New Commodore 64

Wow! My first computer:D

I'll never forget how excited I was when I got mine. Saved up money from my summer job and ordered it from Consumers (remember them?).

I loved that thing! Had soo much fun typing in programs from books and magazines (not so much fun debugging:rofl:), learning to program in BASIC. I even wrote a few simple electrical programs. One fun project was building an electronic speach synthesizer on a breadboard and connecting it via the I/O port.

Oh and of course, getting my first flight simulators (solo flight, msfs, jet, etc, etc)

Boy I miss those days:)
 
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Old technology is NOT like an old piece of furniture. It just doesn't age well.
 
Good grief. USB and DVD on a C64? Just because the case looks like something else doesn't mean it's the same thing.

Where is the cassette player plugs?
 
fgcason said:
Good grief. USB and DVD on a C64? Just because the case looks like something else doesn't mean it's the same thing.

Where is the cassette player plugs?
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Right there on the back. I don't know if they have software to use a cassette player for saving and loading programs, but it wouldn't be a big challenge.

I never was a C64 user. I went from a Timex-Sinclair to a PC, as far as ownership goes. Along the way I used a few other peoples' Apples, Televideos, and the occasional Ohio Scientific. And, of course, there were the PDP-11s... honestly the only one I really miss. I still have a Timex-Sinclair or two around, but I'd gladly trade them for an 11/34. :)
 
I started out with the Braniac K-30

Second picture was how to program it to play tic-tac-toe.
 

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I learned to code on a Trash 80, but I wouldn't go back. The Atari 64 with a tape deck and a Hayes 300 BAUD Modem did save me from doing the all nighters in the computer lab, though.
 
Ditto on the TRS-80 and Apple ][. Oh boy did I want a colecovision!
 
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Ditto on the TRS-80 and Apple ][. Oh boy did I want a colecovision!
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Still have the Colecovision! Don't know how many hours we wasted in Gargamel's castle. :) Hey, we had little kids! Plus I couldn't afford Zaxxon.
 
Ah, the old Trash 80. That and its contemporaries are a major reason I have the job I do today. We ordered a Trash 80 for our lab when I worked for the Navy. We got a call from the RS store on a Friday that it had arrived. As the store was on my way home I volunteered to pick it up and bring it in on Monday. Needless to say, it didn't stay in the box over the weekend.

When I fired that thing up it wiped out every receiving device in the house. TV, radios for any service for which I had a receiver. You name it, it was buried. When we looked at it in the lab the discussion centered around where to license it, as it clearly was a radio transmitter. To the question, "In which serviced should we license it?", the answer was, "Yes! Beacause it is in all of them."

If you've ever wondered why the TRS-80 Model 1 disappeared from the market around the end of September 1983, it is because when the FCC created the limits for emissions from digital devices they allowed products on the market prior to 1 October 1981 to be brought into compliance or taken off the market by 1 October 1983. The TRS-80 didn't comply (not by a long shot) and bringing it into compliance was beyond the state of the art in EMC design at the time. Thus, it died.

BTW, my Commodore 64 is in a box out in the garage someplace and probably still works. It has an FCC ID number label on it, but the one time I threw it in the EMC lab with no peripheral devices connected, it failed. Darn, that was a long time ago. Oh, and my C-64 has a serial number in the 30,000 range. An early example of a very successful computer.
 
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