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title: "The First Drag Racing Data Recorder Was a Timex/Sinclair 1000"
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published_at: "2019-09-19T14:27:58+00:00"
modified_at: "2020-12-27T19:33:59+00:00"
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excerpt: "Even though there’s a small technical inaccuracy in the article, it’s interesting to read that the first data recorder was a TS 1000. Eisenbarth’s discovery of the Timex Sinclair, a small DOS-based [sic] computer that came with a thermal printer,..."
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Even though there’s a small technical inaccuracy in the article, it’s interesting to read that the first data recorder was a TS 1000.

> Eisenbarth’s discovery of the Timex Sinclair, a small DOS-based [sic] computer that came with a thermal printer, … provided the great breakthrough. By the early 1980s, they had learned how to graph this data with a series of dots printed on thermal paper.

[Read the full article](https://www.nhra.com/news/2014/birth-data-recorder)

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[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.