On ons 16 dec 2009 16:49:52 CET, Charles Gregory wrote
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
Marc Perkel wrote:
http://www.vintage-computer.com/asr33.shtml
There was actually a time when I had one of those in my house.
For your amusement:
I still have my old Commodore 64 and 1541 drive sitting in the basement.
my commodore 128 have basic 7.0 copyrighted from microsoft, i bet bill
gates have seen one of them with a reu 1750 and sayed the final words
of 640k ram ougth to be enough for anyone :)
i still have 8bit computers that works, and also cpm where i have
pascal, fortran, autocad wordstar, you name it, best of all it works !
my nokia e51 have frodo c64 emulator that emulate all what a 64 & 1541
can do if one have the hardware, apple iphones have a c64 app aswell
now, so no excuse for not have fun anymore :)
c128 have 1M of mem page mapped in 64k pages, it realy have mmu, so it
can adress one whole meg of mem, fun part is that if i start cpm on
this, the m drive have 4 times more disk space then the system disks :)
One year my daughter's school had a project to construct exhibits
for a show called 'working class treasures' for the local Worker's
Heritage Museum. The idea was to put on display 'precious'
possesions from their parents' childhood. Baseballs, old toys,
favorite tools, whatever.
Well, the only thing I had of any 'meaning' to me was my C-64. So
she put that in her exhibit.
So yes, my Commodore 64 has actually been displayed in a museum.
Not just figuratively, but *literally* a 'museum piece'. :)
kids need to know how little is needed to do simple things, and when
thay have seen it, thay will code much better if thay get some jobs
that use there knowledge
sorry to be OT
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