nascom.infoOld Henry's Radio Price List
This is a rather late price list for the Nascom equipment. The Nascom-2 was being sold at this time and the Nascom-1 was going out of favour. Please don't try to contact Henry's Radio about this now. Even if they are still in business I doubt if anyone will be interested - it is nearly 20 years out of date! Front Rear
Note that the mini-floppy system was still under design at this time. A disk operating system (NAS-DOS) appeared very late.
The "snow-plough" was a board to de-speckle the display on some TVs. The problem was caused by a timing signal error in the display circuitry and was fixed on the Nascom-2.
Nascom-1
I took these pictures with a very old Polaroid many years ago and I found them stuffed in an old carrier bag in my shed so they are rather marked and the quality is not too good. However, they do show a fairly typical Nascom-1 system in its original surroundings. (The wallpaper was awful even then. It didn't last long after these pictures were taken!)
The first pictures show the machine extended with a 2-slot motherboard, buffer and memory boards.
Picture of the Nascom-1 laid out on the table (58k)
Picture of the NASCOM-1, without frame but built into cabinet. (55k)
The following two pictures show the above system with the addition of an extra memory board.
Picture of the Nascom-1 when it grew into it's first frame (72k)
Same as the above, but inside the cabinet (77k)
My final picture shows my first printer. It was actually a teletype terminal with the keyboard removed. I never did find out why.
My first printer (69k)
These pictures were found on Ebay by Constantine. I contacted the seller who was kind enough to give me permission to publish them here. Unfortunately I was unable to bid for this lovely item due to lack of funds... A complete late issue Nascom 1 kit in its original box. Open the box and all these goodies are inside! Here are closeups of the keyboard (still wrapped) and PCB.
While I am on the subject of unbuilt kits, I know that this is nothing to do with Nascom but here are a few pictures of a Sinclair Calculator kit that I picked up from a junk sale quite a few years ago. The only thing missing appears to be the solder - but the folder that it came in is still there - as is the quick-reference card and warning notice about handling the IC! Case , Box front , Box rear , Complete kit , Tray contents. Happy memories of magnified red LED displays!
Nascom-2
Now a few pictures of my first Nascom-2. This machine was donated to me a while ago. I have a feeling that I've seen it before, at the Liverpool Nascom User Group many years ago, but I can't confirm this. The person that built it included a rather neat little monitor with direct video input. I have removed the RAM and EPROM cards for these pictures. Front view, Three-quarter view showing N2 main board, Larger three-quarter view showing bright red mains lead - difficult to miss!
Dave Hunt (yes, that one...) sent me the following two pictures many moons ago. They show a rather nicely built N2 machine: DHpic1 and DHpic2.
Chris Cox supplied this nice picture of a Nascom-2 in a Kenilworth case. The "B&L MC"stands for Business & Leisure Micro Computers - manufacturers of the Kenilworth case. It looks like this machine may have been bought from them originally. It looks like the keyboard is cut out to take a Gemini GM821 or something similar.
Peter Smith has provided this picture of a *very* nice Nascom-2 setup (big pic warning - 428k). He tells me that this unit is still working - which is always a good advert for old machines! If you have any pics that you would like to display here please contact me.
