Discover the remarkable NCR Decision Mate V

Hot on the heels (well, not really) of <a href="ads_010">1962's NCR 390</a>, comes National Cash Register's Decision Mate V. 

It was a dual-processor machine, with an 8-bit Zilog Z80 and a 16-bit Intel 8088, two 360K floppy drives and a fairly hi-res (for the time) display of 576x432 pixels. 

Slightly unusually, as well as a bog-standard ration of 64K RAM it also came with an additional 32K RAM just for the graphics. 

It was also modular, so whilst the out-of-the box system was ready to go and could be used immediately by first-time users, it was easy to plug in extras for more advanced purposes, like a re-badged version of the Corvus Omninet network[source: "New computer revealed", PCW, April 1983, p. 105].

NCR also had one of the oldest lineage of any computer company, with the advert claiming a business presence in Europe since 1885.  That's 34 years more than Tandy (1919) and 26 more than IBM (1911).