On Fri, 29 May 2020 at 19:56, Tony Duell <ard.p850...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 7:24 PM Liam Proven via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > 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).
True! Yes, a friend has (or had) one. He amassed a huge collection, then sold the lot and bought a Tesla. :-) Wondering if I can do the same, TBH. > 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. [Nod] > Which were those? I thought all the Amstrad disk-based CPCs and PCWs > could run CP/M When you say "disk-based" you are excluding the GSX console and the cassette-based ones, right? The machine I referred to was the PcW 16: http://www.fvempel.nl/pcw16.html (It does have a 3rd party app, ZPM, which can run CP/M programs.) I was mistaken about the PcW 10; it's a "true" PCW and can run LocoScript and CP/M: http://www.fvempel.nl/pcw10.html -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053