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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.

I worked for a Glasgow-based VAR who, alongside high-end CP/M and MP/M machines, offered the mid-range H||H Tiger. It never failed to impress business and engineering customers with its sharp colour screen, graphics, IEEE 488 interface, BT Prestel connectivity et al. Too late and expensive however.

I latterly owned the office Tiger and used for software and hardware development well in to the 1990s. Unable to sell it, it was stripped for parts and skipped 😢 Great machine.

Incidentally, our low-end CP/M offering was an even rarer British-made beast called the Iotec Iona. We also had one of these aluminium enveloped, jet-black beasts in the office. I don't think it ever made it in to mass production.

No, we didn't sell any. I don't recall any standout features other than the cases for the CPU/keyboard and floppies being fabricated from folded 2-3mm aluminium with a smooth black finish that fingerprints loved. The disk drives were sold singly and could be stacked on top of the CPU Apple2-like.