The home computer: The making of a consumer electronic

Where did the home computer come from? It is well known that its production became possible through a process of miniaturization geared to military and commercial requirements. Today's home computers are designed and marketed for quite different purposes, though many of the more recent machines have been promoted as having equally utilitarian value. The use of the home micro for word-processing in particular has made the machine into a potent symbol of the 'labour-saving' benefits that high tech supposedly offers society as a whole.