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Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes Posted on 2-Sep-2014 19:54:21
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| Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes ??? was it 1) commodore pet 2) zx80/81 3) ZX Spectrum 4) commodore vic 20 5) commodore c64 6) commodore c128/128d/ +4/16 7) oric 1/Atmos 8) bbc/Acorn 9) Atari ST 10) Amiga 1000/A500 11) Amstrad cpc 646 12)apple /mac 12b) dragon 32 14) Ibm _________________ maybe i am dyslexia
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Re: Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes Posted on 2-Sep-2014 20:37:11
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I think Sinclair ZX Spectrum. |
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Re: Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes Posted on 2-Sep-2014 20:44:17
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It was the UK 101, came out a few years before the zx80. afaik.
It was omitted from your list, as was the Camputers LYNX ( Z80 based ) about the same time as the Dragon 32.
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Re: Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes Posted on 2-Sep-2014 21:10:47
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| The PET is the earliest machine (1977) among those you listed. There were home computers around before that, although AFAIK they were all kit machines (you had to build them yourself). |
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Re: Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes Posted on 2-Sep-2014 21:17:00
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I'd say the Altair 8800, or maybe the Radio Shack TRS-80.
It depends of course a bit on what you mean by "entering people's homes".
The Altair was certainly in some people's homes, but those people were few and regarded as having a quite esoteric hobby.
The TRS-80 was probably a bit more common, but, IIRC, mostly used by people such as Radio HAMs, which again to the large masses were more or less geeks .
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Re: Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes Posted on 2-Sep-2014 22:45:45
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Re: Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes Posted on 2-Sep-2014 22:53:00
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The Altair was certainly in some people's homes |
My best pals dad was an engineer an built up an Altair in '75. That's where I learned my first programming.
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Re: Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes Posted on 2-Sep-2014 23:00:14
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Re: Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes Posted on 2-Sep-2014 23:03:15
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Re: Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes Posted on 3-Sep-2014 0:18:22
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I'd have to say the TMS1802, cleverly disguised as a calculator.
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Re: Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes Posted on 3-Sep-2014 3:34:01
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Stupid question deserves a stupid answer:
A1: The first computer that could fit through the door.
A2: None, they've all been carried in by humans. You're thinking of robots.
A3: I've met a few of those but I wouldn't say that I know any of them.
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Re: Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes Posted on 3-Sep-2014 9:07:45
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Re: Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes Posted on 3-Sep-2014 10:12:01
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ZX Altair Lynx Pancakes edition... _________________ "When the Amiga came out, everyone [at Apple] was scared as hell." (J.L. Gassée, former CEO of Apple France and chief of devs of Mac II-fx, interviewed by Amazing Computing, Nov 1996). |
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Re: Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes Posted on 3-Sep-2014 12:34:31
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Well, here at my home a ZX-Spectrum+ (48K), but a friend he already had the ZX-Spectrum 16K (the one with rubber keys). Alas I had before a pong "console" with those wheel-button-sticks. Last edited by jabirulo on 03-Sep-2014 at 12:35 PM.
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Re: Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes Posted on 3-Sep-2014 12:43:21
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Re: Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes Posted on 3-Sep-2014 14:15:30
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In the UK, the first off-the-shelf pre-built home computer was the ZX-80. Before that you could get the UK-101 but you had to build it yourself (the maths teacher at my school had one). _________________ OS4 Rocks X1000 beta tester, Sam440 Flex (733)
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Re: Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes Posted on 3-Sep-2014 14:57:51
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well if you think my Question was stupid why have you reply to it .And are you saying any one who reply to my post are stupid to i do hope not _________________ maybe i am dyslexia
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Re: Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes Posted on 3-Sep-2014 15:10:11
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This is hard to say as there isn't a clear cut answer. The problem is there was no first computer off the shelf all pre-built and ready to go from the box. They started off as kits as has been spoken off.
Perhaps it would be easier to ask what the first home computer was to enter people homes. Or the first micro computer as we called them in my days.
Oh the first to enter my home as a C16. |
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Re: Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes Posted on 4-Sep-2014 3:01:25
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I am not calling you or anyone here stupid. The question itself is stupid, smart people ask stupid questions all the time. And so I provided a few answers to illustrate how stupid it is.
To continue to illustrate the futility of the question I will ask another question that is just as stupid:
Q: Who knows which was the first home to have a computer brought into it?
Since there are a bunch of vague attributes in the syntax, i.e. home, computer, brought into, no one can actually answer this question.
But we can certainly have some fun with it.
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Re: Q: Who known the first computer to enter people homes Posted on 4-Sep-2014 9:04:06
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Good point with your question, although...
with that question alone you dont get very far yet, you didnt notice the question was plural - homes, therefore question at minimum is what were the first and second home that computer was brought into, and that only if they both bought the same computer. (computer as brand i suppose, not as the same exact computer, unless the original question was actually which home bought computer was the first computer to be resold to another home, hence computer-single- entering peoples homes-plural)
And this still as far as the idea is that the computer didnt enter itself into that home, but that someone brought it in is same as entering that home.
And then we get to the most vicious part of the question of "who KNOWS the computer", by which a lots of options can be meant with, opening even the question about what is meant by "who"? |
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