Atari 800
IT'S AN ATARI 800 for GODS SAKE!!!
ZX81
I HATED my ZX81 - such a SH1T computer. But looking back
on all those frustrations: No memory, no GFX, no sound, ram
pack wobble. Hours typing in crappy little progams only to
spend the next few hours looking for the typing mistake(s)
only to either:
a) Discover it wasn't worth the effort (again).
or
b) The revenge of the ram pack wobble would strike!
Somehow the memories seem to leave a rosy glow...
Belated tip:
Beat the ram pack wobble! Turn the little b*stard over and
drip hot wax all over the connector - that won't be moving
again!
Dragon32
I had to think why the 'D' 32 should be included...
...then it struck me. Let's face it no-matter what machine
you had you could always look down your nose at the
Dragon owners and think 'At least I didn't buy one of them!'
(Unless you owned a Mattel Aquarius - Har, Har!)
Hell even the Tandy owning loonies could feel happy, safe
in the knowledge that here was a person who owned a bad
clone of their own bad computer...
...Still the Dragon owners have their revenge: Just about
the best 8-bit OS ended up on their humble box.
ZX Spectrum+
Now, I never found the old Speccy to be that cool. Didn't
then, don't now. Maybe it's my being scarred by the ZX81,
maybe it's the rubber keyboard that made you feel like you
were poking a corpse's anus... (shudder)
But the Speccy+ is a different matter: It's black, it didn't
sell well (sympathy), and it didn't make me feel like I was
being forced to take part in Clive Sinclair's perverted plot
to make every young boy in the country find out what a
dead anus felt like! ahem.
Ooo, another Oric1
Did I mention I had a spare Atmos case..?
Dead Anus
AKA: Spectrum 48k
Tandy CoCo
Not a Dragon32, so cool-ish.