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Uploaded by on Jan 16, 2007

A Real Computer for the price of a Toy...

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  • I use to have one of these... Microsoft should require it's programmers to train on one to understand how to program without all the massive bloat

  • haha...for a second, I thought that was a C64!

  • @debuglive

    Also, I was in the thick of the Atari/Commodore war and I always found the experience of using both machines to be similar (even though I never actually used a c64 during the war years). One thing us Atari guys always gave Commodore props for was their monitors. At least half of all Atari computer users had a Commodore monitor because they were so much better than any other RGB monitor available at the time. It was around 92-93 before I found one better than the 1702.

  • @debuglive

    He was comparing it to the Atari 2600, which was really a toy. The specs of the VIC-20 were favorable to the 2600 but not to the 400/800 computers. The VIC-20 was originally conceived as a game system but was later changed to a computer because a lot of game system buyers then really wanted a cheap computer and the computer add ons for the game systems were horrible so the VIC-20 filled that demand.

  • It could pull off the first part of the music -- it's a Bach two-part Invention in A minor. But that last chord it could not play.

  • Unfortunately the VIC-20 couldn't pull that off with only 3 voices (square wave) plus noise. But I still love that computer.

  • Love the synth music!

  • well good thing my brain never gets out of memóry :)

  • sorry, typo -

    It was 3583 bytes free (before I get pulled up on it by someone)!

  • I had a ViC 20 and it was great!

    It had a 5k Memory and nearly 3.5 of that was free for programming!!! fantastic.

    It use to say:

    *** COMMODORE BASIC V2.0 ***

    3581 BYTES FREE

    READY.

    :-)

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