#hp-150

A Hewlett-Packard "MS-DOS" computer received the feature review in this issue. You didn't have to actually touch the CRT glass to use its "touchscreen," but the invisible beams you broke only allowed for a "40 by 23 matrix," which wasn't quite even character-by-character selection. The TRS-80 Model 4P was also reviewed with an approving comment people would surely be buying it rather than the Model 4 desktop. One other article looked at a "subliminal message" system for the Commodore 64; Wayne Green's editorial took the subject quite seriously and offered warnings about it.

HP-150 (1983)

The Hewlett Packard computer on this issue’s cover had a touch screen, if one using simpler technology with a much coarser resolution than today’s models. A good deal of this issue was devoted to Unix, delving all the way down to Usenet.

https://archive.org/details/computerchronicles

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-10