The Surviving C64
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Oh my, I meant Slashdot*
Wasn't there some story from Swedish high school where a C64 bolted to the wall was running the heating?
Also you'd think they'd think of wrapping it in like saran wrap or something to keep it from filling with dust.
I also recall the heating story, but I think that was an amiga
perhaps this.. I don't think there were ever any pictures that came with the story
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Also you'd think they'd think of wrapping it in like saran wrap or something to keep it from filling with dust.
Why? Doesn't seem to have been necessary.
No no there was a picture too, it was a C64 screwed up to the wall. I think the article was in Swedish though.
I guess by "heating" you mean the 1541?
no he means the heating-control of the building, obviously
this pic was spread few months ago and it was described as its a factory now its spread again as autoshop, so not sure wtf - but it is so cool
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/this-old-ass-commodore-64-is-still-being-used-to-run-an-1787196319
comments were fun read.
comments were fun read.
I heared it was controlling a vulcano on iceland, since mid 60th.
actually it planted a forest. it took 400 years tho.
If there had been an IBM PC in the same location, it would've died long ago.
^ Post pentium maybe.. company I work for used to have a hardware division (we split off, were independent of each other now) and there were several 286 rigs built in the early 90s used for device code + test (parallel/serial) which were still going strong a couple years ago.. (so that puts them at approx 20). they're only becoming obsolete because of the move to USB.
There´s some sort of a paradoxon going on btw:
7.5 million years ago a C=64 on Planet Magrathea going by the name of "Deep Thought" build the Earth, which is a supercomputer next to being a Planet. Earth will go on calculating for another 2.5 million years from now to get a better answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything than the answer Deep Thought itself came up with 7.5 million years ago, which was "42".
But: how did a C=64 being invented on Supercomputer Earth just 30 years ago end up 7.5 million years back in time only to invent Supercomputer Earth ?
And how can that be?..shouldn´t Earth have existed first, so a C=64 can get invented at all, so one could end up back in time?!!
7.5 million years ago a C=64 on Planet Magrathea going by the name of "Deep Thought" build the Earth, which is a supercomputer next to being a Planet. Earth will go on calculating for another 2.5 million years from now to get a better answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything than the answer Deep Thought itself came up with 7.5 million years ago, which was "42".
But: how did a C=64 being invented on Supercomputer Earth just 30 years ago end up 7.5 million years back in time only to invent Supercomputer Earth ?
And how can that be?..shouldn´t Earth have existed first, so a C=64 can get invented at all, so one could end up back in time?!!
r u ok? everyone knows that earth is ~4,5 billion years old
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a C64 bolted to the wall
If anything it should've been nailed to a cross!
this is amazing news!!! if only there were demosceners that are still using 25+ years old computers nowadays... oh, wait!!
Now even car repair shops will start hogging C64s and parts from Ebay. :( The prices are high enough already.
Poor C64. I want to take it home and clean it up. :(
Fantastic story none the less :)
Fantastic story none the less :)
