Back To The Commodore 64

admin — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:51:32 +0000

A few people I knew had Commodore 64s and I remember envying the software they had – mostly a cousin who lived out of state and we visited once per year. He had TONS of software - what seemed like an amazing amount to me back then.

I saved up and purchased another Commodore 64. I had some money left, enough for either a 1541 disk drive or a bunch of floppy disks – but not both. The yearly trip to visit my cousin was coming up, so I bought disks. Needless to say I came home with over 100 disks full of software, but no disk drive! It took a month or two more but I eventually bought a 1541 disk drive and finally got rolling.

I loved my Commodore 64 and used it for years, until….

A Little Backstory… My First Computers

admin — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:48:08 +0000

Here’s a little backstory. My first computer was a Commodore 64 – loved it, but a disk drive was not in the budget at the time. I remember the hours spent typing in programs from magazines, the pain of finding mistakes when the program didn’t run properly, and the joy of actually seeing the program run! But without a disk drive to save to, the joy was short-lived. I had a game or two on cartridge but I really wanted something I could save to.

Then I saw the Coleco Adam on sale. I still remember the commercial I fell in love with – a kid rolling his computer chair along his desk to a different part of the computer and saying “Engage the radar tracking device!”. It looked awesome on TV, and the whole system including cassette drive and printer was almost the same price as the Commodore 64 I had! Plus it played all those awesome ColecoVision cartridges. So, the Commodore 64 went back to the store and I came home with a Coleco Adam.

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A Little Backstory… My First Computers