Commodore 64 Connects To The Internet! (How to)

 
 
I saw it with my own eyes right here!
 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iccQZCxDd60
 
Why would any want too?
 
I dont know - But I bet bapu would by the 64NIC+ cartridge that allows internet function   http://www.go4retro.com/products/64nic/
 
 
I am so excited - This is Better than Cats the musical  - I am going to see it again and again 
 

I had a friend who had a modem for his C64 back in the 80's. It was one of those ones you place the telephone receiver onto the cups. We used to log onto the CompuNet message boards. God knows how much it was costing his mother. We didn't give a damn! 
 

bapu
Sharke, they were called acoustic couplers. I was using them in 1978 to dial into our HP3000 at the office so I could work from home in the evenings.

How about a nice game of Thermonuclear War?

And a can of Tab.

First computer I took online was an Amiga A1200, in 1990 or 91. Got full, direct internet access through Demon Internet in I think 92. It even had a factory hard-drive and an upgraded 68030 cpu plus floating point unit. PCs didn't begin to catch up with the Amiga operating system or smooth multitasking in many respects until five or six years later.
 
I've thought for years that it's a pity Commodore and the Amiga were run into the ground by bad management. It would have been very interesting to see what a 21st century Amiga would have been like.

tlw
First computer I took online was an Amiga A1200, in 1990 or 91. Got full, direct internet access through Demon Internet in I think 92. It even had a factory hard-drive and an upgraded 68030 cpu plus floating point unit. PCs didn't begin to catch up with the Amiga operating system or smooth multitasking in many respects until five or six years later.
 
I've thought for years that it's a pity Commodore and the Amiga were run into the ground by bad management. It would have been very interesting to see what a 21st century Amiga would have been like.

I kept an Amiga going until the late 90's, awesome machines and I have such fond memories of them. It took me ages to come around to Windows after loving Workbench for so many years. I used to enjoy programming Amigas a lot too, which I kind of lost interest doing when I switched to PC's. My Amiga had a tower with a hard disc (40MB? Or something ridiciulous) and a CD-ROM (which I recall having to use a program called IDE-Fix to get it working). And I really miss the sound of the floppy. Scrnnn....scrnnn.....chucka chucka....scrnnnnnnnnnn.....

bapu
Sharke, they were called acoustic couplers. I was using them in 1978 to dial into our HP3000 at the office so I could work from home in the evenings.

The first computer time-share I was part of (1971) was an HP2000 and it also used an acoustic coupler.  By 1976 we had one that was more advanced that could do 110 and 300 BAUD.  If I whistled into the phone at exactly 4,800 Hz, you could hear it jump up in tone then we'd quickly slam it into the coupler and hit the <Return> and <Line Feed> keys alternatively (the acknowledgement sequence) until it connected.
 
How's THAT for some old geekiness!
 
Oh yeah, public pay phones had a similar trick to them where you could whistle at exactly 4,800 Hz and get a dial tone without putting any money into it.

sharke
Apparently there's an auto shop in Poland which is still being run on a C64.

http://sploid.gizmodo.com...d-to-run-an-1787196319

In way out places, I would imagine that there are many folks running some really old stuff. My ol'e roommate was able to get many of these old things working, though not necessarily on the same chassis. And nowadays, he is restoring X-Box'es for fun!