Memotech's MTX machines - 8 bit, huge RAM

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These machines are relatively rare, but apparently quite robust and usable. Perhaps they are what MSX might have been? The Register says “Very possibly the second-best British micro of the early 1980s” in their history article.

Here’s a photo from a meetup, the Memofest, from Andy’s Memotech site:

the MTXPlus+ running a web server, from the NFX project

Caption: " We saw the MTXPlus+ running a web server, from my NFX project"

You can run Fuzix too.

Here’s an image from The Register’s article:

Another great source of information and old adverts is Nosher’s collection: see here.

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“RetroManCave” has just released a dedicated video on the Memotech MTX 512 on YouTube. A really interesting machine! The amount of RAM (up to 512 K internally and 768 K in total) is just insane for a dedicated home user’s machine in 1983. And £ 275 for the MTX 500 base model was still reasonably priced.

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