Sunday, 22 July 2018
My dad was a farmer who needed a tool to aid him in his farm accounting.
My dad was a farmer who needed a tool to aid him in his farm accounting. So he first purchased a vic 20 he saw an ad for in a DX Listening magazine, then a c64 when it came out, then a diskdrive to better organize. He also found friends to swap disks with and despite he only played text adventure games he swapped on behalf of us kids. So I grew up with a plethora of games despite the fact that if we had a Nintendo I would probably just get one game for christmas and one for my birthday and everything in between would just be borrowing from friends which would have sucked. When my dads swap buddies went to Amiga I was allowed to use my savings to purchase one myself. And he lent me one of his swapping buddies that fed me games a while on the amiga despite my dad didn't use it, he had transitioned to a PC at that time. When that source ran dry I resorted to cover disks since I loved reading magazines and probably could have had quite a few original games if I didn't spend all my money on the magazines but well. It gave me the memories of the Amiga that makes the vic 20, the c64 and the amiga my favorite computer memories. :)
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Hey, welcome aboard. Thanks for sharing. Reminds me of the times I took the bus across town with a hand full of blank cassette tapes to play and copy programs and games from the public domain collection at a school across town. They had PET's and the games were mostly educational, but I was so starved for any kind of software to run on this amazing new, futuristic computer of mine. I would cram as many programs as I could on my tapes and then take them home and spend the week trying them all on my Vic-20. Some wouldn't work right because of the differences between the PET and the Vic-20 and those I would hack away at for hours trying to make them work. Because of this I really got to know both machines and BASIC pretty well and soon I was making my own programs. Fond memories indeed.
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