The last remaining Jupiter Ace micros are on sale at the never-to-be-repeated price of £35 - and you'll get a 16K expansion, software and a year's guarantee thrown in.

But that won't be the end of the Ace if Boldfield Computing, the Battersea Dogs Home of the micro business, has anything to do with it. Boldfield took the Ace under its wing when Jupiter Cantab folded (issue 50) and it has been the rallying point for support ever since.

In its 1985 catalogue it offers games, utilities and business software; 16K and 48K RAM-packs; peripherals including an add-on keyboard, a ZX adaptor kit, and a sound box; and interfaces.

This is only half the story - the rest of the catalogue is given over to Boldfield's other products, business micros from Kaypro and Sperry. But the Ace isn't a poor relation at Boldfield - the company has opened a special showroom devoted to it.

The last stocks will probably last two months, Boldfield's Peter Downham said. "We've got full service capability and stocks that will last for years - we'll continue as long as the interest is there," he promised.

He estimates that there are around 10,000 Aces in the UK. "We have the facility to make more but it's unlikely that we would. At the prices we're changing we'd barely cover component costs," he said.