EuroMicro Advert - March 1983

EuroMicro Ltd of north London, apparently a UK offshoot of EuroMicro Inc, is another one of those value-added reseller companies that seems to have left no trace.

It first appeared in July 1982, when it was offering a re-branded Ithaca InterSystems' DPS-1, or Distributed Processing System 1.

The month before though, it had appeared on the back cover of June 1982's Practical Computing with a composite advert featuring all three of InterSystems' previous adverts along with the text "See us next month!", which almost implies some sort of worldwide company rebrand, rather than simply the launch of a new reseller.

It's also presumably not, however, anything to do with the other Euromicro - the European Association for Microprocessing and Microcomputing - which had been founded in 1974 by professor Rodnay Zaks^[1].

Anyway, here is EuroMicro offering two systems, the first of which is a straightforward re-badged Zenith Z100, masquerading as the EuroMicro Z100.

This was a dual-processor model with an 8086 for 16-bit operations, as well as an 8085 for older 8-bit support. It retailed from £1,895, which is about £8,650 in 2026.

An earlier advert for EuroMicro's DPS-1, a re-badged Ithaca InterSystems' micro of the same name. From Practical Computing, September 1982

The second machine is a bit more interesting, as EuroMicro claims in the advert that it had been "quietly busy developing a range of computers".

Called the M8/16, the machine was also dual-procesor with a similar 8088/8085 combination as seen in the Z100.

Intended as a multi-user system, it ran CP/M-86 and MP/M-86 and could support up to seven users.

What makes it a bit more interesting though is that it is based on Ithaca InterSystems' Series II or possibly even the DPS-8000 - first released in September 1981 - although that used Zilog's Z8002.

However, the stack of cases is almost identical that which featured in a DPS-8000 advert found in October 1981's Byte Magazine^[2].

It retailed from £2,995 plus VAT, which is around £15,900 in 2026.

Meanwhile, EuroMicro - the company - appeared to still be around until at least 1984, where it was mentioned in the article "Behind the micro", as published in Wireless World's January 1984 edition^[3], and possibly as late as 1989 when a "Euromicro Limited" was mentioned in Acorn's 1989 dealers list^[4].