Subj : Re: Commodore Computers
To   : boraxman
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Apr 22 2022 07:08:00

-=> boraxman wrote to The Millionaire <=-

 bo> I had B and C, and my favourite was C, though I really do have a soft
 bo> spot for the Vic 20.  I still have a few C64's, with a disk drive, tape
 bo> drive, games, but alas only one runs property.  My Vic 20 also doesn't
 bo> work, I need to fix it.

 bo> I took up 6502 assembler last year or the year before, made a short
 bo> "demo" for the Vic 20.

 bo> I love those simple computers, the colours, the simplicity, the tactile
 bo> sensation of using floppy disks and tapes.

Yep.

My senior year of high school, I took a computer class on Commodore 
CBM8032s, 80 column 32 mb "business" Pets. dual floppy drives, if I'm not 
mistaken, two computers were daisy chained to 1 dual floppy unit.

We had some cool custom graphics chips added in from a local company called 
"Skyles Electric Works" (why do I remember that?) that when you poked the 
memory address of the chip, let you do high-res graphics on the screen.

Later, I got a Commodore 64 and didn't use it for more than knocking 
together a couple of BASIC programs, playing Choplifter, and dialing into 
BBSes and a University computer system. 80 columns on a 13" black and white 
TV is NOT RECOMMENDED.

That year, I sold it and picked up an XT clone, and there ends my Commodore 
story.


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