Cromemco adverts

Cromemco Z-1: This is the industry's most powerful microcomputer

This advert is for a Z80-based machine on an S-100 bus, similar in form to many of the computers of the time such as the Intel-based IMSAI 8080, which is not surprising as it was an IMSAI chassis with...

Cromemco Z-2: Meet the most powerful μC system available for dedicated work

Just a few months after Cromemco's Z-1 Z80-based micro was launched comes an update in the shape of the Z-2. Only there doesn't seem to be that much updated - it still runs the same 4MHz Z80 microprocessor,...

Cromemco System Three - the professional one

With a 4MHz Z80A CPU and an expansive 21 card slots, the System 3 was particulary impressive in being able to address 16MB of memory - a fairly fantastical amount in 1979, where 4-32K was the normal order...

Call Microcentre for Cromemco

It's three years into the era of the all-conquering IBM PC, and Cromemco - a company founded back in 1974 - is still hanging on. What's more, it's still producing broadly-similar systems from the 1970s,...