Im not versed, known, approximately close, beside, within, anywhere near the knowledge on oldcomputers, but its getting a little out of hand here. Im just saying but there is a lot of hostility here.
Not at all.
It's always fun watching people make utter fools of themselves. Haven't laughed this much since that Will Ferrell + cheerleader vid.
Posting nonsense? I've posted evidence more than once now...where is yours other than you say so? A single piece of evidence to counter-act mine?
I don't need evidence, i have experience. As do the other posters who counter your argument.
PC gaming may not be my first forte, but I'm VERY interested in the history of gaming and have a shelf full of books on the subject.
You weren't actually active during this period of gaming then, so this "qualified opinion" of yours is just based on hearsay.
The rest of us know that you can read-up on anything through thousands of books, but you don't get to call yourself an expert if you haven't used any of the items in question during the period. It's like being a Mac-addict and reading through the "Junior Guide to Microsoft" and then applying for work in Windows Tech-help. Clueless doesn't even begin to cover it.
And your argument seems to keep changing. The discussion originally was that no one called them PCs. Which I then countered with sure they do, they used it in marketing all the time.
Marketers are not consumers. Duh.
I've never once backed down from my argument that they were indeed referred to as PCs for a time, and I still don't. I know that PCs are Windows-systems nowadays. But the fact still stands that non-IBMs were referred to as PCs for a time.
Except they weren't. There was always the IBM/PC Compatibles, and the others known by name. IBM had a range of PC-entitled computers and surprise, surprise that's where the expression "PC Compatibles" comes from. Even if guest Commodore activist Turnip McTurgeltoo said the C64 was a "Personal Computer", good for him. It was not a PC, or PC Compatible and even Commodore customer care would never say it was (Though in this particular instance, i can only surmise as i don't have direct experience of Commodore Customer Care - See what i did there? I admitted i had no actual hands-on experience of something. You should try it sometime).
I'm sure if i looked hard enough i could find some official Commodore documents to reflect this, or some advert on youtube that shows a big-haired brunette with bright red lipstick using a headset the size of a satellite; but i don't have as much free time as most.
But since you believe your own word over the likes of Commodore, Apple, and Radio Shack here's some more evidence...
Or how about the Amstrad CPC? I don't even need to post a link for that one, do I? It's in the name for crying out loud!
Except no one called it a PC - Which is the whole point of this discussion. Funnily enough the CPC was known as a Micro Computer (again i have ACTUAL EXPERIENCE of this). Here, as you like adverts so much:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vClQZZO-TQThere is actually huge diversity in the world and just because something is popular in your tiny bubble doesn't actually mean it's the norm. You have great difficulty grasping this concept. Prior to using the internet i'd never heard of Radio Shack and neither had anyone outside of your country. I know this sounds strange to you but there are actually a whole range of electrical stores, systems, names and identifications outside of whatever zit of existence you reside in.
This appears to have turned into a Q3 vs UT style discussion. Though the difference here would be that you haven't actually played either game but reckon Q3 is better just because Stephen Hawking said it was once on NBS Kids.
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