This page contains copies of adverts
extracted from various period magazines.
This information comes from long defunct publications
and all of it is almost 30 years old. I don't imagine that the
original copyright holders, if they are still around, are
vaguely interested in these pages, but if anyone has issues with
me making this information available, let me know and I will
remove the offending item(s).
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The first publicity picture of the
MTX500? Announcing the MTX500 with a competition to
win one at the Earls Court Computer Fair in June 1983.
You can see that the MTX keyboard decoration is quite
different from the released version of the computer.
Pictures from Bradford Timeline's
photo stream |
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The original advert for the
MTX500 ? - "Designed to Perform" The logos are
the same as those on the machines shown at the Earls Court Computer Fair, but I
don't think that the machine actually went on sale in this
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Memotech MTX500 - "The all
purpose computer" Another very early advert, the pages
have been slightly touched up, the originals look like
they were ripped from a magazine, rather than being a
Memotech "flyer". It looked like an 8-page spread,
including a two page software advert.
Courtesy of Paul Daniels |
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"Software for the MTX500" by Continental Software Two
of the eight pages of the above advert were dedicated to
a Continental Software advert.
Courtesy of Paul Daniels |
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An advert,
from "Practical Computing" October 1983 in the "Special
Supplement :
- "Your
Guide to the Great British Micro"
The advert is slightly different to the ones above and
includes some technical detail as well as the launch
prices MTX500 (£275) and MTX512 (£315) with availability
slated for September 1983. The livery is still not as
per the final version though.
From the World of Spectrum archive. |
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"Practical
Computing" October 1983 in the "Special Supplement :
- "Your
Guide to the Great British Micro"
Also carried an advert for Continental Software that
carries some familiar names such as Blobbo and Toado as
well as some titles that never actually appeared such as
a sonar game and a flight simulator and "many many more"
- if only ! From the
World of Spectrum archive. |
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Another double page advert
from "Practical Computing" November 1983
Shows the MTX with an FDX and describes the FDX and
HDX - both without prices at this point. The magazine
also carried the same Continental Software advert as the
October Supplement.
From the World of Spectrum archive. |
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The MTX Series described :
straight from the author's mouth
Two page advert
from Your Computer, March 1984, quoting from various MTX
reviews
From
The Internet Archive |
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The MTX Series described :
straight from the author's mouth
Two page advert
from Your Computer, March 1984, quoting from various MTX
reviews
Monochrome scan of the above advert
Courtesy of Jan Seyfarth |
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Double page advert for the MTX512
showing the keyboard itself along with a window showing
the FDX and printer. (scanned 05/10/2012)
Again, the advert is not dated, but based on an advert
on the reverse page, I think it is probably from
"Personal Computing", April 1984. (A3
single page, 2xA4
pages) |
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An advert for the MTX512 from "InfoWorld"
April 30 1984 (scanned 04/09/2012) In the US, the machine was distributed
by Memotech Incorporated., of Needham, MA.
InfoWorld was an American weekly magazine,
published in print between 1978 and 2007, now a
web based
publication. The magazines are available on
Google Books. |
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An Advert for the MTX Range
from "Your Computer" June 1984 (scanned
16/08/2013) From
The Internet Archive - spotted by David Kimberlin-Wyer |
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There was also an advert for
Continental Software in the same issue of "Your
Computer" (This page is also included in the PDF
version available above) |
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An advert for the MTX, probably quite
late in the production run. (scanned 04/08/2012)
The page footer is not marked, but I think I probably
took this from PCW in late 1985.
The advert shows an SDX with twin external floppies,
the DMX-80 printer and a Cub monitor. The advert advises
that the MTX Personal Computer started at £79.95 then! |
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Oh how
the mighty have fallen . . .
An advert from Popular Computing Weekly, dated July
1987
- by this time, you could get a new MTX512 for
£39.95
By way of comparison, the
ZX Spectrum +3 (3.5 MHz
Z80, 128K RAM and internal 3" disk drive) was released
in 1987, with a price at launch of £249. Which was the
better machine? |
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Lighting &
Sound International, December 1987, Volume 2 No.12
(Issue 24) Cameron Video Systems advert for the
System 200 Video Wall (badged by Cameron) |
