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| Model | Released | Usage_ | Features | Storage_ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Distributor | 1986 | SOP, Livestock Markets, Paper merchants, Plumbers merchants. | Smaller version of the Mark 5 in an oversized PC style vertical cabinet with a CDC Lark 2 drive built in. Designed and manufactured by Systemation Developments K. A. Howlett for Business Computers Systems. A single board processor was developed to replace the 3 card processor and was working but never came to market. At the same time a Transputer based maths co-processor had also been developed. Assembler programming introduced by Systemation Developments with the aid of a third party, running on PC`s with the program then downloaded to the M18. | Support for seven additional external Lark 2 or Amcodyne drives 4 per controller including the integral drive. 32K 18 bit words of base memory plus up to 8 32K banks. |
|  | 1990(?) | SOP, Livestock Markets, Paper merchants, Plumbers merchants. | A single board processor was developed to replace the 3 card processor and was working but never came to market. At the same time a Transputer based maths co-processor had also been developed. Assembler programming introduced by Systemation Developments with the aid of a third party, running on PC`s with the program then downloaded to the M18. | Support for seven additional external Lark 2 or Amcodyne drives 4 per controller including the integral drive. 32K 18 bit words of base memory plus up to 8 32K banks. |
| Distributor EP | 1989 | SOP, Livestock Markets | Enhanced version of the Distributor | SCSI disk and tape support |