Quote - I had a whatchacallit... a VIC-20. No tape drive, no printer, no back up, hook it up straight to the TV. Had to re-write any code from my own chicken-scratches on a piece of torn notebook paper every time I powered it off. It was something like 20 characters by 20 lines of text, "beep-boop" sound efects, maybe half a dozen colors, if that. I tried like mad to program it to play games like "Trek" and "SpaceWar", and I even worked on a simple-minded Q-Bert kind of thing, trying to fit everything into something like 5K of RAM.

Man, I loved that thing! I'm sure it would drive me mad today, but I had such a ball with that toy... ah, the good ol' days.

Captain Jack

Wow - that's hard-core, man (or seriously de-ranged).  At least I had the cassette unit for my Vic-20, so I could save (after a fashion) those typed in machine-code and BASIC snippets from the early mags.

I do remember being pretty excited when the C64 came out - the things I was going to do with 59k more ram.... nice!  So I bundled up everything I'd accumulated for the Vic-20 (including a 300 baud modem!) and sold the thing on campus for $300.00 (!!).

Of course things didn't really get exciting until the Amiga 1000 came out (in '84 ?).  It came with a whole 512k (I think) of memory and I eventually had the thing up around 8mb! with some internal expansion and a couple of 2mb jobs daisy-chained to the external expansion port.  I also managed to score a 20mb HD (that rocked!) from Supra Corp. - who wanted to include my "Access!" terminal program with thier new 2400 baud modems (I got one of those too :) ).

Ahh.. those were the days...

 

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