
Shelton adverts
April 1981
If you think you've seen it all before, then take a closer look at the Sig/Net
This is the first known advert for Chris Shelton's Sig/Net, the range of hardware which is considered as perhaps the first ever modular multi-user personal computer system. With its budget monochrome...
December 1981
4MHz Z80A, 64K RAM, twin 200K disks for £1299
Here is an early advert of Chris Shelton's Sig/Net, launched around March of this year. Shelton, who had once worked for Nascom, had started Shelton Instruments back in 1970, and became well-known for...
January 1982
Shelton Sig/Net: 211 Power!
With a design that would not have looked out of place on Gerry Anderson's "Space: 1999", the Shelton sig/net 211 - designed by Chris Shelton, who had once worked for Nascom - was one of a range of modular...
March 1983
Sig/Net For a growing business
Shelton Instruments Limited, of White Lion Street near Angel Tube Station in London's Islington, had been started back in 1970 by Chris Shelton, who ended up working a stint at Nascom - once the UK's...
January 1984
Sig/Net 3: All the advantages of other dual 8 and 16 bit micros plus that vital bit more
Here's an advert for the third iteration of Chris Shelton's Sig/Net - the modular multi-user system which was launched in 1981. It also implies that dual-processor multi-user microcomputers were common....