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[sigma7]

For the past 20 years a Commodore 64 was instrumental in displaying the departures and arrivals at the Dortmund train station. Now the C64 has died, the display has gone black, and the station has a big problem: a new display system would cost over 3 million Euros.

Twenty frickin' years? Whoa. I'm all awash with nostalgia....

Edit: PressPlayOnTape is a Commodore 64 revival band. And there's a lot more at RKO. Awe. Some.

Comments

[alexlucard.livejournal.com]

Holy shit. A Commodore 64!

[daethkow.livejournal.com]

TUFF DAMAGE TO TRISTA!!

TRISTA IS TOAST!!

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Dude, I've spent many, many an hour looking online for that particular Godzilla game. I still have enough 1337 sk117z that I could recreate the Trista sprite, too.

You know, even more frighteningly....

Oh, no, now I have a project for the weekend. You do have Gmail, right? There may be a massive file heading your way soon. moo hoo haa haa

[daethkow.livejournal.com]

I'll have to dust it off, but yes I do. And broadband. Heh.

[opheliasclone.livejournal.com]

So in 20 years, nobody could be bothered to save the program on disk? Believe it or not, you can still get vintage Commodore 64s on the market.

[bishop282.livejournal.com]

Awesome! I tried to get my C-64 working a few years ago, but the disk drive wouldn't work. Still use Vice every once in a while.

Visited the link and it turns out it wasn't a C-64 but an Intel System 310 running Xenix on a 286. Still ancient equipment though.