1993 adverts

The advanced PC. For beginners.

It's nearing the end of the line for Amstrad's micros, although unlike many other companies which went bankrupt or suddenly exited the industry to avoid bankruptcy, Amstrad seemed to simply get bored...

The new Apricot Xen-LS II. Everything you could unreasonably demand from a computer.

Apricot, or ACT - Applied Computer Techniques - had started out as a mainframe accounting bureau in 1965. The company launched its first computer - the ACT Series 800, in 1980. This was actually built...

There is a place in this world for DOS and Windows. And you're looking at it.

OS/2 was an operating system originally intended to replace Microsoft's PC-DOS on IBM's then-latest IBM PC - the PS/2. Intended as a multi-tasking and windowing operating system, it was initially co-developed...

No wonder our customers love us

It's another advert for Dell, and one which effectively sums up the end of the home computer era. The entry-level Dell System 333 s/L shown in the advert was available for £859 plus VAT, which is around...

When you're left on your own, you're not alone.

1993 might have marked the tail end of the home computer era - only Commodore's Amiga and Atari's ST were still on the market - but it also marked the dawn of another: the World Wide Web. Although you...

The affordable power source in your PC to run today's games.

Intel didn't do a huge amount of advertising, seeming to prefer to allow word-of-mouth, or inertia, to do its selling. In the early 1970s, it had the hobbyist and microcomputer market - such as it was...