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DanaC · 01-08-2009, 08:18 PM

My first was a Commodore Vic20. It was the 'Education' bundle set. They somehow managed to convince my mother that it would in some way help me with my school work. It didn't. It proved spectacularly unable to be of any practical use whatsoever.

More importantly, it did not, as I would have liked at the time, give me the ability to hack into major systems a la 'Wargames'.

What it did do was play games in full colour. I believe it was the first colour home computer but I may be wrong on that.

One final factet about this computer was that it was part of the big pre-Christmas sell off of about-to-be-obsolete stock. This was before consumers got savvy about the wily tech peddlars. Now, okay, granted, there were still computer games being written for Vic20 when I got it...but not many. No, games makers were by then focussing their attention on the shiny new kid on the block the Commodore64.

My best friend got a Commodore64.

01-08-2009, 08:18 PM	#7
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	My first was a Commodore Vic20. It was the 'Education' bundle set. They somehow managed to convince my mother that it would in some way help me with my school work. It didn't. It proved spectacularly unable to be of any practical use whatsoever. More importantly, it did not, as I would have liked at the time, give me the ability to hack into major systems a la 'Wargames'. What it did do was play games in full colour. I believe it was the first colour home computer but I may be wrong on that. One final factet about this computer was that it was part of the big pre-Christmas sell off of about-to-be-obsolete stock. This was before consumers got savvy about the wily tech peddlars. Now, okay, granted, there were still computer games being written for Vic20 when I got it...but not many. No, games makers were by then focussing their attention on the shiny new kid on the block the Commodore64. My best friend got a Commodore64.

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