VIC-20 - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Apr 2001

On April 22, Lanny Cox wrote:
...
   I recently picked up a VIC-20 with Tape Recorder,
Joystick, 5 games, etc.
 on EBay for 11 bucks. It was my first purchase as a classic comp collector,
 and I had a few questions concerning it and was wondering if any of you guys
 could answer: 
  As I sit here repairing a core plane from my pdp8/e (circa 1969) I
still can't consider a VIC "classic" no matter how many years go by.
Time sure does fly!  I remember back in my high school days...my best
friend Rob had a VIC-20, later a C64, while I was the Atari 800 freak.
We had LOTS of fun on those machines, and taught ourselves lots of
great stuff.

  Those "early" home computers sure did offer a lot of bang for the
buck!

...
   And finally, are there any schematics/tutorials on
the net for creating
 text terminals? I wanted one to interface with a 6502 board i'm working at,
 but I wanted to build it myself and running some prog like HyperTerminal or
 whatever just didn't seem as fun. 
  Hmm...perhaps Don Lancaster's "TV Typewriter Cookbook"?  Definitely
a nice historically-sound pursuit.  Copies can be found on eBay from
time to time.  Fun! :-)

       -Dave McGuire