On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.hesk...@verizon.net> wrote: > 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. >
Long live the Coco :) At this moment I am working on a project (half 6809 assembler, half Java) that allows multiple simultaneous telnet sessions in and out of a Coco running NitrOS-9. Just two days ago we made Coco history when three people (including one of the original OS-9 developers) all connected over the internet into my coco 3. 8 bit CPUs and ancient operating systems are still very fun to play with. -Aaron >>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 >
