Nascom
Nascom 1 and 2 were single-board computer kits that were offered in 1977 and 1979 by the English company Nascom Microcomputers.
The computers built on the Zilog Z80 processor and offered a keyboard and a display interface (video -out with 16 rows with 48 columns). In addition to a serial interface, the data after the Kansas City Standard ( KCS) could save on tape, there was also a Z80 PIO with two parallel interfaces, each with 8 bits.
The company ' Nascom Microcomputers ' was sold to financial difficulties in 1981 at ' Lucas Logic '. Parallel to their work was supported by a group around the Nascom - founder John Marshall the company 'Gemini Microcomputers ' (also 'Gemini Company / Micro Value' ) was founded.
The predecessor of the successful Turbo Pascal compiler and integrated development environment ( IDE) for CP / M and MS- DOS were developed and distributed for the Nascom under the name Blue Label Pascal software.
The NASCOM computer continue to live in various emulators, such BMESS