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- ME AND MY COMMODORE
- by Willis Patten
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- My first computer was a Commodore
- VIC-20. I loved it like an extension
- of myself, my soul, my inner being. It
- could do amazing things, and I was
- easily sold on it. But the biggest
- drawback of it was, of course, its
- lack of memory to draw on. Yes, you
- could get an expansion cartridge to
- enable it to possess a whopping 32K! I
- sometimes wonder if they could have
- come up with a cartridge to expand it
- memory to 128K, but probably not. Only
- the brainy guys know that.
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- I remember, as many early
- computerists probably do, that it was
- a thing of contension with my better
- half, because she got weary of me
- responding to her call for dinner or
- supper with: "Just a minute, honey, I
- am in the middle of something."
-
- O yes, I remember my VIC-20, and I
- loved it. It opened up a whole new
- world for me. And when my wife agreed
- with the persuasive help of a
- wonderful Aunt, to buy me a C128, I
- was REALLY elated! I loved it even
- more than the Vic-20 from the very
- start, because it was so user
- friendly. It had more speed, more RAM,
- more potentials, and was three
- computers in one to challenge me.
-
- But of the three modes, I loved
- the C128 mode the most and foremost. I
- did much of the printing related to
- church work on my C128 with GEOS and
- my trusty Commodore 801 and later 803
- dot mattrix printers. I did the church
- bulletins, church newsletter, flyers,
- 3-5 line banners, church
- correspondence, several spreadsheet
- reports, and ministerial reports to
- the quarterly conference meetings with
- the district superintendent. I was
- proud of my C128 far more than my
- first door-opening Commodore VIC-20.
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- But some of my favorite programs
- were admittedly in 64 mode, such as
- Print Shop, Print Master, Print Power,
- etc. I never got much into games, but
- there were times as a minister that a
- game was a good diversion for me.
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- WP
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