Vape Locked the chat session and left it.
Limu, check your PMs for an invite.
I did that on purpose to make a political statement. I can’t remember what it was, but I’m from California so I’m sure I had some sort of political ax to grind.
Actually, I’m running Netscape Navigator 2.0 on a Commodore 64 running an earlier version of BeOS. Usually the 64k of memory is plenty, but sometimes it causes the browser to do funny things.
Sorry,
Eric
Hey everybody! Vaporlock is using some kinda transistorized toaster to access the Internet! Man, I thot I was cheap with the upgrades! A Commodore 64??? Is that like a Vic 20? 
I am trying to imagine what Netscape 2 looks like with most webpages. Does it support…frames?
Blame it on the Crystal P*********************///////////////////
Get with the times man! The Commodore 64 is so much more than the VIC 20. It’s like comparing an Apple II to an Apple IIe!
You said it Walden!!
Week, I took my high school computer science final exam on a Vic20. When I got to school I realized that I had left my data tape at home. The only tape that I had handy was the AC/DC tape in my car’s cassette player. So I grabbed it and used it to store my final exam on and turned it in for my grade. I got an A+ on my CS final (I got the A for my programming and the + for turning my CS teacher onto ‘Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap’)
I’m saving up my money for a Commodore 128 (the best darned computer in the whole wide world, thank you very much!)
'scuse me now, I have to reboot,
Eric
I so much wanted a 128. I couldn’t afford it, though. Instead I was the only person in the world to own a Commodor Plus4 with tape drive.
My computer science teacher was old school… our final exams were done on a punchcard reader. Most of the year,though, was spent on a Trash 80.
I think I’m getting misty eyed with nostalgia.
For me and my kids it was Apple 2E
We had the very first Mouse Paint.
And I learned a little about programming. Very little.
Oh, yes, we got the devise for hooking it up to our color TV and played Frogger , Pong and the one where the smiley face gobbled up stuff.
Mack
Got the PM. Thanks for the invite! 
Bummer on the AC/DC tape. If you want, I’ll replace it for you. In fact, I think I may have it around here on 8-track.
My first computer was a Radio Shack Color Computer. I think it had 8k of RAM. I opened up and added chips to bring it up to 32k. For about 2 weeks, I was the hottest jock on the block.
Check out http://www.old-computers.com/museum/default.asp
YEAH BABY!
Dale
I skipped all of those and my first home computer was a Heathkit H89. It was great at everything but graphics. They really missed the boat when it came to graphics. I remember playing the old startrek game on a large mini computer with a 10 cps teletype input/output. I decided to move the group into a more modern way of doing things and bought a fortran compiler for it. It was on paper punch tape and took 4 hours to load. To compile a program and link files took another 4 hours unless after a couple of hours you got a compile time error. Eventually I bought a cartridge tape drive and built an interface card and wrote a core image write program. I loaded the paper tape into memory and wrote the image to tape. Then I wrote a program to write the tape image to memory. It was fun in those days.
Ron
I learned to program on a Pet 2001 with the little chicket style keys, 40 column built-in display and 8K of memory.
My first computer that I owned was a Commodore 64 and I wrote lots of 6502 machine language that I used to publish in Compute, Commodore and Transactor magazines.
I still like the old 6502 and have thought about making some special application boards with it.
Check this out 6502 fans: http://www.6502.org