Unknown history for this machine. I bought it from Tim Schomer, who'd got it from a clearance shop. Aside from the top half of the case being sprayed cream it's also got a redesigned motherboard - Mark 2 Issue A. This is probably to accommodate the 128Ks worth of RAM chips and allow space for the extra 64K to get the machine up to its maximum of 192K. The speaker has been rehoused to allow the ROM chips to sit underneath it - 3 as opposed to 2 in the 48K machine.

The PSU is either non-standard or has been rehoused to allow for an on-off switch, and the manual is half printed and half drawn :) Possibly a pre-production prototype? Even the ports on the back have been hand labelled.

The printer interface is smart though; I couldn't remember whether Camputers ever produced something for the interface slot before they sadly went out of business sometime in 1984/5.

Some notes from Tim:

"The 128 has an extensions ROM in it, and with 128K onboard it won't have any space for an upgrade, although there is an expansion connector by the video RAM that allows for another 64K to be installed on a daughter board.

There was also another expansion module available to take it upto a grand total of 256K, (128k Video) This would be assigned as a 'Ramdrive' for program/data storage (a bit like the Amstrad PCW range) and would only really be any use when you had CP/M running.

I don't know if the case on the PSU is original, I seem to remember that most didn't have a power switch, so it may have been 'Re-housed', to accommodate the switch. As for the colour, I thought it looked quite nice that colour, although I'm not sure it might not have been a case of find some Car-plan spray the right colour and re-spray it."

Revisited the 128 after re-establishing contact with ex-Camputers Tech Director Geoff Sore - it would be a great idea to take it to RetroFest2026 in Swindon. Trouble is, it hadn't been powered up for 8 or 9 years and the original Camputers monitor I was also planning to exhibit had vertical frame collapse and had had as long as I'd owned it. First problem - none of my TVs would lock onto the RF signal and the machine only came with a mono video cable that I couldn't lock onto either.

Fortunately, I have plenty of spare 5 pin DIN cables and also had the 240 degree DIN-5 needed for video. One quick wire mapping and soldering job later I could successfully drive a standard Microvitec 1431 (Beeb edition). Eventually I got the Camputers 1441 running with a decent picture. Geoff told me that no 128s were painted white, so this one really was a respray job, and the reason the port designators were written on the case was that they'd sprayed over the ones on the top part. He kindly brought a replacement 128 case top for me, so that's now fitted and the machine is back to stock. I also discovered that whoever rehoused the PSU (it's an original) didn't mount the 3 regulators properly on the side with the heatsink, so they'd melted themselves into the plastic. Nice. I also scanned the manual which you can find at the bottom of the page.

The manual that came with this machine, written and drawn by Sue Jansons.