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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Thorn_EMIThorn EMI - Wikipedia

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   Thorn EMI was a major British company involved in consumer electronics, music, defence and retail. Created in October 1979, when Thorn Electrical Industries merged with EMI, it was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. It demerged back to separate companies in 1996.

2. www.theregister.com › 2012/11/12 › the_secretLiberator: the untold story of the first British laptop part 1

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   Nov 12, 2012 · Among the forgotten is the Thorn EMI Liberator, named not for the starship featured in the first three seasons of the then-popular BBC TV sci-fi show Blake’s 7 but for its ability to free workers from their desks and allow them to work on the move.

3. www.homeheatingguide.co.uk › efficiency-tablesThorn EMI Heating - Boiler Efficiency Rating - Home Heating Guide

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   Find out how efficient your Thorn EMI Heating boiler is and get costs for new installations, repairs and servicing.

   Model	Fuel	Efficiency
   Thorn EMI Heating Apollo 15/30b	Gas	65.0%
   Thorn EMI Heating Apollo 15/30c	Gas	65.0%
   Thorn EMI Heating Apollo 30/50b	Gas	65.0%
   Thorn EMI Heating Apollo 30/50s	Gas	72.0%

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4. www.gracesguide.co.uk › Thorn_EMIThorn EMI - Graces Guide

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   Thorn EMI was a major British company involved in consumer electronics, music, defence and retail. 1979 EMI was acquired by Thorn Electrical Industries to form Thorn EMI [1] one of the largest operating companies in the UK.

5. www.theregister.com › Print › 2012/11/16Liberator: the untold story of the first British laptop part 3

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   Nov 16, 2012 · Electronics giant Thorn EMI designed the machine with help of a team of former Dragon Data engineers. As the Liberator, it launched in September 1985 to become the first British laptop and beating the first PC-compatible laptop, Toshiba's T1100, to market.

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6. blog.smittytone.net › 2013/05/04 › retro-reviewRetro Review: Thorn EMI Liberator (1985) | smittytone messes ...

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   May 4, 2013 · Retro Review: Thorn EMI Liberator (1985) In November 2012, I wrote and published the definitive history of the Thorn EMI Liberator, the first British laptop computer, over at The Register. I’d never even heard of the machine when I first saw a picture of it.

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   What did Thorn EMI do?

   • Thorn EMI was a major British company involved in consumer electronics, music, defence and retail. 1979 EMI was acquired by Thorn Electrical Industries to form Thorn EMI one of the largest operating companies in the UK. Thorn EMI's business covered four principal areas of activity; Consumer electronics.

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   What is Thorn EMI energy development?

   • Thorn EMI Energy Development - newly set-up to exploit Parkinson technology in new product areas. 1982 Thorn EMI was involved in manufacture of video recorders, sale and rental of the equipment, production of video programmes and was preparing to manufacture video disc players

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   Is Thorn EMI Y2K compliant?

   • It’s not Y2K compliant, for a start – only two digits were used to store the year in the machine’s settings file. Thorn EMI quoted a battery life of 14 hours with the bundled rechargeable battery pack, but it also offered a replacement pack that could take four alkaline AA cells, which is what I’m running this Liberator off.

   Retro Review: Thorn EMI Liberator (1985) - smittytone messes with micros

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   What happened to Thorn EMI software?

   • In 1991, its consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing service division – Thorn EMI Software, was a subject of a management buyout and started to trade as a separate company named "Data Sciences Ltd". The staff and management paid £82 million for the £117 million turnover division.

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   Who was the Thorn EMI Liberator?

   • Few are remembered today. Among the forgotten is the Thorn EMI Liberator, named not for the starship featured in the first three seasons of the then-popular BBC TV sci-fi show Blake’s 7 but for its ability to free workers from their desks and allow them to work on the move.

   Liberator: the untold story of the first British laptop part 1

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   When did Thorn EMI become a company?

   • In 1994, following a leveraged management buy-out, Thorn Lighting Ltd floated on the London Stock Exchange as TLG plc (the Thorn Lighting Group). From its formation until the mid-1990s, Thorn EMI was one of the United Kingdom's largest defence companies.

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8. www.computinghistory.org.uk › det › 32895Thorn EMI Liberator - Computer - Computing History

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   The Thorn EMI Liberator was a portable text processor produced in 1985 for the UK Civil Service. It can claim to be the first mass-produced British laptop. The Liberator started in 1983 when the UK Government's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency required a portable device to allow civil servants to produce and edit documents without ...