Rejoice!!!

The Commodore 64 Lives Again

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/...ge/?test=faces

 

Never had a Commodore, so I will try to contain my enthusiasm.

Spent plenty of time on an Apple II, a TRS-80 (Trash 80), and my roomate had a Kaypro.

Any smart phone made today had more computing power than all of those put together, lol. A lot more.

 

The first successful program I wrote was on a Commodore VIC 20 that was a display unit in a Base Exchange store. It was in the very early 80s. That experience partly motivated me to pursue a second career in Computer Science and microprocessor design.

My first internet experience was with a 1200 baud modem. (I managed to skip the 300 baud telephone handset experience.)

Your truck's PCM has more computing power than the computers that were used in the Apollo Space Program.

- Jack

 

First video game I played on a computer was on a C64. It was called "Wings of Fury". Totally awesome game.

 

They will be bringing back the ZX81 next!!!!

 

Beach Head was my favorite C64 game.
I started with a Vic 20 and my cousin's Timex Sinclair. I had a C64 and then an Amiga. I still have my Amiga4000 with Video Toaster. Haven't turned it on in a while.

 

Wow.....that's a blast from the past....

 

Same here. My first program was on the Vic 20 with a 9" blk & Wht TV for a monitor. Do you remember that magazine called, Basic? It had sample programs that you could copy and then try to modify and stuff. Then I got the C-64. They came out with the C-128, but I had already gone in the Army by then.

I did use a 300 baud modem, but not the handset type, it hooked to an expansion card (or serial port.. I forget) in the CPU case. In total I think I used 300, 1200, 1900, 2400-duplex, 9600.

I setup a BBS site using Red Ryder software and it became one of the biggest and most popular BBS sites in the Twin Cities!

It's almost hard to believe the stuff we have nowdays.