On Apr 13, 2012 10:13 PM, "Kent Belan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > My first computer was a C64.
I had a VIC-20 first, a hand-me-down, and a cassette player. The C=64 was the first one I bought (at the Groton sub base PX), along with a 1541 drive and the composite monitor. After my military service, I moonlighted at The Memory Location in Wellesley, MA, an all-Commodore shop, and usually took my paycheck home in toys. I was president of the Foxboro Area Commodore User Group, newsletter editor, BBS SysOp (with an SFD-1001 1 Mb floppy and an IEEE interface!). Eventually we were printing our newsletter in Postscript on an NEC SilentWriter 890. I beta-tested GEOS software, wrote my first public domain software (an Epson quad-density printer driver), got to hang out with the legendary Jim Butterfield one weekend in Boston during a Commodore convention. I had a C=64 with the memory expander with extra memory for a full megabyte, the 1581 3.5" drive. Thanks to the store, I played with all the latest toys. After Jack Trameil left Commodore, Commodore went on to purchase the Amiga computers. I had a 500 and a souped-up 2000. Great machines. If you're interested in Commodore history, Brian Bagnall wrote "On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore" which you can likely find in your local library. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4ukouyo7vjvbrbb5+bk+gbzzamh0mnkrf_v93uljdf...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
