Subj : Participation (oven baked motherboards) To : Ben Collver From : Ruth Haffly Date : Sat Feb 01 2025 13:32:27 Hi Ben, RH> And it cleared some unused but still good stuff out of our house. Last RH> night I heard Steve talking about Commodore 64 computers with someone on RH> line. We had one for 10 years, rehomed it about 4 years after we RH> upgraded to PCs and had orders to move. We had to make a weight RH> allowance so rehoming anything like that, that was not being used, RH> helped us meet it. Anyway, Steve and the other guy were commiserating RH> with each other about getting rid of the C-64, sort of wishing they RH> still had them. I don't know if we still have the emulator program that RH> we had at one time. BC> I know an online musician who runs special software to operate the BC> C=64 as a synthesizer. You can see screenshots in the first few pages BC> of the user manuals. Still some life left in the old system. Back around 1985 my parents were visiting us at Fort Hood, TX. Dad had started a computer based services (bookkeeping, payroll, etc) business the year before. I know he was using Tandy products, don't remember what one at the time but he'd started around 1979 with a TS-80. He was quite impressed with what the C-64 could do--but not enough to go out and buy one. BC> If i were going to emulate a C=64, i'd probably go with VICE. BC> I've no idea what Steve uses as I do nothing that requires a C-64 or emulator. BC> I remember loading arcade games from cassette tape onto a VIC-20. I BC> also remember two friends playing games on a C=64, and i didn't get as BC> much BC> screen time on the C=64 as on the VIC-20. One friend had a floppy BC> drive and the other was using cassette tape only. But he was given a BC> HUGE set of cassette tapes. Whoever owned that C=64 before him BC> collected a lot! Steve started out with the datasette, typing in programs from "Compute's Gazette" and other magazines. It was a cost saver, an Army SPC4 pay meant we still had to watch our spending. The computer (and a microwave oven) came from our tax refunds. After a 3 month temporary duty (TDY) in Germany in early 1985, he was able to buy the floppy drive. IIRC, he bought his first monitor about that time, after starting out using our one and only tv. RH> For the next time you get significant (clean) snow and have maple syrup RH> on hand? We had 1.25" of snow last week, not enough to harvest. Enough RH> to shut down the area for a couple of days tho. (G) BC> Exactly. So far this winter we had a dusting of snow one day. I BC> happened to bicycle through it to a dentist appointment. Sadly for BC> that dentist's business there was not enough snow to make candy in. We're in the beginning days of a warm spell (60s and low 70s) but it looks like it'll be cooling off again in about 10 days. Not enough for snow before my next dental visit tho, can't make Jack's Wax to "gum up" my teeth before seeing him. RH> I remember it too. We got our first TV when I was in 4th grade, only one RH> channel. A few years later my dad reworked the lead in (no antenna, just RH> a wire from the main line) wire and we got 2 channels. When I came home RH> from college for Easter break, my folks had tied into the NYC cable, RH> with one local channel. IIRC, the ads for Almond Joy and Mounds were in RH> the days when we got just 2 channels. BC> When i was a kid, my parents went without a TV because they thought it BC> was a bad influence. But we brought a TV in the house for that BC> VIC-20, and slowly began to use it as a TV too. I personally think it BC> was good for me to have had limited exposure to media, but i didn't BC> see it that way when i was a kid. :-) My parents had one the first year we were married, then gave it to my mom's family when they (mom & dad) moved to an area where they couldn't get any sort of reception. That was the set they (grandparents) gave back to us when they got their first color set. It was only black and white but I can remember seeing ads for Shake and Bake, M&Ms (plain, peanut and almond [!]), Almond Joy (and Mounds), etc as well as the ad for Alka-Seltzer, featuring people poking other's bellies, with the tag line "no matter what shape your stomach is in, Alka Seltzer will make it feel better" (not sure on the last phrase). BC> Title: TV Cookies BC> Categories: Cookies BC> Yield: 1 Batch Would be interesting to know the origin of that name. --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... Not all questions worth asking have answers... --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .