Talk:Watford Electronics

This article is rated Stub-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Companies

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Companies, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of companies on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CompaniesWikipedia:WikiProject CompaniesTemplate:WikiProject Companiescompany articles

??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

This article has been automatically rated by a bot or other tool as Stub-class because it uses a stub template. Please ensure the assessment is correct before removing the |auto= parameter.

WikiProject Companies To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Wikipedia:Requested articles/Business and economics/Companies
Assess : Category:Unassessed company articles
Copyedit : Category:Company articles needing attention
Infobox : Category:Company articles needing infoboxes
Maintain : Portal:Companies
Stubs : Help expand stub articles located at Category:Company stubs
Other :
- Tag company articles with the {{portal|Companies}} template
- Tag company talk pages with the {{WikiProject Companies}} project banner
- Answer requests for comments

Computing

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Computing, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of computers, computing, and information technology on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ComputingWikipedia:WikiProject ComputingTemplate:WikiProject ComputingComputing articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
	This article has been automatically rated by a bot or other tool because one or more other projects use this class. Please ensure the assessment is correct before removing the `\|auto=` parameter.

History[edit]

Watford Electronics did not start in the computer business. For many years they sold purely electronic components, both discrete & semiconductor. This prominatly decorated page of Everyday Electronics, now EPE (Everyday' with Practical Electronics) with a black and white stripey border.

Later they adorned multiple pages of BBC Acorn User (now Qercus), with a light green background and the old border.

They made a video digitiser and early digital camera, circa 1985.

Later they switch from BBC Micro support to the Acorn 32-bit range.

Later still, to PC magazines, using a black and green border with a white background.

I believe the original shop operated from a converted front room, not a bedroom.

REH2 (talk) 03:05, 25 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I remember visiting them in a small shop in Watford, and later in a larger shop/warehouse in Finway, Luton. Google streetview shows a computer retailer called Comp UK in those premises as of July 2015, still in the original Watford Electronics green colour and looking very similar. 82.21.28.170 (talk) 09:40, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]