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Originally Posted by nekokami
Were any of us not strange little kids? (Er... are any of us not now?)
I sort of vaguely remember getting worksheets (they were called mimeographs, Z-chan),
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Actually, those blue sheets were produced by ditto, not mimeography. Mimeo was a seperate process. There was also hecktography.
Old time SF fans got remarkably creative with them, as mimeo was the preferred choice for producing fanzines. I remember one fan ed who produced a mimeographed fanzine, and used heckto to provide an additional color overlay on the cover. (I knew another who claimed he could mimeograph legibly on toilet paper, and I could believe it given the quality of his work.)
Gestetner had a booth at Torcon 2, a World SF Con in the '60's, where fans could use the machines to create publications at the con. The Gestetner reps had little to do - the fans knew as much as they did about running the equipment.
Schools were fond of ditto reproduction, and used it the way photo copiers get used now, but the dittoed pages did not have good shelf life. You didn't want to use it for anything you might want to read next year.
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And my first computer was also a C64-- unless you count the VT100 in the basement with the 300 baud modem line to a VAX. 
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Mine was an AT&T 3B1 Unix workstation (big brother of their Unix-PC line). I didn't get an actual PC till rather later. I did log time on a friend's C64. Nothing wrong with it a faster disk drive interface wouldn't have addressed.
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Dennis