VIC-20

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Sun Apr 22 11:24:12 2001

On April 22, Lanny Cox wrote:
> I recently picked up a VIC-20 with Tape Recorder, Joystick, 5 games, etc.
> on EBay for 11 bucks. It was my first purchase as a classic comp collector,
> and I had a few questions concerning it and was wondering if any of you guys
> could answer:

  As I sit here repairing a core plane from my pdp8/e (circa 1969) I
still can't consider a VIC "classic" no matter how many years go by.
Time sure does fly! I remember back in my high school days...my best
friend Rob had a VIC-20, later a C64, while I was the Atari 800 freak.
We had LOTS of fun on those machines, and taught ourselves lots of
great stuff.

  Those "early" home computers sure did offer a lot of bang for the
buck!

> And finally, are there any schematics/tutorials on the net for creating
> text terminals? I wanted one to interface with a 6502 board i'm working at,
> but I wanted to build it myself and running some prog like HyperTerminal or
> whatever just didn't seem as fun.

  Hmm...perhaps Don Lancaster's "TV Typewriter Cookbook"? Definitely
a nice historically-sound pursuit. Copies can be found on eBay from
time to time. Fun! :-)

       -Dave McGuire
Received on Sun Apr 22 2001 - 11:24:12 BST