In this week’s meeting, we talked about the huge amount of documentation Jack Boatwright preserved. In the mid-1990s, an fundraising/preservation effort was mounted by people involved in ZXir QLive Alive, with the intent of saving computers, hardware, software and ephemera in Rod Gowen’s collection from the landfill. You can read a little bit about it here:
https://www.timexsinclair.com/article/input-output-2/
Jack visited Rod and collected a pickup truckful of material, which he’s preserved since. Also, Don Lambert, a long-time newsletter editor and collector, donated all of his materials to Jack in 1999, which further enhanced the collection.
All told, of just the 3 boxes Jack has sent David thus far, we’ve doubled the number of preserved magazine and newsletter issues to almost 1300.
Tim Horner and David Anderson talked briefly about a project to resurrect the Eric Michaud/SMUG video digitizer for the TS 2068.
Adam talked about his on-going review of Nick Hampshire’s Timex Sinclair Color Graphics, which you can read here:
https://www.timexsinclair.com/blog/overview-timex-sinclair-color-graphics-chapter-1-colour-plotting/
Jamie MacBeth talked to us about teaching machine language programming. He’s teaching for modern processors but would like to teach the Z80, preferably on the TS 2068.
Jeff Burrell gave an update on his project to make a modern mass storage device for the TS 2068.
Ingo Schmied showed us his progress on designing an external keyboard for the ZX81/TS 1000. You can follow his progress on his blog:
https://blog.codesurfer.dev/
And Ryan Gray showed us more printouts from his collection and gave an update on his updates to his programs.