Nascom/Lucas Advert - December 1982
From Personal Computer World
Nascom means performance. Nascom means solutions
Nascom - now owned by car-parts-to-semiconductors industrial conglomerate Lucas Industries, or at least its Lucas Logic division - is still trundling on with its re-packaged Nascom 2 motherboard in a nice case.
Interestingly, the company is still selling its micros in kit as well as bare-board form. It's also selling a hi-res graphics card for £185 - about £850 in 2024, and a 1.5MB dual-floppy system for £949, or £4,380.
The Nascom 3 - the case of which seems to owe more than a nod towards that of the Apple II - is retailing at £1,493 - £6,890 in 2024. It's somewhat telling that for a company that launched its first machine - the Nascom 1 - in 1977, it had only shifted 30,000 units in that entire span of over five years. Production of the Commodore 64 ran at 400,000 a month for a couple of years[1].
Oh, and this advert is not entirely dissimilar to an advert from the previous year for EACA's Video Genie system.
Date created: 14 January 2024
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