On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 7:24 PM Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> We had simple cheap low-spec computers because American high-end > computers were impossibly expensive. There were also some pretty high-spec British microcomputers, but they tended to flop owing to the price. Things like the HH Tiger (did it ever go into production? Prototypes certainly exist). > I guess I am realising that CP/M was a much bigger deal there than here. My experience at the time was that CP/M was not a 'big thing' in Britain. And S100 was even less. Yes there were S100 computers here (there were some British-produced ones like the CASU Super C which used bought-in CPU and RAM cards and CASU I/O cards) but I don't really remember them at the time. Although it is worth remembering that before the BBC micro, schools sometimes had Research Machines computers (there were some at the school I went to). The RML380Z did use CP/M. But I suspect that the BBC micro ended up in many more schools that the RMLs did. > Amstrad didn't learn from this -- after 3 million-selling PCW models, > the 2 successor models couldn't run CP/M and both flopped. > Which were those? I thought all the Amstrad disk-based CPCs and PCWs could run CP/M -tony