Vic-20
My first computer: The Dragon 32
News Thus far we've featured the Acorn Electron, the BBC Micro, the Commodore 64, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and the Vic-20. This article was first published in February 2002 as part of our 'Technologies That Time Forgot' series. [10 Feb 2005]
My first computer: The Commodore 64
News Thus far we've featured the BBC Micro, the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, the Acorn Electron and the Vic-20. Here Jon Bernstein and silicon.com reader Andy Walmsle pay homage to the Vic-20. This article was first published in February 2002 as part of our... [03 Feb 2005]
My first computer: The Vic-20
News But I was glad for my baptism into home computing, as it turns out just around the time - Christmas 1982 - the Vic-20's demise would begin. The Vic-20 used a 1.0227MHz, 8-bit 6502A processor from MOS Technologies, designed in 1975 and produced by... [27 Jan 2005]
What was your first computer?
News THE VIC-20 AND THE COMMODORE 64 One of our most popular video pieces ever was The Big Question: What was your first computer? first aired in April 2002. At the time it brought in a barrage of reader comments as you all became dewy eyed at the... [14 Jan 2003]
Re:Viewing 2002 - hardware (part two)
News The Spectrum, BBC Micro, Vic-20, C64, Dragon and more& http://www.silicon.com/a51276 But enough about the software and Microsoft. Another factor against the ultra PC form factor may turn out to be Intel's absence. [20 Nov 2002]
Microsoft cosies up to Java developers
News Vic Gundotra, general manager, development platform and evangelism, Microsoft, said the product will allow coders to use Microsoft's popular Visual Studio environment to build on the Java language skills already out there. [02 Jul 2002]
Video games are 40 years old
News Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64 http://www.silicon.com/a50999 It is 40 years since the birth of what is widely credited as the first video game, since students at MIT created an Asteroids-like program called Spacewar. [05 Mar 2002]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64
Comment But I was glad for my baptism into home computing, as it turns out just around the time - Christmas 1982 - the Vic-20's demise would begin. The Vic-20 used a 1.0227MHz, 8-bit 6502A processor from MOS Technologies, designed in 1975 and produced by... [04 Feb 2002]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64
News But I was glad for my baptism into home computing, as it turns out just around the time - Christmas 1982 - the Vic-20's demise would begin. The Vic-20 used a 1.0227MHz, 8-bit 6502A processor from MOS Technologies, designed in 1975 and produced by... [01 Feb 2002]
Those were the days: Remembering the ZX Spectrum
Comment Sure, some readers reckon the BBC Micro or the Commodore 64 (though not Vic 20! Technologies that Time Forgot: The ZX Spectrum http://www.silicon.com/a50344 ) You've opened your hearts, telling us stories of late-night adolescent gaming, machines... [17 Jan 2002]
Technologies Time Forgot: The Vic-20 and the Commodore 64
Comment Jon Bernstein writes: I probably don't deserve to write silicon.com's eulogy to the Commodore 64 because I have a shameful secret. A secret, nearly 20 years later, I only now dare tell. I'd had my C64 - a Spectrum replacement - for just a couple of... [24 Dec 1982]
