the APC or Advanced Personal Computer. Microcomputers were all the rage in the early 1980s, and the APC offered a 12-inch eight-color display that felt truly advanced at the time. Before the ...

Although desktop computers existed prior to 1977 ... by which point over half a million microcomputers had been sold.

but the 1977 TRS-80 was actually one of the first microcomputers, and hobbyists loved it. The 1979 Atari 800 might have arrived a bit after the first personal computers, but its cutting-edge ...

In perhaps the biggest departure from common microcomputers of the day ... it was abundantly clear these computers were the result of some blended design. Seeing the vintage enclosures outfitted ...