Five Rare British Micro Computers - Show & Tell

We have raided the Swindon Museum of Computing and grabbed five rare British micro computers to show you today.

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[EgoChip]

I want to see full episodes on all of the computers featured in this video. This video was great and all to see rare machines, but fact sheets are not enough, I want to see them in action.

[hybridplc]

RetroManCave talks to a future version of himself.

[TheDigitalOrphanage]

It was great to finally get to sit behind the lovely wood desk, surrounded by all the interesting things in the cave, talking about old computers with a like minded person!
I'm excited to see the Enterprise, Memotech, and SAM Coupé in action!

[marklechman]

Having grown up with Atari, Apple and Commodore over here in the US, I really enjoy being able to learn more about the other side of the computer revolution in the west, especially in the UK. So much amazing tech with wonderful stories behind them!

[thedungeondelver]

The MTX512 was a fascinating machine: it had the ability to display windowed graphics (with BASIC commands, no less) and featured a forerunner of HyperCard.

[Oncampusk]

“No retrobriting needed”

8-Bit Guy has left the chat.

[portnaluinge]

Man, I remember lusting after that Memotech — purely because the industrial design was so deeply cool.

[Farmelle]

I literally spotted the Atmos from the video thumbnail. I am in the process of making the Re-Oric (a 10x10cm Oric1/Atmos replacement board with SMT components and a few other goodies) and I'm also working on Project Atmos(fear), which is a re-imagined successor to the Atmos, akin to what the Sam-Coupe was for the Spectrum.

[speedbird]

I loved typing these basic commands into the Oric when it used to be out on display in Dixons back in the 80s! ZAP, PING, SHOOT and EXPLODE

[ojkolsrud]

The Oric Atmos has a stunning look, to be honest!

[MrBrianms]

The Oric 1 and Oric Atmos looked great. I had tried the Oric 1 at WH Smiths when the computers were running along a shelf for anyone to use. I remember the BASIC Language, Graphics and sound was an upgrade to the Sinclair ZX80/ZX81.

[ukcroupier]

I remember thinking that Memotech was the coolest looking thing ever, I still do :)

[robertdicken]

My first computer was an Oric 1. Set me off on 50+ years of computing and still enjoying my gaming, now retired and 66 years old.

[adamfreeman]

ALL OF THEM! please do videos for all of them, I find all the historical computer stories interesting. Great video as always.

[firsteerr]

i can remember back in the old days standing looking through the window of the newly opened "computer shop" with my mate munching on a packet of outerspacers dreaming of ALL these machines with their HUGE memories !

[kaminutter]

It will be nice to see more on the Memotech and Enterprise machines. Also would be nice to see videos on the Jupiter Ace and Einstein computers which always seem to be left out of collections.

[srfrg]

Oric-1 was my first computer (Oric Atmos the 2nd one). The reasons why it worked so well in France are : Same CPU as the Apple ][. RGB output for scart TV. High resolution.
the reason why it's labeled 48K and 68K of ram is that the Rom and the Ram overlay on the same bus adress range.
You can toggle from Rom to ram, and this was used by Tangerine to load the system from floppies. Of course, in normal use, the overlayed part of the ram is useless. The lack of on/off swich was the main cause of failure. The connector was not capable to survive that much hard reset cycles. I learn 6502 machine code on it.

[HarryMorris]

Worked in a computer shop in 1985, peak 8 bit era. Software was basically ZX Spectrum, C64, 1% BBC, 1% everything else. Nobody ever came in for Oric, and we never saw any of the other stuff for sale in software catalogues.

[kins]

Great video. More like this please. The first computer I ever saw was a friend's dad's Oric 1, I'll never forget my complete wonderment at seeing a computer - in a house - wow!