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C-64 Diehards Relive History

Posted by timothy on from the if-you-can-call-it-reliving dept.

Sunfish writes "The Daily Herald has a short article about a Commodore Exposition held this past weekend in the Chicago area. 'This is probably the geekiest of the geekiest,' admitted conference organizer Dave Ross. How has the C-64 influenced computing in today's world? I'd like to know how many Slashdotters 'used' to own and code for one of these relics, and was it more fun than C++ or VB?" I hope 2003's event will get a wrap-up the way 2002 does on the Expo home page.

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  1. mIRC Exploit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does anyone have the new mIRC dcc exploit?

    1. Re:mIRC Exploit? by ArCaNe50 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Go look in the article about the maxtor 300gig I saw it there. Now go away and post something relevant

  2. Re:First Computer I ever had by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Someone says he too owned one unit of the MOST SOLD SINGLE COMPUTER MODEL EVER, and it's "interesting"?

    Do all case-modding GeForce-overclocking VB-coding whippersnappers get to moderate automatically?

  3. Re:can anyone answer tis one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    geez I can't bleive I actually remember this stuff...

    Neither can we. You had to ask, didn't you?

  4. yay commie 64 by foobar42 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GEOS was the bomb. Put my dad's 386 to shame, and I never really used anything as good until I got hooked on the shiny new PowerPC Macs at elementary school. I had graphical word processing, paint, and the original flight simulator by Nova Logic running years before Windows 3.0 was a glimmer in Bill Gates's eye.