Home computer facts for kids
A home computer is the name given to early personal computers made in the 1980s and 1990s that could be plugged into a television set. They were used for playing video games and doing school work and were usually owned by children.
Popular makers of home computers
- Sinclair Research
- Atari
- Tandy
- Commodore
- Amstrad
Images for kids
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Children playing Paperboy on an Amstrad CPC 464 in 1988
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The often sprawling nature of a well-outfitted home computer is evident with this Tandy Color Computer 3
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The computers Byte retrospectively called the "1977 Trinity" (L-R): Commodore PET 2001-8, Apple II, TRS-80 Model I.
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Mary Allen Wilkes working on the LINC at home in 1965; thought to be the first home computer user
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Eastern Bloc computers were often significantly different in appearance from western computers. Pictured is a KC 85/3 with its keyboard placed on top, by VEB Mikroelektronik Mühlhausen released in 1986 and based on an East German Zilog Z80 clone.
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The Soviet Electronika BK0010.01 home computer was based on the К1801ВМ1 (Soviet LSI-11-compatible CPU) and was, basically, a very stripped-down PDP-11.
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The 1977 Apple II with two Disk II disk drives and an Apple monitor
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No computer has sold more units than the Commodore 64.
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The East German Robotron KC 85/1 was virtually not available for sale due to huge demand by industrial, educational, and military institutions.
See also
In Spanish: Computadora doméstica para niños
