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Is Commodore poised for a comeback?
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| December 16, 2005
| Ina Fried
Posted on 12/16/2005 2:15:21 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: MarkeyD
My god!
Is that a TRS-80?
I haven't seen one (or even a picture of one) in years!
To: listenhillary
Commodore 64, 2 floppy drives, expansion module, printer = $800 in 1984. 300K connection rates if I was lucky.
Is that a typo? 300K, or 300b? Connection to what?
To: nickcarraway
No discussion of oldies is complete without mention of the TI-994A. 16K Ram, 16K Rom and a 16 bit processor. If you had two Radio Shack tape recorders and TI Extended Basic, you were in nerd heaven.
To: beezdotcom
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posted on
12/16/2005 2:36:35 PM PST
by
listenhillary
("Mainstream media" is creating it's own reality~everything sucks)
To: daviddennis
"And I don't see how it would make a Windows CE computer anything other than, well, a Windows CE computer.
Amiga OS is still being developed. The notorious unprotected memory scheme of the earlier Amiga is no more. 4.0 should be completed fairly soon.
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posted on
12/16/2005 2:37:31 PM PST
by
Reactionary
(The Stalinist Media is the Enemy)
To: beezdotcom
There was a BB in Columbia, MO. I can't even remember the name of it. May have been through the University of MO.
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posted on
12/16/2005 2:38:14 PM PST
by
listenhillary
("Mainstream media" is creating it's own reality~everything sucks)
To: MplsSteve
Even all these years later I still read that as "trash-80" ;)
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posted on
12/16/2005 2:38:58 PM PST
by
discostu
(a time when families gather together, don't talk, and watch football... good times)
To: beezdotcom
I was at a computer club's yard sale and picked up a few items such as some 1mb rams for my old computer @ 4 for a buck.
I noticed a new in the box radio shack 300b modem for 50 cents. It was store priced at $299.00. I heard the guy in charge tell someone that if they didn't want to pay 50 cents, to just give it to them.
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posted on
12/16/2005 2:39:16 PM PST
by
yarddog
To: MplsSteve
We called them "Trash-80's" back in the day.
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posted on
12/16/2005 2:40:17 PM PST
by
dc-zoo
To: listenhillary
To: listenhillary
LOL! Oh the memories. I think I had got more addicted to games on the Commoredore than with this really high tech stuff today.
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posted on
12/16/2005 2:40:39 PM PST
by
jwh_Denver
(I'd rather be daytrading.)
To: listenhillary
Sold for $25 when I bought a 386 w/ a 10 gig HD.>>>>>>>
Where did you find a 386 with a 10 gig hard drive?
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posted on
12/16/2005 2:40:57 PM PST
by
RipSawyer
(Acceptance of irrational thinking is expanding exponentiallly.)
To: MplsSteve
My first computer.
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posted on
12/16/2005 2:41:45 PM PST
by
MarkeyD
(Cowards cut and run. Marines finish the job. I really, really loathe liberals.)
To: nickcarraway
Commodore? NO WAY!!!! Cool. Going to be able to type in the programs out of the back of PC magazine again like we did with the Vic 20? I remember be so tickled as a kid cause my brother in law had a Commodore 64 and we could play 7 Cities on it. Best part of Christmas staying up 30 hours straight playing on the computer.
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posted on
12/16/2005 2:42:05 PM PST
by
MNJohnnie
("My job as the President is to see the world the way it is, not the way we hope it is." -GW Bush)
To: TChris
"It could do more with less CPU horsepower than any other PC before or since. One wonders what their engineers could have done with a 64-bit Opteron, 1 GHz Hypertransport and 16 gigabytes of DDR RAM. :-)"
It sure could. I could play a 12 bit, 8 channel music module on a 7Mhz Amiga and do disk IO all day without a single hiccup or glitch. My freakin' 1Ghz PowerBook can't even import music from a CD without making iTunes burp and fart all over itself.
I miss my Amiga. It was fun.
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posted on
12/16/2005 2:44:37 PM PST
by
Reactionary
(The Stalinist Media is the Enemy)
To: listenhillary
Ha-Ha! The memories are flooding in!
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posted on
12/16/2005 2:44:58 PM PST
by
newzjunkey
(Remember the less fortunate this season: "U.S. Marines Toys for Tots" "Salvation Army")
To: Random Access
No discussion of oldies is complete without mention of the TI-994A. 16K Ram, 16K Rom and a 16 bit processor. If you had two Radio Shack tape recorders and TI Extended Basic, you were in nerd heaven. You tell them Old School! Anyone else remember the modem that sat on the desk and you had to plug the whole phone hand set into them?
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posted on
12/16/2005 2:45:46 PM PST
by
MNJohnnie
("My job as the President is to see the world the way it is, not the way we hope it is." -GW Bush)
To: CaptRon
My first computer. It could crunch numbers but couldn't word process worth a damn (only could spell about 10 words, and they had to be upside down).
To: listenhillary
Sold for $25 when I bought a 386 w/ a 10 gig HD Just last year I finally tossed all the games I had for the C64!
I still have my RS CoCo. Yes, still functional - tape drive and all!
LVM
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posted on
12/16/2005 2:48:01 PM PST
by
LasVegasMac
(HoOked on Fonics. Dun goOd For me?)
To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
12/16/2005 2:52:28 PM PST
by
stacytec
(Nihilism, its whats for dinner)
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