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sirmorris wrote:Was that the Alphacom? Or was that another thermal jobbie?

Alphacom (Believe it is alphacom 32) is a thermal jobbie

Bill H

Twice I have come across in old magazines mention of a printer that plugged into the timex sinclair (american made) 1000 and used plain paper. It printed 16 characters per line and used register paper. Has anyone seen this before?

Bill H

A satelite view of the Timex factory in Dundee where they made the zx81 / ts1000 http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/sc-25448-harrison-road-timex-factory-/bingmap Wonder if there is anything in a closet there still? And a pic from the front entrance from back in the day (right hand side of the s...

Here is an example of what I was talking abougt

http://tinyurl.com/35zqs8f

That will link you to a search of old magazines that all have articles about times sinclair on google books - Lots of interesting reads ther

Bill H

I like reading old computer magazines from the late 70's eary 80's (Byte, Personal Computing, Compute! etc) and am always looking for them online to read. Anyone have any good linkes to any old computer magazines they want to share. I would really like to read some old ZX81 / TS1000 articles but wil...

sirmorris wrote: Hmm, certainly this is something like a classic Bill H question ...
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Read this again - is this a good thing?

BIll H

On an old PC I had a few years ago I had the ZX81 font installed in windows XP. I am looking for that font again and can't seem to find it. Anyone know where I can get it? It is a TTF font

Bill H

sirmorris wrote:Hang on ... scratches chin ... is this _the_ Bill H? Of the late TS1000 forums??!

Hmm, certainly this is something like a classic Bill H question ...

If so - hello again!

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Tis him

Bill H

Thanks Siggi ! Ran it through google translate and am reading it right now

Bill H

We have all no doubt seen the laptops that the police have on the dash of their car (or at least here in the US). Here is a early version of that, the Car Comp: http://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue41/087-1.jpg Car Comp secures a Timex/Sinclair and cassette deck as well as allowing power to be...