Heh, I forgot about the FastLoad. I had one of those too, along with a pushbutton reset switch mounted on the case. Started out with the cassette tape storage whatever-they-called-it, saved my pennies and bought one, then two 5.25 floppies (I installed switches on those also to change the write-protect and the drive address). Never went with the 3.5. I graduated to a clone by then. A friend of mine got an Amiga. Remember that this would run Microsoft as well as the Commodore OS. He was convinced that machine would take over the world. :-) Ah, the Commodore User Group meetings... What fun! Geek heaven. :-) -Paul
________________________________ From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 7:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT antique modem Oohh... the 2400.... b...@$$. Commodore hardware goodness: -1200 baud modem -FastLoad cartridge (with homebrew reset switch) -Okidata "Okimate" color printer (thermal ribbon) -5.35" disk drive (1541?) -3.5" disk drive (1581?)... 800KB on a disk... oooh! -Mouse (a must have for GEOS!) -Berkeley Softworks 512K RAMPACK -Schnedler Systems 4KHz CPU accelerator All driving a 13" color TV of course. Good times... -sc From: Maglinger, Paul [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 8:49 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT antique modem I had a 300 baud thermal paper terminal with acoustic coupler that I used when I needed to remote dial-in. Then I got the Commodore 64 with the 300 baud, then bought the 1200, then a 2400. -Paul ________________________________ From: Len Hammond [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 01, 2009 6:54 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: OT antique modem For those on the list old enough to remember something like this. My first modem was 300 baud but not acoustic and on a Commodore 64. http://bit.ly/q6Fb1 <http://bit.ly/q6Fb1> -- Len Hammond CSI:Hartland ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
