Psion produced a large range of hand-held micro computers designed for use in commercial and industrial applications, such as stock taking etc. The Organiser II, introduced in 1986, was designed with the commercial office and businessman in mind. It was considered as a computer version of the Filofax, and is Read more
The Dragon 32 is the UK’s equivalent of the TRS-80 Color Computer. Built by Dragon Data Ltd in Port Tolbot, Wales, the computer first built in August 1982. The Motorola 6809 CPU was one of the most sophisticated CPU used in all 8-bit home computers, able to out-prerform the 6502 Read more
The Oric-1 was designed by the Tangerine Computer Systems under a new company name of Oric Products International Ltd. It is a simple 8-Bit computer, and is the predecessor to the Oric Atmos. The first thing you notice is how similar it is to the well-known ZX Spectrum, with the Read more
The Oric Atmos was designed by the Tangerine Computer Systems under a new company name of Oric Products International Ltd. It is a simple 8-Bit computer, and is the successor to the Oric-1. The first thing you notice is how similar it is to the well-known ZX Spectrum, with the Read more
The MPF-IP (MPF-1P, MPF-I+ or MPF-I Plus) is built by Multitech. It is the upgraded version of the MPF-I. It has a larger display, having a 20-character 16-segment font vacuum flourescent display which can display a 64-ASCII character set. A more sophisticated Monitor ROM has built-in text editor, 2-pass Assembly Read more
The MPF-I computer was sold as a trainer computer, aimed at teaching the user how to program using machine code and assembly. It consists of a Zilog 80 CPU and has 2k of RAM, a built-in keyboard and an 7-segment LED Display. The MPF-I was manufacturered by Multitech as their Read more
The Celestix Aries was marketed as the smallest Server/Internet Appliance commercially available. Sold back in 2001, the micro-server was aimed at being a low-cost web/email server, capable of around 50 users. I uses a custom version of Red Hat Linux 2.2. Complete with on-board LCD for quick setup of basic Read more
No, we don’t really have an Atlas computer. We do however have one of the last print-outs the Atlas computer at Manchester University ever did. This print-out was one of several copies printed out right before the power switch was turned off for the last time on the 30th September Read more
The Nascom-1 is a single-board computer kit, introduced in December 1977 and discontinued in 1979 when it was replaced with the Nascom-2. The Nascom was designed in the UK by Kerr Borland and John Marshall and featured a Zilog 80 processor running at 1MHz, 2kb RAM (1k used for video Read more
The Elektor Junior is a small educational system with built-in LED display to show the memory contents. Designed and developed by Loys Nachtmann in 1980. It is almost an exact clone of the KIM-1 but with a few small changes. If you want to build your own Junior, there are Read more