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- WHY I COMM-ADORE MY COMMODORE
- by Roger Hoyer
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- I've used my C64, Plus/4 and 128
- for almost 19 years. They're easy to
- use, seldom crash and I've had very
- few equipment problems with them
- (knock on wood!). True, I've upgraded
- my 128 and SX64 with JiffyDOS, I have
- two FD2000's, a SCPU128 and an HD1000.
-
- I have keep my wife's Tupperware
- books, my picture framing business and
- our household accounts on accounting
- software for all 3 computers. The
- first accounting software I used was a
- tax deduction program I typed in from
- RUN magazine and modified for the two
- businesses and household.
-
- I've done publicity for the
- Cincinnati Commodore Club since 1988
- using Speedscript 64 and 128,
- ScriptPlus (for the +4) and the Write
- Stuff. I realize I could use Email but
- not all of the 21 places I send
- notices to have email and it's easier
- to use one medium than two. I also do
- publicity for our Church every week
- and for special occasions.
-
- I was Financial Secretary for my
- former Church, keeping records using
- Vizastar 64 and 128 (which was written
- in 1986 and is [Y2K compliant]). I use
- Vizastar 128 for all my framing price
- lists and pricing structures as well
- as keeping records as Treasurer for a
- local interfaith food
- pantry/assistance program.
-
- In 1996 our club started accepting
- donations from callers who didn't want
- to throw their C= stuff in the trash.
- My idea, my job! Our VP keeps all the
- hardware in his barn and I keep all
- the rest in my basement. I keep the
- inventory on Superbase 128 v3.0 (also
- [Y2K compliant]), going from a single
- 1571 disk to two 3.5 disks with the
- records on one disk and the programs
- that control them on another. Try as I
- might I haven't gotten SB128 to
- recognize a native CMD partition! Our
- club has sold items over the Internet,
- Mailink and Loadstar, sending items
- all over the country, Canada and
- Australia.
-
- Since I have been using Commodores
- all these years, I can't see any point
- in changing formats now. I'd either
- have to keep the Commies for 7 years
- (statute of limitations) or convert
- everything to Mac or Messy-DOS. Plus I
- still have LOTS of programs I haven't
- had a chance to try yet!
-
- I don't use GEOS much -- I didn't
- like the slow disk access or printing.
- I've had Wheels128 for about as long
- as it's been out and still haven't
- tried it. Sorry, Maurice -- ONE OF
- THESE DAYS I'll have time to play with
- it. I was lucky enough to retire from
- GE just as they were beginning to
- force everbody to switch to Windoze
- apps. I hated that sluggish, crash
- crazy, sloppily written software with
- a passion. All the macros and
- applications I spent ten years
- developing for Lotus 123, QuattroPro,
- Paradox, Alpha4 and FoxPro 2.5 had to
- be abandoned because they either
- wouldn't work in Windoze or weren't
- Y2K complaint.
-
- As for speed, one of the
- newsletters I read pointed out that
- because of housekeeping chores, that a
- 128 with 128k of memory running at
- 1mhz operates as fast as a Pentium
- with 128gig of memory running at
- 1000mhz. So a 128 running at 2mhz
- would be twice as fast and with a SCPU
- would be 20x as fast.
-
- And finally, NOBODY at CBM ever
- said that 640k of memory was more than
- anybody would ever need. C64's and
- 128's can be expanded to 16mb with no
- problems. Who was more foresighted???
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