I was born in 1993 and grew up exclusively playing consoles and only ever saw PC's as like Dell's running Windows XP or maaaaybe an old grey behemoth running Windows 95 so I'm pretty ignorant about PC's/PC gaming before that point. I always just assumed that was what PC's were going back to their inception. But recently I've looked into it a bit more and I kinda get it but it's still a bit hard to grasp.What I'm getting at is, what were PC's before what I knew in 90's. Things like the ZX Spectrum confuse me. It looks like a bulky keyboard but apparently it's a whole computer. Were PC's always sold as dual office/gaming machines or was that an 80's and later thing? I'm just very lost on the whole history of PC/PC gaming pre 1995.
>>12811909https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcomputer
>>12811915Thanks, jackass.I was hoping for a more personal approach from an actual human being who potentially grew up in the area and because I thought it'd be a stimulating topic for a thread, and not one I often see. But no, your severe autism and petty nature compelled you to link me wikipedia like I'm somehow unaware of it. Thanks. Great reply. 10/10.
>>12811919>Thanks, jackass.You're welcome.You have to realize that you're asking for an enormous amount of information covering around 25 years of history, far more than can be reasonably and accurately conveyed on a 4chan thread.The best non-facetious answer I can give you is that whenever an Atari/Spectrum/Commodore/Apple/MSX/etc... thread pops up, you check it out and maybe ask specific questions there. Little by little you'll get an idea of how it was back then.
>>12811909the ZX Spectrum is a PC, the Commodore 64 is a PC. all 8-bit computers are PCs. what you know as a PC is an IBM PC
>>12811909Before about 1990 people didn't really have x86 pc's at home, C64 was still more popular. 2 events changed this. 1 Cheap 386 VGA clones from about 1990 went into a lot of homes during that Christmas. Next was win 95 with the 2nd multimedia boom. PC's got fairly popular until the ps1 ravaged the PC market in late 1996.You should watch the Computer Chronicles, there is some absolute goldmine footage in there including consoles.
>>12811932No one forces you to open threads and post in them. You have my permission to fuck off.
>>12811909>PC>PC>PC>PCThings like the ZX Spectrum confuse me.That's because it's not a PC>>12811967>the ZX Spectrum is a PC, the Commodore 64 is a PC. all 8-bit computers are PCs. what you know as a PC is an IBM PCYou're a FR
>>12811909Yeah you are missing some history. Before 1980 you couldn't just walk into an electrical store and come out with a computer. Atari, Commodore, TI (US), Acorn, Sinclair (UK), NEC (Japan) and others made the first generation of ready to use out of the box HOME COMPUTERS. Everybody at the time called them HOME COMPUTERS mainly because they were designed to use a domestic TV set as a display, although some have RGB out for a monitor and load programs from tape cassettes. Disk drives were expensive and in short supply at the time. Japan went in a different direction because you need much better graphics to display Japanese text. A personal computer back then usually meant a desktop running CP/M with disk drives and monitor like in your pic. Those were sold through resellers and were much more expensive. When IBM launched the PC a full set up was in the multiple 000s. But in 1987 or so the Taiwan clone makers came up with the NEAT (New Enhanced AT) chipset, everything you need to build a PC motherboard on 2-3 chips + RAM + CPU and PCs got cheap, fast. The rest is history.
