What other retro computers are you into?

[runequester]

Are you into any other old computers than the amiga?

Were they stuff you moved from, to the amiga, or things you got into afterwards?

[Franko]

Are you into any other old computers than the amiga?

Were they stuff you moved from, to the amiga, or things you got into afterwards?

You might have guessed that I'd just have to answer this one...

An entire history of my computing ownership & experience is quite simply... Started In 1982 With The Vic20, then came the C64, next was the A1000, followed by the A500, A1200, A1500 and the A4000.

All have been sold over the years except my A1200s & C64, the only console I own are a couple of SNES (best R.P.G. games ever) the only other console I've ever owned was the Vectrex, wish I'd never sold that little beauty...

(oh and this iMac I bought a few months ago for the net, but that doesn't count... )

[LoadWB]

TI-99/4A (my first computer, 1984)
Commodore 64/128 (second and third computers, 1987 and 1990)
Amiga (my fourth computer, 1992)

Additionally, I had a brief flirtation with Apple ][s and Atari (due to school,) the later of which I am delving more into with a long-ago acquisition of an Atari 800XL with 1050 floppy drive, which I am not sure but may be Happy.  There was period during which my 64 was dead and I was relegated to using a Vic-20, which, as neat as it may have been, I am likely not to enshrine in my collection.  My grandfather had a 520ST, and I would love to assemble a beefed up ST system.

I have also in my time turned up an SX-64, of which I now have two.  My family also had a Color Computer 3 for a very short while.  I think we focused more on the 99/4A than on the CoCo3 so it had to go.  A lot of other people have mentioned consoles, so I will mention that we only ever had an Atari 2600.  Personally I have now garnered a 5200, 7800, NES, Genesis CD, Nomad, PlayStation, and an X-Box.

For now, I am content with my active 128D, 99/4A with peripheral expansion box (PEB,) several Amigas, and building up the Atari 800XL system.  I will most likely also set up a 64C system once I get my room organized.

[fishy_fiz]

My 1st computer was a Tandy Trs80 Coco1. Got it expanded from 4KB to 64KB which greatly enhanced the experience (the upgrade added extras other than just RAM). After that came the Microbee, and then c64. Amiga was next and Ive not strayed from it yet. In recent years however, via emulation, Ive checked out most other machines that I'd read about in computer magazines I read as a kid and find that nostalgia is present for most of these machines (even though they were the enemy at the time), particularly speccy and amstrad cpc. The two retro machines that I have most interest in other than the amiga though would be the c64 and tandy coco's (particularly model 3, as it was significantly enhanced over what I had a child (gauntlet2 for coco3 for example looks quite similar to amiga/atari st versions, despite being an 8bit machine with only 64 colors)).
Man, day's gone by hey ?  

[orange]

ZX Spectrum +3 is my first. Sinclair computers are great.
I also got C64, Amstrad and Atari, but don't use them.

[Jiffy]

Currently, apart from several Amiga computers (3000, 1200, 2x2000), I own a C64, a C128, an SX64, an Acorn A5000, a PowerMac G3, a Mac IIci, an Atari Portfolio and a Sun Ultra 2.

And quite a few pc-boxes, but I don't count them as retro. Even though several of them are equiped with old Windows versions like 95, 98 & NT4. :-)

My computer history goes from the C64 to the Amiga 500, to a pc. Most of my retro machines have never been used by me as my main computer, but have been acquired out of interest. I would like to have an MSX 2 or something, but space is lacking...

And yes, I do count the Sun Ultra 2 as a retro machine, even though it is still quite capable with 2 GB ram, dual 400 MHz cpu and two 73 GB scsi-drives. Likewise with my beige PowerMac G3 (1 GHz cpu, 768 MB ram, 128 MB videocard & 80 GB harddrive).

[dougal]

Hmm, i have had interest in many other retro computers consoles. My collection consits of:

A few Sega Megadrives / Megadrive II's + games & Accessories + Sega MegaCD
A couple of Sega Master Systems + accessories etc..
A couple of Sega Game Gears + games & accessories
A couple of Nintendo NES's + games and accessories
2 Sega Saturns + Games
Sega DreamCast
Quite a few Gameboys (all types) + loads of games and accessories
Nintendo N64 + games/accessories
Nintendo Gamecube
Nintendo SNES + Games/accessories
About 29 different Nintendo Game & Watch games
A couple of Commodore 64's + loads of games & accessories
Atari Jaguar + games
Atari 2600Jr + games
Sinclair Spectrum + Games
Atari Lynx + Atari Lynx II + Games
Atari 1040 STe
Atari 130XE
Atari 800XL

+ Some other stuff i forgot

I used to have (Now Sold):- NeoGeo AES, NeoGeo MVS, NeoGeo Pocket

[Fransexy_]

Msx!!!!!!

[Dmaster]

Let's see:

Atari 65xe
Atari 130xe
Commodore 64
Coleco Adam
Amiga 500
Amiga 2000

All are gone but I still have the Amiga 2000

[dougal]

Msx!!!!!!

Oohh have one too. I forgot. Lol

[tone007]

Too many to name, though I'm partial to machines that weigh more than I do.

Really not an Atari or Tandy fan, though.

[scuzzb494]

Are you into any other old computers than the amiga?

Were they stuff you moved from, to the amiga, or things you got into afterwards?

Just follow the link to the website... I live a retro computer repository so I'm pretty lucky really. Trying to think of something I don`t have to play with... An Amiga 1060 would be nice and a tape drive for my A3000UX possibly. Finally got a KIM which was given to me.

And for me it started with a ZX81, which I still have and still works. I have in excess of 500 computers here with probably a fifth of those Amiga. And that doesn't even begin to describe the collection given the amount of peripherals, expansions, media, books, magazines and software that I have. I am in retro heaven.

[gertsy]

ZX81 in 1982
ZX Spectrum in 1983
C128 in 1985
Amiga 2000 in 1989

Still have my ZX Spectrum case I have an emulator to run any games on PC.  A C64 just to play with on the odd occasion I want to hear that SID chip, complete with a 100+ 5.5" disk collection each with multiple games.  Everything works fine as long as I keep the beastie cool.
I gave my ZX81 to my younger brother and I think my mum threw it out with a tea chest of other stuff (including classic mags) back in the 90s. )o:

[Tension]

My other computer is a PIII 500Mhz Wintel box.  That's retro enough for me thank you very much.

[JimS]

I started with a hombrew Z80 system, built from plans published by a guy who went on to become a shuttle astronaut. Then I went to an Atari 800, and 800XL, to the Amiga 1000, and finally the 2000. Still have them all, but mainly use emulation now.