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- Timex Computer Corporation
  Timex brought the Timex Sinclair 1000, 1500 and 2068 to eager users in the early 1980s.
- Timex (TMX) Portugal
  The Timex facility in Portugal designed and produced computers, disk drive systems and more.
- Sinclair Research Ltd.
  Sinclair produced the first home computer available for under $200 and continued to develop innovative, unique home computers.
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Proceedings of the IEEE

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Getting small: a short history of the personal computer
Traces the development of the personal computer (PC). The article first considers the technological underpinnings; how integrated circuits and microprocessors replaced vacuum tubes etc. The computer had been developed mainly by and for large organisations, but it was the amateurs that caused the emergence of the PC, beginning with the Altair 8800, which the user…

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