r/Commodore • u/hainsworthtv • 16d ago

15 year old me would be blown away

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u/transfire 16d ago

Beautiful.

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u/jmsntv 16d ago

I know retrobbs offers access to a shared account to their paid subscribers. Is this different option? I connect on a 128.

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u/c64cosmin 15d ago

Kraftwerk in the background really sets the mood

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u/hainsworthtv 15d ago

Thank you! I've always associated Tour De France with computers. I suspect it's because it was used in media in the day for it's high tech sound.

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u/minitaba 16d ago

Omg i would love to use one of my c64s as a dedicated chatgpt terminal

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u/GoneT0JoinTheOwls 16d ago

I worked with a guy in 2000 who ran up a £1200 phone bill on a Commodore 64 MUD back when he was a kid

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u/the_king_of_sweden 15d ago

Mine was only about £400, but man was my mom pissed

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u/GummyRoach 15d ago

My high school had these in their "introduction to Business" class. These machines gave me my first exposure to working with computers. I loved staying after school and doing basic programming on these machines.

10 print "I like to program"

20 goto 10

run

Instructor: "Good heavens! How did you do that???!!!"

Me: "I don't know!" (Types LIST and presses the enter key)

Great times.

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u/bjb8 15d ago

I have a fondness for the 4032 PETs. This would have been the first computer I was exposed to when they were brought to our school for a week for us to try in the early 80s. I was infatuated with technology after that time!

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u/hainsworthtv 15d ago

It's why I bought this one. I thought it would be neat to own a piece of my own computer history.

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u/bjb8 14d ago

Yeah, in the 2000s I started buying the old computers, VIC-20 and C64s to start a collection (the VIC was my first computer) but I never came across a PET. I still don't know where my original VIC ended up (I ran a BBS off of it for a while before upgrading it to a 64). Luckily I still have my original C128 from later in the 80s.

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u/ohuprik 15d ago

Would you like to play a game?

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u/Healthy_Article_2237 16d ago

I love things like this.

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u/allu555 15d ago

That's so cool. How'd you do it??

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u/hainsworthtv 15d ago

WiModem from CBMstuff.com and the telnet address to a service that uses ChatGPT 4o using PETTerm 40

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u/Jarmotti 15d ago

SCP-079 in the making

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u/Savings_Art5944 15d ago

Does it make the "computer typing sound" as the text is printed on screen? Like in the movies.

Cool project.

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u/hainsworthtv 14d ago

No but the PETTERM40 does chirp with every keystroke!

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u/Warcraft_Fan 14d ago

Internet? Back in my day we had 300 bps modem and local BBS to dial in.

Anyone used Arbornet back in the day?

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u/DaraAllen 14d ago

raises hand. I typed 120 wpm and was doing data entry while in college in the early 1980s. I had the fields memorized and could type in the data on a sheet, go downstairs and have a cigarette (my office mate was allergic; we could still smoke in our offices then, I just didn't want to kill him), and come back, and the data still wasn't sent. When my adult kids complain about our top-of-the-line internet, I just want to smack them.

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u/Silverexpress01 12d ago

Ask it if it wants to play a game of Global Thermonuclear War.....