3 ms·The start of 8-bit personal computers was around 45 years ago.by rjsw 6y agoThe start of 8-bit personal computers was around 45 years ago.wott 6y agoI thought I had insisted enough on popular.rjsw 6y agoI would have said that 35 years ago was the end of the 8-bit era. I had an Atari ST with a 20MB hard disk in 1985.