Ye Olde Commodore VIC-20 PC to Join Twitter
Ye Olde Commodore VIC-20 PC to Join Twitter
Posted 02/16/2010 at 5:08pm
| by Ryan Whitwam
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Thirty years ago the Commodore VIC-20 was real screamer of a machine. It boasted a 1.02MHz processor and 5KB of RAM. Don’t laugh, that’s over one-million whole hertz of processing power. The VIC-20, introduced in 1980, had its time in the sun until it was discontinued in 1985. Now The Personal Computing Museum is bringing the once proud VIC-20 into the twenty-first century in the least dignified way possible, it’s going to send a tweet.
On February 20th the tape drive of the Commodore VIC-20 will be fed a program called Tweetver allowing it to send out a tweet. The museum says this about making history by getting “one of the lowest-powered personal computers” on Twitter. We imagine it’s more about getting publicity, but we’re cynics.
You are all invited to come to the museum to watch the VIC-20 do its thing. Or if you prefer to catch all the fun from home, the museum’s Twitter feed is technically where all the action is happening anyway.
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ogremustcrush
February 19, 2010 at 11:04pm
Seems like a pretty simple thing to do really. Just have the machine dump a text string over a serial interface to something a tad bit more modern that actually handles the network interface and sending of the post off to Twittter. Hacking a network interface and TCP/IP stack and http protocol into the VIC20 would be much more of a pain.
bikerbub
February 17, 2010 at 2:13pm
it'll probably take all night though XD.
i remeber my sister used to use my dad's old Dell Latitude laptop with a 500Mhz processor and 256Mb ram. She would play flash games and it would take like 15 minutes just to load the page.
then i followed the DIY instructions and made a picture frame out of it for my mom for christmas! :D
Havok
February 16, 2010 at 6:31pm
Couldn't this cause one of those space time continuum disruption things and cause the very fabric of the universe to tear apart?
CLICK.
arch-chancellor
February 16, 2010 at 5:22pm
Whenever I am out driving and see even a car from the seventies all cherried out, it makes me happy to see that someone still cares old technology.
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