About

I’m George, and I run 8-Bit Architect. I got hooked on computing in 1989, when a school mate lent me his ZX Spectrum, and my first computer of my own was a Commodore 64, bought with my first wage. What I want from this site is a place where people talk to people about 8-bit machines, famous and not-so-famous, at any level. Nobody should feel small for not knowing the history or the tech.

Who does what

Every topic and idea starts with me. AI tools then do the research and write a first draft. Facts get checked against named sources before I see it, and anything that can’t be confirmed is flagged for me to look at.

After that I read every article and every social post before it goes live, and I edit as I go. I look for better images, check facts where something doesn’t sit right, change the wording, and sometimes reorganise the whole piece.

The bylines are pen names for now. Jules writes the history, Arthur does reviews from the workbench, Barney covers the news, and John takes everything in between. None of them is a real person. We’ll keep using them until the community grows and real writers join us, and if you’d like to be one of them, get in touch.

Machine Reference pages are spec sheets, so they work a bit differently. They’re researched and checked against named sources every week, and anything incomplete or unverified is held back for review.

Photos and corrections

The photos on the site are real and credited, mostly from Wikimedia Commons and museum collections. We don’t pass AI-generated images off as photos.

If we get something wrong, tell us through the Contact page and we’ll correct it and say so.