What does Oric mean?
There was a lot of speculation in the press when the Oric came out about this. Some thought it was named after the plastic-box-with-lights in called Orac from the BBC TV series ‘Blakes 7’. The truth (according to Paul Kaufman, who worked for Tangerine, Oric and Tansoft in the early years) was that the company tried to come up with a name by juggling the letters of the word ‘micro’. The best they could do was ‘oric’ (must have lost the ‘m’ under the table somewhere) and the name stuck.
