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This adverts shows one of many ageing Zilog Z80-based machines of this era running on an S-100 bus: the DPS-1, from Ithaca InterSystems, founded in Ithaca, New...

Had it not been for one of The Register's great articles on one of the forgotten pioneers of the early computer scene, this advert from Bywood, a company...

Feb 19, 2026 - A UK regulator has banned an advert for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 after ruling it trivialised sexual violence. The commercial showed airport security staff...

The original BCL - Business Computers Limited - was formed in 1968 as a result of the merger of Systemation Ltd and Business Mechanisation Ltd. This company...

Pre-dating the launch of home computers that came with and were optimised for mice - such as the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST - there was a phase of...

Peripheral Sciences - or PerSci - with its dual-headed dual-floppy unit, was going up against companies like Shugart which had just introduced the 5¼"...

Asda - the UK supermarket chain founded in 1965 whose name is a contraction of ASquith and DAiries - is clearly not a microcomputer company, or even any sort...

Alan Sugar sometimes claimed that Amstrad's early success was because it didn't try to crack the European or US market, a move which almost...

Winner of the award for most puzzling advertising campaign must surely go to Iotec, which for the best part of a year seemed to feature adverts all in black...

Jun 10, 2020 - The recent Coca-Cola advert campaign claims that “single-use plastic bottles are only single-use if they are thrown away”.

Dec 23, 2025 - A new Christmas advert from Porsche has dropped, and the car brand has been widely praised by viewers over its choice to use hand-drawn art over artificial...

It's an advert from Matshushita Electric Industrial Co., trading as Panasonic, for its awkward-to-search-for "The Link" portable computer....

Aug 26, 2025

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Mitsubishi - a Japanese company perhaps more famous for heavy plant like diggers and bulldozers, as well as cars and home electronics - was one of the wave of...

With a futurist "space cargo"-style modular box construction, the "future proof" Microframe seemed to live up to its name. Although not...

George Morrow - the founder of Morrow Designs - was born in 1934 and earned a degree in physics from Stanford before going on to do a master's in...

[extra: pcw-1985-11_MAXWELL.webp|Robert Maxwell, owner of Oxford United FC, with some women in United kit, © Personal Computer World, November...

Here's another also-ran in the micro stakes from yet another typewriter company - Olympia International. The curiously-named "People" was an...

The awkwardly-named if800 from OKI - first launched in 1980 - was on the face of it yet another conventional Z80A-based micro, however it differed from many by...

The Microtan 65 was a single-board computer first built by Tangerine in 1980. Available as either a kit, or ready assembled, Tangerine sold around 10,000 of...

Opus was another of those companies, like Memotech, that had started out as a technology supplies company, selling things like the Discovery system for the...

Waiting for the John Lewis Christmas advert has become a festive tradition - and we're lucky enough to be supported by them each year.

This advert from Canon was aimed at potential resellers rather than buyers and was for the Canon CX-1, a machine first announced in 1981. Following the...

PolyMorphic had started out making expansion cards for the [#Altair 8800] - the micro launched in January 1975 that as well being the first affordable...

Noval was founded in the summer of 1976 as a spinout of Gremlin Industries, a manufacturer of electronic arcade games. Its stated mission aim was to supply the...

Oct 30, 2025 - Debenhams has unveiled its Christmas campaign for 2025, featuring an all-star cast of celebrities.

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RCA's COSMAC VIP was a small kit-built microcomputer, based around the COSMAC - COmplementary Symmetry Monolithic Array Computer - CPU and which was aimed...

Whilst the world of small-business and home computers was in a raging turmoil with hundreds of random machines coming and going, one thing remained a constant...

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Keeping up with a tradition almost as old as advertising itself, the price shown isn't quite the price you pay as it doesn't include VAT or shipping,...

The last time a modem was advertised as a thing in its own right was probably towards the end of the 1990s, when the pinacle of dial-up - the 56K modem - came...

Michael Dell started out at the age of 13 selling mail-order stamps, and by the time he was at High School he was earning some $17,000 a year selling newspaper...

Billed as a portable, but really just a luggable along the lines of the much earlier [=adve_082|IMSAI PCS-80/30] from 1978 or the more contemporary...

The apocryphal story tells of a meeting in a restaurant with a customer who complained that the 8" floppy drives of the day were just too big for the...

Nov 17, 2025 - The John Lewis Partnership today (4 November) unveiled its 2025 Christmas advert titled Where Love Lives, centred around singer Alison Limerick’s 1990s hit...

Here's another advert for another fairly generic Z80-based (or possibly Intel 8080) CP/M micro system, from Cyber Electronics Ltd. of Ilford in Essex....

Nov 27, 2025 - Fairy Platinum Plus leans into one of the most universally irritating household behaviours: rewashing dishes that should have been clean the first time.

The government estimates the ad ban will prevent around 20,000 cases of childhood obesity. Figures suggest one in 10 reception-aged children is now obese.

Whilst it feels like pretty much every modern car is more computer than motor, the idea of using electronics to manage some or all of a car's engine and...

Making of videos show the early sketches and animation for French supermarket Intermarché's surprise hit.

Launched in the UK in May 1979, the Attaché was said by Practical Computing in its May 1979 issue to be "in a sense, Pertec's first...

Founded in 1976 as a supplier of plug-in boards for SWTPC's 6800 micro, Smoke Signal Broadcasting is a bit of an obscure entry in the canon of early...

It's perhaps stretching it a bit to assert that the launch of another IBM clone, albeit one of the first "legitimate" clones, was as significant...

Dec 3, 2025 - Cadillac are set to present the livery for their debut Formula 1 car during a television advert at February’s Super Bowl.

On the face of it, this is yet another Motorola 6800-based system with an S-100 bus, however it's perhaps the micro which more than any other most closely...

The Compukit UK101 was effectively an unauthorised UK clone of Ohio Scientific's Superboard - the one-board computer that, via the updated version the...

Possibly the funkiest-looking microcomputer ever built, the Orb from ABS Computers of Brighton came in one of eight possible colours, including orange which,...

Designed entirely by Tatung UK, an offshoot of Taiwan's largest company, the Einstein was aimed vaguely at the business market, but with a Zilog Z80A...

There's nothing quite like an advert without a photo of the thing you're selling to really promote it, although this one does at least feature a...

The Advance 86, produced by a small British company with big Ferranti connections, had the backing of high-street retailer WH Smith, which had picked it over...

A mother has faced criticism after her Mumsnet post seeking a live-in nanny went viral, with parents describing her requirements as unrealistic

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So says Noel C. May, the managing director of Transtec Computers in one of those advertising claims that would be great to know how often had to be fulfilled....

GEC - or General Electric Company plc - was a large British conglomerate with interests in defence, electronics, communications and engineering. It was founded...

Dec 1, 2025 - Andy Armstrong, 65, from Yarm instantly connected with the 90s rave-themed John Lewis advert and believes the song will be Christmas Number One

Up until the back end of the 1990s, the Modem was the only affordable way that people at home could connect to the Internet - and various other networks,...

Single board computers - like the Raspberry Pi - are still quite popular, especially with hobbyists as they're often small and have low power...

If choice of operating system is anything to go by, then this particular machine is fairly unusual. It features Pick - a multi-user multivalued database system...

It's taken 30 years, but Nintendo finally has a Super Mario Bros. movie to please the masses. As a life-long Nintendo f…

Jan 4, 2014

This advert is for one of many single-board computers available at the time, but it's worth an entry because the company name is one of comparitively few...

It's a mystery entry, courtesy of Aculab, for the DASH-80 - a Z80B-based machine operating at 6MHz (not 6 milli-Hertz as the advert would have it) with...

Jul 24, 2025 - One Direction fans have rediscovered the band’s 2011 advertising campaign to promote the launch of 'Pokémon Black & White'.

From another company that appears to have left no trace whatsoever - Butel-Comco Limited of Southampton - comes this advert for the Athena, one of a handful of...

Nov 24, 2025 - A man has gone viral on TikTok after spotting a photo of himself from 2021 being used as part of an advertisement for Sketchers that he never signed up to do. 

This advert almost didn't make it in as it's one of those text-heavy layouts with not much apparently going on. However, it's worth an entry...

At almost the anatomically complete-opposite end of the scale to Commodore's Maureen the Elephant comes this advert featuring cute guinea pigs, from...

A look at Despelote, and why it's brief intro sequence is one of the gaming moments of the year.

This machine is possibly best known as the computer that might have been the BBC Micro, as chosen by the BBC for its influential Computer Literacy project, if...

Nov 4, 2025 - For their eagerly awaited 2025 Christmas advert, John Lewis tells the story of father-son relationship with a classic track from the 1990s

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Designed in the Netherlands by Noxon AB and produced by the Hong Kong-based company COMX World Operations Limited - a trading-name of Video Technology - the...

ECD was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in November 1974. Its first products were a capacitance meter and an industrial digital thermometer, both of which...

It would be easy to think of the personal computer revolution as being a purely US and UK thing, although these were by far the largest and most active...

Spot for MedExpress has a refreshing twist on January resolutions.

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Nov 21, 2025 - The National Lottery has launched its Christmas campaign, unveiling the latest instalment in its long-running “Dreams Waiting to Happen” brand platform.

Goupil - or more properly Societé de Micro-informatique et Telecommunications (SMT) Goupil - was a French company that had been established in 1979 and which...

The first company to produce a clone of IBM's PC BIOS had been Columbia, but the second - and the first to do it legally - was Compaq, a company set up in...

Imagine had formed when programming wunderkind Eugene Evans and two other senior staff left well-known software house Bug-Byte, which had been famous for...

It may have had a story to tell, but it seems to be a fairly conventional one, being as it was a 64K CP/M luggable, complete with a built-in carry handle. On...

Prism was an interesting company that, although not hugely famous by itself, had a hand in all sorts of areas of the UK microcomputer industry. It started out...

It's another advert aimed at OEMs rather than the end user, this time from Kontron Mikrocomputer GmbH of Echning, near Munich in what was West Germany....

Founded in 1923 as a joint venture between Furukawa Electric Co. Limited and Seimens of Germany, originally as a telecommunications company, Fujitsu was part...

Once mentioned in Parliament as one of only two British computer manufacturers on the government's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency list of...

The Compucolor 8001 was an [!8080|Intel 8080-based] personal computer which upped the ante compared to other machines like the Cromemco and the IMSAI 8080 by...

Data General was a minicomputer manufacturer which was established in 1968 by Edson de Castro, the former manager of DEC's PDP-8 program. A year later it...

[extra: MSI6800_pcw_1979-06.webp|The System 1 variant of the MSI 6800 on the front cover of Personal Computer World, June 1979]The MSI 6800, from Midwest...

Hot on the heels of Bendix's valve-based G-15 computer came the G-20, built with transistorised modules. It had memory comprising 32,000 32-bit words -...

Here's a rare advert from Zilog for its MCZ range of micros - everything from an entry-level floppy-disk-based model up to the MCZ 1/35 rack-mount machine...

The Miracle, from Portico, was another British-built Z80 machine running CP/M, but is clearly aiming at the Osborne/Kaypro "luggable" market. When...

Whilst there had already been a few computers produced by regular electronics companies, such as Heathkit with its H9, there's probably no other example...