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What was your favorite computer from the Early Days?
Commodore 64 35%  35%  [ 12 ]
Apple II 24%  24%  [ 8 ]
Atari 800 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Apple Lisa 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
Macintosh Classic 18%  18%  [ 6 ]
IBM PC 12%  12%  [ 4 ]
Compaq PC 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Radio Shack Computers 9%  9%  [ 3 ]
Osburne I 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Total votes : 34

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09 Sep 2016, 6:11 pm

Apple MacIntosh, but damn they were expensive. --I never owned one but used one occasionally. I almost bought a Commodore 64.

FWIW, the first Microsystem that I was was a TRS-80 that I saw at the Radio Shack at the Rimrick Mall in Billings, MT, in august 1978. The going price for it was $899, not counting the TV, the Cassette Tape Storage Drive and the Printer. --Those were extra.


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10 Sep 2016, 3:52 am

Adamantium wrote:
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Cray 1: 80MHz, 1MB RAM, 80 MFLOPS
Raspberry Pi 1: 700MHz, 256MB RAM, 41MFLOPS
Samsung Chromebook: 1.7GH, 2021MB RAM, 612MFLOPS
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Or just pop one of these in your desktop...
Tesla K80: 875MHz, 24GiB RAM, 5.6Tflops


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22 Sep 2016, 2:46 am

Had a lot of fun with my friend's C-64. Didn't own a computer in my teens,
so every time I tried one, I probably was a bit obsessed.


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22 Sep 2016, 9:18 am

LogicGenerator wrote:
Commodore VIC 20, 1982

Not very powerful but was under $100. Learn a lot by using it though.

Me too! I had the VIC20, before the 64 came out. Cassette tape drive. I used to type in video games in basic, it was a great intro to programming. My best friend had the Radio Shack TRS-80, he did some cool things with it, he made a custom geography program in 6th grade that showed state capitals and other information from a graphical map. He still has it! My dad had all the early macs.



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