[Discuss] Free Commodore 64

[Darren Duncan]

That sounds like a challenge.  I had the impression that Linux enthusiasts 
wanted to make it run on every imaginable device, if nothing else than to show 
it can be done.  Question is, how much can you strip out to fit on hardware 
without it being Linux anymore. -- Darren Duncan

On 2015-08-18 10:06 PM, Cy Schubert wrote:
> Just Googled, Linux won't run on it. :(
>
> ~Cy
>
> On 08/18/2015 18:21, Murray Strome wrote:
>> I have a Commodore 64, Vic20 with extra memory (maybe more than one of each). I
>> am not sure, but I might also have an old Atari. If someone organizes such a
>> show, I could probably loan what I have
>> Murray
>> On 2015-08-17 01:40 PM, Stacey F wrote:
>> > VLUG-
>> >
>> > I just plugged in, and turned on my old (first) computer, a Hyperion. It cost
>> > me some $4,405 in 1983. It still works, just as it did when I bought it.
>> >
>> > JFTHOI, I ran a simulation of my two favourite lottery numbers for about a
>> > million years on this Hyperion in GWbasic. It concluded that it would take at
>> > the minimum after about three or more simulations about 34,000 years to win
>> > the lottery.
>> >
>> > There would possibly be a real interest in a show of old computers. I would
>> > most certainly bring my old Hyperion, and if I can find the parts, the Timex
>> > Sinclair, WITH the extra RAM module.
>> >
>> > Cheers, Stacey F.
>> >
>> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> > *From: *"Adam Parkin"<pzelnip at gmail.com>
>> > *To: *discuss at vlug.org
>> > *Sent: *Monday, August 17, 2015 11:35:55 AM
>> > *Subject: *Re: [Discuss] Free Commodore 64
>> >
>> > Your definition of free differs from mine as the ad indicates it's $30.
>> >
>> > On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 7:27 PM, Andrew Burgess<greydragon at gmail.com
>> >  <mailto:greydragon at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     Its funny but I have a c64 and power supply but no printer or floppy drives.
>> >
>> >     On Aug 16, 2015 5:45 PM, "KF" <kf at foord.ca  <mailto:kf at foord.ca>> wrote:
>> >
>> >         In case anyone is interested…
>> >
>> >http://www.usedvictoria.com/classified-ad/FREE-Commodore-64_25795727