@vwbusguy The issue with the TI was that it was so slow due to it's architecture.
Processor was actually 16 bits but for some reason only 256 bytes of ram on the base machine - the 16K was in the video chip so the cpu couldn't access it directly & it was 8 bit.
Then the expansion memory was on a 3rd 8 bit bus, but at least the cpu could access it directly.
@peter Oh weird - it was a different instruction set than the 6502 and 8080 based stuff everyone else was using. I imagine it probably had a very limited software library comparative to Atari, Commodore, Apple, Osborne, TRS-80, etc. as a result.
@peter@vwbusguy my first too! my dad insisted that any computer we got had a keyboard so we could do something other than play games on it. Worked nicely as I learned to program. Very smart my dad!
@vwbusguy we had a Compaq Presario 5000. I'm pretty sure it was the AMD duron model with 64mb of ram. I just remember thinking that color on it was cool because the only computers I had seen before that were completely beige lol
@the_skotts We had one of those for our 3rd family computer. Came with Windows 95 and we eventually upgraded it to 98SE. I remember playing Final Fantasy 7 on it. Ours had either a Pentium 2 or Pentium MMX, I can't remember which.
@vwbusguy
First family computer was a DEC Rainbow that my dad brought home from work … after it was surplused in 1990 or thereabouts. Early adopters my parents were not.
@vwbusguy
Dual CPUs didn’t mean anything to me at the time, so I couldn’t tell you anything about that feature … or pretty much anything else. I vaguely remember playing Zork on it but that’s about all
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