My father used to make 104 dollars a week working at a cleaners in 1983. It was right around then when my and my brother asked him for a commadore 64. It was 200 dollars. At first he bought us the unit, then we found out we could not do anything with it because we needed a tape or floppy drive. Dad bought the tape drive, waste of money, then he bought us the floppy drive and monitor for the C64. Each of those were 200 dollars also. Things were fun, but then he bought us the 300 baud modem. We were downloading games for the C64 day and night from local BBS systems! We then joined C-TUG.
I also played around with Paper Clip and did a bit of basic programming. Besides moving sprites around I wrote a random number generator for the Lotto (California).
Memories....
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My father used to make 104 dollars a week working at a cleaners in 1983. It was right around then when my and my brother asked him for a commadore 64. It was 200 dollars. At first he bought us the unit, then we found out we could not do anything with it because we needed a tape or floppy drive. Dad bought the tape drive, waste of money, then he bought us the floppy drive and monitor for the C64. Each of those were 200 dollars also. Things were fun, but then he bought us the 300 baud modem. We were downloading games for the C64 day and night from local BBS systems! We then joined C-TUG. I also played around with Paper Clip and did a bit of basic programming. Besides moving sprites around I wrote a random number generator for the Lotto (California). Memories ....