Talk:Timex Sinclair

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(NB Parts of this page derive from the TS-1000 entry; that entry is now focused on the TS-1000, and more general/overview Timex-Sinclair stuff has been moved here; this page is no longer a redirect to Timex Sinclair 1000)

[edit] Changes

Wackymacs, I left some of your changes (the logo was a good addition), and I noticed you fixed my link to Sinclair Research Ltd.

However, I believe that replacing

in an effort to gain an entry into the rapidly-growing early-1980s home computer market in the United States.

with

in an effort to market the Sinclair Spectrum computers in the 1980s in the United States

was misleading, if not wrong (the first computers sold were not Spectrums, the "Spectrum" was not sold in anything like its UK form in the US, and since the Spectrum only came out around the same time as TS's first computers I don't think you can necessarily assume that this was the purpose of the venture). Not all the computers they sold were exactly the same as Sinclair's either; I think that what was there already makes this clear enough.

Also, it obscures the fact that Timex's motivation was to "get a slice of the pie" that was the fast-growing US computer market.

Anyway, thank you for your logo, and I have fixed and added to the links that were originally there. Cheers!

Fourohfour 09:40, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Sounds OK to me, I must agree that my rewording of the sentence was actually incorrect. I forgot that the first were not spectrums. D'oh — Wackymacs 16:21, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Timex of Portugal stuff

Regarding the edits made here by Mafmaf; most of it seems good, although there are a few statements I'm unhappy about (sounding a bit to reminiscent of speculation or one person's opinion), and tagged as "citation needed".

Also, I'm not sure that there was ever an entity known as "Timex of Scotland". Since Scotland is part of the UK, most UK branches of large companies would normally be known as (e.g.) "Timex UK" or "Timex (UK)".

Fourohfour 11:55, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Also, since Timex Sinclair and Timex Computer were (apparently) separate companies, should they be kept together or apart? Please note that I'm not saying they *should* be split. On the contrary, it might be more beneficial to keep related information together in context (I hate splitting for the sake of it). Fourohfour 11:56, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Split proposal

Should we split this along the lines of Timex Sinclair and Timex Computer (the latter currently redirects to the main Timex page). This would let us cover Timex Computer (the Portuguese/etc operation) more clearly IMHO. Fourohfour 16:04, 16 March 2007 (UTC)