anyone here remember commodore computers?

i thought they were extinct...BEHOLD!

 

Remember them? What do you think I'm typing this with?

 

I never owned one, but of course I remember them


1983


Hotwater

 

my friend had a commodore and she also had Sex Games to play on it as well... hehehe... good times....

 

My family used to own a game store in Georgia where we rebuilt old systems , like the commodore along with many others. Anyway I have my grandfather's old commodore in the other room....Just pulled it out to hook up

 

do you have any dirty games...? they crack me up...

 

this is the one i had when i was 7...

 

There might be some on one of the million disk

 

we had this guy

 

aye, the apple IIc

 

and I wanna say we had this guy before that other guy

 

quite old thread, but here's my system. toying with GEOS and old games like "Last Ninja 2" . dual 1571 drives, mps-1230 printer, datassette, two C= joysticks and the 1351 mouse. looking for a 1702 monitor

 

I certainly remember the Commodore, but I bought an Apple II Plus instead as my first computer. That was in 1980.

 

my second computer that worked was a vic-20 (or as the manrual called it, the vic-1001)

my first was an ohio scientific c1p, prior to which i had attempted to build their 400 series system, which was stimied by the then unavailability of critical power supply components.

i didn't have a lot of money in those days, just time and books and a soldering iron.

you can buy a pretty good computer these days for what it cost then to add a 5-1/4 floppy. the first floppys were really rediculous, probably because personal computers were still kind of nich market toys.

had a couple of strange little 'printers' at differnt times too. the axiom unihammer and the little pen plotter, with four little tiny ball point pens, that was, actually an honest to gosh plotter, that drew on an adding machine roll.

what was fun was, you bought it, you owned it, none of this access denied crap. software came on cassette tape, or prom. and if you didn't have a disc yet, as most people didn't, that's what you saved to.

periferals came with documentation of all their control codes, so you could write your own drivers for them, which, if you did anything nonstandard with your hardware, you almost had to.

the c-64 was something of an advance over that era. expecially when they put it in the transporable box that included a drive.

no i never had the c-64, nor the pest, the trasher 80 nor the ti-99.

i had an expansion board for the vic, and a ram board that plugged into it, which upgraded my vic to an almost c-64.

and then there were modems, to connect to bbs's and services like compuserve, dj, and the well.

had a coco-term for that, and later an 8401, a sort of early 'laptop'

there was also wang, with no drives and no modem, that wasn't mine.

i did later get a radio snack version of an i-bum. and later still a 386 that ran windoze 3.11

the r/s i/bm ran dos 5.5 w/norton

then i build a bare bonz that ran crash crazy 95.

and when that finally died, i got a descent e-systems (kind of gateway's little brother or something) with xt. still got it. as a backup.

my main system now is an asus running win-7.

 

I had and still have the first laptop,,, commodor 64, put it on your lap and it would break your knees but it was called a laptop Or a portable anyway.
It was a thing that looked like a tower but laid on it's belly kinda thing and the front came off to reveal a small screen and a floppy insert area plus a small compartment to store about ten floppys and the cover was then a keyboard. It was greenish grey.
I still have it because it still works and I hate to toss it. As a portable it had a huge carrying handle that acted as a prop to hold it up on a slant but man it was heavy, I used to lug it over to my neighbors and we played game on it and we bought magazines with programs in them to make our own games. It was heavy but loads of fun back then.
The store wanted 11 hundred bucks but somehow we ended up getting it eventually for 700.00 I still have the floppies too.
Edited to add link. http://oldcomputers.net/sx64.html

 

I was a little bit spoiled and had to have it but it was one of the best entertainment pieces I had ever owned back then. Especially because it could be taken out to friends places or from bedroom where it was intended to be, to living room, where ever. sure glad it didn't cost 1600.00, dunno why it was on for 1100.00 then but because people wouldn't spend that much it went down to the 700.00 I guess because he needed to get it off his back. Pretty good bang for the buck after all the use and abuse it got and still works today. Too bad they don't make em to last like that anymore even tho it did become obsolete in the way all computers do.

 

lol i started collecting this stuff cause couldn't afford anything at those times... just those damn shoes.