Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 13:30:42 +0100 From: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> To: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> Cc: tlambert2@mindspring.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981! Message-ID: <20020108133042.A76076@tisys.org> In-Reply-To: <200201081104.g08B4i309583@sheol.localdomain>; from hawkeyd@visi.com on Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 05:04:44AM -0600 References: <20.21dd4868.296bb1c2_aol.com@ns.sol.net> <3C3A810A.C616A903_mindspring.com@ns.sol.net> <200201081104.g08B4i309583@sheol.localdomain>
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On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 05:04:44AM -0600, D J Hawkey Jr stood up and spoke: > Heh. And I thought I was the only micro-micro-hacker that grew up into > Unix! > > I've got _all_ the original CBM stuff for the VIC-20 and C-64, hardware > and hardcopy. Even some aftermarket FDDs. Well, I have three working C64's here, along with some badly misaligned 1541-II drives. I also have a CMD FD-2000 somewhere, yes, this lets you use 3.5" HD floppies on the C64, giving you 1.6 MB of data storage (I think the one-sided 5.25" 1541 had about 170 kb). I also have a CMD SuperCPU here, this is a 20 Mhz accelerator (the normal C64 works at around 1 Mhz). Now, the SuperCPU also contains some 16 bit CPU that can work in comaptible mode to work just like the 6510. Still, this thing can also be programmed in "native mode", so if you own this device you have virtually replaced your 8 bit processor at 1 Mhz with a 16 bit processor at 20 Mhz. I actually used my C64 until 1995, then I got a PC and switched right to FreeBSD (after three weeks of Windows 95). I should probably dedicate a weekend to find out if these 200+ C64 disks in my collection are still working (that is, if I get my 1541-II's properly alaigned again...) A few years ago I tried hard to get a look at a real C65, you know, these things that Commodore never really finsished, but which showed up in a few units after Commodore went bankrupt. However, I have never been able to pick up or only look at such a machine. Since only very few of them are available (and they are all very buggy), they are traded at very *high* prices between CBM fans... Greetings Nils -- Nils Holland Ti Systems - FreeBSD in Tiddische, Germany http://www.tisys.org * nils@tisys.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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