[Discuss] Commodore 64

George Farris farrisg at shaw.ca
Thu May 15 22:00:02 PDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 15:08 -0700, Patrick wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2008 13:06:29 -0700
> "Andrew Burgess" wrote:
> 
> > One of my clients gave me a fully functional Commodore 64 . I want to 
> > know if anyone has a use for it or knows of someone who would put it 
> > into a museum or something like that?
> 
> Well, I probably *could* find a use for it, but it would be
> frivolous.  I have fond memories of Ultima III.
> 
> Don't know about museums, but why not ask the UVIC Computer
> Sciences people?  After all, we've been using their building...
> It might not teach much about modern hardware or software, except
> perhaps show some its roots, but that by itself can be useful.
> They might like it.  :-)
> 
> And another fond memory, before my time though;
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!

I might be interested.  

BTW anyone have a Heathkit H8 they want to sell or get rid of.  I would
love one of these as it was my first system.

George




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