Blast from the past

Posted by Sven
December 18, 2007

No this is not movie related post!!!

C64cFew days ago i watching news and there it was little news about Commodore 64 ( C64 or C=64 ) celebrating 25 Years. Then memories come , i remember that i get one C64 ( it was new line also known as C64c ) when i finish my school class with excellent grades ( i’m wasn’t that excellent in future - but that was another story ). Soon i get this i was so excited and get games, programs from my friends - but mostly i play a lot games on that.

This was my first computer that i own. Latter when i go to school start to learn programming on that - first was basic ( actually this computer was very easy to program - i mean programming in basic :) ), latter i learn his machine code - also know as 6502 assembler ( i create first intro in assembler ) . Then came pascal - Oxford Pascal.C64 screen

My first experience in programming came on that computer.

C64 tapeOnly thing what i have trouble with it’s cassette data unit which came in package with this computer - is head alignment for tapes - every friend of mine have different head alignment, and there was tool produced for that it was program that shows head alignment and you can better align head , after that programs load much better. Latter i get floppy disk unit and Final Cartridge III - which have turbo loader ( every program need to be recorded with that for turbo loading ) and more tools for floppy disk unit and cassette.

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Comments
Comment by Jonathan on 2 April 2008 @ 22:51

The good ‘ol tape drive :) I used to run a BBS with a Commodore 64 for years. I guess you could call it a stone age internet.

Comment by Christopher on 4 April 2008 @ 2:51

BBS eh? I still remember my first 1200 baud modem as if it were only yesterday.

Comment by SPunch on 6 April 2008 @ 2:55

My first piece of programming was a Fido Front Door for the C64 bbs community. Those were the days :)

Comment by Craig on 8 April 2008 @ 2:44

Whoa. BBS’ing. I remember those days. I had my own phone line at 13 years old to run one and I only had it running from 9pm until 6am.

Comment by Chris on 8 April 2008 @ 2:45

Lol. This brings back memories. I grew up in Oshawa and we used to play baseball as a group. The BBS we went to all the time was The Dungeon.

Comment by David Goodman on 16 June 2008 @ 3:42

First came the CBM64, then came boredom, then I wrote a PASCAL, Oxford PAscal. Funny to see someone still remembers it ;-))

Old fogy time, must stop dribbling

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