My VIC-20 "setup"

Muzz73 · Post by **Muzz73** » Wed Feb 06, 2013 2:03 pm

Actually, that's not yogurt... those are K-cups for the single-serve coffee maker on the right!

Gotta have coffee where computers are involved, right?

Funny thing, a guy (at work) was just asking me if I played WoW. I told him that I didn't, because my computer wouldn't run it. He asked about my processor, so I told him "It's 6502-based."

He then asked how I could play all of the good games with a machine like that. I replied as you might expect - I told him "That is where all of the good games are!"

orion70 · Post by **orion70** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 8:26 am

Jeff-20 wrote:
orion70 wrote:t's a 13" monitor, no sound input. Don't know what it was used for in the 70s.
Strange. Seems like you would want sound for VIC 20 use. Why would they make one without sound?

Don't know. Maybe being from 1978 it was made for more serious (monochrome, no sound) business-oriented computers? Anyway, it looks retro enough

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Muzz73 · Post by **Muzz73** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 10:58 am

That sounds about right... the most common consumer level machines in 1978 were the Apple ][ (which had no sound chip, no audio out and a horrible, piezoelectric speaker built in) and the Atari 400/800.

The Atari machines were most commonly used on TV's via RF (the 400 was RF only and didn't even have a monitor port), so sound probably didn't play a big part of everyday computing for a lot of people back then.

We showed 'em all with the VIC and the SID, though!