I started off with a Commodore Vic-20, with the cassette player that you had to plug in at the back. I have no idea what happened to it, must have been about twenty years ago that I got that, and there have been some house moves (and clear outs!) since then. After that I didn’t actually own a computer at all until about three years ago, when I bought my desktop. Also now have a Toshiba Tecra 9100 at home, and this thing here at work is an HP Compaq NC4010. Don’t ask me about specs, I haven’t got a clue!
I remember the Vic-20 and the ‘datasete’ the you mention! The Vic-20 was the little brother to Commodore’s 64, which was my first computer. Just like the rest of you, all I did was play games on it. I had the 5 1/4 inch ‘external’ disk drive for it, which was sold separately. Man, that thing was huge! Games took like 5 minutes to load from the drive. I still remember the prompt you had to type in order to load the games: LOAD”*”,8,1 LOL. Those were classic! There were some really good games for that system. The first ‘real’ computer I had was a 186, followed by a 386 with windows 3.1, followed by a pentium 133 with windows 95, followed by a pentium II 200 with windows 98, to my current pair of Dell’s, one at home and one at work. I actually still have a pentium 150 laptop that still runs. Can’t do much with it, though.
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