Hi,
HELL! I thought I had the only Nascom 1 left! Now someone emulates it! ;-)
I just have to ask why? You have to admit that, probably apart from NAS-PEN no-one ever really used the things. Apart from general "messing" that is...).
Mick
The reply got me thinking - you are reading the results!
I think it only fair to thank the following as, without them, this site would never have appeared or, at least, would be far smaller and much more boring! This list isn't complete (my emails have become very mangled with time and several different email clients and ISPs) but, if you have contributed and your name isn't listed then please don't take it personally! The names are in no particular order, just the order that they came "out of the bag"!
Many of the following have sent me software, hardware, information or emails of encouragement.
| John Marshall | for starting the whole thing... |
| A.R. ("Tony") Rundle | who, for his sins, was Technical Director of Nascom. :-) |
| Kerr Borland | for being an able mouthpiece for Nascom! |
| Dave Hunt | for being, probably, the Nascom's greatest supporter and providing me with a lot of background information. |
| Richard Beal | for being the Monitor wiz! |
| Paul Greenhalgh | for being the Nascom/Gemini hardware man! |
| Mike Hessey | for being a nice guy " coming up with some very interesting info. |
| Brian Fairchild | for being 1/2 Costgold Research and doing some nifty video hardware |
| Alan Chaney | for being the other 1/2 of Costgold Research and doing some nifty video software! |
| Adrian Hodgson | for contributing my very first Nascom 2! |
| John Linford | for contributing a *lot* of hardware! |
| Mike Addlesee | for contributing a *lot* of hardware! |
| Bernie Tipping | for building lots of Nascom 2s at Henry's Radio |
| Tony Duell | for preserving the Henry's Radio Gemini network server. (I'm still envious, Tony!) |
| David Searle | for the infamous "Kenilworth" case. |
| Gerald Tompsett | for several invaluable pictures used on this site |
| Mike Foster | for sending me some interesting emails " sending me some nice source code |
| Paul Stuijt | for the pic of the GM 836 card |
| Dave Parkinson | for REVAS, the Nascomers friend! |
| "Keith" | for sending me a CDR full of Liverpool Software Gazette stuff. |
| Trevor Brownen | for Crystal Electronics' XTAL BASIC for the Nascom. Probably the best 8-bit BASIC ever written! |
| Doctor Dark (Chris Blackmore) | for some of the comedy element :-) |
| Jesper Hansen | because I nicked the Nascom logo off his web page the other day and he won't know about it until he reads this... :-) |
| Dr Chris (C.D.) Shelton | who got the Nascom video circuit published in Wireless World (and did a couple of notable designs for the Nascom 1 and RAM "A" boards!). |
| Nick Broome, Howard Birkett, Terry Relph-Knight, Dave Wadham and Dave Lewis | Some of the in-house designers of the NASCOM-2 (and, in some cases, involved with the Gemini system). |
| Peter Smith | who has provided several nice pictures and various manuals etc. for me to scan for this site. |
Also to all who have sent me emails. They are a great encouragement to me to keep this site going. I really appreciate comments about the site and stories of your Nascom/Gemini experiences. I always make an effort to respond!
And finally to you, gentle reader, because without you this site is nothing at all...