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hcoble2000 · Sat, 12 Feb 2005 02:42
Hello all,
The TS2068 was my first computer. I bought it December 1983 at an
after Christmas sale. Everything Timex computer related was on half
sale so I bought it and a TS2040 printer for only $150. I spent most
of my time on the TS2068 "porting" basic programs and games from books
that were popular at that time. The title that I can remember is
Ahlgren's 101 Basic Games or something like that. I saved the games
to tape and actually had a small business for a while duping them and
selling them on consignment in local computer stores. It was enough
for some beer and pizza. I even wrote an original sim game in basic
during this time. I was an enviromental science major so it was about
the effects of pollution and or environmental change on frogs in a
pond ecosystem. I was really proud of it and planned on a series of
them but Timex pulled the plug on their computers and the sells dried
up. I don't have any copies of that program now and in retrospect it
was probably pretty awful.
The only commercial app that I bought for the Timex was mscript(was
that a microsoft product?) I used it for my writing assignments and
printed them out on the TS2040 and took them to Kinkos to either
retype and print on their daisy wheel printers or have their typists
do the copy for me.
The only cartridge I bought for the Timex was the Spectrum emulator.
I bought it in a small computer shop in Chicago and it looked home
made but worked. I bought 3 spectrum games at the same time and was
amazed at the graphic quality that the TS2068 was capable of producing.
I had a lot of fun with TS2068 but never felt I used it to its full
potential. I always wanted to get a letter quality (remember that
term?) dot matrix printer or a daisy wheel printer but couldn't find
(or afford) an interface and printer. I had it connected to the
composite input of a TV but always coveted an RGB monitor. I knew
that you could connect the TS2068 to a RGB but didn't know how. RGB
was pretty expensive at this time too.
Unfortunately I do not have the TS2068 anymore. I sent it to some
relatives in the Philippines in 89. They loved it but wanted more
software. I had no idea where to find them at that time. As far as I
know they may still have it. (I want it back!) Recently I bid on
TS2068 on ebay but my dsl connection went down and I was out bid at
the last minute.
Homer