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In Reply to: RE: Waaay off topic, vintage computer (companies) LONG posted by tesla on August 05, 2012 at 04:18:20
I visited the fab where most of the proprietary semiconductors were made for the Commodore computers.
BTW, the employees got a good screwing when the doors closed.
At the time I worked for Western Digital in THEIR fab making proprietary devices for them. I had a Pascal Microengine out in the warehouse and still have my VIC-20.....I think it had a 6502 microprocessor ... 8 bit? with something outrageous like 4 or 8kb or memory. I've got it out in the garage with the cassette player used for 'mass storage', since I couldn't afford the HD for the C-64.
In those days I was learning BASIC. Good times.
Too much is never enough
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I visited the fab where most of the proprietary semiconductors were made for the Commodore computers.
BTW, the employees got a good screwing when the doors closed.
At the time I worked for Western Digital in THEIR fab making proprietary devices for them. I had a Pascal Microengine out in the warehouse and still have my VIC-20.....I think it had a 6502 microprocessor ... 8 bit? with something outrageous like 4 or 8kb or memory. I've got it out in the garage with the cassette player used for 'mass storage', since I couldn't afford the HD for the C-64.
In those days I was learning BASIC. Good times.
Too much is never enough
A couple of corrections :)
the 6502/6510 was 8 bit.
There wasn't a Hard drive made for the C-64/Vic 20, they used a floppy drive. However, there was a 5 or 7.5 meg HD offered for the Commodore PET computers.
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.
- Joseph Campbell
right you are! NO HD for c-64. Floppy only...and the cassette I have somewhere. You could ALSO build a plug in memory addition for the Vic-20. 24kb if I remember correctly? That would have made you unstoppable.
I couldn't remember the 'bit count' of the 6502 / 6510 CPUs. I DO remember somebody built a massivly parallel computer using a BUNCH of 6502s......Detail escape me.
Too much is never enough
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