Haywood Advert - August 1981
From Practical Computing
Some Hard Facts from Haywood
Given the side-bar looking for distributors, this would appear to be a fairly early advert from Haywood Electronic Associates, trading as Haywood. However, the company appeared to have been going since at least 1977, when it appeared in Byte magazine as a foreign distributor for Vector Graphic of California[1].
The advert is for the Haywood 3000 - a fairly conventional Z80-based micro, albeit on a single board - something popular at the time where all the major components of a system, e.g. the processor, memory and disk controllers, were all on the same board - rather than plugged in as cards like in an S-100 system - all of which helped to improve reliability.
That said, the 3000 did offer S-100 bus interconnect as an option, along with serial and parallel ports and external disk drives.
As well as its steel case, the 3000 was slightly unusual in offering a built-in EEPROM programmer with seven slots. These "Electronically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory" chips could be used to store software, making it immediately available at any time without having to load a program.
There's not much information about the company itself, but it was still trading in the summer of 1983, with its Haywood 9000 Composite word-processor system.
Date created: 16 July 2025
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