. It’s given me a... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1992 |
| Editor’s Forum For those readers that have Internet access, Timo Salmi of Findland has started an Anon-FTP QL Server, garbo.uwasa.fi (128.214.81.1). Garbo... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | June 1992 |
| Editor’s Forum This issue is the second issue to take 3 months to come out. I had not planned on a quarterly... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | September 1992 |
| Editor’s Forum One problem I have noticed with writing this section of the the QHJ is that I that I don’t have... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1992 |
| Editor’s Forum Here is the first issue produced from the suburbs of Dayton, Ohio. We are now moved and mostly settled in.... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1993 |
| Editor’s Forum It’s been a few months since the last QHJ, but I’ve been busy working on a few projects and doing... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1993 |
| Editor’s Forum It has taken a while to get this issue out. I would like to thank Al Boehm for submitting an... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1993 |
| Editor’s Forum Again another issue has taken longer than I wanted to come out. Since the last issue one important thing has... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1994 |
| Editor’s Forum As much as I want the QHJ to come out about every other month, It’s slowly becoming a quarterly. Between... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1994 |
| Editor’s Forum This is the second issue that is far later that I would like. Let me explain the reason why. Back... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | August 1994 |
| Editor’s Forum Well, it looks like another issues has taken longer that I would like. It’s been one of those “too busy... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1994 |
| Editor’s Forum Another few months, another issue. I don’t know if there is any special significance to putting out issue #20, but... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | March 1995 |
| Editor’s Forum This issue of the QHJ is a little smaller that I would like. I’ve been busy getting ready for the... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | June 1995 |
| Editor’s Forum The biggest news this issue is I’VE GOT A HOME PAGE. I got a wild hair a while back and... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1995 |
| Editor’s Forum Have you ever sat in front of the word processor, looking at a blank screen, and not really know what... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1996 |
| Editor’s Forum As time goes by I’m finding myself doing less and less programming. My recent foray into distributing QL and Z88... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | May 1996 |
| Editor’s Forum I don’t have much to say for an introduction to this issue. I do want to thank Peter Tillier for... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1996 |
| Editor’s Forum It’s hard to believe that the last QHJ came out last May. What have I been doing? Well, let me... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | December 1996 |
| Editor’s Forum The QHJ is back. After a year of taking a break, I’m back in the programming spirit again. Of course,... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1998 |
| Editor’s Forum I have not received much feedback on the Qliberator Source Book idea I mentioned in the last issue, and I... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1998 |
| Editor’s Forum I’d like to thank Per Witte for providing pretty much the core part of this issue. I saw the Filename... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1998 |
| Editor’s Forum In this issue I want to take a look at a couple of Unix languages that have recently been ported... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | December 1998 |
| Editor’s Forum This issue is far later that I would like. Planning for the West Coast Sinclair Show (for which this issue... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | June 1999 |
| Editor’s Forum First off, thanks to Herb Schaaf for providing most of the text for this issue. When Herb gets a hold... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 2000 |
| Editor’s Forum For the second time in the life of the QHJ, I have allowed a whole year to go between issues.... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | December 2001 |
| Editor’s Note At last BYTE POWER is now SPECTRUM compatible!!! Yes it is now ready. You will find it on side B... | Eric Boisvert Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Spring 1987 |
| Editor’s Note Well, this is the 6th issue of BYTE POWER! Cause for celebration? Nah! We’ll wait for the 12th issue! As... | Kristian Boisvert Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1987 |
| Editor’s Note Some time ago we asked for program ideas for the magazine, we received a lot of neat ideas. We can’t... | Kristian Boisvert Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | December 1986/January 1987 |
| Editor’s Note HO! HO! HO! Looks like it’s Christmas time! We would like to take this moment to wish all of you... | Kristian Boisvert Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | November 1986 |
| Editor’s Note Well another issue again… Some neat stuff as always… We have AIRSHIP I: an animation program from Robert Zarembka, EXTENDED... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Winter 1989 |
| Editor’s Note Lots of stuff again this month!! Our best program ever CONFLICT is in the line up this month… then there... | Eric Boisvert Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1988 |
| Editor’s Note Hi there in computerland! Again, another issue packed with great programs! Future Hero, a superb platform game! Renumber II, a... | Eric Boisvert Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | May 1988 |
| Editor’s Notes Well, the printer did it again. I got yet another price for doing the May issue. (That sentance sure looks... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | June 1990 |
| Editor’s Notes Well, the printer did it again. I got yet another price for doing the June issue. (That sentence sure looks... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | July 1990 |
| Editor’s Notes Well, I did get a new printer. However it had a completely differ at set of operating codes so I... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | August 1991 |
| Editor’s Notes User group membership is an interesting statistic. A recent issue of the NESQLUG (or New England Sinclair QL Users Group)... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | April 1992 |
| Editor’s Notes One of our advertisers is missing. Indeed another of the Sinclair family of product sellers has gone. Some will have... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | August 1992 |
| Editor’s Notes In the unclassifieds there has been offered a FREE 16 K RAM for some time. Anybody want it? I am... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | October 1992 |
| Editor’s Notes The QZX history in the last issue ran a little longer than I had planned so there was only that... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | January 1993 |
| Editor’s Notes The big news for this issue is still that the complete QZX index is ready to be printed. For details,... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | March 1993 |
| Editor’s Notes There is a special reason that I made a big effort to get this issue in the mail in the... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | April 1993 |
| Editor’s Notes Well I made it. Last month I actually mailed QZX in the month listed on the cover. Unfortunately I slipped... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | May 1993 |
| Editor’s Notes I would particularly like comments about the article in this issue on the various Sinclair computers. Most of you already... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | June 1993 |
| Editor’s Notes A second printing of the index has been completed and the copies sent off to those who ordered them. A... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | September 1993 |
| Editor’s Notes It is hard to get QZX caught up. I am now traveling around a bit, which makes it even harder.... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | October 1993 |
| Editor’s Notes Proof reading is never done. Ten seconds after I glanced at the last issue after sending it out, I spotted... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | December 1993 |
| Editor’s Notes Here is the January issue of QZX. Unfortunately it is the January 1993 issue, not the January 1994 issue. There... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | January 1994 |
| Editor’s Notes Ås promised, here is the next issue of QZX about two weeks after the first issue of the year (1994).... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | February 1994 |
| Editor’s Notes The other night, I vas thinking about how nice it was that there were dedicated newsletters for the Zebra FDD... | Nite-Times News | July 1987 | |
| Editor’s Notes These computers always have a surprise for you. Or at least the programs do. I thought the last QZX was... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | July 1992 |
| Editorial [ rarely ever get to give an editorial in the newsletter. Sometimes when I write my weekly Timex column for... | David Baulch | The Data Expansion | May 1988 |
| Editorial In case you hadn’t noticed, a few changes have occured with SWN in the last couple of months. The appearance... | SyncWare News | Sept-Oct 1984 | |
| Editorial & Apology A number of you noted how late your September issue arrived. The fact is…we muffed it! We were late getting... | SUM | October 1985 | |
| Editorial on the Sinclair/Amstrad Deal What a shock! Only days after coming out from under rigorous bank supervision, Clive Sinclair sells his computer company to... | SUM | April 1986 | |
| Editors’ Note We think that the best thing to say right now is “WELCOME” to the first issue of BYTE POWER! BYTE... | Eric Boisvert Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | August 1986 |
| Editors’ Note Well, it’s time for our second issue of BYTE POWER! We must say that we were quite surprised by the... | Eric Boisvert Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | September 1986 |
| eFORTH Interpreter While on the subject of languages, I thought I would finally take a look at a program that I had... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1993 |
| Electronics Workbench Electronics Workbench is billed as the electronics lab in a computer by its creators, Interactive Image Technologies, LTD, 700 King... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | December 1993 |
| Emergency Power for the 2068 You never notice how often the power goes off until you start fooling around with computers. A great majority of... | SUM | April 1986 | |
| End-Of-File Finding A lot of the programs that I like to write are filters. They take a text file as input, do... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1998 |
| ENER-Z Me! If you could buy only one peripheral which would let your ZX/TS communicate with the real world, Ener-Z’s Report Generator... | Paul Donnelly | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| English Micro Connection Announces Microdrive Interface Bob Dyl of the English Micro Connection is helping lead the way in bringing the full range of Spectrum products... | SUM | April 1985 | |
| Enter Thank you for your patience. T-S Horizons is intended to be monthly but as you can see, you are holding... | T-S Horizons | April/May 1984 | |
| Enter The magazine publishing business can be pretty rough. For instance when you’re about two weeks late and you still don’t... | T-S Horizons | April 1985 | |
| Enter Unfortunately, this issue of T-S Horizons is late, thus the July/August cover. Of course T-S Horizons is intended to be... | Rick Duncan | T-S Horizons | July/August 1984 |
| Enter The introduction to T-S Horizons #1 (November 1983) stated that “[in the future] you will find that T-S Horizons will... | T-S Horizons | Sept 1984 | |
| Enter We thought we would go out on a limb in this issue and try something new. The result is the... | Rick Duncan | T-S Horizons | Dec 1984 |
| Enter: TSH One Thousand Since this issue marks the first anniversary of the publication of T-S Horizons, we are proud to announce that T-S... | Rick Duncan | T-S Horizons | Oct/Nov 1984 |
| Environment Variables The concept of Environment Variables comes from the Unix world. They are used slightly in MS-DOS, but not at all... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1998 |
| Ephemeris V – Review of an Astronomy Program The U. S. Naval Observatory annually produces a book that tells the positions of all the major celestial objects for... | SUM | May 1986 | |
| EPROM Programmer You Can Build, Part II To use the EPROM programmer discussed last month with the TS 1000/1500, you need to use the program listed here.... | Joseph Williamson | SUM | July 1986 |
| Ever Hear of the T/S 3068? (And Other Matters) At a recent meeting of the LIST (Long Island Sinclair Timex) users group, the former head of the Research and... | Time Designs Magazine | March/April 1988 | |
| Exchange Newsletters Since renewing our publication schedule in January, BoSTUG gets exchange newsletters from many groups across the continent. The newsletters are... | Peter Hale | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | September/October 1988 |
| Exclusive OR Encryption I’ve always been interested in encryption. Keeping my files safe from prying eyes has been more of a want than... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | December 1996 |
| Expanding UDGs Have you thought that when you wanted to print a pattern using user defined graphics on the screen that you... | SUM | September 1984 | |
| Exploring the TS1000 Sinclair Logic Chip (SCL) IX This month concludes the series with a discussion of some of the parameters used by the SCL and a few... | Don Lamen | QZX | July 1990 |
| Exploring the TS1000 Sinclair Logic Chip (SCL) VIII This article is a continuation of the series which began in the October 1989 issue of QZX. The purpose is... | Don Lamen | QZX | June 1990 |
| Extended Plot Extended Plot is a new operating system for the PLOT function… All you need to add in your BASIC programs... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Winter 1989 |
| Extra Memory Programming Most of us can visualize the computer's "regular" memory. We know that the ROM part of memory has "fixed" machine... | Bill Jones | Update Magazine | January 1988 |
| Fairware News So who’s left? Did you get a MAC II for Christmas? I’m updating my mailing list. If you want to... | Jack Dohany | The Data Expansion | February 1988 |
| Fast Action In 2K Description: In TS Destroyer, you fly in the center of the screen, and objets fly toward you from the left;... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| Field Labels Anyone? Myles Cohen from New York uses the ADD modification given in UPDATES vol. 1, #3, to simulate “labels” such as... | Pro/File Updates | January 1985 | |
| File Comparison Fcomp_c is another C program from the C User’s Journal disk #236 (Highly Portable Utilites). I only had to make... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1991 |
| Finally!!! Now you can transfer any of those data tapes in as previously described. Just follow these instructions: You should already... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| FIND2_C I have written a C program that will search for a particular string in a file. My first version of... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | February 1991 |
| First Look at Timex/Sinclair’s New Color Computer The new Timex Sinclair 2068 Personal Color Computer is much different than the computer originally announced at a trade show... | Computers & Electronics | November 1983 | |
| Fish Locator SUM Magazine has received many different programs for review. One of the most original is Fish Locator. Fish locator is... | Joseph Williamson | SUM | August 1985 |
| Fix For Tally Routine The following is only for those who have added the TALLY routine from the manual AND the MACHINE CODE SORT... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| Fixing Up “JUST ANOTHER SPREADSHEET!” A few weeks ago Rusty Townsend of Richmond, B.C., let us know about a BUG in the spreadsheet we published... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1987 |
| Fletcher’s Checksum The May issue of “Dr Dobb’s Journal” focused on data communications and included articles on checksums. One article covered Fletcher’s... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | June 1992 |
| Flying Your T/S1000 Description: In Night Gunner, you are the pilot of an airplane in combat with four enemy planes. At the center... | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| Follow our golden rules for better SAVEs and LOADs Programming on the T/S1000,ZX81 can be frustrating. These 10 tips should help you get over some of the problems! For... | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| For Your Sinclair When the Timex Computer Corporation here in the States closed their doors for good, a rumor was going around that... | Time Designs Magazine | July/August 1987 | |
| For Your Support ZEBRA SYSTEMS, INC., 78-06 Jamaica Ave., Woodhaven, NY 11421, (718) 296-2385 is currently offering Graphics Collection tapes for use with... | SyncWare News | ||
| For Your Support In this column, we will announce any software or hardware that is new or otherwise untested by us. If you... | SyncWare News | Sept-Oct 1984 | |
| For Your Support This column announces any software, hardware and related modifications that are new or otherwise untested by us. If you have... | SyncWare News | Mar-Apr 1986 | |
| For Your Support Paul Holmgren, 5231 Wilton Wood Ct., Indianapolis, IN 46254, asks you to try it before you buy! Where else can... | SyncWare News | March-April 1987 | |
| Fort Worth October Meeting Notes The meeting convened jointly ın ROOM 3052 of the INFOMART at 1950 Stemmons Freeway in downtown Dallas. The next meeting... | The Data Expansion | November 1987 | |
| Forth Do any of the following software “dilemmas” seem familiar? Jerry wants to write games programs which perform faster than his... | Robert Trelease | SYNC | March/April 1984 |
| FORTH for the 2068 Everyone should try FORTH. I am unaware of the exact ratio, but a certain percentage of those who try it... | T-S Horizons | Oct/Nov 1984 | |
| Forth Origins Chet Lambert, the publisher/editor/copyboy/ etc. of COMPUTER TRADER has prompted this article. At first, I resisted because of my identification... | Gary Smith | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| FORTH Programming I have been programming with FORTH for a number of years now and have used it on the 1802, PDP-11,... | Gary Ganger | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1993 |
| Forth-with Right now this column is little more than an idea that has been tossed about by myself and your Story... | Gary Smith | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Forth-With In Volume 1, No. 5 of Sync Ware News I approached you with the idea of presenting an introductory/ tutorial... | SyncWare News | Sept-Oct 1984 | |
| Forth: Language Unique I’m sure that many of you have heard rumblings or seen ads for a new computer language called “FORTH,” and... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Forum This column is designated for small talk. Forum will be a channel to communicate your needs, ideas and/or specialties to... | SyncWare News | Sept-Oct 1984 | |
| Forum Economists are always being quoted as saying that the best time to buy anything is last year. This year, they... | SyncWare News | March/April 1988 | |
| Fresh air from Reston If you’ve ever had to struggle through page after page of a boring book, you’ll really appreciate this breath of... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| From the Cluttered Desk Let me begin this time by congratulating Mr. Harry S. Wake of San Diego, California. He is our 1500th subscriber.... | Scott Duncan | T-S Horizons | April 1985 |
| From The Cluttered Desk… First of all I would like to thank all of you who have written to congratulate us on our first... | Scott Duncan | T-S Horizons | Dec 1984 |
| From the Desk of Bill Johnson Sinclair Research has lowered its price to $299 on the Sinclair QL computer, see page 16 for details. For this... | Bill Johnson | QuarTerS | Winter 1986 |
| 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... | Vernon Smith | CATS Newsletter | February/March 1989 |
| From the Editor I would like to thank everyone for their support over the past year and wish everyone a happy holiday season.... | SUM | November 1985 | |
| From the Editor: THE QHJ GOES ELECTRIC With this issue, the QHJ is now also being distributed via electronic mail. With the recent advent of a QL... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | March 1992 |
| From the Editor… As with Fred, my entry into computers came about three years ago, but my reasons were slightly different. A change... | Tom Bent | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| From the Editor’s Desk I have noted as the years pass that Computer Fests are taking on an atmosphere of a “family reunion”. I... | Bob Swoger (K9WVY) | Nite-Times News | May/June 1995 |
| From the Publisher’s Desk As many of you may already know, SyncWare News is published by four partners who are geographically spread out across... | SyncWare News | ||
| Fun In The Carrotpatch Description: In the game called Packrabbit, you are a rabbit being chased by four hunters. You must eat all the... | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| Game Changer Interface Clever hardware construction, both mechanical and electronic, and a solid comprehension of both 6502 (the Atari 2600 CPU) and Z80... | Syntax | July 1984 | |
| Game Changer Interface Clever hardvare construction, both mechanical end electronic, and a solid comprehension of both 6502 (the ATARI 2600's CPU) and Z80... | Paul Donnelly | LISTing Newsletter | February 1984 |
| Getting Into A BIG Printer I won’t spend much time or space extolling the virtues of a “big” printer for your ZX/TS computer. Suffice it... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Getting Started With Beta BASIC, Part 2 In Part 1 (SWN Vol. 5 No. 5) of this intro to Beta Basic (BB) we looked at some of... | Robert Hartung | SyncWare News | |
| Getting the Most Out of SBASIC More and more people are using SBASIC – the wonderful SuperBASIC compatible language which comes with any SMSQ for the... | Jochen Merz | International QL Report | January/February 1995 |
| Ghost Hunters No! This game is not at all a ‘PAC-MAN’ style of game! This game is divided into 4 parts: First,... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | December 1986/January 1987 |
| Glaring Omissions Dept. Far and away, the most common problem experienced by ZX PRO/FILE owners is enlarging the DS array to make use... | Pro/File Updates | January 1984 | |
| Go with the flow and no illogical jumps LAST MONTH I explained how to draw a flowchart of a program by splitting it into parts. Each part corresponds... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| Go-fer Now that disk drives are available for the ZX/TS computers (see SYNC 3:6 for my review of the Aerco Disk... | Paul Caley | SYNC | March/April 1984 |
| Going Camping Instead of packing tents, backpacks, cooking gear, the ol’ fishing pole, and hiking into the wilderness this summer, many thousands... | Ramblings: The Timex Computer Club Newsletter | September, October, November 1983 | |
| Good News: “THE NEWS” Lives! Shortly after SWN 1:4 was mailed, letters started coming in from concerned readers, encouraging us to continue publishing. It is... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Goodby I could not allow my subscription to expire without first writing to you to express my thanks for a job... | QZX | April 1990 | |
| Greeting Card Designer GREETING CARD DESIGNER is a sophisticated program that allows you to design and print out on your Epson compatible printer,... | SUM | February 1986 | |
| Gremlins, the Adventure First it was on the movie screen and now it has made its way to your monitor screen. GREMLINS, THE... | Jack Keene | SUM | August 1985 |
| Greyplot Dual Display Technique Unleash the power of grey graphics characters for data plotting, with the same vertical resolution as PLOT commands. Discover how... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| GST QC C Compiler – A Review I recently found out about another C compiler. Peter Tillier send me a copy (legal, of course) of a C... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | March 1995 |
| GUESS WHAT? The 3 players take turns trying to solve the puzzle. There are 3 rounds, so 3 puzzles will have to... | Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1988 |
| Guest Editorial Timex Computerists: Outlook Bright for New Products and Services. Immediately after TIMEX quit the computer business, it was kind of... | E. (Eben) Arthur Brown | T-S Horizons | July/August 1984 |
| Guest Editorial It is almost two years ago since I attended a press luncheon at the Tavern On The Green in Central... | T-S Horizons | April/May 1984 | |
| Hand-sized $200 home computer The Sinclair ZX80 costs only $200, yet it has the performance of units two or three times as expensive, the... | Popular Science | May 1980 | |
| Happy Simulated Landings Description: With the Flight Simulation program you must land your airplane successfully on the runway without crashing. Sitting in the... | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| Hardware Hotlines Online communities support computer users. Joe Newman, student at Bernard Baruch College and dealer, talks about the 1000, 2068. Joe... | Online Today | November, 1987 | |
| Hardware Project: EPROM Programmer You Can Build The cartridge dock of the 2068 was Supposed to open up a whole new dimension in instant loading software when... | Joseph Williamson | SUM | June 1986 |
| Hardware Projects When it comes right down to it, there’s not much the ZX/TS computers can be criticized for. The commonest complaints... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Hardware Review: MULE Electronics Keyboard Overlays Tired of trying to achieve a reasonable typing speed on the ZX-81 or T/S 1000 Keyboard? Forget the idea, give... | T-S Horizons | June 1984 | |
| Hardware Review: MultiForth EPROM Chip FORTH is a high-level computer language developed by Charles H. Moore in the last sixties. It was interpretive in the... | Sinc-Link | ||
| Hardware Review: Q-SAVE Q-SAVE is a speedy loader device for the TS 1000/ZX81. It can load a 16K program in about 25 seconds... | Doug Gangi | T-S Horizons | Oct/Nov 1984 |
| Hash Table What is hashing? What is a hash table? Well, a hash table is a data structure that allows one to... | Timelinez | May - June 1990 | |
| Headline — February 24, 1984: Timex Leaves the Market Timex Computer Corporation drops out of the home computer market! You read it right. Timex is not continuing with its... | SUM | March 1984 | |
| HELLO, WORLD In a number of recent postings to alt.folklore.computers, the answer to the question “What’s the shortest ‘Hello, World’ program for... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | August 1994 |
| HELLO! This utility is used as a boot program for the LARKEN LKDOS cartridge (ALL CARTRIDGES!) To transfer the program to... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1988 |
| Herb Schaaf’s Small C Programs Editor’s Note – Herb Schaaf has sent me a couple of Small C programs via e-mail. He did not include... | Herb Schaaf | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1991 |
| Here comes the 1500! First they brought you the T/S 1000! Next they promised the T/S 2000! But from what we have been able... | Danny Ross | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 |
| Here’s A Cheap Home Brew Tone Decoder That Works Great!! What’s a tone decoder, you ask? Well, a tone decoder is a vital piece of equipment which must be hooked... | Thomas B. Woods | Computer Updates | Winter 1986 |
| Hex Movement Library Recently I’ve been distracted by one of my other hobby, wargaming. There has been a discussion on USENET about freeware... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1993 |
| Hex Versus Decimal One thing for sure, I am new to computing and computers are new to me. My first computer was the... | SUM | January 1986 | |
| Hi Res and Other Matters A nice program for the TSZX computers is put out by PRISM. The program is called “High-Res Package”. For those... | Bill Roberts | Triangle Sinclair Users Group | April 1984 |
| Hi-Res Graphics for the TS-1000: A Review of I.S.I.’s Software “High Resolution Graphics MK. II” is a software high resolution graphics program for the TS-1000 line of computers. It has... | SUM | July 1985 | |
| Hidden Keyboard Commands on Your TS-2068 You’ve just handed over your hard earned cash fora new TS-2068 computer and hurry home to set up the system.... | W. Fred Clabuesch | Computer Trader Magazine | May 1985 |
| 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... | CATS Newsletter | January - February 1985 | |
| Highlights of the Last Meeting Sue Mahoney opened the meeting with an update on the status of the new Timex computers. She said the TS-1500... | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | July 1983 | |
| History and Background On Our User Group This month will mark the beginning of our third year as the Sinclair-Timex User Group. The user group is a... | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | October 1983 | |
| Horace … At Last! A common complaint in the microcomputer field is that those who make the hardware don’t know how to write the... | Richard Cravy | SUM | September 1984 |
| HOT Z Clinic Hot-Z for both the TS1000 and 2068 has been in constant demand since I first first added it to my... | Thomas B. Woods | Computer Updates | Spring 1986 |
| HOT Z Clinic Last time, we looked at the details surrounding HOT-Z’s READ mode. This issue, we’ll use HOT-Z to write some machine... | Thomas B. Woods | Computer Updates | Summer 1986 |
| HOT Z-2068 Once again, Ray Kingsley has brought out one of the most powerful machine-code monitors I have ever seen. Everyone planning... | Syntax | May 1984 | |
| House Of Coding Style I was recently doing some CGI-BIN programming in Perl. Since I was new to CGI-BIN programming, I did what every... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | May 1996 |
| How (Not) to Sell Computers: An Editorial Hard times have fallen upon many in the computer industry. As a result, companies are having to be a lot... | SUM | September 1985 | |
| How a Compiler Works A compiler is a program that takes a high level language like BASIC and converts it to machine code. The... | John Richard Coffey | T-S Horizons | July/August 1984 |
| How Do They Do That – Editors Here is an interesting response to a posting on editing files larger than memory. The algorithm listed below has a... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1993 |
| How educational are the “educational” programs KIDS DO LEARN from using computer games. This does not make those games educational programs. To be educational, a program... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| How I started a user group A lot of people have asked me, “What is a user group and how does one get started?” A user... | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| How To Connect An IBM Keyboard To Your Timex 2068 This article shows you how you can use a full size IBM compatible keyboard with your computer and create a... | Thomas B. Woods | Computer Updates | Summer 1986 |
| 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... | CATS Newsletter | July 1987 | |
| How to Make Music with the TS 2068, Part 1 NOTE:The Pro Shop is a regular fea- to provide advanced concepts to the seasoned TS computer programmer. As we continue... | Time Designs Magazine | Nov-Dec 1984 | |
| How To Transfer Data To New Versions If you have more than one tape of PRO/FILE, you are aware of the problem of making improvements since they... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| HOW To Use The ROMPAK TS1000 PRO/FILE Answer: The Quickload Pro/File cartridge which was manufactured by Rompak, and is still being sold by Sunset Electronics in San... | Thomas B. Woods | Computer Updates | Spring 1986 |
| I Have Moved to the FD-68 Completely I now, thanks to the quick reply from Jack Dohany, have the MSCRIPT AERCO disk, version 5.3. This is just... | The Data Expansion | November 1987 | |
| In and Out of SYNC What’s a Brand X doing in SYNC Magazine? With improving technology and intensifying competition in the small computer market, more... | SYNC | March/April 1984 | |
| In and Out of SYNC Review of the Video Technology VZ200 computer and comparison to Sinclair BASIC. | David Ahl David Grosjean | SYNC | November/December 1983 |
| In search of a golden memory THE MOST important hardware device you can add to your computer is a memory unit. In this article we analyse... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| In Sync #2: User Defined Graphics for the 2068 As I promised last month, here is the listing for the UDG program. Since it is a rather long program,... | John Bell | T-S Horizons | April 1985 |
| In Sync: Exploring 2068 Video Modes One of the reasons I bought a 2068 was to use the advanced video modes described in appendix C of... | T-S Horizons | May/June 1986 | |
| In this Corner… The battle for supremacy among very-low-cost microcomputers heats up as Texas Instruments' 99/2 goes head to head with the Timex... | Computers & Electronics | June 1983 | |
| In Touch With The World “Imagine pressing a key on your computer and being in touch with…” the WORLD! This is a slight paraphrase of... | Bill Ferrebee | T-S Horizons | July/August 1984 |
| In Touch With The World Welcome to this month’s column! I have a lot of interesting information for those of you that have already joined... | Bill Ferrebee | T-S Horizons | Sept 1984 |
| In Touch With The World No. 3 Welcome again to the column, and this month I will “shift gears in midstream”, so to say. Originally I had... | Bill Ferrebee | T-S Horizons | Oct/Nov 1984 |
| Infix to Postfix In the March 1992 issue of “The C Users Journal”, Rex Jaeschke has a column called “Doctor C’s Pointers”. He... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | June 1992 |
| Informative Letter from Doug Smith, Timex’ Director of Product/Market Planning Thank you for your recent request for technical information on the 2068 computer. Available information is as follows. A large... | Doug Smith | Triangle Sinclair Users Group | April 1984 |
| Inside the T/S1000, ZX81 IF you get the chance, look inside an IBM PC. You’ll see acres of board covered with countless chips, resistors,... | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| INTEREST CALCULATION This section will first ask you to enter the data such as the loan amount, term, etc. It will then... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1987 |
| International Winter Consumer Electronics Show The semi-annual gathering of the manufacturers and retailers, writers and ad reps, innovators and imitators in the consumer electronics industry:... | Creative Computing | March 1981 | |
| Internet Conciseness Contest Mark Schnitzius (schnitzi@eustis.cs.ucf.edu) has started and runs the Internet Conciseness Contest. The contest is designed to provide an outlet for... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1993 |
| Internet Conciseness Programming Contest: Round 5 You are given a sheet of paper that contains all asterisks (‘*’) on top, and all pound signs (‘#’) on... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1993 |
| Intro to I/O Here are a couple articles that introduce you to control applications for the T/S computers (ZX81, TS1000, TS1500) with a... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Introducing the Experimentor’s Universal Input/Output Port Some of you may remember that a LONG time ago, I said I wanted to offer a simple parallel port... | Pro/File Updates | October 1985 | |
| 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... | CATS Newsletter | April 1987 | |
| Introduction To Channels On The 2068 Did you know that your 2068 has a feature built-in to it which allows you to link new peripherals into... | Thomas B. Woods | Computer Updates | Summer 1986 |
| Inventory Program for 2068 I tried to make this an user-friendly program. If the program is interrupted, it should be restarted with GOTO 50.... | Thornton Benson | SUM | July 1986 |
| Italian Software While looking at the archives for the comp.sources.misc newsgroup on Usenet I noticed that there had been a posting on... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1991 |
| Iterated Function Systems IFS is what Michael Barnsley calls his Iterated Function Systems, and IFS is another part of fractals (remember those Mandelbrot... | Herb Schaaf | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1991 |
| JOYFU Or Find The Missing Construct JOYFU when sounded out means “Joyful, with no L” or as it is really supposed to be sounded out “Joyfull... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | June 1995 |
| Just Another Spreadsheet This little goodie will let you create formulas with all mathematical functions found on the TS2068 + 2 special functions,... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1987 |
| Just for Fun “Just for Fun” shares short programs that illustrate a point, demonstrate a technique, or show something the author has found... | Frank Terranella Christopher Marsh Brian Kautz Robert Midura J. C. Newton | SYNC | March/April 1984 |
| Just for Fun Calculate PI to 8,192 places; update to Ricochet; INPUT anywhere; COPY lines 23 and 24. | Blanchard Smith Robert Midura David Rowland Matt Dralle William Baldwin | SYNC | November/December 1983 |
| Kempston QL Disk Drive: Making a Good Thing Better The Sinclair QL comes equipped with two Microdrives. They offer much faster access and reliability ‘as well as convenience) than... | SUM | December 1985 | |
| Kempston, Another Spectrum Disk Interface I have been using the Kempston disc drive interface on one of my TS 2068’s since early October and I... | SUM | April 1986 | |
| Key Modifications for 2068 Users Recently SUM ran an article on English keyboards available for Spectrum and 2068 users. At that time detailed instructions were... | SUM | January 1986 | |
| Kitchen Sync As has already been said in the pages of SYNC and elsewhere, Clive Sinclair deserves some sort of medal for... | SYNC | January/February 1982 | |
| Kitchen Sync Writing a program to calculate mortgage payments. | Alan Groupe | SYNC | November/December 1983 |
| Knight’s Tour The “Knight’s Tour” is a familiar chess puzzle. The object is to move a knight according to chess rules around... | Robert Midura | SYNC | March/April 1984 |
| Language Design Principles Jon Bentley has been around computers for years, spending most of his time with AT&T Bell Labs (the birth place... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | June 1995 |
| LARKEN Disk Interface A few months ago, Larry Kenny of LARKEN ELECTRONICS called us to let us know about his new disk interface.... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1988 |
| LARKEN RAMDisk for T/S 2068: A Review I recently received an order from Larken Electronics with Ramdisk on a medium-sized (3×7) circuit card and a replacement EPROM... | Jim Rodlin | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | September/October 1988 |
| Laser Cannon A fleet of 20 "X” ships is attacking you. You must destroy at least 15 of them or be destroyed. | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| Latest Vendor News A & J Microdrive has recently reduced prices on their Model 2000 stringy floppy. The system now is $149.50 with... | SUM | June 1985 | |
| Let the structure flow and you are well on the way ANY PROGRAMS written by beginners to computing show a lack of what professionals call structure. The structure of a program... | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| Let’s Read TS2068 Disks With Your QL Well, here it is. You can read Timex 2068 Oliger disks with a QL with nothing more then a disk... | Update Magazine | October 1991 | |
| Letter Find enclosed a check to enroll me as a member of [NESQLUG]. I am 64 years old and retired. The... | Bob Madaris | NESQLUG News | March/April 1992 |
| Letter from Ed Grey to SNUG Now that the smoke has cleared and you have had time to evaluate the Orlando Winterfest, I would be interested... | Ed Grey | The Data Expansion | May 1988 |
| Letter from Editor With all the changes that have been taking place over the past several weeks, it’s going to be interesting to... | SUM | April 1986 | |
| Letter from Michael Finn re WD 1770 Data Sheet Here are the photocopies of the data sheet for the Western Digital 1770 chip. If you refer to page 45... | Mike Finn | FDD Newsletter | September 1991 |
| Letter from Pete Fischer I received a pleasant surprise about Thursday of last week, Pete Fischer, co-author of the Telecommunications Guide for Timex Computers,... | David Baulch Pete Fischer | The Data Expansion | April 1988 |
| Letter from the Editors Well, this is it! With this issue of SUM we complete two full years of publishing this magazine in its... | SUM | July 1986 | |
| Letter from Your Editor and Publisher We at SUM Magazine would like to thank all of you for the support you have shown over the past... | Joseph Williamson Richard Cravy | SUM | June 1986 |
| Letter to the Editor Congratulations for one of the finest (if not THE finest), and most informative User’s Group Newsletter, that I have seen.... | John Mitchell | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | May/June 1988 |
| Letters Reference the question in your last magazine about the availability of the program “Prologue” for the ZX Spectrum computer. Sinclair... | Charles Byler Vince Stimmel Joe Jenkins Richard Templeton Jack Keene Carl Green Charles Eric Goyette | Time Designs Magazine | January/February 1987 |
| Letters I need some assistance! It concerns all these helpful books written by the English for the English, then sold to... | Timex Sinclair User | August 1983 | |
| Letters I enjoy reading your magazine because of its great insight into the needs of its readers. You do a great... | SYNC | March/April 1984 | |
| Letters 8K ROM Double Images; Taxman; An Inventory System; Hampson's Plane; Flag Use Tip; ZX80/81 World; The Great Circle Route. | SYNC | January/February 1982 | |
| Letters Updates on adding a joystick; making backups of machine language tapes; hardware problems. | Ed Shaughnessy Michael Miller Mike Lagodmos Paul Beatty Raymond Townsend Ed Hostetler | SYNC | November/December 1983 |
| Letters “Thanks for the TASWORD TWO tips (in the May/June 1985 issue). I have tried to use these in my Tasword... | Time Designs Magazine | September/October 1985 | |
| Letters: Lending an Ear, Keeping the Faith, Complaint Department I purchased the Timex Sinclair to see if a 60-year-old retired gent could learn computer programming. I do have problems... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| Levenstein Distance The Levenstein Distance is a measure of how close two strings are to each other. The Levenstein Algoritm is used... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1991 |
| LF/CR to LF in Editors All of the C programs that I get from non-QL sources get to the QL via an MS-DOS disk. As... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1992 |
| LibXmenu LibXmenu is a C68 library, written by Jerome Grimbert, to help write menu-based programs. When I first heard of it... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 2000 |
| Lifetime’s obsession can easily be acquired BUYING a T/S1000,ZX81 can be the start of a lifetime obsession with home computing. It is easy, however, to become... | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| Link to the real world Down East Computers of Greenville, N.C., has produced an allpurpose voltage and temperature measuring system designed to interface with the... | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| LIST! Are you LISTening? In his June issue of QL Corner, Bob Gilder wrote about Ruth Fegley having “oxidation problems on the interface pins... | Bob Swoger (K9WVY) | Nite-Times News | March/April 1995 |
| Listing Scanner Here is a short listing you might find useful. I developed it after trying to find the mistakes, and there... | Paul Holmgren | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Loading Tasword II on the A & J Microdrive Using the A & J Microdrive to load Tasword II takes less than 30 seconds! But to SAVE the program... | SUM | April 1985 | |
| Logan’s Run… Interview with Ian Logan, author of several Sinclair ROM disassembly books. | Popular Computing Weekly | 22-28 September 1983 | |
| Logic Analyzer For my senior project in Electrical Engineering at the University of Florida, I decided to get to know my 2068... | SUM | ||
| LOTTO You can define how many numbers in a selections and between what numbers. The Menu 1- Choose number selections. The... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1988 |
| LZW Compression In the June and Oct 1992 issues of Dr. Dobb’s Journal, there were two articles on LZW compression. The second... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1992 |
| LZW Compression Through work I have come to know one Alex Bocast. When I first met Alex, he mentioned working on a... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1992 |
| Machine Code and Your TV Screen One of the ways that Basic is slow is in putting things on the screen. Have you ever played a... | SYNC | July/August 1983 | |
| Machine Code in Pro/File: Where to Stick It Enhancements to PRO/FILE that are written in machine code can present a problem in deciding where in memory you should... | Pro/File Updates | April 1984 | |
| Machine Code Topics: 2068 BASIC ROM Calls This is the first of an occasional and indefinite series on machine-code programming for the 2068. I do not intend... | SyncWare News | Sept-Oct 1984 | |
| Machine Code Tutor Well, we pulled a fast one on you all last month. We were testing you and noone wrote and said... | SUM | July 1986 | |
| Machine Code Tutor: A Comprehensive Review MACHINE CODE TUTOR for the 2068 is a program on two cassettes and consists of 35 lessons. The advertising states... | James Brezina | SUM | June 1986 |
| Machine language simplified THE LACK of an author’s name on Machine Language Programming Made Simple For Your Sinclair ZX-80 and ZX-81 indicates it... | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| MacPaint File Printing Don Walterman has sent a program that reads a MacPaint file and prints to an HP Deskjet printer. Don claims... | Don Walterman | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1993 |
| Magnavox RGB Monitor: Inexpensive Color Any Spectrum or TS-2068 owner who has seen their model of computer running on an RGB monitor is never really... | SUM | December 1985 | |
| Mailbag – Editor’s Mail I received some interesting things in the mailbag this week. I have been on the Kaypro board keeping in contact... | The Data Expansion | March 1988 | |
| Mailing List This program will let you keep names of members of your user group, friends, etc and allow you to print... | Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1987 |
| Make duplicate files Here’s a hint to save time when editing many files at about the same screen location. In line 5002 the... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| Making Backups Before we get too involved with making changes let’s provide a simple way to make backups of your master program... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| Making Music with the ZON X-81 Programming the ZON, Bi-Pak’s sound generator, to play a simple tune is no simple task. On the other hand, it... | Sharon Zardetto Aker | SYNC | November/December 1983 |
| Mass Storage for the TS-1000 Has Arrived! One of the most memorable moments I have of my TS1000 is the day I brought it home from the... | SUM | May 1986 | |
| Math Development Program Unravel the mystery of Simultaneous Linear Equations, understand their practical applications, and see how these mathematical systems can unlock everyday... | Fred Nachbaur Tom Bent | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Math Development Program, Part 2 Ok, Ok, I can hear it now; it’s just another simultaneous equation program. Anybody can write one or at least... | Fred Nachbaur Tom Bent | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Math Development Program, Part 3 Explore the fascinating world of integration, as we delve into the legacy of Gauss and Newton, and the modern techniques... | Fred Nachbaur Tom Bent | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Math Development Program, Part 4 Explore the fascinating world of integration, as we delve into the legacy of Gauss and Newton, and the modern techniques... | Fred Nachbaur Tom Bent | SyncWare News | June 1983 – June 1984 |
| Maus.sys.ql In the European part of Usenet, there is a newsgroup called Maus.sys.ql. This newsgroup is for the discussion of all... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | September 1992 |
| Maze Solution with CA I’ve been playing with Cellular Automata (CA) since College. (See QHJ #4 for a more in depth discussion of CA)... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1993 |
| Meet Jeff DeCourtney Jeff DeCourtney joined CATUG in the Spring of 1994 while he lived in Elmhurst. In all that time he only... | Nite-Times News | March/April 1995 | |
| Meet the man who clogged up Connecticut’s phone system In our premier issue, Timex Sinclair User features an exclusive interview with Dan Ross, the man who heads up the... | Danny Ross Joseph Gladstone | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 |
| Meet the Survivors Well, now you know that SWN is among the publications that survived the Timex “crash.” Thank God that we’re not... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Meeting Notes – August The meeting convened in MEETING ROOM ‘A’ of the Fort Worth Public Library at 300 Taylor Street in downtown Fort... | David Baulch | The Data Expansion | September 1988 |
| Meeting Notes – July This was quite a surprise meeting. I was not positive who was going to show up so I requested that... | David Baulch | The Data Expansion | August 1988 |
| Meeting Notes – March The meeting was the joint meeting of the Fort Worth and Dallas Timex/Sinclair groups. The Fort Worth contingency made it... | David Baulch | The Data Expansion | April 1988 |
| Meeting Notes: Fort Worth We had a very small turnout, possibly because this was the first time in a while that the weather was... | David Baulch | The Data Expansion | March 1988 |
| Member Profile The whole thing started at the Robson Square Media Centre Computer Fair in mid September 1983. For me the most... | Gerd Breunung | ZX-Appeal | April 1987 |
| Member Profile I had always told myself I would never buy a computer. That is until I saw an ad for a... | Jay Mundy | ZX-Appeal | December 1987 |
| Member Profile Anxious to find someone to repair her Timex Sinclair she inquired at the Commodore Users Group and was referred to... | ZX-Appeal | December 1987 | |
| Member Profile My first computer was a ZX-81, purchased in early 1983 while I was working on a project in northern Saskatchewan.... | Bob C. Dick | ZX-Appeal | February 1987 |
| Member Profile Having been brought up on the tail-end of an old education system, where electronic calculators and computers were forbidden and... | Chung Chow | ZX-Appeal | February - March 1988 |
| Member Profile On a personal note, I’m married and live in Richmond, both quite happily now for many years. My other spare-time... | Rusty Townsend | ZX-Appeal | March 1987 |
| Member Profile It all began one cold and windy day in Saskatchewan. In fact it was so windy it was the reason... | Gale Winterburn | ZX-Appeal | November - December 1988 |
| Member Profile: Ken Abramson It all began with my attending a B.C. Teachers’ Federation conference on computer technology in 1980. I had previously been... | Ken Abramson | ZX-Appeal | December 1989 |
| Membership Profile I am a school teacher, Grade 7/8 level, in the Math, Science and Geography areas. I presently use a TS... | Dave Noordhoff | ZX-Appeal | January 1989 |
| Membership Profile: Jim Horne I spend about 12-16 hours a day hacking away on this little black box doing who knows what. It could... | Jim Horne | ZX-Appeal | November - December 1988 |
| MEMOTEXT Oddities The Memotech WP “Memotext” is the best one I’ve seen for the ZX81/TS1000 to date (and as of Thanksgiving, 1984,... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Meteors You are piloting a spaceship when suddenly appears an onslaught of meteorites which must be avoided at any cost. Your... | SYNC | March/April 1984 | |
| MicroEmacs Line Numbering I’ve been meaning to tinker around with MicroEmacs macros for some time, but never got around to it. Recently I... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1998 |
| MicroEmacs Macros Thierry Godefroy has ported over the latest version of MicroEmacs 4.00 to the QL. He has added Pointer Environment support... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | June 1999 |
| Mid-West TS Computerfest A Smashing Success In early May I packed up my bags and headed for Cincinnati, Ohio to attend the Mid-West TS Computerfest. What... | Thomas B. Woods | Computer Updates | Spring 1986 |
| Midwest TS Computerfest a Success! Just as the future of our computers grows dim again, the Midwest TS Computerfest comes along and brightens things up!... | SUM | May 1986 | |
| Mike’s Notebook: LARGE Here’s another easy-to-use command utility which quickly PRINTs a string of text at any size and at any pixel coordinate... | The Plotter | March 1991 | |
| Milwaukee “Family Reunion” We enjoyed this Fest more than any of the others, since we hosted the event last year. You can’t imagine... | Audrey Curnutt Robert M Curnutt | CATS Newsletter | August 1990 |
| Miracle in Newport ’93 Due to circumstances beyond our control, the Miracle Systems Demonstration of their new QL products, originally slated to be held... | LISTing Newsletter | April 1993 | |
| Miracle in Newport Show Report Those who have not yet heard of the super time that was had by a group of North American QL... | Update Magazine | July 1993 | |
| Mister Butterfly Mister Butterfly is looking for his 5 children, can you help him find them? They were playing with their balloons... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Spring 1987 |
| Modem Tips “TS 2050 Modem links you with a new world of opportunities” as an ad for Timex once stated, and its... | SUM | October 1984 | |
| Monitor Output for the TS-1000 & 1500 I have had numerous requests on how to add direct video to the TS-1000 & TS-1500 computers so as to... | SUM | July 1985 | |
| More from the Editor’s Mailbag These were inadvertently left out from the original MAILBAG. I think they needed to be added in. I, again, am... | David Baulch | The Data Expansion | March 1988 |
| More on Q-Save in the 1500 Since my last tip on using QSAVE with the Timex 1500 (see Updates vol. 1, #4), it seems I may... | Pro/File Updates | January 1985 | |
| More on Spectrum ROMs As far as I know I was one of the first 2068 users to put Spectrum ROM in my machine.... | SUM | January 1985 | |
| More On Text Editors Reading through Tim’s article on text editors in QHJ #13, I found that his list of editors available on the... | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1993 | |
| More than Electronic Babysitting The man behind the camp program at Wesleyan College in Fort Worth, doesn’t like to make predictions. But one fact... | Ellen Vanstone | Timex Sinclair User | August 1983 |
| More Timex Sinclair Without the intricate thread of newsletters, BBS SIGs and users groups that tie us together, the destiny of our computers... | Micheal O'Brien | Computer Shopper | 198? |
| More Timex Sinclair Time to crank up this old bucket of bytes for another fascinating month, as my fingers gingerly dance across the... | Computer Shopper | April 1989 | |
| More Timex Sinclair Twas the Night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a Sinclair was blinking, not even a “mouse.” The... | Micheal O'Brien | Computer Shopper | February 1987 |
| More Timex Sinclair My list of New Years resolutions looks like the confessions of a choir boy. Quit smoking (in front of anyone... | Micheal O'Brien | Computer Shopper | January 1988 |
| More Timex Sinclair The mailman made his final approach to my front porch laden down with this months software and hardware packages, flashing... | Computer Shopper | October 1987 | |
| More Timex Sinclair Dust off the modem, in just a few short weeks as the temperature cools, telecomputing activity zooms to new heights.... | Micheal O'Brien | Computer Shopper | September 1987 |
| More Timex Sinclair Not one to get easily excited over new developments, there have been some fairly significant gains made in hardware/software product... | Micheal O'Brien | Computer Shopper | June 1988 |
| More Timex-Sinclair During the last two months, I have gone through more changes than Sherlock Holmes. Mostly “time changes,” but these wandering... | Micheal O'Brien | Computer Shopper | November 1988 |
| Mscript with MSDOS Many of us made a choice years ago of using either TASWORD II or MSCRIPT for word processing on our... | Dick Wagner | The Plotter | July 1994 |
| MTERM (Smart II) Telecommunications Hints and Tips The MTERM Smart II telecommunications program for the Timex/Sinclair 2068 personal computer is a fine value. This software package exceeds... | Barry Carter | SUM | August 1985 |
| Music on the ZX81 The default music device on the ZK81 is the Zon X-81. It was an add-on that came with an AY... | Tim Swenson | ZX-26 | January 2026 |
| MUSIcomp This program is a very basic music writer using the A,B,C… method for inputing the notes, once loaded a menu... | Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | November 1986 |
| MUSIprint This music utility will allow you to play music using the LPRINT (PRINT #3) command. A typical example of how... | Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1988 |
| My kind of town Tim Hartnell reports back from the Consumer Electronics Show. After some 18 months with the Timex version of the ZX81,... | Tim Hartnell | ZX Computing | August/September 1983 |
| My Report of the T/S Fest ’87 My wife Heddy and І arrived in Indianapolis at 5:30PM local time on Friday May ist after an uneventful USAir... | Ed Grey | Nite-Times News | May 1987 |
| Mystery clouds Amstrad deal The credibility of Amstrad’s deal with Sinclair has been further eroded with news that, far from having “worldwide rights to... | Sinclair User | July 1986 | |
| Natural Language A while back I asked for some help in porting a program listed in the C Users Journal. Emiliano Barbaini... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | August 1994 |
| Navigating Through the Display File Jungle At least one reader was dissappointed with my April Fool article on display files, last time. He’d first thought that... | Sincus News | May - June 1986 | |
| New 2068 Library Volumes! Catalog of contents of CATS library tapes. Volume 8 Volume 9 | John Riley | CATS Newsletter | July 1987 |
| New Lamps for Old! After a few modifications, you can run most ZX81 BASIC programs on our IBM PC or clone. This article will... | Paul Donnelly | Computer Shopper | January 1988 |
| New Product Check out the new toolkit by Pete Hoffman, Delphic Enterprises, Box 72205, Corpus Christie, 78472. They supply EPROMs for $18,... | Fred Nachbaur | QZX | March 1984 |
| New Product News; Old Product Offers GREAT NEWS! TIMEX SINCLAIR USER magazine does NOT appear to be dead, as we last reported, but it may be... | Triangle Sinclair Users Group | April 1984 | |
| New Products Memotech has just released three (four if you count the keyboard) new products. These three new add-ons are firmware, which... | SUM | May 1983 | |
| New Products and Services (Syntax v5 n5) Biocal Software (167 Wilson St., Petaluma, CA 94952 707/7634348) announces new software for the ZX/TS: Rebound (paddle ball game). Life... | Syntax | May 1984 | |
| New Products and Services (Syntax v5 n9) Peech II Productions supplies 2068 educational software titles ranging from VERBS to DRAWING priced under $10. For details write them:... | Syntax | September 1984 | |
| New Public Domain/Freeware QL Software In the past few months I have recieved some disks containing public domain and Freeware software for the QL. The... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | June 1992 |
| New QL: Reader Response from Giuseppe Zanetti [Giuseppe has sent this response via e-mail from Italy. His English is far better than my Italian, but I did... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1992 |
| New Sinclair – Cheaper, Better WALLINGFORD, CT – The lowest- priced personal computer is getting less expensive and is gaining features. In England, Clive Sinclair,... | Infoworld | April 27, 1981 | |
| New Timex/Sinclair BBS Notices This month we have three new BBS to announce that support the efforts of the Timex/Sinclair community. The SINCLAIR AT... | Gary Lessenberry | Nite-Times News | July 1987 |
| New Uses Dept. Jim Cripps of Central Islip, NY has compiled a large foreign language translation data base using ZX PRO/FILE. His family... | Pro/File Updates | January 1984 | |
| New view on the world: Pioneer designs 3-D camera lenses with micro If the 3-D camera and viewing system invented by [Eric] Howlett really catches on, it will be due in part... | Infoworld | March 26, 1984 | |
| Newport Miracle Even in Newport, Herb and I carpooled and thus had a chance to talk about what to think about, look... | CATS Newsletter | July 1993 | |
| News In the last month I have recieved quite a bit of QL related news. Most of it is important to... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | August 1991 |
| News Analysis As the Wall Street Journal put it in a February 23 headline, “Timex, Anticipating Market Upheavals, Discontinues Sale of Home... | T-S Horizons | March 1984 | |
| News and Notes E-Z KEY has just announced that they now have available a keyboard interface module that allows a keyboard to be... | SUM | April 1985 | |
| News Flash Timex has reached a $50m agreement with an unnamed Polish industrial firm — via its European agent Takis Patrikarakos of... | LISTing Newsletter | July - September 1986 | |
| 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... | CATS Newsletter | November 1983 | |
| News From Timex Where, 0, Where are the TS2068 technical manuals? I’ve spoken with many people who ordered the new tech manual from... | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | August 1984 | |
| News Items The Commodore 1351 Mouse can be used with the LarKen system. Plug the mouse into the Kempston joystick, hold down... | Nite-Times News | May/June 1990 | |
| Nissim’s Marvel I’ll start out the software part of the reviews with a package you may have seen the ad for and... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| No Faire for Timex Fifty thousand people agreed that the 8th West Coast Computer Faire, held in San Francisco from March 18 to March... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| Northeast Computer Show in Boston draws 50,000 BOSTON, MA-Moving robots, cars and watches that talk, computer games and every manner of software, hardware, gizmos and gimmicks were... | Infoworld | November 9, 1981 | |
| Notes CRAGIST: Cedar Rapids And Greater Iowa Sinclair Timex. First meeting January 19th 1986. Meetings have been sparsely attended, overtime and... | Donald Lambert | CRAGIST Newsletter | Jan-Feb 1990 |
| Notes I have had a number of inquiries both by phone and by letter about various T/S questions. All prompted by... | Donald Lambert | CRAGIST Newsletter | Mar-Jun 1990 |
| Notes – QL, Serial Ports & Modems This little article is about some things I’ve learned and observed while using my QL and its serial ports. This... | John Impellizzeri | International QL Report | January/February 1995 |
| Notes from the Editor This has been an interesting past month. I have had а few special phone calls and letters from people concerning... | The Data Expansion | October 1986 | |
| Notes from the Editor David describes the ways he uses his TS 2068 in his business. | David Baulch | The Data Expansion | August 1987 |
| Notes from the Editor This has been a fairly exhausting month. There has been so much going on that I really do not know... | David Baulch | The Data Expansion | February 1988 |
| Notes from the Editor I have become aware in the last few months of the demise of the Timex computers. I know that it... | David Baulch | The Data Expansion | March 1988 |
| Notes from the Editor There has been quite a bit on my mind as of late, and of course, it involves the Timex computers... | David Baulch | The Data Expansion | April 1988 |
| Notes On Programming In C While surfing on the Net (as the media likes to hype) I ran into a site that had some essays... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1996 |
| Now: World’s First $100 Personal Computer Low cost and wide distribution may make this system the cornerstone of the long-awaited computer revolution. | W. J. Hawkins | Popular Science | August 1982 |
| Number Crunching “ZX” It’s not often that a short piece of new programming can add a whole new dimension to a program, but... | Pro/File Updates | January 1985 | |
| Numbers Are No No’s One of the big advantages of the T/S machine is also one of its disadvantages; its five-byte floating point binary... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| NVM and the 2068 Often while folks gather and talk about their computers I hear something like this, “Why don’t you try this” and... | SyncWare News | ||
| Object Oriented Programming On The Ql I’ve been watching the current trend in programming move toward the Object Oriented paradigm for some time now and I... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | March 1995 |
| Odds, Ends, Etc. While most of the “survivors” of the recent Great Magazine Showdown, as well as the majority of their advertisers, are... | T-S Horizons | Dec 1984 | |
| Of Flags and Strings and Other Things Well, folks, we were scooped by James Grosjean in SYNC magazine on the planned subject for this issue. So I’ll... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Oh Really? How Hot is It? This comes as a sequel to last issues not-a-review on this program, It became apparent to me that I was... | Tom Bent | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Okay – So It Comes In Baggies In our vendor reports last month, SYNTAX said Timex software doesn’t come in baggies. Yes it does, and honest stuff,... | Syntax | September 1984 | |
| Olio a la Oliger SWN being a technically oriented magazine, it is very fitting to review various hardware efforts reported in other magazines, that... | Tom Bent | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| On Board Computer While for many years the upper echelon of the aviation community has enjoyed the benefits of high-tech devices, general aviation... | CATS Newsletter | May 1985 | |
| ON ERROR This utility is mostly used for error trapping on the Spectrum but can be used on a TS2068 also. It... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | May 1988 |
| Overloader ver 1.2 (AERCO) In the December issue of the newsletter, John Battey, my CO-EDITOR, came up with an exceptional program called OVERLOADER. When... | David Baulch | The Data Expansion | February 1988 |
| Pablo Pixel-O I have thoroughly enjoyed my ZX-81 for years. I have added a full-size keyboard, 64k of memory and the Timex/Sinclair... | Time Designs Magazine | September/October 1985 | |
| Paging Control One of the advantages of building a ZX81 from a kit was that you got a schematic with the manual,... | Paul Hunter | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Parameter Passing Mechanisms There are many parameter passing mechanisms that are used to pass data into, out of or both into and out... | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1996 | |
| Parameter Passing Techniques In S*Basic In QHJ#24 and #25 there were articles on parameter passing techniques (By Tim Swenson and by Peter Tillier, respectively). I... | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1998 | |
| Pascal for the TS2068 One of the buzz-words in the programming field these days is “structured programming”. In general, this refers to programming in... | Nite-Times News | March 1987 | |
| Passing Parameters When I was learning Pascal, one of the hurdles I had to get over was the concept of parameter passing.... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | May 1996 |
| Paste AT In our never-ending efforts to improve and simplify the creation and editing of files, we have added UPDATE, DUPLICATE, and... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| PEEK: A Member Our PEEK*a Member subject for this month took us to the home of Wes Brzozowski, an electrical engineer by occupation,... | Sincus News | July - August 1983 | |
| Peeking and Poking About Warning! Dont start this one if you’re sleepy. It requires concentration. -ed. One of the fun things about using the... | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| Perceptions In the last issue of SYNC (1 :6) I began a discussion of the conversion of programs from the 4K... | SYNC | January/February 1982 | |
| Perceptions The TS2000 series of computers claims an extensive group of features1—oth hardware and software. The machines feature 24K ROM. The... | SYNC | September/October 1983 | |
| PERL Perl is a language that I started playing with back around 1989. When I started using Perl for a project,... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | December 1998 |
| Perlpull prose, (required reading) “a perl of great precise(sic)” , but limited accuracy. “Optimized for text” they say of perl, that wonderful Swiss-army chainsaw... | Herb Schaaf | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 2000 |
| Permuations [Below is an interesting permutation program sent to me by Herb Schaaf. He did not include any article or explanation,... | Herb Schaaf | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1994 |
| PGM and PBM to QL Editor’s Note – There is a Freeware Unix package called PBMPLUS that converts to/from a number of graphics formats. It... | Herb Schaaf | QL Hacker’s Journal | September 1992 |
| Philosophy Of Structured SuperBasic Philosophy is defined as a system of principles for guidance in practical affairs. The Philosophy of Structured SuperBasic (SSB) is... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1995 |
| Pixel Print Professional v3.2 The Pixel Print Professional is an integrated program network built around the Pixel Print Plus! Desktop Publisher… and the AERCO... | David Baulch | The Data Expansion | April 1988 |
| Plotter for T-S 2068 In TS-Horizons #5 it was mistakenly reported that Johnson’s and Swartz’s graphics program for the TS1000/ZX81 would run on the... | John Marion | T-S Horizons | Sept 1984 |
| Points Lost for Program Flaw Description: By skillfully piloting your ship through space and firing at enemy craft, you must protect your convoy from destruction... | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| Polar-Rectangular Conversion This program converts between polar notation (magnitude and angle) and rectangular (or “Cartesian”) notation (“X” and “Y” values) of vector... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Poor Man’s Word Processor/TS-2068 This program was developed to be used with a “home brew” interface before I found John Oliger had a neat... | SUM | November 1985 | |
| Popular Electronics Tests: The Sinclair Research ZX80 Personal Computer The Sinclair Research model ZX80 personal computer, is a no-frills Z-80A microprocessor-based system designed to be very inexpensive and easily... | Popular Electronics | August 1981 | |
| Portuguese Timex T-2068 Computer & Timex Disk Drive System: A Hands-On Evaluation Timex is still in the home computer market—in Europe! When Timex bowed out here in early 1984, their computer manufacturing... | SUM | May 1985 | |
| Practical Bank-Switching for the 2068 If any one factor can be said to have made the Pixel Print Prof. series of software possible, it would... | Stan Lemke | The Data Expansion | July 1988 |
| Presidential Ramblings Regretfully, I must announce Vernon Smith’s resignation as Newsletter Editor. He details his reasons elsewhere in this issue and is... | Ruth Fegley | CATS Newsletter | June 1990 |
| Preview: Sinclair 128 SUM MAGAZINE has recently been able to obtain a Spanish version of the new Spectrum 128 Sinclair computer for evaluation.... | SUM | December 1985 | |
| Prime Number [This article was sent in by Mike Fink, owner of Domino Cubes, a Z88 Dealer. Once Mike told me about... | Mike Fink | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1994 |
| PRINT or LPRINT Each new book І have bought on the TS 2068 has taught me quite a bit about programming on the... | James Brezina | Nite-Times News | May 1987 |
| Printer Prices Plummet “I’m sure [Coleco] will sell a lot of Adams, but I think the majority of the buying public is still... | Infoworld | July 11, 1983 | |
| Pro/File 2068 Filing System: An Outstanding Value When Tom Woods released PRO/FILE 2068 so long ago, it appeared to be quite a file system if you could... | SUM | May 1985 | |
| Pro/File 2068 Plug-In Cartridge Almost Finished I do not want to make it a habit of filling the pages of Computer Updates with a lot of... | Thomas B. Woods | Computer Updates | Spring 1986 |
| Pro/File Bits & Pieces Charles Stelding from Tyler, TX writes… Pro/File 2068 makes an excellent calendar and daily schedule. I use it in my... | Thomas B. Woods | Computer Updates | Summer 1986 |
| Pro/File Cartridge Probably the most useful type of computer program is the data base since almost anyone can find a need for... | Robert Fischer | Time Designs Magazine | January/February 1987 |
| PRO/FILE Cartridge Update By the time this issue of Updates reaches you, I anticipate that I’ll be up to be up to my... | Thomas B. Woods | Computer Updates | Summer 1986 |
| PRO/FILE in Spectrum mode If you purchased a Spectrum emulator like myself you may prefer to use PRO/FILE in Spectrum mode. I use the... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| Pro/File Sings at the Tabernacle From Bill Hall, Laurel, MD: One of my duties as Minister of Music for the Tabernacle is to compile a... | Pro/File Updates | January 1985 | |
| Producing Sprites on the 2068 Back in September of ’84, SUM published my program that showed how to print a pattern on the screen that... | John Monkus | SUM | April 1986 |
| Products in Review This column will provide reviews of hardware ‘add-ons’ software, and books that are available for the Sinclair computers. Again, we... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | April 1983 |
| Products in Review The first review is on Scientific Software’s TS100/ZX81 Assembler Debugger (ZXAD) (See the unclassified ads for ordering info) While I... | Ambrose Barry (W4GHV) | QZX | July & August 1983 |
| Products in Review Well, here’s a review of a neat add-on that I purchased recently. I was also able to talk the supplier... | Ambrose Barry (W4GHV) | QZX | September 1983 |
| Products in Review First, here is a long overdue review of Fred Nachbaur’s SyncWare News. (See his previous contributions to QZX.) Since he... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | October 1983 |
| Products in Review In the April 1983 issue of QZX, Larry Willson presented his RTTY program, If you were like me, the prospect... | Terry Dalby (N8BIF) | QZX | November 1983 |
| Products in Review Here are a few comments from Larry, AF8J to update last month’s review of the AF8J RTTY interface/program: Both the... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | December 1983 |
| Products on Parade This word-processor from MEMOTECH is a tough thing to review, as it would take more space than I’ve got left... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Program Changes and Data Capacity: A Symbiotic Relationship Memory space in a computer — regardless of how much you have plugged in — is allocated for certain jobs.... | Pro/File Updates | January 1984 | |
| Program Internationalization About 10 years ago I attended some vendor training on how to program and extend their particular office automation suite.... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | June 1999 |
| Program Printout: Beethoven BEETHOVEN is a remarkable program which allows you to produce music from your T/S1000,ZX81. Stephane Crainic of Paris has linked... | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| Program Printout: London Bridge MOST computer games require nothing except a quick finger on the cursor key. Most of the rest, those which require... | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| Program Printout: Phasor REMARKABLE graphics effects are the striking feature of Phasor for the 16K T/S1000,ZX81. You are an infamous space pirate travelling... | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| Program Proposal – Descriptor In looking through listings of new uploads to the MS-DOS/Windows site CICA, I came up with an idea for a... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | March 1995 |
| Programmer’s Bookshelf Over the years I have picked up a number of computer books. Some I have purchased for classes, others I... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | September 1992 |
| Programmer’s Bookshelf Revisited I fully agree with your bookshelf – I have recommended almost all the books in your general and language lists... | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1993 | |
| Programming Boule Donald D. Spencer concludes his Game Playing with Basic with a chapter of programming challenges. Among the old favorites he... | SYNC | March/April 1984 | |
| Programming Tips on the 2068 Sometimes a programming problen can be easily solved by using certain tricks. Here are a few tips and techniques to... | SUM | November 1985 | |
| Programming With QMENU QMENU is a Pointer Environment (PE) programming tool put out by Jochem Merz. QMENU is a number of SuperBasic extensions... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1995 |
| Prolog Interpreter While looking through the IFE database I found reference to a Proglog Interpreter. Once I got the disk, I found... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1993 |
| PROLOG Interpreter: A Second Look Back in QHJ #13 I have a cursory review of the Prolog interpreter written by Hans Lub. I said that... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1994 |
| Publisher’s Notes I will start off these notes with a few comments generated by the many suggestions sent in with the renewal... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | February 1984 |
| Publisher’s Notes The renewals continue to come in although the renewal rate (about 50%) is not fantastic as people change computers. We... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | March 1984 |
| Publisher’s Statement: For New Readers and Old For a number of our readers, this is your first issue of SUM Magazine. Others have been with us since... | SUM | May 1985 | |
| Pulse Rate After you’ve logged in your daily jog around the block (see “Logging Your Jogging,” pages 80 to 82). you might... | Joey Latimer | Family Computing | October 1983 |
| Pursuit of a Public Domain C Compiler Mark Wahl, at student at UC Berkeley, has been looking into a public domain C compiler that can be ported... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1991 |
| Q-Save with Pro/File John Willi, Louisville, KY, and Phil Williams, Wilmington, DE, sent these instructions to make PRO/FILE work with Q-SAVE. Willi comments,... | Pro/File Updates | April 1984 | |
| Q&A: Dan Ross Timex has changed a lot since the days when it used to strap its watches to snowplows for TV commercials.... | Infoworld | November 14, 1983 | |
| QDOS Filters Filter programs are common in the UNIX world, but they are found to a varying extent on other platforms (such... | QL Hacker’s Journal | June 1995 | |
| QDOS Rights A new item I learned this month is that the QDOS rights to North America is held by Mechanical Affinity.... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1991 |
| QHJ Freeware Awards Over the last couple of weeks I have seen a number of award shows, like the Screen Actors Guild Awards,... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | March 1995 |
| QHJ Freeware Awards Last Issue I introduced the QHJ Freeware Awards and asked for votes on programs for each category. My original idea... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | June 1995 |
| QHJ Print Formatter The last four issues of the QHJ have beed done using Quill. Quill is a decent word processor but it... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | August 1991 |
| QHJ Reader Survey In the time that I’ve been doing the QHJ I have received responses like “good job”, “nice work”, but very... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1994 |
| QL ANON-FTP SERVER I have recently found a QL FTP site that allows the storage of binary files. The site name is: maya.dei.unipd.it... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1994 |
| QL Corner: Miracle in Newport II Well – The Miracle in Newport II show has come and gone, however, the memories of this show still linger... | LISTing Newsletter | June 1994 | |
| QL in Europe WA6DLI, Bob, sent me some interesting information about QL hardware and software available in Europe. It seems that there is... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | April 1993 |
| QL News May is here and hopefully the QL will be too sometime soon . We have seen a lot of new... | QL Report | May 1985 | |
| QL News The big news this month, as most of you by now should know, is that you can order the QL... | QL Report | June 1985 | |
| QL News On Monday, June 17th, the Wall Street Journal reported that controlling interest in Sinclair Research was purchased by Robert Maxwell,... | QL Report | July 1985 | |
| QL News So it is August and within the last month the 68000 market has really heated up! Commodore unveiled the highly... | QL Report | August 1985 | |
| QL News Finally the GL is shipping. These last few months have been chaotic to say the least. In the August Report... | QL Report | September 1985 | |
| QL News Effective today, the price of the QL drops to $299.95 and is available from Curry Computer. Our first order is... | QL Report | November 1985 | |
| QL News Happy New Year to all of you. We want to start 1986 by thanking all of you for subscribing to... | QL Report | January 1986 | |
| QL News We lead off this issue with the exciting news that finally you can use your QL for telecommunications. We have... | QL Report | February 1986 | |
| QL News Well, Happy Tax Day. We hope you all have your returns going out on this date–at the latest. Let’s hope... | QL Report | April 1986 | |
| QL News We lead off this issue with a note of optimism. The following is a news squib we received from Mark... | QL Report | May 1986 | |
| QL News There was a QL meeting of sorts held on June 23rd in England. Most of the third party companies sent... | QL Report | July 1986 | |
| QL News Greetings from London! This issue we are “on the road” attending the PCW Show at the Olympia in London. We... | QL Report | September 1986 | |
| QL News Happy Holidays to all of you out there. It’s hard te believe this issue marks the end of almost two... | QL Report | December 15, 1986 | |
| QL News Happy Tax Day again. We hope you all have your taxes done for Uncle Sam. If not, you’d better buy... | QL Report | April 15, 1987 | |
| QL News Well, we’re back from the Computerfest! It was a long way to go but it was certainly worth it to... | QL Report | May 15, 1987 | |
| QL News Vell, here we are in another summer. This is traditionally the time when it slows doun for computer-related businesses. We... | QL Report | July 15, 1987 | |
| QL to Z88 Data Transfer As the new owner of a Cambridge Z88 laptop, I needed a way to transfer files to and from the... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1993 |
| QLPatch One of the problems I’ve encountered in publishing souce code in the QHJ, is the dilemma of publishing a newer... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1992 |
| QROFF Postscript Filter I know of a few QL users that have postscript printers at work and transfer QL documents to another word... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | August 1991 |
| QUBIDE version 1.28 QUBIDE is an IDE hard disk interface for the QL. Before describing it in detail, I’d like to explain how... | Don Walterman | International QL Report | November/December 1994 |
| Quill Reader One of the major defects of QUILL is the lack of an “EXPORT” function. Only after release 2.35, PSION added... | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1994 | |
| QUIZOMANIA This program was an idea of one of our subscribers, Ronald M. Cavin II of Columbus, Ohio. This program will... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1987 |
| QZX Reprint of review of the newsletter that appeared in 73 Magazine. A newsletter? How do you review a newsletter for... | QZX | September 1983 | |
| QZX Friends Here’s your chance to let your ambitions and accomplishments be known. Feel free to let us know what you are... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | March 1983 |
| QZX Friends Here’s your chance to let your ambitions and accomplishments be known. Feel free to let us know what you are... | QZX | June 1983 | |
| QZX Friends | QZX | October 1983 | |
| QZX Friends | QZX | March 1984 | |
| QZX History This issue represents the start of a second decade of publication for this version of QZX, so it is not... | Martin Irons (K2MI) Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | December 1992 |
| QZX Index Completed The ten plus year QZX index is completed and copies mailed off to all those who sent in advanced orders.... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | May 1993 |
| QZX Net Report There is still an active QZX net discussing our Sinclair computers. It meets at 10 AM Pacific local time every... | Bob Howard (WA6DLI) | QZX | February 1993 |
| RAM Pack Repairs In this article, I will discuss some of the problems that can occur with the 16K RAM pack for the... | SUM | ||
| Ramblings from the Publisher Welcome to another issue of SUM MAGAZINE. Great things are happening both with SUM and in the Timex computer world.... | SUM | February 1985 | |
| Rand_c In translating one of my pet programs from SuperBasic (first it started in Pascal), I needed a number of random... | Tim Swenson Herb Schaaf | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1991 |
| Random Access From Our Readers One of our readers (whom I won’t identify) wrote to point out that I had omitted the letter “u” from... | SyncWare News | ||
| Random ASCII Stereograms In QHJ #9, Herb Schaaf wrote a program that created Random Dot Stereograms based on a Mathmatica program published in... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1992 |
| Random Dot Stereograms Random Dot Stereograms (RDS) can give the illusion of depth if you have binocular vision. Instead of the usual pair... | Herb Schaaf | QL Hacker’s Journal | June 1992 |
| Ratcliff/Obershelp Pattern Matching In the July 1988 Issue of “Dr. Dobb’s Journal”, there is an article on Ratcliff/Obershelp pattern matching. This algorithm is... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1991 |
| Readership Survey I received a total of 11 responses the the Readership Survey. Some of the surveys came with some long comments... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1994 |
| Real Windows for SuperBasic The QUANTA library has a number of routines that will allow real non-destructive windows in SuperBasic. Since I started working... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1991 |
| Rebirth of the Timex Computer? Dave Higgenbottom has hopes of “reviving” the TIMEX computer line. After hearing this rumor (in at least forty different formats)... | T-S Horizons | Oct/Nov 1984 | |
| Recent Commercial to Freeware Released Recently a number of commercial programming tools have been released as freeware. They are ProWesS, DJToolKit, MasterBasic, and the TurboToolkit.... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 2000 |
| Recent Freeware Releases A number of freeware programming packages have come my way. I have copies if anyone is interested. Most if these... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1994 |
| Recent Freeware: APL Richard Zidlicky has ported a version of APL to the QL. APL stands for A Programming Language. APL is known... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | March 1995 |
| Recent Freeware: Clips CLIPS is an expert system developed by NASA in 1986. It has been ported to the QL by Emiliano Barbaini... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | May 1996 |
| Recent Freeware: INFORM INFORM is a language used to create text adventure games. It is based on the text adventures that the company... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | March 1995 |
| Recent Freeware: REXX The REXX language was derived from a batch language on the IBM System/370 called EXEC 2. It has since become... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | May 1996 |
| Recent Ports MausNet has brought news of a few recent ports to the QL. Below are the details: CRON – Elik Slagter... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1993 |
| Recent Upgrades To MicroEmacs MicroEmacs is becoming my favorite editor, esp. now that I have a Q40. As MicroEmacs becomes more powerful, it needs... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 2000 |
| Regular Expressions In all the years that I’ve been dealing with Unix, one of the things that I have not taken the... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1998 |
| Relocating Machine Code Programs in the TS-2068 Why would one want to relocate machine code? Many M/C programs written for the 2068 are located in the same... | James Brezina | The Data Expansion | February 1988 |
| Remarks from The Publisher … Wayne Green Both the Apple and low end computers will benefit if we run articles on ways for businesses (and even homes... | inCider | November 1983 | |
| Renegade Robot The top-secret building where you work is guarded by a robot. One day you arrive at work and find the... | Joey Latimer | Family Computing | August 1984 |
| Renumber II This utility will allow you to renumber any BASIC programs. It will renumber GOTO, GOSUB, RUN, LIST, DELETE, LLIST, RESTORE,... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | May 1988 |
| Residential demand controller field test A microprocessor based demand controller for use in residential and small commercial buildings is discussed. In order to verify the... | Proceedings of the National Workshop on Field Data Acquisition for Building and Equipment Energy Use Monitoring | 1986-03 | |
| Response To Day_Of_Week While playing around with the function on paper there appears to be a slight error. I am sure that I... | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1996 | |
| 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... | CATS Newsletter | January 1989 | |
| Reverse sort order for normal printing There are many situations where you want the last name listed first for alphabetizing purposes, but would prefer any printout... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| Reverse String In one of the programming newsgroups I read, I saw a couple of postings dealing with how to reverse a... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | March 1995 |
| Review Responses: Timex fan I was delighed, finally, to see InfoWorld acknowledge the existence of the new Timex 2068 Personal Color Computer (Vol. 5,... | Infoworld | January 30, 1984 | |
| Review: ARTWORX version 1.1 Artworx is a program that allows you to draw pictures using Brushes, Spray, Fill, Zoom, Circle, Arc, Oval, Line, Ray,... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | October 1986 |
| Review: Critical Mass Critical Mass is a very fast action game with SUPERB graphics. The goal of the game is to destroy the... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | September 1986 |
| Review: Ghostbusters! Quick.. what do you get when you match the most profitable comedy movie ever (over $200 million) with the programming... | Bill Ferrebee | SUM | June 1986 |
| Review: Larken MAXCOM MAXCOM is 300/1200 baud Terminal/Remote BBS software… It is 2 programs in one meant to be used with the LKDOS... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Winter 1989 |
| Review: Sinclair ZX81 A refurbished Sinclair ZX81 version— the Timex Sinclair 1000— is now being distributed throughout North America. Timex Corp. (Waterbury, CT)... | Interface Age | October 1982 | |
| Review: Speech Development System For TS2068 (HS68) This Hardware and Software package lets you digitize your own library of words. But frankly for 39.95$, it is very... | Kristian Boisvert Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | November 1986 |
| Review: The Timex Sinclair 1000 The Timex Sinclair 1000 is a useful learning tool and a calculating device. It is a low cost alternative for... | John C. Nash Mary M. Nash | Interface Age | February 1983 |
| REVIEW: The Wafadrive The Wafadrive is a dual-drive storage device. It’s an all in one system! It has two 128K drives, a RS232... | Eric Boisvert Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | August 1986 |
| Review: The Worx! First, I was a little disappointed by this program, it was a little confusing the way it worked. Still can’t... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | February 1987 |
| Review: Timex 2068 Color Computer The Timex/Sinclair 2068 Personal Color Computer resolves many of the complaints users of its predecessors — specifically the T/S 1000... | Infoworld | December 19, 1983 | |
| Review: Tomahawk This newly adapted game for the TS2068 from D. K. Marshall (DIGITAL INTEGRATION) is a heck of a lot better... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | December 1986/January 1987 |
| REVIEW: Videoface This is a device designed for use with the ZX Spectrum 48/128/+2 computers. It’s purpose is to capture composite video,... | Gerald W. Goegelein | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | May 1988 |
| Review: ZPrint 80 Universal Print Driver Have you ever wanted to be able to modify a favorite program so that it would utilize your full-sized printer/interface... | Bill Ferrebee | SUM | April 1986 |
| Review: ZX Computing Magazine EDITOR’S NOTE: With this article, SUM is beginning a new series on other publications of interest to Timex/Sinclair users. ZX... | SUM | November 1985 | |
| Reviewing Two Printers One of the first peripherals that most Timex/Sinclair owners purchase for their computers is a printer. Because the TS2068 as... | SUM | April 1986 | |
| Reviewing Two TS-1000 Programs Were you ever taught while in school that an airplane flying from the United States to the Soviet Union flies... | SUM | April 1986 | |
| Reviews For The Non Programmer First, a follow-up on power supplies. If you want one that will power your monitor, write to Tom Woods, Box... | Arthur Gindin | T-S Horizons | Sept 1984 |
| Revision Control System (RCS) Whether it’s source code or system configuration files, it’s nice to be able to keep track of changes made to... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1998 |
| Reviving the 2068 Keyboard One of the complaints most often heard about the Timex 2068 and its keyboard is the “dead” keys and/or spacebar... | Richard Cravy | SUM | July 1985 |
| Rhode Island Show This past May I made the trek to Rhode Island. Paul Holmgren was good enough to give me a ride.... | CATS Newsletter | November - December 1994 | |
| Robotics on a Budget A little over a year ago I decided to start building a robot. I had no idea that it would... | SYNC | July/August 1983 | |
| Rock’n’QL During a recent phone conversation between myself and our esteemed editor I was asked to write something about how I... | Roy Wood | International QL Report | September/October 1994 |
| Rocket Man This TS-1000 (16K) game is truly one that makes you wonder why you put aside this computer for bigger and... | SUM | April 1985 | |
| Roll up for the ZX circus Exhibitions have long provided the many suppliers in the British Sinclair market with a popular outlet for their products. | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| RP/M Telecommunicating with MODEM7 Since getting a corrected version of MODEM7 to work with the AERCO disk system with RP/M and the 2050 modem,... | David Baulch | The Data Expansion | February 1988 |
| RP/M Utilities: PRMPIP You should always make a back-up or archive copy of your favorite or most-often-used programs. I know that, after a... | David Baulch | The Data Expansion | February 1988 |
| RPN Calculator Reverse Polish Notation (RPN) is mathmatical convention for handling expressions. RPN is most commonly found in Hewlett-Packard calculators. RPN, like... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1991 |
| RS-232 to Video – The Easy Way With the trusty ZX81/TS1000 destined for a place in a dusty closet, here’s a way to put it to use... | Ambrose Barry (W4GHV) | QZX | September 1983 |
| RTTY Loop Last month I wrote a bit about a new toy here at WAJAJR, a TRS-80C Color Computer. Based on the... | Marc I. Leavey | 73 Magazine | April 1984 |
| RTTY Loop Timex-Sinclair computer users get a boost from Bob Howard WADLI of West Covina, California. He tells us that he was... | Marc I. Leavey | 73 Magazine | March 1987 |
| Running On 64K Here’s that article, promised in issue 1:3, to help get new 64K RAM owners off the ground. Since the Z80... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Saving Memory The use of variables, the VAL function, and the CODE function will allow you to save almost 2000 bytes as... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| Saving TS2068 Programs Marie Kendall asked how to completely save a TS2068 program. Some programs in to LogiCall collection of drives have such... | Bob Swoger (K9WVY) | Nite-Times News | March/April 1995 |
| Say What? Simple speech recognition hardware and program for ZX/TS computers (with at least 16K RAM). | Brad Bennett | SYNC | November/December 1983 |
| SCREEN COMPACTOR This utility is used to compress screens so as to make the codes much shorter and allowing you to store... | Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1988 |
| Secretary’s Notepad The SMUGFest was a success according to most of our members. Meeting people we’d only known by name but had... | John Donaldson | Nite-Times News | July/August 1990 |
| SET DATE Here’s a little item which doesn’t seem very useful at first, but 1 refer to it all the time now.... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| SETYPE SETYPE is an economical way to put a little variety into your choice of type on your TS 2068 by... | Ron Ruegg | T-S Horizons | Apri 1985 |
| Shelling Out To Superbasic The QL is unique in how QDOS and SuperBasic are sort of rolled into one. Just as we can only... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1998 |
| Shoot Your Way To Safety Description: Combat Flight casts you as the commander of a fighter ship, flying through mountainous terrain shooting at alien ships.... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| SHOOTER! Year 2986, equipped with the most powerful computer ever known on Earth, a TS2068, a spaceship is launched into deep... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | August 1986 |
| Sinclair Computers The Sinclair family of computers were conceived and developed by Clive Sinclair who was well known in Great Britain as... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | June 1993 |
| Sinclair miss the bus Sinclair and Timex, were most conspicuous by their absence at the giant West Coast Computer Faire held in San Francisco... | ZX Computing | Summer 1982 | |
| Sinclair QL – A Review and Evaluation The Sinclair QL was first announced in Great Britain in January 1984. Sinclair was not able to begin delivery for... | Richard Cravy | SUM | December 1985 |
| Sinclair Research message spreads THE MESSAGE of Sinclair is spreading quickly all over the world. On the basis of sales of Sinclair User, ZX-81s... | Sinclair User | December 1982 | |
| Sinclair Research Sells Out! Reprint of Amstrad Purchase of Sinclair Research Is End of an Era in British Computer by Paul Hemp, Wall Street... | SUM | April 1986 | |
| Sinclair Study Group As you may be aware, there are a large number of Sinclair-Timex user groups around the U.S. and Canada. We... | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | May 1983 | |
| Sinclair Survival Column Before you get the idea that we have abandoned the T/S 1000/1500 and T/S 2068 computers in favor of the... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | October 1986 |
| Sinclair Survival Column Well, here we are again at the end of another year and we still haven’t given up on our computers.... | Computer Shopper | December 1986 | |
| Sinclair Survival Column Believe it or not, this month’s column marks the start of the third year here in Computer Shopper. Yet, unlike... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | June 1986 |
| Sinclair Survival Column When the QL first appeared, a few books were written in England on its use. These books, available in this... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | June 1988 |
| Sinclair Survival Column Well, here we go again. This is our fourth annual year end wrap up. Although there is no major company... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | February 1987 |
| Sinclair Survival Column When the QL first appeared, Sinclair Research promised to support it with some sophisticated software in keeping with its intended... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | February 1988 |
| Sinclair Survival Column Continuing on our recent theme of telecommunications for the Sinclair computers (necessary for you to join us in C*SIX, the... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | January 1988 |
| Sinclair Survival Column Hard to believe, but this month marks the beginning of our fourth year together here in Computer Shopper. Back in... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | June 1987 |
| Sinclair Survival Column As we end our third year of this column, we go back to our roots and have a look at... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | May 1987 |
| Sinclair Survival Column Last month we had a look at a few programs from Novelsoft of Toronto, Canada. As promised, this month we... | Computer Shopper | October 1987 | |
| Sinclair Survival Column This month we will look at a series of programs for the T/S 2068 and Spectrum computers published by Novelsoft... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | September 1987 |
| Sinclair User Profile MIKE MITCHELL works for RICHARD DANA Corp as a mechanical engineer. The company designs and builds automatic assembly equipment which... | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | March 1988 | |
| Sinclair ZX80 Clive Sinclair has surprised the world with the launch of his attractive, hand-held personal computer. Costing less than $200, and... | Creative Computing | December 1980 | |
| Sinclair ZX81 – Toy or tool? WE SEEM TO HAVE come upon a watershed of computer marketing… it’s getting to the point where we reserve about... | Electronics Today International | March 1982 | |
| Sinclair’s Latest – A Notepad Sized PC Cambridge Computer Ltd. announced its new Z88 at COMDEX. The new laptop computer features an end-user price of approximately $400,... | Computer Shopper | January 1988 | |
| Sinclair’s searching for super software With much media ado last April, Sinclair Research Ltd. licensed the Timex Corporation to sell its line of personal computers... | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| Sinclair’s ZX80: Review of a Very, Very Small Computer A few days ago, I received a Sinclair ZX80 in the mail. I took it out of the box and... | Dr. Dobb’s Journal | February 1981 | |
| SM-II for the TS 1000 & 1500 There is a Smart Terminal II program for the Timex 1000 and 1500 computers, but it hasn’t been put on... | SUM | January 1985 | |
| Small Screen Painter This little goodie features circles, frames, lines, text in 2 type fonts, 4 different shades and a brush. It also... | Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | September 1986 |
| Smallest desk-top computer yet Don’t let the small size fool you. At just six by 6.5 by 1.5 inches, Sinclair’s ZX81 is a complete... | Popular Science | September 1981 | |
| Snowflakes Here is a code for the 2068 that will produce snowflake-like patterns. Each run will produce a different pattern. The... | Roald Schrack | CATS Newsletter | August 1985 |
| SNUG Computerfest 1990 Thoughts I had to go to the Fest in Waukesha by way of Decatur, IL since I had to drop my... | Donald Lambert | CRAGIST Newsletter | Mar-Jun 1990 |
| SNUG Conference We met on the Timex section of Compuserve on Wednesday, August 17 at 9pm to discuss SNUG. Among the 13... | Pete Fischer | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | September/October 1988 |
| Softly, softly David Kelly talks to Sue Currier, President of the US software house, SoftSync. SoftSync is one of only several companies... | Popular Computing Weekly | 17-23 March 1983 | |
| Software Blues The program loads. 0/0 appears on the screen. The printed instructions tell us to type GO TO 1 to start:... | Timex Sinclair User | August 1983 | |
| Software Compatible Joystick It’s a snap to connect an Atari-type joystick to the ZX81/TS1000; all it takes is direct connection to the keyboard... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Software Engineering and OOPS on the QL? Through subscriptions at work and home, I read a number of computer magazines, including Dr. Dobb’s Journal (DDJ), C Users... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | June 1992 |
| Software Reuse For years I’ve reading articles on Software Reuse and how it can increase the productivity of programming shops. Since I... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1996 |
| Software Reuse And SSB Through work I get a number of computer related magazines, either directly to me or ones that are received by... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1996 |
| Software Review: Art for All Ages Program name: Art for All Ages Author: Robert E. Conlon Type: Educational/Entertainment Machine: TS2068 Price: $15.95 Available from: Games to... | Bill Ferrebee | T-S Horizons | Oct/Nov 1984 |
| Software Review: Croaka-Crawla Croaka Crawla is not just another “FROGGER” imitation . This is THE best I’ve seen. It is fast, and the... | Doug Gangi | T-S Horizons | Sept 1984 |
| Software Review: FOOTBALL If this one confuses you, take a look at the copyright date. One may deduce that the program (for the... | T-S Horizons | Sept 1984 | |
| Software Review: MUSICOLA PROGRAM NAME: Musicola AUTHOR: T.A. David TYPE: Educational/Entertainment MACHINE: T/S 2068 (Printer Optional) PRICE: $24.95 AVAILABLE FROM: T.E.J. Computer Products... | Bill Ferrebee | T-S Horizons | Sept 1984 |
| Software Review: Starion & Space Scan This is a 3-D graphics program drawn with extreme precision very quickly and smoothly. The complex shapes can be spun,... | SUM | September 1985 | |
| Software Review: VU-3D Although VU-3D is billed as a business program, many of you will have fun with tinkering around and showing off... | Doug Gangi | T-S Horizons | Sept 1984 |
| Software Review: Zaxxon Zaxxon for the 48K Spectrum that is a duplication of the popular arcade game. It comes in a nice plastic... | SUM | May 1985 | |
| Some Notes On Archive I am heavy into really relational databases now. The place I work uses Oracle. They have tables in their database... | Bill Cable | QL Hacker’s Journal | May 1996 |
| Some Short Projects for Your Timex Sinclair Computers Not too long ago, (give or take a few years), I came home to a strange sight. Piled before the... | Patrick Spera | Computer Shopper | April 1985 |
| Some Thoughts On Programming Style In QHJ #24 Tim talks about a colleague’s style of writing Perl and contrasts it with his own. I have... | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1996 | |
| Sounder: Using SOUND on the 2068 When writing an article I always try to do something which will encourage others to try their hand at learning... | Andy Centek (WB8AHX) | SUM | July 1986 |
| SOUNDEX Soundex is an algorithm for storing words, primarily names, in a number format so that they could be easily look... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1994 |
| Special Report: 2068 Is Returning to US Reports on Bob Dyl’s efforts to bring the Portuguese 2068 to the United States. When Bob Dyl of the English... | Time Designs Magazine | May/June 1985 | |
| Spectrum 128 Review The Spectrum 128 is the latest computer from Sinclair in the Spectrum family. It is housed in a Spectrum +... | SUM | January 1986 | |
| Spectrum Buss on 2068 I stated in the last issue that we ordered the Rotronics Wafadrive system from England. I also promised that I... | SUM | ||
| Spectrum Emulator Revisited In last month’s article, we inadvertently left out the printed circuit board layout, so here it is this month with... | Joseph Williamson | SUM | September 1984 |
| Spectrum+ Now in U.S. Bob Dyl of English Micro Connection (EMC), 15 Kilburn Ct., Newport, RI 02840 401/849-3805 reports that they are an agent... | SUM | March 1985 | |
| Speech Synthesizer for the TS-1000 Now I’ve heard everything! A computer that talks back to me? why not…everybody else does! Tad Painter has done the... | SUM | May 1986 | |
| Speech Synthesizers Your ZX/TS computer can talk to you, with the help of a 'Speech Synthesizer' system. Speech or voice synthesis systems... | Paul Donnelly | SYNC | November/December 1983 |
| Speed Comparison Between 2068, PASCAL and Compiled BASIC (TIMACHINE) I have been working on using my Timex/Sinclair 2068 to control a 3-axis drilling/routing machine using stepper motors. To make... | ZXir QLive Alive! | Winter 1998 | |
| Spreadsheet II You will find this program to be a great improvement over the ‘JUST ANOTHER SPREADSHEET!’. It has more file space,... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1988 |
| SQ Notes This month a look at another program that has been around for a while, but does not support the new... | Rudy A. Hilsmann | The Data Expansion | September 1988 |
| Staff: Teacher and Tester "Staff" is a versatile music education program that reviews notes from the first ledger line below the staff to the... | Sharon Zardetto Aker | SYNC | November/December 1983 |
| Stalking the Lost RAM Paul Hunter of 1630 Forest Hills Dr., Okemos, Mi, 48864, with whom I’ve had the pleasure to converse, is a... | Tom Bent | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Standard Screen Copier This program will allow you to print screens on any dot matrix printer, even the Gorilla Banana or other less-than-8-pin... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Winter 1989 |
| Starblasters In “Starblasters” you must defend a sector of space from the invading alien spaceships. Your weapon is a powerful ion... | SYNC | January/February 1983 | |
| Starfleet 2068 STARFLEET 2068 is an all BASIC, low-resolution graphics, shoot ’em up space wars game for the Timex Sinclair 2068. The... | Time Designs Magazine | July/August 1987 | |
| Stochastic Indexing This demo program, SID (Stochastic Indexing Demo), see listing 1 below, simulates clouds as seen by a satellite looking straight... | Al Boehm | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1993 |
| Straight Line Subroutine This subroutine draws an unbroken line segment between pixel (X1,Y1) and (X2,Y2). It is based on the equation for a... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Strategic Planning for Global Competition [Timex] developed with a single product line. In two decades, from 1950 to 1970, Timex expanded to a dominant position... | The Journal of Business Strategy | 1985 | |
| Stringy Floppy Notes If you use a CAI Stringy Floppy for high speed program saves, you’re not alone if you tried unsuccessfully to... | Pro/File Updates | January 1984 | |
| Strip_c A few months ago I picked up a inexpensive pen-based MS-DOS laptop. It came with a Word Processor that handles... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | March 1992 |
| STRIPHTML_C With the popularity of the World Wide Web, more and more information is being formatted in HTML, the “language” of... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1996 |
| Structured SuperBasic 2.6 Structured SuperBasic is a utility that has been printed a couple of times in this newsletter. I have recently dusted... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1998 |
| Structured SuperBasic 2.6.1 One project keeping me away from working on the QHJ was updating Structured SuperBasic. I’ve made a few minor changes... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | June 1999 |
| Structured SuperBasic Version 2.3 Structured SuperBasic (SSB) is another way of writing SuperBasic programs. It allows programmers to write SuperBasic programs without line numbers... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1991 |
| Structured SuperBasic Version 2.5 Structured SuperBasic (SSB) has been sitting on my shelf for a number of years without having any upgrades. I really... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1995 |
| Style and Speed in BASIC When you write a BASIC program, the order in which you carry out your tasks affects the speed of your... | Syntax | November 1984 | |
| Substring Searching in C The December 1988 issue of “Computer Language” had an article on substring searching in C, based on an APL algorithm.... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | November 1991 |
| Sue Mahoney Today she was in New York City, talking to vendors, lecturers and media representatives at a computer convention, recruiting people... | CATS Newsletter | November 1983 | |
| SUM Begins a New Year This year we plan to serve the Sinclair-Timex community to the best of our ability covering hardware, programs, related news,... | SUM | January 1985 | |
| SUM routine I needed a different type of routine for number crunching instead of the TALLY routine. Basically, I needed an entire... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| Sunstate Timex Sinclair Winterfest ’88 A lighter attendance than expected and heavy rain didn’t dampen the spirits of those T/S users who gathered in Orlando,... | Time Designs Magazine | March/April 1988 | |
| Super Budget This program lets you enter your expenditures for every months and also the estimated spendings (budget). It will tell you... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | November 1986 |
| Surround YOU WILL probably recognize Surround as soon as you RUN it. It is a version of a fairly standard routine... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| Sync Notes Mark Fisher leads off our theme section “SYNC at the Keyboard” by revealing the hidden parts of the program line.... | SYNC | March/April 1984 | |
| Sync Notes MicroAce Discontinues U.S. Operations; Sinclair to Replace Defective MicroAce 8K ROMs; Sinclair Policy Change on Technical Phone Inquiries; Sync Notes... | SYNC | January/February 1982 | |
| Sync Notes Our theme section this issue is “SYNC at the Concert” with a focus on sound applications. While we have articles... | Paul Grosjean | SYNC | November/December 1983 |
| SyncWare Examines the IBM PC OK, already I can hear you ask, “Why are you writing about the IBM PC in a Timex publication?” The... | SyncWare News | July/August 1987 | |
| Sysop’s Twisted Pair Swoger describes the club’s BBS, which he wrote. It runs on a PDP 11 under RSX-11M. The BBS has been... | Nite-Times News | July - August 1989 | |
| System Variables Here is a program which you can merge with one you have written and which will print out a list... | Scott Eddy | Sincus News | September - October 1986 |
| T/S 1000 Corner I wrote this program one day while trying to figure out how to read the TS 1000 display file. The... | Jim Rodlin | The Data Expansion | February 1988 |
| T/S 2000 Tips There have been a number of tips for the 2000 that have shown up at news letter meetings and in... | Gyuri Grell Edward "Ned" Beeler David Hoshor | CATS Newsletter | April 1984 |
| T/S 2068 Color Monitor Difficulties Some hams have difficulty using some color monitors with the T/S 2068. There are very good reasons for these difficulties.... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | LISTing Newsletter | September 1994 |
| 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... | Mike S. Morris | CATS Newsletter | December 1984 |
| T/S Goes To Camp Computing is fast becoming the latest thing in both day and overnight camps, and many camps across the country already... | Ellen Vanstone | Timex Sinclair User | August 1983 |
| T/S Goes to the Library “Fantastic! A great idea! I can think of no better way to show people what a great machine the T/S1000... | Timex Sinclair User | September 1983 | |
| T/S Help and Information Editor’s Note: In TSH #11 John answered hardware questions on the TS1000, but as you can see below he is... | John Marion | T-S Horizons | Apri 1985 |
| T/S Help and Information Welcome to the first installment of the T/S Help and Information. This column is designed to answer questions, give advice,... | John Marion | T-S Horizons | Dec 1984 |
| TALLY or a SUM search on any line you select One of the changes in this issue permits you to do a TALLY or a SUM search on any line... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| Tape Backup Here is a program from Larry Kenny of Larken Electronics to backup any 2068 program. The program requires two tape... | SUM | June 1986 | |
| TAPE CORRECTOR You know how those tape to tape backup routines usually only work on “good” original copies, but what about a... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1988 |
| Tape Makes a Difference Since my years with the ZX81 and some time with the TS2068, I have fought the idea of adding another... | SUM | May 1986 | |
| Tape Records Here is all you wanted to know about saving to tape but didn’t know where to look. Except for minor... | LISTing Newsletter | March 1986 | |
| Tasword II Improvements This program will allow you to change the screen and ink colors in the Tasword II word processor from BASIC... | SUM | February 1985 | |
| Teach Kids to Count with the ZX81 Some education theorists suggest that learning to count and read is enhanced if you create a large, sharp image in... | Thomas B. Woods | Syntax | August 1982 |
| Techniques for Calling USR Routines If you’ve examined some of your programs for any of the Sinclair computers containing machine code, you’ve probably seen machine... | David Hoshor | The RAMTOP | September 1985 |
| Telecommunications: Timex/Sinclair 1000 vs Radio Shack Model 100 (Editor’s Note: The following article was written by Larry Desch for the newsletter of his local KAYPRO user group in... | T-S Horizons | Dec 1984 | |
| Ten Commandments Of C Programmers This was a document that I found on the Internet that I thought would be an interest to the C... | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1993 | |
| Ten Place Accuracy on the TS1000/1500 The TS 1000/1500 computers (and many others) do calculations to 9 or 10 significant figures. As described at the end... | Donald Dean | SUM | February 1986 |
| TEXT EDITOR 2000 Text Editor 2000 is my attempt to make a full featured text editor using only Spectrum compatible BASIC. To begin... | Christopher Nystrom | T-S Horizons | Apri 1985 |
| Text Editors This is a short review of the text editors available for the QL. Editors come in two basic types: moded... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1993 |
| Textwriter 2000 Plus: A Brief Review Textwriter 2000+ — available for the 2040 printer at $18.95; for the Aerco interface at $24.95. Bob Fingerle’s TW2000+ is... | SUM | September 1984 | |
| Thank You Welcome to our third issue of SUM! We wish to thank all of you for your support and for the... | SUM | October 1984 | |
| Thank you for your support I want to thank everyone for your support. Many very complimentary letters have been received and repeat orders would certainly... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| The 2068 Emulator I have finished the code to make the Timex run under Gerton’s Z80 emulator and finally debugged the Series One... | Leroy Keith Watson | The RAMTOP | Fall 1994 |
| 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... | John Riley | CATS Newsletter | May 1988 |
| The 2068 Video Digitizer Last month tried to show what can be done with the Digitizer circuit and two sources of software to run... | Timex Sinclair Users Group Mile High Chapter Newsletter | July 1991 | |
| The 2068 Video Digitizer A single board plugged into the 2068 expansion port can digitize and store any standard video image. Additionally the stored... | Timex Sinclair Users Group Mile High Chapter Newsletter | June 1991 | |
| The 2068 Video Digitizer The digitizer circuit has been around for many years even though many new software and hardware upgrades are just being... | Timex Sinclair Users Group Mile High Chapter Newsletter | November 1991 | |
| The 2068 Video Digitizer A single board plugged into the 2068 expansion port can digitize and store any standard video image. Additionally the stored... | Curt Carlson | Timex Sinclair Users Group Mile High Chapter Newsletter | June 1991 |
| The Aerco Disk Drive System Review of the AERCO disk drive system for the TS 1000. | Paul Caley | SYNC | November/December 1983 |
| The Amazing “Line Insert” Command I found that I required an INSERT facility for a filing job I was working on. This one works very... | Dan Pinko | Pro/File Updates | April 1984 |
| The Anatomy of a Program Line Program listings on the ZX/TS computers are available on command. With either LIST or LLIST, the program in the machine... | SYNC | March/April 1984 | |
| The Array Advantage An array is just another kind of variable, right? Well, yes and no: an array is another kind of variable,... | SYNC | March/April 1984 | |
| The Bargain Basement Blues Softsync, a New York-based producer of TS 1000 software, is feeling the heat. “The Timex/Sinclair 1000 has petered right out,”... | Infoworld | September 12, 1983 | |
| The basic route to a habit-forming hobby BUYING a Timex Sinclair machine can be the start of a lifetime obsession with home computing. It is easy, however,... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| The Cassette Connection With this issue, we start a “mini-series” on improving cassette reliability. I’m sure you’ll agree that unreliable LOADs are perhaps... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| The CATS 2068 Library Volume One Volume 2 — Educational & Utilities | CATS Newsletter | April 1988 | |
| The Chicago Consumer Electronics Show Last year, the Chicago Consumer Electronics sHow took up three floors of the main building of McCormick Place and entry... | Synchro-Sette | June/July 1983 | |
| The Circle Game Of all the problems with machine code programming, there is one that really stands out: it is too simple! Oh,... | SYNC | March/April 1984 | |
| The Compudex Telephone Dialing System Experience superfast dialing with the Compudex telephone system; an innovative add-on for the ZX81/TS1000/TS1500 that stores and dials any number... | Paul Hunter | T-S Horizons | Apri 1985 |
| The Computer Shopper Magazine One of my favorite magazines, next to SUM Magazine, is the COMPUTER SHOPPER from Titusville, Florida. With an annual subscription... | Richard Cravy | SUM | July 1985 |
| The Consumer Electronics Show: A First-Hand Report Twice each year the American consumer electronics industry has a giant show in which manufacturers from here and abroad show... | Richard Cravy | SUM | June 1985 |
| The Custom Cooler It’s sad but true that the ZX81/TS1000 machines tend to be sensitive to overheating in the summer. With a solderless... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| The Custom T/S Let’s start our series on T/S reliability improvement with some simple but effective ways to make your basic machine virtually... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| The Demise of Timex Computer Corporation I was one of the first people to learn that Timex was getting out of the personal computer retail market.... | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | March 1984 | |
| The Desk This program will store up to 100 appointments and 39 phone numbers/addresses. It also features a NOTE-PAD. When the program... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | December 1986/January 1987 |
| The Dutch Connection Most QLers probably don’t realize what exists overseas for the QL. I also don’t think that they realize what exists... | Mark Martin | QL Hacker’s Journal | August 1991 |
| The Fame & The Glory And now, here are a few more words about the last contest. First, we would like to thank all of... | SyncWare News | Mar-Apr 1986 | |
| The Fame and Glory After much deliberation, the winners of The SyncWare News 2nd (sort of) Annual Programmers’ Competition have been decided. The winning... | SyncWare News | July/August 1987 | |
| The Fantastic Music Machine and Light Show The Fantastic Music Machine is a unique program that transforms your computer keyboard into a 3-octave musical instrument with reasonably... | Susan Harris | SYNC | November/December 1983 |
| The February Report With this issue, we start bulk mailing due to the increase for first class coming February 17. Also, with our... | SUM | February 1985 | |
| The German Connection Through various means I have gotten in contact with Franz Herrmann of the German QL User Group “Sinclair QL User... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1992 |
| The Great Computer Depression A few weeks back, I took out a subscription to INFOWORLD, a weekly newspaper featuring all the latest jive from... | Thomas B. Woods | Computer Updates | Winter 1986 |
| The Great Connecticut Kit-Building Experiment New Haven's Chris Baldwin ignited young minds by introducing 28 students to the world of tech through his 10-week ZX81... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| The Great RAM Rescue A WORD OF CAUTION: Any hardware project for your computer must be approached with extreme caution. SYNC cannot be responsible... | Randall Glidden | SYNC | March/April 1984 |
| The Guy From Timex Timex planned to manufacture and sell a 3068 computer with 1 meg. of memory, 256 colors, and virtual memory for... | LISTing Newsletter | February - March 1988 | |
| The Heart of the Sinclair QL … the 68008 There is great confusion about the QL. The question is: in which computer category does the QL fall? The 32,... | SUM | April 1986 | |
| The History of the Sinclair/Timex User Group Last fall, I started the user group to bring owners of the Sinclair computers together to share how they were... | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | October 1982 | |
| The Home Computer Market, the ZX80 and the Future Excerpts of a speech given to the Amateur Computer Group of New Jersey, December 11, 1980. I would like to... | SYNC | March/April 1981 | |
| The Incredible “Not” Search These changes allow ZX PRO/FILE to perform “NOT” searches. This is equivalent to printing all files EXCEPT the word you... | Pro/File Updates | January 1984 | |
| The Intercontroller The Intercontroller HV bus. $99.95. Intercomputer, Inc., PO Box 90, Prudential Center, Boston, MA 02199. In SYNC (3:4) I reviewed... | Lawrence Kelly | SYNC | March/April 1984 |
| The International QL Meeting The 21st March 1992 saw the International QL Meeting in Germany, organized by the Sinclair QL User Club e.V. Munster-Roxel,... | Dilwyn Jones | International QL Report | May/June 1992 |
| The invasion of the U.K. softwarecrats When Timex and Sinclair introduced the affordable home computer, it was based on technology developed by Clive Sinclair and Sinclair... | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| The Jochen Merz Story I’m not very good writing in English. Well enough for you to understand my technical manuals, but definitely not for... | Jochen Merz | International QL Report | November/December 1992 |
| The Linear Search Do you want to store and retrieve information with your computer? This program uses a machine language search routine that... | Thomas B. Woods | SYNC | November/December 1983 |
| The Little Timex Has Its Fans Even Now Hell hath no fury like a Timex-Sinclair owner whose computer has been scorned. The scurrilous comment in this column was... | Peter Lewis | The New York Times | March 1985 |
| The Mandelbrot Set The August issue of the Scientific American has on its cover a computer-generated display. I tried the scheme on my... | CATS Newsletter | October 1985 | |
| The March 4th Meeting and Bill McCotter’s Gift We will have the Timex modem on hand far a hands on demonstration, continue with the software sharing that went... | Triangle Sinclair Users Group | March 1984 | |
| The Mid-West TS Computer Fest The Mid-West TS Computer Fest was held on May 3rd and 4th at the Ramada Inn in Cincinnati, Ohio. I... | Synapse | March/April 1986 | |
| THE MINOTAUR You are lost in a maze and you must find the exit. Sounds easy, but what if I told you... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | August 1986 |
| The Paradoxical World of Clive Sinclair Now 42, and with his company, Sinclair Research, recently valued at over 200 million dollars, Clive Sinclair can reflect on... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| The Pro/File–AERCO Connection Linking Pro/File’s data management capabilities with the rapid access and large capacity of a disk system is probably the single... | Pro/File Updates | April 1984 | |
| The Quebec Link This excerpt is from “The Quebec Link” column in the Sinc-Link Newsletter from the Toronto T/S Users Group. Default device... | Real Gagnon | QL Hacker’s Journal | January 1991 |
| The Re-chargeable BBU Now we’ll make some changes and additions to “El Cheapo BBU” that will allow us to use rechargeable “NiCad” cells... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| The Rise and Fall of the Timex Computer Corporation, Part 1: What Happened? I don’t know exactly what came to your mind when you heard the news, but as for myself, I experienced... | Time Designs Magazine | Nov-Dec 1984 | |
| The Rise and Fall of the Timex Computer Corporation, Part 2: On the Drawing Board Throughout the month of January and even into the early part of February, before the bad news had hit, the... | Time Designs Magazine | Nov-Dec 1984 | |
| The ROMPAK System Rompak Cartridge System. Cartridge: $16.95 (kit: $11.95); EPROMs: from $9.95. Rompak Inc., Suite 100, 8206 Blackburn Ave., Los Angeles, CA... | Greg Busche | SYNC | March/April 1984 |
| The Rotronics Wafadrive: An inexpensive alternative to cassettes Those of us with ZX81s and TS1000s remember well the long and doubtful loading times of our original machines. To... | SUM | May 1985 | |
| The Shell While on the subject of Unix languages, Adrian Ives has continued the work of P. J. Taylor with The Shell,... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | December 1998 |
| The Sinclair QL Returns At the beginning of 1980 Clive Sinclair started selling his first computer, the ZX80. The initial purpose was to take... | Computer Shopper | February 1986 | |
| The Sinclair Research ZX80 The new ZX80 microcomputer from Sinclair Research Ltd is a remarkable device. Although first announced to the North American public... | Byte | January 1981 | |
| The Sinclair ZX-80 Microcomputer When I first saw the ZX-80, 1 said, “This is a computer?” It looked far less impressive than most of... | Kilobaud Microcomputing | December 1980 | |
| The Sinclair ZX81: Small Review of a Small Computer The ZX81 is the recent entry from Sinclair for lowest cost computers, and a very delightful entry it is. It... | Jerry Chamkis | Dr. Dobb’s Journal | April 1982 |
| The State of the Eight: 8-Bits Alive and Running In a classic scene from a popular Star Trek episode, Dr. “Bones” McCoy looks down at a crumpled mass of... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | June 1988 |
| The SyncWare News Story Three years ago, I received my first ZX81 computer kit in the mail. Only three short years ago, I considered... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| The Timex Sinclair 2068: Was it too little, too late? What can you say about a new computer that’s about a year and a half behind the times? I grew... | Video Games | May 1984 | |
| The Timex Sinclair Amateur Radio Users Group The Timex Sinclair Amateur Radio Users Group is made up of computer users who are interested in putting their Timex... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | Computer Shopper | April 1986 |
| The Timex-Sinclair 2068 Having stunned the computer world with the inexpensive, tiny, black and white computer that bears his surname, inventor Clive Sinclair... | Creative Computing | March 1984 | |
| The Timex/Sinclair 2040 Personal Printer After a long wait, the Timex/Sinclair 2040 Personal Printer is finally available in the United States at most outlets that... | Randall Glidden | SYNC | November/December 1983 |
| The Timex/Sinclair 2068 The Timex/Sinclair 2068 is the latest addition to the Timex line of home computers. Retailing for $199.95, the 2068 features... | Compute! | March 1984 | |
| The Timex/Sinclair as an Intelligent Lab Station Terminal Imagine a science laboratory with up to 16 stations, each containing a computer capable of instrument control as well as... | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | May 1983 | |
| The Trials and Tribulations of Reading a MSDOS Text File Disk Before I begin I would like to thank Bill Miller of SINCLINK for getting me involved with this project in... | Richard Matejovic | CRAGIST Newsletter | Jan-Feb 1990 |
| The Votem Votem. Kit: $39.95; assembled and tested: $59.95; plus $3 s&h. Down East Computers, PO Box 3096, Greenville, NC 27834. The... | SYNC | July/August 1983 | |
| The Zebra Graphics Tablet: A Review The Zebra Graphics tablet is a hardware and software combination using the popular Koala Pad graphics tablet–the same type used... | Joseph Williamson | SUM | August 1985 |
| The ZON X-81 Sound Generator The Bi-Pak ZON promises a "huge range of possible sounds." It certainly has great potential, but that potential is not... | Sharon Zardetto Aker | SYNC | November/December 1983 |
| The ZX Pro/File In SYNC 3:1 James Cripps found Thomas B. Woods’ ZX Data Finder to be “the most economical program dedicated to... | Walt Gaby | SYNC | March/April 1984 |
| There’s lots of potential in the newest Timex One of the pitfalls of buying computers new on the market is having to take some things on faith. Manufacturers... | Chicago Sun-Times | January 15, 1984 | |
| These kids’ books make learning fun There are many books on the market today aimed at teaching kids how to get the most from their home... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| This book is clear, witty, useful PROFESSOR Ian Stewart is with the University of Warwick, England, while co-author Robin Jones is with the computer unit at... | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| Three Way Save With Verify On the original PRO/FILE you could only save the data with the basic part of the program. It required you... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| TIMACHINE – A BASIC Compiler Deja vu! That was my first thought upon opening the large envelope from editor Tim Woods. Let’s take a trip... | Michael Carver | Time Designs Magazine | September/October 1986 |
| TIMACHINE Review TIMACHINE: A floating-point BASIC compiler for the TS-2068 and Sinclair Spectrum. (C)1986 Written by: Cameron Hayne From its animated title... | Phillip Stevens | SyncWare News | March/April 1987 |
| TIMACHINE: A sort of review Let’s face it, fellow members, all T/S buffs are NOT equal. As the famous author, George Orwell wrote in “1984,... | Max Schoenfeld | The RAMTOP | September 1986 |
| Timex at the Heart of the Kidney TS1000s plus peripherals can make life easier and less expensive for artificial kidney patients and US taxpayers. Artificial kidneys used... | Syntax | October 1983 | |
| Timex buys it up Sinclair Research have signed a deal with Timex in America to get the ZX81 sold through some 171,000 retail outlets... | ZX Computing | Summer 1982 | |
| Timex Computer Corp. Fades If you haven’t heard already, Timex followed in the footsteps of Texas Instruments not long ago, leaving computer owners and... | Pro/File Updates | April 1984 | |
| Timex is in computer field with under-$100 unit The computer is a Sinclair design; from 25 to 30 software packages will be offered at first. Next month marks... | Mart | June 1982 | |
| Timex makes a clearer printer The TIMEX 2040 thermal printer is the standard printer used with the American version of the ZX-81. The US version... | Sinclair User | February 1984 | |
| Timex needs higher profile Welcome to our second issue. Your response to our first was overwhelming and really gratifying. From all of us on... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| Timex Out of Market Timex Computer Corporation announced February 22 that they were withdrawing from the home computer market. The announcement was a big... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | March 1984 |
| Timex Portugal Coming to American Market! In an exclusive interview with the Managing Director of Timex Portugal, Bob Dyl of English Micro Connection has ascertained that... | SUM | April 1985 | |
| Timex reveals upgrade plans TIMEX has revealed its plans for two new microcomputers, the 1500 and 2048, in the States. The specifications of the... | Sinclair User | May 1983 | |
| Timex shows color computer with 48K for under $200 Timex introduced its color computer, which has 48K RAM and sells for $199.95. It is the first color computer having... | Infoworld | January 31, 1983 | |
| Timex Sinclair 1000 Timex, the watch company that has always built Sinclair computers, will market and distribute Sinclair-based products in North and Central... | Syntax | May 1982 | |
| Timex Sinclair 1000 The Timex Computer Corporation will enter the personal computer market with the Timex Sinclair 1000. Sales will begin in July... | Creative Computing | September 1982 | |
| Timex Sinclair Survival Column As Sinclair owners, we start 1985 in quite a different position than we were in at the beginning of 1984.... | Computer Shopper | January 1985 | |
| Timex Sinclair Survival Column Happy Birthday to us… Happy Birthday to us! This column marks the first anniversary of the Survival Column here in... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | June 1985 |
| Timex Sinclair Survival Column At long last I have a new Sinclair QL (for Quantum Leap) in front of me. In fact, this column... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | April 1986 |
| Timex Sinclair Survival Column As we know, the Sinclair community in this country never obtained the status of a Commodore, for instance, and the... | Computer Shopper | January 1986 | |
| Timex Speeds Up Delivery of the long-awaited T/S2000 series is being moved up by Timex. Demand by dealers and the public for the... | Timex Sinclair User | October 1983 | |
| Timex Story A few days ago (July 1993) WAILOU, Stan Horzepa, the QST columnist, sent me two articles from his local newspaper... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | June 1993 |
| Timex Tidbits Our Timex brethren in Milwaukee are producing Digitizers for the TS-2068. The cost of a completely assembled and tested unit... | Nite-Times News | March - April 1989 | |
| Timex Tips QUESTION: Can you explain the term RLE graphics? ANSWER: R.L.E. stands for RUN LENGTH ENCODED graphics, which probably does not... | The Data Expansion | October 1986 | |
| Timex Tips Here is something that puzzles me. I understand most of the terms in machine code, but what does SET do?... | The Data Expansion | August 1987 | |
| Timex Tips QUESTION: How many ‘ports’ do we have? What are ports used for? ANSWER: A port is a window to the... | The Data Expansion | Sept 1987 | |
| Timex Tips QUESTION: I own a Timex 1000 with memory expansion module 1016 and I have understood that the memory addresses are... | Chuck Dawson | QuarTerS | Winter 1986 |
| Timex Update On 4/24/84, I spoke with David Higgenbottom from the Los Angeles area. He is organizing a venture capitalist effort to... | Rita Carr | Timelinez | May 1984 |
| Timex will market Sinclair computer Sinclair Research, maker of the ZX81, the world’s biggest-selling computer, has made a number of major announcements concerning future sales... | Infoworld | March 15, 1982 | |
| Timex-Sinclair Survival Column One of the features included on the T/S 2068 which is very rarely, if ever, fully utilized is the ability... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | November 1985 |
| Timex-Sinclair Survival Column In the last few articles we started looking at some of the features of the QL’s built-in programming language, SuperBASIC.... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | November 1988 |
| Timex-Sinclair Survival Column The scene shows a small room filled with computer equipment. An. unattended computer is shown dialing all telephone numbers in... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | September 1984 |
| Timex-Sinclair Survival Column This month marks the second anniversary of the Timex decision to exit the home computer market. Many of us thought... | Computer Shopper | February 1986 | |
| Timex-Sinclair Survival Column A while ago I received a call from a fellow who is known on-line as Phoenix Pete. He explained that... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | February 1987 |
| Timex-Sinclair Survival Column In the past year we have mentioned SuperBASIC which is the language which comes built-in on the Sinclair QL. Starting... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | January 1987 |
| Timex-Sinclair Survival Column The SOUND command on the T/S 2068 is probably the most neglected of the new commands because of the complexity... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | March 1986 |
| Timex-Sinclair Survival Column It has been a while since we looked at games for the Timex/Sinclair computers. Since games are almost a universal... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | April 1985 |
| Timex-Sinclair Survival Column As readers of this column are aware, Computer Shopper has long been one of the biggest supporters of the Sinclair... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | November 1987 |
| Timex-Sinclair Survival Column What is it about computers in general, and Sinclair computers in particular, that draws many of us so strongly to... | Mark Fendrick | Computer Shopper | October 1985 |
| Timex, Sinclair, and the Clones At the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, there was much fanfare surrounding the official introduction of the Timex/Sinclair... | SYNC | May/June 1983 | |
| Timex’s Marketing Cited for Poor Sales Three decades ago, the Timex Corporation made its name by turning wristwatches into commodities, selling inexpensive, reliable timepieces in thousands... | The New York Times | February 23, 1984 | |
| Timex/Sinclair Sales Drop Sales of the Timex 1000 (ne Sinclair ZX81), once the most popular home computer, have plunged. Orders for its new... | Computers & Electronics | December 1983 | |
| Timex/Sinclair User for States A NEW MAGAZINE for the owners of Timex/Sinclair machines in the U.S. has been launched by ECC Publications, the publishers... | Sinclair User | May 1983 | |
| Timex/Sinclair User Group of Fort Worth, Texas September Meeting Notes The meeting was called to order by our president, Gene Pickens. Even though only 10 members were present at this... | The Data Expansion | October 1986 | |
| Timex/Sinclair Users Column A new computer owner sitting down at the keyboard, and trying to write a program for the first time may... | Computer Shopper | July 1984 | |
| Timex/Sinclair Users Group Meeting of Fort Worth, Texas The meeting convined in MEETING ROOM “С” of the Fort Worth Public Library at 300 Taylor Street in downtown Fort... | The Data Expansion | September 1986 | |
| Timex/Sinclair’s Timely Update Projected and actual release dates for new computers seldom coincide, and the Timex/Sinclair color computer fell prey to that ‘arrival... | Microcomputing Magazine | February 1984 | |
| Timexpectations: What Can You Expect? Welcome to the first issue … the collector's issue … of T1MEX SINCLAIR USER, the independent magazine which aims to... | Timex Sinclair User | June 1983 | |
| Tips on ZX81/TS1000 Computer Repair The following is a brief record, based on practical experience, of what kinds of things go wrong with the ZX81... | QZX | August 1993 | |
| TMS9918A Video Upgrade: Part 1 The TMS9918A video project consists of two pc boards, a small modification/addition to the main computer board, and a +5,... | SyncWare News | Sept-Oct 1984 | |
| Tone Dialer This program for the 2068 uses the SOUND command to dial touch tone numbers. It has a 20 number memory... | The RAMTOP | August 1985 | |
| Toronto Timex Sinclair Users Group: A History In October 1982 a short advert appeared in the classified section of the Toronto Star, asking persons who might be... | Sinc-Link | January/February 1989 | |
| Transferring MSDOS files to the TS2068 Recently I was given an MSDOS disk by Bill Harmer, of Ottawa, to see what I could do with it.... | Sinc-Link | May/June 1990 | |
| Translations: Memotext to ZX Pro/File If you have a Memotext word-processor module and 64K RAM, you undoubtedly have already made use of its powerful “text”... | SyncWare News | Sept-Oct 1984 | |
| Tricks of the Trade Anyone who uses a wordprocessing program has done it. Greeting card programs even do it. But what if I want... | Michael Felerski | ISTUG Newsletter | November - December 1989 |
| Tricks Sinclair Never Gave Us At the January meeting of CATUG, Bob Swoger said he would like to see a new article by me for... | James Brezina | Nite-Times News | September - October 1990 |
| TRS-80 MC-10 ‘battles’ T/S 2000 The mass-market personal computer battle continues to heat up. Timex and Radio Shack have announced new home computers. Radio Shack’s... | Infoworld | June 20, 1983 | |
| True 64 Columns on the 2068 OS-64 is a plug-in cartridge that gives the 2068 a 64 column display operating system and includes full size printer... | SUM | February 1986 | |
| Try This “Try This” features short programs to show off your computer, impress your family and friends, and tickle your imagination when... | SYNC | March/April 1984 | |
| TS 1000 News Gerd and I have been able to contact Jim Horne and are helping Jim straighten things out. Jim was not... | Harrisburg Area Timex Sinclair Users Group Newsletter | Aug 1989 | |
| TS 2068 Machine Code: A Book Review Introduction to 2068 Machine Code by Dr. Lloyd Dreger & Advanced 2068 Machine Code by Dr. Lloyd Dreger / S.M.U.G.... | Jim Rodlin | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | September/October 1988 |
| TS 2068 Printer Interface This month I will discuss building a printer interface for the 2068. With all the software out on the market... | Joseph Williamson | SUM | January 1985 |
| TS 2068 Printer Interface Last month when I started my article for the printer interface, I came up with the idea of using the... | Joseph Williamson | SUM | February 1985 |
| TS 2068 Review When I last wrote about the 2068 two months ago, I really didn’t have a chance to put the computer... | SUM | ||
| TS-2068 Gets Rave Reviews Since Timex finally introduced its new Timex-Sinclair 2068 color computer this past October/November, it has received very favorable reviews in... | SUM | ||
| TS1000 Controls 38,000 Volts The government power company in the province of Mendoza, Argentina (EMSS) had a big problem. They had to develope a... | Guillermo Antonio Garcia (LU8MAD) | QZX | July 1990 |
| TS1000/1500 EXTENDED BASIC SCREEN, DRAW, and FILL DEMO Here’s a program written in Extended Basic to demonstrate the use of the new commands DRAW, FILL, and SCREEN. For... | Thomas B. Woods | Computer Updates | Spring 1986 |
| TS2050 Modem I ordered the Timex 2050 modem back in January hoping I would get it in time to use in a... | SUM | June 1984 | |
| TS2068 Digitizer The club is selling digitizer boards. – For one assembled, tested and shipped the cost will be $49.95 + $3... | SMUG Bytes | February 1989 | |
| TS2068 Programming Tips Although the TS2068 users manual does an outstanding job in acquainting the user with the computer, obviously it cannot include... | Sharon Zardetto Aker | SYNC | March/April 1984 |
| TS2068 Programming Tips Our thanks to Games to Learn By for letting us borrow these tips from their Timex Survivors Flyer (P.O.Box 575,... | T-S Horizons | July/August 1984 | |
| TS2068 ROM to EPROM One of the ways in which a TS2068 can be put to use in an unconventional manner is to replace... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | August 1993 |
| TS2068 Timachine – A Fix The purpose of this write-up is to explain what was done and why to enable large printer printing of the... | Sinc-Link | January/February 1992 | |
| TS2068 vs TI 99/4A and TRS-80 Coco II Many people have asked me which computer is the “best” computer. That has always been a tough question to answer.... | Tony Cekolin | Sincus News | December 1984 |
| Turbo and TurboPE In the May/June 2000 issue of QL Today, George Gwilt mentions that he has updated Turbo to work under SMSQ/E.... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 2000 |
| Turbo Compiler TURBO, the SuperBasic compiler, has been updated and released for almost a year. Simon Goodwin is the original author with... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | December 2001 |
| Turbo Config TURBO does not support standard Qjump Config Blocks. George Gwilt has created TURBO Config, a tool that allows Config blocks... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | December 2001 |
| Twelve Coins We received a nice reply to our puzzle about 12 coins of equal denomination but one was a counterfeit. With... | George Chambers | The Plotter | April 1994 |
| TYB*BYTS The next time you have a program that takes a long time to run (or to SAVE/LOAD), save your patience... | John (Basil) Wentworth Kent Cook Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | January/February 1988 |
| TYD BITS Probably most of you have received notice of the bankruptcy of QUANTUM COMPUTING. Apparently, the notices were sent to everyone... | SyncWare News | ||
| TYD BYTS As we all have discovered, to our sorrow, those printouts produced by the TS2040 printer are pretty fragile stuff. No... | SyncWare News | ||
| TYD BYTS Perhaps you didn’t know that you can exhaust the memory of your TS 2068 in a surprisingly short time, if... | SyncWare News | ||
| TYD*BYTS I recently discovered a latent catastrophe in my OS64 cartridge version 1.72. The cart. sets RAMTOP at 65255. This is... | Kent Cook | SyncWare News | September/October 1987 |
| TYD*BYTS One of the most common complaints with the PC8300 is that the characters tend to have a “splayed” look, with... | SyncWare News | November/December 1987 | |
| U.K. Firm Bringing Out Small, Low-Priced Microcomputer A British electronics company, Sinclair Research, said it is bringing out a microcomputer that measures nine inches by seven inches... | The Wall Street Journal | January 31, 1980 | |
| Ultra Hi-Res Graphics on the Timex 2068 Amongst the differences between the Spectrum and the 2068, there are the 2068’s video modes. These modes are not directly... | Real Gagnon | SUM | October 1985 |
| Un-interruptable Power Supply Onward to replacing our good old wall-plug power supply with something more substantial. You have several ways to go, and... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Unisort “UNISORT” is a universal sort program. It will do numeric as well as alpha sorts. It is a utility program... | S. Page Emory | SUM | August 1985 |
| Universal Printer Driver In Volume 1, I ran a series on getting the most out of your ZX/TS with full-size printer and Memotech... | SyncWare News | Jul-Aug 1985 | |
| UPDATE Routine When at the main menu, enter a search command that ends with the reverse slash and the letter “U”. The... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| Upgrading to a “Real” Keyboard: E-Z Key Makes It Easy Back in the September ’85 issue of SUM, we ran an article on adding a large size keyboard to your... | Joseph Williamson | SUM | May 1986 |
| Usborne books are delightful & fun I have a friend who suffers from computer-phobia — fear of the chip. Whenever I try to interest him in... | Warren Smith | Timex Sinclair User | August 1983 |
| Use “DO” Files To Change Printer Format In ZX Pro/File If you find that you frequently need to change the print format (DEFP) in ZX Pro/File for the TS1000, you... | Thomas B. Woods | Computer Updates | Winter 1986 |
| Use It ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD Keith Goode of Arlington, Texas, certainly gives you your money’s worth with this program. In the menu, Use It... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| User Defined Graphics for the TS-1000 Your own custom graphics for less than $10? With just three IC chips, and a few extra parts, you can... | SUM | April 1985 | |
| User Group News In this column, we will list the regional user groups in Florida. If you have a users group here, please... | SUM | September 1984 | |
| Using a Modem with the QL One of the most exciting things that a computer can be used for is telecommunications. The QL is not behind... | Richard Cravy | SUM | December 1985 |
| Using Parallel Interface Printers With the QL Technology Research and other QL hardware manufacturers have introduced centronics parallel interfaces to allow the QL to drive parallel printers,... | SUM | March 1986 | |
| Using RAM Packs Getting the TS1500 and the TS1016 RAM pack to work properly involves a little more than plugging everything together and... | SYNC | March/April 1984 | |
| Using Tasword II with the Zebra Serial Ports In your article “Reviewing Two Printers“, SUM Apr11 ’86, you asked for information on the serial port of the Zebra... | C. Vernon Tidwell | SUM | June 1986 |
| Using the “Tomy Tutor” Recorder with TS-2068 While looking in a Video Concepts store the other day, I came across some old computer accessories they were selling... | SUM | January 1986 | |
| Using Two TS1000 Computers and Two VOTEMS and John Snakenburg’s Data Program for a Jr. High Science Project In my Physical Science class we were given the assignment to do a science fair project. I chose to do... | Triangle Sinclair Users Group | January & February 1984 | |
| Vaporware? In the first issue of IQLR, eighteen months ago, we encouraged QL users to support a new group being organized... | Dick Taylor | International QL Report | November/December 1992 |
| Vast database soon available to Sinclair users WITH THE next new computer from Sinclair Research not expected until next year, attention in the U.K. is being focussed... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| VDAQ – A Data Acquisition Development Program Here is a program that demonstrates a simple yet effective way to get analog information (data) into your ZX81/TS1000/TS1500 computer,... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Vendor Report The article last month on connecting the 2068 to a plotter has elicited a great response from a number of... | SUM | April 1986 | |
| Vendor Report First to report this month is the goings on with Sinclair in the U.S. and in England. After a seemingly... | SUM | September 1985 | |
| Vendor Report Curry Computer is now the U.S. distributor for Pyramide Software of Paris France. Curry now has their first program for... | SUM | June 1986 | |
| Vendor Report PleasanTrees Programming continues to supply ZX/TS software and will introduce new 2068 titles. They are closing out the last copies... | Syntax | September 1984 | |
| Vendor Reports Larken Electronics, RR#2 Navan Ontario, Canada K4B 1H9 has recently announced that they now have a disk drive system for... | SUM | May 1986 | |
| Vendor Reports Budget Robotics & Computing of Tucson, AZ has purchased the rights to manufacture and sell the Computer Continuum Buffered Buss... | SUM | January 1985 | |
| Vendor Reports A midwest Timex/Sinclair Computerfest is being planned for May. Most software, hardware, magazines and other supporters will be on hand... | SUM | January 1986 | |
| Vendor Reports The Quickey 2068 is a keyboard overlay with legends printed on and available for TASWORD II/TASPRINT and MSCRIPT. Coming soon,... | SUM | February 1986 | |
| Vendor Reports There are a number of reasons for the existence of magazines and newsletters supporting specific computer brands such as the... | SUM | September 1984 | |
| Vendors Here is a list of vendors who are more or less active in selling Sinclair equipment, software or services. The... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | April 1992 |
| Vendors Here is a list of vendors who are more or less active in selling Sinclair equipment, software or services. The... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | September 1992 |
| Vendors Here is a list of vendors who are more or less active in selling Sinclair equipment, software or services. The... | Alex Burr (K5XY) | QZX | July 1993 |
| Veni, Vidi Video, Vici So far in “The Custom T/S,” I’ve shown you how to overcome problems with all three of the little inline... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| VIEWord VIEWord is the first in a series of software packages for the TS2068 being produced by Jim Clatfelter. It is... | SUM | October 1984 | |
| Votem Cassette Controller If you have a VOTEM, or if this article talks you into buying one, here is a simple modification which... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Welcome to issue number two of PRO/FILE EXTENSIONS I think you will really enjoy the additional capabilities available by adding the following routines. As things are added to... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| Welcome to the first issue of Extensions Welcome to the first issue of EXTENSIONS, an unofficial and irregularly printed newsletter for PRO/FILE 2068 owners. As of now... | Robert Fischer | Extensions | |
| What Can You Buy for Under $1000? The Sinclair ZX80 is compact enough to slip easily into a brief case or tote bag. Since the ZX80 weighs... | Creative Computing | September 1981 | |
| What is ZX26? In 1991, Andre Baune of Quebec, Canada, published a newsletter called “ZX-91: 10 Years Later.” It was a newsletter for... | Tim Swenson | ZX-26 | January 2026 |
| What, We Worry? For those of you who thought that we were just a couple of non-existent characters beyond your end-of-line marker, we... | SyncWare News | September/October 1985 | |
| What’s Become of the Sinclair-Timex Retail Network The retailing network for Sinclair-Timex products in Boston is in a shambles. For months now users have been asking the... | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | August 1983 | |
| What’s in a Name? We also talked abut the term COMPUTERFEST. Gary Ganger pointed out that the term is owned by the Dayton Microcomputer... | John (Basil) Wentworth | SyncWare News | January/February 1988 |
| What’s In Store: 30 Games for the Timex/Sinclair Computer I used to use my Timex Sinclairs mostly for business purposes. I don’t consider myself much of a games player,... | James Roberts | Family Computing | April 1984 |
| What’s In Store: VU-3D When Timex Computer Corp. began showing the TS 2068 Color Computer last fall, the star of every demonstration was a... | Family Computing | August 1984 | |
| Wheatstone Bridge Circuit Using S.E. in Electronics Unlocking the complexities of electrical circuits, this analysis uses simultaneous equations to untangle the mysterious world of currents and resistances... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | 1984 |
| Where Is The Timex Modem? It’s alive and well and is now being sold by E-Z KEY and other distributors. This product allows the Timex... | Computer Shopper | September 1984 | |
| Where to Find ZX-81/TS-1000/TS-1500 Supplies The following is a list of ZX81/TS 1000/1500 dealers. Included is a brief rundown of what they carry (hardware or... | SUM | May 1986 | |
| Whither Clive? This is a somewhat roundabout story, but bear with us. Lotus, that outstanding manufacturer of winning race cars as well... | SYNC | March/April 1984 | |
| Who says that graphics have to be complicated? Can you tell us some of the computers that you use for computer graphics? These include some very large IBM... | Timex Sinclair User | July 1983 | |
| Why a Computer Show? Personally, I was tired of hearing “What can you do with a personal computer?” not to mention, “What can you... | Sinclair Timex User Group Newsletter | October 1983 | |
| Why Timelines BBS was Founded and What is Timelines BBS? Timelines….BBS was founded out of frustration of not having a Timex/Sinclair BBS that I could log on to that spoke... | The RAMTOP | January/February 1988 | |
| Why Would You Want CP/M+? The first time I knew that CP/M was available to us via the AERCO disk system and the ZEBRA FDD... | David Baulch | The Data Expansion | April 1988 |
| Winback Version 2.20 If you happen to own a Miracle hard drive or the new ED (3.2 meg) drives you’re going to eventually... | Frank Davis | International QL Report | March/April 1993 |
| Wind Chimes and the ZX/TS Computer Program to calculate the lengths of tubing for wind chimes. | Carter Scholz | SYNC | November/December 1983 |
| Word Wrap Now that I have an HP Deskjet 520 inkjet printer, I’m starting to think about what type of output I... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | March 1995 |
| Workin’ in the Software Patch Our feature program this month is OMNICALC 2, the impressive spreadsheet program from Microsphere, Ltd. OMNICALC 2 was reviewed in... | SUM | April 1986 | |
| Working Directory As we all know, QDOS did not come with the concept of directories and subdirectories. A number of extensions to... | Tim Swenson | QL Hacker’s Journal | July 1998 |
| WORM Enhancements Editor’s Note: The following article expands upon Gordon Young’s program published in issues 5, 6, 7, and 9 of TS... | Allen H. Wolach | T-S Horizons | Apri 1985 |
| Writing A Pente Program For The QL First, let me introduce myself. I’m 25 years old, live in France (as I’m French) and have had a QL... | QL Hacker’s Journal | October 1995 | |
| WRX 16 Hi-Res for the 1000 For several years, ZX81/TS1000 owners have dreamed of a simple bit-mapped high-resolution system for their machines. The quest began with... | SyncWare News | Nov-Dec 1986 | |
| Zebra Graphics Tablet for 2068 Have you been looking for a way to do screen displays easier than figuring the PLOT and DRAW positions? This... | Dennis Jurries | Time Designs Magazine | September/October 1985 |
| Zebra Talker – A Review The Zebra Talker is a hardware and software combination that will allow you to synthesize human speech. The system is... | Joseph Williamson | SUM | July 1985 |
| ZIP Basic Compiler The resident language in the T/S 2068 is Sinclair BASIC (an altered version of Microsoft BASIC). BASIC is a relatively... | Michael Carver | Time Designs Magazine | September/October 1985 |
| ZVOICE Like many of you, I have been fascinated by the idea of speech synthesis. I even bought a GI SP0256... | Wilf Rigter | ZX-Appeal | October 1986 |
| ZVOICE Part 2 Listing 4 shows how a text to speech program can be implemented. A text string is scanned one word at... | CATS Newsletter | January 1987 | |
| ZX 81 News and Resources I offer two unequivocal statements for the record: 1: Yes, ZX81 user support has moved “underground”. 2: NO, the ZX81... | T-S Horizons | February/March 1986 | |
| 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... | Tim Swenson | CATS Newsletter | November 1991 |
| ZX-81 taking off in the States THE ZX-81 is beginning to take off in the States. An agreement between Sinclair Research and the American Express credit... | Sinclair User | August 1982 | |
| ZX/TS RAM Pseudo Disk If you have a 64K RAM on your ZX/TS, you can recover from crashes by periodically saving your work in... | Bob Kinnon | Syntax | May 1984 |
| ZX/TS Repair Guide – Part II This is the second in a series of articles on how to repair your ZX81 and TS1000. I will also... | SUM | October 1984 | |
| ZX/TS Repair Guide, Part I This begins a series of articles on how to repair the problems’ that spring up with your ZX81 and TS1000.... | SUM | September 1984 | |
| ZX/TS ROM and RAM Addressing As a result of my article “Your Timex-Sinclair Can Become a Remote Terminal” (Sync 2:6) a number of readers raised... | SYNC | March/April 1984 | |
| ZXVoice For starters, would you please dig out your October 1986 issue of ZX-Appeal and read Wilf Rigter’s article on pg... | Wilf Rigter | ZX-Appeal | March 1987 |