Ray Anderson - How He Built Businesses that Changed the World

[@iNireus]

Wow this is fantastic history and to hear it directly from Ray

[@Petertronic]

Another fascinating talk

[@6581punk]

Saw those Torch machines rebadged as Prestel terminals. They had custom ROMs but you could replace them with stock BBC ROMs to convert them back to standard BBC Micros.

[@rayand007]

Torch was awarded a contract to run Prestel in North America. We were shut down after Western Union lobbied teh US government to stop us sending messages over the Atlantic - Western Union had a "Telex monopoly" and was convinced Prestel was Telex !! (It was actually Teletex, but they were right that computers would replace telex)

[@6581punk]

Amiga A1000 has a place to tuck the keyboard underneath. A suggestion from Jay Miner's wife.

[@6581punk]

I was told by a guy who worked for one of the aerospace firms that the Nimrod software was written in machine code and that made porting it do different architectures difficult. I'm sure he mentioned that the processor was running full blast and was prone to overheating issues. But that was a long time ago, so I may have misremembered. Shame really, it is better than the US equivalent which has a blind spot underneath it.

[@rayand007]

At GEC we had a core memory version of the 4080 computer - used in the "MRCA" (Tornado) so that an EMP would not wipe the memory!