A 25th Anniversary worth remembering

This is a 25th Anniversary that is worth remembering. Did anybody else out there have a Commodore 64? With that clunky tape drive... You would spend hours programming a game in on basic, then come to 'save it to tape' and something would go wrong with your tape recorder... In those days if you wanted to 'pirate' a game you needed a tape to tape recorder .... Ahhhh those where the days.

Here's the story from CNN.

Like a first love or a first car, a first computer can hold a special place in people's hearts. For millions of kids who grew up in the 1980s, that first computer was the Commodore 64. Twenty-five years later, that first brush with computer addiction is as strong as ever.

Millions of Commodore 64s were sold in the 1980s.

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"There was something magical about the C64," says Andreas Wallstrom of Stockholm, Sweden.

He remembers the day he first laid eyes on his machine back in 1984.

"My father brought it home together with a tape deck, a disk drive, a printer, and a couple of games...I used to sneak home during lunch to play [on it] with my friends." read more here....

PS. I had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum (with the rubber keys) before I had one of these. My dad had a 300baud accoustic coupler modem to dial into his offices belltell network. I used to use it to access the BBS's and 'phreak' the old Telkom (then post office) exchanges to make free phone calls... Yes, we all have a life of crime locked somewhere in a closet.


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