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Good old days!

Postby viking60 » 26 Nov 2015, 13:20

Everything was better in the good old days +1 I have never loved a computer as much as my first Commodore 64.

It had "plenty" of memory - as in 64k RAM - and Sprite graphics and you could even buy a floppy disk reader - If you were rich. I had a cassette recorder that stored the programs on a tape like the one we played music with.

And I went crazy and I bought me a plugin cartridge with Donkey Kong but my favourite was Jumpman Junior on that cassette tape.

Yes I even had a word processor on that tape. :-D

Watch the specs of that Supercomputer here:
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Commodore sold more computers than Apple and IBM combined! You could program it with Basic (or get another language) or directly in Machine code. Notice how the approach to the computer is way more technical than today.

Most people today are told that iSomethings give you white teeth and makes you successful.

So Old Geezers; give us your favourite Computer from the good old days.
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Re: Good old days!

Postby R_Head » 26 Nov 2015, 16:38

Long video but brings some great memories. I had the TRS 80 64K Color Computer, expandable to a whopping 128 K ! :-D

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Re: Good old days!

Postby viking60 » 26 Nov 2015, 21:53

You must have been rich :-D
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It looks a bit like C64 ...but wait...is that a dedicated monitor? :shock:
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Re: Good old days!

Postby R_Head » 26 Nov 2015, 23:35

No monitor, just the TV and the cassette player was white with a printer that printed some like a grocery receipt :lol:

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Re: Good old days!

Postby dedanna1029 » 22 Dec 2015, 01:49

I actually liked Donkey Kong... :)
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