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.

Comments

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

You'll have to find a copy of Dark Castle to play on it!

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I dunno... it's only a 10 MB drive with 2 MB of memory. Will Dark Castle fit? :-)

[excessor.livejournal.com]

You have a Commodore 64? I worked there (at the Valley Forge lab) during the summer between my high school junior and senior years. I wrote and ran my first BASIC program on one.

[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

Well, I slept with a guy whose dad ran Coleco, so there!

[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.

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

Sure, it was made to play on that machine!

You have to swap the floppy quite a bit though.

And I do mean the original version of dark castle...

About the game:

http://www.macledge.com/features/?id=396

More vintage games for mac:

http://mac.the-underdogs.org/

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Ah, I remember the Coleco Adam computer. Daisywheel printer that sounded like an Uzi. Streaming mag tapes. The printer broke down frequently though and since it contained the power supply for the entire system, the whole computer was useless junk until the printer was repaired.

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

dude, you're going to have to start charging admission to your museum.

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

You're tempting me to pull my Atari 1200 out of my closet and boot it up!

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Do it! See if it still works and show us the pictures!