Acorn Archimedes computers were standard school issue in the early 90s and replaced the aging BBC computers that had served the previous generation.The Archimedes was the very first RISC-based personal computer and was technically a very advanced machine. Unfortunately the ...
As the first home computer I ever saw, the Acorn Electron was a bit of a disappointment design-wise.The Acorn Electron had a cream plastic case that looked like you should lift off the top to reveal a secret compartment with ...
Amstrad is a UK-based electronics company which was founded in 1968 by Sir Alan Sugar, the company name is an abbreviation of Alan Michael Sugar Trading.To capture the market from Sinclair and Commodore, the company began production of its own ...
The Amstrad CPC 6128 was a classy and powerful 8 bit computer from the second half of the 80s. Retailing at ?400 in 1985 made the 6128 more expensive than any other home computers, but you got lots of hardware ...
The Apple Lisa was the first personal computer with a GUI (Graphical User Interface). Before the Apple Lisa all computers used command line interfaces for every task even for simply moving a file from A to B. So when the ...
The Atari 800 looked like a typewriter with nowhere to put the paper, but it wasn't a bad machine in its day. I've still got mine around somewhere. The top lifted up on the Atari 800 to reveal a cartridge ...