My Dads computuer form the 80's

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I have my dads commodre 64 from when he was in highschool

Does it work?

Oh, my goodness.

Does it still have any games with it?
(Archon, Rescue on Fractalus, Blue Max, etc.)

Can you do basic?

You lucky so-and-so.
I have got to get back into retro computing. Except when I was into it, it wasn't retro.

You are lucky! I love commodores.

yes it does. PM me if you a link to a pic of it.

I was a die hard C64 user for the longest time. I even had a modem for it. This was before the WWWeb became popular. I accessed electronic bulletin boards that people set up in their homes. The C64 was a breakthrough computer in terms of capability vs. price. It really got a lot of people into computing! For a long time it was the most popular computer in terms of units sold.

Those of you who want to experience a C64 but don't have one, there are public domain emulators that run on today's computers.

I never used the C64, although I used something else the Amstrad CPC464+ I do love emulators though cos I missed this computer as it was my first after I took it over from my brother

to the OP: Neat!

@rocky: But... can emulators sound like a real system. Or am I crazy to use this as an important reason to like using old systems?

Unless there's been a change; emulators are out there for Commodores, Ataris, and various others (including an IBM 360 mainframe and the Enigma machine... for at least a decade. The games are out there as well. I had the Atari 800 for a short while, until I realized I'd completely forgotten how to run it...

I have my Keuffel and Esser (K&E) slide rule from the fifties. I showed it to some young people the other day. Nine out of ten of them did not know what it was. Most grew up with hand held electronic calculators. It was engineers with crew cuts, pocket protectors and slide rules that put Apollo on the Moon.

I weep for the Republic.

ruveyn

I wouldn't know what to do with a slide rule, but I'm thinking of buying a Curta mechanical calculator to add to my general nerd cred.

I used to own on of those "pepper mills". Then some son of a b***h stole it from me. I hope his children (if he has any) die of a flesh rotting disease. I loved my Kurta. It was the niftiest calculator prior to the hand held electronic calculators which produce more accurate results cheaper. But they totally lack the charm of the "pepper mill". Damn!

ruveyn

The 'pepper mill'? Sounds like a sort of ball with switches and dials, etc., that they made in Switzerland. Dr. Who reputably used one once. I saw one of them in 'The Final Whole Earth Catalog' (now I'm really dating myself.... Even then (70s) they were a couple hundred.

I know what a slide rule is, just have no idea how they work. I know there's some web sites that explain it.

I have the sliderule app on my iphone. I learned how to use my dads sliderule and took it as back-up to tests, and one time i had to use it when my calculator died. It's an 8" circular sliderule, so the CD scale is like 2 feet long. It does 4 digits great.