Allison wrote:
They used to
have a sizable hobbyist following!
Never seen that many though they were nice to use.
Seems that here in the UK they were the machine of choice for British Gas to
use back in the 80s - at least that's where all of ours seem to have come
from. We've even got some British Gas training course notes on both using and
servicing the machines [1], along with lists of common faults and what spares
their central workshop used to carry!
[1] The service training course notes mention the Northstar Horizon as a
useful piece of test equipment :-)
We've got something like 12 machines - three of each (Superbrain, Superbrain
II, Superbrain QD, and Computstar), then four hard disk units, plus a few of
what I gather are network boards for the Compustar systems.
Ultimately we'll keep a couple of systems I expect and re-house the rest, once
I know what's fixable and what isn't. I've got three machines plus a hard disk
unit in the car to restore over the next few days...
cheers
Jules