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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
  • Acorn Atom
  • BBC Micro
  • Acorn Electron

• Apple Computer
  • Apple II family

• Atari
  • Atari 400[?]
  • Atari 800[?]

• Commodore International
  • Commodore PET
  • VIC-20
  • C64

• Dragon Data[?]
  • Dragon 32
  • Dragon 64

• Jupiter Cantab
  • Jupiter Ace

• Oric[?]
  • Oric 1[?]
  • Oric Atmos[?]

• Sinclair Research
  • MK-14[?]
  • ZX80
  • ZX81
  • ZX Spectrum
  • Sinclair QL

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