1982 adverts

Memotech explores the excellence of your ZX81

Memotech, the company which would end up producing its own range of well-regarded almost-MSX machines during 1984, started out as a producer of memory and interface expansions for...

Silicon Office: Now you can do all the filing with one finger

This is a slightly disturbing advert produced by Commodore in partnership with (or sponsorship of) Bristol Software Factory, for the latter's Silicon Office product. It's along t...

The BBC Microcomputer System: The Shape of Things to Come

From this attractive A3 sales brochure is the quote "Amongst the shifting sands of computer technology the BBC Microcomputer is here to stay". And it was, in its various guises, ...

Dragon: Fire Your Imagination

This is a nice A5 landscape booklet, produced as sales material for the Dragon 32 probably around the time that the Dragon was released in August 1982. The Dragon 32 was first a...

Probably the fastest computer in the universe - the Jupiter Ace

Perhaps this early advert for the Jupiter Ace - an 8-bit Z80-based micro designed by ex-Sinclair engineers Richard Altwasser and Steven Vickers, both of whom had worked on the ZX ...

The world's best personal computer for under £500

Sinclair was nothing if not bold with its claims, including this one that the Spectrum - announced just a few months before at a press conference at the Churchill Hotel on Friday,...

Decision 1 - the only machine that runs almost everything

George Morrow - the founder of Morrow Designs - was born in 1934 and earned a degree in physics from Stanford before going on to do a master's in mathematics at the University of ...

SuperBrain II: Summa Cum Laude!

This advert appears to be about the only one that Intertec ever did itself that actually features its SuperBrain micro, which was fairly omnipresent from its launch in 1979 and fo...

Get on line with Laskys - for the best in personal computers

Laskys (or should that be Lasky's) was not a computer company at all, but the company is still worthy of an honourable mention in dispatches for being a stalwart of the home comput...

Sinclair ZX Spectrum: Colour and sound... High Resolution graphics... from only £125!

This advert shows the Mark 1 Spectrum - as shown by the light grey keys - which retailed for £125 (or around £550 in 2025 terms), and in a bit of a Sinclair theme, promised "comin...

Columbia PC: Anything IBM can do...

This is an advert for a hugely-significant machine in the history of the microcomputer - in particular that of the modern PC, in the IBM sense. It's for Columbia Data Products' P...

Tandy TRS-80 Word Processing System

There was a phase for a few years where the idea of microcomputers being general-purpose machines still hadn't caught in with some sectors of the market, and so these general-purp...

NEC turns 28 years of computer experience to your personal advantage

NEC's PC-8000 - known as the PC-8001 outside of Europe - was part of NEC's PC-8000 range. It was only the third fully-assembled microcomputer specifically made for the Japanese ma...

The Galaxy 1 Computer - The cost-effective solution to your computer needs

The Galaxy 1, from Amersham-based Gemini Microcomputers, was a Z80 - or actually twin Z80 - microcomputer which was based around the company's older multiboard systems. These wer...

PIPS: We've cracked the BASIC problem

Sord seems to be advertising in reverse as it's starting out advertising software before any of its actual hardware, but that's probably because this is really an advert for poten...