New Toy! Whee!

[bjarvis]

Friends found the following sitting by the side of the road, lonely and unwanted. It now has a new home.



It now has a proud place adjacent to my various models of Commodore 64, Vic20 and Radio Shack Model 100 laptop.

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[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I have four Commodore 64 models. I have two of the original grey versions, one of the newer white models (reminescent of the Commodore 128), and an SX-64, the luggable version. I bought my first one in 1984 (I was working with Commodore PET 4032 computers in high school at the time) and it saved my ass in school: life was much, much easier with a word processor (Paperclip) at home rather than pounding out papers in long-hand or on a typewriter.

Somewhere, I still have the Gemini 10x dot matrix printer I bought with it. The 300 baud modem should be around here somewhere, with the joysticks.

A few weeks ago, I managed to get my 1541 floppy drive connected to a Windows PC so I could transfer all of my old programs and data files to something a little less ancient. I was amazed to find the 5.25" diskettes untouched for 20 years were still readable.