One of my favorite shows right now on the AMC channel (in it's second season) is "Halt and Catch Fire" (HCF). It's a fictionalized view of the personal computer emergence circa 1983. The Commodore-64 was a major player in a recent episode. Not that this is a new fact, but it made me reminisce while watching the episode that the C64 takes its name from it's 64,536 bytes of RAM. Yea, that is 64k as in kilobytes. Not MB, or GB, or even TB. Anyway, nothing really new. Just a fond memory of what was, and what some considered state-of-the-art personal computing not very long ago.

We really liked the first season.
 
Got tired of this season after 3 episodes.

I remember trying to earn all the money I could to buy one of those (I mean, HOLY CRAP!  64k of memory??!  What would I need that much for???), but the price point was ridiculous for the time (something like $680 where I was) and, by the time I had earned enough, better stuff was coming out.  Thus began the futile attempt to always have the cutting edge gear all the time!  LOL...

I was never allowed a knife.

Karyn
I was never allowed a knife.

 

but you were allowed a high powered rifle with a laser guided scope?
 
 

Beagle

Karyn
I was never allowed a knife.

 

but you were allowed a high powered rifle with a laser guided scope?
 
 

Wait.... Karyn's Got A Gun?

KenB123
One of my favorite shows right now on the AMC channel (in it's second season) is "Halt and Catch Fire" (HCF). It's a fictionalized view of the personal computer emergence circa 1983. The Commodore-64 was a major player in a recent episode. Not that this is a new fact, but it made me reminisce while watching the episode that the C64 takes its name from it's 64,536 bytes of RAM. Yea, that is 64k as in kilobytes. Not MB, or GB, or even TB. Anyway, nothing really new. Just a fond memory of what was, and what some considered state-of-the-art personal computing not very long ago.

I haven't seen the show, in fact I haven't even heard of it, but it sounds intriguing. 
 
I still have a Commodore VIC-20 and last time I tried, it still worked (it was the predecessor to the C64).  it has 4k of RAM or you can add a 16k memory module (which I don't have), but I do have a cassette player adapter for external storage/loading of programs (although I don't think I still have a working cassette player) and I have several game cartridges. 
 
I may have to pull that thing out of the closet again and see if it still fires up...

Beagle

KenB123
One of my favorite shows right now on the AMC channel (in it's second season) is "Halt and Catch Fire" (HCF). It's a fictionalized view of the personal computer emergence circa 1983. The Commodore-64 was a major player in a recent episode. Not that this is a new fact, but it made me reminisce while watching the episode that the C64 takes its name from it's 64,536 bytes of RAM. Yea, that is 64k as in kilobytes. Not MB, or GB, or even TB. Anyway, nothing really new. Just a fond memory of what was, and what some considered state-of-the-art personal computing not very long ago.

I haven't seen the show, in fact I haven't even heard of it, but it sounds intriguing. 
 
I still have a Commodore VIC-20 and last time I tried, it still worked (it was the predecessor to the C64).  it has 4k of RAM or you can add a 16k memory module (which I don't have), but I do have a cassette player adapter for external storage/loading of programs (although I don't think I still have a working cassette player) and I have several game cartridges. 
 
I may have to pull that thing out of the closet again and see if it still fires up...

Let's hope it doesn't "halt and catch fire".

Beagle

Karyn
I was never allowed a knife.

 

but you were allowed a high powered rifle with a laser guided scope?
 
 

No cutting edges on a rifle..

Ahh, the good old days. I spent a fortune getting my first midi studio going on an Atari ST running Master Tracks Pro. You know, it was better at midi than anything I have now.. $500 for the program and it came on the new 3.5" HD floppy. But the 40 meg hard drive was almost $1,000.
 
Happy days.