It's 2020 and time for history to repeat itself...

A long, long, time ago, (around 1993), a very young partnership called NMD created by two equally young and enthusiastic chaps called Simon Birchall and Peter Konnanov released a product called ‘timeware Stand-Alone’, which within two years, revolutionised the UK’s ‘entry-level’ time recording industry.

Initially designed for companies with less than 80 employees, this serial printer-linked (!) device allowed staff to clock in & out using magnetic stripe badges. At pre-set times of the week, the timeware Stand-Alone would automatically produce a ‘weekly clock card report’ which included basic and four overtime rates. Not very flexible by today’s standards but way ahead of the competition in the early ‘90s! The timeware Stand-Alone was an instant hit with UK small businesses and within three years sales had exceeded one thousand units.

As the PC market began to grow, the aging 'Stand-Alone' was superseded by the timestart, a faster, more advanced version, capable of linking to PCs running under something called MS-DOS.

The years rolled by and MS-DOS was eventually replaced by a swish new platform called Windows which meant the timeware? team had to modify the software yet again. Out went the serial connections & in came network points. 

By the end of 1999 over two thousand systems had been sold throughout the UK making the product one of the most successful time recording systems of the 1990’s.

The timestart was originally designed for businesses that didn't require all the features of timeware Professional. It's now 2020 and it's time for history to repeat itself. Something interesting is about to happen.

The timestart brand is being re-born as an affordable biometric time and absence management system for companies with a turnover up to ￡1.5m.

Watch this space...