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Vintage Photographs of People with Their Commodore 64 (2019)
Author : pantalaimon
Score : 86 points
Date : 2022-03-17 12:14 UTC (2 days ago)
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| nkoren wrote:
| Pure nostalgia! I was seven when my father got me one. Apparently
| I declared in a dramatic voice that "We have now entered... THE
| COMPUTER AGE!!!". Honestly, the things one could do with that
| machine were intoxicating.
| poglet wrote:
| I enjoyed looking at these photos. For some reason I had assumed
| that kids in the 80's didn't have computers (especially
| considering lots of kids don't have computers today).
| themadturk wrote:
| I'm sure it's just a consequence of demographics, but you don't
| see or hear nearly as much about people who started their
| computing lives as adults. I got my first computer (a
| Timex/Sinclair 1000) in 1983, when I was 28, and the first of
| several Commodore 64s less than a year later...and by the time
| I had kids, six years after that, I had a PC. The C=64 was as
| formative to my life as it would have been to any grade
| schooler in my day.
| mleo wrote:
| The Commodore 64 is the one computer that I have kept with me
| over the years and multiple moves across the country. It has been
| turned on in 20 years and would likely fail in countless ways if
| I tried, but it has some truly nostalgic vibes.
| 300bps wrote:
| If you want to try it, don't use the original power supply.
| They have a common failure where a voltage regulator will fail
| and feed high voltage on what should be a five volt line. Buy a
| recently made replacement power supply - there are tons of
| them.
|
| There are common failure points on most Commodore 64s. PLA
| chips and memory chips are common and good news is there are
| modern replacements! 6526 and VIC-II chips are a little less
| common failures that don't have modern replacements. They
| probably would if not for the recent chip shortage that killed
| some promising FPGA projects.
|
| I got my first Commodore 64 in 1982 and my first modem (300 bps
| Mitey Mo) in 1985. In the past year I've gotten into component
| level repair of Commodore 64s in general but I'll be tackling a
| non-working 1541 drive and a non-working 1702 monitor next. The
| Commodore 64 motherboard is actually pretty easy to repair
| using a Dead Test cartridge.
|
| Fire it up! SD2IEC, pi1541 and Ultimate II+ are good 1541 drive
| replacements to use with a real Commodore 64 in ascending order
| of quality/price.
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| An aside: let these photos be a lesson to us amateur
| photographers. You don't always need to shoot from a standing
| position.
|
| I see so many photos of children (especially) where it looks like
| the photos were taken by a drone given how relatively tall the
| adult taking the photo is to the child.
|
| I made a point of getting down to my children's level to take
| photos of them when they were young.
|
| I suppose back in the 1950's or so when people had waist-level
| cameras we had less of the drone photography thing.
| keiferski wrote:
| One of the best tips for new street photographers (and any type
| of photographer, really) is to never take a photo straight on
| from a standing position. It's not unique and it's the
| viewpoint that most people see every day.
|
| Instead, lay on the ground, shoot at an angle, get on top of a
| bench, etc. I can't remember the source, but I once read a
| quote that summed this up:
|
| "If you don't look ridiculous while taking a photo, you aren't
| being creative enough."
| simonmales wrote:
| Another way of saying composition is king. IIRC is another
| classic photography instruction/lesson.
| srott wrote:
| Fallen in love...
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1ux2na/german_wife_...
| washadjeffmad wrote:
| Is anyone else getting some bizarre and graphic advertisements on
| this site? I was a little confused why picture of C64s "might
| trigger" me, then scrolled into images of a vivisection and a
| sexual assault. There were, eventually, C64 images.
|
| I'm on Google Fi VPN, but I don't think that really accounts for
| the nature of these ads.
| bsuvc wrote:
| Yes, the ads are trash and the creator of this should be
| ashamed.
|
| This "article" is just another example of what makes the web
| terrible.
|
| The sad thing is the content (vintage c64 pictures) would
| otherwise be interesting, but I guess the hope of making a few
| pennies off of some annoying ads is too much to resist.
| Mountain_Skies wrote:
| I paused my ad blocker and the ads that showed up were annoying
| and slowed everything down but thankfully none of them were of
| the type you were served. Ad networks are really weird
| sometimes in how they select which ads to give to which people.
| Maybe for you it was random.
| themadturk wrote:
| Not getting any ads when I hit this site. Using Firefox with
| uBlock Origin.
| waltwalther wrote:
| Me with my C64 from 1982 https://imgur.com/gallery/O50fhNZ
| Mountain_Skies wrote:
| Holy Carpal Tunnel Batman! I had forgotten just how much of a
| rise there was on the C64 keyboards. The one photo with a
| Commodore 128 in it shows that was a design consideration for
| that model.
| rob74 wrote:
| Well, now you know why the original C64 was (lovingly) called
| "the breadbox" in Germany. Later "all-in-one" computers (C128,
| Amiga 500, Atari ST) were better, but the keyboard was still
| higher than we're used to today...
| kleiba wrote:
| Who can spot the picture that doesn't actually contain a C64?
| squidbot wrote:
| Came here for the 128 :)
| blipvert wrote:
| "this geek does not exist"
| caymanjim wrote:
| One of the most striking things about these photos is the
| terrible ergonomic situation. The C64 started out ergonomically-
| bad with its keyboard four inches above the surface, and then
| most of these people are using it on top of a dresser or
| something, with a tiny screen at a bad angle.
|
| I had a much better setup back when I got my C64, but I still
| blame it for the back and vision problems I have now. It's a far
| cry from my current standing sit/stand desk with proper office
| chair and large, bracket-mounted monitor. I used to sit at a
| wobbly table, wrists at a terrible angle to reach the C64
| keyboard, with a 17" CRT screen inches from my face. I'm
| surprised I didn't end up with brain cancer.
| freedomben wrote:
| It really is remarkable how much knowledge/awareness we have
| now of ergonomics. I developed carpal tunnel syndrome in my 20s
| because of kinked wrists. Fortunately I was able to avoid
| surgery by wearing corrective braces for a few months, and now
| my brain just holds my wrists straight now when I type. It was
| a really scary time though to think that I might not be able to
| use a keyboard when my work is all computer-based.
| 300bps wrote:
| I spent about 12 hours per day on my Commodore 64 and not far
| off of that on computers today in the software engineering
| field for several decades.
|
| I pay zero attention to ergonomics and have zero problems.
|
| Many years ago I was referred on HN to this page and it totally
| changed my outlook on ergonomics:
|
| http://www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu/mb_what_is.html
| freedomben wrote:
| That's definitely interesting, and I think there is some real
| merit to it, although I think it's dangerous not to consider
| ergonomics. A coworker of mine had severe carpal tunnel
| syndrome and it was visible on scans, so not just in his
| head. He had a surgery that dremel'ed out some space for his
| nerves in his wrists and it helped a lot.
|
| Thanks for sharing though! Really great info.
| 300bps wrote:
| You seem open to it which is good! One thing I would like
| to clarify - it isn't "just in your head". That's a common
| misconception.
|
| These are long term emotional states that cause real
| physical changes that show up on scans. Myself, I had an
| EMG that showed nerve damage as evidenced by a plateauing
| signal on the ulnar and median nerves. I slept with wrist
| braces for months. Then someone referred me to this and
| I've needed nothing for many years with taking no
| precautions.
|
| Emotional states can very obviously cause physical changes
| - it's why people blush for just one example. Or why people
| get sick to their stomach when they're in anxious. This is
| just a less obvious psychogenic physical manifestation.
| freedomben wrote:
| Ah yes, excellent point about blushing! That illustrates
| the possibility quite well.
| vidarh wrote:
| Apparently photos from my childhood are now old enough to be
| "vintage". I feel old...
|
| I don't think I have a photo of me with our C64, but here I am
| with a Vic20 in 1982:
|
| http://hokstad.com/images/the-hidden-library/vidarvic20.jpg
| Hackbraten wrote:
| You look amazing on that photo!
| kingcharles wrote:
| I took the color cast off this for you:
|
| https://imgur.com/oGCUUSD
|
| Download it and reply and I'll remove it.
| hollander wrote:
| You could photoshop that color a little darker and browner, and
| there you have your C64!
| hollander wrote:
| Looking at that site, the Chinese pictures from 1982.... Those
| look like they could have been taken in 1962 or 1952.
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