Introduced March 1983 The Camputers Lynx was a British home computer released in March 1983, slotting into the category of 1980s microcompu...

Introduced March 1983 The launch of the original IBM PC in 1981 cause a fundamental shift in the desktop computing market. Out of the appare...

Introduced January 1983 If you were in the market for a home computer in Britain in 1983, there would typically be three models that most pe...

Launched January 1983 In 1983 the Apple Computer Company was just seven years old, but had grown very rapidly on the back of strong sales of...

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 ...

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 April 2012 Single board computers were common in the early days of microcomputers, with the KIM-1 offering a relatively low-cost w...

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

Introduced April 1982 If you were a British child of the 1980s, the chances were that you possessed one of the holy trinity of the BBC Micro...