If you want to help with research, buy someone else's computer

At almost the anatomically complete-opposite end of the scale to <a href="adve_072">Commodore's Maureen the Elephant</a> comes this advert featuring cute guinea pigs, from little-known Globe Business Machines Ltd, which seems to be saying nothing more radical than "buy our old stuff as it's well tested". 

That's not a bad idea in itself, however this particular machine - in the era of the IBM PC - was looking quite a long way backwards, with its Z80 and even 8" floppy disk drive option. 

The top-of-the-range "Package C" retailed for £3,680, or [[3680|1983]] in [[now]] money.