deanb Posted January 5, 2012 Report Share Posted January 5, 2012 http://www.pcauthori...mmodore-64.aspx Just an aritlce worth sharing. Given the C64 is the most popular perosnal computer of all time I've a feeling it's a good bet a few of you may have had one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted January 6, 2012 Report Share Posted January 6, 2012 It's a bit before my time, but I'll never forget the day when I was 13 (2000ish) and discovered my dad's Commodore 64. I had no idea you could store data on cassette tape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrainHurtBoy...2 Posted January 7, 2012 Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 Oh, god. Not going to post much in this thread. I can't expose my brain to that much melancholic nostalgia. When I first played WASTELAND, I knew I was going to play games for the rest of my life. C64s are what made me who I am today. I will always love you, Interplay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterDex Posted January 7, 2012 Report Share Posted January 7, 2012 I never had the C64, I did have sevearl spectrums and a C16+4 however. Good times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Battra92 Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 I had a couple C64s well after the fact. They were fun and I learned a lot of BASIC programming on them. I also got tons of games for super cheap (or free) at Yard sales. I wonder whatever happened to my huge collection of stuff as all my C64s died. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 You see, I'm old. I have probably used the C64 in my journeys, but can't remember when or where. My first PC I got to train on (learning the guts and such) was a TRS80. I did my first word processing on that, though not much. In that same classroom, there were cards everywhere with holes poked out of them. Later, I would learn their purpose, which most people would like to forget. I played a little on the Apple II (listed as a link in that article from Dean). My school got a computer and it was one of these. And my uncle had one, too. He was pretty tech savvy, much more than anyone else I had known. I learned some real simple programming/graphic type things using the Atari 400 (also listed as a link in that article from Dean). Then, I got onto a decent computer that was real simple. We had boot discs and such. That is when I started to learn how to use databases, which was so f'n ridiculous back then. After that, on those same computers, I learned BASIC. I know my mom also had a computer, because we would drive an hour to buy discs for it. I recall it having super simple games, such as the side scroller where a carrot symbol is your space ship, the space bar fired a minus sign across the screen, and the astericks symbols were after you. Up and down arrows were all that functioned on a monochrome screen. I do recall the C64 being the top dog in the computer section in those days, but don't, for the life of me, remember even seeing one. /senile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P4: Gritty Reboot Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 C64 was a bit before my time too. The first machine we owned when I was maybe 5 or 6 was a Windows 3.1 running on an Intel 486. Though if it weren't so overpriced I'd love to have one of these for the looks alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 I've seen that. It looks pretty sweet, like Ben Heck decided to start a full production business. I'm sure someone is going to buy it, but, ouch, not many at those prices. Also, a 486? You youngster! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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