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3 unusual facts about Timex


Bronto Software

The company has over 1000 customers worldwide and it lists among its customers well-known brands like Armani Exchange, Timex, Samsonite, and Gander Mountain.

Timex

Timex Social Club, a band from the 1980s with one major hit, Rumors

Timex Group USA, a subsidiary of Timex Group B.V. and a large manufacturer of watches


Ardler

Unemployment in Dundee was at a high level, and this worsened when the Timex factory, located next to Ardler and an employer of many Ardler residents, closed in 1993.

Automatic Centre

Collins International has since been a distributor of global brands such as the genuine Thermos brand (USA), Sharp (Japan), Timex (USA), Marathon (Korea), Camping Gaz (France), Soenhle (Germany), Dowell (various), Omron (Japan), and Moulinex (France).

Cassette 50

The compilation was advertised in home computer magazines, with buyers also receiving a Timex digital calculator watch with each purchase.

Debbie Moore

Notable campaigns included Revlon, and a billboard in Times Square in New York plus Silvikrin shampoo, Rolo, Timex, and The Guardian.

Douglas Edwards

CBS News historian Gary Paul Gates, in Air Time: The Inside Story of CBS News, recorded a conversation between veteran CBS and NBC news executives musing over the shift from Edwards and Swayze to the Huntley-Brinkley and Cronkite newscasts, and Edwards's continuation at CBS compared to Swayze's later familiarity as a pitchman for Timex, after both men had fallen from their formerly lofty television perches.

George T. Simon

After leaving Metronome, he was involved with the Jazztone Society (1956–57), was a consultant for the Timex Jazz Shows, and wrote about jazz for the New York Herald Tribune and the New York Post newspapers.

Guantes

Many corporate giants have sponsored the event: for many years, the event was called the Timex"?title=Roblex">Roblex|Guantes award and so on.

Komputer 2086

The machine wasn't 100% ZX Spectrum-compatible (like all other Timex Sinclair versions) and a "Spectrum Emulation" cartridge was available (usually bundled).

StarText

Some of the early subscribers accessed the service using the Timex 1000 with its 16k RAM and 300 baud modem.

Timex FDD3000

The Timex FDD 3000 was nearly a complete computer by Timex of Portugal.

Timex Sinclair 2048

According to an early Timex Sinclair 2000 computer flyer, it would be a cut-down TS2068 with 48 KB of RAM and advertised as a 48 KB memory machine (The TS2068 might have been called the 2072 because of the add of 24 KB ROM + 48 KB RAM = 72KB).

The "Timex Sinclair 2048" although never produced, was to be an improved version of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer.

Tucker Viemeister

Their most successful products are the award-winning Oxo "Good Grips" universal kitchen tools, the advanced technology Serengeti sunglasses and their packages and catalogs, Black & Decker's best-selling Metropolitan toaster, the ergonomic/psychonomic Home Phones for Cicena, the breakthrough Tea Brewer for Cuisinart, and wacky Joe Boxer watches with Nicholas Graham for Timex.

Yang Cho-cheng

Yang also designed the manufacturing facilities for RCA, Philips, Timex, Texas Instruments in Taiwan; he also designed the manufacturing facilities for pharmaceutical companies such as Eli Lilly and Company and Roche.


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