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On 13 Nov 1995, Darth Vader wrote:

> In article <486rhm$3qe1@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, 
> vcowley@lamar.colostate.edu says...
> >
> >icebrkr@eskimo.com (Andrew Krepela) wrote:
> >>In article <47qvvb$o40@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>,
> >>Martin R. Olah <martino@gomez.jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> >>>>Does anybody else have C-64 memories?  Does anybody still _use_ 
> theirs?
> >
> >
> >Hey!! It was the only computer I had up utill Aug.95.  I used it for 
> >everthing.  I still use it for my family finances.  The only reason I 
> >bought a PC is because on of my wife's professors would not let her 
> turn 
> >in papers printed on a dot matrix print.  I plan to keep my c64 and let 
> >my kids learn to program on it. 
> >
> >  Vince
> >
> It is very conceivable that a Commodore 64 is all you will ever need for 
> computing. I have a PC simply because I want to connect to the internet 
> at high speeds, and I like playing games, and the C64 graphics don't 
> compare. Though I noticed that the C64 SID chip plays music beautifally 
> compared to the IBM internal speaker. However, in other aspects, the 
> Commodore 64 has all the functions you will ever need. Word processing, 
> personal finance, programming, whatever. There are just so many unused 
> functions in the new applications that go unused by the average person.
> 
> Sean
>
   Conceivable...  for some.  I do agree that many, many people out there 
are buying power they don't understand and have no use for whatsoever...  
but comparing C64's to the PC's of its day is like apples and oranges..  
C='s were for a different audience, the ones PC's couldn't realistically 
hope to reel in in those days...  I used a 128 for quite a while, before 
that a 64, before that a VIC-20...  but apart from games there is not one 
thing I did on the commie that I wouldn't rather do on a CGA-equipped 
XT.  (Or better yet an SVGA-equipped 486 running a truly great OS)  Why?  
Standard standards, wider program selection, better hardware 
compatibility...  It's not much fun having to BUILD (or buy) an RS-232 
interface for a non-standard-voltage serial port.  It's much less fun 
having to shop board after board looking for a terminal that supports 
ANSI codes and Ymodem batch properly, without requiring ridiculous 
payment to the author for the poorly coded piece of crap.  Running the 
commodore over the last few years I owned it was like trying to beat 
blood out of a dead stone horse.  Using it meant isolation from the 
majority of the computing world and incompatibility with almost anything 
truly worth running.  It was fun while the games lasted.  GEOS was slow 
as hell and full of bugs, and we never did see that damn geo-publisher 
128...  <sigh> 
 
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