The MTX Series described; straight from the author's mouth

Here's an advert for the almost-but-not-quite MSX-standard MTX512 from Memotech of Witney in Oxfordshire - a company that had started out making memory and expansion cards for Sinclair's ZX81.

It consisted of mostly a bunch of quotes taken from electronics and computer magazines of the day. 

The MTX series reviewed well in February 1984's "Win a Memotech" competition in Your Computer, with quotes like "[the MTX] would not disgrace any executive's desk"[source: "Win a Memotech competition", Your Computer, February 1984, p. 171]. 

The MTX could be fitted with something fairly unusual at the time - a 256K memory board that was intended not as program memory but as fast storage, or in thecompany's own words a "Silicon Disc RAM board". 

The MTX, without its 256K "RAM disk" but with two 5¼" standard floppy drives and CP/M retailed for £1,245 - about [[1245|1984]] in [[now]] terms.