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C= Only User
Lord Ronin from Q-Link
<m.k.a.> Sensei David O.E. Mohr
Take a moment to look around you.
Yeah, right now! What do you see? What
type on computer, monitor, disks, and
the like?
When I do that, I see stacks of
disks for the 1541 and 1581 drives
piled on the desk. A CMD hard drive
and FD-2000. Old CD ROM for the CD ROM
Commander. Books on things for and
about the Commodore. Over 79 disk
boxes cramed with disks. Some tapes
for the datasettte. Even a few old
cartidges of games. In fact that is
from two locations:
the system at the house,
a 128, and
one in the shop, a 64c.
Notice that I didn't mention any
other type of computer? Good reason
for that; I don't have any other
computers. No wait, that isn't true. I
have a Vic-20, C-16, Plus/4, Amiga
1200, a CD/TV and a SX-64, in storage.
Even with those additions, you get the
picture that I am not talking about
the winbox.
It isn't easy to stand up for what
you like against the herd of sheep and
lemmings. You know the type. The ones
that have to have every new gadget
that comes along.
Yet here I am, using a 20+ year
old computer and nothing else -- even
with the flack from others and
outright discriminatory acts. You may
ask why am I not using what others
use. Why stay with the Commodore? Not
as a hobby computer or in retro
emulation -- but as the prime/only
computer.
That was the question that I was
asked again recently, that prompted
the idea for this report, as my
reasons, likes and responses to others
might be of some help to you, the
reader, in your Commodore experiece.
Hope that I am not the only one
left in the world that only uses
Commodore-Only. I know at least one
member of the local users group that
also only uses the Commodore.
As to why? Multipart answer for
this question. Generally I just reply
with, "Why not?" letting the other
start off the debate.
Most often they say, "You can't go
on the Internet." That brings up
things like NovaTerm, Desterm, Cameron
Kaiser's term program and of course
Wave. I do it as a one two punch:
before they can recover, I put in
Contiki, an ethernet card and Retro
Replay (both from Jens). Then I throw
in, for good measure, the JOS and
Wings programs.
Usually, they back pedal a bit,
then go with the bit about not seeing
the graphics. I counter that having no
graphics only means I can go through
the sites faster. Don't get the
pop-ups and can download any picture
that I want for later viewing.
Next, they will say that there is
nothing on the net for the C=. We know
that is false and only shows the lack
of understanding and degree to which
the speaker has been socially
programmed.
One thing they will state is that
no one is making any thing for the C=.
My response has changed to that one.
Though I still ask them what bearing
that has on the use of the computer, I
follow that up with a list of things
from Maurice Randall and Click Here
Software. Bruce Thomas's Geos CD. Even
though I am not a fan of it, the
Commodore One. And of course LOADSTAR.
My debate attack then follows up
with the simple fact that this
computer is upgradable and about 100%
backwards compatible for over 20
years. Then I ask them point blank:
"Can you say the same for your
platform?"
At this point, they will either
shake their heads in disbeliefe -- or
shake hands with a special computer
user.
Happy Commodore computing.
LR
[DAVE'S AFTERWORD]: Our good Lord
Ronin has made an excellent case for
Commodore-Only computing. As Fender
Tucker once wrote, "The Commodore is
for those who are not so sure the
computer revolution is a [good]
thing."
I have been working with the concept
of "progress" recently, the foundation
of all modernity. The questions I have
to ask is, "Where does progress stop?"
and "Is all progress really a [good]
thing."
Commodore people have an existential
answer for these questions. Sever
answers.
Let us hear [yours]!
DMM