Tuesday, April 17, 2007

100 things in 100 days - number 61

61. I actually owned a Commodore Vic 20. [shudder]

If that doesn't date me, I don't know what will. It had a tape drive to store data. Some games came on special cartridges. It had no monitor - you had to hook it up to a TV set. That sucker had a 1MHz CPU. It had 5KB of RAM. That's not a typo. Mind you, only 3.5KB was available to the user. Not to worry, that could be expanded to 64KB. The scary thing is - that was only 26 years ago.

2 comments:

Tim Coughlin said...

Hey Karl.....I had one too. Remember typing 10 type "karl" 20 goto 10 run then yer name would be all over the screen hahahahahahaha pretty lame

Anonymous said...

Last I heard, Mom still had it. She wanted to know if she could hook it up to send email :) H.