Over the years, Retro has told the story behind vintage home computers of the 1970s and 1980s, and how small companies would take on large corporates for a share of this exploding market. While many popular models from the UK and US were distributed to global markets, several countries produced their own machines. One such country was Australia, whose most famous home computer started life as a do-it-yourself kit, but soon found itself in schools across the land, and homes as far away as Scandinavia. This is the story behind the Microbee. In early 1978, Stephen Dennis tried to build his own video card using instructions serialised in Electronics Today International (ETI) magazine.
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