PxlDan

Today is the 25th anniversary of the personal computer; which marks the marriage of Microsoft and the disk operating system (MSDOS) backed by what was then the "Microsoft' sized business behemoth known as IBM. Of course the mistake IBM made was not getting exclusive rights to the operating system and now Bill Gates is the richest man in the universe. To honor this event PC WORLD put together a list  of the 25 greatest PCs of all Time. The Atari 800 - my Second PC (the Atari 400 was the first) came in at number 14. My brothers and I spent many nights traveling through Zork (without the aid of graphics), blasting Tie-fighter-like ships in Space Raiders and saving my 128-color rich cities from certain doom in Missile Command.  My BASIC programs were stored on a cassette player and I had a voice synthesizer programmed to say "Shall we play a game?". Yes, let's do. Actually, not really. I got nostalgic a while back and installed an Atari emulator. Those games really blow today. I'll stick with Halo.

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