--- title: "Timex Sinclair Online User Group Meeting November 20, 2022" id: 49553 type: "video" slug: "timex-sinclair-online-user-group-meeting-november-20-2022" url: "http://localhost/video/timex-sinclair-online-user-group-meeting-november-20-2022/" markdown_url: "http://localhost/video/timex-sinclair-online-user-group-meeting-november-20-2022.md" published_at: "2023-04-24T01:14:55+00:00" modified_at: "2024-04-30T20:38:59+00:00" author: "David Anderson" featured_image: url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/20230424-011458.jpg" excerpt: "Mark Kloosterman showed us some of his large Sinclair and Timex/Sinclair collection." category: - name: "Videos" slug: "videos" taxonomy: "category" url: "http://localhost/category/videos/" post_tag: - name: "Timex Sinclair Online User Group" slug: "timex-sinclair-online-user-group" taxonomy: "post_tag" url: "http://localhost/tag/timex-sinclair-online-user-group/" indiv: - name: "Adam Trionfo" slug: "adam-trionfo" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/adam-trionfo/" - name: "Carl Miles" slug: "carl-miles" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/carl-miles/" - name: "David Solly" slug: "david-solly" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/david-solly/" - name: "James C. March" slug: "james-c-march" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/james-c-march/" - name: "Jeff Burrell" slug: "jeff-burrell" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/jeff-burrell/" - 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: "Larry Lorenson" slug: "larry-lorenson" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/larry-lorenson/" - name: "Marc Kloosterman" slug: "marc-kloosterman" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/marc-kloosterman/" - name: "Ryan Gray" slug: "ryan-gray" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/ryan-gray/" - name: "Stewart Newfeld" slug: "stewart-newfeld" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/stewart-newfeld/" - name: "Tim Horner" slug: "tim-horner" taxonomy: "indiv" url: "http://localhost/indiv/tim-horner/" video_date: "20221120" youtube_video_link: "https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZWq31z-y7Xs" --- # Timex Sinclair Online User Group Meeting November 20, 2022 - [David Solly](http://localhost/indiv/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](http://localhost/indiv/joe-vandezande/) talked about using the [Greaseweazle](https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle) to read [Timex Portugal](http://localhost/company/timex-portugal/) FDD disks with the eventual goal of converting them into recoverable files. The files are [available on archive.org](https://archive.org/details/zebra-fdd-disk-images). - [Adam Trionfo](http://localhost/indiv/adam-trionfo/) and [Ryan Gray](http://localhost/indiv/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](http://localhost/usergroup/timex-sinclair-users-group-of-fort-worth/). Adam had read the tape and [uploaded it to archive.org](https://archive.org/details/Fort-Worth-Timex-Sinclair-User-Group-2068-Club-Library-Tape). - Joe told us about his success with a portable USB cassette player, available from online retailers for about $30. - [Stewart Newfeld](http://localhost/indiv/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](http://localhost/indiv/tim-horner/) has developed. - [Marc Kloosterman](http://localhost/indiv/marc-kloosterman/) collects all manner of Sinclair ZX Spectrum computers and clones. He showed us [some of his collection](https://www.sinclaircollection.site/). - [Jeff Burrell](http://localhost/indiv/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](http://localhost/indiv/larry-lorenson/) showed us the [ZX Wespi](https://github.com/holmatic/zx-iot-video) 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](http://localhost/indiv/carl-miles/) shared some advice on stereo microscopes in response to Stewart’s question about getting into surface mount work. - [Jeff Kuhlmann](http://localhost/indiv/jeffrey-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](http://localhost/indiv/jim-march/) collection. You can see recent updates to the TimexSinclair.com website here: [https://www.timexsinclair.com/recent-…](https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbXd3ZlNmTVhwclJlOE51VlBRdFhnTTBsV3pxUXxBQ3Jtc0ttakVvenNrUy1qcW5iY3JVWURkM2hvcENXSlBNYXpuR0thcTRSRnozLWZXcGt2blNiN3c3TENlZGpveUhpNThhYzJFb3ZjbGNtZ3ZiZGVicWVOVmVZRFZSX2NPZkc5YUhidWJ3QWE4a2RhZWVFZG16TQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.timexsinclair.com%2Frecent-updates%2F&v=ZWq31z-y7Xs) ## Youtube embed