Commodore in the news (sort of) (fwd)

From homestead-admin(a)videocam.net.au Thu Feb 7 23:51:49 2002 From: rbernardo <rbernardo(a)mail.value.net> To: homestead(a)videocam.net.au Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 20:21:46 -0800 (PST) While cruising through the newsgroups, rec.games.vectrex and rec.games.video.classic, I found this posting from Tom Howe. He was interviewed on a morning t.v. news show, and 11 minutes total were devoted to his computer museum at his house. Among the items were various Commodores. (I didn't like it when the news anchors started taking potshots at Commodores.) If you have a PC or Mac, you can connect to the link below and scroll down the page to where Tom's video segment is in order to see the Quicktime movie. Be warned... it's 16 megs long, and even on the school computer with a T1 connection, it took many minutes to download. Truly, Robert Bernardo Fresno Commodore User Group http://videocam.net.au/fcug P.S. FYI, a Vectrex is a home videogame console from the early 1980's. It had a built-in vector graphics monitor, and the machine used a 6809 processor. ------------- From: Tom Howe (tom(a)cedmagic.com) Subj: Vectrex and 3D Imager on TV News Show Newsgroups: rec.games.vectrex, rec.games.video.classic Date: 2002-02-07 01:24:54 PST Hi: The Vectrex (or should I say Vootrex) along with the 3D Imager were shown in operation on the KPTV morning news show "Good Day Oregon". A QuickTime movie of the event can be downloaded from this URL (Scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page): http://www.cedmagic.com/misc/tv-movies/tv-movies.html This segment was about my computer museum, so it contains a number of other classics, including the Minivac 6010, IBM 5100 & 5150, Pet 2001, Apple III, Atari 2600, etc. The Vectrex segment is about half-way through. --Tom _______________________________________________ Homestead mailing list Homestead(a)videocam.net.au http://cbm.videocam.net.au/mailman/listinfo/homestead