Newbury Laboratories
1972 Company formed
1977 Announced a microprocessor controlled visual display unit and printer[1]
1978 Maker of low cost visual display units. Acquired by Data Recording Instrument Co (DRI), a subsidiary of Grundy Group; this would help DRI expand its range of products[2]
Late 1970s Sinclair Radionics started research on another computer, NewBrain; when Sinclair Research was established to develop the ZX80 microcomputer, the NewBrain project was transferred to Newbury Laboratories, a subsidiary of the National Enterprise Board[3]
1981 The NewBrain was considered for the BBC microcomputer project but was not selected. Newbury Laboratories decided to concentrate on computer peripherals. NewBrain was sold to Grundy Business Systems, a company owned 70 percent by the private Grundy Group and 30 percent by BTG[4]
1982 BTG created a new company, Newbury Data Recording, combining 2 of its client companies Data Recording Equipment Co and Newbury Laboratories, which would be the largest British-owned supplier of computer peripherals and would market peripherals from other British companies too[5]
1983 Grundy Business Systems was put into liquidation due to over-rapid expansion and consequent cash flow problems.