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Old 08-13-2012, 10:17 AM   #1
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Default Metacomco in Bristol UK?

I think I had a freaky Amiga related experience!

A while back, I had a weekend visit to Bristol to see friends and stayed in some serviced apartments. A friend is visiting there soon, so I was looking up the address of them for him.

Upon Googling the address I saw the name Metacomco linked in a few sites to that address, I knew the name rang a bell but couldn't place it. Then I noticed it was on a few Atari and Amiga sites!

These are the apartments

http://www.citybaseapartments.com/uk...apartments.php

Located at

26 Portland Square
Bristol BS2 8RZ

It does seem a company called Metacomco were there in the 80s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaComCo

They're from Bristol, and had a hand in inventing the first AmigaOS... to think I was probably sleeping in a room where part of the Amiga was born and I had no idea, pretty freaky!

Several sites seem to confirm that was their address: http://www.page6.org/archive/issue_25/page_35.htm


Just thought I'd share anyway.

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Old 08-13-2012, 10:52 AM   #2
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Default Re: Metacomco in Bristol UK?

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.. to think I was probably sleeping in a room where part of the Amiga was born and I had no idea, pretty freaky!.
Did you wake up screaming about BCPL????
:-)

Pretty kual..

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Old 08-13-2012, 12:15 PM   #3
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Default Re: Metacomco in Bristol UK?

Yup, those are the apartments alright! I rather like Bristol

Weird though, you almost certainly stayed in the very place AmigaDos was put together!
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Old 08-13-2012, 07:45 PM   #4
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What happens in Bristol, stays in Bristol...
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Old 08-14-2012, 05:10 PM   #5
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Do you think they'd mind if we put up a plaque? :-P
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