Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?

From	songbird <songbird@anthive.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: [CM] What was your first home computer?
Date	2017-04-21 08:46 -0400
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Ian McCall wrote:
> On 2017-04-20 14:28:57 +0000, songbird <songbird@anthive.com> said:
>
>>   there was a guy in the mining department
>> running a pretty fancy color graphics PC at
>> the time which spoiled most monochrome for
>> me...

  i think it was a Cromemco system of some
type (now that name comes to mind).  it was
a few boxes on a cart that the guy was working
on for his project.


>>  then the Amiga came along.  how i pined
>> for one of those, but never got into them (too
>> busy with work and classes to have yet another
>> PC hobby).
>
> When I was at university I shared a house, and two of the people had 
> Amigas. At the time I had my Mac LC - great for Doing Work, somewhat 
> less than great for anything else. Games? Pah - the Amiga would blow it 
> into a cocked hat. In-built sound? Surely you jest. The Amiga was sooo 
> far ahead of its time, and I remember looking at the increasing sales 
> of these daft overpriced hunks of metal that was the far, far less 
> capable PC and thinking: who the hell is buying this stuff?

  <waved hand>  it was overpriced, but dang-it, it
was solid and worked and i didn't have to put it
together (i had no time for that with the course work
and work work).


> That stayed true pretty much until just past the introduction of the CD 
> ROM era. It was a long long time before PCs could match the 
> capabilities of the Amiga.

  i just liked that the CPU was Motorola based
and that made sense.


  songbird

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