I still think that Amiga were far in front of any other OS/Computer at that time with both OS and graphics!!
The Amiga graphics kicked ass..

IMHO, Microsoft still stuggles to make an operating system, and it still does not compare with the Amiga line of personal computers and it's operating system.

I was fortunate enough to own the Amiga 2000 and Amiga 4000 (Video Toaster 4000) in the early 1990's. I had a video production studio.

The machines never crashed. Even with heavy 3-d animation rendering.

Funny thing though. The Amiga 2000 had 1mb of ram, 68030 motorola processor at 25mhz. I added a gvp 68030 accelerator, 16 mb and a 105 mb hard disk and that combination cost me close to 1600.00 back then. You actually had to boot from a 3.5 floppy.

The State of the Art Amiga 4000 was the 68040 running at 40mhz if my memory serves me correctly. I think I spent close to 10,000.00 on that machine with the Video Toaster, The Kitchen Sync (tbc), the extra memory, I dont remember the hard disk size.

What a sad day when Commodore Amiga died.. Bring back Workbench 2.0

I'd love to say i'm stuck in the 90's, but i'm actually stuck in the 60's and 70's

Thanks for listening !

art, depends how much midi you chucked at it and the program you used.. I used c-lab and the timing was far better on that then in cubase. Some of the studios I used to go had all the ports filled up with the add-on midi carts you could get.. even the rs232 ports at the back..I think it went errm from midi channel 1-16 but banks a-f or g..something crazy like that

My st was upp'd to either 2 or 4mb, can't recall now,haven't booted it in years. although after that cubase didn't work after the upgrade for some odd reason. The timing on c-lab / notator was tighter/ better than cubase if you had loads of midi streaming.

ORIGINAL: Fog

art, depends how much midi you chucked at it and the program you used.. I used c-lab and the timing was far better on that then in cubase. Some of the studios I used to go had all the ports filled up with the add-on midi carts you could get.. even the rs232 ports at the back..I think it went errm from midi channel 1-16 but banks a-f or g..something crazy like that

My st was upp'd to either 2 or 4mb, can't recall now,haven't booted it in years. although after that cubase didn't work after the upgrade for some odd reason. The timing on c-lab / notator was tighter/ better than cubase if you had loads of midi streaming.

I used cubase with one add on midi port (all those channels devoted to my akai samplers ---wooooeeee).

I never had a problem ever

those were the days (well maybe)

it just did what it did and didnt try to be anything else---plus you could get about 20 songs on a floppy

Mine was the Commodore CBM (like the PET)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_PET

I found it on the side of the road in about '81 in a snow bank while I was cross-country skiing next to a highway in MA. I unfroze it in my friends bathtub, plugged it in and it worked.

I didn't make much music on it, although I did write a program to make it repeat "Ken is Great" 10 thousand times.

Ken

It was an IBM XT Clone with a 10 MB hard drive. I had a Dr. Friend below my office help set me up. He was designing software to perform laser surgery of the brain with robotics.

Tandy 6000, 8MHz, 1MB RAM, 8" Floppy Drive, 15MB internal Hard Drive, Xenix OS

I feel really old

IBM JX
http://www.thepcmuseum.com/ibm/IBMJX/default.htm

No way could we afford the massive hard drive for it.
http://www.thepcmuseum.com/ibm/JXHD/default.htm

My kids loved the games that came with it, I was really impressed with First Choice integrated software suite loaded from 3.5" floppies, spreadsheet, word processing and a data base. Because everything ran in text mode, it was lighning fast scrolling through a document.

Me circa 1978 on an IBM 370 / Model 138 Mainframe - My first real computer to play with........

http://i396.photobucket.com/albums/pp47/stubbsy1960/KioskIBM360.jpg

Garry Kiosk


Edit; Dammit I cant get that image to load !!!

I had some kind of TI that I never used - it had no programs. The next year (1984?) - I got the Yamaha Cm5x or whatever. Very cool. I had to wait to get a disk drive until christmas (another $500). I wish the drive worked - I still have some cool songs on it. Built in fm synth, sequencer, editor. You couldn't sequence and use the synth - not enough horsepower so I bought a second unit. Cutting edge back then.

@

TI 99 4A

Atari 1040ste updated with 4mb of memory. It needed 500kb for Cubase and 400kb for its op system or TOS.

Coupled to a b/w monitor I was able to record midi alas no audio.

Still have and it works. Sits in a cupboard with all the floppys and manuals.

Ah...as far as for music, it was an AMD K62 circa 1999 with Pro Audio 8...guess I got started a little later than most of you...

OK, Go to HKEY LOCAL MACHINE.......

I think part of this monstrosity was probably not local at all, out in a neighboring zip-code. Yowzers!

First computer was a Commodore 64.

Second was a Compaq Portable. Tricked out with a Plus Development Corp. Hard Card, a ginormous 10 MB (yes MB) hard drive on an expansion card.

I mean, kids these days. What with all their interwebs and computers that run without you having to stoke coal in the firebox.

ORIGINAL: Greg Hendershott [Cakewalk]

Tricked out with a Plus Development Corp. Hard Card, a ginormous 10 MB (yes MB) hard drive on an expansion card.

That's hilarious. I remember when my brother-in-law scored a 20 MB hard drive and we just thought he was insane.

"What are you ever gonna do with all that space?!?"

Jon