Timex Sinclair 1000 repair

[JKnightandKARR]

Well, the composite mod is here, SMALL lil sucker!! Has 2 adj pots and a jumper to invert the colors, also have schematics, what I was thinking is, I have 2 ZX=81s, I have a 7" LCD monitor, add battery and we have a laptop... That shouldn't be hard at all.

[granz]

Hah, nice. I remember back in the early '80s when I had my ZX-81, I thought about hooking up a tiny television to my system and having a "laptop." Actually, in 1986, I did take a Timex 2068 (color version of the TS-1000) and mount it inside a 50 caliber ammunition can along with a cassette tape recorder and a battery operated television that we bought from Sears. It was my own personal Commodore SX-64 "clone." I actually took my portable computer with me on a deployment to Homestead AFB (near Miami, Florida.) It was pretty cool writing programs on my portable inside our work shelter (a 6' x 8' x 10' box that fits in the back of an M-35 deuce-and-a-half)


The trouble was that the "portable" computer was so heavy (probably heavier than the Kaypro, or Osborne, computers that became popular about that time) that I could feel my arm getting longer every time that I carried it.