Tag: Compukit UK101

• What did happen to Comp Shop

  

  Nine years after asking “Whatever happened to Comp Shop?”, I now have the answer. For those who don’t know, Comp Shop was the ground-breaking computer shop, first in New Barnet and then later also on Tottenham Court Road, that played a major part in the early days of UK microcomputing through its production and sale […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  November 8, 2020

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  Comp Shop, Compukit UK101, New Barnet, Sinclair ZX80, Spangles Muldoon

• Spangles Muldoon and the micro revolution

  I am meant to be revising for my forthcoming exams but any act of procrastination or displacement is preferable to writing SQL queries – so I did some more digging on “Comp Shop” – and this is what I found out: The store was set up by Chris Cary (pictured on left here) – perhaps […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  May 2, 2011

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  Chris Moyles, Comp Shop, Compukit UK101, Ireland, Radio, Radio Nova, Spangles Muldoon, UK 101

• What ever happened to “Comp Shop”?

  My brother and I were lucky in one respect in that, after December 1978 (when we moved) anyway, we were living on the doorstep, more or less, of the UK’s most important computer emporium, Comp Shop Ltd, of Station Road, New Barnet. Of course we didn’t know this at the time – we didn’t get […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  May 2, 2011

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  Apple II, Commodore PET, Comp Shop, Compukit UK101, computing nostalgia, Finchley Catholic High School, John Shutler, New Barnet

• Compukit UK101

  The BBC have an article on their site about building 8 bit micros – and it includes a picture of the UK 101 – the machine that really started the home computer revolution (or at least served as its vanguard) in the UK. I never had one, but boy would I have loved to have […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  May 2, 2011

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  Compukit UK101, micro-computers