The Bench
Hardware old and new, tested on the bench before we judge it
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Robotron KC 85/1: the home computer East Germany could not legally build
Could a country that was not allowed to buy a Zilog Z80 still put one on a desk…
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Is the Amstrad CPC 464 just a Spectrum with a monitor bolted on? Sit at the keyboard for five minutes and you stop asking
Is the Amstrad CPC 464 just a Spectrum with a monitor bolted on? Sit at the keyboard for…
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Microkey Primo review: the computer that drew its own screen because nobody would sell it a chip that could
Open the case on a Microkey Primo and go looking for the video chip. Go on. Take your…
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Space Invaders (1978): the accident Taito was right to keep
Space Invaders is a 1978 arcade game designed by Tomohiro Nishikado for Taito, running on a custom Intel…
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Sinclair ZX Spectrum review: brilliant silicon, cheap rubber
Was the ZX Spectrum any good? Yes, and almost none of the credit belongs to whoever wrote the…