Any C64 fans?

It was oh... about 1982 I believe....

I was running a pirate bulletin board on then state of the art 300 baud modems. There were two 1541 floppy drives (that I had to rig external fans to keep cool) and if you wanted a game from my library, you sent me a private message and I would put the requested floppy in the drive and private message a drive number back.

THE NEXT MORNING after (I forget) 170k max of information was transferred, I'd switch disks so someone else could download from a different floppy. If we got lucky we could transfer one game per day and one per night. (per floppy and phone line)

I remember sending a system-wide messages to every member that said something like:

"OK guys I know it is a pain swapping disks every night, but don't worry, in about three weeks I'll have *THE MEG* on line and we'll be good for years. "

"The Meg" was at the time, a 1mb hard disk. That was (oh geeze I forget) I think like $2000 at the time. That was mammoth because it would hold like 60 disks at one time.

Of course today it would not hold a single picture from my digital camera and my phone has 64,000 TIMES more memory.

 

I still have mine in the basement. Spent a lot of time playing Jumpman and Epyx Summer Games when I wasn't otherwise goofing around with it.

 

I had one my first PC to be exact.

If you are looking for one http://cgi.ebay.com/Commodore-64-Original-Box-Vintage-Works-/110654408999

 

Well I use a virtual synthesizer that models the C64 soundchip. Makes some pretty kewl bleepy blonky sounds when I need it. There are a few synthesizer companies who use the c64 6581 chip as the core of their synthesizers.

http://www.elektron.se/products/sidstation

RMX