Nascom means performance. Nascom means solutions

Nascom - now owned by car-parts-to-semiconductors industrial conglomerate Lucas Industries, or at least its Lucas Logic division - is still trundling on with its re-packaged Nascom 2 motherboard in a nice case.

Interestingly, the company is still selling its micros in kit as well as bare-board form. It's also selling a hi-res graphics card for £185 - about [[185|1982]] in [[now]], and a 1.5MB dual-floppy system for £949, or [[949|1982]].

The Nascom 3 - the case of which seems to owe more than a nod towards that of the Apple II - is retailing at £1,493 - [[1493|1982]] in [[now]]. It's somewhat telling that for a company that launched its first machine - the Nascom 1 - in 1977, it had only shifted 30,000 units in that entire span of over five years. Production of the Commodore 64 ran at 400,000 a month for a couple of years[source: https://www.atarimagazines.com/startv4n2/ovaloffice.html].

Oh, and this advert is not entirely dissimilar to an advert from the previous year for <a href="ad3_004">EACA's Video Genie system</a>.