That is a lot of mistakes. I glossed right over them. Thought maybe I check up on it and see if the whole thing was a fabrication. It is posted as reported here: https://www.facebook.com/RetrokompLoaderror/ Can't read the foreign language but it is in line with all the other retro club stream of posts. On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Jeffrey Brace <ark72axow@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Doug!
Thanks for sharing! I love to hear about how vintage systems are still working and reliable! I tell visitors at the museum how there are still systems running COBOL and the reason is that they they are reliable and all the bugs have been worked out of them. Why introduce something new where you have to start all over?
I have to act like Evan now and point out that the article has some inaccuracies. It looks like the writer just did a google search to find their information. The C64 was demonstrated in January 1982, but released to the public in August 1982. Also I believe there were at lest five revisions of the motherboard, I see a REV-E on the later models. Also it said the operating system was Commodore BASIC 2.0 GEOS. BASIC and GEOS are two separate things. I think they mean GEOS 2.0.
But anyway. So happy to see the C-64 in the news and an unusual use for it! :)
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
http://hothardware.com/news/battered-but-not-beaten-commodor e-c64-survives-over-25-years-balancing-drive-shafts-in-auto-repair-shop
-- Jeff Brace - ark72axow@gmail.com