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Commodore 64 still loved after all these years
CNN ^
| 7 December 2007
| By Peggy Mihelich
Posted on 12/07/2007 7:44:13 AM PST by meowmeow
Like a first love or a first car, a first computer can hold a special place in people's hearts. For millions of kids who grew up in the 1980s, that first computer was the Commodore 64. Twenty-five years later, that first brush with computer addiction is as strong as ever.
Millions of Commmodore 64s were sold in the 1980s.
"There was something magical about the C64," says Andreas Wallstrom of Stockholm, Sweden.
He remembers the day he first laid eyes on his machine back in 1984.
"My father brought it home together with a tape deck, a disk drive, a printer, and a couple of games...I used to sneak home during lunch to play [on it] with my friends."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: 1980s; c64; genx; homecomputers; reagannation
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To: meowmeow
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posted on
12/07/2007 11:16:14 AM PST
by
Tribune7
(Dems want to rob from the poor to give to the rich)
To: HeadOn
Yes - a very simple one with maybe only a dozen command options. I think the computer was a Tandy? Or something that began with T.
22
posted on
12/07/2007 11:16:32 AM PST
by
meowmeow
(In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
To: Billthedrill
OK, Bill - remind me. I don’t recall that...
23
posted on
12/07/2007 11:25:06 AM PST
by
HeadOn
(Don't ask me if you don't want to know.)
To: meowmeow
Tandy would work. Or maybe a TRS-80 (Tandy/Radio Shack) There was also a Sinclair build-it-yourself a friend of mine built. IIRC, Sinclair was associated or produced by TIMEX.
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posted on
12/07/2007 11:27:30 AM PST
by
HeadOn
(Don't ask me if you don't want to know.)
To: meowmeow
C64=the greatest game machine ever made!!
25
posted on
12/07/2007 11:34:24 AM PST
by
ECM
(Government is a make-work program for lawyers.)
To: meowmeow
26
posted on
12/07/2007 11:37:08 AM PST
by
paltz
To: HeadOn
That was the secret word in Adventure that...well, it did a lot of stuff, mostly transporting you to unpleasant places but sometimes solving your problem.
"You are in a maze of little twisty passages, all alike..." AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!
To: meowmeow
28
posted on
12/07/2007 11:42:00 AM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
(I think I'll buy everyone a carbon credit for Christmas.)
To: meowmeow
I still have a couple of C64’s, a 64C, a C128, and several VIC-20’s, all in working condition. Lots of Atari’s also. I wish I had the room to set some of them up.
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posted on
12/07/2007 11:50:35 AM PST
by
Dumpster Baby
("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
To: meowmeow
My first computer...wrote BASIC code for it when I was only 13. Also, the first money I ever spent from a real paycheck was money I'd saved for three weeks to buy a disk drive for the Commodore. My kids can't believe that a disk drive that held less than my key ring jump drive required a case the size of a shoe box.
Imagine what their kids will be amazed by!
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posted on
12/07/2007 12:10:49 PM PST
by
Mr. Silverback
(Support Scouting: Raising boys to be strong men and politically incorrect at the same time.)
To: Duke Nukum
Gunship...man, I loved playing Gunship. I was a stone cold killer—Did the primary and secondary missions every time and then went looking for targets of opportunity on the way back to base. Of course, I like Battlefront and the other military/military sci-fi shooters that are out these days. Last year at Christmas, my 8 year old killed me with a rocket launcher in Halo, and I whacked my nephew with an M-1 sniper-style in Medal of Honor Pacific.
Good times...good times.
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posted on
12/07/2007 12:14:54 PM PST
by
Mr. Silverback
(Support Scouting: Raising boys to be strong men and politically incorrect at the same time.)
To: meowmeow
I absolutely loved the graphics we could do with Graphics Magic..and the BBS’s in my area were a blast.
The golden years indeed..
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posted on
12/07/2007 12:18:35 PM PST
by
SE Mom
(Any word yet locally on who this)
To: Mr. Silverback
The Discovery Channel has been airing a series this week on teh rise and evolution of computer games. The series starts with Pong and ends with modern 3-D battle sims. So many fuzzy memories.
33
posted on
12/07/2007 12:20:23 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Billthedrill
Ah! I hated those passages. And even more, I hated those passages.
34
posted on
12/07/2007 12:25:25 PM PST
by
HeadOn
(Don't ask me if you don't want to know.)
To: Dumpster Baby
Are they worth anything? We’ve got a couple of C64s in the attic, and I’ve thought about selling them. I think one works, and the other could be spare parts...
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posted on
12/07/2007 12:27:09 PM PST
by
HeadOn
(Don't ask me if you don't want to know.)
To: HeadOn
They're worth a little bit to collectors of such things, but that's about all. After a collector gets an armload of them they don't want any more. If someone offered me another C64 system at this point for $20 I wouldn't pay it. One day about 11 or 12 years ago I took the trash out to the dumpster and found a complete Atari 800 system in the dumpster. I dug it out and it worked fine. Today I occasionally see someone set their whole PC computer system out on the curb, and nobody touches it for a couple of weeks sometimes.
I read years ago that when the new C64 hit the market there were hundreds of thousands of the older VIC20 computers piled up in the warehouses, and nobody wanted them. They all got scrapped.
There's mountains of old electronics thrown out every year and only a small percentage of it has any value to any one, either as scrap or as a collector's item.
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posted on
12/07/2007 12:44:54 PM PST
by
Dumpster Baby
("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
To: meowmeow
My daughter learned to type with a "space invaders" kind of typing tutor when she was 6, on a Commodore 64.
When she got to high school, the teacher couldn't believe she could type 80wpm and could skip typing class! (Tested her three times).
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posted on
12/07/2007 12:55:57 PM PST
by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: The SISU kid; meowmeow
38
posted on
12/07/2007 12:57:09 PM PST
by
NMR Guy
To: Dumpster Baby
OK I gotta ask... What would you use for monitors? If I remember right, they used oddball connectors.
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posted on
12/07/2007 12:57:12 PM PST
by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
To: The SISU kid
You can download it for free from here... Can I assume those will run on a PC?
Or are we talking strictly Commodores?
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posted on
12/07/2007 1:01:55 PM PST
by
Publius6961
(MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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