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Oh geez. I heard the name 'commodore' a few minutes ago and it took me back.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back!
Who else here had one of these? I remember the Christmas my Dad got this for me. I remember the hours of typing crap in to get a picture on the screen or worse...
The hours of typing those lines in and having made a mistake unknowingly somewhere and nothing.
TRS-80, Vic-20, C-64, etc. Nothing beats buying a game on a cassette tape, lol. Or storing your programs on a tape only to accidentally record over it when taping a song off the radio... wow talk about jumping in the wayback machine.
The 64 was the first computer we ever had.I was probably 7 or 8...
I still remember the Load *8 or whatever it was you had to type to boot it.
There was alot of cool games for its time.
I bet those things cost 600-800$ when they came out,im not 100% sure.
I had a C64 with the big 5.25" floppy drive that was almost as big as the computer itself. And of course the FastLoad cartridge! I remember when I got a Panasonic dot matrix printer and I had to manually program the word processor with all of the printer-specific codes for font size, bold, italics, etc.
I did homework on a Commodore 128 and a dot matrix printer.
My love of video games stems from an old Mickey Mouse game that took like 5 minutes to load each screen. The Donald Duck one was "revolutionary" because Donald actually could move on the screen.
All I can really remember is the keyboard thing itself. I do not recall having anything else besides it, which hooked up to the tv I had in my bedroom... wow
I wrote my first commercial program on a C-64. In some ways it was more advanced than the Apple ][ or PC clones. Towards the very end, there were some demo programs that fully utilized the screen, color, and sound features and were simply amazing.
BBSs. Still a very few, most are on the net now. FidoNet. The early Compuserve and Prodigy.
First modem was 300 baud (1983) and soon replaced with 1200, then 2400, finally 9600. Had accounts on several BBSs. FidoNet was great; I think it still exists. My first big service account was on Genie, a service like Prodigy or CompuServe run by GE.
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