Cyber Electronics Advert - January 1982
From Practical Computing
Drop us a line... and we'll drop you a Panther
First released a few months ago towards the end of 1981, Panther is back with an updated advert which this time doesn't feature a strangely-green screen.
Instead, it features a rather nice watercolour illustration of the actual big cat Panther done by wildlife artist Graeme Sims - specially commissioned to make the launch of the micro.
Unfortunately, there's nothing to actually say what the computer itself was, other than mentioning something to do with it being British at least six times.
That, of course, is British in the sense that computer companies liked to use, as in lots of mostly-foreign parts put together in the UK, possibly at least to a British design.
However, the previous advert did mention that it was a 64K machine running CP/M, which almost certainly makes it a Z80 machine.
There were several models in the range, including the Panther DD with double disk-drives, the Panther DD2, as per the DD but with double-density drives, and the Panther W Series, with either 3MB, 6MB, 9MB or 12MB hard disks.
Date created: 01 March 2026
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