Well. I was roaming yesterday and found a very nice old Macy's dress box. In it was a TS-1000 with the TS-1016 16k memory cartridge, manuals cables, and around 10 tapes, including PIM apps & games. After soldering a broken joint on the m/b [1], running to WallyWorld at 2:00am for a 300ohm-to-75ohm converter, and finally figuring out that I needed to turn the brightness all the way up on the TV, the little booger works. This is the first computer I've had that was in need of board-level repair to start with, simple enough to ID the problem (and not too densely populated), and common and cheap enough to "risk" non-essential modifications. Texas Instruments trained me as a "Certified Solder Sucker" or whatever in 1982, but I really haven't done any electronics work since. I build cables, solder all the joints on auto work, and stuff, but till last night had truly forgotten the joys of eutectic solder. Also till last night, I had truly not realized how much worse my eyesight has gotten.... The card-edge cartridge connector is worn nearly through the traces on the m/b. If the computer is jostled much at all, it loses the RAM and its little mind. Next mod will be to do some (cheesy, yes I know) wire patching to the finger traces. I joked last night about just going to the thrifts for a $5 B&W TV, but my experience with tuning and brightness matches Jeff Hellige's comments, and I may do exactly that if I keep this. What I'll more likely do is try Glen Goodwin's idea and tap the composite signal off the motherboard. The major question concerns the program tapes. I tried hooking up to my stereo, the only cassette player I have anymore, and at any volume, it just blows the Timex away. The display goes to hell, it doesn't seem to "read" the program, and the display stays scrambled even after the cassette stops. The manual states that a "Hi-Fi" tape deck, as opposed to a cheap battery-driven portable, may be the source of problems. Does anybody have a suggestion or solution? My instinct is that my cheap stereo does enough EQ (not optional) to "blur" the signal. One of the websites I found last night quotes the promo for the 16k cartridge - something like "With the addition of 16 kilobytes of memory, the Timex Sinclair 1000 could conceivably store a program of 960 lines, but of course. no programmer would ever need to..." Doc