1976 adverts

"MITS Altair 680 - The Small Wonder of the Micro-World"

This advert for the Altair 680 from MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) appeared in Popular Electronics at the end of 1976, about a year after this computer was fir...

"The Legendary MITS Altair 8800"

Perhaps the most famous early computer is the MITS Altair 8800, from Micro-Instrumentation Telemetry Systems, otherwise known as MITS. This advert is for the "b" revision of the...

If you thought a rugged, professional yet affordable computer didn't exist, think IMSAI 8080

IMSAI - an abbreviation of "Information Management Sciences Associates Incorporated" - was founded in San Leandro, California, in 1973 as a consulting firm providing mainframe ser...

Hewlett-Packard Calculators - The First Family

The first half of the 1970s was something of a boom time for calculator manufaturers. The machines were something of a novelty and were often staggeringly expensive - often costing...

SWTPC: Need hardcopy? How about pictures?

This is an early advert from SWTPC, the San Antonio, Texas, company that had been founded in 1967 out of the earlier Daniel E Meyer Company business that specialised in selling el...

Now from Texas Instruments - three machines in one

Texas Instruments claimed in a 1982 advert that it was the company that invented the microprocessor and the microcomputer. Exactly who invented the microprocessor is still contr...

Another Heathkit Color TV Breakthrough... The world's only computerized TV system

This is a great advert for the space-faring TV-as-furniture model GR-2001 television from Heathkit, the electronics kits and projects company which joined the burgeoning computer ...