New and Updated Companies

company, orig pub: 10.27.24, updated: 10.27.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 10.05.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 09.21.24
company, orig pub: 10.18.20, updated: 09.18.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 09.18.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 09.18.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 08.10.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 07.15.24
company, orig pub: 07.09.24, updated: 07.09.24
company, orig pub: 09.02.20, updated: 06.22.24
company, orig pub: 12.26.19, updated: 06.11.24
Produced printer interfaces for the Timex/Sinclair 2068. One plugged into the cartridge slot, the other connected to the rear edge connector of the printer.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.08.24
company, orig pub: 06.02.24, updated: 06.02.24
company, orig pub: 11.01.20, updated: 05.29.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 05.28.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 05.28.24
company, orig pub: 10.18.20, updated: 05.28.24
company, orig pub: 05.14.19, updated: 05.28.24
Compusa was a subsidiary of Centronic, Inc. Compusa produced floppy disk systems for the ZX-81/TS-1000. Frank Kaplan was a sales manager at Centronic and spokesperson for Compusa.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 05.28.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 05.28.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 05.28.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 05.28.24
Founded by Alger Salt, Down East produced the VOTEM, one of the earliest analog to digital devices for Sinclair computers.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 05.28.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 05.25.24
BYTE-BACK started producing peripherals for the Sinclair computer in 1981. Their first product, a relay controller, was used by customers to control and automate projects. The original owner closed the company in the mid-1980s. David Leech, a former employee, purchased the company and continued to sell existing inventory. In the late 1980s, Leech introduced multifunction
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 05.16.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 04.26.24
Sold and supported the QL.
company, orig pub: 11.01.20, updated: 03.23.24
A&J Micro Drive was a spin-off of Exatron, the company that manufactured and marketed the Exatron Stringy Floppy (ESF). The Exatron Stringy Floppy was a continuous loop tape cartridge (“wafer”) that had some advantages over traditional cassette tapes. Exatron also manufactured the tape drive mechanism and sold it via mail order to home computer owners.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 03.20.24
company, orig pub: 09.23.20, updated: 02.18.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
Incorporated in February 1983, and founded by Stewart Newfeld, Zebra Systems developed products for the Timex/Sinclair 1000 and 2068 computers. Newfeld quit a job as plant manager of a manufacturing company to start Zebra Systems, Inc. Newfeld designed a keyboard-beeper, joystick adapter, A/D converter, and a speech-synthesizer for the TS1000, TS1500 and TS2068. He marketed
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
Tom Woods was an entrepreneur and educator who produced software and hardware for Timex/Sinclair computers. Tom’s entry into the Timex/Sinclair community was via amateur astronomy. He was interested in building telescopes and had an idea for a different telescoppe design. A friend of his, a math teacher in the local high school, said “it sounds
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 12.26.19, updated: 01.14.24
Tad produced software and hardware for the Timex computers to support digitizing and playing back voice samples. His speech synthesizer software played back pre-recorded word samples. He later went on to make products for the Atari ST computers as Seymor-Radix. On Seymor-Radix product digitized images through an optical sensor attached to the print head on
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
Founded in March 1981 by Sue Currier to market programs for the ZX80 written by a friend, Softsync was a major software publisher. Started with only $1,000, the company grossed over $1 million by 1983. Softsync offering some of the first programs in the U.S. for the ZX80 that didn’t come from Sinclair. At one
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
Silicon Mountain Computers was owner Fred Nachbaur’s second Sinclair-focused company. This company specialized in “never-before-seen” hardware and software for the Sinclair ZX81 family, including the Timex 1000, 1500 and the PC8300 clone. Fred’s goal was to “provide the best hardware and software ever created for these machines.” Unlike SyncWare, Silicon Mountain products pushed the Sinclair
company, orig pub: 11.30.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
Later developed a Modula-2 compiler for Macintosh computers.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
Started by Rod Gowen in 1981, RMG served everyone from ZX81 to QL and eventually PC owners.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 07.18.21, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 08.07.20, updated: 01.14.24
President: Mike Levy
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
Formerly Lamo-Lem.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
John Mathewson was president of the Ottawa-Hull Timex Sinclair User Group for a number of years. He developed a number of unique accessories for the TS 2068, including external keyboards and an adapter to allow use of cartridges via the rear expansion buss.
company, orig pub: 11.30.19, updated: 01.14.24
Jack Dohany worked in the electronics industry as a field engineer from 1962 to 1970. After seeing the Vietnam War up close, he became a pacifist and eventually left his job. Jack took up woodworking in 1970 and started a business called The Merry Toymaker, which he ran until 2009.  He sold his toys mainly
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
Gladstone Electronics was headquartered in Toronto, Ontario and had an office in Buffalo, NY.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 09.02.20, updated: 01.14.24
Bob was an enthusiastic supporter of the Timex/Sinclair community. He released his own program, LogiCall, and distributed Derek Ashton’s 747 Flight Simulator.
company, orig pub: 10.30.20, updated: 01.14.24
Marty Warner-Dubay, a former Timex software engineer, joined after leaving Timex. The company listed two addresses: one for David Dubay in Connecticut, the other for Charles Warner, in Massachusetts.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
Russell, a leader of the Central Pennsylvania Timex/Sinclair Computer Users Group, founded G. Russell Electronics. It was is named after his wife, who did all the marketing. He unexpectedly landed in the electronics business when he creating the Winky Board. The passive device plugs into the cassette tape recorder to produce easier tape loading. It
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
Also ran The Grey Matter BBS.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
Founded by a member of the Sinclair/Timex User Group of the Boston Computer Society.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
A prolific life-long inventor and amateur scientist, Eric Reiter started Computer Continuum in 1981, after dropping out of San Francisco State University. One of his first products was an analog interface board that made a digital oscilloscope with Fast Fourier Transform spectral analysis. Computer Continuum products were used by:
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 05.14.20, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
Contact: Gwen Marsh
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
Initially advertising under the name Bob Berch, the company became Cinagro Software in July 1983.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 05.22.20, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 11.30.19, updated: 01.14.24
Bennett’s designs were sold by G. Russell Electronics.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
AERCO made disk drive systems and other accessories for the TS 1000 and TS 2068 computers. Jerry Chamkis, owner of AERCO, now makes microphone pre-amps and a very unique musical instrument called the Kosmophone. He studied physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, but disillusioned by the emphasis on military applications, he left and
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
2-Bit Software specialized in programs that ran in 2K of RAM. Sandra Hutchins, one of the principals, was a computer scientist whose area of expertise was speech recognition. Jan Zimmerman, the other principal, was a business and marketing executive who wrote several books on internet marketing. Hutchins and Zimmerman went on to Emerson & Stern
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 12.26.19, updated: 01.14.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.06.24
company, orig pub: 01.02.24, updated: 01.02.24
company, orig pub: 01.01.24, updated: 01.01.24
company, orig pub: 01.01.24, updated: 01.01.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 01.01.24
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 12.30.23
company, orig pub: 12.27.23, updated: 12.27.23
While the Timex Corporation is best known for its watches, it also produced a number of other products since its inception as a clock company in the mid-1800s. During World War II, the company produced fuse timers for defense products, continuing through the 1950s and the Korean war. After the Korean war ended, Timex expanded
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 12.27.23
Stan Lemke developed graphics and desktop publishing software for the Timex/Sinclair 2068 using TIMACHINE. Most of his program development was done on cassette. In early 1988, Stan purchased an AERCO disk drive system for his TS2068. Pixel Print Professional used the extra 64K RAM in the AERCO to bank switch a second column, allow the
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 09.03.23
company, orig pub: 08.27.23, updated: 08.27.23
Nachbaur later started SyncWare News and changed his company name to Silicon Mountain Computers.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 07.29.23
company, orig pub: 11.30.19, updated: 07.13.23
company, orig pub: 10.19.20, updated: 07.09.23
company, orig pub: 10.18.20, updated: 07.08.23
company, orig pub: 10.18.20, updated: 07.08.23
company, orig pub: 12.05.20, updated: 07.08.23
company, orig pub: 07.08.23, updated: 07.08.23
The Timex factory in Portugal continued development of the Timex computers after Timex Computer Corporation exited the United States market in February 1984. They developed two floppy disk systems, the FDD 3 and FDD-3000, the Timex Computer 2068, the Timex Computer 2048 and other products.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.04.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
Owner: Philip Skok
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
Founded by a member of the Sinclair/Timex User Group of the Boston Computer Society.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
Kingsley was prolific in documenting how to program in machine language and produced several tools for programmers.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
Sinclair Research was the most recognizable of a series of names for a company Clive Sinclair started to produce his many inventions. Sinclair Research designed, marketed and sold the MK-14, ZX80, ZX81, ZX Spectrum, QL and a variety of other products.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
Distributor for: Abacus, Aerco, Audiograph, Basicare Microsystems, Down East Computers, Haven Hardware, Kopak, Melbourne House, Memotech, Reston Publishing, William Stuart Systems, Thurnal Electronics, UPSystems.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
Change name to ROM-PAC Applications in late 1982.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 08.25.21, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
Another supplier of the Filesixty keyboard overlay.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
Published astronomy software.
company, orig pub: 02.06.22, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 09.22.20, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 10.19.20, updated: 06.03.23
Programs from Celestial BASIC by Eric Burgess.
company, orig pub: 02.06.22, updated: 06.03.23
S & S published Synchro-Sette, a magazine that came with a cassette every other issue.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 02.06.22, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 02.11.20, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
ROMPAK produced circuit boards that could hold a 24-pin (1K-4K)or 28-pin (8K-16K) EPROM and offered several programs on EPROM for use with its board.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 09.22.20, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
Pearsall was also contact for the South Florida Timex/Sinclair Users Group.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 09.24.20, updated: 06.03.23
Robert Fischer was a middle and high school band instructor who wrote a gradebook program, used and enjoyed using Pro/File 2068 so much that he published Extensions, a newsletter for the program.
company, orig pub: 11.30.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 01.05.21, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 12.07.20, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 10.21.20, updated: 06.03.23
Steven J. Veltri, a vice president at R.I.S.T., wrote How to Make Your Computer Talk, a book that described interfacing the General Instruments SPO256-AL2 to multiple microcomputers. Veltri was formerly a product marketing engineer for the speech synthesis lines at General Instruments. His book described the product R.I.S.T. marketed.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 12.31.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
Specialty was musically related hardware and software.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
Changed their name to Foundation Systems in 1985 and discontinued support for the TS 2068.
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
company, orig pub: 06.19.19, updated: 06.03.23
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