Digital Retro

The late Seventies to the early Nineties was a wholly unique period in the history of computing. Long before Microsoft and Intel ruled the PC world, a multitude of often quaint home computers were battling for supremacy in a melting pot that would shape the IT industry for years to come. Products from established electronics giants clashed with machines which often appeared to have been knocked together in a backyard shed by an eccentric man from Cambridgeshire. Plenty actually were. Compatibility? Forget it! Each of these computers was its own machine and had no intention of talking to…