1982 adverts

Atari Star Raiders: New game, private property

This "advert", which appeared in the pre-Christmas edition of Personal Computer World and which encourages infringers to write to Graham Daubney - who would later become director ...

Transtec: If you can buy a business computer package at a lower price, I'll buy it for you

So says Noel C. May, the managing director of Transtec Computers in one of those advertising claims that would be great to know how often had to be fulfilled. The machine, know...

Fortune 32:16 - Minicomputer Performance at Microcomputer Price

Based in San Carlos, California, Fortune was founded as a start-up in October 1981 with $8.5 million dollars which, at about £32 million in 2025 terms, was possibly the largest se...

Oric 1: The computer challenge

The Oric was aimed very much at the Sinclair Spectrum market. The models and prices were similar, with only a few pounds difference between them. That said, it actually started o...

Imagine a totally portable computer that slips into your briefcase. We did

Considered by some as the first "true" laptop, Epson's HX-20 was actually designed - in 1980 - by Yukio Yokozawa, an employee of Seiko. It ran two Hitachi 6301 CPUs - a clone of...

TI's Home Computer. Unbeatable value. Unrivalled software.

The original TI99/4 had been released back in 1979 and was the first ever 16-bit home computer, running TI's own TMS 9900 CPU. It didn't get off to a good start in the UK, as ea...

Nascom means performance. Nascom means solutions

Nascom - now owned by car-parts-to-semiconductors industrial conglomerate Lucas Industries, or at least its Lucas Logic division - is still trundling on with its re-packaged Nasco...