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>From article <2585882...@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>, by jo...@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Conan the Barbarian):
> 
>   Ah yes, the Commodore PET days.  I have fond memories too.

Hmmmm.  Memories so fond, you wish you'd left them where you found them. :-)

I remember those behemoths.  Our school had a PET 2001 (with 32K!!) and 4
or 5 4016's (16K) and a 4032 (32K).  The 2001 was not used much because
the only way you could get a program onto it (besides typing) was through
a cassette drive (it was running Basic 2.0, which didn't have disk I/O
specific instructions, and no one wanted to learn that).  I guess I should
say that it was not used for classwork much.  What it was used for was the
space invader game we had on tape.  Even the data processing types (data
processing and computer science were taught together) learned one obscure
command, just to play the game.  Of course, nothing could beat the amazing
24x40 character graphics that brought the alien ships to life.  :-)))

Remember the disk drives they had.  We had a double unit that must've
weighed as much as the PET itself!  It was great fun trying to access them,
since we only had three drives and one printer, and every thing was
daisy-chained to everything else.  We spent half the time making sure that
the right disk was in the right drive.


>   I remember in high school there was a bully who would steal my designated
> time on the PET.  I guess he hated me because I made fun of his stupid
> mistakes.  And he was so much bigger and fatter than I, what could I do?

You could do like we did and modify his program with obscene language and a
couple of random GOTO's.  We did that to our bully, he was copying other
people's programs and turning them in as his own.  Of course, he had a
tendency to pick us up and toss us across the room, but he could afford to
actually hurt us badly enough, else he'd have to find other people to help
him with his program.  It's a pyrrhic of sorts, I admit.  But it did teach
him a lesson.

> -- 
> "After all is said an done,                    John Schmitt
>  a lot more is said than done."                jo...@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
> Don't blame anybody for what I say.            SCHM...@SCIvax.mcmaster.ca

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