1982 adverts

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 [[6|1981]] million in [[now]] terms, was possibly the largest seed investment...

Oric-1: The computer challenge

The Oric was aimed very much at Sinclair's ZX Spectrum market, with even the models and price being similar. It actually started out significantly cheaper than the Spectrum at £99.95, compared to the...

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 Motorola's 6800 - at...

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 early models of the micro...

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 Nascom 2 motherboard in a...

The Hawk has hatched!

Hawk Computers had been around since at least 1978 but seemed to have been fairly invisible, with this being one of only a few adverts appearing in PRAC towards the end of 1982. The company appeared...

McCombo stars in any system

The McCombo microcomputer from Zytec International Products Limited is yet another Z80 CP/M 2.2 system, and like many of these, neither the company nor the computer itself seems to have left any trace....