In the Amateur Radio community, C64's were among the very first to mix radio with data. I remember one sitting atop Black Mountain above the Santa Clara Valley doing packet radio long before the general public even had a clue what internet was. We had arpa.net addresses well in advance of 1200 baud telephone dial-ups. Mine were 44.24. I think.
In the professional broadcast world there are still AM stations using c64's to switch between day and night antenna patterns and read analog data. The joystick ports can be fed with a simple resistive network and are almost impervious to anything this side of lightning! I had a ham buddy in San Jose who made a cnc of sorts using a high speed dental drill affixed to an HP pen plotter and located with a c64 via basic. He sold custom milled name badges and fibre optic ells and mirror switches at the Foothill College swap meet for years. And they think they original in Austin! Pshaw! On 4/8/2011 11:11 PM, Alan Crandall wrote: > On 04/08/2011 03:16 PM, abr...@peak.org wrote: >> They say it runs Ubuntu. How could it not be hackable? > I meant the hardware, not the software > The C-64 was/is the most hackable computer ever made > There are people using the C-64 to get on the web > not bad for an 8 bit os > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
