@kjhealy There's still one of these, with the 14" (4...

@kjhealy There's still one of these, with the 14" (4 colour !) Monitor hibernating in my attic 🙂
#bt #Merlin #Tonto / #ICL #oneperdesk

BT Merlin Tonto computer with 7 inch monochrome monitor and keyboard unit incorporating telephone handset and micro tape drives.

BT Merlin Tonto computer with 14 inch colour monitor and keyboard unit incorporating telephone handset and micro tape drives.

Like 24 Dec 2023 at 19:45 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodonapp.uk

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Tony Hoyle

@snaprails @kjhealy Wow an OPD. They're hellishly expensive now.. I gather they didn't make many.

My father had one as he worked at ICL but I was mostly interested in the QL bits at the time.

24 Dec 2023 at 23:47 | Open on toot.hoyle.me.uk

Andrew

@snaprails @kjhealy my dad used to work for ICL, for a while he'd bring a One Per Desk home for weekends, then we ended up with one at home. Lots of fun! All the bits we had were eventually given to another ICL person who was collecting them.

25 Dec 2023 at 0:18 | Open on mastodon.nz

Ian Tindale

@puck@mastodon.nz @snaprails@mastodonapp.uk @kjhealy@mastodon.social I remember one of the contemporaneous computer mags of the time back then in the day constantly referred to those as the “One Born Every Minute”

25 Dec 2023 at 12:29 | Open on ff.pikopublishing.page

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