Charles Gregory wrote:
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Marc Perkel wrote:
http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml
There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house.
For your amusement:
I still have my old Commodore 64 and 1541 drive sitting in the basement.
One year my daughter's school had a project to construct exhibits for a
show called 'working class treasures' for the local Worker's Heritage
Museum. The idea was to put on display 'precious' possesions from their
parents' childhood. Baseballs, old toys, favorite tools, whatever.
Well, the only thing I had of any 'meaning' to me was my C-64. So she
put that in her exhibit.
So yes, my Commodore 64 has actually been displayed in a museum.
Not just figuratively, but *literally* a 'museum piece'. :)
- Charles
I had a Vic-20 once and I also had the port expander card that
allowed you to make copies of the game cartridges to cassette tape.
We were so naive back then, running our data and addressing lines
for a foot outside the computer, the clock speeds were so slow
that we never knew anything about propagation delays.
Those were the days. A few poke and peek commands, 15 minutes
waiting for the cassette tape to load the pirated game into the
16k memory card, then a flip of the switch changing the address
locations of the memory card, and a final command to start execution
and we were off and playing. $250 worth of electronic gear to
be able to pirate a $15 game cartridge that was merely a copy of
some arcade game that cost 25 cents at the local pizza parlor, and
ran at 3 times the resolution at the arcade. I think the most fun of
it was learning how to actually do it.
Ted
