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Mate, they've been there for 10 years, might probably be there for another 10 if I can keep the missus out of there.
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I've got a 51/4 'floppy drive here, full size,and should have a box of blank floppy disks as well.
I still have my Amstrad 6128,with the black box, 128 k memory expansion,3 1/2 " diskdrive and most of the games and programs.
I used to be the Secretary of the SACC of Sydney. I wonder if any ex-members read this.
Commodore Devise numbers :
1 Keyboard
2 Cassette
3 Monitor
4 Printer, it was a 'plotter', used 3 or 4 inch sized roll, Tandy/Realistic had a similar model.
5,6,7 were Printers, the 1526 Dot Matrix was a 7 I think
8,9,10 were the Floppy drive.
You could either 'software' or cut a track on the circuit board to set the devise.
I eventualy had 2 floppies and I thought it was incredible to be able to use them as stand alones for data transfers.
There was a HDD but I never aspired to that level.
Compute! and Compute! Gazette printed in the US were my Bible's back then.
I remember taking some 3 days of typing in a word processing program that to me appeared as good as MSWord does today.
There was a Vic20 Computer group in Canberra that published a monthly magazine that had some great programs for it and later the C64.
I sometimes still go to hit shift and 2 to get "
later in the years of having one, used to press shift run/stop after typing
load"*",8,1 . it would save typing run when the program loaded!
The idea of the cartridges was excelent and almost 'Bullet Proof' as to the programing installed couldnt be erased or corrupted but what I didnt like was the Plug-In arrangement.
They were too me very hard to install and remove plus you had to turn the computer off everytime you wanted to change one and I was always worried about damaging the pins.
There were some 'Bus-Boards' built to take several cartridges I remember but they were quite bulky and not inexpensive nor easily obtainable, not where I lived anyway.
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