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Old 05-04-2015, 10:32 AM   #8631
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Add/Read a good joke to lighten your day
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Originally Posted by cromag View Post
I had a VIC-20 as well. But your memory must be corrupted -- the VIC-20 came with 5K ram, of which about 3K was available to the user.



Amazing what I was able to accomplish with Basic, a couple of KBs, and a cassette recorder.

Yup. For me it was the CoCo 3, Basic, about 4 kB RAM, and a cassette recorder. Even drew a donkey and animated his mouth (he opened it every time I hit a certain key) so he could introduce a segment on one of our home movies. Drawing that was a core. You had pretty much tell the computer the location of every pixel. Fortunately, the screen was very low resolution.

But since I'm already in danger of derailing one thread with talk of my early computing, and since I just now mentioned a donkey, here's a donkey joke:
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