 By late 1983 Wayne Green reported a " rising chorus of frustrated Timex users who are telling friends not to waste their money . " " Hard core " early adopters , he wrote , " became discouraged with the quality of the product , with the poverty of software available and with the almost total lack of information on how to cope with it . " Consumers deserted the TS1000 once its novelty value had worn off and , as publishers of programming guides found to their cost , the American public showed little interest in using the machine to learn about computer programming . American retailers were left with large stocks of unsold machines . Burned by this experience , many were unwilling to stock the later Timex Sinclair machines in large numbers and the big chain stores dropped the Timex Sinclair line altogether . 
