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[Dick7Access]

Help I need the make of first computer I had for a sermon I am composing. It was very small and, key pad was flat, and had to be connected to a TV. Only had dos

 

[AccessBlaster]

Commodore 64? just a guess.

 

[Dick7Access]

Commodore 64? just a guess.

Thank you. That's the baby!

 

[kevlray]

And believe it or not. You can still find them available for sale (some in questionable condition). In my first job I programmed on the Commodore 64. Assembly language.

 

[Dick7Access]

And believe it or not. You can still find them available for sale (some in questionable condition). In my first job I programmed on the Commodore 64. Assembly language.

Years ago my boss i n the navy said go over to building x, you are going to computer school. I said I don't know anything about computers. He said that's why you're going to school. The Navy's computers were a little more advanced then the commadore, but not much. Got the bug and went out and bought a commadore. At the time I thought it was the most sophisticated anything I had ever seen. Now is a joke.

 

[ByteMyzer]

Commodore-64/128 aficionado of old here. To clear up a misconception, the Commodore 64 and 128 do not run on DOS (Disk Operating System); the primary operating system is entirely based in Kernel ROM. Granting that the Commodore 128 allows for a boot sector on its 5-1/4" floppy disks (used not only for creating self-bootable games, but also for the CP/M disk created for the Commodore 128), the essential operating system is entirely ROM-based.

 

[kevlray]

There is a way (and way too many years ago on how to do it) to utilize the 64K of RAM. I know the the OS sits (Kernel ROM) at upper memory. I just remember for project I was coding, I would have to do some swapping to utilize the RAM. Also utilized other tricks to put text and graphics up at the same time.

 

[ByteMyzer]

There is a way (and way too many years ago on how to do it) to utilize the 64K of RAM. I know the the OS sits (Kernel ROM) at upper memory. I just remember for project I was coding, I would have to do some swapping to utilize the RAM. Also utilized other tricks to put text and graphics up at the same time.

Yep, the Commodore-64 was the first Commodore machine to use the 6510 microprocessor, which allowed for bank-switching through the byte at address $0001.

More detailed information may be found here:
https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Bank_Switching

 

[kevlray]

I was working for a company where I was trying to make a free form database application. It never worked quite right. I was not the best tester back in the day.