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.  

[JKnightandKARR]

I got the parts, now install n figure out the config switches...

[granz]

Nice, hopefully that will get your computer up and running.

[JKnightandKARR]

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.  

That's cool. Atleast your console TV wasn't in danger of theft. Lol

[granz]

That's cool. Atleast your console TV wasn't in danger of theft. Lol

That picture was the shelter - our telephone switching system (300 line switch) was in one, and another was converted into our mobile workshop. Our squadron was a tactical (mobile) communications unit.

My computer was just inside one of the .50 cal ammo cans. It used a truly portable television as the monitor. The TV ran off of ten C-cells, or a 120VAC cord. I never had a console TV - my parents did, but not me.

[JKnightandKARR]

That's cool. Atleast your console TV wasn't in danger of theft. Lol

That picture was the shelter - our telephone switching system (300 line switch) was in one, and another was converted into our mobile workshop. Our squadron was a tactical (mobile) communications unit.

My computer was just inside one of the .50 cal ammo cans. It used a truly portable television as the monitor. The TV ran off of ten C-cells, or a 120VAC cord. I never had a console TV - my parents did, but not me.

I figured. lol OK, I don't know if not having a console tv is a good thing or a bad thing... lol

[granz]

Our console television was about three feet tall, about five feet left-to-right and about two feet front-to-back. If I recall correctly, it was about a twenty-five inch screen. It probably weighed over 120 Lbs, and took two adults to move it. The thing took up the entire back of our early-1970s station wagon (I.E.big car.) So, no, having a console TV is not such a good thing. Our current television has a sixty-five inch screen and (other than the awkwardness of physical size) can be lifted by a single person.