Favorite PC from the 1980s/early 1990s?

[Deja Q]

Poll question: Favorite PC from the 1980s/early 1990s?

Before PCs became de-facto?

[WCGreen]

1. In 1985.....

I got a 8086 Leading Edge....

No Hard Drive....

Just the floppy thing...

[rppper]

2. the commodore 64......

although we learned on the old macs in school(circa83)....i can still remember the hours of fun had with the gorillas throwing dynamite over the hill at the opposing gorilla game that came with it.

[AllegroRondo]

11. Remember the games magazines back then?

the mags would print the code for new games, in BASIC. you would type for hours to get them into your computer, then save them on a tape recorder. Most of the time, they would never work because you made a typo somewhere.

[RebelOne]

3. Apple IIe. I made a lot of money with that computer.

[ET Awful]

4. Well, I voted for Commodore 64, but back then, as a young tyke, all

I could acquire was it's much, much weaker little brother, the Vic 20.

The Amiga was one superb machine in its time, a friend of mine had one when they first came out, and it kicked quite a bit of ass.

The Atari ST series was also pretty neato.

I was never a big Apple II fan, probably because they couldn't do jack for graphics without buying additional parts (I know, I know, that's the norm now, but back then, all the "good" computers had graphics hardware built in).

[CBGLuthier]

5. former Amiga user here

Had an Amiga 1000. How good was it?

I had no hard drive. Only 512K of memory (I think) and I could still run a multitasking operating system off a floppy.

It was the first computer I used to access the true internet. First purely command line and then some of them new fangled text only web browsers.

Had an atari 400 before that but it was nowhere near as cool but still leaps and miles beyond my first computer which I built myself ( not the way one builds today, back when soldering was involved) and was programmed in hexadecimal and had a 2 character display.

Wish Commodore hadn't run the Amiga into the ground but doubt it would have flourished anyway.

[hunter]

9. It was easy to make an Amiga talk too.

You could do it from the command line.

[hunter]

10. I was hardcore Atari 800 to the bitter end.

I still love that machine. There was a quirky kind of elegance to it sorely lacking in modern architectures.

[mikeytherat]

6. No TRS-80? C'mon, Trash-80s were the shiznit back in '82

Learned BASIC on that POS!

mikey_the_rat

[Radio_Guy]

24. My first computer was a TRS-80 Model III

That brings back some memories.

[Call Me Wesley]

7. Main computer was an IBM XT,

And before this a Toshiba Laptop:

[Benfea]

8. You failed to mention the Radio Shack Model III and the "CoCo"

Die, infidel slime!

[mainegreen]

12. Whaaaat? No Tandy 1000?

with its glorious TGA graphics and, wait for it,


3 Voice Sound!

Seriously, at the time it was the machine of choice for gamers!

*edited for piss-poor use of bold tag*

[WeRQ4U]

14. We had the Tandy 1000SX

I think my dad said it was like 2400 bucks or something from Radio Shack. It had an RGB monitor, 384K memory, 3 voice sound and TWO floppy drives. Back then we had "Deskmate" as a scheduling/publishing program. The games were wicked.

[last_texas_dem]

13. My family's first computer was a Tandy

circa 1990-91... About all I did on it, being seven or eight at the time, was use the Paintbrush program in Windows and play "Battle Chess" all the time! I still have pleasant memories of it, though. What's cooler is that old thing *still* runs (it even survived "Y2K"! haha) unlike the a couple of the computers purchased since then!

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

15. Speccy of course - rubber keys all the way baby!

I went from that to an Amstrad CPC 464 before getting a 386.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC_464

[LeftyMom]

16. I still have my C64 and it still works.

Somehow I doubt my pc will still function when it's 25. :shrug:

Mine was badass too, because I had dual floppies instead of tape drives. :)

[hunter]

23. The capacitors in my old PCs tend to pop when I power them up.

:(

My first PC was a Laser, and my second a Franklin. (I couldn't afford an IBM!)

Most of my old Atari stuff still works, but my favorite Atari machine ever died because of modifications I made to it. The old discount EPROMS I put in it didn't hold up.

[seemunkee]

17. Still have my Amiga 2000

I was doing 3D modeling for my furniture business and 3D animation back in 1989.

[DemNoir]

19. I still have one in the closet myself

The Amiga was just to far ahead of its time for it's own good.

[SaveElmer]

18. I actually owned a Timex/Sinclair computer...

Early 80's. Came with a 1 K of memory, with an otional module to take it up to 16 K. You could only program in Basic, and had to hook up the computer to a Television. In order to save anything you hooked up a regular cassette tape recorder...

[Left_Winger]

20. I bought my first computer in 1990

It was a Mac SE with a 20 meg hard drive and one meg of RAM.

[flamingyouth]

21. Commodore 64!

I had a guy write in my 1985 high school yearbook - "Hey, you should come over sometime this summer and see my new Commodore 64 computer." I just reread that a few years ago and :rofl:

[SteppingRazor]

22. Where's the Apple computers?

I had an Apple IIgs. It was sweet.

[CabalPowered]

25. I loved my apple IIGS

[Book Lover]

26. I am THRILLED to see how many folks had Amigas

Yes, as a matter of fact, we are cooler than the kids who nagged their parents into buying the Apple IIs :-)