Commodore VIC20
System Specification
Compact Integrated custom unit
M6502 1,22727 MHz Processor
Tape drive
Expansion cartridges
9 pin Joystick
TV for a monitor-Video raster, horizontal 200 x 248, 16 colors, 60 Hz
My first computer (I can’t say PC..it wasn’t) was the wonderful Commodore VIC20. Small, Silent, Nice, Fluffy. BASIC interpreter, Cartridge expansion, tape drive, disk interface, monitor plug. Easy to set up, and hour and hours of fun.
The cartridge games were old 16 colour games..mostly platform..but all great fun. The Tape drive was an interesting Idea…10 minutes to load a big program….that brings back memories…:) I remember a popular dodge was to wire the input leads into a “high speed dubbing” twin deck to double the load speeds.
v I never had the disk drive unfortunatly. I spent many happy hours with mum and Conrad learning how to write programs in VIC basic…PEEK and POKE, Memory programming..all good fun.
This machine was nice..it was damn near impossible to break. It lives in memories now..it was melted down in our house inferno about 10 years ago…darn.
Never had a Commodore 64, or 128…didn’t want one…nothing could match the good old VIC20.