Articles (66)
| Title | Author(s) | Publication | Date |
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| “Thread Spooling” With the Cumana QL Disk Drive Interface They call it the “bargain” interface, or the “economy” interface. I prefer not to refer to it as this, because... | Time Designs Magazine | May/June 1987 | |
| A Hands-On Review of Psion’s New MC400 Laptop | The Hacker | July 1990 | |
| A Mail File in Archive Create a simple database. | Update Magazine | January 1991 | |
| Accelerating Abacus Techniques for making the program faster. | Peter Hale | Update Magazine | January 1996 |
| Another QL Beginner Tipster Well, Old Bill suggested I might want to take up where he left off in the new “QL BEGINNERS COURSE”... | Update Magazine | January 1989 | |
| Archive Housekeeping How to perform garbage collection on an Archive file. | Peter Hale | Update Magazine | October 1990 |
| Archive Series – Part 1: Database Concepts Databases for novices. | Update Magazine | July 1990 | |
| Archive Series – Part 2: Archive Data Structure, The Good and The Bad More basics of databases. | Update Magazine | October 1990 | |
| Archive Series – Part 3: First Commands or Close Encounters of the First Kind Preparing to build a database in Archive. | Update Magazine | January 1991 | |
| Archive Series – Part 4: Create, Open, Insert Commands Creating and adding information to an Archive database. | Update Magazine | April 1991 | |
| Archive Series – Part 5: Alter and Delete Commands Further exploration of Archive. | Update Magazine | July 1991 | |
| Archive: The Final Frontier All right. I’m probably the last QL user to work with the ARCHIVE/QLDB data base program. The “problem” with ARCHIVE... | Update Magazine | July 1990 | |
| Cable Column More on linking databases together and using Sedit. | Update Magazine | April 1995 | |
| Cable Column Bycol - a program for displaying and printing databases by columns. | Update Magazine | July 1995 | |
| Cable Column Find, Search, Continue commands. | Update Magazine | October 1991 | |
| Cable Column Archive series part 22: error handling in Archive with Errnum() function and Error command. | Update Magazine | October 1995 | |
| Cable Column Solving the Towers of Hanoi puzzle with Archive. | Update Magazine | January 1996 | |
| Cable Column Using keys to link databases together and other handy tricks. | Update Magazine | January 1995 | |
| Cable Column Is Archive a relational database? | Update Magazine | April 1996 | |
| Check Book Balancer Program that leverages Abacus to balance a checkbook. | Update Magazine | July 1991 | |
| Computer Therapy Author's story of post-stroke recovery via computing, starting with the ZX80. | Update Magazine | April 1991 | |
| Creating Export Data Files With PSION Software (Abacus/Quill) Then Importing Them to Quill How to export files from Abacus and read them into Quill. | Update Magazine | January 1989 | |
| Easel Print The program shows how to use the graphics dump provided with EASEL. Reprinted from ZX-Appeal. | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| Editorial: Sinclair-Amstrad Deal; SyncWare Grows; Journal Goes Sinclair Research sold rights for Spectrum computers to Amstrad. Jeff Moore becomes editor. SyncWare Journal in construction. | SyncWare News | May-June 1986 | |
| For Your QL: Archive Secrets Tips for using Archive. | Time Designs Magazine | July/August 1988 | |
| From the Desk of Chris Fenn Short editorial about Psion MC400 delays, Z88 updates. | The Hacker | April 1990 | |
| Games for the Sinclair QL: A Potpourri Unlike previous Sinclair computers, the Sinclair QL was not–by design–optimized for computer games. The sound and graphics systems of the... | Time Designs Magazine | July/August 1986 | |
| 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 | |
| IBM Archive to Z88 Diary Procedure to export a file from Psion's Archive to load into the Z88 Diary program. | Update Magazine | October 1991 | |
| Merging Archive and Abacus Files For most QL users the first Psion program is Quill. Later they brave ARCHIVE and ABACUS. A big let-down is... | Peter Hale | Update Magazine | January 1991 |
| Psion ‘PCFOUR’ Lets a $1000 MS-DOS Machine Act Like Your $100 QL Psion’s software package, written for the QL, is available for MS-DOS. | The Hacker | August 1988 | |
| Psion Develops Three New Computers Overview of Psion MC-200, MC-400 and MC-600 mobil computers. | Update Magazine | April 1990 | |
| PSION MC400 Laptop — A Hands-On Review Detailed hands-on review of the PSION MC400 Mobile Computer: 640×400 non-backlit screen, 61-key keyboard with touchpad, SSD cartridge slots (ROM/RAM/Flash),... | Chris Fenn | The Hacker | Jul 1990 |
| Psion Organizer II Hits U.S. Market On the other side of the Atlantic, ‘small is better’ seems to be the credo as far as computers is... | The Data Expansion | November 1987 | |
| Psion Xchange The four PSION programs are tied together in the XCHANGE with the ability to share information between the programs without... | Update Magazine | October 1989 | |
| Psion Xchange 3.90 | CATS Newsletter | July 1993 | |
| QL Abacus/Spreadsheet “Tips”, Part I Suggestiosn for using the program better. | Time Designs Magazine | May/June 1987 | |
| QL Abacus/Spreadsheet Tips, Part II One good indicator that QL Abacus (QL SPREADSHEET in the States) is a quality program is the fact that, despite... | Time Designs Magazine | July/August 1987 | |
| QL Corner Great news for QL Users! Psion, UK has declared XCHANGE, a suite of four bundled programs, (Quill, Archive, Abacus and... | Update Magazine | October 1993 | |
| QL Easel/Business Graphics “Tips” In 1985 when the QL first hit the market, the QL EASEL (BUSINESS GRAPHICS) program alone would have been reason... | Time Designs Magazine | September/October 1987 | |
| QL Quill/Word Processor Tips QL Word Processor AKA QLWP AKA Quill–the least acclaimed of the four Psion software programs bundled with the Sinclair QL–is... | Time Designs Magazine | November/December 1986 | |
| QL Quill/Word Processor Tips Power user tips from Mike de Sosa. | Time Designs Magazine | March/April 1987 | |
| QL Quill/Word Processor Tips, Part II I’d like to start off this article with a few tips regarding the QL QUILL commands. I assume that you... | Time Designs Magazine | January/February 1987 | |
| QL Quirks The article on page 17, UPDATE, Jan '89, by Oscar Sensabaugh presents a problem which has a solution. I am... | Update Magazine | April 1989 | |
| QL Report Notes about the QL, comparison of the QL to Amiga and Atari ST computers. Games and books about the QL... | T-S Horizons | November 1984 | |
| QL Tips Tips on printing from the QL. | Update Magazine | January 1989 | |
| QUILL Filesaver This program reads a damaged QUILL file and converts it to a plain text file. | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| Refield Program Program that allows one to add, restructure and delete fields in Archive databases. | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| Scan: An Archive Program Program that allows one to see up to three selected fields displayed on a line for all currently active records. | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| Style Sheets, Formats and Macros I create a document of my letterhead with design, margins, footer, Justification and tabs the way I like them. I... | Peter Hale | Update Magazine | April 1989 |
| SuperBASIC Routines from Psion Solutions | Sinc-Link | September/October 1993 | |
| The Cable Column: Programming in Archive Archive has a built-in procedural based language. The author walks through writing a few procedures. | Update Magazine | April 1989 | |
| The Future of the QL in America and Some QL Graphics Systems Status of the QL and how to potentially improve the commercial viability of the product; discussion of QL drawing/graphics programs. | Time Designs Magazine | September/October 1986 | |
| The QL Beginner Course If you have dug around as I have between the four sections in the back of the QL manual, you... | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| The QL Beginner’s Column: “Software Dependant” Software Confused title? Nope! We need to understand that the bread and butter for QL computing are the many new softwares,... | Update Magazine | January 1989 | |
| The QL Report from Curry Computer Review of QL software. | T-S Horizons | July/August 1985 | |
| The Release of XCHANGE Recently I received a whole stack of disks from Ron Blizzard, and on one of the disks was a treatise... | Update Magazine | July 1994 | |
| The Super-QL: Using the Sinclair QL with 640K RAM Used with additional memory, particularly a 512K RAM card, the Sinclair QL is transformed, as are its bundled software programs.... | Time Designs Magazine | May/June 1986 | |
| To Buy or Not to Buy? — Flight Simulation by Timex/Sinclair (Psion) A review of the Psion-developed Flight Simulator for the 16K ZX/TS ($19.95), evaluating its realism and playability as an early... | Sinclair Users Network | January 1983 | |
| Upgrade to Hi-res Chess Most of you are undoubtedly as thrilled as I am, about the WRX16 high resolution core routines published in SyncWare... | Fred Nachbaur | SyncWare News | May/June 1987 |
| VU-Calc The worksheet itself is a 50×50 grid, with spaces instead of lines marking the columns. Each column is 7 spaces... | The Plotter | June 1989 | |
| VU-Calc 2068 Room For More Formula | CATS Newsletter | Jul 1986 | |
| VU-Calc: An Inexpensive Spreadsheet Program for the Timex-Sinclair Review of VU-Calc. | Microcomputing Magazine | October 1983 | |
| VU-CALC(S) by Psion The spreadsheet type programs (Visi-calc and its clones) are one of the most popular utilities for microcomputers for business and... | BAZUG Newsletter | January 1983 | |
| Why Use Archive? Twelve reasons to use Archive. | Update Magazine | October 1988 | |
| Xchange Goes PD! | CATS Newsletter | July 1993 |
Products (19)
| Title | Company |
|---|---|
| Backgammon Great for beginning players. If one player tries to perform an illegal move, the screen prints out an explanation of... | Timex Computer Corporation |
| Backgammon and Dice Great for beginning players. If one player tries to perform an illegal move, the screen prints out an explanation of... | Timex Computer Corporation |
| Chess Classic Chess match between you and the computer. All legal moves including castling and en passant. High resolution graphics and... | Timex Computer Corporation |
| Chess All legal moves including castling and en passant. High resolution graphics and 6 levels of play are supported. Special feature... | Mikro-Gen |
| Fantasy Games Two role-playing adventure games. In Perilous Swamp, you must survive the monsters and rescue the princess. Escaping from Sorcerer’s Island... | Sinclair Research Ltd. |
| Flight Simulator Full controls, instrumentation and a view of the horizon. Use the radio beams and radio compass to navigate. Avoid hazards... | Timex Computer Corporation |
| Flight Simulator Full controls, instrumentation and a view of the horizon. Enjoy the thrill of flying an airplane. See if you can... | Timex Computer Corporation |
| Horace & the Spiders You must get to the web and destroy the spiders before they can poison you. You are supplied with the... | Timex Computer Corporation |
| Horace Goes Skiing Delightful animated graphics program gives hours of fun. But you also need skill to help Horace slalom down the slopes,... | Timex Computer Corporation |
| Hungry Horace Hilarious adventure game in which you help Horace tease the park guards by stealing their lunch, eating flowers, and ringing... | Timex Computer Corporation |
| Penetrator You are about to be sent on a mission through treacherous enemy territory. As commander of the Penetrator, one of... | Timex Computer Corporation |
| Space Raiders Color Space Invaders clone. | Timex Computer Corporation |
| Space Raiders and Bombers Space Invader clone and bombing mission games. 16K. | Sinclair Research Ltd. |
| The Organizer Timex repackage of VU-FILE. | Timex Computer Corporation |
| VU-3D Sophisticated design and modeling program. VU-3D lets you create any object on the screen which you can then modify, expand,... | Timex Computer Corporation |
| VU-CALC Spread-sheet approach to fiscal analysis, engineering calculations, statistical analysis and more. Formula approach locates and calculates complex tables of numbers... | Timex Computer Corporation |
| VU-CALC (cart) Never released. Spread-sheet approach to fiscal analysis, engineering calculations, statistical analysis and more. Formula approach locates and calculates complex tables... | Timex Computer Corporation |
| VU-FILE (2068 cart) High-speed storage and retrieval program. Access personal or business files almost instantly. Design or format files to suit specific needs... | Timex Computer Corporation |
| VU-FILE (2068) Use electronic filing to store your lists. Create your own file and record layout, store data and retrieve information when... | Timex Computer Corporation |
Downloadable Files (3)
| Title | Type | Company | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| VU-Calc | Cassette | Timex Computer Corporation, Sinclair Research Ltd. | Download |
| VU-Calc (Cartridge) | Cartridge | Timex Computer Corporation, Sinclair Research Ltd. | Download |
| VU-Calc (Cassette) | Program | Timex Computer Corporation, Sinclair Research Ltd. | Download |
Documents (1)
| Title | Author | Publisher | Date | Pages |
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| VU-Calc Instructions Setup and operating instructions for VU-Calc. | 1983 |