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Originally Posted by
Corona688
Like probably a lot of my generation, I grew up playing around with a Commodore 64. But it was pretty useless for anything except games.
Not for me.... .I wrote an entire geo-triangulation, distance and bearing (direction) program on the C64 (in Basic) that we used when we downloaded coordinates from our survey gear.
At the time, most small survey companies did not have these type of small computer programs and we won considerable business (back then) for having "advanced computing" capabilities.
Then, just like now, the younger generation is always finding new innovative ways to use the latest technology. Today, the C64 looks lame compared to modern computers, but back then, it was very cool and very useful for small business (or at least in our small land survey company).
We did finally port the code (well, "we" means me) to the TRS 80 because, as you say, the C64 not not an ideal business computer. However, I don't agree it was only good for games and useless otherwise... at least not for our young innovative land survey company..... we even had a fancy name that distinguished us from more traditional companies because we used small computers like the C64 and TRS 80, wrote our own software, and could therefore save our clients $$$.
The name of that legacy company was.....
Microsurvey
We named it Microsurvey because we used "microcomputers"... and at the time, that was a very new and innovative term.