The Commodore 64 memories or stories and if u still have one thread

[ardchoille]

I think the 1541 was a disk drive. The tape drive was a C2N.

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Ah, yes, the 1541 was a 5.25 floppy drive.. I had both drives and the 1541 seemed like the top of the line device at the time.

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[Roy Rob]

Ah, yes, the 1541 was a 5.25 floppy drive.. I had both drives and the 1541 seemed like the top of the line device at the time.

Ah yes, I remember cassette tape drives but not sure I remember how we used them. I think they plugged into a port and just sent or received an audio signal similar to the sound an old dial up modem uses.

I do recall, however, 30 years ago or so trying to wipe a program tape clean as recommended, by setting up the cassette deck to record nul sound. I'd leave the room only to find when I came back that the tape had rewound and was going through again, but when I checked to see if it was 'wiped' found that it was not. This went on for a long time, set up, leave, come back, no change. It was driving me crazy until I realized that the outlet that the cassette deck was plugged into was controlled by the light switch, which I always turned OFF when I left the room!

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[ardchoille]

Ah yes, I remember cassette tape drives but not sure I remember how we used them. I think they plugged into a port and just sent or received an audio signal similar to the sound an old dial up modem uses.

I do recall, however, 30 years ago or so trying to wipe a program tape clean as recommended, by setting up the cassette deck to record nul sound. I'd leave the room only to find when I came back that the tape had rewound and was going through again, but when I checked to see if it was 'wiped' found that it was not. This went on for a long time, set up, leave, come back, no change. It was driving me crazy until I realized that the outlet that the cassette deck was plugged into was controlled by the light switch, which I always turned OFF when I left the room!

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Yep, that tape drive used sound to record and play back data for the C64.

Oh noes! I can just imagine the sound made by your face being planted firmly into your palm when you realized the electrical outlet was being turned off each time you left the room.

[TheRambler]

I started with a 1k ZX81, I then bought an add on rampak to boost it to 16k, I used to write games for it and send them into magazines. I then went on to the 48k Sinclair Spectrum, at the same time i had a Commodore Vic20 and a Commodore 64, followed by the 128k version of the spectrum.....after all this i went on to an Amiga 600 HD.

And so ends my early PC ownership, I now have a Dell Vostro 200 and my trusty iPad.......and I have a load of ZX Spectrum games which I revisit regularly to remind me why I lost so many of my childhood days playing those excellent Ultimate - Play The Game titles, my favourite being the Atic Atac game and then the Sabre Wulf series!! Awesome!!

[KevinJS]

I had the ZX81 too. After the 64 I went to the original Amiga. I never really got on with that one, for some reason. After that, a succession of PCs running 3.1, 98, Me (there had to be one, didn't there), XP and finally Vista (or Me #2).

Next up will be an MBP and then, when the funds recover, an iMac.

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[ardchoille]

I gave up on buying computers in 2001 and began building my own. This allowed me to pick and choose the hardware as well as the OS - I have been with Linux ever since - and this yields a very nice system. My next computer will be either a MBP or the Mac mini.. Mac OS X just seems so much better than anything else available.

However, there will always be a place in my heart for the Commodore64.

[nathan the ipad lover]

Well these are some cool stories, My dad had a 1702 monitor with his 64 I dunno if he still has it

[TheRambler]

So Nathan, what was the game I used to play on my vic 20, I remember it was 2 dimensional, you had a plane that dropped bombs on tall buildings which got smaller as the bomb fell, as the game progressed the plane got lower down the screen.

I can't for the life of me remember the name of it.

[nathan the ipad lover]

So Nathan, what was the game I used to play on my vic 20, I remember it was 2 dimensional, you had a plane that dropped bombs on tall buildings which got smaller as the bomb fell, as the game progressed the plane got lower down the screen.

I can't for the life of me remember the name of it.

I dunno I think that was Fort Launderdale or something like that, I have it on cassette for C64

[Roy Rob]

Well these are some cool stories, My dad had a 1702 monitor with his 64 I dunno if he still has it

I never had a 'monitor', monochrome TV's had to do back then, next came the green screen CRT's, then the ColorComputer by Tandy. I would love to have the thousands of dollars back that I spent on the early computers.

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