[ale] C64 turn 30 years old this week.

[Ryan Neily]

You are lucky!  I had the Atari 400 with the membrane keyboard that was unusable.  

I freaked my parents for our first trip to Toys-R-Us for my first cartridge game. The salesperson kept telling me that the Basic Programming cartridge and its 400 page manual was not game!  I brought it home anyways, and the rest is history. 

On Jan 6, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> My first was an Atari 800.  Alas, I donated it a few years ago after I
> realized it had been sitting in a box unused for well over a decade, and
> I had no reason to believe it would ever be unboxed.
> 
> -derek
> 
> Denny Chambers <dchambers at bugfixer.net> writes:
> 
>> The C64 was my first computer. I still have mine, and it still works.
> 
> -- 
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