1978 adverts

Why Apple II is the world's best selling personal computer

According to The Register, Apple has long since possessed a "reality distortion field", with Steve Jobs being known as "Old Reality Distortion Field, because when he appeared, fac...

PerSci delivers the Dual-Headed Diskette Drive

Peripheral Sciences - or PerSci - with its dual-headed dual-floppy unit, was going up against companies like Shugart which had just introduced the 5¼" floppy. Ignoring their siz...

Smoke Signal Broadcasting: Hail to the Chieftain

Founded in 1976 as a supplier of plug-in boards for SWTPC's 6800 micro, Smoke Signal Broadcasting is a bit of an obscure entry in the canon of early computing. The machine in th...

Dynabyte computers are all business inside and out

This is a nice advert for Dynabyte showing various models in its DB series of microcomputers. The middle box is the company's DB 8/1 microcomputer - a 4MHz Z80 CPU with one paral...

It SHOULD be a Heathkit Computer System

This is another advert from The Heath Company of Benton Harbour, Michigan - and which traded as Heathkit - for a variety of its micros and peripherals of the day. It's also nice...

Get it out of your system: MicroDaSys makes it easy

On the face of it, this is yet another Motorola 6800-based system with an S-100 bus, however it's perhaps the micro which more than any other most closely resembles an actual type...