[ale] C64 turn 30 years old this week.

[Denny Chambers]

The C64 was my first computer. I still have mine, and it still works.

On 1/6/2012 8:20 AM, Richard Bronosky wrote:
> I grew up poor in an Eastern Kentucky coal mining town. When the
> Commodore 64 was all the rage... my Dad bought me a VIC-20. If it
> weren't for FOSS, the Internet, and a mother who told me "1. Get every
> bit of free education you can. 2. Learn to speak like the people on
> TV. 3. Don't get anyone pregnant.", I'd be working in a coal mine
> instead of developing Free Software.
>
> Happy Birthday Commodore 64!
>
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Chuck Payne<terrorpup at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> For those of us that have been computing over 30 years.
>>
>> The first fight about computers wasn't the Apple vs. PC or Linux vs. Windows.
>>
>> It was Atari vs. Commodore.
>>
>> This week, the C64 is turning 30 years. Hard to believe that, I
>> remember the C64. I had an Atari 130 XE, but it was cool still to talk
>> about who has the best computer. At that time, computers where 8-Bit,
>> with avg. memory was 64K. Storage was either a tape drive or 5 1/2"
>> floppy and a monitor was your TV.
>>
>> Makes me miss Atari days of 300 Baud modems dailing into Compuserver
>> to play the last text adventure, dail out state piracy BBS to download
>> the latest software, spend countless hours typing code out of Byte
>> Magazine to play some simple game, explaining to my parents "No I
>> wasn't trying to hack Arkansas Power and Light, I just found they have
>> BBS I could play Net Trek on", using a hole punch to make it so I
>> could write on the back side of 5 1/2 floppy or going to the local
>> user group to talk about cool things you can do with your computer.
>>
>> http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/168019,vintage-tech-looking-back-at-the-commodore-64.aspx
>>
>> As the saying goes, "Things may change, but the remain the same."
>>
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