Talk:List of home computers

message: A number of manufacturers of personal computers is appearing in the list. The list supposedly lists a different type of computers, namely home computers. In preserving the consistency names like Packard Bell and others should be moved to a suitable list of personal computers. This also means that the IBM PC ought to be removed, except the IBM PCjr which apparently seems to classify as a home computer. -- Mic 16:10, Sep 19, 2003 (UTC)
The problem is the changing characteristics of the home computer. The C-64 was on the market for 11 years; today it's rare for a specific model of computer to stay on the market much longer than four months. But certain manufacturers—Packard Bell and eMachines being the two that come to mind most quickly—sell/sold PCs that for a variety of reasons were popular in homes but uncommon in business environments. (You see them sometimes, like you sometimes saw C-64s in businesses, but they weren't designed or marketed as such.) A list of every machine Packard Bell or eMachines produced is about as practical to create as a list of every television Zenith produced (and probably about as useful); listing the manufacturer seems to me a good compromise. -- Dave Farquhar 19:24, 21 Oct 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal computers appearing in list 

message: From the articles it looks like the RM computers were aimed at schools, not at home use (8 inch floppies, CP/M operating system, networking!, etc.) - I suggest these don't belong on this list. --Wtshymanski (talk) 13:35, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Research Machines not a home computer?

message: Additions to the list would be most valuable if they had either a link to an existing relevant article for the computer or manufacturer, or a reference that proves the computer existed and has the properties listed in the table.  "Old computers.com" is a last ditch reference source, I'm uncertain of its accuracy but at least it idenfies a lot of machines, usually with pictures. Featured lists have references for theic entries, and in principle this article could have a reference for every machine. --Wtshymanski (talk) 04:33, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestion for expansion

message: I don't much of anything about this. Found this ad for it in InfoWorld May 1983 (Vol 5, No 10) on Google Books:
http://books.google.com/books?id=-y8EAAAAMBAJ&ots=eGlZH-0gFs&pg=PA52
DMahalko (talk) 06:26, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Its YAAC (yet another apple clone) . This time it came with the second processor (Z80) and accompanying 80-column card built in. It was German, and thus a bit over-engineered. Special about is was only the non attached keyboard, which was easy to do with the apple ][ (unlike for example the TRS-80). I remember having seen one in a shop (in the Netherlands) once, together with a "pearcom", another apple clone. Mahjongg (talk) 09:45, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oddball ... BASIS 108 (Apple II / Z-80 compatible) 

message: The Atari isn't a computer.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.95.8.182 (talk) 04:21, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Why?  And which Atari?  Even the 400 had a factory-available BASIC cartridge. --Wtshymanski (talk) 13:32, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps he means the Atari 2600, but just ignore the fool, look at his talk page. Mahjongg (talk) 15:01, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  I looked again, the Atari 2600 isn't on this list. --Wtshymanski (talk) 15:10, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Atari not a home computer 

message: Why are not IBM PC, XT and AT in this list?
--Paburo fg 00 (talk) 14:53, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Because of the reasons stated in the first paragraph of the article. These machines did not follow the typical home computer arrangement of plugging into a TV set and a cassette recorder, nor were they  priced at the range that a home computer usually cost in those days. (OK, strictly speaking, you *could* have plugged a CGA card into your TV set and the 5150 *did* come with a cassette port, but the price was high.  I hear ocelots making loving pets, too, but you don't see many in the dog parks...)--Wtshymanski (talk) 00:37, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  IBM PC? 

message: I just played a Google Doodle about Jerry Lawson who worked on designing the Fairchild Channel F home computer, which isn’t listed here.  Can we add this bit of tech to the list of Home Computers? Smash591 (talk) 03:41, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Strictly, the Channel F was marketed as a game console, not as a home computer. It lacked an alphanumeric keyboard, user programmability and any mass storage (cassette tape, for example). It really wouldn't fit in with the contents of this article. --Wtshymanski (talk) 00:53, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request to add a Home Computer to the list