Subj : Participation (oven baked motherboards)
To : Ruth Haffly
From : Ben Collver
Date : Fri Jan 31 2025 10:41:33
Re: Participation (oven baked motherboards)
By: Ruth Haffly to Ben Collver on Thu Jan 30 2025 13:39:58
RH> And it cleared some unused but still good stuff out of our house. Last
RH> night I heard Steve talking about Commodore 64 computers with someone on
RH> line. We had one for 10 years, rehomed it about 4 years after we
RH> upgraded to PCs and had orders to move. We had to make a weight
RH> allowance so rehoming anything like that, that was not being used,
RH> helped us meet it. Anyway, Steve and the other guy were commiserating
RH> with each other about getting rid of the C-64, sort of wishing they
RH> still had them. I don't know if we still have the emulator program that
RH> we had at one time.
I know an online musician who runs special software to operate the C=64 as
a synthesizer. You can see screenshots in the first few pages of the user
manuals.
<
https://mssiah.com/files/MSSIAH_MonoSynthesizer.pdf>
<
https://mssiah.com/files/MSSIAH_Bassline.pdf>
If i were going to emulate a C=64, i'd probably go with VICE.
<
https://vice-emu.sourceforge.io/>
I remember loading arcade games from cassette tape onto a VIC-20. I also
remember two friends playing games on a C=64, and i didn't get as much
screen time on the C=64 as on the VIC-20. One friend had a floppy drive
and the other was using cassette tape only. But he was given a HUGE set
of cassette tapes. Whoever owned that C=64 before him collected a lot!
RH> For the next time you get significant (clean) snow and have maple syrup
RH> on hand? We had 1.25" of snow last week, not enough to harvest. Enough
RH> to shut down the area for a couple of days tho. (G)
Exactly. So far this winter we had a dusting of snow one day. I happened
to bicycle through it to a dentist appointment. Sadly for that dentist's
business there was not enough snow to make candy in.
RH> I remember it too. We got our first TV when I was in 4th grade, only one
RH> channel. A few years later my dad reworked the lead in (no antenna, just
RH> a wire from the main line) wire and we got 2 channels. When I came home
RH> from college for Easter break, my folks had tied into the NYC cable,
RH> with one local channel. IIRC, the ads for Almond Joy and Mounds were in
RH> the days when we got just 2 channels.
When i was a kid, my parents went without a TV because they thought it was
a bad influence. But we brought a TV in the house for that VIC-20, and
slowly began to use it as a TV too. I personally think it was good for me
to have had limited exposure to media, but i didn't see it that way when i
was a kid. :-)
MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06
Title: TV Cookies
Categories: Cookies
Yield: 1 Batch
1 c Shortening
1 c Sugar
1 c Brown sugar
2 Eggs; beaten
1 ts Vanilla
2 c Flour; sifted
1 ts Soda
1/2 ts Baking powder
1/2 ts Salt
2 c Quick oatmeal
2 c Rice Krispies
1 c Coconut
1/2 c Nuts
Cream together shortening and sugars. Add eggs, vanilla, flour, soda,
baking powder, and salt. Add cereals, coconut, and nuts. Blend and
drop by spoonfuls on cookie sheet and bake at 350°F.
Recipe by Randy Rigg
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