Well, the "good old days" are here again! If you were one of the countless BBSers back in the day and want to relive some memories, head on over to Citadel 64 BBS on telnet at:

citadel64.thejlab.com:6400

For the full Commodore color graphics experience, I recommend Novaterm 9.6 if running real Commodore gear, else CGTerm if using Windows.

Running Color64 BBS v8 on a real C64, 1541, 1581, 1702, and a Turbo232 interface cartridge.

Cheers!

Thank you, Jack, for your significant and underappreciated contribution to the computing field. I and many others like me cut our teeth coding for the Commodore 64 and have since made our own valuable contributions. You will be missed.

It is interesting just how many of today's supposedly "new and revolutionary" products and methods of applying technology are rooted in the variety of those early days. Standardizing on one platform appears on the surface to be more efficient, but may not be beneficial to the trade or the individual developer long term. In fact, blindly doing things the same way time after time can obscure better ways of doing things. I appreciate the fact that by coding for many of the systems the parent mentions, I have gained perspective on different design and architecture decisions. This has proved invaluable when working on a number of software development projects throughout the years. Variety is good.

I am not so sure that the Old Republic Jedi had this right. Maybe they *thought* that midichlorians imparted Force powers, but it was actually more of a correlative effect than causative. Maybe it was even a way to insure that Anakin (who was most likely created by Sidious' former master) was chosen by the Jedi Council for training. Interesting fictional conspiracy theory...

Yes, good times! Brings back memories...

MOD PARENT UP! I totally agree with the abstraction layer strategy. It has saved my team from "improvements", deprecations, and basic changes in the development environment vendor's flavor of the week. Most of the time with commercial vendors these "improvements" are driven by the vendor's desire to sell more licenses and training.