On 31/08/2007 13:18, Richard Smith wrote:
Not
through any sense of nationality and being a collector of
an American brand anyway. The other day I was pondering life, the
universe and other trivia (programmers do a lot of pondering). When it
crossed the empty acres of my mind that there was very little discussion
of UK designed and manufactured computers. If we exclude ICL -> Fujitsu
and other main frames for now I can only think of a few:
RAIR Black box (I knew them very well as they were a
customer of mine whilst I was at DEC)
Research Machines
Acorn
Atom
Newbrain (When I said "What I need is a
NewBrain" everybody agreed )
Digico (I worked on those) Had a hand
operated paper tape reader. You pulled the tape through the reader.
Does anybody have examples of these and any I may have missed?
AFAIK it was the Acorn Atom, predecessor of the BBC Microcomputer
Then there was my choice, the NASCOM and the oher 80-BUS machine by Gemini
Not forgetting Sinclair
For some reason I can't see Richard's original post, but here's a few I
have or remember:
Tangerine (the Microtan)
Transam (the Tuscan)
Torch
U-micro
Dragon
ACT/Apricot
Amstrad
Cambridge Computer (Sinclair by another name, made the Z88)
Science of Cambridge (another Sinclair company, made the MK14)
Jupiter (the Ace)
Tatung (the Einstein)
Oric (offshoot of Tangerine, made Oric-1 and Atmos)
Camputers (the Lynx)
Memotech
and if you count handhelds there are a few more, such as Psion, and
Microwriter (the AgendA).
The Atom was made by Acorn, as was the System range, the BBC Micro range
and Electron, the ABC range, the Archimedes range (and the related
members like A540, R140, R260, Phoebe, etc) and a few OEM machines.
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