[ale] C64 turn 30 years old this week.

[Rich Faulkner]

Well Happy Birthday Commodore 64!  I'll have to break mine out and write
a game or two.  (Not joking...still have mine!)

Indeed, those were great days (even magical) as all of this was new and
exciting to me.  Writing programs (all games) was what I was into back
then (1978-83) and did that on a Commodore PET 2001 w/a cassette tape
drive then later on an Apple IIe.  Great fun and great days those were!
Back when you used your imagination to substitute for flashy graphics.

Happy Birthday C64!

RinL  


On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 09:00 -0500, Chuck Payne wrote:

> For those of us that have been computing over 30 years.
> 
> The first fight about computers wasn't the Apple vs. PC or Linux vs. Windows.
> 
> It was Atari vs. Commodore.
> 
> This week, the C64 is turning 30 years. Hard to believe that, I
> remember the C64. I had an Atari 130 XE, but it was cool still to talk
> about who has the best computer. At that time, computers where 8-Bit,
> with avg. memory was 64K. Storage was either a tape drive or 5 1/2"
> floppy and a monitor was your TV.
> 
> Makes me miss Atari days of 300 Baud modems dailing into Compuserver
> to play the last text adventure, dail out state piracy BBS to download
> the latest software, spend countless hours typing code out of Byte
> Magazine to play some simple game, explaining to my parents "No I
> wasn't trying to hack Arkansas Power and Light, I just found they have
> BBS I could play Net Trek on", using a hole punch to make it so I
> could write on the back side of 5 1/2 floppy or going to the local
> user group to talk about cool things you can do with your computer.
> 
> http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/168019,vintage-tech-looking-back-at-the-commodore-64.aspx
> 
> As the saying goes, "Things may change, but the remain the same."
> 


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