Date   : Mon, 27 Jan 2014 21:28:58 -0000
From   : john.abbey@... (John Abbey)
Subject: Torch Graduate

Hi all,

Normally I restrict my posts to things like Chuckie Egg, but this time I'd 
like an opinion or two about some hardware.  Today a friend of of mine 
showed me a photo of a small Beeb collection.  It had the usual kind of 
stuff - Model B, a nice Cumana disk drive and Cub monitor.

But also there was what looked like a Torch graduate - I suspected it was a 
second processor and confirmed it using a search engine.  The picture was 
cropped on that side so I could only see the left side of the device, but it 
was the correct shape, size and colours.  Google tells me it's an 8088 
second processor that runs MS-DOS 2.11, but that's pretty much all I can 
find out! Any more information or experiences with this kit would be 
interesting.

The reason I was shown the photo (sorry, don't have a copy to post for you) 
was because they wanted to know the value (probably eBay value) of the gear. 
I have absolutely no idea what the use, collectability or value of a Torch 
Graduate is these days - any ideas?

Regards,
JohnA.