Amazing Commodore 8 Bit Pickups for May 2024
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- In this episode of "The Chickenhead Chronicles" I cover a couple of really nice Commodore 8 bit pickups this May! Stop on by!
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Don't forget about the good ol' pencil eraser (or a TFW8B "Edge Connector Cleaning Tool") for spiffing up keyboard PCB/membrane contact pads. #FreeCommodoreMaintenanceTip
Yes, I suppose that would work well too. I have quite a few of those "Rubbers" from The Future Was 8 bit. I never get used to the British name for erasers, but then again the English can't speak 'Murican very well.
I look forward to joining your new multi-line BBS. :)
I was writing a BBS in BASIC on my C64 back in 1986. It was fairly simple, basically I was just toting around with getting a message board up and running. It never worked of course. Then I discovered girls and got distracted.
I have some accounting software that came with the Vic20 I picked up. It was fun to flip through the manual on that.
That 22 character screen makes almost any business software hard to use, but it is fun! I have a VIC-20 spreadsheet that can display only three or four rows at a time!
C64 was my second computer I got before the Amiga 500 came out. Great video. Keep up the excellent work 🥰 ❤️
Hermoso video. Saludos doug
We've been trying to reach you about an extended warranty on your modem.
Hahaha!
Hay as a favor I just checked, and its day 91, but don't worry it works.
Ha!
Loving spreadsheets isn't weird. The spreadsheet is the greatest piece of software ever invented! I remember my 300 baud modem on my C64! And dot matrix printers. Good times. Remember the dot matrix printers, and the double density ones that were called, the name escapes me now but were typewriter quality, more or less? This was like 84-85-ish. Some colleges and universities actually forbad dot matrix papers, demanding papers be typewritten, but when this new generation of dot matrix printers came out they couldn't (in good conscience, I guess) forbid them.
Yes, the NLQ 24 pin Dot Matrix actually looked fairly good. I recall some teachers saying that writing reports on Word Processors on a computer was not acceptable. They wanted them typed. I always thought that was pretty absurd. I guess they thought spelling checkers were cheating somehow.
@@10MARC I had the early Epson double density printer which was good enough. 1985. I've never heard of any school forbidding a word processor, though! That's insane. I thought NLQ was a brand, but when I looked it up I saw it meant near letter quality. Never heard it called NLQ so that threw me. It's been 40 years since I bought a box of tractor feed paper, though! Haha!
I'm too lazy to google, but I wonder if the modems can be connected directly together without a phone network in between. You could set-up your own BBS!
Hmmm... That's an interesting question. Sounds like something I should try!
Hey Doug! I have a bunch of C64 productivity software that I'd send your way if you were interested and picked up the shipping costs. I'll connect with you on Facebook, then send you some pictures, if you we're interested.
BTW, I'm glad you're back to filming videos! Always a good time.
I've had power supplies fry my poor C64s in the past, but I've owned over a dozen of them in my lifetime.
Oh that would be lovely! I keep my eye on eBay for cool business software, but I would love to see what you have!
nice Vic 64
Neopolitan 64!
I had two C64 power supplies die on me in the 1980s. Take care with those old ones.
Did they take out a C64 or just fail? The big scare is that C64 supplies over-voltage and fry systems.
@@10MARC Both failed without damaging my breadbox.
2:00 - Who doesn't LOVE spreadsheets!
9:10 - Ohio? Where in Ohio? (I'm near Cincinnati...)
I think he said he sent them to someone in Cincinnati Ohio a few years ago.
@@10MARC I guess it wasn’t anyone in our user group (OVAUG)… Ohio Valley Amiga user group
Im hunting for a a600 great finds man
Much easier to find a PAL version. I got mine from a buddy in Jolly Old England. Retro Passion sometimes sells them for reasonable prices, considering they are recapped and tested.
Word processing on the VIC 20 would have to be right up there in terms of terrible experience. If that cartridge gets working it will be interesting to see how big a document could be. With no cartridge it was coming up with 4k. George R R Martin is going to struggle a bit.....Hope it also comes with some sort of RAM expansion! At least the Vic 20 came with a good keyboard.
I got the cartridge working. A plastic retainer clip broke inside the cartridge so every time it was inserted it would shift the PCB and not slot on completely. A bit of hot glue sorted that out!
It comes up and says "Enter 1 of 121" and then lets you type. I suspect maybe 121 lines? I could not figure out how to save or print, or do anything really. I need to find the manual.
@@10MARC131 lines? Man, we've come a long way!