The model of good business: Tuscan - the all-British microcomputer

Perhaps the chosen name - Tuscan - in the context of "all British" was meant to be ironic, but anyway this machine, an update of the regular Tuscan which had been launched the year before, maintains its "Commodore PET on steroids" case design, whilst also making a thing of being based on the 1974-vintage S-100 bus, hence the name Tuscan S100. 

Maybe there were a lot of manufacturing control systems still using this architecture.

The entry-level price was £2,125, or about [[2125|1982]] in [[now]] prices. Stick a 5MB Winchester on and it was £3,625 - a cool [[3625|1982]] in [[now]]. 

Additional software was also available, including word processing at £315 ([[315|1982]]) and a business accounts package at a bargain £800, or [[800|1982]] now.