From: Emlyn O'Regan (emlyn@one.net.au)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2000 - 05:16:42 MDT
Just recently, a friend bought a c64 + games, disk drive, all the good
stuff, for a total of A$10. I thought "Here we go!", and went round to his
place to check it out. All those cool old games: bruce lee, bard's tale,
blue max, spy hunter, wooo, forget the playstation, let the good times roll.
Do you know how truly crap those games are today? I was so disillusioned.
Someone has replaced the C64 of my memory, with a terrible, awful, boring
piece of junk. It's a conspiracy, I tell you. Mr Goddard, forget that Waco
stuff; the conspiracy to make C64s look like shocking hunks of crap is
afoot. Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, they're all in on it. And the government.
Which govt? All of them!
Somewhere in a huge warehouse under the pentagon, next to some alien
foetuses and the odd box of reports on mass genetic modification
experiments, are row upon row of boxes of the real C64s, wrapped up to hide
the shining, pure brilliance which naturally eminates from them. That's what
the alien abductions are about, you know; they implant all these false
memories of surgical procedures and naughty probes to hide the fact that
they are swapping your C64 for a pod version, lifeless, spiritless,
unnatural.
Crap, there's someone trying to break down the door; just got time to hit
send...
Emlyn
(and sign my name, and write th
----- Original Message -----
From: "phil osborn" <philosborn@hotmail.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: My techno-archaology weekend...
>From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <retroman@turbont.net>
>Subject: My techno-archaology weekend...
>Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 13:41:34 -0400
>
>Hey guys/gals, guess what I found this weekend at an antique shop around
>the
>corner? A Commodore VIC-20, no kidding. Bout a dozen games, and oh my god,
>a
>whole 8K memory expansion card. I may put on the shelf next to my
>fossilize
>dino-turd, though maybe I'll fire it up. It came with the original manual
>and
>tape drive... Maybe I'll put it on ebay...
Actually, last time I checked the online computer auction sites, there were
several VIC-20's and C64's both for sale and wanted. I still have my
original VIC-20 somewhere, and my C-64. They probably still work. I ran a
little word-processing business in the early '80's on the C64 and a Brother
HR15 daisy-wheel, which cost me $500. In the mid-80's, the C64 came with
the GEOS GUI OS, with full desktop publishing capability, on about 30K of
free RAM and a 165K floppy drive. Today, there are people surfing the web
on C64's. Amazing how little real advance we've made, due to MicroSloth...
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