From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
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   Subject: Re: William Shatner wants YOU to buy a VIC-20   
      
      
   "Graeme"  wrote in message   
   news:7529dbb0-8a02-4b4f-92e7-41e925afcae1@s15g2000yqs.googlegroups.com...   
   On Nov 20, 12:04 am, "Your Name"  wrote:   
   > > The VIC-20 *was* "the best thing since warp drive". We had one which was   
   > > later upgraded to a C64, and then my brother bought an Amiga 500 ... and   
   > > then Commodore was destroyed by inept and incompetent management, so we   
   > > moved to Apple Macs.   
   >   
   > Yeah, it was.  People forget how groundbreaking those systems were in   
   > their day.   
      
   Yep, who needs multiple gigabytes of RAM and GHz processors. We managed   
   perfectly well with single digit MHz chips and RAM measured in kilobytes ...   
   and many of the games were a lot more "playable" than today's almost   
   unending "Doom" clones.  :-)   
      
      
      
   > Doesn't Kirk have a Commodore system in his apartment in Star Trek II?   
      
   Kirk probably was a Commodore, in some timeline.   ;-)   
      
      
      
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