Hotel Microsystems Advert - November 1987
From Practical Computing
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 80186 processors, each of which could support up to 1MB of RAM.
It also had local-area networking, using ArcNet, and could be connected to up to 254 more Minstrels, for a total of over 4,500 users. Oh, and each 4EP could support no fewer than 40 serial ports.
The advert is also interesting for its list of Minstrel customers, which included the BBC, Kodak, British Telecom, BUPA and, er, Alton Towers - the theme park in Staffordshire.
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