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Obadiah-Mafriq t1_j5mcpec wrote

Reply to comment by Profile_Salty in TIL that at its peak, GEOS (Commodore 64 productivity software resembling Windows/Office and MacOS) was the third-most-popular microcomputer operating system in the world in terms of units shipped, trailing only MS-DOS and Mac OS by Profile_Salty

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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