Bill Longman wrote:
I had the little cassette thing to store my stuff on. I think the
OS in on a ROM which would be hard to get around unless the ROM
was changed. Then it may not really be a Vic-20 anymore. I'm not
sure about the C64 since I got me a 20Mhz oscilloscope to work on
TVs and stuff. I still got the scope tho.
My biggest use for my old Vic-20 was a alarm clock. Worked fine
unless the power went out. Well, that sounds like todays alarm
clock. lol I guess some things never change.
That's really funny, Dale. That brings back memories (and more than 5K
of them!). My dad gave me a VIC-20 when I was in college and I used it
for several years. I wrote lots of BASIC apps to ease all the
ciphering I had to do for enzyme kinetics, chemistry labs and things
like that. I had a cassette tape which was slow but it was a heck of a
lot faster than typing in your program every time!
--
Bill Longman
The embarrassing part for me was when we got a Atari. My Dad played
missile command and got well over a million points on that thing. He
was like a little kid on that thing. Me, I liked the little chicken
crossing the road. The cassette tape was nice. I had to walk about 6
miles to buy mine. It was the last one they had too.
I already feel old but I think I'm really getting old now. It is
amazing how far computer have come tho. Both in hardware and the OS,
well, except for windoze. It hasn't come that far yet. lol
Dale
:-) :-)
