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Those were the good ole days...
I remember the excitement of our brand new Commodore 64 computer. A full 64 K of memory, a "less than EGA" monitor, and how proud I was that "I" had a 5-1/4" single-sided floppy diskette drive (unlike those poor souls stuck with that ole' outdated cassette tape drive). And my first sucessful "hack" trick was to use a hole punch and "notch out" the floppy so as to use the OTHER side for data!!! Boy, was "I" cheating the system and saving big bucks!

On a more "serious" note though... I am still amazed at what those C64 programmers could do within 64K of memory... nothing short of a miracle. Long live the memories of the Commodore 64... it is the main reason I am in the computer business today... on second thought, curse the dang thing! happy
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