Thursday, January 21, 2010

The cool wall



Computers and Consoles
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IBM PC
Tatung Einstine
Amiga CDTV
New Brain
Commodore16
Spectrum+
Vic 20
Oric / Atmos
Philips CDi
Konix
3DO
TI99/4A
IBM 360
C64gs
TRS80
BBC Micro
Amstrad GX4000
Amstrad PCW
Sinclair Zx80
Altair 8800
Nintendo Virtual Boy
Dragon 32/64
Philips Videopac
Elan Enterprise
PC 200
Sun Ultra
Sun Sparc
Mattell Aquarius
Cambridge Z88

FM Towns
Plus/4
Commodore 116
Atari 400/800/1200xl/130XE/65XE
Amiga CD32
Amiga 2000
Amiga 4000
Atari 2800
Atari ST
Spectrum 16k/+2/128
Commodore 128 / 128D
SAM Coupé
Commodore Pet
Atari Jaguar
Sega Saturn
Nintendo Game Cube
Atari Lynx
Sinclair ZX81
Nuon
Acorn Electron
Acorn Atom
Amstrad CPC
MSX
Archimedes
XBox
Sinclair QL
Playstation 3
Gameboy Advance
PDP 8
Dec Vax
PSP
NeoGeo Pocket
Commodore 64sx
Vectrex
Nintendo Nes
Sega Master System

Atari 2600
Amiga 1000
Amiga 3000
Amstrad 6128 Plus
Cray
PC Engine
Megadrive
NeXT
NeoGeo
Mac
Thinking Machine
Nintendo DS
Playstation
XBox360
Dreamcast
SGI Workstations
N64

Magnavox Odyssey
Pong
Sinclair Spectrum 48k/+3
Commodore 64
Apple II+
Colecovision
SNES
Playstation2
Amiga 500
Amiga 1200
Gameboy
Wii


A little while back the members of our team during a week of coffee breaks came up with the following cool wall. It was a hard fought list with many arguments about the virtue of each machine, but in the end we had our definitive list of old machines. Fans of TopGear will know all about the cool wall, and know it's nothing to do with how good anything is - just that it's cool or not. So heres our list... let battle commence!

Now remember... it's how COOL they were, not how useful, or powerful. The Plus/4 is a great little machine, but I'm not gonna pretend its cool. Also machines like the Amiga 4000 were awesome! But too expensive to be cool. So there you go - thats the rules.