Digest Number 50
2 messages · 2002-09-24 → 2002-09-27 · Yahoo Group era · View archive on archive.org
Participants: Mr para nada, Don Dindang
Preserved from the Timex/Sinclair 2068 Yahoo Group (2001–2019), which is no longer online. Text reproduced from the archive.org archive; email addresses masked.
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1. Re: [ts2068] Digest Number 50
Mr para nada · Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:34
Hi all,
I'll change a Timex 2068 with Spectrum ROM for a Sam
Coupe computer, if someone have one, please contact me
;).
Kind regards
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> 1. Old Spectrum Newbie TS2068
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> 2. Re: TS2068 -to- Sony TV - It worked!
> From: "Jody Farr" <[email]>
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> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 06:07:21 -0000
> From: "Andrew Townsin" <[email]>
> Subject: Old Spectrum Newbie TS2068
>
> Hello Everyone - and Thankyou.
> I am new to this group but am old to the ways of Sir
> Clive.
>
> My name is Andrew Townsin, I am a senior Network
> Engineer with a
> global freight management company. I was born in
> 1966, which made me
> ripe in 1981 for a gadjet called a Sinclair
> Spectrum.
>
> I saved and washed cars and did dishes till the cows
> came home just
> to be able to buy one. I was able to buy one and
> played with it,
> programmed it, did just about everything with it,
> till 2 am every
> school night.(or mum banging on the wall to go to
> bed)
> You guys could probably relate. I even remember
> typing in all the
> lines of code to get hang man to run.(was that
> ZyLog)
> Well that was in Australia and now I'm here in
> Michigan and like a
> first girlfriend (the one you never forget) and now
> many +2.0GHz
> AMDs and Mainframes and OSes later, the first was
> for nostalgia the
> best.
> So I had a co-worker in England purchase a Spectrum
> for 15 pounds
> and he shipped it over here for me. It came with
> lots of games, a
> case, and a cassette deck. I tell you it was funny
> touching those
> rubber keys again.
> Well I haven't decided whether it is better to buy a
> PAL to NTSC
> converter 400 bucks. Or strip a broken TS2068 for
> the Colour RF
> Modulator.
> Any other solutions besides taking it out of its
> original case are
> welcome. I know you guys have limitless knowledge on
> AB switch
> piggyback ROMS but I wanted to keep it the way it
> was. Just me and a
> rubber keyed black box on the old shag carpet with
> the glow of the
> TV lighting the room and sitting fumbling for CYAN
> Mode really
> really late at night.
>
> Oh I don't like writing short one liners like.
> Can anyone help me I need a RF mod for an TS2068!!!!
>
> I feel as part of a online discussion group that the
> discussion is
> always left out in our haste to write electronic
> messages. And the
> habit sticks after a while.
>
> Anyway I will wait to see what kind of feedback I
> get and to see if
> I am welcome with my 500 word Postings.
>
> Regards
> Andrew D. Townsin
> Snr Network Engineer
>
>
>
>
________________________________________________________________________
>
________________________________________________________________________
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:06:58 -0000
> From: "Jody Farr" <[email]>
> Subject: Re: TS2068 -to- Sony TV - It worked!
>
> Yep, the composite-out port worked fine. Got a
> picture right away.
> Had a good chuckle...never seen a "K" prompt that
> big before (13"
> was the largest TV my father would let me hook my TS
> up to). :)
>
>
>
>
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2. Re: [ts2068] Digest Number 50
Don Dindang · Thu, 26 Sep 2002 22:29
Hi Mr para nada,
Do you want TS2068 or Sam Cupe?
Watchara
Mr para nada wrote:Hi all,
I'll change a Timex 2068 with Spectrum ROM for a Sam
Coupe computer, if someone have one, please contact me
;).
Kind regards
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> There are 2 messages in this issue.
>
> Topics in this digest:
>
> 1. Old Spectrum Newbie TS2068
> From: "Andrew Townsin"
> <[email]>
> 2. Re: TS2068 -to- Sony TV - It worked!
> From: "Jody Farr" <[email]>
>
>
>
________________________________________________________________________
>
________________________________________________________________________
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 06:07:21 -0000
> From: "Andrew Townsin" <[email]>
> Subject: Old Spectrum Newbie TS2068
>
> Hello Everyone - and Thankyou.
> I am new to this group but am old to the ways of Sir
> Clive.
>
> My name is Andrew Townsin, I am a senior Network
> Engineer with a
> global freight management company. I was born in
> 1966, which made me
> ripe in 1981 for a gadjet called a Sinclair
> Spectrum.
>
> I saved and washed cars and did dishes till the cows
> came home just
> to be able to buy one. I was able to buy one and
> played with it,
> programmed it, did just about everything with it,
> till 2 am every
> school night.(or mum banging on the wall to go to
> bed)
> You guys could probably relate. I even remember
> typing in all the
> lines of code to get hang man to run.(was that
> ZyLog)
> Well that was in Australia and now I'm here in
> Michigan and like a
> first girlfriend (the one you never forget) and now
> many +2.0GHz
> AMDs and Mainframes and OSes later, the first was
> for nostalgia the
> best.
> So I had a co-worker in England purchase a Spectrum
> for 15 pounds
> and he shipped it over here for me. It came with
> lots of games, a
> case, and a cassette deck. I tell you it was funny
> touching those
> rubber keys again.
> Well I haven't decided whether it is better to buy a
> PAL to NTSC
> converter 400 bucks. Or strip a broken TS2068 for
> the Colour RF
> Modulator.
> Any other solutions besides taking it out of its
> original case are
> welcome. I know you guys have limitless knowledge on
> AB switch
> piggyback ROMS but I wanted to keep it the way it
> was. Just me and a
> rubber keyed black box on the old shag carpet with
> the glow of the
> TV lighting the room and sitting fumbling for CYAN
> Mode really
> really late at night.
>
> Oh I don't like writing short one liners like.
> Can anyone help me I need a RF mod for an TS2068!!!!
>
> I feel as part of a online discussion group that the
> discussion is
> always left out in our haste to write electronic
> messages. And the
> habit sticks after a while.
>
> Anyway I will wait to see what kind of feedback I
> get and to see if
> I am welcome with my 500 word Postings.
>
> Regards
> Andrew D. Townsin
> Snr Network Engineer
>
>
>
>
________________________________________________________________________
>
________________________________________________________________________
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 16:06:58 -0000
> From: "Jody Farr" <[email]>
> Subject: Re: TS2068 -to- Sony TV - It worked!
>
> Yep, the composite-out port worked fine. Got a
> picture right away.
> Had a good chuckle...never seen a "K" prompt that
> big before (13"
> was the largest TV my father would let me hook my TS
> up to). :)
>
>
>
>
________________________________________________________________________
>
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>
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>
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> http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>
>
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