John Honniball wrote:
woodelf wrote:
Andrew Burton wrote:
> Wasn't the Dragons (Dragon 32 & Dragon 64) made by a Welsh company?
Yes, that's correct. Dragon Data, of Swansea.
Although later managed by GEC (I've got both a D32 and a grey-cased GEC-built
D64). I believe a few machines made it to the US too, but the name of the US
reseller eludes me at the moment.
I'm sure we've missed lots of stuff off the list, but I don't fancy sifting
'results' to avoid repeating what's already been mentioned :-) I know the last
time I did this exercise it came out at around 30 different manufacturers [1],
and that was without poking around for the more obscure stuff...
[1] Not sure we've had BCL, HLH or Control Universal yet, for instance.
Looking at the advertising section of old 80's computer mags, it's always
fascinating just how many UK companies there were churning out machines. Was
the same true in the US? It always seems to be the same few big names that get
mentioned, but maybe that's because that's all that has survived, or because
their popularity keeps them in the spotlight.