[mdlug] OT: C64 anniversary

[Raymond McLaughlin]

Ingles, Raymond wrote:
>> From: Jeff Hanson
> 
>> Thought some of you old geezers would be interested.  I don't have
>> much experience with C64 because I followed the Atari and Apple II
>> paths in my early years.
>> http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/12/07/c64/index.html
> 
> 
>  TI99/4A here. Nice machine in some ways, but... quirky.
> 
>> I wonder if Vista will run on it.  How many floppies that would take?
> 
>  Well, you wouldn't want to run Home Premium or anything like that. For
> just "Vista Home Basic", it wants a "20GB hard drive with at least 15GB
> of available space". Let's be generous and assume it only uses 15GB.
> 
>  Now, the most common C64 floppies could hold ~170KB of data per side.
> So, let's see:

Thanks for doing the math Ray! My self, I just thought that if they
wanted to add a new circle to hell, for instance for spammers and
phishers, ...