Favorite classic computer?

[Deja Q]

Dating back to the Timex Sinclair ZX81-era, though my faves were the Atari 1200XL and Commodore Amiga 3000...

[Cooley Hurd]

1. my first was an IBM XT 8086...

Boy, could I word-process with that one!

[Waistdeep]

13. But it used an 8088, not an 8086

It was the 8-bit bus version of the 16-bit 8086. Ran the same software, though. Ah, yes, those were the days. I paid way over $5000 in 1983 dollars for an XT with a CGA card and 640MB of memory, a 10MB hard disk and a color monitor. Oh, yes --- and a Logitech optical mouse. I was way ahead of the curve........

[cmd]

2. Commodore 128

I still think I ought to start everything with go64. That computer got a real workout at home, at school and ultimately at the neighbor's house.

[mikehiggins]

3. Commodore 64/128

The CBM machines were like the model T fords of computers. I loved them with their pokey cpu's and their cranky disc drives and all the other crappy stuff that was so wonderful.

They even had an operating system known as GEOS (Graphics Oriented Operating System) that used the floppy drive as a kind of hard drive, working off the disk. GEOS could have given DOS a run for its money but then the IBM thing happened and we were lost. I held out as long as I could but once Windows showed up I was hooked.

Now I use a 2ghz machine with a cable modem, and I still have fond memories of my old CBM.

Sigh

[Deja Q]

4. Ever use an emulator?

They've got 'em all over the net. Do a google search!

Thanks to the net and emulation, I can re-live those classy Atari and Amiga moments. Along with xmame for old arcade thrills, though the only game I play is Pac-Man... :D

[arinite7]

TI 99

My first computer was a TI 99, hooked to my TV with no printer. I played those adventure games -- with no graphics -- just text. You typed instructions like, "search behind picture" or "put chewing gum on stick" or "jump over box of poisonous snakes." They were fun games that used your mind's eye to work.

[phaseolus]

14. xyzzy

and, "drink no tea", heh heh heh

[Deja Q]

16. Those were the days!

I recall a bunch from that genre, namely "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", but graphics helped...

Just think of how one of today's games, Quake III Arena, would handle it:

Punch blue bot
Kick red bot
Fire gun at yellow bot
Run like hell to the east

and so on

About 50 commands a minute, so you'd have to type 1,000 wors per minute...

[Abe Linkman]

5. Eagle and Altos

Altos was a xenix-based, multi-user computer.

[DBoon]

6. IBM System 38

or did you mean Personal Computer?

[Deja Q]

7. Either or both

My original mindset was 'personal computer', but there are classic mainframes as such.

[arwalden]

8. I Still Miss My Apple IIe and all my Beagle Bros software...

... I've got an Apple IIe emulator that works well. It does almost everything except access the modem and the printer. (So the PrintShop software won't print anything.) But it's still fun to tinker around with.



-- Allen

[xultar]

9. TRS 80 Baby!

[short bus president]

15. seconded

TRS-80 and Raaka Tu.

"You are standing in a dark, dense jungle."

[cprise]

10. I have a collection!

Atari 400, Atari 1200XL, TI-99/4A, Timex 1000 & 1500, Timex 2068, TI CC-40, Commodore SX-64 (a portable C64).

(On edit: forgot to mention the VIC-20 :) )

Next I would like to acquire a TRS-80 Model I, with original matching monitor and expansion chasis!

[HEyHEY]

11. EWOK

[toddzilla]

12. vic 20 baby!

i've had most of the commodore stuff..

vic 20
commodore 64
commodore plus 4
amiga 500
amiga 3000


loved em all..

[elfin]

17. Apple II Plus

then graduated to Mac Classic, then Quadra, now Wallstreet Powerbook. This one SHOULD last a while - unless I win the Powerball tonight.

[Chief]

18. Univac 494 and 418-III

Some REAL classic iron!