You ask what I do with my C128? Well, I've produced Christmas cards, birthday cards, letters, labels, kept records, diaries, made lists, written some programs, drawn schematics, learned a lot about computers in general, wasted time, played music, played games, communicated with people all over, and for awhile Susan and I even started and ran a small business on a C64 and a C128. She figured out a terrific bookkeeping system using geoCalc. Right now I'm using geoWrite 128 to compose this page in HTML, and proofing it using Maurice Randall's Wave128. I keep a small library of HTML tags in a geoWrite file that I use as a template.
Like many other Commodore users, I'm sort of addicted to new 8-bit stuff, although it's taken me longer to aquire some of it. My working system now includes a flat C128, a 1902a monitor, a 1581, an FD-4000, a 1571, 1.5 meg REU, 16 meg. RAMLink, an 85 meg hard drive. Hanging off the hard drive I have an Iomega Zip drive and a 4x CD-ROM. I also have a Turbo232, a SuperCPU128 and a U. S. Robotics 33.6k modem. For printers I have a QMS PS-410 level 1 Postscript/PCL and an Epson 740 Inkjet. These are shared on a network of sorts with another type of computer across the room. I keep them apart since they like to argue with each other all the time.
I have been a member of the Boston Computer Society, until its demise several years ago, available to any Commodore user for help or information when I could provide it. It has been fun and gratifying, giving back the help that had been given me when I was just learning these machines. Now I'm able, through this Web site, to do it on the Internet. I'm into hardware hacking and modifications. Not much of the Commodore equipment I've owned has escaped my soldering iron!
Geoff Sullivan 2/2001