1990 adverts

PC 20: Now you can master a business computer in just a few simple steps

This advert is almost an epitaph for Commodore as well as the whole early micro industry since the first "modern" personal computer, Commodore's own PET. From those first few ma...

Can your computer keep pace with the Amstrad PC2286?

Several years after Amstrad had battered through the UK home and small-business microcomputer industry with its range of keenly-priced machines, it was still going, here offering ...

Tandon introduces the computer that doesn't add up

It's 1990 and laptops still haven't quite reached the proportions of what would be considered a "modern" laptop, however the price - according to Tandon at least - does seem to ha...

Now you can write 450 A4 pages into an A4-size computer

It's over three years since the launch of Clive Sinclair's Z88 portable computer, and not much has changed, except that the price is finally back to its original launch price of £...

Compuserve

It's been ten years since Compuserve launched the world's first online real-time chat service, the CB Simulator, and a couple of years since the "invention" of Internet Relay Cha...