Back when the Earth was young (around 1980) I had a Sega SCH300. That was an 8 bit machine and I had one of the first home user printers with it. That had a paper feed on a roll and used little ink pens to print with. Games were fun but I dont recollect any flight sim there. Then I got an Atari 1040ST and graduated to Bubble Bobble. Anyone remember those? I also had one of the first spreadsheets for it and that was by Abacus Publishing. It was called PowerLedger ST and it was pretty good for the day with cell addresses being in the format of numbers across the top instead of letters. That mean a cell could be called 1,1 instead of A1 etc. Anyone else remember other software in a pre microsoft world?
Other early home computers were the TRS80 which I think might have had a flight sim. A contemporary of that was the Commodore. The Amiga then came out with better graphics, and that was the gamers machine back then and the Amstrad which would have won the prize for neatness with its 3 inch disk drive in lieu of the usual 5 and 1/4 inch. I also recall that when the first "normal" types were released they came up with a graphical interface called GEM and that was like windows Version 1.
