World's most popular computer is 30 years old.

[trekkiedane]

That's tight, The Commodore 64 was released this month thirty years ago

I didn't have the funds to get one before it was a built-in feature of the Commodore 128, but I did play with it whenever I could get my fingers on it -was A LOT more fun than the computers I'd been playing with before; circuit-boards with Hex-keyboards and 16-segment led-output and/or BIIIG machines where I had access only to a telex-type terminal and then only during the computing class I took one evening per week (yeah, I'm that old!).

It -of course- was the 'gaming console' of those days -especially because you could store your games on ordinary compact-cassettes (normally used for audio back then) and you could always get a copy of a game from your friends. Plus the 'datasette' was a lot cheaper than (floppy)disc-drives.

I have many fond memories of gaming all night with a bunch of friends -sometimes we would decide to take just one more game even if the sun was up and we'd be late for school

Have you any fond memories of the C=64?

 

[trekkiedane]

You could actually get on the internet with a Commodore 64?

I'm a bit confused: your sentence is phrased like a statement but it has a question-mark at the end...

The C 64 could indeed go on the internet -insofar as you'd actually call it 'the internet' in those days

There's a bit about it in the Wikipedia-article I linked to.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Have you any fond memories of the C=64?

10 START
20 PRINT *************
30 PRINT **oh yes!!!!!!**
40 PRINT *************
50 PRINT to ask me again, press Y in another 30 years
60 INPUT A$
70 IF INPUT = Y GOTO 10
80 IF INPUT = NOT Y GOTO 90
90 END



sorry, couldn't resist to write BASIC. Haven't done so in ages.
However, my C64 already had qBASIC and it also understood Assembler, Pascal and C/C+ and DOS commands (the latter necessary for its 5 1/4 " drive).


And just in case you wondered: my first computer (well, ok, actually my dad's) was a Commodore PET 2001. That was five years before the C64 was invented.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

^^ It was a question but I looked up the answer. It was a bit before my time. The thing that threw me off was the difference between the picture above and the one on Wikipedia. The wiki picture didn't look like it had a key that said "internet".

 

[trekkiedane]

^^ It was a question but I looked up the answer. It was a bit before my time. The thing that threw me off was the difference between the picture above and the one on Wikipedia. The wiki picture didn't look like it had a key that said "internet".

Ah! -I didn't even notice that; it was just some image I found to put in the post, didn't think to look closer. Sorry 'bout that.

 

[137th Gebirg]

>Sigh< I was always an Atari guy, myself. First computer was an Atari 400 w/ a membrane keyboard and a 410 tape drive - when 300 baud Hayes-compatible modems were king! I fondly remember the old days of the healthy rivalry between us and Commode-Door users. Crushing Apple ]['s into Apple Sauce and so on... That was back in the days when programming was new and fun. Now it just seems...feh... I miss it...

But I shall always wave the old banner proudly!

 

[trekkiedane]

^I don't think I've ever seen that machine before now -we used to poke fun of the guys with the ZX Spectrum

 

[ichab]

I never had the cassette tapes. I used either cartridges or floppy disks. It's hard to believe how much I used to enjoy 2 minute load times for low bit games.

 

[Kirby]

I couldn't afford a 64, but I did have a Vic 20 and that exact same tape drive. It was all hooked up to 15 inch (or so) black and white tv that my parents had when they first got married. Good times with that machine.

 

[Mary Ann]

My brother had the C64, the fancy one with the floppy disk drive. He did some programming with it, but I just played games. What I remember most is typing a command to load a game and then wandering off to make myself a cup of coffee while the game loaded.

 

[MacLeod]

Had the Amstrad CPC6128

 

[Captain Ice]

We never had the C64 when I was growing up, but we had one of it's competitors.

Anyone else here remember the TI99-4A and it's tape drive backup?

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

We never had the C64 when I was growing up, but we had one of it's competitors.

Anyone else here remember the TI99-4A and it's tape drive backup?

My brother certainly does.

 

[Trekker4747]

My dad worked for Radio Shack so we always had a Tandy computer growing up.

 

[Santaman]

I've got both the old style and new style C64, an Atari 800 XL and 65XE, also two ST machines, two MSX's and a whole bunch of XT's one of them a IBM XT with its original 10Mb harddisk which still functions like its new.

I love old machines.

 

[MacLeod]

Just thinking about al those classic games, Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy etc..

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

My dad worked for Radio Shack so we always had a Tandy computer growing up.

The first computer I really used was the TRS-80 Model III. Some had tape drives, a few had floppy drives.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Just thinking about al those classic games, Manic Miner, Jet Set Willy etc..

Does anyone recall that moon-landing game? You had to land a ferry on the moon, with a limited supply of fuel. If you used up too much, you'd run out of fuel and crash, if you used too little, you'd be too fast and crash, too.
That one was still black and white (or green on black, rather) and with ASCII graphics

And there was another with a worm that grew longer and longer every second. You had to guide it around on the screen without it touching or blocking itself. That one was originally for monochrome screens as well, but later there was a C64 version with colours.
I loved that one!

 

[JRS]

I am very familiar with Commodore 64,
it was the first computer me and my brother had

Some really great games in this one: Boulder Dash, Space Taxi, G.I. Joe, Bubble Bobble, TMNT, Summer/Winter Olympics, Battleship..and so on
I have good memories playing all those games, alone and with my little brother.
I think my father has the machine + games still stacked somewhere..

 

[CaptMurdock]

I played Summer Olympics! Also Ghostbusters.

I still remember my first word processor: PaperClip.

Then came the love of my life (up to that point): GEOS. Next best thing to having a Mac.