Inflammatory 1984 Acorn advert lambasting Sinclair's reliability

[chocky]

Does anyone know which newspaper this advert was published in? Doesn't seem to be the Guardian but I thought I'd ask here before I start hunting through all the newspapers. Thank you!

[Simon]

not a direct answer but if you are after the paper shown in Micro Men that paper in the show had a page replaced, it's the December 11th 1984 edition of the Daily Telegraph, the front page and page 7 shown match but page 8 of the real edition isn't a full page Acorn Ad.

[chocky]

not a direct answer but if you are after the paper shown in Micro Men that paper in the show had a page replaced, it's the December 11th 1984 edition of the Daily Telegraph, the front page and page 7 shown match but page 8 of the real edition isn't a full page Acorn Ad.

Well it's a start, thanks.

I was thinking it would be in the Telegraph as Sinclair was a massive fan of Thatcher and it would feel a more personal attack reading it in that. I'll keep trawling the issues.

[iamaran]

"With some micros, Christmas is a time for giving back". Daily Mirror, 15th December 1984, page 10.

[iamaran]

With some micros, Christmas is a time for giving back.

• 'One-in-four' Spectrums taken back to retailers

• What the retailers said when they looked at the Spectrum

• Sinclair 'faults' show up in systems survey

• Waking to chips ­­­­— and tears

In a recent survey of 100 top retailers, two micros stood head and shoulders above the rest for reliability: Acorn’s BBC Micro and Electron.
The moral of this story is, quite simply, if you want a home computer that’s going to stay at home this Christmas, you’d better pick an Acorn.

[chocky]

Perfect! Thanks a lot.