Yeah, I almost stopped reading the article after that phrase. If I had to pick a decade with the greatest advances in personal computing, I would pick the 80s!

Yeah, I almost stopped reading the article after that phrase. If I had to pick a decade with the greatest advances in personal computing, I would pick the 80s! The first personal/home computers appeared in the 70s, but they were mostly for hobbyists, even sold as PCBs like the Apple I. The 80s began with the first home computers being available in larger numbers (C64, Atari 800, Apple ][, Sinclair Spectrum etc.), continued with the more powerful 16-bit machines (Apple Mac, Amiga, Atari ST) and ended (sadly, I think) with IBM PC clones becoming cheap enough to wipe out almost all of these (except the Mac, which survived just barely).