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I was predominantly a PC user. In fact I had a side hustle repairing PCs in the 80s and 90s. It wasn’t fun but it was tax free pocket money. Every time I got t
by hnlmorg 1y ago
I was predominantly a PC user. In fact I had a side hustle repairing PCs in the 80s and 90s. It wasn’t fun but it was tax free pocket money.
Every time I got to play on non-PC home computers I’d be blown away by how much better those machines were.
These days I collect retro hardware and the Atari STs and Amigas are still easier to maintain.
So my opinions aren’t that of a Amiga fanboy. PCs in the 80s were really that shit.
I do think a lot of the problem was Microsoft though. I never liked any of Microsoft’s software even back then. And that was long before they gained the reputation that so many older timers like myself still remind people about. I actually wrote my own windowing system in Pascal because I was fed up with early Windows. It wasn’t a patch on GEM but back then I didn’t know you could run GEM on a PC.
- spankibalt 1y agoFair enough. I never had serious problems with my PCs... or Microsoft's OS offerings. And all that maintenance song and dance around these machines, before Plug & Play became reliable, came almost naturally to us. No surprise here, we were insatiably curious, able to read the manuals, and not afraid to ask.