Hi, I'm David Anderson; I'm the person behind timexsinclair.com.

I have been documenting, preserving and archiving information and history about the Timex/Sinclair computers and community for almost 10 years.

I've scanned thousands of magazines and user group newsletters and posted them to archive.org, where they are accessible to anyone. I've also indexed the articles on timexsinclair.com. Want to see all the type-in programs published for the Timex/Sinclair 2068? It's on my website (there are 100s). Even things like user group meetings and membership lists.

I've done the same for dozens of books. Everything that can be scanned or digitized goes up on archive.org.

Recently, with the help of some friends, we've preserved 30 disks from a Timex disk drive system. These were oddball 3" disks but with the right tools, we now have full disk images on archive.org.

For more than a year, I've hosted online user group meetings and posted them on YouTube. We've had special guests that include former Timex employees, people who were active in the Timex/Sinclair community in the 80s, and more. We've started working on community projects, preserving software, building new hardware, recreating hardware projects from the past, and more.

Until recently, I've tried to do all this work myself. I've tracked auctions on eBay, and searched for people and resources through newsgroups, social media, etc.

All this work has helped others find me and offer their materials for preservation. In the past year, I doubled the number of articles archived because a long-time collector sent me several boxes of newsletters he'd saved for decades. With help from friends, we raised the money to reimburse the collector for shipping.

Now another long-time collection is becoming available. It's a lot of material: disks, newsletters, hardware, books... the collector was very active in the community up to the early 2000s! We need to preserve this material.

At the same time, collections show up on eBay and other places. A large body of tapes, from a former core member of the Sinclair Milwaukee User's Group, is available right now. I'd love to preserve those, too.

Up to now, I've been able to fund everything from my budget. But, I've also missed a lot of material because it was out of reach.

I want to build a small starter fund to help support my preservation and archiving efforts.

Funds you donate will support purchasing (or reimbursing shipping) rare materials with the express purpose of archiving and making them available for everyone.

I will document everything funded through this campaign on my website with complete transparency.

Please, help me save our computing and community history.

Thank you!