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The Memotech Library
Published Information on the MTX Series
Miscellaneous
This page contains a few miscellaneous items that, whilst not
all of them are specific to Memotech computers, I think are useful references for MTX
users.
This information comes from long defunct publications and all
of it is almost 30 years old. I don't imagine that the original
copyright holders, if they are still around, are vaguely
interested in these pages, but if anyone has issues with me
making this information available, let me know and I will remove
the offending article(s).
A word about quality : these articles come from a
range of sources and while all are easily readable, some have
rather better quality than others. If you have better copies
than I have posted here, if you send me a copy, I will update
the site.
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Memotech Related
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"ZX Computing"
from August 1984 Review of the Morwood Data Recorder,
this was branded by Memotech and sold for the MTX
computer.
Downloaded from
www.freetimeweb.nl. |
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"Your Computer" from December 1984
(scanned 31/10/2012) "Buyer's Guide" to
Monitors
Not specific to Memotech, in fact, the MTX does not
even rate a mention, but it does contain some relevant
information about using monitors with 1980s vintage
micros. (ds) |
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HRX Multimedia PC |
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A couple of snippets from a Danish
computer magazine, "Alt om Data" with a report from the
1984 "Personal Computer World" computer show at Earls
Court. The magazine includes two references to the
HRX, along with
possibly the only photo of an (the only?) HRX still in
the public domain. PDF and English translation
Courtesy of
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Article on Video Processing from
Computers & Electronics Magazine, November 1984
Includes some details of the Memotech HRX System with
comments from Richard Govatski, Vice President of
Memotech Corp. Also has a small, but colour, photo of an
HRX with an attached HDX.
Downloaded from
archive.org |
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"Lighting & Sound International", Issue
19, July 1987. This article is about the refurbishment
of the
Hammersmith Palais in 1987 to create Le Palais and discusses
the installation of 2, 5x5 screen
Cameron (Memotech) Video Walls, commenting "Like all new venues
these days, a Video Wall seems to be a necessity". (ds)
A view of the front of the building, from the same issue
of the magazine.
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"Lighting & Sound International", Issue
31, July 1988. This article is about the equipment
installed in Zhivgaos, a new nightclub in Darlington,
UK. Only mentioned briefly, the installation included 2,
2x2 screen
Cameron (Memotech) Video Walls as the centrepiece
between 28 single monitors, you can just make out the
Video Wall displays in one of the photos. (ds) |
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"Lighting & Sound
International", Issue 50, February 1990. A
news item from L+SI, reporting that
Memotech had
appointed a number of new distributors, I think that
their partnership with Cameron Video Systems, to
exclusively market the Video Wall, must have ended at
this point. This was as a result of Memotech's desire to
have their own brand on the product and for not getting
credit for placing the product in many great locations
worldwide.
Geoff Boyd takes full responsibility for this
decision, but with hindsight, now sees the severing of
the exclusive relationship with Cameron as a vanity that
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"Lighting & Sound International", Issue
52, April 1990. This article is about the sound &
lighting upgrades to the
Hammersmith Palais in 1990 and discusses the
Memotech Video Wall, creating a single 10x5 screen wall - then the largest
club Video Wall in the UK.
It's gone now of course, the Palais was condemned in
2007 and demolished in 2012. (ds) |
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"Lighting & Sound International", Issue
52, April 1990.
Also in this edition was a two
page article about "Dukes Experience" nightclub in
Chelmsford which included a "massive 6x6 Cameron
Videowall", which was unfortunately obscured by a
lighting rig.
(This article was spotted by
Colin
Mitchell, ex. Cameron & Memotech Videowall Sales Engineer) |
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"Lighting & Sound International",
Issue 54, June 1990. A small item in the "Disco & Club
Scene" pages, mentioning the 2x2 Memotech Video Wall
installed in the Masquerade nightclub, at The Point
leisure complex , Bracknell, UK - closed now, as it lost
its license+ !
+If you have not heard of
the town,
The Alternative Guide to Bracknell has some humorous
words that might help you understand why - speaking of
today's Point, it reports "here, under one roof, one can
find a Bowling Alley, a ten screen cinema, two
nightclubs ('Stabbings' and 'Toxins'), and a casualty
unit. Thus, it is possible to go bowling, see the latest
film, get stabbed, and have a blood transfusion all in
the same evening. This is a popular pastime with the
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"Lighting & Sound International",
Issue 64, April 1991.
A small item from the
"News" pages that gives a brief summary of the
Quadroscope display in the Natural History Museum.
"Educational
lmagery The recently opened Ecology section of
the Natural History Museum boasts many innovative and
interesting exhibits. The most impressive attraction
must be the huge Quadroscope occupying one complete wall
of the room which is configured with 20 Barco 32"
monitors in a videowall format of 4x5, making the shape
almost square. The videowall is surrounded by Light
Boxes depicting the earth's life Cycle. The giant
Quadroscopc employs standard Memotech videowall
electronics, the software having been completed at
Memotech's development facility on an IBM PC which was
then down loaded onto Rom in a MTX computer. The system
can precisely control laser disc players, light boxes
and other peripherals." |
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"Lighting & Sound International",
Issue 75, March 1992. A news item from L+SI,
reporting that Memotech had appointed a new Italian
distributor - Videosel International srl.
The first collaboration was to be at the SIB '92
exhibition in Rimini. The photo is of Chris Vlassopulos
of Memotech with Mario Radice from Videosel taken from
L&SI's report form the Rimini show in the April edition. |
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"Lighting & Sound International",
Issue 76, April 1992. Two news items from L+SI,
reporting installation of Memotech Video Walls in :-
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"Lighting & Sound International",
Issue 77, May 1992. A news item from L+SI,
reporting that Memotech had just installed a Video Wall
Show Controller for
Nuclear Electric (now
EDF)
in the visitor's centre at
Oldbury Power Station. Oldbury was the first
operating nuclear power station in the world, opening in
1967, it operated a pair of
Magnox
reactors, the reactors were decommissioned in 2012.
Public tours of the station were stopped after the
events of
9/11 and the visitor centre finally closed in 2006.
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"Lighting & Sound International",
Issue 81, September 1992. A news item from L+SI,
reporting that Memotech would release three new Video
Wall products at the Light & Sound show to be held at
Earl's Court that month.
- Memotech had cunningly located their stand just
next to the bar! |
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Third Part Video Wall Interfaces |
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"Lighting & Sound
International", Issue 27, March 1988. A news
item from L+SI, reporting release of the
ALS Enigma lighting controller - which could
subsequently be used to control Memotech Video Walls
through the Memotech Reflex Controller. |
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The feature on the upgrade of the
Hammersmith Palais in Issue 52 of "Lighting & Sound
International", described how the Video Wall would be
controlled via an Advanced Lighting Systems (ALS) Enigma
controller over RS232 communications with a Memotech
Reflex Controller.
This advert for an ALS Enigma lighting controller
appeared in Issue 46 of "Lighting Sound International"
from October the previous year. |
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An earlier ALS Enigma advert, from Issue
36, December 1988, showing a slightly bigger view of the
keyboard. |
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Memotech
Related Material |
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Copy of the original invoice for
my MTX512S2,
SDX disk drive with 512k Silicon Disk and CP/M, dating
the machine to December 1986. (Courtesy of Diarmid
Gibson, personal data removed) |
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Copy of the original Dispatch Note for
my MTX512S2,
SDX disk drive with 512k Silicon Disk and CP/M, dating
the machine to December 1986. The Dispatch Note shows
that the machine was ordered through Syntaxsoft, who
were invoiced for the system, and delivered direct to
the customer
(Courtesy of Diarmid Gibson, personal data removed)
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