Saturday while shopping at a flea market in Tulsa I stumbled across a Vic-20 computer. Vic-20s were released in 1981 by Commodore, and were the company’s predecessor to the popular Commodore 64 computer. Where the C64 had 64k of RAM, the Vic-20 had 4k. For the sake of comparison my laptop, with two gigs, has approximately 500x that amount. I never owned a Vic-20 before in my life. I have no sentimental attachment to them whatsoever and I’m not sure I’ve ever even physically touched one before. So of course I bought it.<\/p>\n

When passing by an item such as this, a normal person might say “oh, that’s interesting,” but the packrat thinks, “wow, that’ll look great in my collection!” Now, “collection” is a funny word for most packrats. My garage is knee deep from various piles of junk lying around. Oh wait, I forgot — it’s not junk, it’s THE COLLECTION. A normal person thinks of a collection as a bunch of items on display in some fashion. Not the packrat. For me, a collection is all the stuff I own that’s stored in various places (garage, upstairs, attic, shed). Most of it is not on display. Most of it is not even easily findable at this point. <\/p>\n

So, $25 later, I am now the proud (and slightly psychotic) owner of a Commodore Vic-20, along with a dozen games. More than likely the machine will never removed from its box, never be hooked up, and the games will never be played. But hey, at least I now have one for the collection!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday while shopping at a flea market in Tulsa I stumbled across a Vic-20 computer. Vic-20s were released in 1981 by Commodore, and were the company’s predecessor to the popular Commodore 64 computer. Where the C64 had 64k of RAM, the Vic-20 had 4k. For the sake of comparison my laptop, with two gigs, has approximately 500x that amount. I never owned a Vic-20 before in my life. I have no sentimental attachment to them whatsoever and I’m not sure I’ve ever even physically touched one before. So of course I bought it. When passing by an item such as… (read more)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robohara.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}