--- title: "Timex Sinclair Online User Group Meeting June 1, 2026" id: 70068 type: "video" slug: "timex-sinclair-online-user-group-meeting-june-1-2026" url: "http://localhost/video/timex-sinclair-online-user-group-meeting-june-1-2026/" markdown_url: "http://localhost/video/timex-sinclair-online-user-group-meeting-june-1-2026.md" published_at: "2026-07-05T21:58:24+00:00" modified_at: "2026-07-05T22:10:33+00:00" author: "David Anderson" featured_image: url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/tsug-06-01-26.jpg" excerpt: "Two newcomers join: Charlie Day, who bankrolled a Sinclair QL writing BASIC as a teen, and David Laffineuse, a Florida collector of 80 machines who fried a 2068 with a DivMMC." category: - name: "Videos" slug: "videos" taxonomy: "category" url: "http://localhost/category/videos/" post_tag: - name: "QL" slug: "ql" taxonomy: "post_tag" url: "http://localhost/tag/ql/" - name: "Timex Sinclair Online User Group" slug: "timex-sinclair-online-user-group" taxonomy: "post_tag" url: "http://localhost/tag/timex-sinclair-online-user-group/" - name: "TS 1000" slug: "ts1000" taxonomy: "post_tag" url: "http://localhost/tag/ts1000/" - name: "TS 2068" slug: "ts2068" taxonomy: "post_tag" url: "http://localhost/tag/ts2068/" model: - name: "Sinclair QL" slug: "sinclair-ql" taxonomy: "model" url: "http://localhost/model/sinclair-ql/" - name: "Timex/Sinclair 1000" slug: "ts-1000" taxonomy: "model" url: "http://localhost/model/ts-1000/" - name: "Timex/Sinclair 2068" slug: "ts-2068" taxonomy: "model" url: "http://localhost/model/ts-2068/" indiv: - name: "Charlie Day" slug: "charlie-day" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/charlie-day/" - name: "David Anderson" slug: "david-anderson" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/david-anderson/" - name: "David Laffineuse" slug: "david-laffineuse" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/david-laffineuse/" - name: "Gustavo Pane" slug: "gustavo-pane" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/gustavo-pane/" - name: "Jeff Fetta" slug: "jeff-fetta" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/jeff-fetta/" - name: "Jeffrey Kuhlmann" slug: "jeffrey-kuhlmann" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/jeffrey-kuhlmann/" - name: "Joe Vandezande" slug: "joe-vandezande" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/joe-vandezande/" - name: "John Stroebel" slug: "john-stroebel" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/john-stroebel/" - name: "Larry Lorenson" slug: "larry-lorenson" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/larry-lorenson/" - name: "Michael Kutzner" slug: "michael-kutzner" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/michael-kutzner/" - name: "Paul Holmgren" slug: "paul-holmgren" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/paul-holmgren/" - name: "Richard Burt" slug: "richard-burt" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/richard-burt/" - name: "Ryan Gray" slug: "ryan-gray" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/ryan-gray/" - name: "Tim Swenson" slug: "tim-swenson" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/tim-swenson/" video_date: "20260601" --- # Timex Sinclair Online User Group Meeting June 1, 2026 Two new members join the group this month, and the conversation ranges from teenage BASIC hustles to modern Pico-based hardware. [Charlie Day](http://localhost/indiv/charlie-day/), a retired systems analyst from the Research Triangle area of North Carolina, grew up writing BASIC on a Timex Sinclair 1000 and sold programs locally to fund his way up to a 2068 and then a Sinclair QL. Some of his 2068 work was picked up by [Hawg Wild Software](http://localhost/article/hawg-wild-software/) after he found a bug in their Fig-FORTH. He was active in the Triangle-area Timex group — home to [Doug Dewey](http://localhost/indiv/doug-dewey/), who built one of the first Spectrum ROM emulator cartridges for the 2068 — and still has his original hardware, including an unfinished 2068 windowing system he recently pulled back out. [David Laffineuse](http://localhost/indiv/david-laffineuse/), founder of the Florida Retro Computer Club, introduces himself as a broad 8-bit collector with close to 80 machines. He came to the group after frying a 2068 with a DivMMC, and walked the group through a second machine showing flashing black blocks over stable copyright text — traced to the lower 16K video RAM at U6/U7 and lifted traces rather than the SCLD. Other topics in this meeting: - Jeff Kuhlmann’s VCF Southwest recap: two Timex-Sinclair tables, a rescued box of material including preliminary TS-2000 design drawings, and a D&D Software TS-1500 running Robotron on a wireless D-pad - The TS-Pico: the Raspberry Pi Pico + micro-SD cartridge that gives the 2068 full tap-file storage from native Timex BASIC (Ricardo Calcagno, Gustavo, and Ryan Gray) - A Raspberry Pi Pico replacement for the 8251 UART in a Westridge 2050 modem, so ZX Term 80 runs unmodified — headed to VCF Southeast in July - OpenSPAND: 50 community-built PCBs, an open-source redesign of the ZXSpand for the ZX81/TS1000 using a Pico 2350 on an Olimex carrier - A mystery ZX81 board identified as a [Paul Hunter](http://localhost/indiv/paul-hunter/) NV CMOS design, its lineage to [Fred Nachbaur’s](http://localhost/indiv/fred-nachbaur/) SCRAM and [Wilf Rigter’s](http://localhost/indiv/wilf-rigter/) WRX16 hi-res graphics (still used by [Greg Harder](http://localhost/indiv/gregory-harder/)) - The Virtual OS Museum ([virtualosmuseum.org](https://virtualosmuseum.org)): pre-configured VM images including the QL via SQLUX and Urs Koenig’s QLE — plus IRIX, Solaris, MINIX, Ultrix, Tops-20, and a GE 200 Recurring members and guests include hosts [David Anderson](http://localhost/indiv/david-anderson/), [Tim Swenson](http://localhost/indiv/tim-swenson/), [Gustavo Pane](http://localhost/indiv/gustavo-pane/), [Ryan Gray](http://localhost/indiv/ryan-gray/), [Joe VandeZande](http://localhost/indiv/joe-vandezande/), [Michael Kutzner](http://localhost/indiv/michael-kutzner/), [John Stroebel](http://localhost/indiv/john-stroebel/), and [Jeff Kuhlmann](http://localhost/indiv/jeffrey-kuhlmann/).