From the blinking lights of the Altair 8800 to the Raspberry Pi's single green board — explore the iconic machines that put computing in our homes and changed the world forever.
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The Home Computer Archive is a love letter to the machines that started it all. From the garage innovations of the 1970s to the classroom computers of the 1980s to the single-board revolution of today, each entry in this archive celebrates a machine that changed how people live, work, and play.
Whether you remember loading games from cassette tape at 1200 baud, squinting at green phosphor screens late into the night, or just discovered 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" : 20 GOTO 10 — this is your archive.