31,743 BYTES FREE - COMMODORE COMPUTER VERY OLD-SCHOOL

Holy shit I remember that picture. lollll

I have a Commodore 64 with a disk drive. I upgraded!

Raspberry Pi for those tight spots!

C++ for life!

C64, C128, Amiga, then went to building my own PCs, current machine about 16 months old wit lots of upgrades since originally built...damn, this technology is hard to keep up with!!
Still on Win7, will get dragged kicking and screaming into an upgrade sometime...

My first computer was a TRS-80 Z-80 CPU with 4K RAM, cassette tape recorder for loading/saving programs. Learned BASIC and ASM programming on it. Doubt many snowflakes could program without a compiler these days. I had to look up instruction OP codes, calculate addresses for JMP, CALLS, etc.

My best program was using the EXT I/O lines to control my dual deck cassette recorder. It even included a database of what songs where on which tape/side. A primitive media player by today's standard, but advanced for its day. The only issue was that tape tends to stretch after use so index marks would have to be updated.

...from the old tape drive...still got that crap on a shelf here somewhere. (when I go, the kids will have a real archeological dig in this house!!)

Remember AS400? Before the internet, businesses could log into a computer in another city using this dos program.

The Same Narrator



Last Edited by TidesofTruth on 04/01/2017 11:49 PM

MY first PC was the commodore 64, I thought that was the coolest thing at the time.

Anyone remember telenguard?

[link to www.old-games.com]

Thanks for the link...I love these kind of vintage videos on computer tech.

AS400? What about the IBM360? I learned COBOL and JCL on that thing in high school during mid 70's. Nothing like using card punch readers and waiting for the print job to see the results of your program.

Although, there might be some truth to the John Titor story. As CORE memory is resistant to EMP. The only computers running post apocalyptic nuclear war would be 60's/70's computer tech.

Last Edited by Agent MIB on 04/02/2017 02:09 AM

Never forget Impossible Mission.

The thing's loading with alll the colored bands and suddenly it stops and the computer talks. It was a shock back then.

C64 final cartridge II

I owned an Amstrad CPC6128. I've even cracked Exolon and Roland In Time and gave them 255 lives but I couldn't share that Z80 Assembly knowledge with others since I was a kid at the time and there was not any kind of way to reach the community except maybe through magazines :-(

Ah, magnetic core RAM, I've only seen from images. The only 60's/70's computer technology that I have seen from close it's a WANG mainframe with the huge drive units and the humongous main unit and the old-style terminals :-) and during my national service I've seen the HAWK missile system CPU (60's technology) that was made with the wire wrap technique! This would have magnetic core RAM but I've only seen the CPU rack :-(. I am sure this was a nightmare for my fellow engineers of that age. I am happy that I have used CAD/CAE systems that eliminate any errors to the minimum during the design process although mostly as a hobby since it is almost impossible to find a job in the electronics industry in my country since it is small and it is like a closed club :-(

My mom had a Commodore 64 for her business. I had the Vic-20 with the Ms. Pacman cassette and a joystick. It was so cool then.

Studied computers in the mid-70s in high school. Our school had a DEC PDP-8/e and an 8/l. Teletype terminals with paper tape. First program was written in BINARY and toggled into the front panel of the 8e.

In college I worked in a semi-private on-campus laboratory that had a DEC PDP-11/34. DEC VT-100 and Televideo 910 terminals. Green/black Tektronix 4000 series graphics storage CRT, HP drum pen plotter, Summagraphics tablet.

First company early '80s, first program was on an ISC Compucolor computer in ISC BASIC. Also worked with DR-DOS and QBASIC.

First major project was on an Intel SBC system running iRMX-80. Programmed in PLM. Debugged the operating system at the same time as the application, from microfiche listings, in conjunction with Kodak in Rochester NY.

Company had an Apple MAC when they first came out. Used it mostly for MAC Project. Developed a dislike for Apple products I harbor to this day.

Being a computer engineer by trade, I had no use for a computer in the home. My father-in-law gave my wife a succession of crappy computers that confirmed my desire not to be bothered with them. We had some of the early cheap/free dial-up internet, including Erols, Juno and NetZero. First computer bought new was a Gateway 2000 running Windows 3.11.

Dinosaur.

NOTHING beats loading your game tape in, then going out to play and after an hour excitedly running upstairs to play your favourite game......

SYNTAX ERROR.

REPEAT X 2

Telengard was awesome, easily hackable.

Phantasie I and II were better IMO

THAT'S ME!

Me too, my uncle Leo gave it to me in '88 when he bought a 64

Me 2
I could watch them all night (and do, sometimes)

WOW!

What were your thoughts during "Y2k" ?
They say that programmers worked 24/7 and solved it in the nick of time. was that true?

isn't that the one John Titor came back in time to buy on ebay to save the world with? allegedly...

me2 .. and be around everything and everyone.... maybe someday there WILL be a "Holodeck" to do all that... will we ever see it? too many mind twists to contemplate.. or would we even feel it was real or in the back of our minds think "this is all artificial" and not be too happy with it...

I believe I still have my Windows 95 CD somewhere...My first 80x86 PC was a 486DX@80MHz with a 40MB HDD and 4 (or 8, I cannot recall) MB of RAM :P. Until then I had my old Amstrad 6128 since I was 7 years old. In the in-between time I wanted an Amiga 500 but it was too expensive for my father to buy me one. Anyway, I bought a new old stock Amiga 1200 although I don't have the space and time anymore to dig in deep into learning this machine :(. Maybe when I get very old, I'll find time to spend to my small collection of old computers (Amstrad 6128,Commodore 64,Amiga 1200)

Thank you for the memories.

Feeling nostalgic.

I loved early 70s puters!

I remember the first time I saw " Paddle Ball ' at a department store I was amazed , the line was to long never got to play that day. But now I can play all I want too. Nahhh , never mind . Well maybe,