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Old 10-18-08, 05:49 PM   #47
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Originally Posted by goldorak
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And I once had a Commodore VC-20 with 3.5 KB
Yours must have been broken.. mine had 5kb.
Good ol' datasette times and software trading using an anonymous P.O box..

whoops.. I didn't say that!
Actually he's right.
I had a vic 20 and once booted you had the on screen message "3150 bytes free" or something like that.
Not 5kBytes thats for sure.
Maybe in a later revision they added 2kB :rotfl:
How Subman described it is correct..

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...It came with 5 KB RAM, but 1.5 KB were used by the system for various things, like the video display...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20
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