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Date: Mon, 7-May-84 21:44:00 EDT
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Nf-From: uiucdcs!miller    May  7 20:44:00 1984

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uiucdcs!miller    May  7 20:44:00 1984

"Incidently, I would NOT get a Commodore 64 or Vic 20 with a modem and use it
as a terminal.  Many friends of mine did this, and they end up coming over
to my room and using our Hazeltine 1500 instead of theirs because the
quality isn't that great for extensive programming."

It depends on what you want.  Sure, the c64 has its limitations.  But then
again, for a couple of hundred bucks I'm satisfied.  I can run things like vi
on my c64 with no problems.  My biggest mistake was getting a 300, rather than
1200, baud modem.  Commodore's big (only?) advantage is that it will give you
*something* for little cash.

"All that stuff about not doing well in college because you 'lack the
necessary computer skills' is baloney."

I couldn't agree more.  I really dislike Commodore's commercials, especially
the one with the train and the implied message that "if you don't buy a
computer for little Johnny, he's going to flunk out of college and it's going
to be YOUR fault".  After viewing that, a friend remarked that no doubt many
more kids have flunked out of school *because* they owned a computer than those
that flunked because they didn't.  Face it, 90% of the people spend 90% of
their time on a micro playing games.

A. Ray Miller
Univ Illinois