Is Commodore poised for a comeback?

ZDNet ^ | December 16, 2005 | Ina Fried

[NYFriend]

Impossible Mission and Battle Through Time. I used to love Battle Through Time, but I never got passed WWIII.

[PittsburghAfterDark]

Every one of the dozens of Windows XP installations I have ever performed, including Windows XP Professional 64-bit Edition, has come on a single CD-ROM. The initial install is about 1.5 GB, uncompressed."

MMMMM, then you're not using CD, you're using a DVD since CD's max storage is 640MB.

Since we're getting into typos about MB, GB etc.

I think what's so funny about people saying they spent $1,500 on a 10, 20, 40 MB hard drive mis-typing GB is that the technology cam so far, so fast that we can't believe a hard drive was really only 40 MB about 12 years ago.

Hell, we download stuff now that's hundreds of MB and yes, I've even done a couple of GB downloads.

Now, how long would that take on a 300 baud accoustic coupler???

[avg_freeper]

Hey, as long as you can play Loadrunner, Mule, and Archon on it I'm there.

[ryan71]

No. The TRS-80 I remember was one piece, keyboard and monitor combined. There were no "drives". We wrote BASIC programs line by line. Read and write of the program was done on a cassette tape and a tape recorder. 64K of memory.

[CaptRon]

I still have 2 Timex/Sinclairs in my attic somewhere!

[RightWhale]

VIC-20 was excellent. However, we sold the early Commodore calculator, and 90% of them came back for refund due to crapping out within a week. So, which Commodore is poised for a comeback?

[Tijeras_Slim]

So, which Commodore is poised for a comeback?

I hope it's the Amiga 3000, I have two in storage.

[RightWhale]

I hope so, too. That was a beauty.

[freedomlover]

[Walmartian]

I had a C64 in the 80's. I built a circuit that lit the lights on my Christmas tree. I taped 8 sets of lights together, 4 sets of color and 4 sets of white. It was fun to program. IIR I had to POKE different numbers into an address which corresponded to the pinouts on the back. I think I did it with triacs and some iso-opto couplers. I could make the lights dim by writing loops in Basic (for then next?). Sending a random number generator to the output was pretty cool too.

[truemiester]

I had a RS-232 interface and it was a good day (night usually) when I could get 300!

[truemiester]

My first computer!

TRS-80, mod I, Level I, Tiny BASIC!

Spent many hours typing in programms and debugging them. Became a COBOL programmer for about a year. COmputer operator for 3 years before that.

The many late night with that machine....

(Yes, I had girlfriends at the time.)

[TChris]

MMMMM, then you're not using CD, you're using a DVD since CD's max storage is 640MB.

Umm... Yeah, which is why I specified "uncompressed". The distribution CD has all the source material compressed. Once it's installed--uncompressed--on the HDD, it's larger.