Favorite old computer?

[Kyriakos]

I think this could be placed in the OT, it is about computers but not about any question actually having to do with technical stuff... Just asking which old personal computer is seen as the best one

Poll options:

1)Amiga500 (with/without extention to 1024)

2)Commodore 64

3)Amstrad CPC6128

4)Spectrum

5)Atari St

6) Acorn (Archimedes)

7) Other (please name)

I voted for the Amiga. An amazing old computer with great games

 

[Zelig]

Atanasoff–Berry Computer

Close second to the Z3.

 

[LegionSteve]

Voted Amiga A500, but the C64 also had some wonderful games.

 

[really]

Of those listed above I have fondest memories of the C64 - trying to load a game from a cassette tape. I never owned one though unfortunately.

The machine I did own that I have fondest memories of was a top of the range Gateway 2000 I bought in college - I used it to play a lot of Civ II.

 

[Leifmk]

The Amiga was cool and everything but no computer can ever measure up to the C64. Certainly no other hardware platform has been pushed so far beyond what it was supposed to be able to do.

 

[Grisu]

Amiga, of course. I mean, it was obviously so much better than Atari, right?

The machine I did own that I have fondest memories of was a top of the range Gateway 2000 I bought in college - I used it to play a lot of Civ II.

The first PC I bought myself was a Gateway 2000 as well...it even had MMX, imagine that.

 

[Murky]

My 1st PC was an IBM 8088, I think it ran at 8mHz and had a 30 megabyte hard-drive and 5-1/4 floppy drive. The monitor was monochrome (1 color). It used the DOS operating system.

 

[Kyriakos]

Amiga, of course. I mean, it was obviously so much better than Atari, right?

According to an ancient article i read when i was 11 years old (or so) on the three main computers of that time on some local magazine, Amiga, Atari and Acorn each had different strong points, but overall the Amiga was the most popular by far.

Atari St had better music-output abilities and so seemed to be used more by musicians who had interest in notation programs.

Acorn was supposedly the more powerful of the three, CPU-wise.

Amiga had the best graphics, or at least the most refined ones, and all the games were made with that computer in mind first Also tv stations of the era used Amiga to run their programs.

 

[Perfection]

 

[Mise]

I had a speccy as a kid, so that's the computer that inspires the most nostalgia in me.

 

[Kyriakos]

I first had an Amstrad, then an Amiga. Amiga was very clearly superior, although i still recall some of the Amstrad games Amstrad even had a painting program, which i used to make patterns (mostly vast buildings with repeating floor arrangements, inspired by the large hotels i was seeing during the summer vacations)

 

[warpus]

My first ever computer was the Atari 800XL. It was the precursor to the Atari ST I believe and looked something like this:

No disk drive, no hard drive, no monitor.. You hook it up to your TV and load games and programs via a tape deck. It was my first computer when I lived in Germany and I thought it was amazing.. So many hours of retro gaming

Never forget

 

[SouthernKing]

Does that compaq that ran windows 98 currently sitting somewhere in my basement count?
That's the oldest computer I remember using

 

[Grisu]

According to an ancient article i read when i was 11 years old (or so) on the three main computers of that time on some local magazine, Amiga, Atari and Acorn each had different strong points, but overall the Amiga was the most popular by far.

that's obviously propaganda lies. Amiga was far superior to Atari in every way ever thought of (and not thought of too).

 

[Ajidica]

Oldest computer I ever remember using were some ancient Apples (still used floppy disks and played the original Oregon Trail*) at school. I hated the things so my favorite old computer would be an ancient thing my dad salvaged from where he worked running Windows 95. It ran all of those JumpStart games like PutPut and Freddie Fish. Plus I remember one of the sound setting was 'Jungle' and whenever you made a certain action the result sound, to my 5 year old ears, sounded like a fart.

*Oregon Trail was made in Minnesota!

 

[Kyriakos]

First computer i ever came into contact with was probably some type of IBM, in a school class on computers. It even had some games, like one with a skier

But the first computer i owned was the Amstrad, a year later (got it when i was 8 or 9)

 

[Formaldehyde]

No TRS-80, Apple II, Macintosh, or the original IBM PC?

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Commodore for Elite.

The spectrum for Lords of Midnight.

 

[bhsup]

TI-99/4A with cassette backup!!!

"The tide is going out. You are wearing water wings. You see flotsam and jetsam."

 

[Antilogic]

The first PC I bought myself was a Gateway 2000 as well...it even had MMX, imagine that.

Me three--my parents' first computer was a Gateway 2000 and I remember playing Civ II and Master of Orion on it.

"The tide is going out. You are wearing water wings. You see flotsam and jetsam."

Text-based adventure games never did what I wanted them to do... half the time I was typing random stuff like "punch narrator" and nothing would happen.