On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 5:53 PM Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > 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.
I have one. > He amassed a huge collection, then > sold the lot and bought a Tesla. :-) Assuming a 'Tesla' is an electric car, I'd rather be in the reverse position (selling said car and being able to buy some interesting old computers...)] > > 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? Yes. CP/M I think really needs some kind of random-access storage. I guess the Epson PX8 etc ran CP/M and had (micro)cassette storage but it was a bit of kludge. So I was only considering the Amstrads with disk drives. > > The machine I referred to was the PcW 16: > > http://www.fvempel.nl/pcw16.html Ah, now that I had never come across. Thanks... -tony