Talk:List of home computers

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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)

In my view a machine should only be classed as a home computer if it normally outputs graphics at UHF to a TV set, rather than to a dedicated monitor, and/or it combines the keyboard with the main electronics in a single box. -- GCarty

There are a lot of systems in this list that don't fit into the home computer category, either because of the vague/absent definition of "home computer", or simply the lack of any other lists in which to put them. -- LQ (talk) 11:40, 17 May 2008 (UTC)