Grafpad - for as many uses as YOU can imagine!

British Micro was a company started by Manas Heghoyan, formerly of Hegotron Printed Circuit Boards Ltd and who had once tried to buy John Marshall's [@Nascom] after it had gone bust in 1980.

Although that buy-out had failed, Heghoyan was still keen to enter the microcomputer industry and so, with some encouragement from Marshall[source: "The British answer to imported best-sellers", Practical Computing, December 1981, p. 46], set up his own company - British Micro.

The company's first product was the Mimi 801, a re-badged and improved version of Gemini Micro's GM801. It followed up with the [=pcw_1982_12_006a|Mimi 802] in 1982, and a model 804 some time later.

The Grafpad came later at a time when British Micro seemed to have stopped building computers and was focussing on peripherals. It seems to have been reasonably successful as there was a follow-up: the imaginatively-named Grafpad II. 

Grafpad also appeared on a range of machines including the "BBC Model 2" (possibly the popular Model B or perhaps the recently announced B+), Spectrum and Commodore 64, with the later model also featuring on the IBM PC and Amstrad's CPC[source: http://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/Grafpad_II].

