Rade Systems Advert - February 1982
From Practical Computing
The systems: Rader 1000 and Rader 2000
Even though Rade Systems of Ballards Lane in north London ran this advert for at least a year - despite being full of grocer's apostrophes - the company itself is another of those that has managed to leave virtually no trace.
The machines advertised are yet another Z80A system with 64K RAM.
They used Western Digital's 1397 chip set to support double-sided double-density disk storage in IBM's 3740 format and, slightly unusually, also provided 2K or character-generator RAM, which enabled custom character sets to be generated.
Designed and engineered in the UK, apparently, the RADER 1000 - with dual 5¼" floppies - and the Rader 2000 - with dual 8" drives - might have been aimed towards the laboratory or scientific market, as the company was planning to ship 8-bit digital-analogue (or vice-versa) converters as plug-in boards.
It might well have been S-100 based, as it also claimed "sufficient room for 12 or more dual port expansion boards".
Date created: 17 February 2026
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