Nascom Magazines

Between 1979 and 1989, a number of English publications were produced. These were centred on the Nascom range at first, then expanded to include all 80-BUS products, especially the Gemini range of boards and systems.

Timeline of magazines, taken from Richard Espley’s site www.80bus.co.uk:

There is also an overall table of contents of Nascom magazines and another overall table of contents of German Nascom publications.

1979 – 1980

INMC News was the original magazine to support the Nascom pro­duct range.

1980 – 1981

After Nascom’s financial difficulties, INMC News was re-born as a magazine called INMC 80 News.

1981 – 1982

Another magazine appeared in parallel, Micropower.

1982 – 1985

INMC 80 News mutated once more and became 80-Bus News.

1982 – 1984

Micropower became the Nascom Newsletter with the original issue numbers.

1987 – 1989

80-Bus News changed once again and became Scorpio News.

80-BUS publications spanned nearly 12 years from simple Z80 computers to the rise of IBM PC compatibles. Here ends the 8 bit era.