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I couldn't wait any longer! I dusted off my Macs and booted them all up to make sure I wouldn't spend the whole month fixing hardwar...

These beauties just came in the mail: Why buy one when you can buy 10 at 10 times the price? $20 on ebay seemed like pretty good deal. I...

I have again entered the RetroChallenge ! This time I will be using my Apple Power Macintosh G4 500 DP from the year 2000 to compile some p...

Not totally sure what I am going to do yet, but I am definitely offering these items up as prizes: I can't guarantee that the keyboard ...

Last weekend as I was adding some features to my BAM program, I started having keyboard issues again. I found some new continuity problems o...

I have a working game! Lots of features aren't implemented yet, like scoring and auto clearing areas, but it works! I learned some inter...

Programming the TS1000 is like programming punch cards Well, I have never programmed a punch card computer, but after several days of total ...

...means "Not enough room in memory." Great. My menus were working perfectly, and I started on the actual minesweeper game logic,...

My BAM minesweeper menu system is now fully functional. Ugh, I should be done with the whole program by now. Keyboard entry on the TS1000 BA...

I've picked a name for my Minesweeper program: "**BAM**" (British American Minesweeper). This is a nod to the British/American...

I bought the adapter I needed to convert from the mono headphone jack on the TS1000 to the RCA/phono jack on my iGrabber USB audio/video cap...

After a little research, I learned you can't break your TS1000 by putting the 9v power plug in the wrong jack. This makes sense conside...

Sorry for the lack of updates. I suffered a particularly gruesome injury to my finger this past weekend while working on another project. N...

10 PRINT "HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!" Very close to 200 years after the end of the American Revolutionary War, the American Timex Corpora...

Let's try this again. Type: P "HELLO WORLD" and the screen shows: PRINT "HELLO WORLD" Press the ENTER key and: ...

Wow, the TS1000 almost went into the trash can tonight. After trying to repair the keyboard ribbon cable, I plugged it back in to test my wo...

Well, my statement regarding the ease of this keyboard repair was apparently premature . I am going to stay optomistic that it is just the ...

Turning on the TS1000 is a bit disappointing. There is no boot chime, no clattering of disk drives, not even the 'click' of a switch...

So you want a Timex Sinclair 1000 but need to hook it up to a modern TV (in the U.S.). Well, there's an RCA/phono jack on it, so you c...

Yes, the power is overwhelming. The Timex Sinclair 1000 is pretty much a Sinclair ZX81 made for the North American market with 2kB of ...