Help Needed With Sinclair 1000

From: Jason Willgruber <roblwill_at_usaor.net>
Date: Mon Nov 2 14:58:05 1998

Hello everyone.

I have an old Timex Sinclair 1000 computer that I recently got at Salvation
Army for $.50 (they thought it was an organizer!). I bought it to do a
presentation in my school on BASIC, but can't quite figure out how ot get
it to work. First of all, the display constantly has an (approxamately) 2"
wide (I'm using a 13" TV) black bar that rolls from the top to the bottom
-constantly. Would this be caused by using the wrong type of adapter? I'm
using a 9VDC 100mA adapter. Is this too little? Too much?

Secondly, I can't seem to get it out of shortcut mode. I try to type "10
CLS", and I get "10 CONT LET SAVE". I know that the Sinclair had shortcus
for the functions, but how do I get to the normal data-entry mode? I took
it apart, and the board in it has a Zilog Z80A, a Ferranti chip (same size
as Z80), a removable Sinclair Research chip, and a Toshiba chip. It says
SINCLAIR ZX81 1981 (c).

Anyone have info on this *tiny* computer?

TIA,

-Jason

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