Re: EEP!

"Derek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> It was open stage night in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated, when
> Wendy of NJ stepped up to the microphone and muttered:
>

> >>
> >> Bah! My first Apple Computer experience didn't even have a
> >> mouse or a GUI.
> >>
> > Or a hard drive. Yes, I remember bragging about 64K of memory,
> > and a color monitor.
>
> Color monitor? Green Screen Monocrhome, baby!

Monitor? My VIC-20 used the television screen.
>
> Of course, as John commented about his roommate - we never did
> anything productive with it, unless you count writing BASIC
> programs to print ASCII art as "productive".
>
I spent weeks on mine writing a fire flow prediction program for my
fire department in Commodore Basic. I'd wake up in the morning
having spent the night dreaming about for-next loops...

> Now with my C64, I got into word processing for papers and
managing
> my paper routes via a spreadsheet. Of course, neither my teachers
> nor my manager believed that I did all the work myself.
>
The worst part is realizing that I spent more on my Commodore 64
($600), the tape drive ($69) and the 300-baud modem ($79) than I did
on my current Dell computer with a 2.4 GHz P-4, 264 MB of RAM, and a
flat-panel monitor. Of course the C-64 did have a couple
advantages -- the OS was hard-wired into it, so there was no wait
for bootup and no chance of the files being corrupted, and the CPU
was in the keyboard, reducing the space it needed.

Eliyahu