31,743 BYTES FREE - COMMODORE COMPUTER VERY OLD-SCHOOL

windows 95 STILL fully loaded on one of my old school towers i bought in '96 and in my "slim" (2-inch thick) "1993 Toshiba Laptop;" the Win95 cd rom is still around ....somewhere

Defender of the Crown, Delta, Gateway to Apshai, Jumpman Jnr, Into the Eagle's Nest, Monty on the Run and Boulder Dash were responsible for many, many, many broken joysticks!

I'm still playing these via an emulator on my Wii!

Me2.
and late 70's

and 80's

and 90's, especially 90's

and 00's, which i still have, at least 2 of those

and i guess the rest is up to history to decide

thanks

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!

What is the collectible market value of these old puters on fleabay or other such sites?

Any idea?

I've been watching these really cool youtube channels LazyGameReviews(maybe Reviewer) where he boots up old PCs from the 80's, 90's and 00's, and another channel called Techmoan where he looks at old gadgets from diskmans to vinyl video disk players.

Unless if it's a real rarity, I usually hear the people showing off and educating on the old computers, they typically say it ran them around $25-$200 for all working parts

Anyone remember the Tandy 'color computer'? I loved that thing. I spent hours coding little games in Basic when I was twelve. Lots of fun back then.

Then I discovered QBasic along with dial-up BBSes... Hog heaven with my Compaq sporting 4mb RAM and rocking Windows 3.1... It was at that point I wondered what amazing things could be done with 32mb RAM... A computer professional told me "son, that's crazy! If you had that much RAM, you could literally live inside the game!".

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WE used to have PET computers at my grade school. I used to love playing lemonade stand on it.

The Commadore 64 was my first computer and I also owned an Amiga 500.

Commadore was a great company and all of these were great computers.

cd rom??...I've still got the eight 3.5inch floppies

I think people made a bigger deal on Intel's Pentium FDIV flaw than Y2K. Even though in the actual real world, it would never have effected everyday users. Just the perception it could was enough for the consumner to demand replacements. Every Intel employee had to spend 4 hrs answering customer calls. It tanked INTC stock for few quarters until the P6 came out .

Microsoft had already released patches for their OS'es, as as did other large software companies (IBM, Oracle, etc). It was the custom software in embedded controllers (PLC's) that had the higher risk of failure. I don't recall any significant issue that resulted from Y2K. I'd have to research for specific cases where and what it did impact.

Colecovision didn't exist until 1982 or so.

It varies. depends who is on at any given moment looking for the item, so it's a crap-shoot. I've never sold any of my own but 10-15 yrs ago i bought a few plus a few parts online. look up your own particular piece you wish to part with and search online for a value, or on ebay itself for a value before you go losing $$ on the item by not presenting/selling it correctly, i.e. maximizing your exposure with it online, if you intend to sell it. That's my 2cents worth

Buhahahaha op I got you beat BB

My first comp: Commadore Vic 20

3583 bytes free......

Learned BASIC and made a few shitty games I stored on my 'tape recorder' modem as a 13 year old.

I aced all my comp classes in in highschool.

Today, I'm a fucking retard on a comp lmao

Ah, gotcha. You must've had "Rocky" and the Super Controller then. What a contraption that was!

Same here man!

I went 2600 VCS Woody, Atari 600XL (16k - 16 whole kilobytes of RAM bitchez! - and I got a RAM expension pack up to a whopping 64K eventually!), Atari 130XE, Atari 520ST then the Commodore Amiga.

The C64 was more successful I think in terms of sales for whatever reason, but the Atari 8-bit was technically superior.

I was so excited when the Atari coin-op 'Gauntlet' finally got a release in the mid 80's - I loved that shitting thing in the arcade.

At the time I'd got an Atari 600XL and tape deck. The cassette was like a 120 minute one or something - the spool of tape pretty much filled the whole window on the cassette.

It took like 60 minutes + to load that shit in, and invariably it would carsh within a few seconds of completing the load!

And on the rare occasion it did successfully load and you beat the 1st level, it needed to load the next levels of the cassette (WTF?!) and it never managed it. Happy Fucking Dayz!

did you new you could move 1 wire inside your disk reader and then the new command would be Load "*" ,7 ,1?

take that little brother, try to play now muhahahaha

Original Pirate here. I remember downloading "Heart of Africa" or "Out of Africa" and "Mail Order Monsters" off of a BBS.

Also had an Icepick which could rip a cartridge to disk.

C64 arcade ports were always waaay closer to arcade than existing consoles at that time.

I used to buy C64 games if Rob Hubbard did the music.

Y'all mufuggers are old as shit.
I know, because I am too.




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in 1992 bought a 2 Gig SCSI Hard Drive for a 486 Server Running Novell

$2,000.00

oh, what a relief that was...

I've started with commodore 16, four times less RAM memory, but still good for Basic

Turrican was the best jump n run ever!

Did anybody ever see or use a 'Science Fair' Microcomputer Programmer? :)

MIDI might not exactly be what you think. What can come out of the end of a MIDI chain of devices that still use 3.5" floppy disks is probably vastly different than what you would expect:


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MIDI is a realtime over-the-wire protocol and a file format.