Home Computers A Brief History

This is a guest lecture I gave earlier this yeah. Essentially is was a brief history of home computers.
However being 40 years squeezed into 30 minutes; there was no way of covering *everything*.
Also I don’t claim to be an expert, so reserve the right to get a few things wrong.

“Faculty of Science and Technology’s IT Manager Jason Weber presents a lecture to our first year, Introduction to IT students a brief history of the home computer.
Complete with examples of the hardware from the day from his own personal collection.”

University of Canberra: http://www.canberra.edu.au

This is a list of other (better?) videos I gave the students after:
The 8-Bit Guy
The Commodore PET: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHbhH…
The Commodore VIC-20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg04G…
The Commodore 64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpXFB…
Nostalgia Nerd:
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9dHI…
The Commodore Amiga: Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws3DJ…
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcXcy…
Modern Classic:
The Apple II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYwPL…
Terry Stewart http://www.classic-computers.org.nz
Apple Mac Plus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_m2s…
Apple IIe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENno_…
Dick Smith System 80: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtMFh…
Tandy TRS-80 Model 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgKWV…
IBM XT Personal Computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luUPv…
Kim Justice:
The IBM XT Personal Computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trt5i… (this is a very good history on how, in the end, IBM “won”)
The Centre for Computing History
The Microbee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mp52…
and a very early promo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0fM…
and a demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOiFi…