1991 adverts

Commodore CDTV - it's nothing short of revolutionary

Launched in March 1991, Commodore's CDTV - not Compact Disc TeleVision, but actually Commodore Dynamic Total Vision - was one of the very first consumer systems to provide video ...

Amiga 1500 - the world at your fingertips

The Amiga 1500 appears to be considered very much the mystery. It was essentially a cut-down version of the existing Amiga 2000, but shipped with an extra - but empty - CPU slot, ...

Der Schnellste PC der Welt - Tut's Auch

This advert from German magazine Der Spiegel - which roughly translates as "The fastest PC in the world - that'll do" - continues a frequently-visited meme of microcomputer advert...

Amstrad's new baby is even smaller than most miniature PCs

It's five years since Amstrad purchased Sinclair and moved into the computer business, going on to sell a range of highly-succesful home micros, word processors and, later on, bus...

If only all personal computers were this big

The Psion Series 3 - launched in 1991 - was an update of the popular Organiser II (itself an update of the original Organiser), which by 1989 had sold a combined 300,000 and prope...

When you were a child, you didn't like it when the light went out. Are you any different now?

Zenith's notebook micro was based on Intel's CPU of the same name - the 80386SL, which was a variant of the '386 which had been designed specifically for use in portable computers...