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Originally Posted by covfam
my miracle gadget was my Commodor vic-20 computer in 1980 when my father bought one for the house and i learned to use it to make art, then in 1982 he bought a commodor 64 for me for my 9th birthday and my first Computer role playing game was Telengard, wich further opened my eyes to Ultima,Bards tale,Wizardry,Might & magic. from that day forward i barely watch tv/movies my primary form of entertainment is computer games, book reading, and swimming,
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My husband in 1980 bought the Commodore Vic 20 for our oldest son...10 years old at the time and he learned to do a little programming on it. So for Christmas we handed down the Vic 20 to son #2, 8 years old, and got son #1 the Commodore 64; Granddad got them used desks and chairs to go with the computers. They just had a ball with those things...especially after we got modems for them.
Today those two boys have PhD.'s...youngest of them has one from Harvard (and now teaching at Harvard).
We often wonder how the boys would have turned out if a co-worker of my husband's hadn't told him about this wonderful "Vic 20" he was getting his son for a gift inspiring my husband to do the same.
A vivid memory for me is the huge fights that used to break out over using the phone line when each would try to get online at the same time.
