EuroMicro's answer to high-performance and flexibility

EuroMicro Ltd of north London, apparently a UK offshoot of EuroMicro Inc, is another one of those value-added reseller companies that seems to have left no trace.

Here it is offering two systems, the first of which is a straightforward re-badged Zenith Z100, masquerading as the EuroMicro Z100.

This was a dual-processor model with an 8086 for 16-bit operations, as well as an 8085 for older 8-bit support. It retailed from £1,895, which is about [[1895|1983]] in [[now]].

The second machine is a bit more interesting, as EuroMicro claims in the advert that it had been "quietly busy developing a range of computers".

Called the M8/16, the machine was also dual-procesor with a similar 8088/8085 combination as seen in the Z100. Intended as a multi-user system, it ran CP/M-86 and MP/M-86 and could support up to seven users. 

What makes it a bit more interesting though is that it is based on Ithaca InterSystems' Series II or possibly even the DPS-8000 - first released in September 1981 - although that used Zilog's Z8002. 

However, the stack of cases is almost identical that which featured in a DPS-8000 advert found in October 1981's Byte Magazine[source: https://www.1000bit.it/lista/i/ithaca/byte_1981_10_dps8000_ad.jpg].

It retailed from £2,995 plus VAT, which is around [[3500|1983]] in [[now]].