Date: November 20, 2022
- David Solly had invited Iris Ten-Holder to join but unfortunately she could not. Iris had run a business using a Sinclair computer for a number of years.
- Joe Vandezande talked about using the Greaseweazle to read Timex Portugal FDD disks with the eventual goal of converting them into recoverable files. The files are available on archive.org.
- Adam Trionfo and Ryan Gray gave an update on their latest meeting. Ryan talked a bit about his Raspberry Pi setup, vintage hardware and a tape from the Fort Worth Timex Sinclair Group. Adam had read the tape and uploaded it to archive.org.
- Joe told us about his success with a portable USB cassette player, available from online retailers for about $30.
- Stewart Newfeld told the story of selling some of Jim March’s rare collection on eBay, which will help Stewart bring new products for Timex/Sinclair computers, including the TS 2040 printer shield Tim Horner has developed.
- Marc Kloosterman collects all manner of Sinclair ZX Spectrum computers and clones. He showed us some of his collection.
- Jeff Burrell has discovered yet another toy to explore, a new FPGA, that could be useful for his TS 2068 expansion board that might include a SD card interface solution and potentially a ULA+.
- Larry Lorenson showed us the ZX Wespi he built and talked about how it worked with his computer. The ZX Wespi is an ESP32-based tape/WLAN file server for the ZX81/TS1000 with VGA and/or LCD support.
- Carl Miles shared some advice on stereo microscopes in response to Stewart’s question about getting into surface mount work.
- Jeff Kuhlmann talked about his work on creating cartridges for emulators and real TS 2068 computers.
- Last, we talked about some of the updates to the timexsinclair.com website and new scans uploaded to archive.org, mostly from material from Jim March’s collection. You can see recent updates to the TimexSinclair.com website here: https://www.timexsinclair.com/recent-…