Hi John,

>Don't you mean 6502? Didn't you *love* that chip?

That was the one in the VC20 and in the floopy drives (I think they were 1541, 1571 and 1581 (the really cool 3.5" drive! < g >). But yes, I wrote programs for 6502, as well. Since the floppy had its own processor and 256 bytes of free memory, I used it for dispatching a task onto several processors. And with 3 floppy disk drives, this was a quadro-CPU computer. < bg >

Yeah, it was a great computer. I had a RAM extension later that gave me 1.5 MB of RAM. Since memory swapping to that RAM extension was done with DMA, you could write in Basic a program to play 30 seconds film in 160x50 pixel resolution in black/white.

If I hadn't switched to a PC I'd probably bought one of the IDE adapter for the C64 and added a 320 MB hard disk. :)

Christof