---
title: "A Timex for Agent 13"
id: "20096"
type: "post"
slug: "a-timex-for-agent-13"
published_at: "2019-11-24T23:39:57+00:00"
modified_at: "2025-09-28T17:49:55+00:00"
url: "http://localhost/blog/a-timex-for-agent-13/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/blog/a-timex-for-agent-13.md"
excerpt: "Dave Ketchum, an actor, writer and director, was also a Timex Sinclair user. If you’ve seen Get Smart in re-runs or have seen the remake, you’ve seen him: he played Agent 13. In his review of Thomas Woods‘ ZX-Data Finder..."
taxonomy_category:
  - "Blog"
taxonomy_post_tag:
  - "Thomas B. Woods (company)"
taxonomy_indiv:
  - "David Ketchum"
---

[Dave Ketchum](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0450495/)
, an actor, writer and director, was also a Timex Sinclair user. If you’ve seen Get Smart in re-runs or have seen the remake, you’ve seen him: he played Agent 13.

In [his review](/article/computerized-filing-cabinet/)
 of [Thomas Woods](/company/thomas-b-woods/)
‘ [ZX-Data Finder](/product/zx-data-finder/)
 in [issue 3 of Timex Sinclair User](https://archive.org/stream/TimexSinclairUser/Timex%20Sinclair%20User%20issue%203#page/n10/mode/1up)
, Ketchum alluded to his background in mentioning that his “business is writing television shows (Happy Days, MASH, and others).”

Ketchum gave a thorough review of ZX-Data Finder, pointing out how it was superior to other products and how he used it to keep track of scripts he worked on.

ZX-Data Finder was the predecessor to ZX Pro/File.

### Tags

[Blog](/category/blog/)
[Thomas B. Woods (company)](/tag/thomas-b-woods/)

### People

[David Ketchum](/indiv/dave-ketchum/)

### About The Author

[David Anderson](/author/david/)
I'm a big fan of the Timex/Sinclair computers: my first was the TS 1000. I love building things for my TS 2068 and sharing them with others on this site and andertone.com.