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...

Imagine a microcomputer: Altair 8800-b

Perhaps the most famous early computer is the MITS Altair 8800, from Micro-Instrumentation Telemetry Systems, otherwise known as MITS. It had been launched in January 1975. This ...

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 manufacturers, a situation triggered by the arrival of the first "calculator on a chip" integrated circuits...

SWTPC: Need hardcopy? How about pictures?

This is an early computer-related advert from SWTPC, the San Antonio, Texas, company that had been founded in 1967 out of the earlier Daniel E Meyer Company business and which spe...

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 ...