Hello from Alberta, Canada
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 5:32 am
Hello all,
I'm an old school commodore user, or rather was, an old school commodore user. My first exposure to a computer was on my older brother's TRS-80 in about 1982. Some time in '84 my best friend bought a Commodore 64, which I spent many hours on. I worked the whole summer of 85 so I could buy my own. I loved that computer. My friend and I must have collected every game published from the original release to 1987. I remember drooling over screenshots from the Amiga in magazines, but there was no way I could afford one. I went to a technology school in computer engineering in 1991 and used a chunk of my student loan to buy a fully decked out Amiga 3000, which I used for many years.
I still have both computers, but they haven't been taken out of their boxes in decades. My kids still use my 1702 monitor however, and it's still running strong. They have it hooked up to an old Wii. I'm a windows user today, never been much of an Apple person. Ever since those long arguments in high school about how the commodore 64 was so superior to the Apple II I've been apple adverse.
As far as retro computing. Last year I started a project to build an 8 bit processor out of TTL chips. I got a complete working version running in simulation and was about 90% done breadboarding it when I sparked it out with static electricity and blew a bunch of random chips. I got frustrated and never got the hardware working. The design was pretty cool though. 16 bit stack pointer, 4 registers that could be used as 2 16 bit registers and address pointers, and an ALU. I might revisit it some day.
I've been watching with interest ever since David's first video about the X-16 and will definitely be purchasing one when it's available.