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Start the week with a unicorn! No, not the Torch Unicorn though I'd quite like one of those too. No, there'll be two camps for this one. You'll either instantly know what it is or, more likely, you'll never have heard of it because it never sold. This is the HH Tiger, aka the Tangerine Microtan 2.

Quite a different beast though, switching from 6502 to Z80!

I wonder if this machine is somehow related to the Oric Phoenix? oric.free.fr/phoenix.html

What an interesting mix of technologies! Minitel, teletext AND a Kaypro compatibility mode?! Is it known who designed the phoenix or was it Oric France? The Tiger design was sold to HH so Oric couldn’t use any of that in a future machine.

As far as I know France was not involved, the few motherboards were discovered in England and Fabrice Frances (the guy who wrote the first proper Oric emulator) did a deep dive inside and there's a video (in French) of the system running somewhere on the internet.