Now heres and argument waiting to happen but in your opinion which computer / console was the best in the 80s?
Perhaps it died quickly or staggered on in to the 90s....
what are your thoughts on what should of made it in our living rooms and should be around today , should PC World or Wall mart be selling the revised , evolved version today?
a pointless question but fun anyway
80s time line (via wiki)
1980: Commodore VIC-20 (N. Am.), under US$300; first computer of any kind to pass one million sold.
1980: TRS-80 Color Computer (N. Am.), Motorola 6809, optional OS-9 multi-user multi-tasking.
June 1981: Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, based on the less successful TI-99/4, first to add sprite graphics.
1981: Sinclair ZX81 (Europe), £49.95 in kit form; £69.95 pre-built, released as Timex Sinclair 1000 in US in 1982.
1981: BBC Micro (Europe) (premier educational computer in the UK for a decade
April 1982: Sinclair ZX Spectrum (Europe), best-selling British home computer; catalysed the UK software industry,
June 1982: MicroBee (Australia), initially as a kit, then as a finished unit.
August 1982: Dragon 32(UK) became, for a short time, the best-selling home micro in the United Kingdom.
August 1982: Commodore 64 , custom graphic & synthesizer chipset, best-selling computer model of all time: ~ 17 million sold.
Jan. 1983: Apple IIe, Apple II enhanced. Reduced component count and production costs enabled high-volume production, until 1993.
Apr. 1984: Apple IIc, Apple II compact. No expansion slots
1983: Acorn Electron A stripped down 'sibling' of the BBC microcomputer with limited functionality.
1983: Coleco Adam, one of the few home computers to be sold as a complete system with storage device and printer; cousin to the ColecoVision game console; one of the first systems to be "orphaned" by its maker, a casualty of the North American video game crash of 1983.
1983: MSX, a computer 'reference design' by ASCII and Microsoft, produced by several companies: ~ 5 million sold.
1983: VTech Laser 200, entry level computer aimed at being the cheapest on market, also sold as Salora Fellow, Texet TX8000 & Dick Smith VZ 200.
1984: The Apple Macintosh is introduced, providing many consumers their first look at a graphical user interface, which would eventually replace the home computer as it was known.
1984: Amstrad/Schneider, CPC, PCW ranges (Europe), British standard before IBM PC; German sales next to C64.
1985: Elektronika BK-0010, one of the first 16-bit home computers, and the only "official" home computer in USSR.
1985: Robotron KC 85/1 (Europe), one of the few home computers produced by the East German VEB Robotron-Meßelektronik "Otto Schön" Dresden.
1985: Atari ST (N. Am.), first with built-in MIDI interface; also 1MB RAM for less than US$1000; Motorola 68000 processor.
1985: Commodore 128 Final, most advanced 8-bit Commodore, retained full C64 compatibility
July 1985: Commodore Amiga (N. Am.), custom chip set for graphics and digital audio; multitasking OS with both GUI and CLI interfaces; Motorola 68000 processor.
1987: Acorn Archimedes (Europe), launched with an 8 MHz 32-bit ARM 2 microprocessor, with between 512kB and 4MB of RAM, and an optional 20 or 40MB hard drive.
1989: SAM Coupé (Europe), based on 6 MHz Z80 microprocessor; marketed as a logical upgrade from the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
Perhaps it died quickly or staggered on in to the 90s....
what are your thoughts on what should of made it in our living rooms and should be around today , should PC World or Wall mart be selling the revised , evolved version today?
a pointless question but fun anyway
80s time line (via wiki)
1980: Commodore VIC-20 (N. Am.), under US$300; first computer of any kind to pass one million sold.
1980: TRS-80 Color Computer (N. Am.), Motorola 6809, optional OS-9 multi-user multi-tasking.
June 1981: Texas Instruments TI-99/4A, based on the less successful TI-99/4, first to add sprite graphics.
1981: Sinclair ZX81 (Europe), £49.95 in kit form; £69.95 pre-built, released as Timex Sinclair 1000 in US in 1982.
1981: BBC Micro (Europe) (premier educational computer in the UK for a decade
April 1982: Sinclair ZX Spectrum (Europe), best-selling British home computer; catalysed the UK software industry,
June 1982: MicroBee (Australia), initially as a kit, then as a finished unit.
August 1982: Dragon 32(UK) became, for a short time, the best-selling home micro in the United Kingdom.
August 1982: Commodore 64 , custom graphic & synthesizer chipset, best-selling computer model of all time: ~ 17 million sold.
Jan. 1983: Apple IIe, Apple II enhanced. Reduced component count and production costs enabled high-volume production, until 1993.
Apr. 1984: Apple IIc, Apple II compact. No expansion slots
1983: Acorn Electron A stripped down 'sibling' of the BBC microcomputer with limited functionality.
1983: Coleco Adam, one of the few home computers to be sold as a complete system with storage device and printer; cousin to the ColecoVision game console; one of the first systems to be "orphaned" by its maker, a casualty of the North American video game crash of 1983.
1983: MSX, a computer 'reference design' by ASCII and Microsoft, produced by several companies: ~ 5 million sold.
1983: VTech Laser 200, entry level computer aimed at being the cheapest on market, also sold as Salora Fellow, Texet TX8000 & Dick Smith VZ 200.
1984: The Apple Macintosh is introduced, providing many consumers their first look at a graphical user interface, which would eventually replace the home computer as it was known.
1984: Amstrad/Schneider, CPC, PCW ranges (Europe), British standard before IBM PC; German sales next to C64.
1985: Elektronika BK-0010, one of the first 16-bit home computers, and the only "official" home computer in USSR.
1985: Robotron KC 85/1 (Europe), one of the few home computers produced by the East German VEB Robotron-Meßelektronik "Otto Schön" Dresden.
1985: Atari ST (N. Am.), first with built-in MIDI interface; also 1MB RAM for less than US$1000; Motorola 68000 processor.
1985: Commodore 128 Final, most advanced 8-bit Commodore, retained full C64 compatibility
July 1985: Commodore Amiga (N. Am.), custom chip set for graphics and digital audio; multitasking OS with both GUI and CLI interfaces; Motorola 68000 processor.
1987: Acorn Archimedes (Europe), launched with an 8 MHz 32-bit ARM 2 microprocessor, with between 512kB and 4MB of RAM, and an optional 20 or 40MB hard drive.
1989: SAM Coupé (Europe), based on 6 MHz Z80 microprocessor; marketed as a logical upgrade from the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
spend all the time just for a few games that where great.. I was just at the right age to be amazed and the Amiga 500 was a dream come true 
