That is one magnificent toupe.
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.
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!
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.
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.
I still use a Kaypro, nigga
I still have the DOS version of that exact chess game. It's 16-bit, so you probably need a VM.
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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.
300 dollars. That must have been a lot of money. At least something is cheaper than it used to be.
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