The Timex Corporation announced a successor to its highly popular Sinclair 1000 home computer, and said the new machine would have eight times more memory capacity than its predecessor.The new machine, called the Timex Sinclair 1500, will hold up to 16,000 characters in its memory and sell for about $80.
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Tim Hartnell reports back from the Consumer Electronics Show. After some 18 months with the Timex version of the ZX81, Timex have managed to sell 600,000 of the machines in America. The Timex stand was enormous, about the area of a four-room flat, and it was dominated by giant pictures of the T/S 2000 and
First they brought you the T/S 1000! Next they promised the T/S 2000! But from what we have been able to learn, the American public was not as accepting of the redone ZX81 (which is what the machine was originally called in the U.K.) and quite willing to wait for the more sophisticated machine. There
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Softsync, a New York-based producer of TS 1000 software, is feeling the heat. “The Timex/Sinclair 1000 has petered right out,” says Ken Coach, marketing and sales director of Softsync. Coach says that although the T/S 1000 was “a nice computer to get if you wanted to find out about computers, people want more bells and
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TimeWare, a new line of software and books designed for the Timex/Sinclair 1000 series of computers, is available from Reston Computer Group. The TimeWare product line includes seven new software games, a six-volume series of self-teaching math software and eight books. Adventure games, arcade-type games and traditional games such as chess are included.
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The mass-market personal computer battle continues to heat up. Timex and Radio Shack have announced new home computers. Radio Shack’s TRS-80 Model MC-10 Micro Color Computer, retailing for $119.95, is now available in all Radio Shack retail stores now. The MC-10 generates eight colors and is aimed at first-time computer buyers. The 4K capacity of
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Timex-Sinclair computers (ZX81, TS1000, TS1500, TS2068) boast an enormous base, primarily through mail order. You can buy 106 books about your Timex from 30 publishers. About 130 software and hardware suppliers and dealers service this market as of April 25, 1984. Or you can join one of the 181 users’ groups in the United States.
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