Denial

Wow Golan you are coming off as a bit bitter here -- it's quite unwarranted. Sorry you don't feel this has been noteworthy. The thousands of other people must just be wrong. Not going to argue the point any further -- since there really isn't anything to argue. You have your opinion, and I have mine...

My impresssion of twitter in general is - that it is alot of hype and not much substance. I really could not care less is somebody just scratched their ass and they wish to tell 100,000 of their mindless "followers" Whether you "get" Twitter or not there is no denying that it is...

Sorry your Tweets didn't go through, there is a bug on the other side and once I reset it it went back to normal. More details on how it works: TweetVER is two parts. The first is the client software that runs on the vintage computer such as the VIC-20. It communicates through a serial port (since m...

eslapion - While you see it as a great feat, I see it as an insult to the true potential of the VIC-20 Awww you shouldn't feel that way. You should be proud of the fact that a VIC can DO IT without expansion! That IS impressive. Having said that, once I release all the source code etc. I'm sure som...

Golan if you'd like, I can post a link to this site on our landing page for the Twitter event. We had over 20,000 hits on Tuesday!!

Shaun Contiki is an alternate operating system - and yes, has been available on other platforms. What we've done is create a platform SPECIFICALLY for older computers to TWEET from. Contiki is a more generalized thing. Why I'm trying to understand from your point of view is what the Commodore 64 has...

You will have to come and see how it all works. More technical details and information about TweetVER will be available next week.

Yes, of course, the Commodore 64 "tweeted" awhile ago. And the C64 was not the first "vintage" device to do so either. However, the point of this story is that a) This is a VIC-20 Tweeting. NOT a Commodore 64. b) Contiki was used on the C64. The VIC version uses only an unexpande...

Personal Computer Museum Makes the VIC-20 Twitter First Tweet from the Past! New Software Lets Vintage Computers Access Twitter Brantford, Ontario – February 16, 2010 – To celebrate its fifth year in business, the Personal Computer Museum ( http://www.pcmuseum.ca ) has created a new program that all...