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Article #625682Re: Anyone remember the MK14
From: Robert Swindells
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 14:59
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 14:59
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On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 09:45:58 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote: > On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 00:32:11 -0400 Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> > wrote: > >> On Sat, 18 Aug 2018, Charles Richmond wrote: >> >> > On 8/18/2018 12:58 PM, Peter Flass wrote: > >> >> The only MK14 google is able to find is a rifle. Do you have some >> >> info or a link? >> >> >> >> >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MK14 >> > >> I thought it was a Sinclair, just from a period when "Sinclair" wasn't >> in the company name. > > Yes Science of Cambridge was one of Clive Sinclair's companies with > Chris Curry - they then fell out and Chris joined up with Herman Hauser > to form Acorn taking Nick Toop with him to design the Electron. Nick > left in disgust when he didn't see much reward from the success of the > Electron. [snip] > After the Electron Acorn started on the Proton but it got shelved >and Acorn wasn't really going anywhere I think you are misremembering the Acorn product names, the Atom came before the Proton (BBC Micro), the Electron was a cut-down Proton. I had an Atom as a teenager.
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