http://robert.hurst-ri.us/2009/09/22/quikman-8k/ The life & times of an information systems engineer Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:09:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://robert.hurst-ri.us/2009/09/22/quikman-8k/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Rob Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:22:38 +0000 http://robert.hurst-ri.us/?p=295#comment-18 I suppose the theme for all of this is VIC 20 was different -- a trailblazer for affordable home computing -- and a flame should burn forever marking it as a pioneering leader in that space. So us "aging geeks" continue to pour what's left of our diminishing IQ into a piece of hardware that has less memory than one contact kept in a cellphone -- a genuine human attempt to perpetuate validation that VIC 20 could do "just about anything", despite its handicap against that next Commodore model which ultimately made a permanent mark in history as "people" know it. I suppose the theme for all of this is VIC 20 was different — a trailblazer for affordable home computing — and a flame should burn forever marking it as a pioneering leader in that space. So us “aging geeks” continue to pour what’s left of our diminishing IQ into a piece of hardware that has less memory than one contact kept in a cellphone — a genuine human attempt to perpetuate validation that VIC 20 could do “just about anything”, despite its handicap against that next Commodore model which ultimately made a permanent mark in history as “people” know it.

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