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May 1982

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,...

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October 1983

A history of communications: part 1

This colourful and quintessentially 80s advert from Torch was one of two sequential adverts in Personal Computer World and provides a nice summary of the company's output so far. ...

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23rd June 1984

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 ...

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September 1984

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

Here's 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 com...

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December 1984

The best thing next to a BBC Micro

Available at around the same time as Torch's "Graduate", Torch's Z80-based ZEP100 was considered by Personal Computer News to be by far the better system out of the two for BBC Mi...

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April 1985

A chip off the old block

Torch's Graduate was an unusual hybrid, being part sort-of IBM PC, with an Intel 8088 CPU and a pair of 720K 5¼" floppy disk drives, but no input or display of its own, as this wa...

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