Subj : Re: My First Computers
To   : Davew
From : Jay Harris
Date : Mon Nov 09 2020 08:46:46

On 07 Nov 2020, Davew said the following...
 
 Da> My first computers were:

 Da> Commodore VIC-20

My family's first computer when I was growing up was the Commodore 64.  We had the whole kit & caboodle including the monitor with built in speaker, dot matrix printer, joystick and cassette drive.  Everything except the modem.

We had a few cartridge games (which I liked because they loaded instantly), but we also had the cassette drive with a bunch of games loaded on several cassettes.

I remember our local library had books full of basic code printed out, including some games.  I remember spending way too much time typing these games out and then saving the code to one of my tapes.

Later on after we got an IBM Aptiva (486 DX2/66) the commodore monitor was moved into my room where I hooked our Super Nintendo up to it.  Not sure whatever happened to the C64 itself.


Jay

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