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Flabio wrote:
venusian wrote:That wasn't a business app, that was a marketing exercise only. 'Twas tres crapola.
I wrote an Action Force fanfic on it... I thought I was being well cool.
You're the only person who wrote anything on it other than
typer wrote: This is a test of the wordprocessor on the Commo ...where the fuck has the start of my sentence gone?
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Would you buy a Texas Instruments from this man?
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kalmar wrote:But really, was the C64 even vaguely of the faintest bit of use as a business tool?
My Dad used our Commodore 64 (purchased sometime around 1983/84) for doing his small business accounts on, right up until he bought a Windows 98 PC. 8O
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venusian wrote:
Flabio wrote:The Plus/4 even had a suite built in...
Cough cough cough.

That wasn't a business app, that was a marketing exercise only. 'Twas tres crapola.
I have a +4, the built in apps are, indeed, shit.
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Gorecki wrote:
kalmar wrote:But really, was the C64 even vaguely of the faintest bit of use as a business tool?
My Dad used our Commodore 64 (purchased sometime around 1983/84) for doing his small business accounts on, right up until he bought a Windows 98 PC. 8O
Cool :) My Dad still uses my old BBC B for sending faxes, has done for about 15 years 8O

But still, an "executive" having any actual use for the C64?
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But still, an "executive" having any actual use for the C64?
Scene Demos?
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betamax_wizard wrote:
mISTER_jOHNNO wrote:I would buy anything that the mighty Kirk holds his hands out to... but that
last geezer by the pool just didnt cut it... He looked kinda dodgy.. :)
Even Tekwar? 8O
I was drunk last night... I withdraw that comment.. :)
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venusian wrote:
Flabio wrote:
venusian wrote:That wasn't a business app, that was a marketing exercise only. 'Twas tres crapola.
I wrote an Action Force fanfic on it... I thought I was being well cool.
You're the only person who wrote anything on it other than
typer wrote: This is a test of the wordprocessor on the Commo ...where the fuck has the start of my sentence gone?
This board makes my sides hurt with laughter. Or rickets.

Grrr, I wonder why I can't find a C64 anywhere around here: they made like thirty million of the damn things but the best I can do is some slimy type selling his for $70 in horribly damaged condition, whereas I found a rare-as-hell Amiga 1200HD in good condition sitting in a second hand store for $6.50, and two Atari 800XLs at the flea market.

I am so very confused with the classic computer collecting.
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plus4/c16 was shit for business but GEOS on the 64/128 was better than anything Microsoft could do with windows upto v3 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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kalmar wrote:Hahahah! I remember the exec-64 vaguely. And that's a hilarious advert.

But really, was the C64 even vaguely of the faintest bit of use as a business tool? I mean.. email? spreadsheets? documents? It's not like the '64 had an office package of any kind.. Executive toy, more like.
My dad and I used CreativeCalc and CreativeWriter for many years on our 64. I did almost all of my high school homework assignments on CreativeWriter, it was quite good for word processing IMO.

BTW, does anyone have a .d64 of CreativeWriter? I would really love to mess around with this old WP again, but I haven't been able to find a copy of it to use on CCS64.
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*shudder*

His boobs and belly are smiling at me.
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Arv wrote:
But still, an "executive" having any actual use for the C64?
Scene Demos?
Ah, I always wondered what uber coders looked like.
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