Phyllis,
> I too had 2 full Commodore systems and ran a BBS with them.
Which model, 64. I never owned a 64. I started with a Vic 20 and
by the time I could upgrade I went with the C128 because it not only
could be a C64 and do CP/M. Well, sort of, the CP/M was pretty
lame, in fact so was CP/M as far as I could tell. OK, if that's all
you've got. It was slow because the Z80 chip shared control with
the 6810 [or whatever] chip.
.> urge to build my own and was going to buy a Heath kit..but my husband
> surprised me with a $10,000 system with dual 8" floppies.. lol.. remember
> those..lol.
I've seen them but never owned a machine that used them. I had a Commodore
51/4 drive and a 3.5" drive. Of course CBM could not manage two dries unless
you cut a jumper to make one of them as drive 9. So I did that on the 3.5"
drive
but added a switch so that it could work as either # 8 or # 9. One thing
about
a CBM machine is that the I/O stuff, printer and drives were all on the same
port.
If. you weren't careful and tried to print something before saving it the
computer
would lock up. At least with those machines 'booting up' took a couple of
seconds.
> Shack store and tried to buy a book/program on hexadecimal
> programming..the
> clerk took it away from me and said "Women do not understand these things
> and we cannot make a refund if you open the package"..
> duh!!..lol..--Phyllis
I assume that you mean by hex programming, assembly language. It's hard to
believe
that RS guy was that dumb, even back then. But then RS people don't really
know
computers or electronics stuff. :-)
Jim
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