for old people only:
what home computer brand did you own/use during the 1980s?
was it Atari, Commodore, Apple, TI, IBM, Tandy, Sinclair, or something else?
post pics if possible.
Commodore. First was a VIC-20, then a C64 (also an SX-64 wew).
Had an Amiga 1200 in high school.
Cousins (dumbasses) went Atari. Why be able to share games ? Who would want to do that ?
i was born in 1998
AST desu senpai
>>52204436
i had a VIC-20 with a cassette drive and then a C64 with disks. never got myself an amiga, but switched over to the dark side (PC compatibles) around 1994.
my uncle got a Timex-Sinclair and mostly kept it in his dresser drawer. lol.
C64
First PC was a hand-me-down Tandy from my grandpa. Used it for word processing and the odd DOS game every now and then.
Had it until the mid 2000's when I gave it away to goodwill.
Crapple.
>>52204633
DESKMATE
my old arch-nemesis
C64 then Amiga 500
iPad mini
My dad was a retard so he still used his fucking homebrew 8 bit computer until look 83'. He even read protocol standards and made peripherals in his free time, even now i look like a software only babby in front of him. Then we got an IBM. The games were limited and hard to obtain but good darn were they fun
>>52204830
that's pretty cool. what kind of peripherals did he make?
Tandy 1000 EX
Tandy 1000 TX
Tandy Sensation brought me into the 90's. (Eventually upgraded to a DX4 100 and 14MB RAM [paid $200 for 8MB right before the price-fixing floor dropped out. 16MB was >$100 a few months later.])
Wanted Apple ][+. Got shitty 99/4a instead. Spent most of my time at my buddy's house who had a slick ][c.
I'm not old enough to contribute to this thread, but I do have a collection of Compaq commercials here featuring John Cleese that may be of interest.
John Cleese Compaq Commercials: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL13A65492BC0A4B8B
We had a TI 99/4A, without any of the stuff that made it actually usable.
Apple IIc
Family had an IBM PS/2 which i used from the ages of 5-10. I remember it having both DOS and windows 3.1 on it at different times, but I might be thinking of a different computer.
I do remember when we got an IBM aptiva in 1995 and we put windows 95 on that at some point.
The internet was pretty ghetto in the early 90s, but kind of neat now that i look back on it.
>>52204408
Commodore. Had the 64. Although I had access to Apple II series machines and the original Macs when they were new, they were so far out of our price range as to be laughable.
C64 and C128 and Amiga 500
>>52204408
Philips P2000 and Exidy Sorcerer, both z80.
After that the Tulip System-1, 8086 with CP/M and MSDOS 2.00
>>52204830
No he was smart, every new (expensive) system was hard to expand with your own hardware while not increasing the processing power that much.
Hell we used a S100 Cromemco Z-1 as a main system till the late 80, upgraded with various own made peripherals and newer Cromemco cards.
bought my first computer in 1990
I used to work for the government and had my own typist.. all I needed to do was dictate and she wrote it down. only got into computers when I retired in 2001
>>52204408
Packard Bell, the one that America listened to.
>>52208298
go to bed grandpa
>>52204408
We didn't have one.
>>52208301
dat startup
>>52204744
Same. And after that a long time without a pc until amd k6.
First PC we had in the house was an IBM compatible. I can't remember anything about other than it was a 286 but nothing else about the specs or brand. I loved that thing.
Grandpa checking in:
- ZX Spectrum 48K
- Atari ST1040STFM
- Amiga 500+
- 486SX20
>>52208891
grandpa pls go
>>52204408
My uncle had one of those spectrum clones with increased memory.
I had an Amiga 500 and a fuck load of pirated games. Used it until we bought a gaming rig running windows 95 in 1997. Even then I usually just used the Amiga since all I had on the windows machine was a 201 game DOS demo disk.
>>52210714
1998 was 18 years ago.
Doesn't that feel weird?
>>52204408
Nintendo entertainment system was the only "computer" I had in the 80s. My turkish neighbours in Norway had s commondore 64 with a tape drive. I was suprised that you could use cassette tapes on computers and always wondered how it would sound in my stereo.
A kid I knew had a Apple Macintosh but that might have been in 1990-92
I was born at 1995
>>52204408
>Download hatari emulator
>It also emulates the noise that the hardware made
>mfw
Now that's dedication
This thread is a bunch of kids pretending to be old, nobody from the 80s posts on /g/. This board is for iphones, not ancient garbage like the commodore.
>>52204408
MO5 at school and Amstrad 464 at home. Then 6128 then NES (turtle ninja bundle)...
First computer I remember using for school in about 95 would have been a Tandy laptop my dad had. And some apple 2 machines at our elementary school.
apple ][e in elementary school, pc clones in high school.
got to play Doom and Quake in class (this was long before columbine happened..)
>>52211200
I was born in 85 so i'm sort of old.
>>52204466
You're lying, underage.
It's okay. As long as we can't tell :^)
Had a TRS-80 model iii. My dad bought it used in like 1992 so it was already like 10 years old.
>>52212733
Btw I was born in 1980
To the guy saying no one old posts on /g/, I've been shit posting on /g/ since 2008.
>>52211200
>projecting this hard
>>52212758
1981 reporting in
>>52204408
I have no idea what brand it was. it was some generic PC clone, I believe a 386. Was given/loaned/whatever to us by my dad's employer, he had some dial-up software he'd use to connect to work and do who knows what.
Born '93, but I lived in 3rd world so my first PC was an IBM PS/2 Model 40 with a 386SX, then after that all the Pentiums from 1 through 4 as custom machines, a Pentium 4 XT in a Dell Optiplex, a hand me down Core3Duo VAIO then a Nehalem Pentium as a custom and now an i7 gaymen laptop.
My first console was an Atari 2600, then a NES and a SNES(all well after their heyday). I got a PS2 in 2007(?).
>>52204408
Commodore 64
Atari ST 520
>>52211200
1981 here
>>52212758
>>52213477
70's kid reporting in. These millennials are such failure of a generation, no?
1984 reporting. My first computer was a 66Mhz MS-DOS machine, can't remember the brand. Don't know why I specifically remembered the 66Mhz, perhaps because it was fast for its time.
>>52214386
>40 years old
>Still browses 4chan
>Calls other people failures
>>52214441
>unknown age
>degenerate kike-enabler
>uses a jewess to promote low bait shit posts
Nice try AVI
>>52214515
>Implying he isn't right
Seriously go do something with yourself. Your life is practically half over and you are shitposting on a chinese cartoon image hub.
>>52214600
Not him but why don't you? You're young, you should be having fun outside
>>52214630
I'm on the road with friends right now, browsing on my phone.
You are old, you should be doing your job or something.
>>52214630
>>52214678
Lies.
Also, I can do anything I want in my sparetime
I had a kaypro 2. Still do. I had like 50 diskettes with all the software i could find abs a shit ton of games
>>52214703
Yeah and I can criticize you for doing said shit.
You should have grown out of memes over 10 years ago. You are basically just as bad as barneyfags.
>>52214740
Oh boy, how I miss being young and naive
>>52214755
>His tastes didn't mature
>He's jaded and ornery, meaning he gave up on his dreams and leads an unsatisfying life
smdh fampai.
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>>52214784
sure kiddo, you have much to learn
>>52212719
>underage
i have some bad news, anon...
>>52208326
go to school, kid
thread literally started with "old people only"
>>52214600
says the guy shitposting on a chinese cartoon image hub
nobody on 4chan has the right to shit on others for being on 4chan
>>52214600
>Seriously go do something with yourself. Your life is practically half over
'82 here. The older I get the less bad I feel about 'wasting my time'. The way you spend your time when you're young has more effect on your future than it does when you're older. As for life being half over you don't know when you're going to die.
