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Old farts = Old computers

Did you own a commodore 64

  • Yes

  • actually owned something older - see post

  • you old farts whats a commodore 64

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mattpegher

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Since we seem to have a fair contigency of old farts, anyone else here ever own a commodore 64. If not what was the first personnal computer you owned
 
mattpegher said:
Since we seem to have a fair contigency of old farts, anyone else here ever own a commodore 64. If not what was the first personnal computer you owned
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Vic 20, then C64, then C128, then Amiga 2000, then on to the world of PCs. I still have the C128 and Amiga connected and on my desk, with the C64 in my closet and the Vic 20 is in my attic, I believe.
 
Been using computer since mid '70s during college. 😉 Had a IBM PC compatible and Apple II+ early '80s. Followed by a Commodore 64 & Amiga 500 in storage in the garage, monitors dead long time ago. I've accumulated too many computer computer stuff/magazines over those years, kept some of them. Had to throw some things that could be termed "collectibles" these days.
 
I still own mine. Actually own about ten of them now, a couple VIC-20s, a 128, three 1702s, a 1701 and mabye a dozen or so disk drives of varying models. And probably close to 1,000 5-1/4" floppies, either blank or written to, and some carts.
 
C=64 was my third computer, after the TRS-80 and Atari 800.

I even did a bit of coding on it, for Adventure International, Simulations Canada and KrenTek

Oooh, awesome graphics!
seadragonc64.png
 
I went from a Commodore 64 (with a cassette drive and B&W TV!), to a IBM PS/2 Model 50Z with a 8MB memory expansion board. That was a insane amount of memory back then in 1989.. that was like having 32 GB of memory in your gaming rig back then. 🙂
 
We were "po' folk", so although I am of the right age to have had one, I had to go to my friends house to experience the awesomeness that was Dr. J vs. Larry Bird.

Another friend had an IBM PCJr (IIRC). Lode Runner was the shizzle.

First computer I ever had was one I purchased in...shit...'95?
 
Atari 400 for our family, though I also picked up a VIC-20 and 2600 from garage sales when I was young. I am 34 now, so according to the release date I would have been 5 when the C64 first came out.
 
i had a VIC-20 first. Played Pirates Cove and programmed BASIC. Then had a series of C-64's and a C-128. (had the rare 1581 too). I also had a ROM burner for the C-64, but it didn't work (picked up from an estate sale and missing the program ROM.) There was a terminal program that let you run 80 columns on C-64 (novaterm I want to say).
 
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