Comments on: Three decades of the C64

By: Pedantic Douchebag

Pedantic Douchebag — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:53:00 +0000

This was my third computer. I suddenly feel very old.

By: MadRat

MadRat — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:55:00 +0000

Yes, I suppose it HAS been 30 years, hasn’t it?

By: ROSSINDETROIT

ROSSINDETROIT — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:32:00 +0000

In '78 I bought my first BASIC computer after messing around with machine language programmable 6502 development boards. It was an OSI Superboard II and came as an assembled circuitboard kit. But it had video output, BASIC onboard and a real keyboard!

By: scionofgrace

scionofgrace — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:36:00 +0000

My dad had one of these. It boggles my mind that this thing was $595 new. We didn’t have a lot of money. But I think my parents had their priorities straight. Never mind two cars or a house in the suburbs: we had a personal computer in 1985! I wonder how much it did for my brothers and I, knowing all about floppy disks and typing commands from the when we were small.

(Granted, ours had a tendency to overheat.)

By: edthehippie

edthehippie — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:14:00 +0000

commodore c=64 !! same cpu as bender !! outperformed apple 2 ( subjectively ) and cost much less ( objectively ) !! i had forth on a ram cart !! hehehe the zero stop on the floppy moved and grooved , but was adjustable with a properly formatted disk ~ i typed in an assembly language ray tracer even even ~ harhahrhahrrhar ~

By: Wayne Dyer

Wayne Dyer — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:29:00 +0000

I still have mine in the garage. It’s missing a SID chip, it started fritzing out and I silenced it by removing the chip. Didn’t affect functionality that I can recall. Also have the floppy drive and printer. Maybe a cassette drive. All in original boxes.

By: brickoftheday

brickoftheday — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:05:00 +0000

Quick LEGO tribute:

http://twitter.com/#!/brickoftheday/status/153921625639755776

By: eboy71

eboy71 — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:03:00 +0000

I truly wish that I kept the 300 baud modem that I built in grade 10 computer club for my C64. It was an ungodly mess of wiring and soldering on a small circuit board, but damn… that thing lasted me 3 years and helped turn me into the geek that I am today.

By: ROSSINDETROIT

ROSSINDETROIT — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:32:00 +0000

Some where on large floppy disks I have an AP/AR system that I wrote on a C64 as a project for a BASIC class in ’81.

By: miasm

miasm — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:25:00 +0000

I used to type LOAD RAM to prompt my cassette deck to get ready to play.
I wondered, then, why Rambo First Blood Part II, had been so wildly popular as to have invaded the command for all of the other games…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NmknHO0J4I