Is Commodore poised for a comeback?

ZDNet ^ | December 16, 2005 | Ina Fried

[MplsSteve]

My god!

Is that a TRS-80?

I haven't seen one (or even a picture of one) in years!

[beezdotcom]

Commodore 64, 2 floppy drives, expansion module, printer = $800 in 1984. 300K connection rates if I was lucky.

Is that a typo? 300K, or 300b? Connection to what?

[Random Access]

No discussion of oldies is complete without mention of the TI-994A. 16K Ram, 16K Rom and a 16 bit processor. If you had two Radio Shack tape recorders and TI Extended Basic, you were in nerd heaven.

[listenhillary]

Typo 300 baud

[Reactionary]

"And I don't see how it would make a Windows CE computer anything other than, well, a Windows CE computer.

Amiga OS is still being developed. The notorious unprotected memory scheme of the earlier Amiga is no more. 4.0 should be completed fairly soon.

[listenhillary]

There was a BB in Columbia, MO. I can't even remember the name of it. May have been through the University of MO.

[discostu]

Even all these years later I still read that as "trash-80" ;)

[yarddog]

I was at a computer club's yard sale and picked up a few items such as some 1mb rams for my old computer @ 4 for a buck.

I noticed a new in the box radio shack 300b modem for 50 cents. It was store priced at $299.00. I heard the guy in charge tell someone that if they didn't want to pay 50 cents, to just give it to them.

[dc-zoo]

We called them "Trash-80's" back in the day.

[George from New England]

aka: 30 bytes per second

[jwh_Denver]

LOL! Oh the memories. I think I had got more addicted to games on the Commoredore than with this really high tech stuff today.

[RipSawyer]

Sold for $25 when I bought a 386 w/ a 10 gig HD.>>>>>>>

Where did you find a 386 with a 10 gig hard drive?

[MarkeyD]

My first computer.

[MNJohnnie]

Commodore? NO WAY!!!! Cool. Going to be able to type in the programs out of the back of PC magazine again like we did with the Vic 20? I remember be so tickled as a kid cause my brother in law had a Commodore 64 and we could play 7 Cities on it. Best part of Christmas staying up 30 hours straight playing on the computer.

[Reactionary]

"It could do more with less CPU horsepower than any other PC before or since. One wonders what their engineers could have done with a 64-bit Opteron, 1 GHz Hypertransport and 16 gigabytes of DDR RAM. :-)"

It sure could. I could play a 12 bit, 8 channel music module on a 7Mhz Amiga and do disk IO all day without a single hiccup or glitch. My freakin' 1Ghz PowerBook can't even import music from a CD without making iTunes burp and fart all over itself.

I miss my Amiga. It was fun.

[newzjunkey]

Ha-Ha! The memories are flooding in!

[MNJohnnie]

No discussion of oldies is complete without mention of the TI-994A. 16K Ram, 16K Rom and a 16 bit processor. If you had two Radio Shack tape recorders and TI Extended Basic, you were in nerd heaven.

You tell them Old School! Anyone else remember the modem that sat on the desk and you had to plug the whole phone hand set into them?

[Larry Lucido]

My first computer. It could crunch numbers but couldn't word process worth a damn (only could spell about 10 words, and they had to be upside down).

[LasVegasMac]

Sold for $25 when I bought a 386 w/ a 10 gig HD

Just last year I finally tossed all the games I had for the C64!

I still have my RS CoCo. Yes, still functional - tape drive and all!

LVM

[stacytec]

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