Reviews of the machines of the day; all but maybe 2 or 3 of which are in the museum somewhere.
Entries marked with an
H
have been provided by comp.sys.sinclair regular
Hellraiser
, other scans are from Graham Thornton (
G
) and Mark Anderson (
MA
).
Some 2018 scans arrive thanks to me finding a load of BYTE magazines, these are marked with (
B
)
Update for 2021 is the Positron 9000 PCW Benchtest scans from Mike Miller (
MM
).
Acorn
and Nat Semi hookup?
Acorn ABC-310 workstation review, page
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Acorn AIV - forerunner to the Domesday system, page
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Acorn System 1, page
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Acorn System 3, page
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ACT Sirius 1, page
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Amiga 1000, page
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Amiga 1000 and Sidecar, page
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Amstrad CPC664
Amstrad PC1512, page
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Apple Lisa (PCW), page
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Apple Lisa
price cuts, down to about 6 grand!
Apple ][GS, page
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Apricot F1, page
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Apricot Xen, page
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Atari 130XE
Atari 400 and 800, page
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Atom Prophet
news from Holland
BAT systems
first microfloppy from 1981
BBC Micro, page
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BBC Micro
review!
Camputers Lynx
launch news
Camputers Lynx
news
Camputers Lynx, page
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Camputers Lynx
96K launch news
Camputers Lynx colour extras, page
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Christmas video game survey, page
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Clive Sinclair 'what next?' interview, page
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Commodore 128
Commodore 64 review, page
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Commodore MAX
launch news
Commodore Plus/4, page
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COMX35
COMX35
price news
Control Universal Beeb-Ex
expansion for the BBC
DEC Rainbow review, page
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Dragon 32, page
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Dragon32
first reveal?
EACA Colour Genie, page
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Enterprise
64 pre-release announcement from PCW
Enterprise 64 (PCW), page
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Enterprise 64 preview (MA), page
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Enterprise 64 review, page
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Epson HX20
news
Exercise Book
of the future from 1983!
First SpeccyElectronics & Computing review, page
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Grundy Newbrain (H), page
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H|H Tiger, page
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ICL and Sinclair collaboration
ICL One-per-desk, page
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JK Greye 3D Monster Maze
review
Jupiter Ace review from PCW, page
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Jupiter Ace, page
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Jupiter Ace (H), page
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Launch of the Spectrum
Mattel Aquarius (H), page
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Mattel Aquarius
'in new age'
Mattel Aquarius review, page
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Memotech Disk article
Memotech MTX news
from before the machine launch
Memotech MTX500, page
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Memotech RS128 & FDX, page
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Microprofessor review, page
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Multitech Microprofessor MPFII review, page
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Nascom (H), page
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One million
Sinclair computers sold
Oric Atmos
Oric MCP40
printer news
Oric-1
launch news
Oric-1
Positron 9000PCW Benchtest review of an early prototype (MM), page
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Quicksilva
'fast to spot new software talent'
Radionics CNS benchtest. A very rare Tandy TRS80 Model 1 clone from Bristol, UK, page
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Rare aka Ultimate
announce first games for the Spectrum
RM Nimbus PC1 review, page
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Rotronics Wafadrive
SAM Coupe
'Rage Hard'
Sanyo PHC range review, page
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Sharp MZ700 review, page
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Sinclair cuts
micro prices
Sinclair Interface 2
Sinclair Microdrive
news
Sinclair PC200
Sinclair Spectrum, page
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Sinclair Spectrum
US Price news
Sinclair Spectrum 128K, page
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Sinclair ZX80, page
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Sinclair ZX81 (H), page
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Sinclair ZX81 power pack recall article, page
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Sord M5, page
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SORD M5
news
Spectravideo SV318
news
STM Pied Piper and reviews of the Communicator, page
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Tandata PA, page
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Tandy MC10
launch news
Tandy TRS80
Texas Instruments CC40 review, page
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Texas Instruments Ti99/4A (H), page
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Texet TX8000, page
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Tomy
Computer news
Torch Communicator review, page
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Torch Communicator
Announcement
Torch XXX Unix Workstation, page
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Traffic Spectrum
console
V-Tech Creativision
console, WOW*R@RE
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