Old-manupship (was Re: Tomorrow at Ceremony!)

[Adam Rixey]

Wow, we had one of those, too.  I think we had the type drive, though
it took just about as long to load up that damn Wumpus game as it
would to type it in again.

On 8/18/06, Chris Rapier <rapier1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/18/06, Christopher tm <xopher.tm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/18/06, Brian J. Parker <brian.j.parker at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Me?  I probably was playing Legend of Zelda, or Zork on my Commodore
> > > 64
> >
> > My Vic 20 ( http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=252 )
> > envied your massive 64000 bytes of RAM. I don't remember that there
> > were any games for it other than text adventure RPGs (which were
> > really suckariffic even for the Dark Times.)
>
> Sorry, but your Vic 20 was a monster of computing power next to my first machine
> http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=263&st=1
> 1K of RAM! Yes thats right, 1024 bytes of randomly addressable
> goodness. Of course, only 900 or so bytes were actually available for
> use.
>
> I didn't even have a tape for it so anytime I wanted to play a game I
> had to type the whole thing in everytime I turned the computer on.
> Yowza!
>
> (ps. brian actually had 65336 bytes of ram. 2 to the 16th after all).
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