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 playback from CD-ROM,...

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, only 1MB memory and two...

The NeXTStation has landed at Sign Express

After Apple had released its Macintosh in 1984, it was almost immediately found to be slow, thanks to its limited memory and disk space, and by 1985 there were already plans for a "fast Macintosh". ...

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 advertising - that of wheeling...

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

It's been five years since Amstrad purchased the name and marketing rights to Sinclair's computers, having moved into the computer business a couple of years before with its CPC range of budget home micros....

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 propelled the company to a...

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. It was reasonably...