Denial

3. Your collection of "Vintage" computers is never complete.

However, I did buy a PC long before I started playing on it because Windows NT (the first full 32 bit operating system from Microsoft) was able to run Netscape Navigator and browse the internet. That was in 1994, more than a year before the appearance of Windows 95. Windows NT 3.5, back then, sold ...

How many computers have you bought new, second hand or got for free? 1981: Used Atari 2600 system with games, joysticks, and steering controllers (similar to paddles). Technially not a computer, but it was billed as a "Video Computer System." I still have most of the original games and th...

Too bad it won't work in my Vic...

This is all making me realize I've got to get busy finishing my retro 80's themed basement. My basement is pretty much finished (ceiling, lighting, walls, floor), I have the basic elements (huge collection of 80's music, Atari 2600 system with paddles, joysticks, and 17 games, Vic 20 system), but I ...

To be honest, this is the friendliest internet community I've come across. That's probably why I'm hanging out here now. If this is as heated as it gets, there is nothing to worry about. I think if we all inject some humor when things start to get heated, that will help to keep things friendly. Noth...

I could do the tattoo...

Okay...what do I have to do to win the boxed C2N?

For the record, my A500 I found at the flea market was in better condition than my own as well. Not in as good condition as Centallica's find, but still pretty good for a flea market. I think that, if we keep our eyes open, we'll see some lightly used A500's starting to surface as people "Declu...

All of this banter reminds me of a joke we computer programmers used to share:

Q: How many computer programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: None. It's a hardware problem.

Very nice score...

I think if the Vic had shipped with twice as much memory as it did, we would've seen a lot more stuff like this in games and whatnot, and the Vic would've been just as big a success as the C-64.

I agree, sort of. Of all the PC models sold commercially, my favorite was the PS/2 Model 30. It's a sort of all-in-one super-XT. Nice MCGA graphics, easy to add an internal VGA board and rewire it to the built-in monitor so that you can have VGA, and it doesn't sprawl across a desktop the way most ...

I don't know how he could track it to here, but I edited my message and put in the item number instead; so go ahead and have some fun. :D P.S.: I did send him one last message thanking him for his response and advised that I would share my experience with him with the rest of the Commodore community...

I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment, vic user. Saundy's post is dead on and point 22 striked a chord with me as well. The PC has become a "Consumer" machine, carefully engineered to keep people spending money on them. The realm of hardware and software development that once belonged...