Obama seriously unhappy with the Commodores.....

[HysteryDiagnosis]

chooses to keep Blackberry instead. Cites limited pocket size, slow processor, lack of style.....

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. Well there was a "portable" C-64

And I use that term loosely......

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Woah.... 5 and a quarter floppies... and a place for your gum and

cigs. They thought of everything.

[Berry Cool]

6. Oh wow, that reminds me of the "portable" Kaypro II!

Had a journalism school prof who had one of these. He was the first person on the Internet who I ever personally met--he was a CompuServe subscriber way back in 1982. Taught me the first things I ever knew about it through a couple of special classes he taught because he was convinced that this stuff he called "videotext" was the wave of the future. Now THAT's a visionary.

I'll never forget the night he brought his Kaypro II to class and "talked" on it to a fellow subscriber in West Virginia using the "CB simulator" (the CompuServe equivalent of IM). We were all amazed.

[Delphinus]

12. I *had* one of these!

OMG! The memories!

[47of74]

14. Haven't heard the CompuServe name in quite a while

[Paulie]

16. how about

Tymenet and Telenet. Compuserve had to run over something.

Advantis was pretty cool too with its history.

[47of74]

19. Didn't have a computer until 1990

So we didn't really know too much about the services around back then, it was just that CompuServe was one of the bigger ones that made the news somewhere.

[uppityperson]

20. I have one of those. Anyone want to buy it? Comes with a few games too.

barrels, aliens, snake, and word(something). Green letters on a black screen, oooo. Seriously, if anyone wants it, let me know and I'll be happy to send it off for shipping and, oh, something reasonable like a dollar.

[donco6]

17. I had a friend in college who had one of those.

They were hella-cool at the time.

[madrchsod]

3. timex-sinclair!

[surrealAmerican]

21. ooooh, the t/s1000.

That was my first computer: a full 2k of ram, and you could save programs on audio tape, all in beautiful black and white.

[Lagomorph]

4. They may have to monitor his blackberry...

...he's the President, after all.

Every note, every email, every communication.....

I'm sure he's an honest guy and won't have the same problem with keeping full and accurate records that has plagued so many of his predecessors.

[HereSince1628]

5. Obama needs a personal communications system that is truly personal

Something that will allow communications of the executive to be completely untraceable, untrackable and unarchivable.

Which is to say he needs something like the communications device used by Richard Cheney and David Addington.

Then again, maybe not.

[Lagomorph]

9. Well, actually, that's exactly what he doesn't need. nt

[HereSince1628]

11. As, I say maybe not

but then again............

[Lagomorph]

23. Want? Hell Yes!

Need? Not so much.

[cynatnite]

7. I thought you meant the music group...

:blush:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. Bingo... you get the gag.... excellent, no BRILLIANT!! n/t

[blogslut]

10. I know!

Thought I was gonna have to get unpleasant. Say what you will about Lionel Richie but the Commodores were the shit.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

13. Can I get an amen?? Yes they were.... n/t

[nadine_mn]

18. same here... cuz she's a Brick House

she's mighty mighty, letting it all hang out


sorry.... cant stop myself now

[autorank]

15. I would have donated my TI "Silent 700" with thermal paper. n/t

[JeffreyWilliamson]

22. I don't know why any Commodore fans should be upset...

According to a thread the other day, the White House computers are pretty much still Commodore 64's.