>> They did, ever hear the term "the lumbering hippo", that was a
nickname
>> many gave the 1541 disk drive...
I didn't think it was that slow
>Well, I always knew the 1541 drive sucked egregiously, speed wise. I
>mean, it was as bad as a cassette player...what was the point? Until
fast
>loaders came along. They made the 1541 as fast as any Apple drive with
a
>fast DOS. Then it was passable.
>
>But what was very cool about the 1541, I later learned, was that it had
>its own processor, and that you could upload a program into two drives,
>hook them to each other and have them copy disks automatically...very
>cool. Then when my friend gave me the program that played Daisy on the
>1541 (by this time I had my own C64) I was dazzled. I wrote a similar
>program for the Apple Disk ][ but the farts and grunts it made were
hardly
>comparable to the violin-like sqeaks that emanated from the 1541. Very
>cool.
I can't stay up late with an Apple //c, because it makes that awful
noise when trying to read a nonexistent disk!
>>
>> >PS. So the Commodore did suck after all ;)
It did, but I like it sooo much more than the Apple II, which is just
plain boring
>> performance for a very low price. (albiet slower than necessary).
Also
>> the 64 had other merits such as its graphics ability and incredible
>> sound... Every one rips the Commodores, but you have to remwmber who
>> was posting profits and who was going bankrupt in the 80s... the
>> nineties are a different matter I'm afraid.. :(
Exactly
>After I got over the computer-cock-war syndrome I did come to realize
what
>a cool machine the C64 was. I actually started to program on it and
>started experimenting with the sound. It could make the wildest
sounds.
>I wanted to port the Apple ROM Monitor to the C64 so that I'd have a
>decent Monitor with which to assemble machine code, but alas my C64
died
>on the carpet in front of my TV (thus beginning the C64 curse I've
fallen
>victim to), I guess from static electricity. They just didn't make
C64's
>to last I'm afraid. Thus my C64 programming soire was cut short.
I killed my C64 by trying to add a reset switch and attaching the wire
to the wrong power terminal. BTW, what IS the command to get into
Apple's monitor from DOS? I always forget...
>
>Ok, now that is just plain lame. Who the hell designs a printer and
>forgets about the tractor feed bands?
Don't forget some certain operating systems that are self incompatible
;-P
>
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