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Originally Posted by 4691mls
I guess you and I are close to the same (over 50!) age. The Commodore 64 was around while I was in college but the only person I knew who had one was a computer science major.
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I learned about the Commodore 64 probably in the early mid-80's.
I've got what I think is an interesting story about what I had before that, but suffice it to say that before buying a Commodore, I got a computer from one of the many no-name companies vying to come out on top as far as producing the definitive home computer was concerned.
Programs loaded from a cassette drive! The monitor was a TV set of some kind (analog, regular definition, of course). There were virtually no ready-made programs for it, but there were plenty of programs out there, written by the computer geeks, for them. But you had to type all of the lines of code into your computer yourself.
A science teacher, who I knew well, taught a science class or two at a local high school. One class was in computers, and he loved the stuff. He was the one who put me onto getting a Commodore 64. To say that it was a world of improvement from the earliest model of desktop computers would be a gross understatement.