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the greatest personal computer ever?

I was a Commodore 64 boy. :eek: Well, actually, I think we actually only *owned* a 128....

Hehehe, my computer history, lifetime everything I've owned:

TRS-80 Color Computer 2
Commodore 128
Amiga 500
486DX/33 Windows 3.1 generic
Compaq Armada laptop with 10.4" TFT and a Pentium/150 (god, I loved that thing!)
I borrowed and used for about a year a Compaq desktop with a AMD K6-II I think
iBook G4/800
iMac G5/2.0

I'm always of the perspective that the best is yet to come. :)
 
Holy crap, they put the Trash-80 on that list!
Oh.. it's ok.. it's the model 100.
Oh no! (working backwards) They put a Trash-80 on that list!

What? No Wang? :)
 
miloblithe said:
I'm glad to see the Amiga made #7. Man I loved that computer, even though it crashed a lot and had some wierd design choices.
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How can you not love a computer that has B52s references tattoo'd on the motherboard and a fat girl chipset? :D
 
miloblithe said:
Of course, Denise was my favorite. 4096 colors! 8 sprites!
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:D

Paula was under-loved but she really knew how to put it down, though. I mean she was basically an Ensoniq Mirage on a chip inside a 1980s computer. At the time, wow... one flux capacitor away from time travel! :eek: ;) :D

But mmmm, blitter...mmm...copper... Amiga games rawked. :)
 
Yeah. I held onto my non-working Amiga 500 for a long long time. It broke in 1992, but I didn't throw it out until last summer. :eek:

Might want to promote me to geek+++
 
I think I extend the geek class, though. And I also manage to inherit properties from elsewhere, because I dress way to well to be a geek. :eek: ;) :D

I'm not sure if my parents have any of our Amiga hardware. We had a 40MB SCSI hard drive that we paid an ungodly sum for, and after we upgraded (to the 486DX/33 :rolleyes: ) it broke, and then it became too painful to go back to floppy disks.

But there are Amiga emulators... I dunno. Sometimes it's best to leave the fond memories in the past.
 
yellow said:
Have you just coined the term Metrogeektual? :eek:
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Hehehe, I'm multi-threaded. My geek thread runs in parallel with my stylish thread. :D Which of course keeps me running hotter than a Core Duo with Apple-applied thermal paste, but that's another story. :eek: ;) :D
 
mkrishnan said:
My geek thread runs in parallel with my stylish thread.
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You must be stylish indeed then! I'm impressed!

Style and me... well, let's just say I wait style out and eventually it comes crawling back.
 
My beloved Atari 800 was only #14?

*sniff*

oh well, Atari 800, you'll always be #1 to me :p
 
Ah, the Apple II. There was a whole lab of those at my middle school. First computer I used. My mom also had a Commodore that she took programming classes on (I think I used to play some type of Pong game on it) and then we later got the obligatory Mac Plus, which got me through High School. We also had a Xerox computer, though I never liked that one. I also remember using my cousins Amiga. Lemmings on an Amiga was one of the greatest video gaming experiences ever. It never compared on any other platform...
 
my first lova afair was with the commodore 64.
i loved that computer. i had a mouse and a 300 baud
modem, man that thing was slick!

i use to play with my friends apple iie, there was this
game i was adddicted to... hmm that was a long time
ago, i can't remember the name of the game now....
 
Pismo & Cube

You know I'm kind of surprised the Apple Pismo and Cube aren't on the lists (or maybe I missed it somewhere?). Even though the cube didn't sell so well they became very popular and people want to see a new release. Also the Pismo was one of apples best built laptops: two batteries, solid as a rock, etc...

Nuc
 
Hmm. Interesting quote from the PowerBook 100 (#10) description:

The PowerBook 100--which was, by the way, manufactured by Sony--was discontinued in 1992. But the PowerBook line went on and on, coming to an end just this year, when the final 12-inch PowerBook was replaced by the MacBook.
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I don't think it is a bad thing to note that Apple had Sony manufacture the PowerBook 100... as long as people are also willing to note that the batteries of the 5300 series that had to be recalled were also from Sony*. ;)


As for the list, I'm glad that the PowerBook 100/140/170 made the top 10, but considering the lasting effect the design had on the industry I really would have thought it would have been in the top 5.




* Sony's batteries have been at the heart of many battery related fires and are the cause of the largest consumer recall in history with Dell currently recalling a wide range of Sony batteries that come with their laptops due to fires/explosions in recent months.
 
miloblithe said:
Yeah. I held onto my non-working Amiga 500 for a long long time. It broke in 1992, but I didn't throw it out until last summer. :eek:

Might want to promote me to geek+++
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I held on to a non working Atari STfm until March this year. I can't remember when it broke.
The motherboard is now hanging on the wall, next the the board from an Acorn Electron and processor daughterboard from my 7500/100.
 
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