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   Hi Ben,   
      
    BC> I remember loading arcade games from cassette tape onto a VIC-20.  I   
    BC> also remember two friends playing games on a C=64, and i didn't get as   
      
   Steve typed in a lot of the stuff from Compute's Gazatte onto the   
   datasette for the first 18 months we had the C-64. Had a tv for the   
   monitor, a bit of frustration when I'd want to catch the late news. I'd   
   remind him about 9:50 (we were in TX, late news was 10:00) and he'd say   
   "just a minute". News would be over, Johnny Carson almost over before   
   he'd stop most nights.   
      
    BC> much   
    BC> screen time on the C=64 as on the VIC-20.  One friend had a floppy   
    BC> drive and the other was using cassette tape only.  But he was given a   
    BC> HUGE set of cassette tapes.  Whoever owned that C=64 before him   
    BC> collected a lot!   
      
   We didn't collect a lot of tapes; about 18 months after we got the   
   computer, Steve used some money from a government travel settlment to   
   get a disc drive and monitor.   
      
   RH> For the next time you get significant (clean) snow and have maple   
   syrup RH> on hand? We had 1.25" of snow last week, not enough to   
   harvest. Enough RH> to shut down the area for a couple of days tho. (G)   
      
    BC> Exactly.  So far this winter we had a dusting of snow one day.  I   
    BC> happened to bicycle through it to a dentist appointment.  Sadly for   
    BC> that dentist's business there was not enough snow to make candy in.   
      
   He will make up for it at the end of October. One of our local dentists   
   pays kids for their candy hauls, then sends the candy to deployed   
   troops.   
      
   RH> I remember it too. We got our first TV when I was in 4th grade, only one   
   RH> channel. A few years later my dad reworked the lead in (no antenna, just   
   RH> a wire from the main line) wire and we got 2 channels. When I came home   
   RH> from college for Easter break, my folks had tied into the NYC cable,   
   RH> with one local channel. IIRC, the ads for Almond Joy and Mounds were in   
   RH> the days when we got just 2 channels.   
      
    BC> When i was a kid, my parents went without a TV because they thought it   
    BC> was a bad influence.  But we brought a TV in the house for that   
    BC> VIC-20, and slowly began to use it as a TV too.  I personally think it   
    BC> was good for me to have had limited exposure to media, but i didn't   
    BC> see it that way when i was a kid.  :-)   
      
   We got our first one about a year before the JFK assasination; that was   
   my first exposure to an extensive news coverage event. Did somewhat know   
   about the world beyond our small town because Dad bought the NY Times   
   every day.   
      
      
   ---   
   Catch you later,   
   Ruth   
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