Analogue Heart

1985

Tandy's new MS-DOS machines featured on this issue's cover and inside. Lonnie Falk's editorial led off with the lower-cost, presumably home-and-education-targeted Tandy 1000EX, although he didn't consider it a threat to the Color Computer 3 ("easily the new Mercedes of the low-end, home market") and also praised the mid-range Tandy 3000HL. The feature article describing the computers had a photo of Falk with Tandy's chairman and CEO John Roach.

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State of Technology, 1979

1988

Cover aside, the "hardware" focus of this issue didn't quite extend to attempting to unify the 8-bit Atari with the 68000-powered ST. Diane L. Gaw's editorial briefly commented on more STs being sold in England and Europe ("where consumers are hungry for affordable high-powered computers.") A "realistic view of the possibilities for robots" supposed that while "the personal robots of today can't do anything truly useful" and overenthusiastic marketing had burned bridges and future credibility, "in late 1986 and 1987, personal robots should really begin to have useful applications," including being able to vacuum a home.

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