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In Praise of the VIC
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 8:32 am
by ral-clan
Jim Butterfield's article on why a VIC-20 is still useful in 1985:
https://archive.org/stream/TPUG_Issue_1 ... 5/mode/2up
Warms my heart, and much of it is still applicable today!
Re: In Praise of the VIC
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 10:14 am
by Bobbi
Thank you! I will enjoy reading that (as I debug RSS Reader on the VIC-20
)
EDIT: Fascinating snippet from the article. Apparently the terminal transfer train at Atlanta airport was originally operated by VIC20s, including control of the voice announcements. I wonder if this was actually true. Is there any other source for this claim?
Re: In Praise of the VIC
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2017 1:27 pm
by orion70
Bobbi wrote:Apparently the terminal transfer train at Atlanta airport was originally operated by VIC20s, including control of the voice announcements. I wonder if this was actually true. Is there any other source for this claim?
Googled it, and found reference to train schedules announced on a VIC screen
here. Too much a vague reference to dig the Commodore magazine archives though
. For more serious VIC interfacing, see
this old thread (BTW, being a Meteo VIC, I'm still looking for someone who has the Vaisala meteo station
).