The PX8 must come first in any list. This machine represented the ultimate of what could be done in packaging Source: silicium cpmepsonpx8.htmcomputer hardware in 1984. Owners of PX8s are more sentimental about their machines than any other group of microcomputer collectors for a reason. This little machine makes you want to go back to 1984 and just er work with the machine fulltime. It has a builtin tape drive for backup purposes, two 32k EPROM drives that you can hotswap, and a RAM disk. Features like autooff and autoon and sleep mode were standard, and make this machine seem so strangely up to date 20 years on. It came with WordStar, a good Basic and decent utilities for connecting it to the outside world.

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