Articles (1201)
| Title | Author(s) | Publication | Date |
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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... | 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 New Modem and Printers from Timex Timex was again showing the 2068 and 1500 computers, but were emphasizing a new... | 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 | July/August 1986 | |
| 2068 Buggy Software It isn’t considered normal when а magazine like SyncWare gives you а 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... | 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... | 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... | 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... | 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 CATALOGUE REVIEW Book reviews are quite common. I like to be a bit different, now and then, so I decided... | Tex Faucette | 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... | Tex Faucette | 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... | SyncWare News | Nov-Dec 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 100 DiM vertex (100, 3) 110 DIM edge (200,2) 190 RESTORE 200 READ xcenter, ycenter 210 READ d1, d2, rot... | 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 Program to generate fractal 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 50 Tips for Better Sinclair Computing This is all from a little booklet that I acquired for the SPECTRUM. There... | 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.... | 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 This New Color Computer Is Easy To Use, And Powerful, Too The new Timex Sinclair 2068 Color Computer weighs in... | 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... | 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 Dear Fellow Timex Computer Owner, The bad news that Timex has dropped out of the personal computer market comes to... | 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 Bismarck, 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 Rick, If its OK with you, I would like you to print this comment in the next issue, I want... | 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... | May 1982 | ||
| 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... | 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 bugbaiting 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... | 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... | 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 THE NONVOLATILE MEMORY BANK After constructing the two 16K banks described last month, and experimenting with them, I felt the... | Paul Hunter | T-S Horizons | July/August 1984 |
| Bank Switching the 2068 TS2192 COMPUTER The 2068 was introduced to us as a memory manager, capable of handling up to 256 banks of... | 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! Techniques for making BASIC faster. Last time we discussed four ways of speeding up BASIC. In this article we will... | 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 Is It A Number? By Fred Nachbaur The following routine contains a trap to insure that you enter a number.... | 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 Time for computing? The Timex unit is easy to program, thanks to both its built-in graphic commands and, to a... | 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 Peninsula Timex/Sinclair User Group (PUG) Meeting, attendance: 11 The videotape of the Tech-Draw program from Zebra Systems was shown. EBZUG... | 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 MAXWELL DEAL FALLS THROUGH In a surprising turn of events, the Robert Maxwell plan to buy-out Sinclair Research has back-fired.... | 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... | 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... | Sinc-Link | September/October 1985 | |
| Book Review: The Working Timex Sinclair 2068 “The Working Timex Sinclair 2068” is a very commendable effort to supply the 2068 user with a “library” of useful... | Tex Faucette | 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 Times/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... | 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 2-Bit Software of Del Mar California, has introduced a software four-pack that satirizes the suburban homemaker. Mad Dash tests your... | 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 The Byte-Back MD-2B is an excellent choice for a modem for the Timex Sinclair computers. It plugs right onto the... | 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... | 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. | 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,... | 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 Or, The Joy Of Using Interrupts On Your Computer “All right”, comes the chorus, “what’s an interrupt, and why should... | Sincus News | January 1985 | |
| Computus Interruptus, Part 2 How Does The Demonstrator Work? Pretty well! Seriously, let’s first look at what the demonstrator sets up in memory, and... | Sincus News | February 1985 | |
| Computus Interruptus, Part 3 If you try to relocate the machine code to the same 16K memory block as the display file (16-32K), you... | Sincus News | April 1985 | |
| Computus Interruptus, Part 4 The interrupt driven print-screen program we’ve been playing with is just about “all used up” as a learning tool. Its... | Sincus News | May - August 1985 | |
| Computus Interruptus, Part 5 Non-Maskable Interrupts You’ll need an “NMI Switch”, RAM in the DOCK bank and the ability to copy the T/S 2068... | Sincus News | November - December 1985 | |
| Computus Interruptus, Part 6 Now, it’s time to fire up your T/S 2068. Type in and RUN the listing below. This must be done... | Sincus News | March - April 1986 | |
| Computus Interruptus, Part 7 Now we’ll cover a couple of tricks we can do because the maskable interrupt is synchronized with the computer’s video... | Sincus News | July - August 1986 | |
| Computus Interruptus, Part 8 Now we’ll return to the interrupt driven sprite program. When you type RANDOMIZE USR 64776 to start the program, the... | 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... | 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 Tax programs. Basicare modules from Gladstone. New products from Memotech. TS 2040 printer available. TS 1500 printer announcement. TS 2000... | 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 | |
| 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! Report Generator BoardENER-Z CompanyPO Box 635Port Washington, PA 19034 FEATURES: Real-time clock, A/D, I/O Ports, parallel printer interfacePRICE: US$ 89.95... | 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 I-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) user group, the former head of Research and Development... | 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... | Update Magazine | January 1988 | |
| Fairware News THE PURGE So who’s left? Did you get a MAC II for Christmas? I’m updating my mailing list. If you... | 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 T/S 2068 is an “under-$200” basic computer offering many features missing on the 1000 The new Timex Sinclair 2068... | 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 TS Machines Thrive in South America When the Timex Computer Corporation here in the States closed their doors for good,... | Time Designs Magazine | July/August 1987 | |
| For Your Support ZEBRA SYSTEMS, INC., is currently offering Graphics Collection tapes for use with their TS2068 Graphics Designer Series programs: The Banner... | 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 Hardware and software announcements from many vendors. | SyncWare News | Mar-Apr 1986 | |
| For Your Support AN-TO Productions is marketing QUICKEY 2068 keyboard overlays. Overlays are available for the following programs: AccuDraw T2, Artworx v1.1, Tasword/Tasprint,... | 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... | Tex Faucette | T-S Horizons | Oct/Nov 1984 |
| Forth Origins by Gary Smith(C) 1983 HAWG WILD Software PO Box 7668 Little Rock, AR 72217 Chet Lambert, the publisher/editor/copyboy/ etc. of... | 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 by Gary Smith(C) 1984PO Box 7668 Little Rock, AR 72217 Right now this column is little more than an idea... | 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 The Winterfest Economists are always being quoted as saying that the best time to buy anything is last year. This... | 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 Reader input plus other notes of interest By Scott Duncan Advertising/Circulation Manager Let me begin this time by congratulating Mr.... | Scott Duncan | T-S Horizons | April 1985 |
| From The Cluttered Desk… Reader input plus other notes of interest. First of all I would like to thank all of you who have... | 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 Printer & DOS Routines In Part 1 (SWN Vol, 5 No. 5) of this intro to Beta Basic (BB) we... | 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, cook¬ ing gear, the ol’ fishing pole, and hiking into the wilderness this summer, many... | 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 Dear Alex, I could not allow my subscription to expire without first writing to you to express my thanks for... | 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? This is a “WHEEL OF FORTUNE” type of game in which you guess hidden phrases, names, etc… In the menu…... | Eric Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Fall 1988 |
| Guest Editorial Timex Computerists: Outlook Bright for New Products and Services. Immediately after TIMBX 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... | Tex Faucette | 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 Digital computers like the TS 2068 deal with two voltages. These are 0v and +5v, or rather something is true... | 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 My old pal, Floyd Cox, writes, “How do I use the Rompak Quickload and Pro/File cartridge on my TS1000?” Answer:... | 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 The Commodore 64 John Anderson The Commodore 64 is the best-selling machine in its class, and for very good reason.... | 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 Dear Timex Sinclair 2068 Owner: Thank you for your recent request for technical information on the 2068 computer. Available information... | 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 program will help you figure out the amount of the interest on your loans… The Menu 1- Calculate interest... | 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 In past issues of the QHJ I’ve covered this contest. I’ve included Round 5 for completeness – ED PAPER FOLDING... | 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 Faster Random Numbers Frank Terranella Have you ever been frustrated by the RND function? You type in:LET R=INT (RND*10)+1to generate... | 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 Puzzle The “Knight’s Tour” is a familiar chess puzzle. The object is to move a knight according... | 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 Part one of our step by step guide to help turn every one of you users out there into expert... | 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 Micro-Prolog Dear Sir, Reference the question in your last magazine about the availability of the program “Prologue” for the ZX... | Charles Byler Vince Stimmel Joe Jenkins Richard Templeton Jack Keene Carl Green Charles Eric Goyette | Time Designs Magazine | January/February 1987 |
| Letters ON U.K. IMPORTS I need some assistance! It concerns all these helpful books written by the English for the English,... | Timex Sinclair User | August 1983 | |
| Letters 64K RAM Dear Editor: I enjoy reading your magazine because of its great insight into the needs of its readers.... | 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 LENDING AN EAR I purchased the Timex Sinclair to see if a 60-year-old retired gent could learn computer programming. I... | 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 This program will choose random number selections. You can define how many numbers in a selections and between what numbers.... | 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 Putting it to Work Ok, Ok, I can hear it now; it’s just another simultaneous equation program. Anybody can write... | 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... | 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... | 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.... | 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... | 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... | 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... | 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 The Problem You are piloting a spaceship when suddenly appears an onslaught of meteorites which must be avoided at any... | 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 Revel Without A Cause Not one to get easily excited over new developments, there have been some fairly significant gains... | 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,... | 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... | 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 Those who’ve manipulated the nice orderly display file on the ZX-81/TS-1000 have been somewhat perplexed by the T/S 2068. Yes,... | 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 HYBRIDIZATION AT ITS BEST DEPT The Commodore 1351 Mouse can be used with the LarKen system. Plug the mouse into... | 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 |
| Odd, Ends, Etc. While most of the “survivors” of the recent Great Magazine Showdown, as well the majority of their advertisers, are ignoring... | Tex Faucette | 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/... | 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 One of the fun things about using the TS2068 is the ability to PEEK and POKE in amongst the machine... | Update Magazine | July 1988 | |
| Perceptions 4K and 8K ROM Command Conversions 4K and 8KROM Command Conversions In the last issue of SYNC (1 :6) I... | SYNC | January/February 1982 | |
| Perceptions Overview The TS2000 series of computers claims an extensive group of features of hardware and software. The machines feature 24K... | 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... | 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 Memotext Memotech Corp.99 Cabot StreetNeedham, MA 02194 This word-processor from MEMOTECH is a tough thing to review, as it would... | 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 TS1000, ZX81. You are an infamous space pirate... | 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 David Nash (dnash@chaos.demon.co.uk) responds to a past article on books that most programmer’s should have. – ED I fully agree... | QL Hacker’s Journal | April 1993 | |
| Programming Boule The Challenge Donald D. Spencer concludes his Game Playing with Basic with a chapter of programming challenges. Among the old... | 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)... | Tex Faucette | 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 Program Type: Arcade Game From: DURELL Critical Mass is a very fast action game with SUPERB graphics. The goal of... | 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 $200 million) with the programming... | Bill Ferrebee | SUM | June 1986 |
| Review: Larken MAXCOM MAXCOM is 300/1200 baud Terminal/Remote BBS software… It is 2 programs in one meant to be used with the LKDOS... | Kristian Boisvert | Byte Power 1st Class Magazine | Winter 1989 |
| Review: Sinclair ZX81 A refurbished Sinclair ZX81 version— the Timex Sinclair 1000— is now being distributed throughout North America. Timex Corp. (Waterbury, CT)... | Interface Age | October 1982 | |
| Review: Speech Development System For TS2068 (HS68) Total DISAPPOINTMENT! This Hardware and Software package lets you digitize your own library of words. But frankly for 39.95$, it... | 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 DISTACALC Basically Programming 2528 West Olive Avenue Fullerton, CA 9263316K TS/1000, 1500; $12.95 Were you ever taught while in school... | 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 The Project A little over a year ago I decided to start building a robot. I had no idea that... | 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 ZX-81/TS-1000 Add-Ons Timex-Sinclair computer users get a boost from Bob Howard WADLI of West Covina, California. He tells us that... | 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 IS 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... | 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 [Minutes of the SNUG Sinclair North American User Group) conference of 8/17/88 on Compuserve] We met on the Timex section... | 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 Last month we explored the world of music through the program MUSICOLA for the TS2068. This month we continue our... | 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 graphics... | 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... | Tex Faucette | T-S Horizons | Sept 1984 |
| Software Review: MUSICOLA I guess you might as well call me a “Bill of all trades”. I have experience in programming, in advertising,... | Bill Ferrebee | T-S Horizons | Sept 1984 |
| Software Review: Starion & Space Scan SOFTWARE REVIEW: “STARION“ This is a 3-D graphics program drawn with extreme precision very quickly and smoothly. The complex shapes... | 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 This came to me as a letter and not an article – ED I am heavy into really relational databases... | 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 A COMMENT When writing an article I always try to do something which will encourage others to try their hand... | 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... | 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. Scenerio:... | 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 INTRODUCTION Structured SuperBasic (SSB) is another way of writing SuperBasic programs. It allows programmers to write SuperBasic programs without line... | 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 SYNC at the Keyboard Mark Fisher leads off our theme section “SYNC at the Keyboard” by revealing the hidden parts... | 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 SYNC at the Concert Our theme section this issue is “SYNC at the Concert” with a focus on sound applications.... | 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 eerge with one you have written and which will print out a list... | 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... | 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.... | 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... | 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... | 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... | 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 TIMEX had a fantastic booth. A number of Muppet-type puppets appeared on a CRT and interacted with a running dialogue... | 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 (What is This World Coming To Dept.) A few weeks back, I took out a subscription to INFOWORLD, a weekly... | 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 The Unused 1K-2K Space So, do those of you who have upgraded your ZX81/TS1000 to 16K ever feel sorry for... | 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 In SYNC (3:4) I reviewed the Votem—a device which converts continuously changing voltages from sensing transducers, such as a temperature... | 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 Growing Up With Sinclair Computers I’m not very good writing in English. Well enough for you to understand my technical... | 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 The Rompak cartridge system is an excellent low cost accessory for any ZX/TS user. The cartridge is a plugin EPROM... | 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 The Votem, to play on James J. Carr’s book Digital Interfacing to an Analog World (Tab Books, Summit, PA. 1978),... | 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... | 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 From its animated title screen to its ability to locate compiled code anywhere in memory, TIMACHINE is just what every... | 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 TS1000 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! New “Timex 2068” and Disc Drive to Lead the Way In an exclusive interview with the Managing Director of Timex... | 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... | 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 fan-fare 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... | 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... | 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 TS1000/ZX81 (1K RAM or more) Type in the following lines. Make sure the computer is in SLOW mode, press RUN... | SYNC | March/April 1984 | |
| TS 1000 News Taken from the June 1989 issue of ZX-Appeal – Newsletter of the Vancouver Sinclair Users Group. INSOMNIAC ELECTRONICS UPDATE Gerd... | 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.0,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.... | 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 USE THE BEEPER The next time you have a program that takes a long time to run (or to SAVE/LOAD),... | 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 Take Care of Those 2040 Printouts As we all have discovered, to our sorrow, those printouts produced by the TS2040... | SyncWare News | ||
| TYD BYTS Don’t Clog Your Memory With GOSUBs Perhaps you didn’t know that you can exhaust the memory of your TS 2068... | SyncWare News | ||
| TYD*BYTS OS64 Bug I recently discovered a latent catastrophe in my OS64 cartridge version 1.72. The cart. sets RAMTOP at 65255.... | Kent Cook | SyncWare News | September/October 1987 |
| TYD*BYTS PC8300 VIDEO FIX One of the most common complaints with the PC8300 is that the characters tend to have a... | 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... | 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-yeah-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 TS1500 Plus 16K RAM Getting the TS1500 and the TS1016 RAM pack to work properly involves a little more than... | 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 TS COMPUTERFEST A midwest Timex/Sinclair Computerfest is being planned for May. Most software, hardware, magazines and other supporters will be... | 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? All you need to start is a simple understanding of the PLOT command, says professor and author Michael K. Barnett... | 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... | 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 Bug alert for Aerco CP-ZX ver 2.2 centronics interface. Review of JLO Video Upgrade Project (TMS9918A). Hardware User Report: JLO... | 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 ROM/RAM Immaterial As a result of my article “Your Timex-Sinclair Can Become a Remote Terminal” (Sync 2:6) a number of... | 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... | ZX-Appeal | March 1987 |