G+_Larry L Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Power, Portability & One Killer Smile! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brandt Geiger Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Wow 64k memory. That funny today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Michael R Moore Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Boy! that takes me back. . .It's a Commodore Plus 4 . . .I had one , my first Luggable Computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Michael R Moore Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Thanks Phil Priser , You're right. See 64k of cranial memory doesn't go too far either :P too bad I can't get it upgraded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Darren Keith Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 I remember owning the 64 and 128. Ah memories. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dominick DeVito Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Commodore 128 owner right here. First computer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Nestor Custodio Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 I remember carrying one of these once. Thing weighed a damn ton. "Portable" my patoot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Michael R Moore Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Phil, Didn't the SX 64 have the RF Modulator or a din connector built into it so that you could go out too a larger monitor or TV?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Michael R Moore Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Also too wasn't their a DX 64 that had or was suppose too have dual 5 1/4" floppy drives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Bob Marshall Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 You tell that to the kids of today...and they don't believe you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Amcomm Wireless Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 I remember those duel floppy drives. Too funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Michael R Moore Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 I belonged too a few Commodore Users Groups at the time, and at one of our meetings, one of the members showed us how he could take all of the programs that (up until then)we had been typing in and saving on cassette tapes onto this sealed record thing called a "floppy disk". That it would hold literally thousands of programs on one disk. We were all standing around with our mouths hanging open, until he said that "the 5 1/4" disks we're $ 100 for a box of 10, the shine then sort of faded ;-) years later by the time I got rid of the last of my Commodore gear, I had probably close too 5,000 disks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brent Leger Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 C64 for life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Dominick DeVito Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 Commodore's BASIC interpreter as stil way more powerful and flexible than any version of DOS - before and after it was bundled with Windoze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Michael Powell (Whoolig Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 My uncle had a C64, it was the first computer I ever used. Without having been exposed to that hardware at such a young age my life would probably be very different than it is today... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Claude Marcotte Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 I remember my Commodore 64 fondly! My dad and I spent lots of hours playing Infocom games! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Rohrbaugh Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 I had the desktop version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Aubrey Green Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 I upgraded to a C-64 from a Time Sinclair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Michael R Moore Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 From a Timex Sinclair too a Commodore 64. Boy! That must have been the difference between night and day, wasn't it?? Timex and the Atari 400's were the ones with the membrane keyboards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Michael Crose Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 When that computer came out it cost $1100.00. I bought two at the Home Shopping clearance warehouse for $175.00 each . Used one for a few years and put it away with the other one. Sold them both many years later to a collector for $500.00 each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Amcomm Wireless Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 I can't even imaging getting anything done on that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brent Leger Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 We got nothing done at all... And we loved every damn minute of it! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Amcomm Wireless Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 Ha, That's funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Chris Cook Posted June 16, 2013 Share Posted June 16, 2013 just like always, we spent hours figuring out cool ways to save time. Paid off in the end, but that was pure accident Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Tony Grice Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 I wrote my Masters thesis on one of those! Plug in cartridge for the spreadsheet. Empty disk drive cavity 5 1/4" was just the right size for two sandwiches so it was truly portable and more useful than you can imagine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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