A history of the microcomputer industry in 300 adverts

You're Never Alone With A Commodore PET

In the year that the VIC-20 would be released comes an advert - very much a contemporary of the similar Primeval Swamp - for the Commodore PET, or rather not for any particular PET but for the support...

Mass Data Storage from less than £1,000

Keeping up with a tradition almost as old as advertising itself, the price shown isn't quite the price you pay as it doesn't include VAT or shipping, but it's still interesting that the magic number of...

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, until 1994 at least,...

The Epson HX-20: for Business on the Move

Considered to be the world's first true mobile computer, the HX-20 came from a company better known for the printers which it had been producing for 20 years. The HX-20 was first announced in 1981 but...

The Atari Video Computer System from Ingersoll

This advert for the Granddaddy of the modern video game - The Atari VCS (Video Computer System), or 2600 - comes in the form of a gate-fold brochure containing a colourful list of 40 or so game cartridges,...