OLD DAYS

[Alex Snow]

That was even before monitors.  Everyone just used color TVs because they
were cheaper.  Didn't they plug into a RF modulator card?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shaun Oliver" <shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 7:39 AM
Subject: Re: OLD DAYS


> believe it or not, my first computer was a comodore 64 with no speech.
> I could see well enough at the time to be able to read the print off of my
> tv screen. I even had some cool games for it that weren't released to the
> publick until a few months after I had them.
> I'm still amazed that you could do so much with a 1 mhz processor and the
> entire os was in memory.
> I mean sure you had to load games off of a tape, and I mean audio cassett,
> but it was for it's time very fast. especially when you put things like
> dolphin dos or cocroach on it.
> oh how I miss my c 64 hahaha.
>
>
> --
> Shaun Oliver
>
> Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the
> > > only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
> > >                 -- Wernher von Braun.
> > > email: shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au
> > > icq:76958435
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>
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