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  Re: Now that we have a range of pictures...some thoughts...
 
(...) Ah, the C64. I hear C64, and I still think "Stay a while. Stay forever!" :) James "C64's did something other than play cracked games?" Brown (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Now that we have a range of pictures...some thoughts...
 
James & All, (...) Heh. I still have my C64, somewhere. I wonder if it still works? I wonder if the 5-1/4 floppies still work. I am pretty sure the cartridges do. My Atari 2600 still does. Now I just a PC emulator so I can download all my C-64 and (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Now that we have a range of pictures...some thoughts...
 
(...) We have a bunch of old Namco classics on our N64. I *still* love DigDug... but I'm not any good at it any more. but I can top that. There is an active hobby around ROM emulators... you can download an emulator that will turn your high end PC (...) (23 years ago, 18-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Now that we have a range of pictures...some thoughts...
 
(...) Hee-hee! I used c64s in high school typing class...I've got a C128 in mothballs somewhere, and my prize computer collectable: A Tandy 1000, the original laptop computer, complete with Lucid spreadsheet cartridge and thermal printer! (My family (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Now that we have a range of pictures...some thoughts...
 
(...) What, no Pong? <GD&R> James (who doesn't have pong, but did, once upon a time) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Now that we have a range of pictures...some thoughts...
 
(...) No need to...darned if I didn't have a Pong clone (forget who made it, but it was a yellow boomerang, with sliders on either arm to move the paddles)...I destroyed it to make a prop for an early video production... For some reason, when I was (...) (23 years ago, 19-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Now that we have a range of pictures...some thoughts...
 
(...) :) Ha! You were lucky! All I had was a Vic-20 with FIVE WHOLE KB of RAM. Actaully I upgraded it later to 32KB. Wow! Kevin (who also wrestled with punched cards and paper tape in earlier days) ---...--- Craftsman Lego Kits & Custom models: (...) (23 years ago, 20-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Now that we have a range of pictures...some thoughts...
 
(...) Hmmmph. Beaten by a VIC-20. My Apple ][+ had 16K, 10K of which was ROM. But then I had my TI-59 calculator with magnetic card reader and a whopping 960 (floating point) bytes!! Nyak, nyak!! Like to see *you* write a micro-chess (5x5) game on (...) (23 years ago, 21-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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