We’d managed to snag a second-hand i186-based PC, with integrated green-and-black screen and two 5 1/4" floppy drives. Most useless excuse for a computer you ever did see; good luck trying to take notes with edlin on DOS any faster than just writing them down. Super-futuristic looking, though - predated the iMac by over twenty years.
Remember getting a ZX Spectrum for Xmas and being astonished that computers could actually display colour and play games. Z80 for the win.
Z80 for me, take that, ha!
6502 was my poison.
Mine too, just after Z80. Then 68000 (later plus add-on 286 board) and only after it was a pure 386.
We’d managed to snag a second-hand i186-based PC, with integrated green-and-black screen and two 5 1/4" floppy drives. Most useless excuse for a computer you ever did see; good luck trying to take notes with
edlinon DOS any faster than just writing them down. Super-futuristic looking, though - predated the iMac by over twenty years.Remember getting a ZX Spectrum for Xmas and being astonished that computers could actually display colour and play games. Z80 for the win.
Those were 80186? Cool, never saw one. I did some computing at school’s 8086 PC, though.
From my understanding, Z80 was already on the way out on desktop by the time I was born. 😆