History
Why it happened, not just what happened.
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The Commodore PET: a wooden box, a six-month deadline and the machine that made Commodore
The prototype was made of wood In the small hours before the doors opened at the Winter Consumer…
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The Timex Sinclair 2068: the improved Spectrum that broke its own software library
Michael Wiesenberg had reviewed enough machines by December 1983 to know when something felt genuinely well made. Sitting…
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The computer LG would rather you forgot
Sat in a display case in Cambridge, wedged between a Dragon 32 and a machine nobody can quite…
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The Tatung Einstein: Britain’s most curious computer
In a rented office above a chip shop in Manchester, sometime in 1985, a games programmer feeds a…
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Robotron KC 85/1: the East German computer nobody was meant to buy
Dresden, December 1984. In a converted classroom at the Schülerrechenzentrum, the city’s student computing centre, a handful of…
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The Dragon 32: how a Swansea toymaker built Britain’s most interesting failure
In the autumn of 1981, Tony Clarke had a problem that most toy executives never get to have.…