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31,743 BYTES FREE - COMMODORE COMPUTER VERY OLD-SCHOOL
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Back around 1982 I bought my son a Commodore 64 for Christmas when he was 12. I remember paying about $200 for it (which would be about $500 in today's money).
Today he is a senior systems engineer for a very large multi-national company.
For someone brought up in the 50's and 60's it has been really amazing watching the growth of computers over the years. My first exposure was to an IBM 360 in 1970, but just on the terminal side of it. To think that today, your cellphone has more computing power than Apollo 11 (which I watched on a 19" black and white TV).
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 70161829 I still have this game in a storage locker in NJ. I see someone on e-Bay selling it for $1800.00. . . I emailed the inventor of that system a few times. He sent me two autographed pictures. One was printed from his own printer. I made him a custom wallpaper for his computer background. i have a "RALLY IV" which was one of the first cheap Japanese "knockoffs", i believe... our colecovision having bit the dust in the late 70's and was summarily dropped into the dustbin, unfortunately! Colecovision didn't exist until 1982 or so.
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