I have my Commodore 64 hooked up to my 6 Terabyte Network Attached Storage. For real.

I'm cheating a little, using an IDE64 and Ubuntu box as an intermediate, but it works quite well.

I did it as a "because you can" type of project. But it actually makes sharing files between my various machines (including the C64) really easy.

This type of tech is a central part of Robert J. Sawyer's sci-fi novel "The Terminal Experiment". Very good read, if a bit dated now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal_Experiment
http://www.sfwriter.com/exte.htm

Reminds me of

https://leapmotion.com/

(Was discussed on Slashdot a while back.)

What about you 5-10 years from now? I occasionally have to revisit code I wrote on past projects, and I write my comments and documentation with that mindset - that the target audience is myself, some years in the future. It's extra work but has paid off for me.

This is where services like Mailinator are invaluable. Just create a throwaway email address for each of all these stupid logins.

I take it a step, further, though: I own my own domain and have made it a practice of using a custom email address for each site I need to log in to, i.e. sitename@mydomain.com . This way, each login is unique *and* I can track who is giving out my email address as spam.

Yet the emails all go to one central inbox, so it's not inconvenient to get/search the confirmation messages.

This capability has been around for a while with Upverter. Good to see some competition, though.

http://upverter.com/

> What liquid agent is a terrorist going to use to blow up a plane? Napalm? Or just set the plane on fire?

Liquid nitroglycerin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_Airlines_Flight_434#The_bomb

There is is still a very active user community centered around the Commodore 64 (and to a lesser extent, the VIC-20 and other Commodore machines). There are active user groups, vendors, new hardware and software under development, you name it. Yes, in 2012.

Check out this link for a partial list of what's out there!

Stephen Hawking did this upgrade back in 1997 ;-)

http://www.theonion.com/articles/stephen-hawking-builds-robotic-exoskeleton,1629/

There's a the Nano SwinSID, a pin-compatible SID replacement made with an Atmel microcontroller.

http://www.nightfallcrew.com/05/04/2011/nano-swinsid-prototype-unboxing-and-first-impressions/

Buy yours here:

http://retro-donald.de/sinchai-shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=90

This is on my list next time I'm through the USA:

http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/places/nw01/index.shtml

The description reminded me of Upverter, which is a web-based circuit design tool that lets you collaborate and share schematics. CircuitBee's less interesting as it's display-only, but has its place.