I started Msx cause 1 of my best friends had one,

And after i started using MSX it was way better, especially the strong Basic it has.
not to mention the choices of msx types you had, over 10 diff kinds of msx1 alone
while they had that 1 ugly version of the C16 and C64..

i started with the GOLDSTAR FC-200, then after a couple of years i bought my
first msx 2 a VG8235 then later i bought the SONY F1XDJ 2+ also a VERY NICE
computer but only 64k memory, in the same time i bought me a ATARI ST (for music
purposes) also (no commodore)

And finally a TURBO-R GT

And to be honost i still think the MSX is the best there is, even when i like my atari
and my pc nowadays i still treasure my msx hobby, and will never get rid of it......

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In 1989, my dad bought an MSX2, a 8245. This was the first computer to enter the family ever, and I was immediately addicted to it . Played Road Figher and Tank Batallion for hours

Honestly, I never got to play a C64, never ever. So I don't know at all what that machine has to offer At some point, it must have been 1996 or something, an Amiga A1200 entered the house, which I still have. I was immediately shocked by the high quality games for it. I still have all of that, but I don't play as often anymore as I used to. In 2002/2003 or something, I bought my own FS-A1ST. Which is still THE treasure here. I have MSXes of my own since 1992 or something. Started with 8250, then 8255, then 8255 w/ 2+ and 512kB and DOS2, then all of that plus an 8245. So, the majority is philips here

The Reason?

Machines with Software eXchangeability

My dad bought an MSX and not a C64. I guess because some of his brothers also had an MSX. I didn't care: I just wanted a computer

yeah, kinda the same here.. it just happened to be MSX, and then we happened to like it a lot.

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The Reason? Machines with Software eXchangeability

Oh but the C64 had that too, even more so than MSX since there were an awful lot more of them

Actually, after wearing out 2 C64's the choice was between a C128 and an MSX2 (8245), somewhere back in 1986... thoughest choice you can give a 6-year-old boy. It took my dad and the salesman a long time to convince me the MSX would be the right choice...

I didn't know the MSX had a higher profit margin...

My first computer was an Atari 800XL. In the '90s I got PCs and internet access and then I learned about cool computers such as MSX and Amiga which I had never seen before (not too common here in the USA.)

When my parents decided to buy me a computer, I basically had the choice between an MSX2 or an Amiga. IIRC they were in the same price range back then, 1988, and the plain ansd simple reason I chose the MSX2 was twofold:

1 - I did know a couple of people who had an MSX, but no one who had an Amiga
2 - MSX2 was easier to program

My father did bring a C-64 into the house, a couple of years before I finally got my own MSX, but I remember the loooooooooooong tape loading (my MSX2 had an FDD!), having to type weird codes (PRINT "<heart symbol>" to do CLS ) and POKE and SYS around to get a bit of graphics on screen (hurray for MSX BASIC!) and even more POKEs and stuff just to do PLAY "ABC". Nah, C-64 never was an option, really, although playing Squish-em, Fort Apocalypse and Manic Miner (hi dvik ) was real fun.

And we did have an ZX-81, too (Or actually, a Timex 1000), bought in Germany for only DM99 (about 50 euro). That was fun: 1 K of RAM, part of which was allocated for video (dynamically!). A friend sold (or gave) us his old 16K memory upgrade; in which we had to replace some transistor every now and then for th ething to work. In the end some of the memory chips grew bad, which made a couple of address ranges unusable. Makes for very interesting programming


EDIT: <off-topic>
ML programming on a 1K ZX-81:
- write your ML program, on paper
- grab your Z80 book and assemble to byte code, on paper
- grab your ZX-81 manual and translate byte code to ZX-81 characters (non-ASCII, IIRC!)
- write a BASIC program like this

1 REM <insert all them weird characters that make up your program here>
2 ...insert some POKEs here to start the ML program

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Ehhh... actualy, al my friends owned a C64. So as a little boy I wanted that too. My parents went to the shop, but the salesman convinced them to buy an MSX (Sanyo MPC-100)

THANK YOU, SALESMAN !!!! MSX turned out to be a much "funner" homecomputer!

Here in Europe (at least in Spain) Commodore was not wery-well published. It was a successful in US but overseas Sinclair and Amstrad rules. MSX comes from Japan, as far as US for us, but japaneses do what the US doesn't know to do: sell computers

I did not know Commodore until the Amiga... nor Apple until de McIntosh. In 80's US computer sellers usually cares to sell inside their frontiers.

Anyway now I know both of them, and C64 doesn't have Konami cartridges... so I prefer MSX.

My dad's friend owned a ZX81 which was suppa. First time he introduced me to this new technology I was hooked in general. WHOW, computers own! I started coding right away. In that same period my uncle told me he just bought a C64 to play games and invited me to come over and see whaz up. Well, I wasn't that impressed. LOOOOONG loading, boring games. I got back to coding instead (on paper!! since I didn't own a comp myself).
Not long after that another uncle bought an MSX, and after just one visit I found my self looking for books to program on MSX. I like the comp so much better than that c64. Still I didn't own any myself.

Started to hang out at family and friends who had one. But I wanted one for myself. At the time I got enough money the mighty MSX2 was just released and I bought myself a vg8235. Jup that Philips thingy with a single sided drive. I "used" it for about 2 years and moved on to a sony hitbit 700D and later on to MtR.

Some friends owned a c64/atari/amiga. I wasn't all to impressed (well the Amiga was nice, but hell MSX rules) and vica versa

I did some programming on BBC and Spectrum in the meantime but MSX was/is the bomb.

My dad used the msx for work (shop that now called super de boer), so we gotta have one too
and it was a NMS-8255, i learned from him.. WAIT.. is the led off, remove the disk ahh the good old days.. i HAD a Turbo-R GT it's dead