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    What Is This?

    Good God, Even the Commodore 64 Has a Twitter Client

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    07/18/09

    In reply to What Is This?
    I knew that was the PET as soon as I saw the picture. I never realized it was considered a competitor to Apple.

    Back then I guess everything more powerful than a calculator was 'the competition' though...
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    07/18/09

    In reply to What Is This?
    My brother wrote a game on one and brought the whole thing to my mom's house to show it off.
    You had to "fly" a targeting reticule onto a tie fighter (easy one in asciii) and hit the space bar to shot at it.

    It wasn't perfect at first, so my little sister and I ended up being beta testers (long before it was hip) to help him out.

    Loving the flashbacks, Gizmodo old kid.
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    Image of ninjamurf ninjamurf
    07/18/09

    In reply to What Is This?
    5th grade. My first computer experience. We used to take the tapes home and play them in our tape players. eeeeeeeeee ooooooo EEEEEE uuuuuuu UUUUUUUU eeeeeeeee OOOOOOOOO aaaaaaaaaaa
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    07/18/09

    @ninjamurf: They played the Doctor Who theme song?
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    07/18/09

    @bosskev: Good one!
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    Image of (Starman) Starman (Starman) Starman
    07/18/09

    @bosskev: Amazing. Fits even down to the hums.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    07/18/09

    @ninjamurf: "We used to take the tapes home and play them in our tape players. "

    We used to edit the codes to the games to make our own versions of them. Programmers eventually got wise to this and it wasn't possible to use LIST and access to codes in later programs.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    07/18/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: *access the codes*
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    Image of MillerCadiots MillerCadiots
    07/18/09

    In reply to What Is This?
    Want to know more about the PET's Easter egg? Read this: http://www.pagetable.com/?p=43
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    Image of GlenTen GlenTen
    07/18/09

    In reply to What Is This?
    From wikipedia: "Easter Egg: In PET Microsoft Basic (3000 series only), typing the command "WAIT 6502,100" will fill the screen with the text "MICROSOFT!"

    oh my god that's INCREDIBLE!
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    Image of OblivionVII OblivionVII
    07/18/09

    @GlenTen: It is? Am I missing something?
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    Image of BK Beezy BK Beezy
    07/18/09

    @OblivionVII: I think you're missing the sarcasm. Unless that was sarcasm. Then I missed the sarcasm. Ah! Sarcasm is great! /sarcasm

    I think that's my personal record for most times saying 'sarcasm' in a sentence. My brain hurts now.
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    Image of ninjamurf ninjamurf
    07/18/09

    @GlenTen: That's wacky considering I didn't think Microsoft really came to prominence until after the PET era? That would have been something to see. The first easter egg?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    07/18/09

    @ninjamurf: So what came first: Microsoft or the Easter Egg?
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    Image of Kakkoister Kakkoister
    07/18/09

    @BoardShortin'_GitEmSteveDave: Well Microsoft would have had to of existed for said Easter Egg to have been written, so I say Microsoft!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag GitEmSteveDave_ForgotNametag
    07/18/09

    @Kakkoister: But the PET ran on Microsoft Basic. Microsoft was founded in 1975. The first PET was announced in 1977. That was still the time they were using a blibbet in their logo.
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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    06/18/09

    In reply to Good God, Even the Commodore 64 Has a Twitter Client
    So, in theory, Twitter will remain a viable communications network in the event of a nuclear apocalypse... good to know.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    06/18/09

    In reply to Good God, Even the Commodore 64 Has a Twitter Client
    load "twitter",8,1

    run twitter
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    Image of Monty Monty
    03/10/09

    In reply to Barbie, Star of Barbie Commodore 64 Game, Turns 50 Today
    That Commodore 64 color palette is a thing of beauty that brings out the natural lusciousness of Princess Barbaretta. We all may debate the answer to the "great game, or greatest game ever" question, but there is no question who our favorite doll is.
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    Image of infmom infmom
    03/09/09

    In reply to Barbie, Star of Barbie Commodore 64 Game, Turns 50 Today
    We had that game. It was amazing how inappropriately one could dress Barbie for whatever that dork Ken had in mind, if he didn't say "Sorry Barbie, plans have changed" and screw the whole thing up.
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    Image of nystreetfilms nystreetfilms
    03/09/09

    In reply to Barbie, Star of Barbie Commodore 64 Game, Turns 50 Today
    Karateka was, and is, the best game ever for the C64
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    Image of infmom infmom
    03/09/09

    @nystreetfilms: Nah. M.U.L.E. hands down.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/09/09

    In reply to Barbie, Star of Barbie Commodore 64 Game, Turns 50 Today
    I wonder what she was doing from 1959 to 1985?


    Just sitting in a monitor waiting for someone to turn it on?

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    Image of HexiumVII HexiumVII
    03/09/09

    In reply to Barbie, Star of Barbie Commodore 64 Game, Turns 50 Today
    Ok when i was 10 i played this, and it was one of the best commodore 64 games ever created. Other than the fact that barbie is insane and is constantly and perpetually going on a date with Ken.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/09/09

    @HexiumVII: What's so crazy about that? Did you see him? Hoooeeeeee!
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    Image of DeeJayQueue DeeJayQueue
    03/09/09

    In reply to Barbie, Star of Barbie Commodore 64 Game, Turns 50 Today
    i had that monitor.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    03/09/09

    @DeeJayQueue: I had that dress.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    03/09/09

    @bosskev: I was the model for that Barbie, and that was my home.
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    Image of Torley Torley
    12/12/08

    In reply to Firefox's Spellchecker Has Four Words for "Gizmodo"
    When I saw "Commodore" I thought of SID CHIP!
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    Image of P3nnst8r P3nnst8r
    12/12/08

    In reply to Firefox's Spellchecker Has Four Words for "Gizmodo"
    You don't even want to know what Fleshbot returns...
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