The difference between Homecomputer and Businessmaschines was clear for the homecomputer users. Homecomputers were cheap, colorful, had sound, modern (GUI) and you could play with them. So they were designed for ‘fun’. And they came all in one - as one consumer product. So it was ‘identity’. Clear that the Amiga was first designed as an Console. On the hardware side the homecomputers didn't use the ugly intels like almost no Arcade-Console-Maschine did. The question here why? Perhaps because the most of the Software had to be coded in Assembler?
One of the big question was: Is the Macintosh a Homecomputer? One answer it was to expensive for beeing a homecomputer. Perhaps the homecomputers were the cheap versions of the macintoshs.
Console or computer?
Videogamecrash
Homecomputer vs Businessmaschines (here PC)
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Zunahme der Computerkäufe in den 80er Jahren
Der Computer – 1981 der letzte Schrei! Anfangs der 80er-Jahre stiegen die Verkaufszahlen für Heimcomputer erstmals stark an.
Schneider CPC
C64 (Commodore) - Console approach - 8Bit 1982+
Atari ST (Atari) 16/32Bit 1985 - 1995
Amiga (Commodore) 16/32Bit 1985 - 1994
Archimedes 32bit
Fight: Atari ST vs Amiga - Identity & Culture
Personal Computer (IBM Naming)
First computers without any text-program - in the most of the cases: insert the OS! (Apple) or BASIC (from microsoft often)
Next computer after Homecomputer-Area? Mac or Windows-PC?
8Bit
8bit homecomputer
8bit homecomputer
Weihnachten 1983 - Homecomputer
Homecomputer dilemma