We covered quite a bit of retro tech this year, but there are a few things we didn’t talk about that are still worth a mention. Let’s start ...

This year sees the anniversary of several well-known food brands, and a few lesser-known ones. It turns out that some have been around for l...

Introduced September / October / November 1982 If you were looking for a classy family or small executive car in 1982, you were spoiled for ...

Introduced August 1982 By 1982 the home computer market in the UK was getting quite sophisticated with the BBC Micro , Sinclair ZX Spectrum ...

Released August 1982 This – ladies and gentlemen – is the big one as far as 8-bit computers go. The biggest-selling single model of computer...

Launched July 1982 Largely forgotten today and not even very well remembered at the time, the Grundy NewBrain is one of those microcomputer...

Introduced June 1982 No wait. Don’t go. The MPC 1600 is a hugely important milestone in computing, just one you may not have heard of. Let ...

Available May 1982 If you wanted to put a computer on your desk in 1982, there were a wide variety of choices. Businesses might go a system ...

Released April 1982 Even though practical microcomputers had only been around for a few years by 1982, there was a growing market for portab...