ATTENTION: Vape Limu MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Wed Oct 08, 2003 10:58 pm

Vape Locked the chat session and left it.

Limu, check your PMs for an invite.

vaporlock · Post by **vaporlock** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 12:25 pm

I did that on purpose to make a political statement. I can't remember what it was, but I'm from California so I'm sure I had some sort of political ax to grind.

Actually, I'm running Netscape Navigator 2.0 on a Commodore 64 running an earlier version of BeOS. Usually the 64k of memory is plenty, but sometimes it causes the browser to do funny things.

Sorry,
Eric

The Weekenders · Post by **The Weekenders** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 3:47 pm

Hey everybody! Vaporlock is using some kinda transistorized toaster to access the Internet! Man, I thot I was cheap with the upgrades! A Commodore 64???????????? Is that like a Vic 20?

I am trying to imagine what Netscape 2 looks like with most webpages. Does it support....frames?

antstastegood · Post by **antstastegood** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 6:32 pm

Blame it on the Crystal P*********************///////////////////<script error>

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 6:53 pm

The Weekenders wrote:A Commodore 64???????????? Is that like a Vic 20?

Get with the times man! The Commodore 64 is so much more than the VIC 20. It's like comparing an Apple II to an Apple IIe!

vaporlock · Post by **vaporlock** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:52 pm

You said it Walden!!

Week, I took my high school computer science final exam on a Vic20. When I got to school I realized that I had left my data tape at home. The only tape that I had handy was the AC/DC tape in my car's cassette player. So I grabbed it and used it to store my final exam on and turned it in for my grade. I got an A+ on my CS final (I got the A for my programming and the + for turning my CS teacher onto 'Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap')

I'm saving up my money for a Commodore 128 (the best darned computer in the whole wide world, thank you very much!)

'scuse me now, I have to reboot,
Eric

ErikT · Post by **ErikT** » Thu Oct 09, 2003 9:56 pm

I so much wanted a 128. I couldn't afford it, though. Instead I was the only person in the world to own a Commodor Plus4 with tape drive.

My computer science teacher was old school... our final exams were done on a punchcard reader. Most of the year,though, was spent on a Trash 80.

I think I'm getting misty eyed with nostalgia.

Mack.Hoover · Post by **Mack.Hoover** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 9:53 am

For me and my kids it was Apple 2E

We had the very first Mouse Paint.

And I learned a little about programming. Very little.

Oh, yes, we got the devise for hooking it up to our color TV and played Frogger , Pong and the one where the smiley face gobbled up stuff.

Mack

LimuHead · Post by **LimuHead** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 10:19 am

Got the PM. Thanks for the invite!

Post by **Dale** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 12:50 pm

vaporlock wrote:You said it Walden!!

Week, I took my high school computer science final exam on a Vic20. When I got to school I realized that I had left my data tape at home. The only tape that I had handy was the AC/DC tape in my car's cassette player. So I grabbed it and used it to store my final exam on and turned it in for my grade.

Bummer on the AC/DC tape. If you want, I'll replace it for you. In fact, I think I may have it around here on 8-track.

My first computer was a Radio Shack Color Computer. I think it had 8k of RAM. I opened up and added chips to bring it up to 32k. For about 2 weeks, I was the hottest jock on the block.

Check out http://www.old-computers.com/museum/default.asp

YEAH BABY!

Dale

RonKiley · Post by **RonKiley** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 2:41 pm

I skipped all of those and my first home computer was a Heathkit H89. It was great at everything but graphics. They really missed the boat when it came to graphics. I remember playing the old startrek game on a large mini computer with a 10 cps teletype input/output. I decided to move the group into a more modern way of doing things and bought a fortran compiler for it. It was on paper punch tape and took 4 hours to load. To compile a program and link files took another 4 hours unless after a couple of hours you got a compile time error. Eventually I bought a cartridge tape drive and built an interface card and wrote a core image write program. I loaded the paper tape into memory and wrote the image to tape. Then I wrote a program to write the tape image to memory. It was fun in those days.

Ron

Daniel_Bingamon · Post by **Daniel_Bingamon** » Sat Oct 11, 2003 5:47 pm

I learned to program on a Pet 2001 with the little chicket style keys, 40 column built-in display and 8K of memory.

My first computer that I owned was a Commodore 64 and I wrote lots of 6502 machine language that I used to publish in Compute, Commodore and Transactor magazines.

I still like the old 6502 and have thought about making some special application boards with it.

Check this out 6502 fans: http://www.6502.org