The early home computer market

It took until the early 1980s for computers to be ready for mass-market home use, but the UK grabbed the opportunity by the horns. In a short period of time, we saw the launch of the BBC Micro, the ZX Spectrum and the Amstrad CPC 464, all of which were massively popular in their own right. These computers saw limited success outside of the UK, with the US favouring its own brands, but the impact these computers made cannot be denied. As well as giving UK consumers their very first taste of home computing, they also gave many people their first platform on which to program, paving the way for significant successes in a broad range of technological fields.