Timex Sinclair 1000 sales disappointing

One blot on the rosy scene of the Sinclair Research financial year was the disappointing performance of the Timex Sinclair 1000 in the U.S. Two factors seem to have affected sales badly, the raging personal computer price war which brought the selling price of the TS 1000 crashing to a derisory $39 and what some believe to have been a marketing error by Timex — the announcement of plans for an upgraded model, the TS 2000, long before it was ready to appear on the market.