I ran a Nation wide BBS on mine for 3 years called "The Bible*Science Exchange" from my home in Long Beach, Ca.
Yes!!! The Memories!
Talk about the stone ages! Yet, I never quite had as much fun on a computer as I did during those days.
My online experience (on the C64) consisted of a 300 BAUD HES modem. You actually had to dial the number on the phone, listen for the computer warble on the other end, then quickly unplug it and plug it into the modem itself -it was not capable of dialing internally.
Yes, and the Commodore 64 with the 1541 5 1/4 Disk Drive!
(And the first game disk I ever inserted into it..... Zork III)
Ahhhhh, memories!
I wasn't hip enough at that point. I think I came on board at about the time of the first Atari. When you compare what we though was hot to what they have now, it is incredible how much they develop every five years or so.
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Talk about the stone ages! Yet, I never quite had as much fun on a computer as I did during those days.
My online experience (on the C64) consisted of a 300 BAUD HES modem. You actually had to dial the number on the phone, listen for the computer warble on the other end, then quickly unplug it and plug it into the modem itself -it was not capable of dialing internally.
I remember that modem well!
My first 6 months of the BBSes operation, when a call would come in, if it was a modem, I had to fake dial the C-64 and then plug in the phone line to allow the 64 to answer the call: OUCH!
My first 6 months of the BBSes operation, when a call would come in, if it was a modem, I had to fake dial the C-64 and then plug in the phone line to allow the 64 to answer the call: OUCH!
Did you ever subscribe to Q-Link? (The grandfather of what is now America Online)
Yep, I had rock 'em sock 'em robots, GI Joes', a cowboy and cowgirl (Jane West?) with horses.
I also had a robot, about 36" tall. He had flashing red lights for eyes, one of his arms was equipped with a spring that allowed you to shoot ping pong balls at others,he had a rocket launcher on his foot, and a knob that you turned on his back to make him "talk". 'Bout scared me to death when I first got him!
I had one of those! Two of them actually. There were three of us kids, so we had to share the two of them. My little brother was the roughest on his bike, and eventually started stealing parts off the nicer bike that my sister and I rode mostly.
I remember when I was 12 I wanted to be a dirt bike racer! Vvroom...Vvvrrrooomm!
Those were the days. I spent hours riding my dirt bikes and racing, and went from working on mine to fixing everyone else’s bike in the neighborhood.
Built a shop in my parent's two car garage. Only knew one girl who rode a dirt bike when we were kids. She wasn't very good at it. Then again she was a girl, and girls ride like girls. Come to think of it there are also guys who ride like girls.
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Yes, and the Commodore 64 with the 1541 5 1/4 Disk Drive!
(And the first game disk I ever inserted into it..... Zork III)
Ahhhhh, memories!
I had a Commodore 64 with STACKS of disks with all kinds of games & programs. Did anybody have the clipper thingy that would cut the notch on the other side of the 5-1/4" disk so you could use both sides?
WHen I first started using the C64 it had a cassette tape drive.
My first modem was a screaming fast 2400 baud (not on the C64... that was on my first PC)
I used to get on BBS's and telnet out to the internet from there. We played Legends Of The Red Dragon on BBS's until they kept adding modules and the game got too risque. Then we bailed on it.
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Two of them actually. There were three of us kids, so we had to share the two of them. My little brother was the roughest on his bike, and eventually started stealing parts off the nicer bike that my sister and I rode mostly. 
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