---
title: "A Watchful Look at the Timex 1000"
type: "article"
slug: "a-watchful-look-at-the-timex-1000"
url: "http://localhost/article/a-watchful-look-at-the-timex-1000/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/article/a-watchful-look-at-the-timex-1000.md"
published_at: "2020-10-27T17:09:25+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-06-23T09:39:39+00:00"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "In the mid-60's, four musical moplops, leading a legion of other musical moplops, descended on the U.S. mainland. They called ii the \"British Invasion.\" The '80s has seen another British Invasion, and this time in the form of a little black plastic device with honest computing abilities and a price tag that can only be…"
category:
  - name: "Video Games"
    slug: "video-games"
    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/periodicals/video-games/"
post_tag:
  - name: "1983"
    slug: "year-1983"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/year-1983/"
  - name: "Timex Computer Corporation"
    slug: "timex-computer-corporation"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/timex-computer-corporation/"
  - name: "TS 1000"
    slug: "ts1000"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/ts1000/"
model:
  - name: "Timex/Sinclair 1000"
    slug: "ts-1000"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/ts-1000/"
indiv:
  - name: "Dale Archibald"
    slug: "archibald-dale"
    taxonomy: "indiv"
    url: "http://localhost/indiv/archibald-dale/"
publication: "Video Games"
publication_r:
  id: 10284
  title: "Video Games"
  type: "periodical"
  url: "http://localhost/periodical/video-games/"
authors: "Dale Archibald"
volume: "1"
issue: "7"
pages: "70-72, 75"
pubdate: "April 1983"
archive_link: false
archiveurl: "https://archive.org/download/Video_Games_Volume_1_Number_07_1983-04_Pumpkin_Press_US/Video_Games_Volume_1_Number_07_1983-04_Pumpkin_Press_US.pdf"
volumeissue: "v1n7"
companies_articles:
  - id: 11401
    title: "Timex Computer Corporation"
    type: "company"
    url: "http://localhost/company/timex-computer-corporation/"
---

In the mid-60’s, four musical moplops, leading a legion of other musical moplops, descended on the U.S. mainland. They called ii the “British Invasion.” The ’80s has seen another British Invasion, and this time in the form of a little black plastic device with honest computing abilities and a price tag that can only be described as bloody unbelievable.