Vintage Photographs of People with Their Commodore 64 (2019)
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I don't think I have a photo of me with our C64, but here I am with a Vic20 in 1982:
Download it and reply and I'll remove it.
I had a much better setup back when I got my C64, but I still blame it for the back and vision problems I have now. It's a far cry from my current standing sit/stand desk with proper office chair and large, bracket-mounted monitor. I used to sit at a wobbly table, wrists at a terrible angle to reach the C64 keyboard, with a 17" CRT screen inches from my face. I'm surprised I didn't end up with brain cancer.
I pay zero attention to ergonomics and have zero problems.
Many years ago I was referred on HN to this page and it totally changed my outlook on ergonomics:
Thanks for sharing though! Really great info.
These are long term emotional states that cause real physical changes that show up on scans. Myself, I had an EMG that showed nerve damage as evidenced by a plateauing signal on the ulnar and median nerves. I slept with wrist braces for months. Then someone referred me to this and I’ve needed nothing for many years with taking no precautions.
Emotional states can very obviously cause physical changes - it’s why people blush for just one example. Or why people get sick to their stomach when they’re in anxious. This is just a less obvious psychogenic physical manifestation.
It might seem obvious, but it's not obvious that the causation doesn't go the other way instead - the physical changes cause the emotional states.
This is the James-Lange theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%E2%80%93Lange_theory
"while most would think the order of emotional experience would be that a person sees a bear, becomes afraid, and runs away, James thought that first the person has a physiological response to the bear, such as trembling, and then becomes afraid and runs. According to James, the physiological response comes first, and it is perceived as an emotion and followed by a reaction."
If we fancy some strong emotion, and then try to abstract from our consciousness of it all the feelings of its characteristic bodily symptoms, we find we have nothing left behind, no "mind-stuff" out of which the emotion can be constituted, and that a cold and neutral state of intellectual perception is all that remains. ...What kind of an emotion of fear would be left, if the feelings neither of quickened heart-beats nor of shallow breathing, neither of trembling lips nor of weakened limbs, neither of goose-flesh nor of visceral stirrings, were present, it is quite impossible to think. Can one fancy the state of rage and picture no ebullition of it in the chest, no flushing of the face, no dilatation of the nostrils, no clenching of the teeth, no impulse to vigorous action, but in their stead limp muscles, calm breathing, and a placid face? The present writer, for one, certainly cannot. The rage is as completely evaporated as the sensation of its so-called manifestations. - William James, What is an Emotion?, 1884
https://emotion.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1353/2020/...
I see so many photos of children (especially) where it looks like the photos were taken by a drone given how relatively tall the adult taking the photo is to the child.
I made a point of getting down to my children's level to take photos of them when they were young.
I suppose back in the 1950's or so when people had waist-level cameras we had less of the drone photography thing.
Instead, lay on the ground, shoot at an angle, get on top of a bench, etc. I can’t remember the source, but I once read a quote that summed this up:
“If you don’t look ridiculous while taking a photo, you aren’t being creative enough.”
There are common failure points on most Commodore 64s. PLA chips and memory chips are common and good news is there are modern replacements! 6526 and VIC-II chips are a little less common failures that don’t have modern replacements. They probably would if not for the recent chip shortage that killed some promising FPGA projects.
I got my first Commodore 64 in 1982 and my first modem (300 bps Mitey Mo) in 1985. In the past year I’ve gotten into component level repair of Commodore 64s in general but I’ll be tackling a non-working 1541 drive and a non-working 1702 monitor next. The Commodore 64 motherboard is actually pretty easy to repair using a Dead Test cartridge.
Fire it up! SD2IEC, pi1541 and Ultimate II+ are good 1541 drive replacements to use with a real Commodore 64 in ascending order of quality/price.
* The best single indicator of whether the photo was taken in the US/Canada/Germany or elsewhere is whether there is a disk drive next to the computer. Disk drive? Almost certainly US/Canada/Germany. Datasette with no disk drive? Likely somewhere else.
* The person with his feet up on the desk in photo 12 is watching TV. The Commodore 1701/1702 monitor is still prized today because of its excellent picture quality, including chroma/luma input from a Commodore 64 or 128. The box on the monitor that resembles a PCjr is a TV tuner box.
* Photo 9 shows a Commodore 1571 drive, designed for the Commodore 128, with the 64. When used with the 64 the 1571 is no faster than the 1541, but at least is not susceptible to the latter's head-knocking and inevitable alignment issues.
* Conversely, as discussed elsewhere, photo 15 shows a 128 being used with the Commodore 1541 drive. The 1541 is fully compatible with the 128 in 64 mode, but in 128 mode isn't compatible with the latter's burst mode or double-sided disks.
I'm on Google Fi VPN, but I don't think that really accounts for the nature of these ads.
This "article" is just another example of what makes the web terrible.
The sad thing is the content (vintage c64 pictures) would otherwise be interesting, but I guess the hope of making a few pennies off of some annoying ads is too much to resist.