1981 adverts

Step by step with the computer system designed for tomorrow

Tangerine Computer Systems had been founded in 1979 in St. Ives, Cambridgeshire - once the home of Clive Sinclair's Radionics company. Its first product had been the well-received Tan 1638 video-adapter...

You don't need a degree to use a VIC-20 Home Computer - just a degree of common sense

This advert, given that it shows a Mark 1 VIC-20 without the bundled tape drive that soon came long, probably comes from late 1981 - the year that the VIC-20 was launched in the UK. It was priced at...

Make friends with Panther... The British micro system

Here's another advert for another fairly generic Z80-based (or possibly Intel 8080) CP/M micro system, from Cyber Electronics Ltd. of Ilford in Essex. Unlike most similar adverts, this one oddly shows...

Dealers, we'll help you out of the microcomputer jungle

In the days before visual accessibility guidelines existed, and aimed more at potential dealers than the general public, this advert for Altos is actually placed by Microtex of Windsor, which was importing...

4MHz Z80A, 64K RAM, twin 200K disks for £1299

Here is an early advert of Chris Shelton's Sig/Net, launched around March of this year. Shelton, who had once worked for Nascom, had started Shelton Instruments back in 1970, and became well-known for...