It's not all Greek to Context

The Context was built by C/WP (Computers/Word Processors) of the UK from a design bought from Ontel in the US, where it was known as the Amigo.

It was a dual-CPU machine, with a Zilog Z80A plus 64K RAM for CP/M, and a separate MOS Technology 6502 with its own 32K RAM just to do graphics.

Its graphics appeared to be quite advanced for the time, as it supported a mixture of graphics and text within the same screen area, and could even overwrite multiple glyphs together to do accents, or create Greek or mathematical characters.

[picture: context_cortex_percw_jul83.webp|The Context is renamed to Cortex. From PCW, July 1983]

At some point, the company decided to rename the machine. It became the Cortex and was still available - in multiple colours - as late as October 1984.

It retailed for £1,895 - or about [[1895|1983]] in [[now]], or was available in a bundle with dual floppy drives, a Star Micronics 510 dot-matrix printer, and software including Wordstar and dBase II for £2,588, or [[2588|1983]] now.

