Denial

I am a musician by trade, in the churchy area of music: Choir, handbells, and the expectation of being able to turn out arrangements for kazoo, clarinet, tuba and viola in the blink of an eye, so notation programs and audio software are part and parcel of what I do. The first computer I learned inti...

Ok the real question here is....who is the old fart over 45 here :P Okay, I confess. I'm a ways over 45...52, in fact. The only PET I ever saw was on a rerun of the "Buck Rogers" TV show, which they were attempting to pass off as a 25th-century computer. I bought my VIC secondhand in 1983...

Hey, fellow Denialists,

I was wondering if anyone has seen/played the rare VIC game "Barrel Jumper," published by CSA (Computer Software Associates?). I knew the author--wonderful company in a bar--and could never afford the software back in the day.

The Ol' Maestro

Curious to know if your wife was actually able to write her doctoral dissertaion on the VIC-20. That would be impressive in itself. Sorry to say, no. When we bought the VIC secondhand, she was supposedly working on her comprehensive exams, but failed three out of the four. Reeling from that, she op...

I am a middle aged musician--a conductor wannabe, hence the name. The VIC-20 was my first computer in the mid-80s. My ex-wife insisted that it would help her in writing her doctoral dissertation. I was dead set against it--computers were evil, they mis-sent past due notices, blah, blah, blah. The fo...