Alan Sugar at the Cambridge Union

I just got back from a Bring 'n Byte at The Centre for Computing History where there was an Amstrad CPC 464 and some cards and things for sale at the end of the day, ...


Starts around 4:45. He says nowadays you can't start a business making consumer hardware in your garage, ... That's true, especially if you don't have a garage, but it looks to me like you might be able to start some sort of business in other people's garages, ... I don't know how to keep it going though. Whilst there I met David Pleasance and got a copy of his book about the last years of Commodore Business Machines, from around the time Jack Tramiel left. It's very interesting to get a view of the industry from the marketing perspective.

See https://feertech.com/microbeast/ and this:

See Anamartic Wafer Stack.







Mass Storage




Then I heard a story about a bankrupt businessman who had a shipping container full of old computers and things stored in a warehouse in Northstowe and the Northstowe Tap & Social has some of it on their walls as decoration! It sounded like the previous owner went bankrupt after some venture with Rolls Royce engine monitoring technology. Something like Rolls' own EHM systems? See this piece in Ingenia: Engine Health Managment.

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