"RG" wrote in message news:U_eCf.1661$MJ.1652@fed1read07...

Had Commodore 64 for a while - replaced my first computer - A Texas
Instruments TI-1 or something like that. It didn't have a disk drive -
had 16k of memory - and you saved your programs to a cheap Radio Shack
reel to reel tape recorder.


Started with a VIC 20, then upgraded to a C-64 the day they hit town. Hot
stuff. But not nearly as hot as the next trade up to an Amiga. The Amiga
was way ahead of its time, but unfortunately was a Commodore product and
therefore doomed in the marketplace. Commodore, from a marketing
perspective, had the unfailing ability to screw up a one car funeral.
Finally switched to a 386 PC running Windows 3.0 in 1990 I think.

Believe it or not, I was still using Windows 3.0 up to about 1997 when it
finally just wouldn't run any of the newer software. I also had (should
have kept) the original Flight Simulator program. It came on a 5 1/4 inch
floppy disk and the "airplane" was represented by a simple cursor cross.
All the land representations were crude stick drawings. I spent hours
"flying" to exotic places like Derby, Kansas.

The infamous 386 chip really burned a lot of people. The 486 was just about
ready for release but they dumped the 386 on the market just to keep up with
Apple.

RCE