Poll: Your favorite PC era...

[Chaotic42]

Reading the K6 thread made me think about the past...

 

[aircooled]

Where the Commodre 64 era ? (most of the entire 80's)

 

[Snapster]

Nostalgia sake it's the late 80's early 90's but truthfully I like it more and more everyday as things get faster etc. I want quantum computing!

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: aircooled
Where the Commodre 64 era ? (most of the entire 80's)

Well, I had to decide on some managable amount of options to break it down in to. I'd pick La Revalucion for that.

 

[Czar]

386/486 and the glory days of Sierra

 

[Pocatello]

I have to say right now. It's certainly cheaper and easier to upgrade than ever before.

 

[Acanthus]

weird post! id have to say i liked the Intel/Rambus era the most for some reason. I just thought it was very unique the way things worked out for Rambus and Intel. Considering where they are both going today (we might see another era).

 

[Scouzer]

Notice how nobody voted for the '94-'97 era? Fvcking Windows 95 trash!!!

 

[skace]

Late 486 / Early Pentium -- Sierra Games, Doom Games, Quake was exploding. Everything was competitive and new. Nobody cheated. Websites were all free and also ad-free. Downloading was all free and easy, despite slow speeds.

 

[Schadenfroh]

when 3dfx was king

 

[Electrode]

94-97 era. Sierra, Doom and Quake, and an endless supply of shareware and free games. Not to mention unbloated office productivity software that didn't pester you with annoying paper clips.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Might be hard to vote for things one did not experience, so I expect the first half of the poll might not be selected too often. Me being older than PC's (imagine that!)

I vote for the C64 days.

Who remembers what a Grue is

 

[skace]

Well I wasnt around pre-81, but I had plenty of experience pre-486 and I still think that was the glory days. I remember my dad gave me an Atari PC (Colecio I Think?). It had the first color version of rogue, but I accidently broke the disk drive after using it constantly and my dad couldn't afford a replacement. It was an awesome toy at the time.

 

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
when 3dfx was king

I agree those were the days...I remember when I bought my first voodoo card paid about 300 for it!! I thought I had the world by the ars.


Ausm

 

[aircooled]

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Might be hard to vote for things one did not experience, so I expect the first half of the poll might not be selected too often. Me being older than PC's (imagine that!)

I vote for the C64 days.

Who remembers what a Grue is

Ahhhh....Zork

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: Electrode
94-97 era. Sierra, Doom and Quake, and an endless supply of shareware and free games. Not to mention unbloated office productivity software that didn't pester you with annoying paper clips.

The Doom era rocked hard, but I'd have to vote for 92-93 anyway, the period in which I became a hardcore gamer thanks to MUDs.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith
Might be hard to vote for things one did not experience, so I expect the first half of the poll might not be selected too often. Me being older than PC's (imagine that!)

I vote for the C64 days.

Who remembers what a Grue is

I had a C64, that sounds familiar, but I don't remember what it is.

I remember MULE, Boulderdash (great game), and Maniac Mansion.

 

[mpitts]

89-93

My first REAL PC was a 486SX/25. I upgraded it to a DX2/66 and played The 7th Guest, Doom and Doom II on that thing. I also was a BBS/Internet rat, constantly dialed up with my 14.4 sportster modem to either a local BBS or the local FreeNet.

 

[Karsten]

NOW and the next 6 month!

I don't think too fondly of the time where a 386 cost 3k. It was always a struggle to squeze out more to make things run right. The last 1-2 years I had systems that still have plenty of horsepower to run everything (not the highest res, but run fine). So now and the near future is just fine. Especialy now that we all know that Doom3 won't be out this year and all the people that said "You must upgrade" are way off!

 

[Spac3d]

I hate them all.

They all ruined my life

 

[burnedout]

"La Revalucion"

I earned my AAS in "Data Processing" during that time. But Gawd, I feel old.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Ahh, nostalgia. I remember it well.


Sinclair Spectrum 48K. Z80 baby, Zilog pwnz

 

[Chaotic42]

Bump for more votes. I'm really interested in this topic.

 

[boyRacer]

p3...

 

[jurzdevil]

the p2 era.

thats when multimedia and games became practical and better. graphics cards were appearing, not just 2d stuff anymore. plus the first cdr drives were available.