[ale] C64 turn 30 years old this week.

[John Pilman]

I got the 16 bit TI994A which came out later that same year.  It has
three processors, one CPU, one for IO and one for graphics.  I later
added the speech processor module and the expansion box which gave me
a floppy drive.  I still remember buying my first disk at Radio Shack
for about $12 - single sided single density = 90k.

Happy Birthday C64

...John


On 1/6/12, Denny Chambers <dchambers at bugfixer.net> wrote:
> 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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