There was a floppy drive the 1541 that had the Commodore name on it but was made by someone else under license. It was a separate box. I also bought a monitor and a printer. $110 sounds about right if all you bought was the combination keyboard CPU. I still have the Quick Brown Box in my garage. It was a cartridge that you permanently stored software in. The software that was in The Quick Brown Box. automatically loaded at boot up.
On Friday, April 08, 2011 11:33:52 am Chris Knadle wrote: > On Friday, April 08, 2011 07:30:26 Mark Wallace wrote: > > Anyone under age 30 is too young to remember the 64. It only had about > > 20k in free memory and had to be booted up in comand line. > > Yeah, the BASIC interpreter took up a lot of the space, but it could be > unloaded and replaced by a boot loader program. > > > There was a > > program named Geos that was able to get it to run your word processor, > > address book etc, by making up a floppy work disk (5 1/4 inch variety) > > first and then running the routines from the disk. Mine took about four > > minutes to load up a primitive word processor, but forget about desk top > > publishing, even one picture would out run it's memory. > > Loading a big program from tape took over an hour. You could have a long > lunch and still have to wait some more. And, of course, that was assuming > the load from tape was successful. > > > I found mine in the basement late last year and donated it to Goodwill. > > There is already one in the Smithstonian. You could use a regular TV set > > as a monitor and I had an electric typewriter that it could print > > through. Don't even ask about graphics. I think that AOL actually got > > it's start creating online access for commodore, but there were only > > about 1100 web sites on planet earth. > > > > The founders of Google and Facebook were in diapers. > > > > It cost me $600 at Target. > > I remember buying mine for about $110 from Sears Robuck. > > > That was the cheapest computer out there. > > Prior to the C64 I had purchased a TI 99/4A for $50. Originally they > started at $500 but eventually TI decided to dump the lot at a big > discount. The C64 was better, though. > > > Computers had a lot of selling expense because the salesman had to show > > the average guy what they could be used for. > > > > The nice thing about the good old days is that they are long gone. > > > > Mark > > -- Chris > > -- > > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > May 4 - Inkscape > Jun 1 - Zimbra > Jul 6 - Jul 2011 _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium May 4 - Inkscape Jun 1 - Zimbra Jul 6 - Jul 2011
