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Asset sale brings some hope to Tiny customers

Watford Electronics said on Tuesday that it had bought the assets of Tiny... Read more

27 September, 2005 by Colin Barker

Watford to offer £5.99 pcm Net access

UK mail-order powerhouse Watford Electronics will next week stir up the UK ISP market by delivering... Read more

3 September, 1997 by Martin Veitch

Watford P-166 MMX PC costs south of £800

...SME market," said Mohamed Mawji, director of the firm's PC division. Watford Electronics can be contacted by telephone on 01582-487777 Read more

16 May, 1997 by Martin Veitch

Watford touts sub-£200 flatbed scanner

...to the parallel port and doesn't require a dedicated interface card. Watford Electronics can be contacted by telephone on 01582-745555 Read more

14 August, 1996 by Martin Veitch

Free broadband? Here's one better

...hey), probably because Redten is a sister company to e-tail vets Watford Electronics, and the package looks sound. But don't take my word... Read more

6 November, 2006

Time Computers back in business

...asset of GTG was the Tiny Computers name, which was sold to Watford Electronics in November. Tiny Computers had been acquired by GTG after it... Read more

23 January, 2006 by Colin Barker

Time collapse: Debts could hit £70m

...administrators had sold the assets of Tiny Computers and Tiny.com to Watford Electronics for an undisclosed sum. With no audited accounts available, Grant Thornton... Read more

29 September, 2005 by Colin Barker

Online retailers rapped over unfair contracts

...Computer Services, Lasertek Computer Systems, Mad Macs, RDC, Spot On Computers Limited, Watford Electronics and Scan Computers International. The OFT said it is also currently... Read more

13 June, 2003 by Matt Loney

The Luncher

...square foot premises with its own health club in Coleshill, Warks. Unlike Watford Electronics' chief Nazir Jessa, SW chairman Steve Bennett isn't building in... Read more

8 November, 1997 by The Luncher

Tashika deals £59 33.6 modems, £99 multimedia kits

...Rather than fighting the Watford Electronics and Technomatics of this world by selling for 20 pence less... Read more

10 February, 1997 by Martin Veitch

My first computer: The BBC Micro

The granddaddy of them all? Read more

20 January, 2005 by Ian Jones and Joey Gardiner

Technologies that Time Forgot: The BBC Micro (II)

...I remember the electric anticipation as my dad and I drove to Watford Electronics to buy the fabled machine. The journey home took a lifetime... Read more

1 January, 2002 by Ian Jones

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