>From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@turbont.net>
>Subject: My techno-archaology weekend...
>Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 13:41:34 -0400
>
>Hey guys/gals, guess what I found this weekend at an antique shop around
>the
>corner? A Commodore VIC-20, no kidding. Bout a dozen games, and oh my god,
>a
>whole 8K memory expansion card. I may put on the shelf next to my
>fossilized
>dino-turd, though maybe I'll fire it up. It came with the original manual
>and
>tape drive... Maybe I'll put it on ebay...
Actually, last time I checked the online computer auction sites, there were
several VIC-20's and C64's both for sale and wanted. I still have my
original VIC-20 somewhere, and my C-64. They probably still work. I ran a
little word-processing business in the early '80's on the C64 and a Brother
HR15 daisy-wheel, which cost me $500. In the mid-80's, the C64 came with
the GEOS GUI OS, with full desktop publishing capability, on about 30K of
free RAM and a 165K floppy drive. Today, there are people surfing the web
on C64's. Amazing how little real advance we've made, due to MicroSloth...
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