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DanaC · 01-08-2009, 08:18 PM

My first was a Commodore Vic20. It was the 'Education' bundle set. They somehow managed to convince my mother that it would in some way help me with my school work. It didn't. It proved spectacularly unable to be of any practical use whatsoever.

More importantly, it did not, as I would have liked at the time, give me the ability to hack into major systems a la 'Wargames'.

What it did do was play games in full colour. I believe it was the first colour home computer but I may be wrong on that.

One final factet about this computer was that it was part of the big pre-Christmas sell off of about-to-be-obsolete stock. This was before consumers got savvy about the wily tech peddlars. Now, okay, granted, there were still computer games being written for Vic20 when I got it...but not many. No, games makers were by then focussing their attention on the shiny new kid on the block the Commodore64.

My best friend got a Commodore64.

dar512 · 01-09-2009, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by DanaC

What it did do was play games in full colour. I believe it was the first colour home computer but I may be wrong on that.

Apple II and Atari were prior. However Commodore did market better at the price point. They sold a boatload of computers before IBM brought out their PC.

glatt · 01-09-2009, 10:23 AM

We had a Heathkit terminal in our house starting in around 1980 or so and we could call into the mainframe at the college where my dad worked using a screaming fast 300 baud modem. It was linked to the Dartmouth college computer, where they had a chat room. So my first chat/forum experiences were in the early 80's.

It was all text then, each "post" would follow another as a big long text document. The posts were separated only by a couple carriage returns and then a header to tell who was making the post. You could fake forum messages as coming from another member by just putting the fake message within your own using the appropriate spacing format. Good times.

Flint · 01-09-2009, 02:31 PM

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You could fake forum messages as coming from another member by just putting the fake message within your own using the appropriate spacing format. Good times.

I'm sure you would never do anything like that, though.

Shawnee123 · 01-09-2009, 02:56 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt

We had a Heathkit ~snip~.

That's neat. Did the whole family like Wuthering Heights?

01-08-2009, 08:18 PM	#1
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	My first was a Commodore Vic20. It was the 'Education' bundle set. They somehow managed to convince my mother that it would in some way help me with my school work. It didn't. It proved spectacularly unable to be of any practical use whatsoever. More importantly, it did not, as I would have liked at the time, give me the ability to hack into major systems a la 'Wargames'. What it did do was play games in full colour. I believe it was the first colour home computer but I may be wrong on that. One final factet about this computer was that it was part of the big pre-Christmas sell off of about-to-be-obsolete stock. This was before consumers got savvy about the wily tech peddlars. Now, okay, granted, there were still computer games being written for Vic20 when I got it...but not many. No, games makers were by then focussing their attention on the shiny new kid on the block the Commodore64. My best friend got a Commodore64.

01-09-2009, 10:23 AM	#3
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	We had a Heathkit terminal in our house starting in around 1980 or so and we could call into the mainframe at the college where my dad worked using a screaming fast 300 baud modem. It was linked to the Dartmouth college computer, where they had a chat room. So my first chat/forum experiences were in the early 80's. It was all text then, each "post" would follow another as a big long text document. The posts were separated only by a couple carriage returns and then a header to tell who was making the post. You could fake forum messages as coming from another member by just putting the fake message within your own using the appropriate spacing format. Good times.

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