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More info and pics: binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/HH/

Gah, two instances of ‘no, ‘ in that first post. Dammit.

I worked for a Glasgow-based VAR who, alongside high-end CP/M and MP/M machines, offered the mid-range H||H Tiger. It never failed to impress business and engineering customers with its sharp colour screen, graphics, IEEE 488 interface, BT Prestel connectivity et al. Too late and expensive however.

I latterly owned the office Tiger and used for software and hardware development well in to the 1990s. Unable to sell it, it was stripped for parts and skipped 😢 Great machine.

You're the second person to say they were unable to sell their Tiger or give it to a museum so it went in the skip. Aside from the 4 I know about I can only assume that a similar fate befell the others. H|H didn't make many before their parent company went bust. I don't suppose you have any pics?

Incidentally, our low-end CP/M offering was an even rarer British-made beast called the Iotec Iona. We also had one of these aluminium enveloped, jet-black beasts in the office. I don't think it ever made it in to mass production.

Are those factory reworks?

Yep, including the deadbug. It’s such a shame there’s no docs around for these, but then we’re lucky to have the machines at all since only a handful are known to exist.

All those jumpers look like my Amiga 3000 I purchased when they were just released. It was a real lemon.

I been looking over the chipset and, Im confused... like...if there is memory over there, and there, then, whats all that memory for?

It’s split into the 3 CPUs. The alt text explains all.

The Tiger also had a bus interface, rather like the BBC's Tube, to support additional external processors, each with their own RAM of course. I built a 8086 board running CP/M-86 for the Tiger (which worked well) and a 68000 board running OS9 (which worked less-well!)

Quite a different beast though, switching from 6502 to Z80!

Yep. I’m guessing the decision was to go Z80 for CP/M which meant an instant library of software, in this case Perfect Office. It also meant a world of pain for the chap tasked with writing the Z80 code. Meanwhile Oric Products International carried on with the 6502.

I wonder if this machine is somehow related to the Oric Phoenix? oric.free.fr/phoenix.html

That thing is bonkers, and would have been so expensive! Have you considered putting up videos of the more interesting parts of your collection?

£2750 to you at the time, chief. Bargain. Gate to think what that would be today. A few people have asked if I’d consider doing videos, but I just don’t have the time currently. $dayjob plus DIY are time thieves - I’ve only been in this house 6 years, you’d think I’d have finished it by now 😆

Not nerdy enough to recognise it but nerdy enough to know that Tangerine went on to make the better known Oric, which my mate Rusty had for a week or two before his dad took it back to the shop and got a C64

Hahaha poor Oric. It’s not its fault that it couldn’t draw a circle at the beginning. (Technically, it was Oric Products International who did the Oric, not Tangerine. Same core people though)

Wow, that fabled beast of myth and legend actually did exist then? (my first computer was a Microtan 65).

That is a lot of cpus and ram in there for the time. I'm intrigued by the network ports on the back.

Aye! I need to read the reviews again but I can’t recall them being mentioned. It’s likely possible that they were never implemented along with the DMA hardware.

Even if they did implement it, finding a 2nd machine to network with the one you have may prove challenging.

Show off ;)