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MisterThere t1_j5lr143 wrote

I still have my Commodore 64. With two floppy disc drives, monitor, phone modem and dot matrix printer (yes, I said dot matrix). And it still runs.

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Dexta57 t1_j5m9og0 wrote

We still had a half dozen C64s running in my elementary school in the mid 90s, I'm still impressed with what they could do.

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AnthillOmbudsman t1_j5mw0r0 wrote

In the mid-1980s we had PET computers, the forerunner of the C64. I ended up writing an interactive program that simulated a fake login into the school district mainframe where it simulated allowing you to change your grades, just like in War Games. A few laughs were had with several groups of gullible kids. A few people freaked out over it. Fun times.

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AnthillOmbudsman t1_j5mvmqu wrote

Ever since VICE (a C64 emulator) was released about 20-25 years ago, I ended up abandoning all my hardware. Gave it all away. The emulators are just fantastic, and I have all my disk images saved as .d64 files, so I'm not missing out on anything.

I still have my VIC-20 around somewhere, and I feel nostalgic every time I see it. The first week I owned it was an amazing time... couldn't wait to get home from school and play around on it.

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Profile_Salty OP t1_j5luc7l wrote

Amazing. Does the phone modem work? What do you dial into? Can you get cartridges for the printer?

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Obadiah-Mafriq t1_j5mcpec wrote

I also have one, but no 154x drives, just cartridges--including modern ones that let you use microsd cards with disk images on them. People are still developing software and hardware for them. You can get wifi modems (I don't have one yet), and there are Commodore BBSes on the Internet.

Someone released a Super Mario Brothers port about four years ago.

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redgus78 t1_j5ml0pq wrote

Wow, I didn't realize there were still BBSs out there. I spent a lot of time on those in the 90s. My Commodore 64 was gone by then, but was rocking a Pentium II. I remember I had this crappy xeroxed copy of all the non-long distance BBSs in my area that I would plow through to find new ones whenever my favorites were giving me the busy signal. Sometimes they were already gone, and someone would answer the phone/modem! I miss those "simpler" times.

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Obadiah-Mafriq t1_j5mz8ap wrote

I think my first was The Tardis BBS, run by The Doctor on his Commodore 128 in Valdosta, Georgia in 1983. It was a fun community. (In 1983 it was still running on his Commodore 64, though.) [edited to add the parenthetical]

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