Vintage Computers

The Door said:
Very nice...

Anyone have a Commodore Amiga 500 for me perhaps *cough*
Don't want to resort to one of these

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The do come up every now and then in SA. Maybe drop me a mail.......
 
gregmcc said:
Got one a few months ago :)

Next on my wsh list is a Commodore PET, but they are like hens teeth and mucho dinero.
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Fond memories of the PET, one of my first jobs. Set up data acquisition using an external DAC and outputted the results to an A3 pen plotter. Finally ended up as a closed loop system with the PET driving a stepper motor. Still have half a mind to get one of those PET shaped cases for modern hardware.
 
cguy said:
I always wanted one of those. Back then I thought the more keys the better, and that a built in tape drive was just brilliant.
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I saw these at a shop near the Durban beachfront in the 80's. They had a game running and my eyes watered to have one. Eventually I got an Amiga 500+. Prior to that I had an Apple IIe and a VIC 20 (which came for free with my dad's office PET on which I also played).
 
cguy said:
I always wanted one of those. Back then I thought the more keys the better, and that a built in tape drive was just brilliant.
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Had them at hyper by the sea computer section. They were kak though.

They also had msx machines which I reckon were underappreciated at the time locally and other markets. In the 8bit era my first choice would be c64 followed by msx.
 
ponder said:
Had them at hyper by the sea computer section. They were kak though.

They also had msx machines which I reckon were underappreciated at the time locally and other markets. In the 8bit era my first choice would be c64 followed by msx.
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Having poured over the technical documentation and restored many (if not most) of the 8-bit machines over the last few years, I got really nice comparative insights into what made them technically different. Clearly, in the day, this was not possible as we probably owned 1 or 2 different systems between friends that we got to know well and could only read about the others in magazines.

A good example was the competition to become the supplier for the BBC initiative. Acorn, Sinclair, Newbrain, and Commodore all competed for the BBC contract. I always wondered why they picked Acorn but now I can see why the BBC picked the Acorn Proton (renamed to the Acorn BBC). It was technically just a much better machine. You can also see why the C64 became the dominant gaming machine with the SID and VIC chips at another level for sound and video. The MSX initiative was the first attempt to create a hardware standard but was probably too early and it was difficult to break into the bigger eco-systems like C64 and Spectrum.
 
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