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Timex Group USA, Inc. (formerly known as Timex Corporation) is an American global watch manufacturing company founded in 1854 as the Waterbury Clock Company in Waterbury, Connecticut. In 1944, the company became insolvent but was reformed into Timex Corporation. In 2008, the company was acquired by Timex Group B.V. and was renamed Timex Group USA.
Following Timex's ZX81-based T/S 1000 and T/S 1500, a new series of ZX Spectrum-based machines was created.Initially named T/S 2000 (as reflected on the user manual [1]), the machine evolved into the T/S 2048 prototype, and was eventually released as T/S 2068, with the name chosen mainly for marketing reasons.
The Timex Sinclair 1000 (or T/S 1000) was the first computer produced by Timex Sinclair, a joint venture between Timex Corporation and Sinclair Research. It was launched in July 1982, with a US sales price of US$99.95, making it the cheapest home computer at the time; it was advertised as "the first computer under $100". [ 1 ]
The ULA chip, described by the ZX81 manual as the "dogsbody" of the system, has a number of key functions that competing computers share between multiple chips and integrated circuits. These comprise the following: [8] Synchronising the screen display; Generating a 6.5 MHz clock, from which a 3.25 MHz clock is derived for the processor;
A modern LF radio-controlled clock. A radio clock or radio-controlled clock (RCC), and often colloquially (and incorrectly [1]) referred to as an "atomic clock", is a type of quartz clock or watch that is automatically synchronized to a time code transmitted by a radio transmitter connected to a time standard such as an atomic clock.
Timex Sinclair ended as Timex Corporation withdrew from the U.S. home computer market in January 1984 [1] [2] but Timex Portugal continued to manufacture, sell and develop hardware in Portugal and Poland [8] for another ten years, with some machines also being sold in Canada and Argentina (see Czerweny computers).
The device supports all the Timex Sinclair machines, [10] coming with a cassette containing modem control software for T/S 1000 and T/S 1500 on side A and for T/S 2068 on side B. [11] It was based on the Intel 8251 USART chip and very slow (300 bit/s).
A mid-1940s alarm clock radio with AM radio stations only A typical 1980s clock radio featuring a digital clock/alarm and an analogue FM/MW/LW receiver. A clock radio is an alarm clock and radio receiver integrated in one device. [18] The clock may turn on the radio at a designated time to wake the user, and usually includes a buzzer alarm.