Commodore 64 turns 25
 

I never had one, I had the Apple II and Apple II+ but you have to admire the Guinness Book of World Records, best selling computer.

Thinking about it, only 25 years old? I had an Apple II in 1978. I always thought the Commodore was about the same age.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/12/07/c64/index.html

I still have one in a box in the basement. My first computer :)
Boy I spent hours programming (read playing games) on that thing.

that was my first puter, my kid ended up learning basic on it. I was a cnc programmer back then and used it to write a few jobs but mostly I played pong on it :D

The 64 was my first computer too. I was probably 6 years old, but that thing was the coolest... :D

Somewhat related, the History Chan. has a show of "1980's tech" and showed what was invented in the '80s like the PC, CD, walkman, VHS and Beta and talked how porn won the VHS/Beta war. It was a very interesting show; I just saw it 2 nights ago.

We used to have one of those. I remember playing Gorf on my grandpa's Vic 20. This makes me feel so old.

I wish I had been 6... But my brother had one and I used to have tons of fun on it....

Used to have one of those, along with an Apple.

I remember playing Shamus to all hours of the night.

FYI ...... In 1975, an IBM mainframe computer that could perform 10,000,000 instructions per second cost around $10,000,000. In 1995 (only twenty years later), a computer video game capable of performing 500,000,000 million instructions per second was available for approximately $500!

those things were the shit. my first computer as a child.

Didn't start using computers until they had pretty little icon to click on. |cleo|

My first computer too - I bought one the year they came out, when they were still pretty pricey.

Using that lame little tape reader for storage, ha ha.

Taught myself computing on that boxy little sucker.

damn I'm like fucking ancient...

Wow, happy b'day Commodore 64!

My first full time job was writing software for the C64