Commodore 64 Still Beloved After All These Years

techsoldaten writes "CNN is running a story about the Commodore 64 and how people are still devoted to it after all these years. "Like a first love or a first car, a first computer can hold a special place in people's hearts. For millions of kids who grew up in the 1980s, that first computer was the Commodore 64. Twenty-five years later, that first brush with computer addiction is as strong as ever.'"

Comments

I had two, and neither worked correctly

[ProteusQ]

Neither did the tape drive nor the disk drive. It was junk then, and nostalgia doesn't correct that in my case.

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[Kymermosst]

I was a die-hard C64 owner as a teenager. My buddy across the street had an Apple IIe and he was _always_ over at my house wanting to play my games.

Did he call you an hour ahead of time so by the time he got there your 1541 was just about done loading the game?

Your 64 may have had a better sound system, but that never made up for the slowness of the Commodore 1541 compared to an Apple Disk II.