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 Message 861 
 Jay Harris to Davew 
 Re: My First Computers 
 09 Nov 20 08:46:46 
 
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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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