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8-bit microcomputer

An 8-bit microcomputer is a personal computer built around an 8-bit microprocessor typically the Zilog Z80 or the MOS Technologies 6502.

During the 1980s a large variery of 8-bit micro-computers were designed.

Among the most common 8-bit microcomputers were the following:

Acorn computers

Apple Computer
- Apple II family

Atari
- Atari 400[?]
- Atari 800[?]

Commodore International

Dragon Data[?]
- Dragon 32
- Dragon 64

Jupiter Cantab
- Jupiter Ace

Oric[?]
- Oric 1[?]
- Oric Atmos[?]

Sinclair Research

Radio Shack[?]
- TRS-80 Model I[?], II, III, ...

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