Commodore 64 rides again

[petermcleland]

My first computer came way before the 64...It was the Commodore Pet with all of 8 K of RAM and a calculator keyboard...No floppy..You had to use a tape recorder to record or load data.

I graduated to the final model of the PET with a massive 32 K of RAM, full size keyboard and an adjoining Twin Floppy Disk unit...Wow! that was power and it booted more or less instantly as the OS was in ROM. I wrote some very successful software for it and the editor of the monthly magazine "Handgunner" used to keep all his subscribers in it and it printed all his mailing labels

[DarrenL]

This would be the one for you then Peter - http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/0 ... to-ca.html

[petermcleland]

This would be the one for you then Peter - http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/0 ... to-ca.html

Hmmm...Doesn't quite look right with colour screen...Should be black and white

[Molyned]

Just bragging Peter, but - I stuck clear green cellophane over the 'monitor' (a.k.a small T.V.) of my state-of-the-art Sinclair ZX81 with a massive 64K of memory, to give it that professional look.
Cheers
Dave M(oly)

[DarrenL]

Did you consider giving it the real colour original Space Invaders arcade look with strips of Yellow, Green and Red cellophane across the screen?

[Molyned]

Now that would have been silly but, I do remember way back when the world was young, being able to buy a similar multi-coloured sheet to place in front of the b/w telly to give an air of reality to the picture.
Cheers
Dave M(oly)