Whitechapel Computer Works was a home-grown entry into the burgeoning field of Unix workstations during the early and mid-1980s. Funded with venture capital seed money and grant money from the UK government they were able to produce a marketable workstation within one year of founding. Unlike many companies who standardised on the Motorola 68000 CPU […]

Tangerine Computer Systems was a British computer manufacturer which was founded in St. Ives Cambridgeshire in 1979. In 1983, it moved to Ely, Cambridgeshire and changed its name to Oric Products International. It went into receivership (for the second and final time) in Dec 1987.

Starting out in radio electronics, Clive Sinclair’s company steadily grew until an early boom in home computer kits caught his interest. Working with Chris Curry, the MK14 was created; a small DIY kit with a tiny LED display. Buoyed by the interest it generated, its successor was planned to be the first affordable home computer […]

Initially a producer of software, notably for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and QL computers, Psion was a British technology company that produced portable computing devices, including personal digital assistants, handheld computers, and netbooks. It gained fame for the Psion Organiser (1984), one of the first handheld personal organizers. Psion continued to innovate, releasing popular devices […]

NeXT computers was a technology company set up by Steve Jobs in late 1985 after leaving Apple. It designed a range of widely recognised computer workstations, as well as an operating systems that would eventually define and influence many of the most successful products Apple would make. The NeXT workstation was eventually introduced in 1988 […]

Objects that are currently unbranded/missing parts and due to be identified.

Marconi is best known historically for the invention of radio. What isn’t so well known is that The Marconi Company broadcasted news and entertainment to the UK before the BBC (British Broadcasting Company) came into existence. During WWII and afterwards, Marconi was a major supplier of RADAR systems worldwide. The Marconi TAC was the first […]

International Computers Ltd (ICL) was the largest British computer manufacturer, operating from 1968 until 2002, when it was rebranded as Fujitsu Services Ltd. The relationship with Fujitsu began in the early 1980s as a technology partnership, with ICL gaining access to Fujitsu’s cutting edge ASIC technology which was used in the Series 39 mainframe range. […]

“Elliott” was one of several names that mostly disappeared from the British computer industry after the numerous mergers used to create International Computers Limited (ICL) in 1968. The Elliott story had begun in 1804 with the Elliott Instrument Company and over the years the company had diversified, moving into the areas of analogue computers during […]