Hotel Microsystems adverts

5¼" Winchesters - from Hotel Microsystems

Over a year before Hotel Microsystems Limited - later HM Systems - launched its first microcomputer, the Minstrel, comes this advert positioning the company as an importer and parts supplier. The advert...

Expand your Horizons

With an odd mixture of tech and Monty Python visuals, here's an advert from Hotel Microsystems, the company that would become HM Systems, which clearly hints at HM's change of direction which would lead...

The new British Minstrel with Winchester drive

This machine and advert is such a spectacular throw-back that it had to be included. It's for the "New" British Minstrel, as produced by the oddly-named Hotel Microsystems Limited of London - a name...

Minstrel 68K - A truly sophisticated model that gives the power you need

This crossover advert takes March 1983's Z80-based Minstrel from Hotel Microsystems, replaces the Z80 with a Motorola 68000, rebrands the company as HM Systems and releases the machine as the Minstrel...

Minstrel 2: TurboDOS power for multi-user networking

This advert, from July 1985's PRAC, announces the new Minstrel 2 from HM Systems, formerly known as Hotel Microsystems. Released less than a year after HM's Minstrel 68K and the Minstrel Turbo, the advert...

A Minstrel 4 eight-user package - £15,564 complete

It's often said that the rise of cheap commodity PCs and affordable networking killed off the multi-user system, but it's still here in 1987 in the form of Hotel Microsystems' Minstrel 4. Hotel Microsystems...

HM Systems: The new Minstrel 4EP

HM Systems - formerly known as Hotel Microsystems - is back with an update of its Minstrel 4, the Minstrel 4EP. It's quite an impressive spec, supporting up to 18 users with between three and nineteen...