Re: [Eug-lug] Commodore 64 or Ubuntu 10.10

2011-04-09 Thread JS Kaplan
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

Re: [Eug-lug] Commodore 64 or Ubuntu 10.10

2011-04-08 Thread Alan Crandall
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

Re: [Eug-lug] Commodore 64 or Ubuntu 10.10

2011-04-08 Thread abrown
;Alan Crandall" To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" Sent: Friday, April 8, 2011 2:31:02 PM Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Commodore 64 or Ubuntu 10.10 On 04/07/2011 08:57 PM, JS Kaplan wrote: > This is amazing: > > http://www.commodoreusa.n

Re: [Eug-lug] Commodore 64 or Ubuntu 10.10

2011-04-08 Thread Alan Crandall
On 04/07/2011 08:57 PM, JS Kaplan wrote: > This is amazing: > > http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx > > --Kaplan > ___ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > the C-64 is the computer that gave Lin

[Eug-lug] Commodore 64 or Ubuntu 10.10

2011-04-07 Thread JS Kaplan
This is amazing: http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx --Kaplan ___ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug