Posted By
JamesC
on 2016-10-27
09:47:17
|  Re: Retro Tech Club
@Csabo - the Timex Sinclair 1000 (not two separate machines) was the US equivalent to the Sinclair ZX81. The TS1000 is the machine that Bil Herd called the "door stop", the one he "ripped the Z80 processor out of" when designing the Commodore 128.
Timex Sinclair is one of the companies that Tramiel targeted during the Computer War of 1983. Customers could buy a TS1000 for $50 and send it to Commodore to get a $100 voucher toward the retail price of a Commodore 64 -- which is how Commodore acquired so many "door stops" to start with.
If one looks at the styling of the later Timex Sinclair computers (the TS1500 and TS2068), one might notice a strong similarity to the styling of the Commodore 116. 
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