My parents got me a Commodore VIC-20. After I mentioned that I got one for Christmas, I was laughed out of my 7th grade Apple ][ programming class. My parents made up for it the following Christmas with a Commodore 64.
My parents got me a Commodore VIC-20. After I mentioned that I got one for Christmas, I was laughed out of my 7th grade Apple ][ programming class. My parents made up for it the following Christmas with a Commodore 64.
Similar story. I got a VIC-20 for my birthday and by Christmas 9 months later I was getting a C64. I outgrew it quickly. It took another 6 months before I got a floppy drive and modem.
I had my VIC-20 for 10 years. I had an Apple ][ at the same time. It was my sister's, needed for the ability for printing, and the ability to take the files to school that was Apple-only. The VIC 20 was relegated to a game console, Choplifter and a few others I kept playing for years, until I moved to gaming on a PC exclusively, with Command & Conquer (1995) as my memory of the game that got the VIC-20 mothballed.
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My parents got me a Commodore VIC-20. After I mentioned that I got one for Christmas, I was laughed out of my 7th grade Apple ][ programming class. My parents made up for it the following Christmas with a Commodore 64.
Similar story. I got a VIC-20 for my birthday and by Christmas 9 months later I was getting a C64. I outgrew it quickly. It took another 6 months before I got a floppy drive and modem.
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I did play on a friend's C64 for years as well.
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To be fair, the Apple ][ was 10X more expensive.
But yeah, the C64 was a big improvement on the Vic-20.
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I had a C= 16. Talk about laughable. I didn't even have a tape drive, either.
Later I got an Apple ][+, with two floppy drives no less. That was a serious game changer for me.