The Eurocard business was then sold on to one of its principal resellers, Control Universal Ltd, which continued to develop various cards for industrial use based on the Acorn-standard bus during the 1980s, but ultimately went into receivership in 1989.

Placing the two Eurocards from the original Acorn Microcomputer onto a backplane made the system straightforward to expand in a modular way.

It was a small machine built on two Eurocard-standard circuit boards and it could be purchased ready-built or in kit form.

The system comprised four Eurocard-sized printed circuit boards mounted in a 19 inch sub-rack frame on an 8-slot backplane, plus a (separately supplied) additional external keyboard.

A minimum configuration contained: In 1982 this was being offered for £775, or £1075 with power supply, casing, and two further 8K RAM cards; plus, again, an additional £136 for a keyboard.