Why men don't write advice columns

[WilsonTC]

Originally Posted by jyl

AOL 3.5 on a C64 in 1989?

I don't think so. Memory is a fallible thing.

Yes it is.

And reading is fundamental. I stated AOL 3.5"...as in 3.5" floppy.

[WilsonTC]

Originally Posted by quaz

Ummmm, there was no email (mainstream) in 1989.............

There was if you were connected with ARPANET...

[WilsonTC]

Originally Posted by berettafan

Yup, no emailing on a C64.

Sure there was...if you modified it. I was the first one to modify my C64 (which I called a "C65") to send/receive e-mail. Had I known this joke would have been my first e-mail, I would have delayed that modification a few years until the "choking Doberman" stories became mainstream.

[RedBaron]

Originally Posted by LubeMaster77

I wish I had a Commodore 64, that would fetch a nice price on Ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/commadore-64-compter-system-w-power-supply_W0QQitemZ310165029826QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_ DefaultDomain_0?hash=item483746c3c2&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

I don't think they are worth much at all...

[jyl]

Originally Posted by WilsonTC

Yes it is.

And reading is fundamental. I stated AOL 3.5"...as in 3.5" floppy.

Ha ha, sorry. I'd forgotten about the 3 1/2 inch floppies. In fact I've nearly forgotten about floppy disks at all.

[berettafan]

Originally Posted by jyl

Ha ha, sorry. I'd forgotten about the 3 1/2 inch floppies. In fact I've nearly forgotten about floppy disks at all.

you didn't forget 3.5" floppies in C64's because there were none.


as was stated they used a 5 1/4" floppy (true 'floppy') disk. You could also, IIRC, use the old style tape drive with them.

[berettafan]

as i recall the disk drive was model '5141'?

[berettafan]

Well i might have to eat a small helping of crow here. Looked this up and turns out a 3.5" drive was AVAILABLE for the C64 though it appears to have been released after the 128 and been targeted for that model.

Drives were 1541 (5 1/4) and 1581 (3 1/2). The Wiki page has interesting info on this stuff.

[WilsonTC]

My dad worked at IBM and brought all kinds of stuff home, smuggled out of the plant in his lunch pail. I had 3.5" floppy drives stacked to the ceiling. I adapted one to my C65. He would also bring home reams of green bar tractor feed paper with nothing but 1's and 0's printed on it. I asked him "WTF is all this?", to which he replied "STFU and get me a beer. You can use the back to color on".

My next door friend Bill Gates (we called him "Billy Four Eyes") would come over and stare endlessly at the 1's and 0's while I was coloring. He asked if he could take some of the papers home. I said "no prob, take as much as you want".

Bastard won't even return my calls these days.

[slodave]

AOL used to be called 'Quantum Link', which did run on the Commodore 64 and 128. The first version of AOL that ran on DOS, came out in 1991.

[WilsonTC]

Originally Posted by slodave

AOL used to be called 'Quantum Link', which did run on the Commodore 64 and 128. The first version of AOL that ran on DOS, came out in 1991.

Nah...Steve Case lived next door, too (the other side). I dug through his trash and found loads of AOL floppies that were marked "Beta"...

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by cmccuist

You know, that advice column guy didn't even consider ignition. That lady should check for spark as well.

99% of all fuel injection problems are ignition-related