Commodore 64 Creator Dies Aged 83.

[nelly1]

http://news.sky.com/home/technology/article/162058...

Damn. There goes another piece of my childhood.

[fido]

Respeck. Even if i was in the Acorn camp.

[audidoody]

He created the Commodore PET (1977) with a massive 16k RAM and VIC-20 (1980) with 5K RAM first.

[RobDickinson]

The PET was an awesome thing to sit down in front of as an 11 year old in school (82 ish).

Has a C64 and an Amiga or two also. What a star , shame to see him gone but he did get through a lot of living.

[anonymous-user]

I had a VIC 20 and a C64. Games on cartridge or tape, Yogi Bear, Popeye and so on. The VIC 20 was my first foray into programming with the little book that came with it.

[DamienB]

RIP Jack - also much involved with the Atari ST range. Ah the days when there were only ever a handful of computers you could buy instead of thousands of different models varying only in how ugly their boxes are.

[Caulkhead]

audidoody said:

VIC-20 (1980) with 5K RAM first.

Aye, but you could only use 3583 of it. <nerd>

[Dr Banjo]

Indeed, it was a golden time.

I remember the first time I saw a Commodore Pet at school I hadn't seen anything like it before. Oh the wedge design and the green & black crt What a keyboard as well, it looked like something from NASA.


Every few weeks there was talk of a newer better computer coming through and the battle for more memory,cpu and which would be easiest to program for games/education.

ZX80, ZX81, Atari 400/800, Vic20's , C64's, C128's , Dragon32, Some Texas Intruments piece of junk,Something you could program in FORTH (lynx ?), Atari Jaguar, Acorn electron, BBC Model A & B etc etc God bless em.

RIP Jack.


BBC Micro was the best though..

Edited by Dr Banjo on Friday 13th April 11:25

[MickC]

Dr Banjo said:

Some Texas Intruments piece of junk

I suspect a TI99/4A? Never knew anyone who had one but it always looked pretty good in Dixons all those years ago.

Dr Banjo said:

Something you could program in FORTH (lynx ?),

Jupiter Ace?

[Dr Banjo]

MickC said:

Dr Banjo said:

Some Texas Intruments piece of junk

I suspect a TI99/4A? Never knew anyone who had one but it always looked pretty good in Dixons all those years ago.

Dr Banjo said:

Something you could program in FORTH (lynx ?),

Jupiter Ace?

You are correct sir, indeed it was the Jupiter Ace ..Not sure if it was a commercial success, probably not.

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The TI machine looked good but if my memory serves was pretty crap for programming unless you has the Simon Basic rom cartridge. No access to the hardware and built in sprites etc with PEEK/POKE/CALL commands.

Edited by Dr Banjo on Friday 13th April 11:53

Edited by Dr Banjo on Friday 13th April 11:55

[Dr Banjo]

Much loving here:-

[nelly1]

[Dr Banjo]

Amiga next ?

Edited by Dr Banjo on Friday 13th April 12:19

[Dr Banjo]

I got the wife to agree to getting a PET.

Think it would look great with those retro looks in the corner of the lounge.

Wet sunday afternoon bit of old age programming and a cold beer.

[eric twinge]

nelly1 said:

cripes, that takes me back to my childhood!

I can then remember getting an amiga, with the meg upgrade, AND a monitor for christmas, i think i cried with happiness. I was a very lucky boy!

[Jinx]

MickC said:

I suspect a TI99/4A? Never knew anyone who had one but it always looked pretty good in Dixons all those years ago.

My father still has a Texas TI 99/4

and not the 4A


One of the first 16 Bit home computers. I've still got a C64c in the garage at home (no working power pack unfortunately)

[Phil1]

Jinx said:

One of the first 16 Bit home computers.

Ah the good old days. Plug in Atari cartridges. Wish I'd kept every old computer I'd had!

[Halb]

nelly1 said:

Takes me back. I had a Vic 20 and 64 (then an Amiga 1000 later).
Skramble on the Vic was ace, then Bruce Lee and Forbidden Planet on the 64. Then I got into consoles.

Phil1 said:

Ah the good old days. Plug in Atari cartridges. Wish I'd kept every old computer I'd had!

I still have all my consoles, but I sold the 64 to buy games for the NES.

[nelly1]

Don't forget the C64 could do this... while you waited for the game to load.

Mindblowing at the time

[jamesson]

I still have a fully functioning C64 with tape deck, disk drive and QuickShot 1 joystick.