Yeah, except that you had to use a joystick as your pointing device with
GEOS. This didn't quite work out so well if you were using the old squishy
joysticks from the original Atari 2600 :0
BTW, while the 1541 drive was never double sided, a simple hole punch
allowed you to use both sides of the disk (nothing new, I suppose). I
reached Nirvana when I was able to afford 2 1541 drives, even though you had
to take an exacto knife to the logic board on one of the drives and add your
own toggle switch to allow them both to work side by side. :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Merrill, Keith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 2:33 PM
To: 'Jesus Gonzalez'
Subject: RE: The story of a small boy - sealed envelops --
Jesus-
And with GEOS OS you had a full-featured windowing system with full
functionality running in 64K!!! not 64MB And the funny thing is that we call
this progress. The C64 will live forever as a lean mean computing machine,
running from floppy or the ole' 1541 single sided single density 5.25"
floppy.
Enjoy.
Keith Merrill
Nasdaq
Network Engineering
203-385-4942
800-759-8888 PIN # 1388791
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> ----------
> From: Jesus Gonzalez[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 2:23 PM
> To: 'Markku J. Saarelainen'
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: The story of a small boy - sealed envelops --
>
> Well, back in '79 a 300-baud modem cost upwards of $500. Using this on
> your
> Commodore-64 made writing messages painfully slow. I would guess sending
> messages on paper through the mail was much faster and efficient than the
> good 'ol C-64. So the kid wasn't smarter, just, as we say today, on the
> other side of the digital divide.
>
> BTW, my first 'puter was a Vic-20 before I was able to upgrade to a C-64.
> I
> can honestly say that I never EVER had an OS crash on that computer. If
> the
> computer crashed or locked, it was because of sloppy code. Man, the way
> things ought to be :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markku J. Saarelainen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 08, 1999 3:41 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: The story of a small boy - sealed envelops --
>
>
>
> About twenty years ago, there was a small boy (9-11 years old or so), who
> had his penpals around the world - the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom,
> Australia, Germany and many other European nations. He wrote his letters
> on
> a paper and then mailed these letters in sealed envelops and he received
> letters from his international friends in sealed envelops. He did not use
> postcards. In today's world, there are many executives in governments,
> businesses and other organizations, who email their secrets in postcards.
> How has the world changed? Or was this young child just smarter than many
> today's executives?
>
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