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#1 – 6:28 AM May 20, 2009
i remember these from elementary school. the school only had 1. later on we got a bunch of apple 2's and played oregon trail. but early on, this was it. 1 computer, 500 kids. didn't realize commodore made it.
dargaud
#2 – 6:46 AM May 20, 2009
The first computer I ever used (besides TI programmable calculators) ! Was pretty popular in France because its name means 'fart'.
philipb
#3 – 7:16 AM May 20, 2009
We had 1 in a school of over 1,200. Only the advanced math students were allowed to touch it so the likely hood of me getting a go were nil or less.
Kevin Arthur
#4 – 12:42 PM May 20, 2009
Is that a real book or a Photoshop job? If it's a book I want it. (Google was no help finding it.)
O_M
#5 – 12:51 PM May 20, 2009
...We had a guy locally who would take PETs and upgrade them to C-64s. Required quite a bit of case modding, but at least you had a computer that *looked* like what we expected a computer to look like.
Halloween Jack
#6 – 2:36 PM May 20, 2009
It looks like that computer that the Enterprise crew brought down with them to the planet that looked exactly like Earth, but without clouds, and all the grownups got the blue-green herpes and the kids were all bonk-bonk on the head, bonk-bonk, bonk-bonk!