Commodore 64 and modern day kids!

Loving this video that the BBC made!!

Basically, a Commodore 64 enthusiast took his precious machine to a school to show it to kids aged about 8-15.....with mixed results

Made me VERY nostalgic, especially when it wouldn't load properly! LOL

Also made me feel very old......seriously......30 years???? Where did it go!

Well worth a look and I don't think it breaks the "no talking about other games!!" rule on these forums? :P

Also......C64?.......way better than the Spectrum

My first computer was the Atari 800 (the original one with a sturdy body and keyboard). Two cartridge slots, and my word processor was on a cartridge. It cost $899 (in 1981) for the base computer, plus $79 for the Cassette drive. It came with 16K of RAM, and I later got an additional board with 32K ($89) to get it up to the maximum of 48K RAM. I had to wait a while until I could afford the single-sided, single density floppy drive ($399 with about 90K of storage per disk).

Yet that computer served as my word processor through graduate school and for several years after that. I had a spreadsheet (Visicalc). I had on-line access to local bulletin boards and Compuserve -- my first modem was a 300 baud acoustic modem. Have you ever seen the Wargames movie where the phone headset was placed into two rubber cups? That was my first modem. I later replaced it with a 1200 baud modem with a direct connection.

When the old Atari was replaced by an IBM-XT, we loaned it to my in-laws, who eventually threw it out. I really wish I still had it.

A friend of mine once bought a bunch of Commodore's at an auction. He then used them and some boards to build shelves. They were cheaper than cinderblocks.

My parents were too poor in the early 80's to afford any kind of computer at all. I had to steal my computer time from the C-64's that my school had.

Eventually I did get a computer of my own, but that was an Amiga 2000 and an entirely different experience!

If you're feeling nostalgic but want a more modern take on your machine....

http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_Home.aspx

my first video game console was an NES lol and my families first computer was windows 95 lol

thats what i get for growing up in the 90s lol

I had a Colecovision Adam. Tape drive. Ginormous printer. It came with Buck Rogers, which I still remember because the alien spaceships looked like fried eggs. It also had no memory, so every awesome 20 line program I made in BASIC had to be recreated every single time. And of course, the fact that I could play all of my Colecovision games on it was nice.

I never met anyone else who ever had one. :-(

I think I still have it in storage somewhere.




PS: Beginner'a All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, COmmon Business-Oriented Language, Programming Language 1.

I knew some of the people who made it. The daisy wheel printer was interesting from a engineering standpoint, also nice since you got typewriter quality while at the time the best you could do was 9-pin dot matrix.

The most interesting "feature" was the EMP it created when you turned the unit on, damaging any tapes you had nearby. Didn't help that the tape drive was also poor. But it was a case of lemons to more lemons as the videogame market just colaspsed and the Adam was basically designed from the Colecovision parts inventory.

I got my first computer, an Atari 1200XL, back in junior high around 1982 or '83. Instead of a floppy drive, I initially recorded all the BASIC programs I wrote for it on a cassette recorder. When I finally got a 5.25" drive and daisy wheel printer for it, I felt like a high-tech giant.

Ah, the good ol' days.

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My first computer was rocking dual external 5.1 drives.

I remember updating dos, later, on our intel based machine. And getting modem drivers to work.

I also recall waiting in anticipation for the AOL Nickelodean zone to finish downloading, thinking it was awesome it wasn't charged against our time (couldn't do anything else online while it was downloading)

I remember the day (back in '81, I think) when our family got a Commodore VIC-20. Half the street came over to witness this new technological wonder. When we later upgraded to a C64, my father built a monitor stand with three cartridge slots. You could have three different games in, flip the switch for the one you wanted and off you'd go. Moving from a cassette drive to a floppy was big news, living in the future!

A building I work in now was formerly the US headquarters of Commodore. I smile whenever I remember that at work.

My first experience of computing was at school, mid 70s, machine the size of half a room with less computing power than my washing machine has now, programmed in BASIC by taking cards with a dozen or so rows of all the possible characters and putting a pencil mark through the one you wanted, one character per row, read by a graphite sensitive reader. Immense fun when you dropped a stack of them.

My first gaming machine was an ATARI ST, also still have a Sinclair QL.

My first gaming console was the Atari 2600, but did spend some time Colecovision and Vectrex machines owned by relatives.

The oldest One i have ever played would have to be the tsr 80 Texas instruments the game was ty pan or some thing like that trading stuff to one port or another watching out for pirates all black and white almost 0 graphics

My first PC was a Commodore-128, which Dad got for educational purposes. So of course we kids used it mainly for C64 games, at least at first. One of the first I remember ever playing is Jumpman.

Eventually I taught myself BASIC, using the type-in listings in magazines like Ahoy! and Run. See, Dad's insidious plot eventually paid off!