VIDIOT'S GUIDE TO HOME COMPUTERS
There's a big difference between wanting a home computer, buying a home computer, and having a personal computer at home that will actually do some computing for you. In this special guide, VIDIOT'S editors do what no other magazine has ever done: tell you the truth about home computers.
VIDIOT'S GUIDE TO HOME COMPUTERS
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RICHARD ROBINSON
There's a big difference between wanting a home computer, buying a home computer, and having a personal computer at home that will actually do some computing for you. In this special guide, VIDIOT'S editors do what no other magazine has ever done: tell you the truth about home computers.
THE COMPUTER
The basic idea is fantastic. A machine that can store, sort, and produce information instantly, in a manner that's almost impossible for the average brain to follow. Thus saving time, labor, guessing, and ultimately putting the right facts at your finger in the right order at the right time.
The reality is a little less fantastic. The computer is a complex instrument of highly sophisticated micro-electronics that, while capable of seemingly impossible feats of memory and logic, requires a good deal of expertise to operate properly.
The truth is that fewer people need home computers than think they do. For unless you have a specific need for a home computer, about the only thing it's good for, in the average home, in a general way, is gathering dust.