Did you begin your computing career with a kit from Comp Shop? If so, please send me an e-mail!

Can you answer any of these questions about the UK101?

• Who was Dr A.A.Berk and where is he now? His name appears in a Practical Electronics review (April 1980) of the Edukit. He is credited with the design of the Edukit, which was a very low-cost microprocessor board based on the RCA COSMAC 1802. The machine was built by Modus Systems Ltd., of Letchworth. His name also appears on a book about the Lisp programming language and a review of the Softy EPROM programmer (PE January 1980).
• Who was the mysterious Andy Fisher, mentioned in the manual in connection with the UK101's software? He is thanked in the introduction, and credited with the cassette save routine.
• Who was David Fine, also mentioned in the manual with a Milton Keynes phone number that you could call for “advice of a technical nature”?
• Did anyone actually connect up the Ohio Scientific floppy disk interface and make it work?
• Did anybody write a Monopoly game, just to use those little “house” and “hotel” characters in the graphics set?
• How many Compukits were sold, in all?

If you have any information, please send me an e-mail!

Without actually looking at the code, I asked:

• Who wrote the two sample games “Hectic” and “New York Taxi”?

Well, Stephen Crane had a look at his copy of these two fine games and told me that NYT was written by K. Stephens and Hectic by Bryan D. Ungard. I wonder where they are now?