From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2002-10-14T18:11:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Commodore 64

ahh, the good old days :-)

but I seldom touch the commodore or vic then. The TI-994A was my favorite.
Cool keyboard, just enough for me to learn hi-speed touch typing. And its
adv BASIC sprites was awesome. We were writing a basic compiler using
basic... time was good then even though I had no money... now, it's
different here, if you do not have money, people will call you dumb :-(



> From: Brian Candler [mailto:B.Candler@pobox.com] 
> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 5:00 PM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org; billtj@y.glue.umd.edu
> Cc: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Commodore 64
> 
> 
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 03:35:47AM +0900, William Djaja 
> Tjokroaminata wrote:
> > Ahh... yes, yes, actually the first "computer" was Vic-20, 
> with... 8 
> > or 20 kilobytes of memory?
> 
> I thought the VIC-20 had 3K of RAM in the base system. You 
> could buy a RAM expansion cartridge, which was either 8K of 
> RAM, or brought you up to 8K total (I can't remember which)
>