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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.
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 ]
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 Group B.V., or Timex Group, is an American - Dutch holding company headquartered in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands and Middlebury, Connecticut. [ citation needed ] It is the corporate parent of several global watchmaking companies including Timex Group USA, Inc. , [ 1 ] TMX Philippines, Inc., and Timex Group India Ltd.
Talking alarm clock: Only a few IC's are needed to build a clock that really tells time. Lee Glinski: 54/5: May 1983 Car burglar alarm: An inexpensive form of insurance that can avert an automobile break-in. Edward W. Loxterkamp: 54/5: May 1983 VLF-HF passive antenna tuner: Another approach to optimizing reception at very-low frequencies. R. W ...
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;
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).
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 December 2024. Type of clock A traditional wind-up (key-wound), mechanical spring-powered alarm clock An alarm clock or alarm is a clock that is designed to alert an individual or group of people at a specified time. The primary function of these clocks is to awaken people from their night's sleep or ...