Old Computer and PC Brands
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Agreed I always lusted after their desktops. They looked amazing.
Falcon Northwest were another and surprisingly they are still around.
This is how I felt about Alienware, before Dell bought them and systematically removed their USP. Google what Alienwares used to look like, quite different to now with their lairy paint schemes.
Amstrad, maker of absolutely everything, had a PC2386, CPC464 and Spectrum+2 from them.
Best Amstrad product I probably owned though was a NICAM Stereo VHS Video Recorder, sounded absolutely brilliant when you connected up a set of headphones and watched a film like Robocop.
Best Amstrad product I probably owned though was a NICAM Stereo VHS Video Recorder, sounded absolutely brilliant when you connected up a set of headphones and watched a film like Robocop.
I was never fond of Amstrad's foray into the PC market (PC1512 and 1640 come to mind), letters pages of PC Mags of the time were always awash with owners complaining about unreliability and cheap/non-standard components limiting upgrades. There is however one PC that Amstrad made that did apeal to me (I was a kid afterall) - The Amstrad Mega PC. A fusion of 386 and a Megadrive.
ahh yes alienware and voodoo...too expensive though...
evesham was the "poor man" year 9 kid's more achievable lust
I remember seeing this on that afternoon ITV 3 video game segment in the kids shows back in the 90s, wanted one so badly!
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Who could forget Sinclair? My first experience of a computer was a ZX80.
I worked for Tiny for about a year or so, maybe 18 months around 2000 in Lakeside in Essex.
Not the best PCs for a gamer barring one or two specific models but interest free credit made buying a PC possible for a lot of families who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford one.
Not the best PCs for a gamer barring one or two specific models but interest free credit made buying a PC possible for a lot of families who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford one.
Not sure if it's been mentioned, but cyrix processors, my dad bought a 686 p166 possibly 96 from memory, was a god awful machine crashed more often than it worked, regardless of various fresh installs drivers etc.
After a couple of years of us trying to get it stable, gave it to computer shops to get it stable, nothing worked so changed it for a pentium 3 in 99
After a couple of years of us trying to get it stable, gave it to computer shops to get it stable, nothing worked so changed it for a pentium 3 in 99
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Had a similar issue with an IBM Blue Lightning 486 75, which I think was based on a Cyrix chip. Could never run for more than about 45mins without crashing.
Swapped out for an Intel 486DX2.
I always wanted an Alienware PC with the case shaped like an alien head...
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Does anyone remember Silica Shop? They had stores in London and Sidcup iirc. They used to sell everything from Atari Sets and Amiga to games consoles and even PCs. Used to have rather colourful and eye catching adverts in many magazines back in the 90s and 00s.
Don't remember them.
But sound similar to special reserve,
Dabs.com was once awesome aswell, then BT bought them out and promptly killed the business