Memotech Advert - May 1984
From Your Computer
The MTX Series described; straight from the author's mouth
Here's an advert for the almost-but-not-quite MSX-standard MTX512 from Memotech of Witney in Oxfordshire - a company that had started out making memory and expansion cards for Sinclair's ZX81.
It consisted of mostly a bunch of quotes taken from electronics and computer magazines of the day.
The MTX series reviewed well in February 1984's "Win a Memotech" competition in Your Computer, with quotes like "[the MTX] would not disgrace any executive's desk"[1].
The MTX could be fitted with something fairly unusual at the time - a 256K memory board that was intended not as program memory but as fast storage, or in thecompany's own words a "Silicon Disc RAM board".
The MTX, without its 256K "RAM disk" but with two 5¼" standard floppy drives and CP/M retailed for £1,245 - about £4,710 in 2024 terms.
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