00:12Around 1970, home computers in Argentina were practically nonexistent.
00:20Households, even those of the professional middle class, mainly had typewriters and televisions.
00:30Whereas computer technology was restricted to business or academic settings.
00:37What was becoming popular at that time were electronic calculators.
00:44They appeared in the early 70s, such as the Casio CM602 imported from Japan or domestic models from firms like Cerway
00:53and Cifra, which were non-programmable devices with LED or plasma displays.
01:00Primitive video games.
01:02In 1973, Panoramic launched the Telemach, a clone of the Magnavox Odyssey 1.
01:11It was a console made entirely of electronic circuitry, without a processor, that connected to the TV and offered games like Pong,
01:21But it was not a programmable computer.
01:23The first personal computers, such as the Chewyn or the Commodore 64, did not reach the Argentine home market en masse until the
01:351980s.
01:38Since in the 70s its cost was prohibitive and the available technology, such as the Clementina from 1960, took up rooms
01:49whole and was used exclusively in institutions.
01:53Thank you!
01:53Thank you!