On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Benny Pedersen wrote: >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. > And I still have several coco's, including a coco3 in the basement that all boots up with a flick of the power switch.
>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 ! No cpm here, but what was once os-9, now nitros-9 because we changed the cpu to a hitachi 6309, cmos & smarter, then re-wrote os-9. Both levels. >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 :) My coco3 has 2 megs, in 8k pages, 64k at a time, instant switch to a different map of 64k, and just a few microseconds to remap any of that 2 megs into the 64k that is visible. >> 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 I agree Benny. To demo that, I have the old coco2 that acted like a $20,000 dollar Grass Valley Group E-Disk for the production video switchers in the 300 series they made about 20 years ago. For $245 worth of stuff, its 4x faster and 100x more friendly for the tech directors to use than the $20k GVG package was. Coding in assembly for one of those is something I can still do, I just rewrote the mouse driver which was suffering from a huge lack of tlc. When someone comes over who can be impressed, I go boot the coco3 up, then come back to this linux box, and over a bluetooth serial emulation, log into it with minicom. Just to impress the frogs of course. >sorry to be OT There must be a Senor Wences line here someplace, but I'll have to plead oldtimers. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -- Aesop
