26 Jun
2007
26 Jun
'07
1:37 p.m.
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
On Monday 25 June 2007, Tony Duell wrote:
Although it's surprising how many equipment donations we get at the museum
where the owners only ever used the system for non-games activities, despite
the equipment being notionally in the "home computer" camp. Lots of people did
their accounts etc. on things like Spectrums, Acorn Electrons, Dragons and the
like, and never used them for gaming.
But as has been discussed in the past on here, there does seem to be a
difference between the UK picture and the US one, and in the UK the line
between business and home was a lot more fuzzy - which probably makes the
definition of "home computer" vary across the globe.
The built-in display was a 1-line 32 character
alphanumeric unit.
Hardly a 'calculator display'.
...
I'd say that if it can't play games (graphical or at least a multi-line
text display), then it's not what I'd call a *home* computer.