1984 adverts

American take-away

The first company to produce a clone of IBM's PC BIOS had been Columbia, but the second - and the first to do it legally - was Compaq, a company set up in 1982 and whose first product was this, the Compaq...

Our Rivals are Speechless: The Apricot Portable

Here's an advert for the Apricot Portable - the first portable computer anywhere to offer a speech recognition system, with a four-thousand word vocabulary and the ability to understand accents "from...

Gemini: Customised Computers, at off-the-peg prices

Gemini Microcomputers, of Amersham in Buckinghamshire, seems to have based its entire existance on more-or-less the same thing - boards built around the Z80 CPU and running CP/M, the popular but ageing...

The report you are waiting for: simple, factual, honest and 100% biased

This advert was part of a lavish four-page spread in the December 1984 edition of PCW. It's obviously Christmas as there's a Santa under the entry for "X" for "xmas". It's interesting as it's one of...