Hi Ed,

>> Jan van den Broek wrote on 21. January 2016:
>>
>> Tue, 12 Jan 2016 22:28:50 +0100
>> "Harald Habenichts"  schrieb:
>>> The Spectrum has much better graphics and better games!
>>
>> Ah yes, the annual cross-posting flame-bait. Good.
>>
>> (Next time try to be a bit more original and start an
>> "VIC-20 vs ZX-81"-thread)

>> What about Atari 8bit (400, 800 and so on) VS Commodore 64? ;-)

> I was very frustrated back in the 1980's when I tried to get a Atari 400
> or 800 Demo Model in a store to just print HI on the screen when I typed:
> 10 PRINT "HI"
> RUN
> and either of them did nothing at all except act like a Dumb Terminal.

The C64 was the greatest we thought.. we also had an IBM dual floppy then
(ouch) because some Doctor needed support for that but the most successful work
we did was on the C64.

> So I scratched them OFF my list of Home Computers to consider buying.

> It wasn't until after I bought a C=64 and had it for a few months that I
> learned that the Atari 400's and 800's HAD TO HAVE a BASIC Cartridge
> plugged in the Socket for them to use BASIC.

I tried telling my kid's school the same thing.. they didn't want to hear it
sadly enough.  So really, they went no nowhere.. :( Their computer program died
a sad death.

>> The C64 and Amiga were the only "home computers" I owned. Now and then

> I looked at the Emulator for the C=64 on my XP computer but haven't tried
> using it much.

I run the emulator here so I can run this program I wrote for the that
school(that they ignored) that lets explains mathematical string theory and set
theory  (Look for "the string game" by Invisible Light Software ).

Take care,
Janis

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