Posts Tagged “Retro Computers”

My early memories of programming

My earliest memories of programming are directly related to the pain of not being able to save my work. The first proper computer my family owned was a Commodore Vic-20. I guess my parents bought it in 1984 or 1985 but it might have been earlier. The Vic-20 came out years before but this was [...]

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Happy birthday my rubber keyed friend!

Well, 2012 has turned out to be quite a year for retro computing. The Commodore 64 turned 30 this year, Jack Tramiel died, and the ZX Spectrum is 30 years old too! I have fond memories of the original 48K ZX Spectrum. Even though it had a tiny rubber keyboard it suited my much younger [...]

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It’s not too late to archive old disks

I have a collection of around 300 Commodore 64 5 1/4 disks. They were last used around 1995 and were kept in an unheated, sometimes damp room in my family home. It’s not all bad, I kept them in proper disk boxes so the disks were mostly upright during that time and not horizontal and [...]

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The new Commodore 64 laptop

This isn’t the first time a Commodore 64 laptop has been made but it’s probably the coolest one. Commodore’s original SX 64 was built in 1984 and featured a tiny 5 inch CRT screen with a hardly portable body weighing in at 10kg! I actually saw an SX 64 years ago in Cork Micro, the [...]

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