Currah customers must be the best cared-for consumers in the UK as the war of words between DK'Tronics and Welwyn Systems rumbles on.

Both companies are selling the products of the now defunct Currah (issue 95) and both are determined to give after-sales support. Last week the battle moved across the Atlantic, with DK'Tronics boasting of large orders for Currah products and Welwyn opening its US sales operation with Steve Currah at the helm.

Faced with the founder of the deceased company, DK'Tronics claims that it has Currah's design engineers, not to mention intellectual rights to the products. The rivalry could go on and on but the upshot for users looks like being a prolonged period of cossetting.

As an appetiser, Welwyn has combined Currah's Microspeech and Microslot in the MicroPac for the Spectrum. The package costs £25.95, as against the £44.90 that the two items would cost normally.