Oh, and have the TRS-80 Model I and Tandy Model 100 out and available as well. I’m not sure how many computers Connor wants to include. Randy
On Mar 11, 2018, at 11:16 PM, Randall Kindig <randall.kindig@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, Jen, I’d be happy to run these tests on the Atari 800XL and the Tandy CoCo3 as well, if Connor would like to include those results. I have those machines out and ready to use.
Randy
On Mar 11, 2018, at 10:48 PM, C.J. Slade via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
Hi VCF,
Connor S has come the last 2 workshops at VCF with his Dad and loves working on vintage computers. He has been working on the 5th Grade Science Fair project for the past few months. Connor is comparing vintage to modern computers and has been researching and testing the Altair 8800 (clone), Apple II GS, Macintosh SE, iBook G3, Commodore 128 & Mac Book Air. He would like to add the C-64, PET & VIC-20, but doesn't have access to run tests.
Would someone be willing to run the following 3 tests on the *Commodore 64*, *Commodore PET *and *Commodore VIC-20 *this week for Connor to include in his results?
1) Boot Time into OS Time in seconds from turning on the power switch to computer fully loaded in OS
2) Highest factorial calculated (BASIC; Hope I typed his program correctly) Connor's guess it that the PET & VIC-20 will only be able to calculate 33 factorial.
10 INPUT "NUMBER"; A 20 B = A 30 B = B - 1 40 PRINT A "*" B 50 A = A * B 60 PRINT A 70 IF B > 1 GOTO 30 80 END
3) Time (in minutes) to count to 10,000 in BASIC using this program.
10 I = 0 20 PRINT I 30 I = I + 1 40 IF I < 9999 GOTO 20 50 PRINT "DONE"
You can e-mail results to Connor S (& me) at *basicprogrammer10@gmail.com <basicprogrammer10@gmail.com>*. Connor will be happy to acknowledge and thank who ever helps with this additional data on his science fair poster. He would be happy to share final results at an upcoming workshop, if there is interest.
Thank you, Jen (Connor S's Mom) :)