Geoffrey Thomas wrote: Whoo! I remember Rich being all excited and bringing it to the museum last year, so it's great to hear that it's now running. (Reminds me that I think he was after another couple of 3.5" FH floppy drives for it...) cheers J.

woodelf wrote: It certainly seemed feature-rich, well designed, and way ahead of much of the competition. Problem is it would have suffered the same way as the BBC micro: too expensive on the domestic market for most mere mortals, and unlikely to be able to compete in non-UK markets (particularly the US) due to lack of marketing budget and consumers already having long-established ties with existing manufacturers (e.g. Apple, Commodore etc.) Computing history seems littered with technically superior unsuccessful machines :) (not that the BBC wasn't a huge success in the UK, primarily through widespread education use, but globally it didn't do as well) cheers Jules