1983 adverts

Oric-1 - created by Tangerine

Tangerine had been around for a few years, and had previously been selling a 6502-based one-board computer called the Microtan. This was abandoned after around 10,000 systems ha...

Every week, more and more people like you are going to work with an Osborne personal business computer

The Osborne One was designed by Lee Felsenstein, who had designed Processor Technology's Sol computer back in 1976, and was heavily influenced by Alan Kay's Note Taker concept at ...

A Graphic Display of Intelligence

Cifer was established in Melksham, Wiltshire in 1972, as a manufacturer of terminals and - later on - microcomputers. According to its advert it became a major supplier in the E...

The new GEC 1450 makes building a system child's play.

GEC - or General Electric Company plc - was a large British conglomerate with interests in defence, electronics, communications and engineering. It was founded in 1886, making it ...

HP 9000: Today, HP can give you full 32-bit power

At around the same time as HP was dabbling in the mainstream microcomputer market with machines like its HP-86, released in 1982 and which retailed for $2,820, which is about £8,8...

You'll never forget your first TMK 300 micro

Unlike the rest of the world then, as this advert appears to be a one-off - and even then it appeared in specialist systems magazine Systems International, rather than a mainstrea...

Epson HX-20: It could mean the end of the rubber duck as we know it

From the time when the only colours allowed in anyone's decorative colour scheme were black, red and grey comes this advert from Epson. It's perhaps one of the more irresponsibl...

CP/M Graphics - your ticket to success

Intergalactic Digital Research was founded by Gary Kildall, along with his wife Dorothy, in 1976, three years after Kildall first wrote CP/M - the first-ever disk operating system...

Triumph Adler makes it all refreshingly simple with the Alphatronic micro

Triumph-Adler, originally of Germany, was first bought out by the US Royal Typewriter Co. in 1969 and then, more implausibly, by German car-giant Volkswagen, which acquired a major...

Solve the "Which microcomputer to buy" puzzle in six easy moves

There's nothing quite like an advert without a photo of the thing you're selling to really promote it, although this one does at least feature a custom Rubik's cube. That's mayb...

At £299 it's very little. At 64K it's very large

The Commodore 64 was the company's replacement for its VIC-20 machine, the limited but popular home computer which was the first to sell more than 1 million units. Designed by a ...

It's only £695. And that's the last reason you should buy it.

The Commodore 500 was part of the CBM-II Series - an attempt to produce an update for the original Commodore PET and seen as the company's last chance to break the business market...

Casio PB-100: The best way to put 1,568 steps in your pocket

Casio's PB-100 was one of several small "pocket computers" released around the same time that look more like calculators, however it was programmable as it had a resident version ...

Home is the last place you should learn about a home computer

Even though the Commodore 64 was on the market, there was still plenty of demand for the VIC 20, launched two years before in 1981 (or three if you count Japan, where it was test-...

ZX Spectrum - 16K or 48K RAM from only £125!

This advert is part of an impressive four-page spread that appeared early in 1983 for the Sinclair Spectrum, launched at the end of April 1982 but which took eight weeks until fir...