Fluff Overflow: Happy 30th, Commodore 64

evan:

The Commodore 64 was released on August 1, 1982, about five months before I was born. When I was growing up, it was pretty much my favorite thing.

The first lines of code I ever wrote were in C64 BASIC on my family’s machine. Our only floppy disk drive had long since been rendered read-only by

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    I think the first game I ever played on the C=64 was a Snoopy Math game, or Jumpman
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    I still have my C64! Oh joy for the days of LOAD “*” ,8,1 1541 and 1701 by my side as I journeyed into computing. My...
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    Yup. Used BASIC to fill the TV screen up with the word “home.” And of course, later, “poop.” And then played “Defender”...
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    I had two.
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