The C-64 was more fun to program because it was my first experience. Personal computers were new for the masses and the idea of being able to manipulate little dots of light on your monitor was incredible to a 10 year old. I copied out the 'bouncing ball' program in the back of the user guide and then spent weeks deciphering each line to figure out what it did. My friend and I would argue for hours over why they called it PEEK and POKE. We found out all of this later of course but it was fun to discover it. Later, we had our first online experience by typing to each other on our 300 baud modems! And who can forget their first taste of corporate cynicism when they found out they could turn a single sided 5 1/4" Floppy into a double sided disk with a hole puncher!
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The C-64 was more fun to program because it was my first experience. Personal computers were new for the masses and the idea of being able to manipulate little dots of light on your monitor was incredible to a 10 year old. I copied out the 'bouncing ball' program in the back of the user guide and then spent weeks deciphering each line to figure out what it did. My friend and I would argue for hours over why they called it PEEK and POKE. We found out all of this later of course but it was fun to discover it. Later, we had our first online experience by typing to each other on our 300 baud modems! And who can forget their first taste of corporate cynicism when they found out they could turn a single sided 5 1/4" Floppy into a double sided disk with a hole puncher!