Stories needed

[EMT City Administrator]

Anyone have an old commodore VIC 20?

[firedoc5]

Anyone have an old commodore VIC 20?

A buddy of mine had one of those. Don't know if he still has it. I do know he still has his old Odyssey home game system.

[Christopher.Collins]

I've got some of the stories of floppy somewhere.

Floppy discs and the original pinball games in pool halls... Doc, your really starting to hang yourself up to dry! lol

[Chief1C]

Have you read my book?

[paramedicmike]

I wonder if the OP is willing to *buy* stories from us instead of simply trying to get rich off of the experiences of others.

I suspect he's not really interested in buying them. I imagine he'd even then try to claim ownership of the stories so we couldn't even capitalize on our own experiences.

I don't have a Commodore 64. But my folks have a still functional Apple IIc.

-be safe

[Just Plain Ruff]

and I have an original IBM PCjr and a packard bell 386 I also programmed using punch cards and my first mainframe was a dec 100.

I remember tape drives and I remember having a trs80. Does that date me too?

[firedoc5]

I wonder if the OP is willing to *buy* stories from us instead of simply trying to get rich off of the experiences of others.

I suspect he's not really interested in buying them. I imagine he'd even then try to claim ownership of the stories so we couldn't even capitalize on our own experiences.

I don't have a Commodore 64. But my folks have a still functional Apple IIc.

-be safe

In the book about Viet Nam by Al Santoli that I read, at the beginning of each story gave the name of the person who submitted it, their rank, and area where the story took place. So it showed more or less how Santoli just compiled the stories and still gave credit to those who told their stories. I don't know the legalities of royalties for book sales. I'd say they were paid per story and then signed a release from having to be paid for each book sale. Something to look into with a publisher or lawyer I guess.

And also, the first computer class I took in high school, which was the first time it was even offered, was teaching BASIC language and programming. I still have some of my old books and notes, like they're going to help me now. :computer: