Other Information about MEMOTECH.

Memotech Started in Oxford I believe and moved to Witney when they needed more space.
If you want to see the only picture I have of the offices. (size is 70.6K)

Apart from a very successful range of ZX81 addons, Memotech made the original computer called the SM1. I was told the MTX was partly based on it, This was a business machine and reported to be the fastest thing around at the time (I never saw one working myself).

As mentioed in the hardware page one device called the HRX never really took off but was extremely advanced. This allowed up to 4096 colours (maybe 16bit?) to be grabbed with an MTX and produced very good results. I can still remember using it to grab a picture of one of the office worker's bottom and getting told off by her because of it (great picture though!). This technology was used later when Memotech started doing Video Walls. If anyone has an old HRX I would be interested in it (some hope!).

To try and help the MTX we decided that a running demo needed to be produced that showed off the MTX's capabilities. This demo ran from Floppy disk and lasted over 30 minutes if viewed from end to end. There were various things on it like a picture of a 911. The bit I remember most was a graphic demo where a scene was drawn of a house and a garden, once it had been drawn a picture of a Sinclair C5 drove along the road and then I decided to add a little spice to it. 1st I got a monkey to climb the tree, then another but got it to stop just offset of the 1st monkey. I then animated the two monkeys and after a short while a little baby monkey was produced. No one noticed this until it went out to the shops where one person rang and asked should this be on the demo. It was a good laugh!.

There was hope at one stage that the MTX might be saved in the form of a major computer deal with Russia but despite Memotech putting in alot of time and effort they took the MSX instead. There were a few Red coloured cases made for the MTX which looked great and I think only mine still exists?

When Memotech finally went broke the main designer of the MTX Geoff Boyd decided to continue and started Memotech Computers Ltd. He upgraded the MTX and produced the RS128, this was basically an MTX512 with the 64k upgrade/RS232 interface card. Later he produced what I believe was called the S2. This was an MTX with an added in 3 1/2" floppy drive unit on the left hand side, and I think a new video processor. If anyone has more information please Mail Me.