I have become aware in the last few months of the demise of the Timex computers. I know that it truly took place about three years ago, but it seems to have risen again. I also know that I have commented about this before, but bear with me as I comment on it again.
We have had Sinclairists, Timexers, and Amstraders all moving away from 8-bit machines and to MS-DOS sand 16-bit machines – not necessarily an Amstrad. With these supposed “diehards” leaving the 8-bit world for greener pastures, what type of a future do we have for Timex? Other ‘diehards’ maintain there is life for our computers, yet! Who is right?
We now have the capability of having a universally connected disk system with the LK-DOS cartridge by Larry Kenny. More desktop publishing programs and improvements are forthcoming from Stan Lemke. Other operating systems other than BASIC are available, as CP/M from AERCO and ZEBRA (even though ZEBRA has discontinued the drive system). There are even more peripherals coming, larger RAM (256K) and more. Does this sound disparaging?
Yes, many user groups are beginning to fall on hard times, our own group included, but others are increasina as computers are being recycled to other people. The more that people predict that we are finally going under, the more the REAL diehards cling to their computers refusing to give up. I hope that this topic has finally been exhausted by now. I would like to have an M5-DOS machine, but not at the expense of giving up my 2068. What is wrong with it? I have an excellent disk system, a modem that həs given me no eroblems, an excellent word processor. (with improved versions still-to-come), a handy spreadsheet, graphics programs, databases, etc., all of with which I am familiar. Everything works, so why should I change to something different when there is no need?