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    Default C=64... It's back... well, sort of!

    I'm eyeballing the new "Commodore 64". Very tempting!! Sold mine in '90 to buy an Amiga.

    http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx

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    Default Re: C=64... It's back... well, sort of!

    cool. I only got rid of my vic20 about 4 years ago. The amiga is still in the garage
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    Default Re: C=64... It's back... well, sort of!

    When things don't go right the 1st time , Step back ,Take a break and come back renewed. RGS

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    When things don't go right the 1st time , Step back ,Take a break and come back renewed. RGS

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    Default Re: C=64... It's back... well, sort of!

    I miss my Amiga days. Had to ditch my A2000 when the cmos battery acid ate the motherboard.

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    Default Re: C=64... It's back... well, sort of!

    Dumb question...what would you do with that ?
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    Default Re: C=64... It's back... well, sort of!

    Quote Originally Posted by JamesM View Post
    Dumb question...what would you do with that ?
    its an up to date computer.. ya can do anything with it... visit pachitalk on a daily bases??? lots it can do..

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    but allas y would i want one.. i still have the original C-64 with a real floppy drive and a few hundred games...

    i can rember my Step brother typed for 4 or 5 hours to make a program.. when it was done he ran it... it made the sound of a tree falling that lasted about 5 seconds.. he was so mad that all that typing made 5 seconds of sound..
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    Quote Originally Posted by Moparformances View Post
    but allas y would i want one.. i still have the original C-64 with a real floppy drive and a few hundred games...

    i can rember my Step brother typed for 4 or 5 hours to make a program.. when it was done he ran it... it made the sound of a tree falling that lasted about 5 seconds.. he was so mad that all that typing made 5 seconds of sound..
    Such is the sad life of a programmer,

    so the question remains if a programmer programs a tree falling in a forest and someone only hears it for 5 seconds... did it really fall at all?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Sid View Post
    Such is the sad life of a programmer,

    so the question remains if a programmer programs a tree falling in a forest and someone only hears it for 5 seconds... did it really fall at all?




    More like syntax error line 2255
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sid View Post
    Such is the sad life of a programmer,

    so the question remains if a programmer programs a tree falling in a forest and someone only hears it for 5 seconds... did it really fall at all?

    it was ment as a good
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