Higgenbottom Rumor #7832 … Straight Poop from Timex

The Christmas issue of T-S HORIZONS claimed a big scoop from none other then David Higgenbottom Claiming that he had confirmed a new and substantial investment and that he will be able to meet TIMEX’s requirement for acquisition of TIMEX computer technology.

You’ll recall that this is the person who has allegedly been on the verge of buying the rights to the TS 2068 since at least May ’84 and planning to manufacture more of them, develop it more fully, and open “The Little Computer Stores” all over the U.S.

Personally, I hate rumors like this.

So the entire C.A.T.S. Newsletter investigative reporting team went to great lengths to get to the higgenbottom of this story–we picked up the phone and called what’s left of the senior management organization at TIMEX Computers in Connecticut.

This is the straight information direct from the mouths of TIMEX:

• David Higgenbottom talked with TIMEX at least half a dozen times in 1984 about buying the computer technology.
• David Higgenbottom did contact TIMEX in December to relay the fact that he had a new investment.
• As far as real negotiations with TIMEX, that is premature and no hard negotiations have ever taken place.
• TIMEX has a lot of interest in seeing the TS-2068 picked up by some group.
• TIMEX said that if a proper buyer presented a serious proposal, they would sell the TS-2068 rights.
• TIMEX did not poo-poo David Higgenbottom. As a matter of fact they indicated that of all the interested parties, Higgenbottom is the most active and so far has the clearest plan for what he would like to see happen.
• TIMEX wishes Higgenbottom well and hopes he will be able to come to them with a complete package.
• But nothing firm exists as of this time…period.