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Torch - The Computer to Set the World Alight

After former chartered accountants Martin Vlieland-Boddy and Peter Harris had been applying their finance-gained skills to bring technology to the world of management consultancy, they decided to star...

A history of management: part 1

This colourful and quintessentially 80s advert from Torch provides a nice summary of the company's output so far, including the original Communicator (center, now known as the C-series) as well as the...

Unicorn - Five new channels for the BBC. Here's the full programme.

A few months before the launch of Torch's Graduate - an attempt at a complete IBM PC "plug-in module" for the BBC - comes the Unicorn. This was a range of what were effectively entire computers in a b...

"From only £764 the new Torch Graduate will upgrade your BBC Model B to a powerful 16 bit busiess computer"

Something of a curiosity from the days when it was quite common to hybridise computers, like the Commodore C128 with its own native mode, a 6510/6502 equivalent for C64 compatibility and a Z80 for all...

The best thing next to a BBC Micro

Available at around the same time as Torch's "Graduate" - a plug-in system for the BBC Micro which made it more-or-less an IBM PC (using the BBC as a keyboard and display), Torch's Z80 Extension Proce...