Saturday, 19 January 2008
I miss the Commodore 64
In an earlier post, I mentioned the fact that my parents had a Commodore 64 which they bought in 1985 and I last used in 1990. I loved that computer. I only ever played games on it of course. Really cool 1980's games. You actually had to type certain information which was unique to each game in order to load it up, something children don't do any more. The disks really were floppy disks, you actually bend them and they were bigger than floppy disks that we know today, although we do not actually use them any more either. I remember they had a hole in the middle. Does anyone else remember seeing one of these? We lived in New York then so maybe they were only in America. We also had these games that were in the form of a cartridge that you stuck in at the back of the computer. The last time I used the computer I think was 1990 when we moved house. we never actually got rid of it but we packed it up in a box and moved it with us every time we moved country. I wonder if it would still work or not? I hope so. From 1990 until 2001 we had no computer. It was weird to have one again, this time an apple mac that we got cheap. The old Commodore was my first experience of a computer and a happy one, slow to make work but I still feel a sentimental attachment to it.
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