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HomeComputer version 1, including all changes.
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One of the many flavours of toy computers that were around in the 1980s. Most of these had [BASIC] on [ROM], used television sets as monitors and tape recorders as storage devices. You could either plug it into the TV and type something like: |
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<verbatim> |
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10 PRINT "NOW WHAT?" |
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20 GOTO 10 |
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or load a game off a tape. The __Commodore 64__ the __ZX Spectrum__ were common examples of these. The __Apple II__ was a little fancier in that it had a proper (though limited) monitor and a FloppyDisk drive. The [PC] began life as [IBM]'s overpriced attempt at a HomeComputer. |