Christian Science Monitor

“We have a lot of inquiries from all over the world,” says Marydel Frohne. She runs Church School Software with her daughter out of a Bensenville, Ill., parsonage. “But the sales have been exceedingly slow.”

The Timex Sinclair 1000 computer, which sells for $99 and hooks up to a television set, has also seen phenomenal sales growth since a giant ad campaign this fall. ”We were receiving 50,000 calls a week on our 800 (telephone) number after we ran our ads in September,” said Daniel Ross, vice-president of Timex Computer…