This is a copy of a thread I shared on Mastodon back on October 17, 2023. I’m posting it here now because social media is ephemeral, and a pain in the ass to go back and find interesting posts. We should do this more, and I’ll have a longer blog post about it later. In the meantime, enjoy.
Folks! My friend was at a “junk” shop and found an old computer he thought I might like (a Vic 20? Uh yeah) so he bought it and sent it to me. It works straight away. But the amazing thing?
… the amazing thing? It’s this wonderful manual handwritten by the kid who owned it. I’ll see if I can find them and get in touch with them
Even the sound chip works. Here’s one of the program listings from the manual for testing out the sound that I typed in
It even came with these tapes and many of the programs mentioned in the handwritten manual … I had no tape drive at the time I posted this on Mastodon, but, then …
… then, a very nice person sent me one! amazing! I’ll post the walk through of those tapes later.
Be nice to each other!