phil osborn wrote:
>
> >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...
Hah, I can top that- back in 1980, I was employee #2 at Otrona (Ron
Lingemann & I working in his basement workshop), and I wirewrapped the
prototype of the Attache portable computer. This actually got to market
several months *before* the Osborne, but didn't have the marketing
splash. I still have serial number 150, with a whopping 64K of ram and
_two_ 360K floppy drives.
(Otrona went belly up in 1984. Ancient history...)
-- Doug Jones Rocket Plumber, XCOR Aerospace http://www.xcor-aerospace.com
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