British Computers.

[Chris M]

NIMBUS NIMBUS NIMBUS

--- Rod Smallwood
<RodSmallwood at mail.ediconsulting.co.uk> wrote:

> Dear List
>          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?
>  
> Rod Smallwood
>  
>  
> 



       
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