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[reagan_fanatic]

Sure brings back the memories!
My first computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 that I paid $99.95 for at the local Venture dept. store. I also bought the optional expansion pack which gave it a whopping 64K RAM!
I remember when I got my first VIC-20...it seemed light years ahaed of the Timex.
I spent hours typing code into it from the PC magazines.

Sure do miss those days.

[dfwgator]

I remember thinking, 64k of memory?!? That's more memory than we'll ever need.

[dfwgator]

The thing I remembered about my C-64 is that occasionally the power supply would overheat and cause the machine to freeze. So I concocted a solution, I surrounded the transformer with an ice pack, worked like a charm.

[CyberCowboy777]

Growing up we had a Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Amiga, Atari 400 and 800 (we also had the Intelivision, not really a 'PC' though)

My 10th birthday was celebrated with a Commodore 64.

Hellcat ACE was my favorite game, loaded from cassette tape.

[meowmeow]

Computers of our youth ping...

[KillTime]

I have 2 Amiga 500s I play with occasionally. I need to get an emulator for my PC.

Interesting fact: The Apollo Programs Command and LEM vehicals onboard computers used the same computing power that one finds in commodores.

[CathyRyan]

I remember some of the old program lanugages...Fortran, basic, RPG, JCL, Cobol, Pascal, and PL1. I loved PL1 and now no one even knows what it is. *sigh*

[The_Victor]

Hehehe

[Spiff]

Ahhh, the memories. I remember connecting to Compuserve with my first Commodore 64 and a 300 baud modem. It took hours and $$$$ just to download and display a .GIF file. I used it to hack local BBSs (never hurt anything, just grabbed all the password files). And the games were just plain fun (JumpMan, etc.)

[strela]

I had twelve C64 power supplies stored out in my workshop up until a couple of years ago. (Got them at an auction in 1991 and threw out the entire lot 3-4 years ago). I'd be rich beyond the dreams of avarice (well, kind of) if I had kept them and Ebayed them.

[adam_az]

Commodore Pet, the original Commie PC!

I learned to program on one of these suckers the summer before 5th grade at a summer class taught at my elementary school. I remember that since so few kids had experience with a keyboard back then, the first project was to type the alphabet so that we could learn where the keys are.

[Physicist]

Proud owner of a Commodore SX-64 Portable Gymnasium checking in.

I even have a Fresnel lens to magnify the 5" screen, à la Brazil.

[evilC]

You think you have tech problems ....

when I were young ....

[Bogey78O]

I have one. Some video modulator must have gave out as the video is garbled.

[Dan from Michigan]

I remember those. I used to have a TRS 80(Radio Shack) and the Intellivison.

That's old school there.

[Bogey78O]

I'm not sure what kind of computer it is but at work we have an old terminal workstation that lists our job dispatches.

It took a while to learn to hit "cursor tab" and send/receive" after every command.

[Brett66]

My first computer was the Timex/Sinclair, but my first "real" computer was an Amiga.

The Amiga was a quantum leap over comparable computers, it had color 320x200 graphics with stereo sound. All of the IBM machines of the time had green text and a "bleep bloop" internal speaker. Can't believe Commodore didn't sell millions of those.

[mhking]

Bump for later geekdom...

[Walkin Man]

The C-64 was a great game computer and is responible for much wasted time and money in my life! (c;

[Republican Wildcat]

I used to have an old Atari 130XE. My parents gave it away without my knowledge or permission when I left for college. I'm still very angry about that.