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Old 11-03-2006, 06:08 PM   #1
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Default Classic 1983 Commordore 64 Add

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Old 11-03-2006, 06:19 PM   #2
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Never did own the comodore 64 my first computer was a Texas Instruments 99 4/A
all 16 kbs of power and tape recorder to save my files.
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Old 11-03-2006, 06:23 PM   #3
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Ahh the good old days
I still have six commodore's, 4 c64's and 2 c128d's
A few cases of disk games as well

Still good fun on a rainy day
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Old 11-03-2006, 06:52 PM   #4
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HAHAHAH!!!! Thats great! I reckon holden may use that Jingle soon....
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Old 11-03-2006, 07:48 PM   #5
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That ad makes me want to go buy one. But they're getting hard to find now unfortunately. I've got one somewhere but it's broken :(
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Old 12-03-2006, 12:47 AM   #6
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Download a C64 emulator. Lots of fun.
First time I used it I thought it wasn't working... then I realised it was loading the game at C64 speed :P
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Old 12-03-2006, 01:54 AM   #7
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Damn I didn't realise they were so expensive back in the day! We had one, then got rid of it.... I ended up buying another one in the past year haha!
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Old 12-03-2006, 09:32 AM   #8
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Most of my friends had c64's, I had to be content with a Yamaha MSX.
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Old 12-03-2006, 09:57 AM   #9
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I had a Microbee with a 32k processor.... It rocked !

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Old 12-03-2006, 04:34 PM   #10
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We had a C64. Even got as serious as a disk drive and the dot matrix printer.
California Games anyone?
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Old 12-03-2006, 04:46 PM   #11
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We had a C64. Even got as serious as a disk drive and the dot matrix printer.
California Games anyone?

yeah califonia games what a game that was ahead of its time


i wsa just finishing high school when the commodore 64 was introduced we had 16 of them in the library for computer courses ,we all thought it was a huge laugh when the teacher said all our jobs in the future will need them pretty funny we thought being at a technical school (TRADE BASED)

lucky that computer thing didnt take off : : : :
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Old 12-03-2006, 05:53 PM   #12
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i hate the word commodore, i HATE IT
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Old 12-03-2006, 06:27 PM   #13
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I had a Microbee with a 32k processor.... It rocked !

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1 Mhz (0.001 Ghz) processor, 32k (0.032 Mb) RAM. The were sooooo leading edge at the time.
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Old 12-03-2006, 06:54 PM   #14
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Was there ever a commodore PC10? i think i had one of those. then the trusty 286 with the cool turbo button!

i loved DOS!!!!
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i still have the microbee, , stuck in the roof of the garage, , , ! 20 years later !
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