What Was Your Favourite 8bit Computer?
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For me it has to be the classic Commodore 64. It will always have a special place in my heart - it was the computer that I longed for all through my childhood. I didn't manage to buy my own till the early 2000s. I have four related models now. Two in original boxes.
There were so many awesome 8bit machines. Apple ][, Atari 400, TRS-80, TI-99....
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@scottalanmiller Well, considering I wasn't born until 1983 and it was my only 8bit computer, I'd have to go with the Commodore 64 as well. Space Invaders FTW!!
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The Apple ][ really sucked but it is so classic. 1977... Hard to believe.
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I was more into 16bit computing like Atari ST and the Apples iigs or the Macs. Then extra power made a lot of difference.
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The Atari ST... Now there was a sweet computer.
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We were just talking at the office this morning that if chip development had ended with the Motorola 68030 processor that that would have been enough and we could have survived forever just on that.
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Call it too much sci-fi watching or reading, but when a family member showed me the Tandy 1000 (not sure if it's an 8 bit). I was excited until after a lot of typing he stopped and said, ok now we wait. So went to do something else and when we came back he was excited to show me the screen looked like an image made up of letters. I didn't get my first PC until 97 and that probably explains why I love GUI more than command line.
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ZX Spectrum. I will never love a machine as much as I loved that (assuming I'll never afford a Porche 911).
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@Carnival-Boy said:
ZX Spectrum. I will never love a machine as much as I loved that (assuming I'll never afford a Porche 911).
Those are very rare stateside.
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I've never seen a Spectrum in real life.
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I always wanted one of these. Seems pretty silly now...
