Whitechapel Computer Works

Whitechapel Computer Works Ltd. (WCW) was a computer workstation company formed in the East End of London, United Kingdom in April 1983, with investment from the Greater London Enterprise Board and the Department of Trade and Industry.

Their first workstation model was the MG-1 (named after the Megamind Gargantubrain from The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy). The MG-1 was based on the National Semiconductor NS32016 microprocessor, with a 1024 × 800 pixel monochrome display, a 40 MB Rodime ST-506 hard disk and an optional Ethernet interface. Initially, NatSemi's GENIX operating system, a port of 4.1BSD UNIX, was provided; this was later replaced by a port of 4.2BSD called 42nix. The MG-1 also had a partially kernel-based graphical user interface called Oriel.

The MG-1 first shipped to customers in 1984, with a base price of around £10,000, although Oriel was not released until the following year. While there was no distributor in the United States, the MG-1 was sold in North America by Cybertool Systems Ltd. from 1984 through 1986. A colour version, the CG-1, was also announced in 1986, followed by the MG-200, with an NS32332 processor, in 1987.