1987 adverts

The new IBM Personal System/2. Marry into the future without divorcing the past.

By 1986 IBM was suffering, partly from the rise of the clones of its original IBM 5150 (the "PC"), but also because it had slowed down product releases in the PC market it had cre...

One good idea leads to another. And another.

Here's an advert from Apple that nicely shows the updates made to the original Macintosh, launched in 1984, up to the latest - the Macintosh II. After the original Mac had been l...

A Minstrel 4 eight-user package - £15,564 complete

It's often said that the rise of cheap commodity PCs and affordable networking killed off the multi-user system, but it's still here in 1987 in the form of Hotel Microsystems' Min...

New Amiga 500 - Now other home computers are just toys

The original Amiga, or A1000 as it came to be known, nearly didn't make it when it launched in 1986, as Commodore was going through some major financial problems whilst its potent...

Z88: Buying a powerful personal computer is no longer a big issue. Or a big deal.

Clive Sinclair's company - Sinclair Research - had hit the buffers towards the end of 1985, and was sold - essentially for its name and merchandising rights - to brash new upstart...

Be who you want to be: The new Sinclair has one big disk advantage

Hot on the heels of the Sinclair 128K +2 Spectrum, released in August of this year, came the +3 version, which had the same slightly-non-standard 3" floppy drive that owner Amstra...

Tulip: Pick the one that stands out from the rest

To its credit, it took Tulip a good eight years since its founding in 1979 to use the most obvious metaphor in its adverts - a field of actual tulips. In this case, it goes one s...

HM Systems: The new Minstrel 4EP

HM Systems - formerly known as Hotel Microsystems - is back with an update of its Minstrel 4, the Minstrel 4EP. It's quite an impressive spec, supporting up to 18 users with betw...

Frank Slater knew all about cleaning, but it took IBM to help him tidy up his accounts

Here's another advert for IBM's PS/2, or rather it isn't as such as whilst it features a PS/2 in the office photo, it is - in common with a lot of IBM's adverts - more about the c...

Zenith: The leading light

Zenith Data Systems had started out in 1979 as a division of the Zenith Radio Company, after the latter had bought the famous Heath company from Schlumberger. Heath - trading in ...