If I had the space, and spare cash, these are four of the retro computers I'd love to have set-up and ready to use. What four computers would you choose - 1970s/80s only!
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Two of mine would be the ones I (foolishly) sold: ZX Spectrum and Amiga 500.
The other two are from my school days: BBC B and Acorn Archimedes.
Saying that the Einstein looks interesting too.
Not sure what this is
* Amiga 4000
* IBM PS/2 Portable P72
* SGI Indigo
I have a XEGS, Amiga 500, Atari 1040 ST, and a NABU
I had to learn everything. EVERYTHING from See and Say...back when it had the strangle cord.
* Tatung Einstein
* Memotech MTX 512
* Nascom 2
Acorn Electron (+1, +3)
BBC B
BBC Master
Acorn Archimedes (and finally learn how to use it)
It looks like an Acorn and you could type in PING and BANG and it'd make the sounds!
BBC B (or Master) and an Archimedes for nostalgia (I had these).
An X68000 because they look awesome and had a great catalogue of arcade classics.
And a NeXTcube!
Commodore 128 — can also run C64 software
ZX Spectrum
Atari 400
Amiga 1200 👍
(If I could do a fifth, it would definitely be an Apple II.) 🤓
1. BBC Master 128+Microvitec Cub. Because I need Mode 7 visuals and Elite.
2. Some sort of Sun 4/Sparcstation pizzabox (mono screen).
3. Early Speccy 48K, grey keys. Mostly just to look at and be wistful.
4. Atari 1040STFM. or an Amiga, but I never really gelled with them.
UK101 because the ads in electronic mags made me wonder if a person could have a computer!
Acorn Atom and Sharp MZ80B because they looked cool in their own ways.
Atari 800 because it was amazing and unobtainable.
Atari 800
Apple II
BBC Master
Acorn Archimedes
[though there are too many more I'd like, e.g. MZ-80A, Einstein, QL, that cool looking Sony MSX-2]