Comments on: Gazprom with attitude http://skuds.org/2009/07/gazprom-with-attitude/ "Please send me evenings and weekends" Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:18:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Gordon Seekings http://skuds.org/2009/07/gazprom-with-attitude/comment-page-1/#comment-100408 Gordon Seekings Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:01:05 +0000 http://skuds.org/?p=3559#comment-100408 Thanks for the link. Brought back memories as it was the first Word Processor I used. :-)) Thanks for the link. Brought back memories as it was the first Word Processor I used. :-) )

]]> By: Skuds http://skuds.org/2009/07/gazprom-with-attitude/comment-page-1/#comment-100406 Skuds Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:26:56 +0000 http://skuds.org/?p=3559#comment-100406 It was not a laptop. It was a desktop which came with either a 12" B&W screen or a larger colour one. It was basically a QL motherboard with a 2nd board on top of it and a telephony module. I used to have one - but I had the ICL OPD (one-per-desk) version because I worked for ICL. It was brilliant for use as a home terminal to dial into the work mainframes. See <a href="http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/2148/BT-Merlin-Tonto/" rel="nofollow">here</a> for some details. To thnk that it cost £1500 in 1985... Still crops up on TV a lot. I think the BBC bought a few to use as props. It was not a laptop. It was a desktop which came with either a 12″ B&W screen or a larger colour one. It was basically a QL motherboard with a 2nd board on top of it and a telephony module.

I used to have one – but I had the ICL OPD (one-per-desk) version because I worked for ICL. It was brilliant for use as a home terminal to dial into the work mainframes.

See here for some details. To thnk that it cost £1500 in 1985…

Still crops up on TV a lot. I think the BBC bought a few to use as props.

]]> By: Gordon Seekings http://skuds.org/2009/07/gazprom-with-attitude/comment-page-1/#comment-100405 Gordon Seekings Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:04:05 +0000 http://skuds.org/?p=3559#comment-100405 Back in the early 1980's BT marketed a laptop PC based on the Sinclair QL called "Tonto" for selling in Europe. I can't remember what the name means in Italian but they decided that it had to have a change of name there 'cos of it! Back in the early 1980’s BT marketed a laptop PC based on the Sinclair QL called “Tonto” for selling in Europe. I can’t remember what the name means in Italian but they decided that it had to have a change of name there ‘cos of it!

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