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The very 1st computer I ever used. I believe we programmed it in BASIC, to do various things on the screen, like low-end graphics. We would save our work on to a cassette drive, and printed with an early Dot Matrix printer. We never had a floppy drive or external hard drive. When the computer was shut off, what wasn't saved to the cassette was lost.
If I remember correctly, my first project was to type a recipe for mint chocolate chip cookies, save it to a cassette, and print it on the local printer. State-of-the-art for the early 1980's! Eventually, we migrated to the Commodore Vic 20 & Commodore 64.
Hot Hot Heat plays the Commodore Ballroom. I was laughing at myself because I still knew all the words to "Naked In The City Again". It's pretty weird to think that after 10 years after bumping to them at a ferry that they are still kicking around as a band.
As always, I still wish they would return to the goddamn "Tokyo Vogue" days already. (It will never happen.)
Montreal (qc) CANADA - 2009 file Photo - Montreal soccer team l'IMPACT : Frederick Oloquaye Commodore
There's this movie-props-for-rent-company in Vienna's Schönbrunnerstraße, and from time to time they give away some of their stuff for free. I learned that Commodore, the company that produced the legendary C 64 (my first experience in the world of "computing"), also manufactured calculators. Quite big and heavy ones, but, you know, those were the times...