#retrocomputing folks: I'm trying to get a sense of the proportion of people here who are into retrocomputing today but didn't experience the machines when they first came on the market.
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#retrocomputing folks: I'm trying to get a sense of the proportion of people here who are into retrocomputing today but didn't experience the machines when they first came on the market. I want everyone's input! Please boost!
(I'll ask the same question about minicomputers. This poll is about the early consumer home computers released between say 1977 and 1994.)
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#retrocomputing folks: I'm trying to get a sense of the proportion of people here who are into retrocomputing today but didn't experience the machines when they first came on the market. I want everyone's input! Please boost!
(I'll ask the same question about minicomputers. This poll is about the early consumer home computers released between say 1977 and 1994.)
@fluidlogic I had access to 8 and 16 bit computers when I was growing up but now I’m enjoying getting to know the 8/16 bit computers that I didn’t have access to and have no nostalgia for so… kind of both?
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#retrocomputing folks: I'm trying to get a sense of the proportion of people here who are into retrocomputing today but didn't experience the machines when they first came on the market. I want everyone's input! Please boost!
(I'll ask the same question about minicomputers. This poll is about the early consumer home computers released between say 1977 and 1994.)
@fluidlogic alas my first computer as a kid was 32 bit and supported protected mode, how opulent
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@fluidlogic alas my first computer as a kid was 32 bit and supported protected mode, how opulent
@Foritus it sure was! And that's also retrocomputing as far as I'm concerned!
I was thinking of doing a poll for 32-bit and up consumer home/personal computers. What do you think?
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@fluidlogic I had access to 8 and 16 bit computers when I was growing up but now I’m enjoying getting to know the 8/16 bit computers that I didn’t have access to and have no nostalgia for so… kind of both?
@stilvoid @fluidlogic Same, I lusted after Amigas, Macintoshes, etc that I basically didn't touch, and a big part of the hobby for me was exploring those once they became obtainable (though they're rapidly becoming unobtainable again)
Re: the poll question: we had a C64 *fairly* early (84-ish?) but then the 80s hit my family hard and we upgraded from a C64 to a 386 just before the Pentium released, and skipped 16 bit home computing altogether.
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@fluidlogic I had access to 8 and 16 bit computers when I was growing up but now I’m enjoying getting to know the 8/16 bit computers that I didn’t have access to and have no nostalgia for so… kind of both?
@stilvoid yeah, likewise. Constructing polls is a science!
I missed the 16-bit generation due to changed family circumstances. In the last couple of years I got hold of a beautiful example of the 16-bit machine I lusted after in 1985.
Answer in whatever way makes sense to you, and thank you for the comment adding nuance!
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@Foritus it sure was! And that's also retrocomputing as far as I'm concerned!
I was thinking of doing a poll for 32-bit and up consumer home/personal computers. What do you think?
@fluidlogic I imagine that there are a *lot* of people in the community whose first machines were 32bit W95 or 98 machines. 8bit and Win9X-era-hardware feel like the two biggest camps in the PC retro space from my casual observation - although XP-era fans are rapidly aging into the hobby
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@fluidlogic I imagine that there are a *lot* of people in the community whose first machines were 32bit W95 or 98 machines. 8bit and Win9X-era-hardware feel like the two biggest camps in the PC retro space from my casual observation - although XP-era fans are rapidly aging into the hobby
@fluidlogic also the MSX people are precious and I admire their passion
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#retrocomputing folks: I'm trying to get a sense of the proportion of people here who are into retrocomputing today but didn't experience the machines when they first came on the market. I want everyone's input! Please boost!
(I'll ask the same question about minicomputers. This poll is about the early consumer home computers released between say 1977 and 1994.)
@fluidlogic The first microcomputer I had access to was an Altair 8800 that my high school computer club put together the year before I got there. The year after that my parents bought a Commodore Pet and things were never the same. I still have the pet but it doesn't work any more, sigh...
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@fluidlogic The first microcomputer I had access to was an Altair 8800 that my high school computer club put together the year before I got there. The year after that my parents bought a Commodore Pet and things were never the same. I still have the pet but it doesn't work any more, sigh...
@AdrianRiskin thank you for sharing that story. The PET is probably repairable for not much money!
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@fluidlogic also the MSX people are precious and I admire their passion
️@Foritus yes! I never had an MSX but I remember finding them intriguing at the time. I still do. They were popular in Europe, the Middle East and South America, if I remember correctly.
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#retrocomputing folks: I'm trying to get a sense of the proportion of people here who are into retrocomputing today but didn't experience the machines when they first came on the market. I want everyone's input! Please boost!
(I'll ask the same question about minicomputers. This poll is about the early consumer home computers released between say 1977 and 1994.)
@fluidlogic you got a lot of masto olds here
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@fluidlogic you got a lot of masto olds here
@quinn it's more of a mix than I expected!
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@fluidlogic alas my first computer as a kid was 32 bit and supported protected mode, how opulent
I couldn't afford to buy the Gateway with the math co-processor!
Also I played #HammurabisCode when it was a new game! And #Pong on the TV when it was a blast to play! -
#retrocomputing folks: I'm trying to get a sense of the proportion of people here who are into retrocomputing today but didn't experience the machines when they first came on the market. I want everyone's input! Please boost!
(I'll ask the same question about minicomputers. This poll is about the early consumer home computers released between say 1977 and 1994.)
@fluidlogic my parents bought an Apple //c in 1985 when I was in kindergarten.
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#retrocomputing folks: I'm trying to get a sense of the proportion of people here who are into retrocomputing today but didn't experience the machines when they first came on the market. I want everyone's input! Please boost!
(I'll ask the same question about minicomputers. This poll is about the early consumer home computers released between say 1977 and 1994.)
@fluidlogic I was mostly a roadside-find and garage/yard sale bits type
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#retrocomputing folks: I'm trying to get a sense of the proportion of people here who are into retrocomputing today but didn't experience the machines when they first came on the market. I want everyone's input! Please boost!
(I'll ask the same question about minicomputers. This poll is about the early consumer home computers released between say 1977 and 1994.)
@fluidlogic
I had an 8088 PC clone in that time, and a little later got a secondhand TI-99/4A. The PC was pretty cool, top of the line for its day with *two* floppy drives (no swapping disks for WordPerfect!) and a full 640k RAM. We upgraded it Theseus style until it was a Frankenstein 386 in the massive grey desktop case with the classic Big Red Switch. -
@fluidlogic my parents bought an Apple //c in 1985 when I was in kindergarten.
@bthylafh ...and you got to use it at that age?
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@fluidlogic I was mostly a roadside-find and garage/yard sale bits type
@howtophil so post-heyday? The machines were considered obsolete by the time you got your hands on them?
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@howtophil so post-heyday? The machines were considered obsolete by the time you got your hands on them?
@fluidlogic Eyup. To the point that people were giving them away or leaving them out for "trash curb day"
