The Commodore 64 is back!

Post by **OakRidgeStars** » Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:32:43

Welcome back, old friend

http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_Home.aspx

Now I really wish I had hung on to my C64.

Jakeiscrazy · Post by **Jakeiscrazy** » Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:42:08

I haven't played one but my grandfather loved his.

Post by **allingeneral** » Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:50:44

That's pretty neat. Just slightly before my time. I do remember seeing them in Radio Shack when I was growing up. Bring back the Atari 2600!!

Post by **OakRidgeStars** » Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:00:14

or the TRS-80

Post by **allingeneral** » Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:02:41

ohhhh maybe it WAS the TRS-80 that I saw at The Shack and not a Commodore 64....

dorminWS · Post by **dorminWS** » Mon, 11 Apr 2011 10:06:58

I think I've still got a Commodore 128, which will run in 64 mode.

Post by **zephyp** » Mon, 11 Apr 2011 18:47:33

I had a commodore 64 back in the day...you could save your work on cassette tape...

Post by **OakRidgeStars** » Mon, 11 Apr 2011 19:24:59

Or a single-sided 5 1/4" floppy disk, if you had one their external drives.

It held a whopping 520kb of data!

Post by **zephyp** » Tue, 12 Apr 2011 05:21:30

Indeed but the portable cassette recorder was the original storage device...other than the memory of the machine itself...

Snazuolu · Post by **Snazuolu** » Tue, 10 May 2011 04:20:57

when i was in school for electronics, we built a computer and it would save information to a cassette tape. and you could also take it from the tape, play it back and reload it onto the flash.

KaosDad · Post by **KaosDad** » Thu, 12 May 2011 08:53:58

I still have my first PC - A Commodore PET 2001. Had a whopping (WHOPPING I say!) 4K memory. We expanded it to 8K. It has a built in casette tape and the famous "chicklet" keyboard. Needs a power supply.

However, those new releases - those are cool ideas!

kps · Post by **kps** » Thu, 12 May 2011 21:26:25

Atari came out at least 2 years ago, with a retro atari, but no cartridges. aprox 30 games preprogrammed into it. if interested I cn go get information, its in spare room. not played it this year.

as for the old computers, I has a Radio shack trs 80, with the cassette drive also. still have it at parents house, boy was that fun? lol...

Randy

gunderwood · Post by **gunderwood** » Mon, 16 May 2011 22:04:19

Ah, all this talk of old computers make me feel young again. Punch cards? Nope. Cassettes? Nope. KB of RAM? Nope.

Chasbo00 · Post by **Chasbo00** » Tue, 17 May 2011 09:14:26

Had one of these in 1982...

AlanM · Post by **AlanM** » Tue, 17 May 2011 13:47:25

OakRidgeStars wrote:Or a single-sided 5 1/4" floppy disk, if you had one their external drives.

It held a whopping 520kb of data!

170 kb is the correct capacity of the Commodore 1541 disk drive.

I still own Apple ][, revision 0, serial number 131 that I bought new in August of 1977.

Post by **OakRidgeStars** » Tue, 17 May 2011 14:22:03

Well, it has been a long, strange trip in the IT evolution. I wish I had kept my C64 stuff.

MNMGoneShooting · Post by **MNMGoneShooting** » Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:05:23

I ran a large color BBS from 1984-1989 in San Diego. Started on a C64 but grew to a C128 with daisy cained 1581 & 1541 drives. Helped assist another BBS in Portland where we hacked the 300 baud VicModem to push out at 345. We advertised that we were the fastest 300 baud BBS in the are (before the 2400's rolled out).

Miss those days, but not the busy signals!

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