I can’t believe my eyes. Cam Hunt just sent me this bit of news and a YouTube video he recorded of this historic event:

The Personal Computer Museum is proud to make history on Saturday, February 20, 2010 with Twitter and the Commodore VIC-20. You too can be part of history as we put one of the lowest powered personal computers onto the Internet, and more specifically, with Twitter. The software is on cassette tape and runs on an unexpanded VIC-20 with only 5K of RAM. To put this in perspective, an average PC today runs at 3000 MHz and contains 2,097,152 KB. That means the average computer today has 419,430 times the memory power and at least 3000 times the speed of the VIC-20!

One of the first personal computers I ever used (as connected to a black and white television) is now on Twitter. Well, not the actual computer I used – but one from the series.

Yes, a Commodore VIC-20 is now on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/vintagepc/status/9388424599

Looking forward to seeing other vintage computers getting onto Twitter, too (which the museum says will happen in a matter of time).

Take a look at that cassette tape!