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groff 🇺🇦For a future restoration project I'm going back to 1980.
The rare and elusive Transam Tuscan. An S-100 bus computer that made the commodore PET look dainty.
The entry-level model apparently cost £2,125 without the twin floppy drives.
Stewart Russell@geoffl it's a big chonker and no mistake.
Was it really that expensive? That would have put it well beyond anyone's reach at the time. Transam were a component shop, so were fairly price sensitive
@scruss The Triton was their more popular model and much cheaper. I'll see if I can find an actual old listing for the price later, rather than "a website said so".
There aren't many Tuscans around and I luckily own two of them, the other came with 8" external drives. I think I might have a spare main board too.
@geoffl I guess I'm forgetting how hideously expensive disk drives were in the UK back then. Bare 5¼" drives at 200 quid each!
