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Commodore PET

A computer icon from the 1970s In early 1977, the personal computer market was at the very beginnings of what would become a vast industry. In that year, two machines now often cited as pioneers of the home-/personal-computer era were released: the Apple II in June 1977 (by Apple Computer Inc.) and the TRS-80 (by Tandy Corporation under …

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Commodore VIC-20

The Friendly Computer In the landscape of personal computing, few machines embody the transition from hobbyist experiment to mass-market household product as clearly as the Commodore VIC-20. When it appeared at the dawn of the 1980s, the computer industry was poised for rapid expansion. The year 1980 saw a proliferation of new machines vying for …

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MSX Computers

An effort to standardize home computer markets The MSX standard was designed by ASCII Corporation in collaboration with Microsoft, which supplied the computers’ basic interpreter, “MicroSoft eXtended BASIC.” This partly explains the abbreviation in the computers’ MSX name. Kazuhiko Nishi of Japan is widely recognized as the father of the MSX concept. The name “MSX” …

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