[TheForge] Excessive scaling?

[Jerry Frost]

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Frosty:
I still use DOS occasionally, and also a couple of 
programs I wrote in BASIC back in the 80's.  And you 
had a Commodore 64 ... lucky you!  I had the TI-99 ... 
16K RAM and no floppy disk drive (had to use a cassette 
recorder to save data).  I really wanted the TRS-80, 
but could not afford it at the time.  Ah, those early 
days of computer technology.

David Hufford
Richmond KY



Dave:

I still have my Commodore 64 and it functions. The disc 
drive doesn't register properly as was common. They had 
a plastic component in the drive mechanism that would 
get soft when it got hot and the disc would move so it 
never knew where something started or stopped. It still 
functioned but you could only put one program on a 
disc.

I have the tape drive and probably 15-20 programs on 
tape. I liked the Commodore 64, it was fast and for 
it's day quite powerful. It ran WordPerfect-2 a lot 
better than the Apples of the day did, heck, it ran it 
better than the Apple II+ did three years later. That 
was my only Apple and it was a step backwards for a lot 
more money.

A friend of mine still has his original Big Blue-8086.

Okay, NOW I feel old. <sigh>

Frosty
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From: "Hufford, David" <David.Hufford at EKU.EDU>