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That is one magnificent toupe.

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Happy feel good video of the day. When times were a little more normal. We had the commodore 64. I'm guessing this one came before it.

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by 2 years, 1980 for vic, but that company had a PET long before.

The commodore 64 was $666 dollars the first week (over $595 list official), a buddy got his for $620 and was happy. $666 was the same price as earlier apple 1 computer.

Apple historians claim that Apple never said it was $666, but rather it was $666.66 : see :

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=apple+computer+666+dollars&ia=web

But Commodore 64s and Apples were sold for $666 before expensive addons.

fun unrelated trivia: that commodore 64 6502 computer decades later would be able to run a very evolved chess program that could beat most humans. researchers for years kept trying to write tinier chess programs.

In 1982 they had a SHITTY chess program that used 672 bytes : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K_ZX_Chess

many decades later using most of the 64K ram address space of a 6502, chess got rather sophisticated and those old 1981 machines with newer code would amaze you.

For unlimited ram on workstation-style computers , obese and wasteful heavyweight chess is a big bragging rights competition, and now AI is smarter than any human chess player : Best Chess Engines of 2021 : :
http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/4040/

Best Blitz speed chess of 2021 : http://www.computerchess.org.uk/ccrl/404/

IN 2021 researchers use real actual self-programming AI to have machines write their own chess AI : Alpha zero, and Leela 0 chess engine. Most chess competitons are based on limiting beginning play databases to 12 deep moves or less, otherwise with unlimited storage, a so-called AI could pre-store almost 25 moves in the future. years from now, competitions will be like back in earlier years... based on ram constraints.

March 2021 : Can You Beat 1024 Bytes of JavaScript at Chess?!:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vpnw/can-you-beat-1024-bytes-of-javascript-at-chess

Hah!

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C64 was a pretty fun computer. I remember some of the programs. We had that piano keys thing you put on the keyboard for a piano program. We had the joystick for the space invaders game. There was a cool print program that made cool banners. I think it was print master or print shop? I can't remember. We would print out banners with the dot matrix printer for birthdays. I remember this one game where you were stuck in a cave and you had to get out. There was like a wizard in the beginning who put you there. It was called Cave of the Word Wizard. Had to look that up. Forgot it was a spelling game.

I didn't find out until much later that the C64 sound chip is sought after by low bit synth enthusiasts.

I had one. Was my second computer, after a Sinclair Z-80.

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We had a ZX81 with a membrane keyboard and my dad's Radio Shack cassette player for loading the OS. Then we upgraded to an Apple IIe.

ZX81

That may be the one I had as well. Been a couple years since then.... Was black and white, membrane keyboard, and I had to assemble it- some soldering even. I actually bought it from a friend who had bought it and failed at putting it together. I saved up paper rute money and got the VIC 20 when it came out. Initially I was using a panasonic cassette player via the headphone jack for storage, and eventually got the actual Commodore cassette deck which had a peripheral hook up.

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I still have the DOS version of that exact chess game. It's 16-bit, so you probably need a VM.

Chess.7z

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(((SHATner))) was a drunken jew, hated by everyone that worked with him, but he was based enough to mercilessly mock faggot George Takei, made him cry dozens of times.

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300 dollars. That must have been a lot of money. At least something is cheaper than it used to be.