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Article #625683Re: Anyone remember the MK14
From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 17:15
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 17:15
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On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 14:59:03 -0000 (UTC) Robert Swindells <r...@fdy2.co.uk> wrote: > 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. You are correct I was crossing over the Atom and the Electron, it was the Atom that Nick was responsible for, he was long gone by the time of the Electron. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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